Talk:Mettaton/@comment-79.95.167.220-20151107132431/@comment-50.24.161.13-20151107221745

Tried to get this ending from a save after I cleaned out hotlands, but no matter what I do, I deal 90,000+ damage and get the standard "guess you don't wanna join my fanclub" speech. Tried sparing and checking him multiple times before attacking, selecting fight but letting the bars fly by without stopping them. None of these have any effect, it says the stage lights are blaring, and it's my turn again. If I select fight, then him, then immediately press z once to stop the first bar as far away from the middle as possible, then let the remaining bars pass, I still do 90,000+ damage and get the "guess you don't want to join my fanclub" line. This is the case regardless of how many turns I waste trying to spare and check him beforehand. I even cheated to slow the game down so I could stop the first bar on the very first frame that it's possible to stop it, making it as far away from the center as possible, and got the same results. I tried with the empty gun, burnt pan, tough glove, and notebook, and got the same results every time. I think my results are pretty exhaustive.

I have to wonder if you can get a successful fight out of him if you don't clear the hotlands first but you do strike with as much power as you can. If you can, does that mean you can skip clearing the hotlands and still get a genocide ending? In any case, I think I can pretty definitively say from my tests that it's impossible to fail the fight with him if you do clear hotlands first. Since I saved after clearing hotlands, it'd take another playthrough to find out the answer.