- "Fires a spider net charged with electricity. Can be used to attack, wall jump or double jump."
- ―In-game text, Mega Man X4
Lightning Web (ライトニングウェブ Raitoningu Webu) is the Special Weapon that X obtains from defeating Web Spider in Mega Man X4. This weapon is based on Web Spider's ability to create electric webs. When equipped with this weapon, X will fire an electrically-charged web that travels a preset distance before it opens up and stays in place, and acts like a wall for a short period of time - X can then use the Lightning Web to double-jump or wall-jump to reach new heights. Once the Lightning Web has been jumped or wall-jumped from, it will then disappear shortly thereafter. The only time when the Lightning Web can inflict damage to enemies is when it is still in projectile form before opening up. When charged, X fires a single Lightning Web which networks out to another eight, causing damage to multiple enemies. These webs cannot be climbed on, however.
This weapon is Split Mushroom's weakness and is also the weakness of Reaper Sigma's second form. When used against Split Mushroom, not only will Lightning Web stun him and inflict considerable damage against him, it will also cancel any Soul Body holograms he crates. If X attacks him with Lightning Web three times while his double is present, the clone will disappear. It is also possible to finish the fight with Mushroom even more quickly by firing a Lightning Web while he's on the wall, firing another as soon as he lands while it opens up as he falls and takes damage, and repeating the process.
Other media[]
Rockman X4 manga[]
X uses Lightning Web platforms to reach Split Mushroom.
In the manga, X battles the Repliforce sub-commander Web Spider in the jungle after the Repliforce's rebellion is launched. Spider tricks X into being caught by his Lightning Web by firing robotic spiders at X and making him jump backwards to dodge, resulting in X's back being caught by the Web. Spider taunts the captured X by pointing out that the large weapon Spider plans to use to burn down a nearby city of humans is almost finished charging, with the only way to stop being for X to kill Spider. Not wanting so many people to die, X breaks free of Spider's Lightning Web and fights with full power, ultimately mortally wounding him with a charged shot that also shuts down the weapon of mass destruction that had been charging up.
Later, X infiltrates the abandoned Bio Laboratory to investigate its mysterious reactivation. X rushes through the lab and fights his way through its automated defense systems, including the dangerous Tentoroid. X eventually reaches the roof of the lab and finds Split Mushroom on the roof's large tower.
In order to reach Mushroom, X blasts out multiple Lightning Web shots to hop on and then confronts Mushroom at the top of the tower.
Damage Data Chart[]
Damage values in units in Mega Man X4.
 Lightning Web
| ||
| Boss | Damage | |
| Normal | Charged | |
| Eregion | -- | -- |
| Web Spider | 0 | 0 |
| Split Mushroom | 4 | 2 |
| Cyber Peacock | 0 | 0 |
| Storm Owl | 2 | 2 |
| Magma Dragoon | 2 | 2 |
| Frost Walrus | 1 | 1 |
| Jet Stingray | 0 | 0 |
| Slash Beast | 1 | 1 |
| Tentoroid | 1 | 2 |
| Generaid Core | 8 | 4 |
| Eyezard | 0 | 0 |
| DG-42L | 6 | 4 |
| Colonel | 0 | 0 |
| Double | 0 | 0 |
| General | 0 | 0 |
| Reaper Sigma: 1st Phase | 0 | 0 |
| Reaper Sigma: 2nd Phase | 4 | 4 |
| Earth Sigma | 0 | 0 |
| Gunner Sigma | 0 | 0 |
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Counterpart to this Weapon[]
| Electric Special Weapons and Techniques | |
|---|---|
| Special Weapons | |
| Mega Man series | Thunder Beam (1) • Spark Shock (3) • Thunder Bolt (7) • Thunder Claw (8) • Plug Ball (9) • Thunder Wool (10) • Scramble Thunder (11) • Electric Shock (V) • Lightning Bolt (M&B) • Force Field (DOS) • Bit Cannon (3DOS) |
| Mega Man X series | Electric Spark (X) • Triad Thunder (X3) • Lightning Web (X4) • Tri-Thunder (X5) • Volt Tornado (X7) • Thunder Dancer (X8, X's) • Plasma Gun (X8, Axl's) • Tri-Thunder (Xtreme 2) |
| Zero's Techniques and EX Skills | |
| Techniques | Raijingeki (X4) • E-Blade (X5) • Raijinshou (X7) • Raikousen/Raijinken (X8) • Lightning (Xtreme 2) • Tri-Thunder (Xtreme 2) |
| EX Skills | Spark Shot (Z2) • Sengatotsu (Z2) • Saber Smash (Z3) • V-Shot (Z3) • Shield Sweep (Z3) • Thunder Stab (Z4) • Tractor Shot (Z4) |
| Mega Man X4 | |
|---|---|
| List of Mavericks | |
| Web Spider • Split Mushroom • Cyber Peacock • Storm Owl • Magma Dragoon • Frost Walrus • Jet Stingray • Slash Beast | |
| Other Bosses | |
| Eregion • Colonel • Double • Iris • General • Sigma | |
| X's Special Weapons | |
| Lightning Web • Soul Body • Aiming Laser • Double Cyclone • Rising Fire • Frost Tower • Ground Hunter • Twin Slasher | |
| Zero's Special Techniques | |
| Raijingeki • Kūenbu • Kūenzan • Rakuhouha • Tenkūha • Ryūenjin • Hyouretsuzan • Hienkyaku • Shippūga | |
| Armors | |
| - X - Fourth Armor • Ultimate Armor - Zero - Black Zero | |
| Stages | |
| Sky Lagoon • Jungle • Bio Laboratory • Cyber Space • Air Force • Volcano • Snow Base • Marine Base • Military Train • Memorial Hall • Space Port • Final Weapon | |
| Miscellaneous | |
| Damage Data Chart (X) • Damage Data Chart (Zero) Mega Man X4 Script (X's story) • Mega Man X4 Script (Zero's story) | |