Weakness

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A "Weakness" is a shorthand word to describe a character, enemy, etc. being especially vulnerable to a weapon, item or something similar.

As an example, Cut Man receives more damage from Fire Storm than Mega Buster when used by Mega Man in Mega Man.

Weakness chain

A Weakness chain is formed when a where multiple weapon-boss pair can connect, such as the following example from Mega Man 2

• Bubble Man gives Bubble Lead, the weakness of Heat Man.
• Heat Man gives Atomic Fire, Wood Man's weakness

Which means Heat Man and Wood Man are part of the same chain.

For ease of typing, sometimes chains will omit the weapon name and just have the enemy name of the source of the weapon.

[[Bubble Man]] -> [[Heat Man]] -> [[Wood Man]]

Weakness cycle

Chains can form cycles, by looping back to the start. Example from Mega Man 4

[[Ring Man]] -> [[Dust Man]] ->  [[Skull Man]] -> [[Dive Man]] 
        ^                                              |
        |                                              v
[[Pharaoh Man]]	<- [[Bright Man]] <- [[Toad Man]] <- [[Drill Man]]