Sonic 3 and Knuckles - Boss Run - Knuckles' Storyline - Part 2

Since playing as Knuckles does change things up (Quite significantly in some cases), I've decided to record a few of the Sonic game bosses as Knuckles.
Where as Sonic can speed through bosses, Knuckles requires a little more finesse to beat them quickly.

Three things to bare in mind:
a) Knuckles cannot jump as high as Sonic. This is the biggest difference as far as Boss Battles go. This often means he cannot hit a boss at a moment where Sonic can.
b) He lacks Sonic's sub-spin move... meaning he can't bypass boss armour. This also means, he cannot hit a boss at a moment where Sonic can. Many of the moments you see here where you may very well think "Oh, I'm sure you could hit that.." No. You can't. Not with human timing.
See Lava Reef's Su... er. Boss.
c) For obvious reasons, (i.e the glide move), he doesn't get Sonic's Shield moves.

Most of the time, Knuckles can't beat a boss as fast as Sonic, but he'll give it a damn good shot.
The recording of this boss run was filled with problems, from having the emulator crash on me, to one of the recordings having a mouse pointer in the way (that'd be the Mushroom Hill sub-boss) as a result, lives and score will be all over the place.

Boss Notes:

MH1: How did I not notice this before - his flames thin out in certain animation poses! This strategy works for Sonic and Tails too.
MH2: Same strategy as Sonic. Egg-Robo can sometimes create a barrier that you need to glide through, but I killed him way too quickly for that.
FB1: Can't speed this up any quicker.
FB2: Ditto.
FB3: Egg Ro... er... Robotnik now shoots flames regardless on whether your on the ground or not, so after getting in a few good hits at the start, you just have to fight it normally.
SAND1: Damnit Sonic and Knuckles, what's with you and having 4 bosses that have to kill themselves!
SAND2: Poor Egg Golem. I haven't let it leave it's starting position as either Sonic or Knuckles. XP
LR1: The last boss for Knuckles prior to Mecha Sonic, for some reasons I couldn't pull off the three hits per appearance, but that might have something to do with Knuckles' altered jumping mechanics, as I can pull it off fairly regularly with Sonic.
SS1: The spindash seems to be a recurring weakness to the mechanical Sonics. First Silver Sonic and now this.
SS2: A messed up jump meant he actually got to use the Ring Spread attack. Ah well.

Well that's all of the bosses Knuckles can legitimately face in Sonic 3 and Knuckles. I'll be making a later video detailing the Debug mode bosses. By hook or by crook, Knuckles CAN fight every boss in this game, even if you have to edit the game to do so. XP

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[Pokegirl24]

For me,Gapsule was ALOT easier to beat than Jet Mobile

[DeathDragon4000]

Wanna know a weird glitch? (Dunno if this works in Sonic 3 and Knuckles, but it does work in Sonic & Knuckles)

On the first boss (Jet Mobile), die. When you fight him a 2nd time, instead of EggRobo, it'll be Robotnik.

[kawrght]

@kawrght its like when hes in his special zone armour he switches brain cells for power. not a good idea.probably why eggman never does it(aside from sizing issues)

[Benlowrocks]

Look really close at 8:07 it shows Tails standing on the plane

[Nitrometutorials]

How do you play as knuckles?

[immaBlueLink]

Once I fought the mushroom hill boss as Knuckles, and for some unknown reason it was robotnik.....I don't know why......

[kawrght]

metal robotnik=robotnik in a metal suit of armour

[kawrght]

does anyone notice metal robotnik doesnt seem to know how to use his counterparts boss weapons?

[PrrrromotionGiven]

...You got through sandopolis 2 in 2:02... DAMN...

[misterneckbreaker88]

i believe robotnik in flying battery boss with knux is not glitch. sonic n knux storylines take place at same time, robo botnik gets destroyed in first part , eggman is only one left. sonic has spun into sandpolis n is already in pyramid by that time. sonic n knux story line is set so sometimes sonic is ahead n when knux takes short cuts knux is ahead.