Which form of Ballos is hardest for you.

Why is the third-form hard? I never take damage fighting it. You just stand between the rolling eyes and shoot conviniently...
The second form is hard as it is hard to shoot him right in the eye when jumping and it'll damagee you likely if you boost up to his eye.

I'm thinking that the reason the other people voted for the third form is the reason I did- Not because it's hardest to fight or that it's easier to get hurt, but because it's the hardest to master doing the quickest. For me, I'm basing the difficulty on how hard it is to beat that form as quickly as possible. The other forms are really a breeze to defeat if you have the right strategy. For his first form, you can just stand below him, and button mash the fire button upward with the Nemesis, and you've beaten him quickly. In the second form, just get up to his eye, and unleash your missiles quickly, and you've beaten his second form even quicker than the first one. And for the fourth form, all you have to do is (take some damage,) get up to his eye, and spam your missiles a lot like for his second form. So if you have the right technique, you can easily beat his first, second and fourth forms effortlessly. Then there's the third form that takes a bit of skill to beat in a decent amount of time even when you know the proper strategy. The best hell runs show Quote beating his third form in one rotation, which is quite difficult to time properly. And beating the third form in one rotation is the biggest difficulty we (semi-)professional Hellrunners face, the failure of which jeopardizes our great time we were trying to make. The reason I voted for the third form is because when I'm Hellrunning, the third form is the easiest to mess up on. Not sure if that's why all these other people selected that, but that's why I chose the third form.

 

Professional?

Is playing Cave Story a funded sport now?

 

Yeah, didn't you know? GIR's making all the big bucks, though.

EDIT: Where is "E: None of the above" on the poll? Ballos is easy, it's fucking Heavy Press that can get to me.

 

Hm... really Dunc? My preferred strategy (by that I mean only strategy) is to keep your Nemesis handy and just unload on it. Your Nemesis, plus Curly's, will take the Press out quickly. I have taken a fair amount of damage by doing that, though. x_x

 

Well see, I prefer to keep the Blade with me when I make a Hell run, because I feel horrible giving away King's soul to some random person who's smaller than the sword! It feels awesome having not only avenged King, but having him with me when I made all that he was fighting for worthwhile by defeating Ballos. So the Nemesis is out of the question for me. Without it, Heavy Press is a lot harder.

 

Well see, I prefer to keep the Blade with me when I make a Hell run, because I feel horrible giving away King's soul to some random person who's smaller than the sword! It feels awesome having not only avenged King, but having him with me when I made all that he was fighting for worthwhile by defeating Ballos. So the Nemesis is out of the question for me. Without it, Heavy Press is a lot harder.

I keep the Blade for a different reason, because of the Level 3 Area of Effect attack.
And Heavy Press is a piece of metal (can't say cake because Heavy Press isn't cake) when firing the MAXed Spur at it just at the start of the boss fight.
And the Blade is useful for those flying green imps during the second and third forums forms of Ballos.
The Blade is useless against Ballos himself, I noticed he takes way less damage than other bosses from it, but the Spur does more damage on him.

 

Well see, I prefer to keep the Blade with me when I make a Hell run, because I feel horrible giving away King's soul to some random person who's smaller than the sword! It feels awesome having not only avenged King, but having him with me when I made all that he was fighting for worthwhile by defeating Ballos. So the Nemesis is out of the question for me. Without it, Heavy Press is a lot harder.

So you're telling me that you refuse to use the Nemesis because of story-related reasons. Er... not really much I can do to help you if that's the case. How about: use your primary (Spur is alright, not sure if the Snake is, but I can imagine it would be) and good luck.

 

Second, because I never seem to be able to hit his weak point in that form.