Break-type damage will hurt a shielded Navi and destroy the shielding chip outright.
Also, you can retry battles as much as you need and even fast-foward them! Anti-Frustration Features: Before every netbattle your navi can tell you the odds of winning with the chips you have equipped.The player must learn how offensive and defensive skills play off each other to maximize their winning chances. During battles, chip sequences are chosen at random and played automatically. Up to 10 battlechips must be equipped on a triangular deck pattern. Netbattles are a turn-based affair the player has little input on.
Its whole Excuse Plot is centered around tournaments, and there is no exploration or virus battles. The game released simultaneously for the Game Boy Advance and WonderSwan Color (as Rockman.EXE N1 Battle, and much like the WonderSwan itself, it was Japan-exclusive), and is an oddball at that. Mega Man Battle Chip Challenge is a 2003 spinoff of the Mega Man Battle Network series, developed by Inti Creates instead of Capcom.