Gaea Armor X

Gaea Armor X

## Description

The **Gaea Armor** (ガイアアーマー *Gaia Āmā*) is a heavy type armor available in *Mega Man X5*. It was built by Doctor Light for Mega Man X.

The Gaea Armor focuses on power and defense, granting X complete immunity to spikes at all times, as well as mitigating the damage he receives.
— From MMKB Fandom

## **Abilities**

### Active Skills

**Gaea Shot**

Shoot an energy round to inflict **12.48% (+ 0.1% per level)**  attack damage to the target.

Can be charged to unleash a more powerful energy round. When maximum charge is reached, the shot deals **15X** damage.

Half-charge time: 0.417 seconds.

Half-charge damage: 99.79% (+ 0.79% per level).

Full-charge time: 0.7 seconds.

Full-charge damage: 187.12% (+ 1.49% per level).

Cooldown: 0.8 seconds.

Modifier Chips

**Giga Attack**

Consumes all armor energy and launch a Giga Attack to the front, continuously dealing **524.80% (+ 4.57% per level)** of damage to targets in range without taking any damage or negative status during use.

Armor energy is obtained as time passes and when attacked.

Giga cooldown: 14 seconds.

Invulnerability duration: 2 seconds.

Modifier Chips
(Stun duration: 3 seconds (1.5 in PVP))

### Passive Skills

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* Gain defensive shield that can withstand **95%** attack damage when you hit a short range target.
	+ This effect can only be triggered once more after a 6-second cooldown.

(Shield duration: 4 seconds)
(Giga cooldown: 11.2 seconds)
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* The preparation time for the Gaea Shot is reduced by **25%**.

(Charge duration: 0.56 seconds)
(Cooldown: 0.6 seconds)
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* When hit, you gain acceleration and your movement speed is increased by **100%**.
	+ This effect can only be triggered again after a 5-second cooldown.

(Acceleration duration: 1 second)
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## Cards

  Enhanched Armor Protection I(→II)
 The damage taken reduction effect of Armor Protection is increased by **20%(→30%)**.

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## Change List

* 06/04/2022
	+ Armor Protection did not prevent Lava's damage.
		- This was later fixed on 13/04/2022

## Tips

* Giga Attack can deal up to three ticks of damage, enough to kill players without damage mitigation or shields in PvP even without any upgrades. However, the Giga Attack can be easily cancelled if the player does any input during its animation. Due to this, it is best to use Giga Attack while stationary.
* Gaea Armor X's inability to slide down walls allows him to permanently cling a wall during any Vile boss fight, avoiding all his attacks and also easily hitting him with weapons (outside of melee weapons) and the charge shot.
* Gaea Armor X's Gaea Shot time is much faster than that of other charged shot attacks, due to the lack of a mid-charge shot.

## Trivia

* Gaea Armor X has a number of eccentric features currently unique to him. His dash has a lower base speed than all other characters and he won't slide down walls no matter how many time it passes. With **Armor Protection** passive, Gaea Armor X is also completely immune to most sources of terrain damage in the game, including spikes, lava and press machines.
	+ While Gaea Armor X is clinging to a wall, he can still fire weapons while staying in place, but using a melee weapon or changing weapons will cause him to dislodge and fall.
* Gaea Armor X is the first non-limited, non-seasonal character to be able to possess **Buster Mastery** passive skill without any rank ups.
* Gaea Armor X's **Armor Protection** has the highest mitigation effect between all variants of the passive skill, with 20% damage mitigation.
* Gaea Armor X together with First Armor X and Falcon Armor X are the only armors in mainline Mega Man X series that were not able to air dash during their debut titles. However, First Armor X could air dash in Mega Man Xtreme while Falcon Armor X could air dash during Mega Man X6 making it the only armor without any instances of air dashing to gain the ability during ROCKMAN X DiVE.