Does frequent bumping into Ultima Weapon shorten his flight around the world map?

[Peter_20]

It seems to me as if Ultima Weapon instantly stops his tedious flight, if you bump into him all the time.
I mean, I've tried following him the usual way, and that usually takes HOURS. :mad:
Then I tried flying into him all the time; and suddenly, he stopped MUCH sooner. :)
It always worked, and therefore I wonder if there possibly could be some "connection", or was it just a weird coincidence? :D

[Cledarius]

Yeah that's right.
if you fly all the time into Ultima Weapon, it stops sooner than usual.

[Distain]

If somebody kept on rearending you, wouldent you want to pull over and kick the /xxx.gif/xxx.gif/xxx.gif/xxx.gif outa the guy too?

[BG-57]

I think if you bump into him about fours times, he'll make a beeline for one of his favorite hover spots.

[Captain Maxx Power]

Interesting fact, if you drop Ultima Weapon's HP to 0 before you head to Cosmo Canyon, then he'll have 20000HP. If however you don't leave him with 0 HP, he'll have whatever you last left him with. In this sense it can be advantageous not to beat up on him so badly before the Cosmo Canyon fight.

[Acid Raine]

Hm. I didnt know it made a difference. I always rammed into him just because it gave me something to do, and he STILL took forever.

[J-E-N-O-V-A]

It always took the same amount of time for me! how long can it get?

[Twilight Edge]

He won't stop unless you fly into him(in my case that is).All I did was track him down and ram into him while hearing loads of cursing from captain Cid.