Shade Man

a Robot Master from Mega Man 7 built to look like a vampire. He originally was an attraction robot from the haunted house of an amusement park, but was stolen and modified for combat by Dr. Wily. Wily installed sound wave equipment intended to control human minds, but due to a wiring error, it instead generated powerful destructive sound waves that are used as a weapon called Noise Crush.

Shade Man likes dark places and to hang on ceilings, and although he's based on a vampire, he fears ghosts and spiders. He wants to be a singer and practices hard to improve his terrible singing voice, to the point that he's always with a microphone. Like how a vampire drinks the blood out of his human victims, he drinks oil out of robots, which heals him.

Overview
General breakdowns of passive abilities, gimmicks, and their movement + health.

Main
Noise Crush

Noise Crush

Alt
Gargoyle Wings

Flight

Reload
Shade Swoop

Dive

Basic Tips & Strategy
General strategy

Gondola V2.4

 * New sprites from classes-v9fh.pk3
 * Ported from 2.1 Beta
 * Speed boost bug on mid-air firing fixed

Gondola V2.4.1

 * Noise Crush is now green
 * Fully charged Noise Crush has impact VFX

Gondola V2.5

 * Hyper Speed Shade glitch patched out
 * Holding charge shot now grants 1.2x speed to the user, gets removed once fired

Gondola V2.6

 * Empowered Noise Crush now has travel/impact SFX, provided by MusashiAA
 * Grab invuln 35 tics > 10 tics
 * Grab armor save percentage 70% > 40%

Gondola V2.6.1

 * Uncharged Noise Crush now has infinite range before first bounce, reactiontime cut in half
 * Charged Noise Crush damage 40 > 35
 * Speed boost while charging now temporary, wears off after 3 seconds of having charge
 * Shade Swoop armor save 40% > 50%

Trivia

 * Add some trivia and lore! Try to stick to lore about the character's move-set or the community (like how NeedleMan plays like TF2 Heavy), and not about the character itself.

Notable Players

 * Comp players