| This article is about the Special Weapon. For the Mega Man Zero 4 weapon, see Zero Knuckle. For the Battle Chip, see Sword (Battle Chip). |
Flame Sword (フレイムソード Fureimu Sōdo) is the Special Weapon Mega Man obtains by defeating Sword Man in Mega Man 8. Befitting its name, it is a close-ranged fire-based weapon, capable of igniting things that are highly flammable, such as the "Thorn Vines" in Search Man's stage. Flame Sword can be executed on the ground and in the air, and even underwater. On the ground, Mega Man will perform a horizontal outward slash, and in the air, he will perform a downward slash. It has short range, but it's effective against bosses and deals high damage to many of them. It's Search Man's weakness, as it can burn down the bushes he hides behind and sets him on fire, preventing him from ever using his Homing Sniper, and it's also Frost Man's secondary weakness.
The Flame Sword is an effective weapon against Dr. Wily's Wily Machine 8 and the weakness of its second form, the Wily Capsule Great, alongside the Flash Bomb. The Flash Bomb hits multiple times, dealing the same damage of the Flame Sword per hit, but it doesn't have as many uses.
Damage data chart[]
Damage values in units in Mega Man 8.
 Flame Sword
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| Boss | Damage |
| Yadokargo | 1 |
| Tengu Man | 2 |
| Astro Man | 1 |
| Sword Man | 1 |
| Clown Man | 1 |
| Search Man | 4 |
| Frost Man | 3 |
| Grenade Man | 1 |
| Aqua Man | 1 |
| Atetemino | 1 |
| Bliking | 2½ |
| Super Bass | 1 |
| Green Devil | 1 |
| Wily Machine 8 | 2 |
| Wily Capsule Great | 2 |
| Cut Man* | 4 |
| Wood Man* | 4 |
- For Bliking, it is the only boss in Mega Man 8 to take a different amount of damage from each strike from the Flame Sword (3 units of damage the first strike; 2 the second time; 3, 2, 3, etc.), hence the data value in its field above is listed in fraction form.
- Cut Man and Wood Man are available only in the Sega Saturn version of Mega Man 8.
Other appearances[]
Super Smash Bros. series[]
Mega Man using Flame Sword in Super Smash Bros. for Nintendo 3DS.
Mega Man uses the Flame Sword in Super Smash Bros. for Nintendo 3DS and Wii U and Super Smash Bros. Ultimate as his forward air attack. This attack involves Mega Man quickly summoning the Flame Sword to his hand in midair (rather than morphing his hand into a Mega Buster that emits the blade), and performing a downward swing with it in front of him, much like when the move is used in midair in Mega Man 8. The attack inflicts 9% damage or 5% if the sword hits the opponent at the end of the move, and has a fire effect, true to its name.
Brawlhalla[]
Flame Sword is used in one of Mega Man's attacks.
Other media[]
Mega Man used the Flame Sword against the Wily Machine in the Rockman 8 manga. Instead of being made of flames, Mega Man's sword is identical to Sword Man's.
Trivia[]
- Mega Man's voice in the background puts emphasis on the "W" in sword.
Gallery[]
| Fire Special Weapon and Techniques | |
|---|---|
| Special Weapons | |
| Mega Man series | Fire Storm (1) • Atomic Fire (2) • Pharaoh Shot (4) • Flame Blast (6) • Scorch Wheel (7) • Flame Sword (8) • Magma Bazooka (9) • Solar Blaze (10) • Blazing Torch (11) • Wave Burner (M&B) • Pharaoh Wave (PF) • Torch Arm (3DOS) • Flame Shower / Flame Mixer (R&FWS) • Yoga Inferno (SFxMM) |
| Mega Man X series | Fire Wave (X) • Speed Burner (X2) • Rising Fire (X4) • Ground Fire (X5) • Magma Blade (X6) • Circle Blaze (X7) • Melt Creeper (X8, X's) • Flame Burner (X8, Axl's) • Fire Wave (Xtreme 2) |
| Zero's Techniques and EX Skills | |
| Techniques | Ryuenjin (X4) • Quake Blazer (X5) • Shoenzan (X6) • Bakuenjin (X7) • Enkoujin / Enkoukyaku (X8) • Fire Wave (Xtreme 2) |
| EX Skills | Blast Shot (Z2) • Tenshouzan (Z2) • Burst Shot (Z3) • Split Heavens (Z3) • Soul Launcher (Z3) • Burning Shot (Z4) • Flame Fang (Z4) |
| Cutter / Boomerang Special Weapons | |
|---|---|
| Mega Man series | Rolling Cutter (1) • Metal Blade (2) • Quick Boomerang (2) • Shadow Blade (3) • Ring Boomerang (4) • Gyro Attack (5) • Silver Tomahawk (6) • Slash Claw (7) • Flame Sword (8) • Triple Blade (10) • Wheel Cutter (10) • Screw Crusher (III) • Tengu Blade (M&B) • Shark Boomerang (3DOS) • Blade Launcher (3DOS) |
| Mega Man X series | Boomerang Cutter (X) • Sonic Slicer (X2) • Spin Wheel (X2) • Spinning Blade (X3) • Twin Slasher (X4) • Crescent Shot (X5) • Magma Blade (X6) • Wind Cutter (X7) • Shadow Runner (X8) • Ray Claw (Xtreme 2) |
| Super Smash Bros. for Nintendo 3DS / Wii U | ||||||||||
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| Mega Man's Weapons and Moves | ||||||||||
| -Default- | ||||||||||
| Mega Buster • Sliding • Mega Upper • Charge Shot • Super Arm • Metal Blade • Leaf Shield • Air Shooter • Crash Bomb Hard Knuckle • Top Spin • Spark Shot • Flame Blast • Slash Claw • Flame Sword | ||||||||||
| -Customization- | ||||||||||
| Hyper Bomb • Ice Slasher • Shadow Blade • Skull Barrier • Plant Barrier • Danger Wrap • Tornado Hold | ||||||||||
| -Final Smash- | ||||||||||
| Mega Legends | ||||||||||
| Other properties included in Super Smash Bros Nintendo 3DS / Wii U | ||||||||||
| Sega | ||||||||||
| - Sonic the Hedgehog - | ||||||||||
| Sonic the Hedgehog • Tails • Knuckles the Echidna • Shadow the Hedgehog • Green Hill Zone • Chaos Emeralds • Super transformation Chaos Control | ||||||||||
| Capcom | ||||||||||
| - Street Fighter - | ||||||||||
| Ryu • Hadoken • Shoryuken | ||||||||||
| - Nintendo- | ||||||||||
| Super Mario • Donkey Kong • The Legend of Zelda • Kid Icarus • Metroid • Pokémon (also owned by Game Freak and Creature Inc.) Miscellaneous | ||||||||||
| Location | ||||||||||
| Wily Castle | ||||||||||