Please know that there is popping you will hear, I can’t do anything about that. I’m gonna get a new mic soon, and I’ll get a pop filter for that, so this problem should be gone next video. There are subtitles on, because default subtitles mess up some certain words and phrases.

though have you seen the outrageous upgrade it got in Megaman X Dive? the Speed reductions have been removed, got back his air dash, and not only has spike immunity, but also has immunity to getting crushed AND can walk on lava. and they super sized his Giga attack.

I think the biggest issue is just that you're so used to using the Flacon Armor with so much freedom of movement and suddenly you try the Gaea Armor and you just lose that. On top of that, you see your weapons and it's all empty after you've just got everything. It's not a bad armor by any means but it's definitely severely undertuned.

What made it useless was how they overestimated this armor, they thought the immunity to spikes was so broken that they took away everything tha would made it fun to use

Honestly, playing through a huge chunk of X5 with the gaea armor gave me an appreciation for it and, as you said, it SHREDS boss fights if you know what you're doing.

The Gaea Armor may have been the prototype and precursor of all X's armor. While it is quite powerful and has high defensive quality, It was later improved and modified to make up for its distinct drawbacks thus creating X's armor series from it. Dr. Light himself says its a very old armor. And the crude and bulky look of it gives a prototype feel to it.

I admittedly did a double-take hearing the boss names... I actually kinda forgot their old Guns n Roses localization names got retconned in the Collection. ...Long live Duff McWhalen :P

Not the worst armor, just the most disappointing. I'd love for X5 to have had an 'Ultimate Armor Code' for the normal armors. Taking them through all the normal stages without jumping through a lot of hoops would have been a fun idea for repeat playthroughs. Excellent coverage. Please do more armors.

Honestly, the Shadow Armor is what the Gaea Armor wanted to be. X6 has many more spikes than X5, making the spike immunity more useful. You have normal run/dash speed, and are at a disadvantage at range with enemies directly in front of you. I enjoy using both though. Albeit I'd rather use base X over the Gaea Armor (usually).

Gaea charge shots on bosses are euphoric. The mobility lacks, if it were easier to get vanilla playthroughs without relying on Falcon first, it'd get as much love

Aside from needing the Falcon Armor to get the Gaea Armor the intended way, there's also the issue that the Falcon Armor is so busted by comparison: its arrow charge shot is deceptively powerful and it's one of the few projectiles that travel through terrain in X5, and you can use the Speedster part to double its flight speed. Its only real downside is that it can't charge special weapons. The lack of mobility and inability to equip parts are really what holds Gaea Armor back for me. I'm glad the X5 Improvement Project hack improved it by increasing the dash speed.

The Gaea Armors interactions with the Sigma/Zero Virus is worth mentioning though it isn't a likely chance people will get hit by them if they're aware. Otherwise aside from the Dash speed and somewhat "Limited Range" it still nukes everything like you said

9:42 also, the instant charge shot also helps with needing to shoot the electrical things

Here's how the GAEA Armor could have been better: 1) X5 should have let you carryover your unlockables to a new save file kind of like a New Game + similar to how X8 does it. 2) The GAEA Armor should have let you use the part system if they were going to restrict you from using Boss powers. 3) Make the armor have some kind of additional effect to it, like maybe completely remove knockback or reduce damage by 75%, or even give the giga attack a shorter charge bar or something than the Falcon. The reason why the Shadow Armor is a way better armor in X6 is because you could use the part system, the shurikens went pretty far as a projectile, you had a very strong charge attack with the saber, the giga attack reached both in front and behind, and you didn't have a speed penalty. A game that managed to catch how the GAEA armor should have been though, is 20XX with its Armatort Armor because in that game the head part makes health pickups grant you armor which is stronger bonus health, the arm parts have the projectile erasure effect, the leg parts have a pretty good hover effect, the chest part completely removes knockback, and if you have the full set together then you are made immune to all sorts of stage hazards, which makes you feel like you are an absolute tank which is the feeling the GAEA should have given.

Great video! I didn't expect to see this armor in a more positive light but you've made many good points

Gaea Armour has crazy good offense with the Gaea Shot being a level 1 shot. The speed reduction is also barely noticeable to me. It's there for sure, but it's not that bad. The major impediments are the lack of an air dash and special weapons. I don't understand why the Gaea Armour can't use weapons. The Gaea Buster is already balanced by its limited range. For me, I'd make it so that the Gaea Armour can throw out charged special weapons instantly, but it gets fewer uses of them than 4th armour and it can't use the uncharged versions.

This was a good watch. Glad to see this armor finally get some love as I really like it’s design. Keep up the good work 🔥🔥🔥

The only useful thing I can say about the Gaea Armor like you said is destroying bosses. I use it in Zero Stage 1 to cheese the Shadow Devil. Sure, the Gaea Armor is frustrating to dodge the lasers in that stage and I can definetly understand why people wouldn't use the armor here. But heres the thing, X5 continues start you at the last checkpoint in the stage you're in, even after a Game Over. It's definetly difficult to pass the lasers, but once you do so, the Shadow Devil becomes an absolute cheese. Like you said, you can stay in the corner to completely skip an entire attack sequence and use the spammable charge shots to take out the devil. But hey, thats just my opinion, I like to use this armor sometimes, its pretty fun against bosses.

Thanks for the video, this is my fave armor. I think it’s because the playing nature of megaman is to avoid enemy’s projectile, long range attack and move fast so that this armor gets hated. They have to know how to enjoy slow paced, close ranged attack, and powerful and fast charged works.

Thanks for the video... it feels very nice to see someone mention good things for the Gaea Armor I mean, Yeah, Gaea maybe could be better... but even just like that (with the Lore Saying it's a Prototype and Unfinished armor), with all that, Gaea is my Favorite Armor, tied on 1st Place with Giga Armor (X2) I love so much How Gaea Makes you Work with effort in order to Be Worth to it... i mean, Ultimate Armor is Allways the Easy path, but sometimes, Gaea is so Funny to use because you're the Killing Machine this time, and for first time, The Spikes don't hurt you >X3

Haven't finished the video yet, but what's really funny to me about this armor is that my first time beating sigma is with this armor, I was struggling before that point, so I have a soft spot in my heart for this armor.

Saying first armor is the worst is a hot take tbh... one I totally agree with. I don't like its functionality nearly as much compared to every other armor, and visually its probably one of the weakest ones.

I feel like the slow speed of the armor could've been fixed with a faster dash with slower recharge. This would be a quick burst move option that wouln't be spammable as it is with other armors/zero, and it would give you some nicer mobility for combat

Rangda Bangda was the only time I used the Gaea Armor seriously. Every other instance I used it, it was just replaying stages for fun.

That's crazy. I've played through this game dozens of times since I was a kid and I always thought this armor was terrible, but it does have quite a few advantages that I knew about but didn't value as heavily, and some that I didn't even realize. Cool video, I learned something about a game I thought I knew pretty much everything about lol. Maybe on my next playthrough I'll try to actually use the Gaea Armor for once.

Hear me out I really like the design of it And I enjoyed using it a lot

One of the most interesting mmx videos I've watched in a while.

Surprising to see the video cuz I'm the kind of guy that likes every single armor in the main X series. (Oh yeah except for the X6's Falcon Armor)

Good info and pause trick takes me back to megaman 1 elec man😂

I use Gaia Armor at the final stage to fight Gama-Sigma, it is a really useful armor to defeat Gama-Sigma by just climbing at the top left side of the wall and just STICKS there because it's part of the armors ability to stick on the wall and not slide down..And I just SPAM-CHARGE SHOOTING Gama-Sigma's gem to defeat him in just 10 seconds since the Gaia Armor X-buster upgrade is already at full charge shot as soon as you charge it, so I just keep spamming the charge shot at Sigma 😂 P.S. I also notice that the Wall-Dash jump doesn't decrease the speed in a Gaia Armor, so it is also easy to avoid Gama-Sigma's attack.

Cool video man, I personally thought the Gaea armor was cool as a kid but I was too bad to really use it with how slow it was. If I play X5 again I might try to do a Gaea only run.

I think it's biggest problem was the timing, if I'm not wrong you can't get the gaea before getting the falcon, and when you get the falcon your already hooked on it's speed, but then you get the gaea, and for some reason you very slow, and you can't use weapons or upgrades, it has short range too, it gives quite an underwhelming first impression, and if usually people get the armor after they defeated all the 8 mavericks, so you have only the castle stages to try it out, so not only you have a bad first impression, but you have very little gameplay left to use it, cause all that's left is castle stages, and especially the first stage, gaea armor is the worst armor to use, cause of the 1 hit ko lasers, and that already makes you want to use the other armors or zero more, and at that point you might already hate the armor to even try the second stage, even though it's the best there, actually the best armor for all castles beside the first, it breaks bosses and has spike protection, good defense too, I'd say it might also be the best armor besides ultimate, if there was an ng+ or if you could get it sooner, it would be a great armor for almost all stages, kills all enemies easily, you have spike immunity, and have different ways to beat a stage.

I'm just gonna say it, this armor is not nearly as bad as everyone keeps saying it is. I forgot to do it during my playthrough, but if you use auto-charge thing that's in the collection, you can just rapidly fire the charge shot because it charges up instantly, which is basically like having an infinite version of the stored charge shot from X4 (which I honestly prefer over the plasma shot). Definitely an underrated armor.

I've done a couple runs with Gaea Armor only. Once you get used to it, it is fun to play with. It has difficulties doing stages due to the hit on thr dash mechanics so having less leeway for errors but it is fun to use against bosses. Frankly because its Charge shot is fast, and since boss invincibility is tied to how long you have to charge the buster to max it rips bosses fast. I've cleared bosses faster with Gaea compared to all other armors. I actually had the most fun playing with Gaea and Naked X when using X.

I loved this armor I worked soo hard trying to to get this armor and it was soo useful my most hated armor was the falcon armor idk y but it sucks to me I rather be base x great vid btw ❤

Awesome video. Love MMX5

Lol I loved this armor way more than the others because of the quick charge shots, made me feel so fucking powerful. Being marginally slower wasn't an issue, since the armor is bulky, I actually liked the touch of "realism" of X being slightly slower due to the increased weight.

Shreds bosses, end discussion.

I actually love this armor. I use to play the ps1 version on emulator with codesharks that enable the armor at start and a second code that changes the tutorial stage into the boss rush stage with no healt upgrades, just plain charged shot.

X5 kinda feels like it tried to add many cool concepts but did not implement them in the proper way. First of all, it was the first X title to hand the player a full armor instead of base X as previous, and on top of that, it was the Fourth Armor which was pretty busted, making any playthrough a breeze were players opt to stick with it. With that in mind, we are offered an even MORE mobile option in the form of Falcon Armor. While the Gaea Armor IS an offensive powerhouse, it seems there wasn't careful thought in the level design, since most stages tend to favor fast movement, which, okay yeah, high mobility is one key defining aspect of the X series, but if they came up with the idea of adding an even slower option than base X, it would've been ideal to have better level design. Like the Jungle stage is the only one to have a diverging path that use the V Blocks, those could've been used to divide a stage to create either diverging paths, or at very least, give a bit more incentive to use the Gaea Armor just because those roadblocks exist, in short, give players something to mess around with, which is part of why I think the armor failed to get noticeable spotlight outside the "boss killer" etiquette.

Yeah first time I got it back in the day and discovered it immune to spikes I thought it's cool and trying to play more stages with it, despite its slow speed I think it's a pretty good armor. It can't use special weapon but who needs it when you have Buster that broken, tearing through almost everything that isn't invulnerable with ease even bosses. Just don't use it in Zero stage 1, Quick Lasers is even more nightmarish than it already is.

I like the Gaea Armor's design and concept, and I appreciate it's combat capability, but the (lack of) speed is literally the only thing keeping me from enjoying playing with the Gaea Armor. In X5, I slap the Hyper Dash on almost everything and I dash jump everywhere (I put Speedster on the Falcon Armor and fly with it). So when I switch to the Gaea Armor and I see its reduced dash speed and have no way to improve it, it feels like X is limping around on a broken leg, which makes me want to use anything else ASAP.

I honestly argue that the main issue with the Gaea armor is the limitations and competing armors. Fourth armor is all around great, the falcon armor grants a massive amount of movement, and the ultimate armor is probably the best in the game. The others have movement options that the gaea doesn't have, which makes platforming [or avoiding sigma] harder. Not to mention, special abilities are half of the fun and even cover falcon's weakness of low damage.

Gaea armor was always so cool to me, of course it's slow AF, but it has a huge amount of damage output

Dang this armor tears through the Zero fight! I almost want to fire up X5 again just to give this a try.

it's my favorite and honestly looks the best out of all designs.

Me: I'll get some heart tanks. The voices: Sounds to me like you're planning on getting hurt. Coward...

Sir we don't use the Legacy Collection names for the X5 Mavericks, we use their original names... *DUFF MCWHALEN, OH YEAH!*

Yes, more armor and form videos

I feel like people just stick with the falcon armor since you get the whole set at the start of the game if you start as X, which you might as well since Zero is a crapshoot due to later game events. (Cough cough shuttle)

The problem with the Gaea armor is that it has to compete with the forth armor aka ultimate armor lite and the forth armor wins in terms of utility while only lacking a bit in damage, X6 really fix this problem with the over nerfed Falcon armor which suck so hard that any other armor is a better choice. Additionally there is a part called ultimate buster which render the fast charging gimmick of the Gaea armor useless. It also does the opposite of what a megaman x player want : going fast.

Huh interesting take on Gaea Armor. I never really thought much about it..., I just thought "eh different armor, quite unique" and never really think about how it's "bad". Makes me wanna replay X5 (the fan-fixed edition) And also I didn't know Dark hold can cheese those damn lasers dammit. I had to learn the pattern and died like hundreds of times there.

The Gaea Armour is ok, it’s a Rust Bucket. It grants you weight that makes you run & dash slower, the head parts do NOTHING! The Arm parts are good because the charge shot is very quick & can slightly bypass eye frames, & the Giga Attack is very good for close range it can obliterate bosses.

y'know what? give the gaea armor a range buff, the mobility nerf is fine.

GAEA armour is “nerf” so hard is because it’s too cheesy, i don’t feel any hard time using it, i even use it more than Ultimate armour when i get to use it.

it's been years since I last played X5 so this is drawing from memory. Also, I've extensively played X4, 5, and 6 so my comparisons are from these 3 games. One of the reasons why I don't like the gaea armor is its speed. The game is mostly a platform game and making it clunky to move in a platforming stage doesn't really make up for his damage output. I remember using it only for the 100% collection, and the 2nd zero stage because the wall boss was so annoying especially the spiked floor. Using the gaia armor made the fight significantly faster... but there was a section in that stage where there's a tricky jump if you're using the gaia armor.

Gaea armor has always been controversial. It's not strong in terms of mechanics, but strong due to its properties. Literally High Atk & Def, sacrificing speed. That's the trade off. Also I believe there are mods to remove the Gaea Armor's weaknesses to make it on par with the other armors & boy was it busted.

I did not know that people hate this armor. It though that this armor is overpowered and the speed and dexterity reduction over compansated just because it could take more hits, can stick to walls and almost rapid fire charged shots.

You've failed to mention that Gaea Armor climbs ladders 🪜 faster....

Back when I played Megaman X5, Gaea Armor is one of my favorite armor in terms of style and gameplay. I got used to the armor that I had to use it all the time to wreak havoc against bosses and spikes.

The Falcon and Gaia armors are homages to the Jet and Power armors from MM6. Similar to how the Black Devil was for the Yellow and Green Devils.

Gaea Armor is so cool. It felt so heavy and it really does like a heavy suit of armor that can actually protect you. Its Immunity towards Spikes is what makes me in love with it. Shadow Armor is just a better Gaea Armor, but its swiftness doesn't really give you the boss feeling of wearing a heavy suit of armor.

Got confused when you said Crescent Grizzly and Tidal Whale - then remembered I played a version of game which called them Grizzly Slash & Duff McWhalen.

The only thing I wanted with the Gaea Armor is a faster dash. I can take no boss weapons because the Gaea armor doesn't need them.

I didn't play X5, but this seems better than at least one of the armor sets in X6.

Gaea armor is the armor I used when I finish the game the first time when I was a kid.

Nah first armor being the worst is CAP. Yeah if you compare to most other armors it is very basic but in the context if X1 the armor is godly. Some of the charge weapon abilities are insanely OP and like beimh able to be literally imvincible or have a rolling shield around you which makes certain parts of Sigma stages easy AF, and dashing is OP because the Maverick stages are made to be beatable without dash which makes having dash trivializing. Gaea armor main issue is you get it waaaaaay too late and by the time you get it you mostly have Zero levels. What is worse is only half of them is the Gaea a really good choice. Stage 1 you want time stop and not he slow while stage 3 if you want the ulitimate armor you can't use the Gaea. Stage 2 it is really good as is stage 4 but Stage 4 you can already have the Ulitimate Games would be better if the way the game design didn't make it basically take too long to get normally without exploits. However if you don't plain on getting the Ulitimate armor, Gaea absolutely wrecks the boss rush and Sigma and in some ways the Gaea is better then Ultimate since you don't have to fly around

I think the problem is the Falcon Armor is way too powerful. Maybe they could have balanced that if you got the Gaea Armor first (where the Falcon Armor was supposed to be) and then you had to use it to get the Falcon Armor pieces in the other stages. Heck, considering how you get the pieces in Pegasus and Roserade stages, I think that may have been the case at some point

Yes. Next question.

This has been aggressively recommended to me and what the hell, im an X fan. I got nothing to lose watching this.

I beat the Re-fights and Sigma with that armor, is alright, I did have all the health I could in the game. The most difficult part was Sigma Stage 1 with those insta kill lasers.

There's a gameshark code that allows Gaia Armor to equip 12 upgrades simultaneously. Imagine equipping Hyper Dash, Speedster, Jumpster and Quick Charge. Quick Charge + low cd Gaia Charged Shot is much faster than U-Buster part

it's so weird to have x5 bosses us their original names. Im so used to grizzly slash, duff mcwhalen(Honestly the better names imo) etc.

the problem of the gaea armor is that it competes with both the most mobile armor with the falcon, as well as the solid alrounder 4th armor. and you sacrifice air mobility, for immunity to spikes that sounds great, but all maps are already designed for you to not really have any problem even with base X. so it ends up being completely pointless, outside of 1 or 2 heart containers. so its not as much the case of it being bad, but more of it being pointless.

My genuine opinion on the Gaea armor is that it's very niche and outclassed by the use of sub weapons and movement options for the other armors. It's got its uses, but other than those uses, I'd rather go with almost any other armor or just base X. In DIVE however...

Honestly those who say that is bad are wrong, the armor is amazing. The problem is how late you get it. The final Zero stages are a lot easier to do with Falcon and you get the Ultimate on the third, leaving no time to shine for Gaea

I love this armor

Still probably my least favorite as it comes from X5, and I rarely go back to that one. Aside from the ranga banga level and collecting the items it's required for, it just never felt very fun. If I had to pick based on which armor I play as the least in the whole series, it would be the X7 armor since I almost never play X7 (maybe 10 total playthroughs since it came out?), but the armor in that definitely felt like an upgrade with the long range glide and just how OP X was. The gaea just feels more like "yeah that's something that can do this specific thing, but I'd still rather just use the 4th armor". If we could transplant the X6 shadow armor into X5, I'd probably be more enthusiastic, but then I'd still be playing X5.

Wew i never played 5 cause i wanted to beat the first 4 i begrudgingly never got past 4 I heard about this armor though, it couldn’t be worse than the 7 one with the weird glide

The main problem for me isn’t a functionality issue, though that’s certainly a big issue. No, the problem is that it fails at the most important thing an armor needs to accomplish; it’s just not fun to use. It has its uses, but it’s such a chore dealing with that awful movement, pathetic range, and no special weapons. Base, Falcon, and Ultimate X are just so much more fun

I love how everyone and their mother complain about Gaea's speed when the sheer damage output it delivers makes up for the speed it lacks, I mean why would you need to be faster when you can just stand in one place and blast your enemy to death And if you want a faster Gaea, there's always Shadow armor

I always liked the armor. I like bulky and tanky character designs, admittedly.

I like it

With a name like "Gaea Armor", I do question what people expected out of it. It's essentially a walking tank that does heavy damage and immunity to the most commonly used hazard in the Mega Man franchise, while sacrificing mobility. I get speedrunners will hate it for that sole reason, but beyond them, I dunno why others would dislike it. Other than aesthetic; I'm not a fan of Gaea X's bulkier sprite design myself.

The Gigachad of Armors

Shadow Armor from X6 turned into a better Gaea Armor

Can someone finally make a mod of x5 that allows you to use zero boss / awakened powers it bothers me a lot that he is so weak when you play him and then as a boss he has those cool attacks, the charge shot would be cool to use 1 the normal you use in game then second level the charge shot he uses in the normal boss fight and finally when you charge long enough the shingetsurin. Also for the Messenkou could be charged and then Shin Messenkou like X charges his other weapons

Bro get yourself a pop filter. Instant quality improvement that costs almost nothing. Other than that this video is great!

Yeah falcon armor .... Falcon armor megaman x6🫠

This is the best armor in the series to me it’s power is insane I’m good at mega man x games so the lack of speed doesn’t bother me

I has the X Legacy Collection on both Switch and PS4/5 does the easy way works or that's only for the Original PS1 Port of X5?

I knew it... I wasn't high when I shred boss using it when I was young.

Do normal guns hurt the mega man?

Beating the X4 armor much less the Falcon Armor was going to be tough. How do u beat armor that makes X invincible and gives him flight. Unfortunately a slow bulky armor like the Gaea isn't really what people want in an X game

Hearing you call the mmx 5 bosses by their original names and not the ones we got on the original PS is throwing me off in a good way.

beat the black devil with gaea in like 2 1 save state using not often real most save states was quick mns lasers the 2 megaman insta kill ones

I remember how many hours i spent hunting the pieces of these armor. But damn it was disappointing

I tried so many times to make the gaea armor works

one of my favorite armor. you can still beat the game with it. just dont panic hahaha

never got the gaea armor cause of the damn firefly maze. I hated that thing