Blizzard Buffalo

Blizzard Buffalo
Silvery Snowman
In-Game Information
HP:	32
Attack Damage:	5 (contact) 5 (Horned wall slam) 3 (Frost Shield, projectile) 3 (Frost Shield, hazard) 0 (Ice Beam)
Weapon:	Frost Shield
Weakness:	Parasitic Bomb
Misc. Information
Japanese Name:	Frozen Buffalio
Rōmaji:	Furōzun Baffario
Series Information
In-game Appearances:	Mega Man X3 Mega Man X4 (cameo)
Other Appearances:	Rockman X (manga)
Theme Music

Blizzard Buffalo, known as Frozen Buffalio (フローズン・バッファリオ, Furōzun Baffario) in Japan, is a bison-based Maverick in Mega Man X3. In reality, though, he's really a peace-loving artist, even with the Maverick Virus. So he is (for all intents and purposes) another innocent victim of the Maverick Wars. His original occupation was as an ice sculptor for a ski resort.

Strategy

Like Flame Mammoth before him, his room is much larger, requiring X to damage him while he's onscreen. When his health is depleted by 50%, Blizzard Buffalo shoots a very large ice beam that will freeze X if it connects.

Blizzard Buffalo's attack patterns and boss fight strategy is similar to fighting Tunnel Rhino.

However, there is a glitch in which you can defeat him easily. Here are the basic steps:

1. At the beginning, let him start ramming towards X. Wall Kick over him before he hits X (X should be facing towards his back now).

2. When he turns around, don't move around; just jump. He'll try to ram away from X.

3. Repeat Step 2 to be free to shoot as much as needed.

Powers & Abilities

• Charge (突進) - Blizzard Buffalo's main form of attack. There are two versions of this move:
  • Blizzard Buffalo normally skates across the room using the rocket boosters on his back as propulsion, ramming the walls which would cause X to fall to the ground, or X himself if he does not get out of the way.
  • When X gets too close, Blizzard Buffalo uses his horns to grab X and slam him at the wall.
• Ice Bullet (氷弾) - Blizzard Buffalo throws non lethal ice spikes on the ground and on the wall when he's not on the screen. X can normally shoot at these.
• Freezing Beam (冷凍ビーム) - Blizzard Buffalo shoots a massive beam of ice that freezes X in his path. It doesn't cause damage, but he follows with his Charge move to ram into X.

Data

Mega Man X3 stats

• Power: 9200rp
• Speed: 3200rp

Stage enemies

• Ice De Voux
• Helit
• Notor Banger
• Snow Rider
• Snow Slider

Other Media

Rockman X

In the Rockman X3 manga, during his Maverick rampage at the start of the chapter, he had been battling X and overpowering him with his attacks. When he was about to skewer the Maverick Hunter with his horns, he was immediately stopped by a human boy named Toshihiko, who threw himself in front of the charging Buffalo, causing him to halt and suddenly grab at his own head in agony. Despite X was about to take aim, Toshihiko insisted he stop and then took him to see a smiling snowman up in the mountains near the town Buffalo had been attacking. The boy explained that the snowman is something Buffalo helped him with; in a flashback, Toshihiko had made the snowman on his own but didn't like its sad expression because it reminded him that he made it alone, unlike the other kids. He was about to punch it in anger when Buffalo stopped him and simply changed the expression to a smile for him, which made Toshihiko happy that he had a friend help him. From that point, they ended up being very close...until Buffalo's horns caused him to go Maverick (they were what allowed Doppler to make him go crazy without him knowing) and start rampaging wildly, leading up to the present. Even though Buffalo froze the entire town in ice and endangered innocent lives, Toshihiko never lost faith in his new friend. After a violent and drawn out battle with X, which caused both his horns to be removed, Buffalo realized what he had done and wanted the Maverick Hunter to end his life, feeling he could never atone for his crimes. However, X intentionally missed and put a hole through the wall behind them instead, which allowed Buffalo to see that, just below, Toshihiko had been creating snowmen one after another the entire time so that he could reach out to his heart the way the Reploid had done for him earlier. The chapter ends with Buffalo and Toshihiko being together again, with X stating that Reploids can indeed understand humans because like humans, they have hearts. 

He later joins the Maverick Hunters alongside Blast Hornet, Neon Tiger, and Tunnel Rhino, in which he assisted X and Zero in battle against Bit and Byte.

In the Rockman X4 manga, he fought alongside X against Frost Walrus, but he ended up sacrificing his life to save X. The sight of his destroyed body having been impaled on one of Walrus's Frost Towers drove X to seek vengeance.

Mega Man (Archie Comics)

Blizzard Buffalo in Worlds Unite.

The body of Blizzard Buffalo was seen frozen in Sigma's arctic base in Sonic Universe #76. Sigma later revived Blizzard Buffalo and dozens of other Mavericks in order to form an army to plant his Unity Engines and conquer all worlds. In Sonic Universe #78, Blizzard Buffalo went to the world of Street Fighter, where he attempts to set an Unity Engine in Thailand but is destroyed by M. Bison, the latter also learning about Sigma's plans for his world after interrogating the Maverick.

Gallery

Blizzard Buffalo's sprite in the Mega Man X3 Prototype (August)

Every Maverick from Mega Man X - Mega Man X8

Trivia

• In Mega Man X4, he makes an appearance at the very start of Frost Walrus's stage, frozen over in the background.

• In the CD versions of Mega Man X3, Blizzard Buffalo's name is misspelled as "BILZZARD BUFFALO" in his introductory cutscene, causing many fans to call him that as a joke.

• Blizzard Buffalo is one of the six Mavericks to survive and reform in the X3 chapters of the Rockman X manga, and the only one to have a major role in the X4 chapters.

• His stage is normally frozen over. However, if you defeat Volt Catfish before entering Buffalo's stage, the lights return and melt the ice, making the stage less slippery.

• Blizzard Buffalo is one of only five ice-themed robots who create ice sculptures. The other four are Chill Penguin, Frost Man, Cold Man, and Fenri Lunaedge. Additionally, he and Chill Penguin are the only ones from the Mega Man X series to have this talent.