Action Trigger

Action Trigger (アクショントリガー, Action Trigger) is a command available in Mega Man X: Command Mission, allowing a playable character to use special attacks exclusive to that character. These attacks are generally very powerful, but force the character to wait longer for their next turn. Like sub weapons, the Action Trigger depletes Weapon Energy, and the higher the WE, the higher the chances of usefulness of the Action Trigger.

X

Charge Shot

X's Action Trigger is his signature Charge Shot (チャージショット, Charge Shot). A bar appears onscreen, and the player has to hold the action button (much like how the charge shot is normally executed), and can be released at any time the bar fills to attack all enemies with a Shot attack. The maximum power of the charge shot depends on how much WE X has, with a guaranteed critical strike if the bar fills to 100%. Unlike most Action Triggers, this one doesn't have a time limit. Power base is 130%. If equipped with an elemental weapon, the shot will carry the effect to all enemies.

X Fire

While X is with the Hyper Mode X Fire, his Action Trigger changes to Charge Collider (チャージコレダー, Charge Collider). It has the same system as the Charge Shot, where the player has to hold a button until the bar fills, but instead of attacking all enemies with a shot, X attacks a single enemy with a Combat attack repeatedly. If the bar fills to 100%, inflicts 12 hits to enemy.

• 1 to 9% WE: 1 hit
• 10 to 19% WE: 2 hits
• 20 to 29% WE: 3 hits
• 30 to 39% WE: 4 hits
• 40 to 49% WE: 5 hits
• 50 to 59% WE: 6 hits
• 60 to 69% WE: 7 hits
• 70 to 79% WE: 8 hits
• 80 to 89% WE: 9 hits
• 90 to 99% WE: 10 hits

Damage is calculated: 50% Main Weapon Damage * (# of hits).

Ultimate Armor

Nova Strike

While X is with the Hyper Mode Ultimate Armor, his Action Trigger completely changes, becoming a Nova Strike (ノヴァストライク, Nova Strike). A screen with Final Strike-like appearance with different commands appears. There's a button to use X's Impact Cannon, there's another button to use his Strike Bullet, and a button in the middle of the screen to use the rockets on his back. The higher X's WE, the longer his time limit is.

A Button: S-type attack at 8% Power, hits all enemies.
Y Button: S-type attack at 10% Power, hits one enemy.
X Button: S-type attack at 100% Power * (# of hits * 6%), hits 3 times.

Zero

Command Arts

Zero's Action Trigger allows him to perform his Command Arts (コマンドアーツ, Command Arts), although acquiring these skills doesn't require defeating a boss. The player inputs button combinations shown onscreen with a time limit. The higher Zero's WE, the longer his time limit is. Zero starts off with only 3 skills, but learns two more after successfully inputting a certain number of combinations.

The amount of time in seconds is = WE/10. However, everytime you input a successful command, you have to wait approx 0.5 seconds before you can start inputting the next command.

Each hit is subject to a "Damage Scale". In other words each hit does slightly less damage than it normally would, think of it as Zero's Sword Arm getting tired from all that swinging. Damage Scales as follows:

Hit # = Damage Scaling
1=100%
2=90%
3=70%
4=60%
5=50%
6=40%
7=30%
And continues at 30% for every following hit.

Commands Arts:

Technique	Obtained by	Command	Description
Zero Slash Rei Shiki Retsuzan (零式烈斬, Rei Shiki Retsuzan "Zero Style Fury Slash")	Available from start		Zero performs a single slash. (80% Power)
Zero Breakthrough Rei Shiki Toppa (零式突破, Rei Shiki Toppa "Zero Style Breakthrough")	Available from start		Zero performs a forward thrust that can break an enemy's guard. (30% Power)
Zero Dragon Slash Rei Shiki Shōryūzan (零式昇竜斬, Rei Shiki Shōryūzan "Zero Style Rising Dragon Slash")	Available from start		Zero performs a rising slash that is effective against airborne enemies. (100% Power)
Zero Wave Slash Rei Shiki Hadōzan (零式波動斬, Rei Shiki Hadōzan "Zero Style Surging Slash")	Perform 300 Command Arts		Zero performs a downward thrust with Power at 50%-200%.
Zero Skull Crush Rei Shiki Kabutowari (零式兜割, Rei Shiki Kabutowari "Zero Style Helmet Splitter")	Perform 999 Command Arts		Zero performs a rolling slash that is guaranteed to be a critical hit. (100% Power)

Absolute Zero

Calamitous Arts

While Zero is with the Hyper Mode Absolute Zero, his Action Trigger has a similar input, but the commands change to Calamitous Arts (カラミティアーツ, Calamitous Arts). The enemy appears in the screen and commands which generally are random buttons have to be inputted. There's a chance to do a critical strike when the command circle+square appears. When the player input the commands correctly, Zero will attack the opponent in different ways. Like most of the others, this Action Trigger has a time limit, and the longer WE Zero has, the more time there is to input commands. Again time is (Seconds = WE/10).

Command	Description
+	Water-elemental upward slash with right arm. Power 100%, ignores Armor.
+	Water-elemental diagonal slash with right arm. Power 150%.
+	Non-elemental downward slash with right arm. Power 50%-200%.
+	Water-elemental diagonal slash with left arm. Power 125%.
+	Non-elemental rolling attack with guaranteed Critical Hit. Power 125%.
	Water-elemental spinning kick that may freeze the target.

Axl

DNA Change

Axl utilizes DNA Change (DNAチェンジ, DNA Change) as his Action Trigger. The aforementioned ability has been upgraded, now allowing Axl to transform into defeated bosses (in previous games, Axl was only limited to transforming into non-boss enemies, with one storyline exception). Upon activating the Action Trigger, the player is shown a triangle-shaped grid.

The grid shows different button combination paths that lead to one of the eight bosses. The path to the bosses can be memorized, but there is a time limit. Like Zero, the higher Axl's WE, the longer the time limit is. Strangely enough, when Axl joins, he can transform into Wild Jango, Silver Horn and Mad Nautilus, bosses defeated by X's party before he joins. If Axl fails to choose a boss, he attacks with the Rolling Axl move, which only does 130% damage.

Axl can transform into:

• Wild Jango - Uses Rolling Assault, a thunder attribute C-type attack that hits a single enemy.
• Mad Nautilus - Uses Mad Cocktail, attacking all enemies and performing a random status effect on them like Blind, Virus, Berserk or Bind, or none if enemy blocks.
• Incentas - Uses Asura Knuckle, a non-elemental S-type attack that hits all enemies twice.
• Rafflesian - Uses Sunburst, dealing 200 HP ten times to all enemies or lower if enemy is equipped with shield.
• Ninetails - Uses Nine Fragments, dealing 999 HP 9 times to a single enemy.
• Depth Dragoon - Uses Thunder Brigade, a thunder attribute S-type attack that hits all enemies 3 times.
• Mach Jentra - Uses Flames of Gehenna, a fire attribute S-attack that hits all enemies.
• Silver Horn - Uses Tidal Wave, a water attribute S-type attack that hits all enemies.

Spider

Fortune Hand

When Spider's Action Trigger, Fortune Hand (フォーチュンカード, Fōchun Kādo, Fortune Card), is activated, the screen will show 5 cards to determine the attack. The input is like a game of Poker, save for that the game only uses Eights through to Aces, increasing the chance for higher value hands. You can switch out cards to attempt to get better hands, as listed below:

• Fumble - Weak attack with low hit ratio. (100% Power)
  No hand.
• Pair - 2-hit S-type attack. (100% Power)
  Two-of-a-Kind, any suit.
• Two Pair - 2-hit S-type attack, last hit has 50% chance to be a critical hit. (100% Power)
  Two separate pairs of any kind or suit.
• Tri Card - 3 cards hit, inflicts Fire, Water and Thunder Damage.
  Three-of-a-Kind, any suit.

• Four Penalty - No Damage, lowers all of the target's stats (Power, Armor, Shield and Speed) by 25%.
  Different from Two Pair in that it must be 4-of-a-Kind, one of each suit.

• Death House - Strong attack. High chance of inflicting DOA. (125% Power)
  This is the same as a Full House (pair & three-of-a-kind, any suit).

• Flush - 1-hit all enemies, chance to inflict Blind status on enemy. (100% Power)
  All cards same suit.

Straight

• Straight -5 hit attack, Power has small reduction, with low hit ratio.
  5 cards in sequence (ie: 8,9,10,J,Q).
  NOTE: The game's description gives that the last hit is guaranteed to be a critical hit; however, this is not actually the case and is an oversight.

Straight Flush

• Straight Flush - 3 hit attack to all enemies, last hit sure to be critical hit.
  Hand must be both Straight and Flush (ie: 8 through Queen, same suit). Has better damage to solo targets (ie, bosses) than RSF.

Royal Flush

• RSF (Royal Straight Flush) - Powerful attack that deals 300% damage to all foes, inflicts DOA guaranteed, ignores shield and defense.
  10-thru-Ace Straight Flush.
  NOTE: Be aware that bosses are immune to DOA effects.

Steel Massimo

Berserk Charge

Steel Massimo's Action Trigger, Berserk Charge (ベルセルクチャージ, Berserk Charge), performs a giant beam from his forehead. If equipped with an elemental weapon, the beam will be of that element as well. Like most other Action Triggers, it is a command which has to be filled during a time limit: if not totally filled, each bar will apply the highest level completed. Two bars appear on the screen, one shows the amount of damage Massimo will inflict and the other adds addition status effects to the attack. The player has to press the buttons corresponding to the bars repeatedly to fill them, while more its filled, the more damage the opponent takes. When Massimo's Action Trigger levels up, two more bars are available to fill: a Criticals bar that increases the chance to inflict a critical hit and a Multistage bar that increases the amount of times the opponent is hit, dealing more damage. To unlock the Criticals bar, the player has to deal 3000 damage in a single attack with Massimo. The Multistage bar requires 10,000 damage in a single attack to be unlocked.

Bar	Start	Lv. 1	Lv. 2	Lv. 3	MAX
Attack	x 1.00	x 1.25	x 1.50	x 1.75	x 2.00
Code Red	Normal	Adds Blind status	Adds Virus status	Adds Bind status	Adds Berserk status
Criticals	0%	15%	30%	50%	80%
Multistage	1 hit	3 hits	5 hits	8 hits	12 hits

Marino

Emotional Reel

Marino's Action Trigger, Emotional Reel (エモーショナルリール, Emotional Reel), is a slot machine that comes up and starts spinning. Press a button to stop the reels. The higher Marino's WE, the slower it spins. She starts with four attacks (Marino Stamp, Hyper Drive, I'll Take That!, and Your Life, Please!) and learns two additional attacks, at Lv. 20 (Scattered Flower) and Lv. 30 (Mirage Dive) respectively. Also, as she levels up, the "Line" symbol (Hayohn in the Japanese version) is also added, but as noted below, matching three of these only results in the Marino Stamp. Note that the reels have consistent patterns at each level unlocked of this attack: thus, simple memorization can lead to more consistent scoring of a desired outcome, even at lower WE percentages.

Symbol	Attack	Description
Three different symbols or lines (Hayohn in the Japanese version)	Marino Stamp (マリノスタンプ)	Simple aerial kick attack that does mediocre damage. (130% Power)
Three blue boots	Hyper Dive (ハイパーダイブ)	200% damage attack.
Three treasure chests	I'll Take That! (絶対いただき!)	Attack that has 100% of chance to steal an item from the enemy. (100% Power)
Three hearts	Your Life, Please! (お命ちょうだい!)	3-hit S attack, heals LE by the amount of damage.
Three grim reapers	Scattered Flower (散華)	Marino throws six needles. 250% damage Shot attack with a high chances of inflicting DOA.
Three Marinos	Mirage Dive (ミラージュダイブ)	Creates two images of herself and they use an aerial kick that damages all enemies at 250% damage.

Cinnamon

Angelic Aid

Cinnamon's Action Trigger, Angelic Aid (エンジェリックエイド, Angelic Aid), is not an attack type, but rather it deals with recovery. The amount of WE determines how slow the time goes while activating it. In order to activate it, you must quickly spin the C Stick (GC) or the right analog stick (PS2) to build up hearts. After four spins one heart is built up. The amount of hearts on screen will determine how much LE will be healed. Cinnamon can only build two hearts at first, with the maximum amount of hearts being 10. Each heart heals 10% of LE to all party members. The number of hearts Cinnamon can generate will depending on the number of turns that Cinnamon has been present in the party in all battles throughout the game.