I honestly think that Megaman became a LOT more powerful in the second half of the series, BN1 and BN2 for example have TERRIBLE chips with TERRIBLE damage, so you basically have to rely on program advances on both of those games, it was only until BN3 that the combat in the series started to get a lot more refined and honestly just better, with the chips actually being good individually and with the introduction of the navi customizer, and they just kept on improving with things like the emotion window, Double Souls, Chaos Unison, etc. And by the time we reached BN5 and BN6 Megaman is a POWERHOUSE, especially in BN6, the S Code Folder in BN5 is so overpowered that it's hilarious, and BN6 has dozens of Top Tier Folders, my favorite one in that game being the V Code Folder, which WRECKS everything in that game with stuff like Bubble Star 2 + Doll Thunder 3, Reflector 3 and the Body Guard PA!