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Well, this certainly was a pain to try and 1 life. You really need to have a lot of things go right for you for this to be one life-able. That said, this run got me 3rd place on the leaderboard as of September 24, 2018. Stage 6 has us facing the pairs Hornet/Heatnix, Wolfang/Dinorex, and Zero/Sigma.

*For Hornet/Heatnix, this is another case where gravity well just shuts the bosses down when used correctly. I recommend trying to land consecutive charge gravity wells at the ceiling. This makes the move activate immediately and effectively stun lock both bosses for the entire fight. The animation lasts about 3 seoconds, which makes it somewhat easy to time for chaining together. If Hornet plays nice and Heatnix doesn't shoot any fireballs (or summon magma from the ceiling at the start), you can certainly complete this stage with no damage.

*Wolfang/Dinorex is mildly infuriating to fight for a number of reasons. Charged Magma Blade can shut down Wolfang as usual, but it does no damage to Dinorex, and his large size makes you prone to taking damage before you fire magma blade which makes you waste energy and time. Alternatively, Wing Spiral can hit both targets with relative ease for good damage, but Dinorex's long invulnerable time and lingering animation can actually make it harder to dodge Wolfang and effectively punishing for landing a hit. I wouldn't be opposed to the idea of taking both weaknesses to deal with them.

*Zero/Sigma is fun but a nightmare for one-lifing after the previous stage. At the start, immediately dash jump away from Zero as he will open with a dash or a buster. Depending on what Sigma does, you can catch Zero with your saber swing before he does for some easy damage. Afterwards, jump towards the top left, and charge up frost tower. Its ammo and ability to hit multiple times makes it very efficient for fighting these two. Just be sure to avoid Zero’s giga attack and sword projectile by hovering above him (giga attack) or dropping down after he does the sword shot. When Zero goes down, Sigma shouldn’t be too much trouble. His attack patterns are very telegraphed and easy to dodge on reaction.