Dan is wrong. Air Man.

Heat Man.

You beat Metal Man first so you can easily kill the eggs the birds drop on Air Man's stage. You could do either first but there's no reason not to go get Metal Blade immediately.

Well, it depends on how soon you want to acquire the best weapon in the game.

I just played through the entire game for the first time ever recently, and the order suggested to me (on a FAQ) was to start with Metal Man. It worked incredibly well and I had no problems with any of the bosses. I support the Metal Man start.

Metal Man, easy stage, fairly easy boss fight, gives you an incredible weapon for the rest of the game.

For serious though; Metal Blade has a ton of ammo, can be fired in 8 directions, has a big hitbox, is effective on nearly every enemy as well as like 4 of the bosses including Metal Man himself.

Air Man's weapon blows, but since he gives you a hoverboard that you can cheese stuff with I guess I can see the value in taking him on first.

Metal Man is the correct answer.

Air Man is acceptable. However, Metal Man's weapon is the single most useful for the entire game.

Metal Man has the easiest stage, is one of the easiest bosses, and gives the best weapon in the game. Why would you start anywhere else?

The fact that there are other choices being selected other than Air Man or Metal Man is probably the most shocking to me.

Anyone who doesn't say Metal Man is insane

Somehow Dan is able to bring this up every 1.5 months.

Metal Man. Because that's what Nintendo Power or something told me to do back in 1989 or something and it worked and I FEAR CHANGE.

Airman is the best strategy, it gives you a solid foundation to work off of allowing you to handle all the subsiquent levels with ease. I never liked the metal man approach personally.

Flash Man.

1. Having Item-1 or Item-2 doesn't do anything to simplify or speed up his stage.
2. He's one of the easiest Robot Masters to use the Mega Buster on, taking only 7 hits on Normal with a simple pattern.
3. Seeing a lot of "Air Man" responses, so having the Time Stopper makes the beginning of Air Man easier (or at least helps you avoid damage).
4. He and his stage are boring. Get them out of the way.

I always liked doing Flash Man first since it has the best stage music. That is all.

Air man is the correct, and only answer. That being said, the fact that there are other wrong answers being given other than Metal Man is totally mind blowing.

Metal Man. Easy stage, easy boss, best weapon in any Mega Man game.

While Air Man is obviously 100% not the right boss to start with, he is still the least wrong, and therefore should be taken second. I can't abide by all this Flash Man nonsense.

I think the way to solve this is to make Alex and Dan have a speedrun race. Itll be like AGDQ but 2 hours.

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I tended to go Flash Man first for some reason when I was younger, but I'd honestly go for any of them first if you can buster duel them. Quick Man would be a hard sell for first, though.

I always went for wood man cause I didn't know any better and his stage was relatively easy

Metal Man. Great weapon with a ton of ammo, the stage is easy.

I also went for Flash Man first. Easy boss, and the flash stopper was useful in a lot of situations.

I tend to copy boss orders I see speedrunners do. I like to try to play the games as fast as I can, and I've not seen any speedrunners really do Metal Man first (or even all that early in the game). Metal Blade is pretty overpowered, but I've never felt like I needed it until I'm about halfway through the robot masters given the order I go in. I do Air Man first, but I've seen a lot of people do Flash too. But like I said, that's more about speed. If you're just casually playing I can see why you would want Metal Blade in your back pocket.