Mighty No. 9

Mighty No. 9

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Gameplay and Boss Guide
By Creus
(Building) Some tips and details to an easier level clearing


Make sure to check the comments, awesome bros giving their tips.
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Gameplay basics and tips
So basically this game it's a megaman game with another name, so I highly recommend using a controller.

Let's first look at the tech bonuses and ReXAccel


Whenever you damage a enemy enough to absorb its data as I like to call it, if you use your ReXaccel (Dash) you will be able to absorb its data gaining a bonus depending of the colour. Depening how many time has passed between reaching its absorbing point and you absorbing it you will a score, the highest being 100%, you will get this by absorbing it in less then a second, later than that it will go down every 0.5s.

Absorbing at 100% one after another, will grant you a combo, this is only for scoring and some achievements. If you absorb an enemie that wasn't at 100%, you will the combo chain.




Red: You damage will increase and the bullet will go thru enemies
Tip: Be aware when you shoot, as some enemies just need one shot to get to its absorbing point when you have this bonus, so if you shoot from far away, you will lose the chance to absorb at 100%

Green: Your speed will increase
Tip: If you do combos you will able to recharge the bonus by getting another one, going faster thru a level will grant you "Sprinter" bonus, scoring more points.

Yellow: Your defense will increase
Tip: if you have a hard time clearing a level, look up for this bonus.

Blue one: This is not stat bonus like others, but like old HP and WP tanks of megaman, whenever you absorb a blue one it will charge the tank by doing blue combos, or if you get it from a helper bot.
Tip: you totally wanna save it for the boss (this doesn't save, you have to charge it everytime)

The best way to achieve better combo chains it's by killing enemies closely, Brand skill will help a lot.
1st Boss: Pyrogen


The first thing you'll realise it's the fire walls, these of course will damage if you touch them, so be aware of your running route.

I played the game in japaneses voices (and you should), and pyro will often say someting like "Katerou" (I think it means something like burn or explode), but this is not just a boss line, this is actually a warning of his next attack.

So if he says it vigorously, it will mean that when he reachs you he will jump you over, so just dash forward

If he says it calmy it will mean he will tackle, so you have to jump and dash.

If he says something different, it means that when he reach you he will do an explosion attack, so what you wanna do it's get close, to trigger the explosion, and then leave with a dash. The explosion its big enough, so you wont be able to evade it by jumping and dashing, and if you dont get close fast enough you will have no where to run, so if this happens you wanna touch him, as damage its lower than the explosion itself.

After you damage him enough, he will turn red, YOU HAVE TO ABSORB HIM AT THIS POINT, or either he will heal all damage you done. you'll have to do this like 4 or 5 times.

When he gets to mid health, he will activated a kamikaze mode, so if in the next attack he touch you, he will one shot kill you. The first movement you have to be lucky, cuz doctor and beck thinks it's a nice day to start talking ♥♥♥♥, so you won't be able to hear clearly, if you manage to get past this first time, it will be all the same, just that if he gets you, you die.

Fine play: Absorb while he is going to tackle you.


Skill get:



This skill will turn your basic attack into a explosion, that you can charge, the longer, the bigger. if you charge it too much time, you can damage yourself, so be aware.
2nd Boss: Cryosphere


So as soon as you get to the boss room, cryo will start shooting water to the ground (very mario sunshine like) this water will do no damage, every second she will get faster, just dash away the very last second, as she will froze it, in the meantime she is doing this, change to Pyro ReXElection and start charging it, by the time she froze the water just jump and release it, it will be big enough to reach her, she will fall and its your chance to attack her, just change to normal attacks, and spam attack button.

If by any chance, she manage to freeze you, you wanna press the crosses and A button really fast, and be spamming dash button, as the next attack will be a jump attack.

when she gets mid health she will start shooting a freezing ray, all you gotta do is watch when its going up, and dash under her, and that's it.

Fine play: Absorb after you made her fall

Skill get:



You will launch freezing attacks, it will freeze the enemy, the freeze stacks, and it will provide a longer time before you can get to absorb them.
3rd Boss: Battalion


This is a pretty simple boss, just evade his shots, and when you see the chance spam Cryo ReXElection, his mid health attack it's just a missile-like that takes time to shoot, so just try to predict it, jump it, and finish your job

Skill Get:

This will turn your basic attack into a controlled missile, if you tap attack button it will shoot one, if you tap it again it will explode, this missiles destroys seismic levls rocks. they will also stick to walls.
4th Boss: Seismic



He will try to tackle right away, and a couple of times, so just jump and dash, and try to stick a missile in his back, then explode it (Battalion ReXelection).

When gets to mid health, what he will do his shorten the room, and then rocks will fall from the ceiling, you can know where they are going to fall because of the dust. These rocks and can be destroyed with batt missiles. keep atacking until it's done.

Fine play: Absorb while he is going to tackle you

Skill get:



What it does it's turn you into a mini tank, jump attacks will do damage (mario like), by holding the button.
5th Boss: Brandish


The ninja like boss, it's pretty simple, hold the attack button while wearing Seismic ReXElection, make sure to stomp Brand.

After you get him to mid health, it will get quite difficult to evade his attacks, but remember to crouch and dash.

Skill get:


The passive skill of this ReXElection is turn your basic attacks into sword melee attacks (did someone say zero?), to activate the skill you have to hold down attack button, then beck will spin like crazy. If u don't move in the last second, beck will go dizzy and won't be able to move like for a second.

This is by far one of the best ReXe, as the sword range can ignore shields and some levels obstacles. Also can deflect enemies projectiles, never forget this, I recommend to shorcut it to a button of your preference (Game settings)
6th Boss: Dynatron


She will float around, and attack you with her pins, it's prety simple: Brandish your sword like crazy. done. The sword will ignore her pins, attack her directly. If you manage to destroy her pins, her mid health attack won't do nothing, as her electricity chains thru this pins.


Skill get:


Shooting the pins, when placed, they will shoot electricity rays.
7th Boss: Countershade


So probably the most annoying level, just follow from where the shots are coming, and when you see Countershade, spam brand sword, after you get him about 4 times, it will be time to face him!

His weakness are dyna pins, but you will soon realise, that this skill only has 3 shoots, not enough to kill a boss for sure, plan B? wear brandish rexelection! plus you can deflect almost all of his shoots

in the moment when he take cover on those things

just stand in the other, and press as fast as you can button attack.


His mid health attack will be some undeflectable shoots, so all you wanna do is dash like crazy, and then he will deploy an hologram of himself, shouldn't be that hard to differentiate as it won't shoot anything from his gun.

Skill get:


You can shoot 3 sniper bullets that will bounce against a wall, despite being 3 bullets, this skill reloads faster than others.
8th Boss: Aviator


When you reach the battle room, you will notice that your moving grounds are very short, but don't be afraid, if you fall you can spam dash, and go up again.

So it's suposed that countershade snipes are his weakness, but I had a hard time aiming, so here's a easier way, whenever he starts moving from left to ride, just jump in the left or right platform, and spam beck normal attack. When he goes from up to dowm and viceversa, just equip brandish rexel and get glose to the edge, and you can deflect his attack and also do damage.

It's a bit hard because of the small platforms, but you can predict almost every attack, excepting his bombarding, the first time, he will realease it in the platforms, then the center pilar, and then he will randomise.

His mid health attack it's attacking from the background, so just dash away.

Skill get:


If you hold attack button, you will perform an higher jump, holding the button will consume energy over time, when you realease it, beck will throw the helix.
Extra Boss: Nameless


Wear Battalion rexel and spam it into the train's face (make sure to not fast tap, as you have to detonate it), when you kill it, absorb it and then press as fast as you can attack button with beck's normal attacks into the machine eye, remember, the machine will hide its eye after some seconds, if you activate absorbtion point, you will lose the damage you did, as it will heal.

When you run out of battalion missiles, you can try cryo rexel.

Its mid health attack it's chaning the courses of the moving floor, and raining missiles, be aware as the direction can be changed in any moment.

Remember to dash crouched and have avi rexel in a shorcut, to being able to evade those robotics arms.
20 Comments
Creus  [author] 24 Jun, 2018 @ 11:24pm 
i think the order that i put them it's so the skill you get will be the weakness of the next one, i played this a long time ago lol
KrEi-Z 23 Jun, 2018 @ 12:43am 
is there an order in which boss you should fight first?
are their numerical order states that the 1st is the weakest/easiest to beat?
かむい 3 Sep, 2016 @ 1:01pm 
Oh and Trinity is missing - LV 13 in this game. -Battle Colluseum boss-
かむい 3 Sep, 2016 @ 10:09am 
The only sub-boss missing from the guide is Call's Prision level.
かむい 3 Sep, 2016 @ 10:08am 
shlo7y - Use a XBOX 360 controller for PC it works for me.
Or try using the Steelseries XL STRATUS for Windows 10.

Either controller works fine for this game.
No complaints.
Netatsake 31 Jul, 2016 @ 5:54am 
It's worth noting that with the RED enhancement, projectiles pierece everything - not exclusively enemies or destructibles. Your shots will ignore wall collision as well.
Nest64 24 Jun, 2016 @ 12:58am 
XB1 & PS4 controllers don't work at all. Can you help me?
Creus  [author] 23 Jun, 2016 @ 10:34am 
Important! anyone should try it tho, it just wouldnt bounce for me always.
Eunae 23 Jun, 2016 @ 10:27am 
You mentiond Avi being hard to hit woth Shad's weapon, but if you hit the camer it will always bounce the shot at him.
Shogun_Gundam04 23 Jun, 2016 @ 9:20am 
I also have a decent strategy for the facotry boss, but I will let you get to that point in your guides, basically brandish and battalion abilities are the best for that fight,