Kingdom Hearts 2 Final Mix HD | Critical Mode Any% Personal Speedrun Notes - By Noxbur (Route, strategy and menu summary guide based on Ninten’s speedrun tutorial) Ninten’s tutorial VOD on Twitch: https://www.twitch.tv/videos/1301539547 +=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+ ROXAS SECTION =+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+ DAY 1 - Skip tutorials. - Pick the Sword Struggle Bat for +1 strength (right option). - SEIFER: o Part 1 – full combo as tutorial. o Part 2 (Dusk RNG manip.) – 2 empty hits, 1 empty hit, full combo with finisher. Dodge his attack, 2 more empty hits + full combo to finish. - DUSK DAY 1: o Walk to the corner of the gate to get hit by the upside-down walk attack of the Dusk, to death abuse (if RNG manip. went right). o With the Keyblade in hand, do air combos - 2 empty hits + 1 empty hit + full air combo to finish him. DAY 2 - Activate save point tutorial. - At the alleyway use the Skateboard for movement to go to loading zone faster. - Pick the “Mail Delivery” minigame at the jobs menu. - MAIL DELIVERY: o Easy strat – mash triangle going down the street to deliver mail to every person. o Faster strat – do the RCs while midair to deliver mail faster. - Go to the Station and talk to Hayner. DAY 3 - SINGLE DUSK DAY 3 o Hit before he walks, and full air combos while he’s upside-down. - Pick the Dream Shield (right option) at the Station of Awakening. - DUSK TRIO: o 3 empty hits + full combo on each one to kill. o Use reversal if you need to o Avoid using finishers unless they kill the dusks so you don’t knock them away. - MENU (after potion chest) o Abilities: Equip all except for “No Experience”. - TWILIGHT THORN: o Safe strat: > Do 4 air combos on his head when he falls down from the RC sequence. > Air combo with 2 finishers while he’s floating and getting upside-down. > Move in front of him (towards his face). > Ground combo with 2 finishers + 2 RCs (whenever vines show up) repeat until he’s dead. > If you don’t kill a Creeper during the fight, kill one at the Mansion later on. o Fast strat: Replace ground combos for air combos when in front of his face - 3 air combos, thorns, 2 air combos, thorns…repeat until dead. DAY 4 - MENU: o Abilities: Equip Guard. - HAYNER FIGHT: o Walk left and do a full ground combo. o Walk a little more and do a full ground combo with 2 finishers (delay the second finisher a bit). o Full ground combo and wait a bit to do another full ground combo. o Empty hits to get the rest of the orbs if necessary. - VIVI FIGHT: o Walk one step and do 2 empty hits. o Move a little bit right and do a full ground combo with 2 finishers. o Walk around him and do 2 empty hits finishers (1st hit should be a lunge) + full ground combo with 2 finishers. o Get hit by the retaliation and use Aerial Recovery, and attack him on the way down. o Last full ground combo with 2 finishers, then grab all the orbs (empty hits to get the rest of the orbs if necessary). - DUSKS o Reversal RC at the start. o Do air or ground empty hits to kill all of them. o Keep using Reversal to kinda group them and try to hit more than 1 at a time. - AXEL: o Jump to the right to avoid his attack and do an air combo. o Do 2 air combos and mash Guard once you land the second one to block his retaliation. o Air combos until he is dead. - SETZER: o Death abuse to get the Medal (hit him to force retaliation until dead). DAY 5 - Use the Skateboard to go to the Station. - MENU: o Items: equip Medal. o Abilities: equip Scan. o Config: turn off summon animations - BALL MINIGAME: o Walk towards the wall avoiding the balls and press triangle. - VIVI CLONES: o Wait for clones to jump to the left. o Attack the three of them after they try to hit you. o Kill the rest of them as they spawn, trying to catch more than one between your combos. - SHADOW ROXAS: o Walk to left a bit and do a ground combo to corner him. o Another ground combo with 2 finishers. o Dodge him and do 2 empty hits. o Ground combo with two finishers. o Finish him, parrying and dodging his attacks if needed. - BAG MINIGAME: o Press triangle to win. - Walk back to Sunset Hill and grab the potion on your way up. - Use Skateboards to go to the Mansion. DAY 6 - DUSK+ASSASSIN FIGHT o Reversal at the start and do 4 hits + full combo to kill, one Dusk after another. o Dodge or guard the Assassin spawn attack. o Do 4 hits + full combo to kill him too. - Walk to the Mansion avoiding the Nobodies. - In the mansion, go upstairs to the left, to the Naminé’s Room (kill a creeper on the way for EXP if you didn’t on day 3). - BASEMENT DUSKS FIGHT: o Do empty hits + reversals to hit the Dusks and use finishers when they die from it. o After you kill 3 Dusks, 2 assassins will spawn. o Dodge or guard their spawn attack (depending on your position) and do 4 hits + full combo to kill each one. - AXEL 2: o Avoid the fire pillar attack at the start by walking right. o Wait until the animation is over and do a full ground combo into an air combo with two finishers. o Mash triangle in the middle of the room to get the RC off. o Wait for him to land and do a full ground combo into an air combo with two finishers to kill him. o Walk through the doors ahead towards Sora’s location. +=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+ TWILIGHT TOWN 1 =+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+ - MENU: o Customize: Donald and Goofy to Sora Attack. o Abilities: Donald - Remove Donald Cure. o Items: Take all party member’s items and equip to Sora (auto reload the potions). - STATION FIGHT: o Death abuse to progress. - Talk to Donald to board the train at the station. - At the Mysterious Tower, grab the Potion chest on your right for safety. - Kill the Shadows for EXP at the entrance using trying to use air combos to be faster. - Grab the Ether chest on your right before climbing the stairs. - TOWER 1: o Air combos on Shadows until they are all dead. - TOWER 2: o Walk over to the Soldier, do 2 air hits, land and another hit to trigger his Cyclone RC (use it to kill the Shadows along the way too). o Repeat the hits on the spawning Soldiers to do the same RC move. - Climb the last staircase and kill a Soldier along the way for EXP. - Talk to Yen Sid/Fairy to go through tutorials and progress. +=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+ HOLLOW BASTION 1 =+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+ - Use Valor form for movement (run, jump and attack to get over the little green roof). - BOROUGH FIGHT: o Use reversal on the Dusk behind at the start. o Start a combo with X and then press Square to use the finisher. o Repeat until they are all dead. - After Merlin’s house, go northeast and climb the platforms to get to the Bailey (you can grab a Drive Recovery for safety at the top of the staircase leading there). - BAILEY FIGHT: o Walk backwards to kill the Dusks and make Leon focus on the ones at the gate. o One there’s only one dusk left, go to the middle and blizzard him to kill. o When the Samurai spawns next to you wait for his first attack (after the spawning animation) and guard it to trigger Duel Stance RC. o Try to use all Samurai RCs to do splash damage to enemies around (but always focus on the samurai). o Kill the Creepers to make the last wave of dusks spawn. o Finish them of normally. +=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+ LAND OF DRAGONS 1 =+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+ - MENU: o Party: Ping and Goofy. o Items: Take of Ping’s items. o Press the “tutorial” button to get only 2 menu tutorial screens. - Use valor form and walk to the next area. - Fight the heartless there with it and talk to the guy after. - MISSION 1: o Walk to the right and an air combo finishing with square. o Take out the nightwalkers with Valor if you have enough Drive. o Swap Goofy for Donald when you revert for more splash damage. o Kill the rest of the heartless. - MISSION 2: o Wait until the shadows walk around you and fire combo them (don’t do the fire finisher, only empty fires). o Air combo the nightwalkers until they’re dead. o When the assault rider spawn, wait to see what he does. Do an air combo to stagger him, one more air combo and a last one with 2 finishers to kill. o Kill the remaining nightwalkers and assault rider (kill nightwalkers first). - MISSION 3: o Take a step forward and shoot blizzard at the distant shadow twice to kill it. o Go after the other shadows one at a time as they spawn, and use attacks or fire to kill them. o Air combo the nightwalkers when they spawn. o Use Valor explosion to kill the last one, to keep the form as you finish the mission. - MOUNTAIN CLIMB: o Two hits on the soldier to the right (Square + X). o Walk away and use the cyclone RC. Kill the last if not dead yet. o RC on the rocks. o Ground combo into finishers on the nightwalkers o RC on the rocks. o Go right and jump over the ledges until nightwalkers spawn. o Go over to the next rocks RC as fast as you can, to avoid enemies catching up to you. - Walk to the cave on the right with Valor form. - CAVE FIGHT: o Run over the assault rider to kill him first, like before (air combo to stagger + air combo + air combo with 2 finishers). o Fire combo the shadows when group up next to you (avoid using fire finisher). o When 2 assault riders spawn in the middle, focus on one of them and do the three air combo strat. - Go Valor for more fast movement through the next loading zones. - SUMMIT FIGHT: o Kill the enemies until you are 126 EXP away from the next level. o Use the rapid thruster RC to deal good AOE damage. o Focus on Bolt Towers for more EXP. o Mind the Bolt Towers’ attacks for they’re dangerous. o Survive for the time being. - MENU: o Abilities:  Sora - equip Slide Dash, Item Boost and Combo Boost.  Mulan – unequip Auto Limit and Item Boost. Equip Fire Boost. - Go Valor for movement until nearest save point. - Warp out and warp back in to Bamboo Grove. - Grab Ether chest next to the save point. - Buy a Fire Bangle at the moogle shop and head over to Imperial Square. - IMPERIAL SQUARE 1: o Use Mulan’s limit and mash triangle only to kill everybody. - Use Valor and go to Shan-Yu fight. - SHAN-YU: o Run up to him and parry his attack to trigger the RC and knock him towards the gate. o Catch him when he lands and do a full ground combo. o Do another full ground combo once he lands again, with square finisher if you can. o Use Potion and aerial recovery as needed if you take damage. o When he goes purple, stay far away from him and wait for him to charge at you. o Parry his charge attack to use the RC again. o Ground combos on him until dead. +=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+ OLYMPUS COLISEUM =+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+ - Talk to Meg and go through the door ahead. - Walk through the next areas until you get to Hades. - Slide dash to Hades and use a fire to end it. - MENU: o Items: Equip fire bangle. Take out Auron’s items. o Abilities:  Auron: unequip Divider and Auto Limit.  Donald: equip Donald Cure. - HADES ESCAPE: o 1st platform - Run backwards, when Hades teleports, Fire the hook bats, then use Bat Cry RC, kill rest of heartless. o 2nd platform - Run to left, guard Lance Soldiers, fire combo, use Lance Tug RC to kill rest of enemies. If you get hit or are about to get hit, use Auron's Limit for safety. o 3rd platform - Jump over the Lance Soldier, attack the Bat, and use Bat Cry. Spam Bat Cry and Lance Soldier RC to get rid of the rest of the enemies. Next wave will spawn, jump over Lance Soldier's and attack the Bat to use Bat Cry. If Donald or Auron attack's the Bat, you can't use Bat Cry and have to use Auron's Limit. After you Bat Cry, use Auron's Limit and focus on the Large Body. The rest of the heartless should be easy to kill after that. - Walk up the passage and grab the Ether chest if you want on the right path (second chest). - CERBERUS: o Death abuse to play as Mickey, selecting “I won’t give up” when you die. o As Mickey, in the air, spam square (pearl) to deal a lot of damage to Cerberus. o Attack him with regular combos to recover your Drive Gauge and more damage. o When your MP is back, spam square again until he has 1 hp left, and once your Drive is maxed, revive Sora. o Finish Cerberus with magic or Auron’s limit (slower). - Leave the underworld and Valor as soon as you get to the Olympus entrance, and walk to the urns. - URNS: o Part 1 – Destroy 7 urns with air combos to get enough orbs to progress. o Part 2 – Air combos as fast as you can to destroy as more as you can to make room for the big urn to spawn. Destroy the big one to get a lot of orbs and finish. - Valor movement back to the underworld. - Grab the power boost chest on the left before going to the next area. - MENU: o Items: Use the Power Boost and AP Boost on Sora. o Abilities: equip Aerial Dive and Counterguard. - Grab the Ether chest on the right corner at Underworld Caverns and go to the next fight. - DEMYX: o Spam water clones RC activating it by hitting with the Keyblade. o Fire them to kill multiple clones at once. o Chase them with slide dash and keep going until fight is over. - PETE 1: o Mash out fire to trigger Bat Cry RC and use it to kill as many enemies as you can. o Try to not get hit by Pete. o When the Bats are dead, use 2 ground combos on Pete with a blizzard finisher, to force him spawn soldiers early. o Kill the soldiers for EXP and survive until next fight. - PETE 2: o Slide dash at the beginning and use Valor. o Use bat cry RC on Pete, trying to kill the other heartless as well. o You can be safe and kill the ghosts before attacking Pete. o Air combo him until dead. - MENU (before Hydra): o Abilities: equip Trinity Limit. o Items: replace a Potion for an Ether. o Customize: Ether to shortcuts if you want. - HYDRA: o Use Trinity at the beginning and mash X to use Break + square (Ultima) afterwards. o Use Trinity finisher and then RC to cut the head. o Land on Hydra’s back and use Phil’s RC to stun the heads. o Kill the heads using air combos, from left to right, and slide dash to close distance if needed. o Walk towards the middle and use Trinity again when the heads come back up. Start with break, then ultima and finish. o Air combo the lower heads as more as you can. o If Hydra isn’t dead yet, go below her body and use the Ether. o Trinity strat again until she’s dead. Revive your party with potion if needed +=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+ HOLLOW BASTION 2 (forced) =+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+ - MENU: o Items: equip Hero’s Crest. - Enter 100 Acre Wood book and talk to Pooh. - Death abuse on the heartless fight with soldier to be fast. - Talk to Pooh one more time when you’re back in the book. +=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+ BEAST’S CASTLE 1 =+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+ - Use Trinity (only ultima) and finish it to progress the fight. - Buy a Sardonyx ring with the Moogle. - Valor movement to the next areas. - Run over to the Wardrobe while still in valor and do the RC minigame. - Summon Chicken Little before entering the next fight to be safe. - THRESHOLD: o Slide dash and a full combo. o Air combo until RC pops up. Attack the dark ball with air combos. o Kill the gargoyles along the way for safety and EXP. o Use fires and air combos to finish him off. - Talk to Cogsworth and proceed (don’t dismiss Chicken Little). - Do the RC minigame breaking the boxes (close the distance with Slide Dash) to clear the way for the other two characters I don’t remember the name. - Valor movement until Beast’s room. - BEAST FIGHT: o Walk forward a little bit and press triangle to do the RC. o 1 square hit in the air and full air combo. o Finish him off with the RC. - MENU: o Party: Beast and Goofy. o Items: take Beast’s items. o Abilities:  Beast: unequip Auto Limit.  Sora: equip Upper Slash. - Warp out and back in to Belle’s room. Talk to the wardrobe. Then warp out again and back in to Parlor. - Go Valor form and enter the Ball Room after cutscene. - SHADOW STALKER: o Hold the analog down to walk back at the beginning of the fight and avoid his attack coming from the ground, by jumping. o Air combo the chandelier until RC pops up, and use it. o Full air combo him towards the window, so he gets thrown away from you after the finisher, and you’re next to the window. o Walk closer to the window and wait for him to come at you. o Once he does, jump, X and square for a short air combo to kill him before he enters the window. - DARK THORN: o Square combo with 2 finishers with Valor. o Slide dash for a little more damage and go into Twin Howl limit. o Alternate between X and triangle to attack him with the limit. Don’t use the Last Howl move (finisher). o Slide dash and Upper Slash (press square) him to make rim go up. Guard his attacks if he doesn’t stagger and don’t use the Step Vault RC. o Air combos until dead. +=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+ DISNEY CASTLE =+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+ - Go Valor to run faster and head to the library. - ESCORT 1: o Call her over to the wall with the RC and push that mouse (move while nudging your analog a bit to keep her in position along the way, don’t just run up). o If the stops to attack, position her back and repeat. Use RC for safety if you need. - ESCORT 2: o The goal here is to be under 510 EXP away from the next level. o Kill the Bolt Towers while escorting Minnie, with her RC. o Try to hit them so they collide with the side walls to get more damage and closer to you after each RC. - MENU: o Items: equip Sardonyx Ring. - Go the the Pier once in Timeless River after all cutscenes. - Valor form before talking to Old Time Pete. - OLD TIME PETE: o Square to do empty air hits, and only use the finisher when you’re gonna beat him. - Go to the windows fights left to right. - WINDOW 1: o Summon Chicken Little while walking backwards at the start. o Use fire > fire > thunder > thunder on the Hammers. Two more fires or aerial dive to kill them. o Use the RCs to kill the bombs and deal damage on hammers if possible. o Finish of the hammers with air combos. - WINDOW 2: o Summon Chicken Little at the start and walk down right a bit. o Do fire > fire > finisher during whistle on the planes. Walk down afterwards to prepare for hammers. Fire again to kill planes. o Do fire > fire > thunder > thunder. Use an Ether aSund fire to kill them. o Repeat the fire > fire >finisher on the place during whistle on the planes. o Kill the last hammer with Thunder and air combos. - WINDOW 3: o Summon Chicken Little and kill all the shadows with fires. o When he whistles the car, fire combo the shadows and air combo the car. o When two cars spawn, fire them and air combo each to kill. o If the cards DM, guard their attacks (if CL doesn’t Baseball them) and counterguard to combo kill. - WINDOW 4: o Target the Rapid Thruster and aerial dive into air combo to kill. o Clean up the shadows and other rapid thrusters with air combos and fire. o When the next wave spawns, use Trinity with Major Drive only, aiming for the wall (don’t hit anything) and finish to kill the next wave. - Use Valor form and go to the Waterway. - BOAT PETE: o Mash RC three times to knock him out. o Grab the synth item chest on the left. o Use the hook RC and do 2 full combos. o Keep doing 2 empty hits to be safe and use RC when it pops up (you can’t if you do finishers). o Finish him off. - FINAL PETE: o Phase 1  Time a slide dash hit to parry the ball and stagger him.  Do 2 full ground combos with a blizzard as a second finisher on the second one.  Slide dash him again and upper slash. o Phase 2  Start off with one part Trinity (break or ultima) and finish it to advance to the next phase. o Phase 3  Repeat phase 1 strat with slide dash and ground combos.  During his punch attacks you can slide dash and counterguard it after you parry the attack. o Phase 4  Slide dash into a hit and run away, try to not get hit.  RCs to hit him until dead. +=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+ PORT ROYAL 1 =+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+ - Summon Chicken Little and walk to the loading zone. - HARBOR 1: o Mash attack at the start of the fight and use a fire to end it quickly. o When the pirates are vulnerable after the cutscene, do two blizzards and two thunders. - TOWN: o Fire combos to kill the heartless during CL whistle. o Kill the rest with thunders or regular combos if needed. - Jump over the boxes and use CL limit (FPS) before walking to the Loading Zone for more Summon EXP. - MENU: o Party: Jack and Goofy. o Customize:  Donald to Sora attack  Sora: Blizzard, Thunder, Reflect and empty slot for Magnet later on. o Items: take Jack’s items for safety if you want to. - AMBUSH 1: o Summon Chicken Little and go to the corner. o Blizzard combo to kill all the enemies for EXP. - Summon Chicken Little before entering the Cave Mouth. - CAVE MOUTH: o Walk backwards to the moonlight. o Kill the pirates with blizzard combos and CL whistle. o Watch out for your MP, pick bubbles when pirates die. o Potion to be safe and survive the time killing as more as you can. - AMBUSH 2: o Walk left, Summon Chicken Little and walk down a bit to force whistle. o Blizzard combo until out of MP and kill the pirates. - BOAT FIGHT: o Walk backwards with CL and blizzard combo the pirates until you’re out of MP. o Kill remaining axe pirates where you are, when they're all gone, head to the stairs. o Let CL whistle in the axe pirates near the stairs and combo them till dead. o When last dagger pirates spawn, blizzard combo them with CL whistle to kill. o If CL doesn’t whistle, kill each one individually. - BARRELS: o Do the minigame as regular Sora and use Valor explosion after the last one. - Walk all the way into the last area of Isla de Muerta in Valor Form. - BARBOSSA: o Look around for the heartless and kill it. o Ground combo Barbossa out of the shadows and do a full ground combo. o Do an air combo with square finisher and revert. o Blizzard him at the corner (with moonlight) and do air combos while frozen. o Repeat the freeze/combo strat until he’s dead. +=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+ AGRABAH 1 =+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+ - Death abuse on the Luna Bandits fight (attack them to force retaliation). - Buy a Thundara Trinket at the Moogle Shop. Use the rest of the munny to buy Ethers. - MENU: o Customize: Aladdin to Sora attack. o Items: take of Aladdin’s items. Equip an Ether on free slot and the Thundara Trinket. o Abilities: equip Aerial Spiral, Damage Drive and High Jump. Unequip Lucky Lucky. o Party: Aladdin and Donald. - Use Wisdom Form and go forward. - Target the Luna Bandit and use Silver Rocks RC to kill everybody. - At the Bazzar, quick run really fast to the door and wait for the 4 heartless around there to appear. Kill them using the RCs. - Use Wisdom again at the desert. - Jump as the heartless spawn, in the middle of them and use reflect and RCs to kill all, and you should be level 2 Wisdom. - ABU MINIGAME: o Press triangle when prompted and jump the waves. - CHASM OF CHALLENGES: o 1st platform – hit the ice cube and reflect when he attacks (his jumps is the visual cue). o 2nd platform – same thing as before with ice cubes. o 3rd platform – react to the fat bandit’s attack with reflect, guard or dodging and attacking. Attack his back or use RC to kill. o 4th platform – poke the fat bandit with blizzard and reflect his retaliation. Repeat until dead or use air combos on his back. o 5th platform – full air combo the closest fortuneteller when she spawns, as you fall down. Reflect the other one’s attack and use trinity to carry on the reflect damage on her. - Use Wisdom form before reading the sign and entering the loading zone. - TREASURE ROOM: o Jump and reflect SR attacks, using RC to cleanup. o Shoot the cubes and globes to trigger their attacks and reflect as Wisdom form to get to level 3 Wisdom. o Switch Aladdin for Goofy before killing the last cubes/globes. o When the fat bandits spawn, stay in the middle of them and use reflect followed immediately by Trinity (Ultima > Major Drive > and Break for extra safety). - MENU: o Abilities:  Sora - equip Quick Run and Experience Boost.  Goofy – unequip Goofy Bash, equip Tornado.  Donald – equip Fantasia. - Quick run to the palace as regular Sora now. - TWIN LORDS: o Target Volcanic lord and use Comet. Aerial Dive to him during Comet for more damage. Air combo until he breaks. o Full air combo blizzard lord and Comet Rain. o When both respawn. Full air combo Volcanic and then Blizzard lord, into Valor afterwards. o Air combo + square finisher on Volcanic with Valor, and do the same with Blizzard lord. Repeat after their dead. o You can revert and use comet to kill the last living lord, depending of which survived. o Just remember to keep alternating between them and cleaning up the small heartless after they break. +=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+ HALLOWEEN TOWN 1 =+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+ - MENU: o Party: Jack and Goofy. o Items: Take out Jack’s Items. o Abilities: Sora – unequip Upper Slash and equip Finishing Leap. - Summon Genie and enter the next room. - TOWN SQUARE 1: o Death abuse getting hit by the White Knights. - Walk with Genie until Hinterland so you don’t lose your drive gauge - CHRISTMAS TOWN 1: o Wait for the toy box enemy sits down in the beginning. o Slide dash towards him, do another hit. o Mash Reflect twice to deal damage on him and other enemies. o Get hit on purpose by his third gun shot and use Aerial Recovery. o Full air combo him until dead. o When the other toy box enemies spawn, use Dance Call, kinda in the middle of the room. o The limit will suck them in, and once it does, alternate between triangle and X inputs (always start with triangle). You can space the inputs a little by letting the rotating attack move of the limit hit the enemies as well. Limit until dead. o The goal here is to EXP boost (Sora gets double EXP when below 50% health), to get to level 18 after this fight or during it. - If you are not level 18 yet, kill the enemies in Hinterlands on your way to Prison Keeper. - PRISON KEEPER: o You gotta react accordingly to his initial pattern, so it can be different from the video (Shock pattern) o Jump into him and use Aerial Recovery after getting hit. o Do one full air combo on him to knock him down. o Do another full air combo. If he retaliates after, guard his attack. o If he goes up in the air again, use Thunder for a little more damage. o Use Dance Call to suck him down (make sure to use it after he starts shooting dark orbs). Use the whole limit like the previous strat with it. o Try to get him near the corner to use the finisher of the limit. Do an air combo after the finisher to try to skip a phase. o Use Valor form while he is changing phase. Hit him and use square finisher. o Do 2 more full air combos with Valor into second finisher. o He’ll probably change phase now. Wait and air combo him the same way with Valor. o If you’re not in Valor anymore, know him down by using a empty hit on the ground, then thunder > thunder. o Catch him and use air combos on him to kill. You can also use Solo Trinity or Dance Call to deal damage and kill, depending on his phase and position. - Warp out at Yuletide Hill and warp back in at Santa’s House. Walk to the factory. - OOGIE BOOGIE: o Section 1 - Just keep hitting presents and dodging the punch with Quick Run. Use Thunders on Oogie in between the presents to deplete your MP and go into MP charge and get your Drive Gauge back. Combo him when he falls. If you don’t have 3 Drive yet, use aerial spirals on him before he runs away. o Section 2 – When he send down heartless presents, Summon Chicken Little to crowd control the heartless that come out of the goodie bags. After 8 presents, he switches to another conveyour belt. When you break the platform, use Jack's Limit (if he's alive) to damage Oogie and the heartless. Combo Oogie till he runs back. o This fight is very reactionary after this part, so keep your eye on his patterns. o Section 3 – Avoid the lightning attacks when back on the middle belt. Use Solo Trinity if you get hit by them. The present animation will protect you from lightning as well. After 4 presents, he switches conveyour belts. After 8 presents, he switches again. Quick run after hitting the 8th present to get to the middle conveyour belt. If Oogie goes to the far conveyour belt, just use the RC again to get on the right one. Break the platform again and kill him. +=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+ TWILIGHT TOWN 2 =+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+ - MENU: o Customize: equip Magnet (if you haven’t it already on shortcut). - Summon Genie and enter the Sandlot fight. - SANDLOT FIGHT/BERSERKERS: o Poke the Dusks to reflect their attacks for damage. You can use Magnet + Finishing leap to deal more damage faster. o Another option is to use Magnet + Genie valor limit (Sonic something…) to kill the first Dusk wave. o On the next wave, Reflect the Berserker spawning claymore animation, do Blizzard > Magnet > Finishing Leap. o Grab the claymore, catch as more of the nobodies as you can, use the RCs until dead. You can also use Genie’s valor limit to keep dealing damage until they die. o Dismiss Genie after they’re dead to prepare for the next wave. Stay in the corner (next to the board) while doing so. Use Ethers to conserve MP if necessary. o Jump or quick run away when they jump/float towards you. o Stay a little close to them. Use Magnet in the air and then Trinity Limit with Ultima only (use double magnet on the ground if the air magnet timing is hard to you). o Use Major Drive as well and finish the Trinity to kill if they’re still alive. - Walk and skateboard up to the Station to leave the world. +=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+ HOLLOW BASTION 2 =+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+ - Jump, use Wisdom form and use fires to stay in the air and cross the gap until up the stairs. - Quick run to Merlin’s house and then all the way to the Bailey. - Skateboard up the Restoration Site until Postern and, there, enter the next area. - Once in the Corridors, quick run the following way as you spawn: straight>right>left>straight>left>right. When you’re in the large area, just go to the middle path to the study door. - Talk to Leon and use the computer to enter Space Paranoids. +=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+ SPACE PARANOIDS =+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+ - Slide dash the door to get enough orbs and use RC. - MENU: o Items: take out all Tron’s items. - Quick run the next area and Access Computer to block minigame. - BLOCK MINIGAME: o Pay attention to the glowing block and keep track of it during the rotations. o Get to it once they stop rotating and use Wisdom explosion to finish. - Go back to Hollow Bastion, use computer, RC the wall, and get the big chest (Stitch) on your way back to Space Paranoids. - LIGHT CYCLE: o Section 1 – Straightforward, always the same. Kill the enemies with Keyblade or Charge as they spawn. Beware the walls and their attacks to not lose health, otherwise you’ll be in even more danger in the next section. o Section 2  Go towards the left wall and attack the enemies with keyblade until they die, preferably before you turn left with L.  Go to the right and don’t bother with the enemies, guard their attacks. Turn right with R. You boost your turn with the green enemy, attacking it while he’s guarding and turning right afterwards.  Take the left path with L and keep following along turning the corridors.  When the white guys spawn, charge the right one and keyblade swing the other enemies.  Keep turning and when the 3 white guys spawn together, charge at least 2 of them at once, 3 is optimal.  Until the last part, it’s pretty reactionary, to avoid getting hit, killing the enemies while being safe and guarding.  On the last part (no more turnings) just avoid the pillars or guard them as you pass through, and use guard again when the purple guys shoot you, before the crack on the wall. Finish. - Walk up the Canyon and Summon Stitch at the top of the stairs. Aerial Dive the soldier when targeting him to get hit and go below 50% health, so we can EXP grind the next fight. - DATASPACE/EXP GRIND: o Your go to combo here is magnet > finishing leap > aerial spiral, while Stitch is filling up your MP (hopefully). o Keep doing it as the enemies spawn to kill them and collect orbs. o Gather enough orbs to freeze 2 of the screens so we can start the level grinding. o After freezing the second screen (on the upper area), more enemies will spawn faster. Do the combo sequence as they do. o Our goal is to hit level 23 and have a little extra EXP for level 24 later. It’s possible to already hit level 24 here, if you do, just end the minigame freezing the last screen. o Otherwise, keep killing until level 23 and every extra kill after that is extra EXP. You’ll probably be able to freeze the last screen when the timer has about 20-30 seconds left. - Grab the large Gaia Belt chest at the Communications Room and leave for the next fight. - HOSTILE PROGRAM: o Quick run forward towards the middle. Use Comet and do a full air combo on him with 2 finishers. o End the Comet Rain when you land after the combo. o Make sure the Hostile Program is between you and the wall, to prevent him shoot away from you and letting the Comet Rain do more damage and extract more orbs while he’s on the same spot. o Quick run towards the middle after gathering the orbs, jump and freeze him with the RC. o Catch him by doing an air combo (quick run or slide dash work if you’re too far). Do a full air combo and go Limit Form. o Do a ground combo, and another ground combo into Infinity/Ragnarok. Make sure to use Giga Impact (last RC prompt). o Revert to gather the orbs as he flies around the arena. o When he stops and start the laser animation, wait until the laser is about perpendicular to the ground and use Freeze RC. o While still in the air after freezing, use Comet and air combo him. You wanna use around 2 or 3 comets before finishing it, and air comboing in between comets, to finish him. +=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+ HOLLOW BASTION 3 =+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+ - CORRIDORS FIGHT: o Target the Dancer nobody. And use that Magnet > Finishing Leap > Aerial Spiral combos to beat the first wave. o The idea is to get the Crimson Jazz sucked into the magnet when he spawns, but Goofy needs to use Tornado as well for it to work. o When you have at least 3 Drive, use Chicken Little and repeat the combos using CL and reflects if needed. - RESTORATION SITE/DANCERS FIGHT: o Summon Chicken Little right of the bat and target the middle guy. o Do the Magnet > Finishing Leap > Aerial Spiral combo to kill the first dancers wave. o Refill your MP with Ether and repeat the combo until the last wave full of dancers appear. o Get them caught up on the magnet, dismiss Chicken Little and quickly use fire > fire > finishing leap. o While still middair, use magnet and Trinity (Major Drive only) to deal damage and hopefully finish them off. You can use ground magnet too with the strat, just walk away and make sure your party is alive. - DEMYX: o You need 4 drive gauge at least here, so if you don’t, use fires on the water clones, but don’t run out of MP. o Kill the clones using RCs until you are below 30 clones. o Use Trinity in the middle of the room. Start with Ultima, walk a little far away from Demyx and use Major Drive aiming towards him and swiping the attack side to side to catch the clones. o Walk closer to Demyx and use the finisher. He needs to get hit by the finisher to get damaged. o Slide dash to him, hit and use finishing leap, and use Limit Form when he is in the air. o Ground combo into Ars Arcanum (don’t use the Ars finisher, just use the “Bash” RCs). o Ground combo again. You’re going to automatically revert from Limit. o As soon as you revert, use reflect into Comet. Be careful to not mash to reflect after revert, otherwise the magic won’t go off. o Do 2 air combos while in Comet (don’t use comet RC to conserve limit gauge) to force him to retaliate and end then Comet Rain when he is “kicking to the beat”, to abuse his brick wall but deal the final blow with comet and air combos. - MENU: o Items: equip Gaia Belt (and Thundara Trinket if you haven’t). Make sure you have 2 potions and 3 ethers as well. o Abilities: Sora - equip RC Boost, Vicinity Break and Flash Step. - FINAL FANTASY FIGHTS: o Yuffie – Magnet > Finishing Leap > Aerial Spiral. When shadows die, repeat MG>FL>AS combo on the Armored Knights. Bait out the Rising Sun RC from the armored knights and use it to finish this fight. o Leon – Target, do Magnet into Solo Trinity (target switching during the cutscene or after it, locking on to one in the middle). Go into Limit form and revert (just to recover MP). Bait shadow’s attack to reflect for good splash damage. When Morning Star appear, use MG>FL>AS combo to finish off the fight. o Tifa – Use an Ether for safety. Bait out Armored Knight’s RC, and target the Morning Stars to use it. Try to get as many as you can. You can do Magnet > Trinity or MG>FL>AS to kill the remaining ones. o Cloud – Use Limit form as the shadows spawn and Cloud strikes down to kill them with the explosion. Use and Ether and immediately use Sonic Rave, targeting the Morning Star. Use 2 more Sonic Raves until you get to Limit level 2. Cloud will help you clean up the rest, help Cloud with air combos and RCs. If you’re bold (but careful) you can get hit while in Limit Form to recover MP from the MP rage ability, it can save you Ethers but it’s dangerous. - MENU: o Items: equip Follow the Wind Keyblade. o Abilities:  Sora - equip Once More.  Goofy – equip Goofy Bash and Jackpot. - 1000 HEARTLESS: o The goal is to use the Surveillance Bot RC the entire fight (Snag->Sparkle Ray). o Babysit your Bot to try to keep using his RC. If he uses the circling up move, reflect until RC pops up. o Ditch the Bot if you or the bot is too close to the wall, so you try to stay in the middle to use the RCs. o Use Trinity, Magnet, Reflect and even Limit form if needed…whatever to keep you safe or recover MP/HP. o Try to spin the camera when using the RC, so more heartless will load faster. +=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+ BEAST’S CASTLE 2 (part 1) =+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+ - Walk into the Parlor before talking to Beast. - MENU: o Party: Donald and Goofy. - BALLROOM FIGHT: o Wait until one Dragoon comes towards you, reflect > magnet > finishing leap. o Jump > magnet > trinity (major drive) and finish it to kill everything. - Do a couple Quick runs and Wisdom for faster movement. Go to the west wing. - We are going to RNG manip the Bulky Vendor heartless now. If the Bulky Vendor isn’t in the West Wing the first time you go there, go back and forth between Entrance Hall and West Wing 2 more times so you’ll have entered the West Wing at least 3 times. Now Bulky Vendors will spawn in Halloween Town and Agrabah with 100% certainty. - Quick run to Beast’s room after the manip and talk to him. - MENU: o Party: Donald and Goofy. o Items: equip Rumbling Rose to Sora, and Hero’s Crest to Master Form. o Abilities: equip Guard Break. +=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+ PORT ROYAL 2 =+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+ - HARBOR 2: o Spam blizzara. Done. - Head to Isla de Muerta, escaping the ambushes now. - GRIM REAPER 1: o Blizzard > ground combo > guard break > finishing leap. Avoid sliding dash so you can do more hits on him. Reflect his scythe spin attack if he does it. o Blizzard combo him, and use Comet when you’re almost out of MP. Try to make him stay at the corner, and make sure you’re up close to him when comet rain goes down so you do more damage. o Go Master Form when he teleports away. Blizzard him and full air combo with 2 finishers with Master. Use Blizzard as your third finisher. o Hit him once and do 3 reflects to kinda stun lock him, then use at least 2 finishers (3 is optimal). o When you revert, Comet and air combo him to finish. - Grab Peter Pan chest on your left, in case you need it for a safe strat later on. - MENU: o Abilities: equip Horizontal Slash. o Customize: Jack to Sora Attack. - MEDDALIONS: o Nobody 1 – Thunder > Thunder > Thunder > Magnet > Solo Trinity to kill the nobody. o Go to Isla de Muerta, escaping the ambushes on the ship. o Nobody 2 – Slide dash (if he is on the ground) > Magnet > Guard Break > Finishing Leap > Aerial Spiral > Horizontal Slash until dead. o Nobody 3 – Slide dash the 3rd set of crates (to your right) > Magnet > Guard Break > Finishing Leap > Aerial Spiral > Horizontal Slash until dead. o If you have Drive, Summon Stitch before the next one. o Nobody 4 – Same strat as the previous two. - GRIM REAPER 2: o Section 1 -Blizzard him to freeze immediately and grab all the medallions. Then do thunder > thunder > reflect to get all the medallions. Put them back in the chest. Blizzara > combo with 2 finishers, repeat, then do a full air combo, until next phase. o Section 2 – He’ll teleport to the chest and collect some medallions. Reflect his animation, close to him, to use the RC. Target after RC, 2 thunders when you land to hit him and collect all medallions. Freeze him, deposit the medallions. Use Comet > Aerial Spiral during it > 2 Horizontal Slashes > Comet again after Horizontal Slash, repeat and use Comet Rain. o Section 3 – He will DM right away in this phase. Make sure you have 4 drive before he starts it. Go for the boxes to be safe, heal Jack/Goofy/Donald, then go into Master Form. After he returns back above the chest, use thunders (time them one after the other) to make him drop medallions. o When you have all 882 medallions, freeze him and deposit the medallions. Repeat the comet combos until he’s dead. +=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+ HALLOWEEN TOWN 2 =+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+ - MENU: o Party: Donald and Goofy. o Customize: everyone to Sora attack. o Abilities: Donald – unequip Fantasia. Equip Flare Force. - LOCK, SHOCK AND BARREL: o Target > Magnet > Trinity Limit (Major Drive), finish the trinity. o Throw the boxes at the kids to end. Switch Goofy for Jack before finishing. - Summon Stitch at Santa’s House and walk out to the Christmas Town. - If the Bulky manip was right, there’ll be 2 of them here. Spin the carousel to make everything spawn. Stay a little bit behind the middle of it, to try to throw the toy box on the ledge far away. Use the 1st BV RC to kill it. - Take a hit from the toy box to get below 50% health, use the other BV RC to EXP boost. If you don’t manage to EXP boost this other BV, kill another BV at Bazaar in Agrabah. - TOWN SQUARE FIGHT 2: o Reflect into Dance Call right away. Move yourself and the heartless sucked in to the back, next to the door, and use triangle > X > triangle…until you get all the presents. - PRESENTS MINIGAME: o Just do it, it’s RNG. Prioritize the larger boxes to be faster. - Talk to Santa afterwards to initiate Experiment fight: - EXPERIMENT: o Use Duck Flare > Aerial Dive > 2 Horizontal Slashes > finishers > Megaduck Flare > Aerial Dive into Aerial Spirals and repeat this last part to do the most amount of damage possible when DF is going. o Guard his retaliation if you’re close enough, or dodge. Do another air combo to knock it off. o Run away towards the gate and guard the rotating body attack. o Position yourself between both heads (Sora will throw of them towards his back). o Summon Stitch to refill MP and protect party HP. If he doesn’t, use Ether and dismiss. o Use Duck Flare > Aerial Dive > 2 Horizontal Slashes > finishers > Megaduck Flare > Aerial Dive into Aerial Spirals twice > Use 2 Ethers. o Reflect his retaliation > blizzard > finishing leap > Duck Flare > air combo in Megaduck Flare until dead. +=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+ AGRABAH 2 =+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+ - Go to the Bazaar and use the Bulky Vendor if you haven’t in HT, if you’re low on EXP. - Leave the palace walls towards the desert. - CARPET FIGHTS: o Fight 1 – Move to the back, use magnet > finishing leap > aerial spiral > horizontal slashes on the Rapid Thrusters. Reflect twice on the Bats, magnet > finishing Leap. Reflect fortuneteller’s attack, magnet > finishing leap again. o Follow Jaffar on the carpet, and Thunder him when he fully stops at the end. o Fly up to the top of the tower. o Fight 2 – Move back, magnet > finishing leap > aerial spiral > horizontal slash. Cast another magnet after killing the Rapid Thrusters to catch the fortunetellers. Wait until they come out of the magnet, then reflect > magnet > finishing leap > air combos. Use an Ether, use 2 reflects on crimson jazz > magnet finishing leap. o Do the Switches minigame (thunder, blizzard and fire). o Dash to the building with the thunder switch at the top. Go to the bottom, stay there a second, then go up. This should despawn most of the heartless. Hit the thunder switch with thunder. o Go up to the invisible ceiling of the map, and dash across to the blizzard switch. This will help avoid spawning heartless. Hit the blizzard switch. o Dash back to the initial tower and fly below the north broken bridge to use the fire switch. Beware of the crimson jazz. Fly to the entrance up when the minigame is over. - DESERT ESCAPE: o Simply kill every heartless that shows up during the auto scroller. Try to kill more than 1 with finishers. You should hit level 30 during this fight. - MENU: o Items: equipe Decive Pumpkin Keyblade on Sora. Rumbling Rose on Master Form. - Warp out at palace walls and warp back in at the peddler’s shop. Quick run over to the palace. - GENIE JAFAR: o Move down and combo his abs starting with a sliding dash (carpet Sora has a unique sliding dash combo, let it go off completely), and use 2 finishers. o Fly up going a little far away from the head, in order to start a combo with sliding dash (don’t mash ground combos). o Do sliding dash > ground combo > 2 finishers. Move away a little, sliding dash > ground combo > guard break > finishing leap as second finisher > aerial spiral > 2 horizontal slashes > 2 air finishers. o Reflect as soon as he recovers and move down to the abs again to combo. o Go to the head again and sliding dash > ground combo > 2 finishers. Move away a little, sliding dash > ground combo > guard break > finishing leap as second finisher > aerial spiral > 2 horizontal slashes > 1 air finisher > RC on his tail. o After the RC, repeat the same combo and he should be dead, and you skipped his DM successfully. +=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+ BEAST’S CASTLE 2 (part 2) =+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+ - Enter the world from the parlor, and leave the room for the Dragoons fight. - DRAGOONS FIGHT: o Quick run forward, reflect > magnet > finishing leap > aerial spiral > horizontal slashes. o Do the same when dusks spawn. o When the last dragoons spawn, move away to avoid damage, and target the middle one. Use magnet into Trinity (Ultima) to kill them all. If it doesn’t kill them, use the finisher. - Use Master Form before Xaldin fight. - XALDIN: o Move right when the fight starts to dodge his lance attack by walking and keep mashing triangle to get as many Jumps as you can with the RC (max is 9). o If you don’t have 9, use 1 of the jumps and stop. Aerial Dodge his retaliation to get more. o Start using jumps (just press attack button). After the last jump, revert > duck flare > aerial dive > horizontal slash > end duckflare during the horizontal slash (you have to be fast otherwise he’ll break out) > aerial spirals and combos to kill him. o The backup strat is to always get more jumps after nine jumps, by dodging his attacks and using RC. This will kill him eventually. +=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+ LAND OF DRAGONS 2 =+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+ - Walk to summit to the Riku fight. - RIKU: o Hold forward and mash ground combo > reflect > trinity limit > air combo > limit form > ground combo > sonic rave. This should kill him. If not, just use Limit form to kill him. - MENU: o Party: Donald and Goofy. - Use Wisdom form and quick run all the way down to the imperial square, jumping over the mountain ledges and using fire if you want. - IMPERIAL SQUARE 2: o Magnet > Trinity (Ultima) > Finish trinity. This should kill everything and refill your drive gauge. - Summon Chicken Little after crossing the palace gates, before talking to hooded guy. - SNIPERS FIGHT: o Magnet > Finishing Leap. Use this combo twice, dismiss CL > magnet > duck flare > megaduck flare. - STORM RIDER: o Mash X to use Vicinity Break > use the RC > let go of the RC > duck flare twice > megaduck flare > ground combos during duck flare. o When duck flare is about to end, use a ground combo to air combo (using finishing leap) and try to air combo him. o Use stitch to refill your MP, or use ether. Dismiss it when the next part starts. Just remember to keep Donald alive. o When Storm Rider goes to the side of the room and do his turning attack diving to the ground, use reflect when he is coming to the ground and use the RC. o When he falls on the ground, use duck flare > aerial dive > 2 horizontal slashes > finisher > end duckflare > aerial dive + aerial spirals until dead. +=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+ TWILIGHT TOWN 3 =+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+ - Skateboard all the way to the mansion, going through the tunnels. Summon Genie (master genie) in the woods before entering the mansion area. - MANSION FIGHT: o Lightweight enemies (dusks and creepers) – run away, use magnet into Master Genie limit (arcana), but only use the Bash RC on the last creepers before samurais. o Heavyweight enemies – stay close to them and use the same combo. Finish up the samurais with Genie and ground combos. - Enter the mansion and quick run to the basement. Talk to Pence and select middle option to go to the open portal. - AXEL / NOBODIES FIGHT: o Part 1 – Mash X for Vicinity Break, combo with reflect > magnet > finishing leap. Repeat combo and end with fire. o Part 2 – Vicinity Break and reflect > magnet finishing leap. Do it 3 times and go Limit form to recover MP. Magnet > finishing leap again. Repeat until you’re done. o Try to end this fight with 3 drive gauge at least, for the next part. +=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+ THE WORLD THAT NEVER WAS =+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+ - Use Wisdom form in the area with the shadows until the next loading zone. - ROXAS: o Reflect > full ground combo > guard break > finishing leap at the start. o Slide dash > thunder (mash) > reflect (mash) > guard break o Slide dash > thunder (mash) > reflect (mash) > guard break again o Slide dash > thunder (mash) > reflect (mash) > guard break a third time o Immediately use Ether > blizzard to restart the loop with > thunder > reflect > guard break. o Aerial spiral > flash step to restart the loop with thunder > reflect > guard break again. o Slide dash > thunder > reflect > guard break one more time. o See what he does, reflect any attack and Once More will keep you safe if you still get comboed by him. Use Limit form explosion to break him out of retaliation. o In Limit Form, do a full ground combo into Ars Arcanum (don’t use the finisher, just like Demyx fight). Mash ground combo out and finish him of with Ars. - MENU: o Customize: Ether, if you haven’t yet. o Abilities: Sora – equip Slapshot, Drive Boost and Combo Master. Unequip Vicinity Break. o Items: equip Two Become One Keyblade. - If you don’t have 3 drive gauge after Roxas, depending on how the fight goes, kill the heartless in the skyscraper to build up. - When in combat at Nothing’s Call, force anti form by going any drive form (due to your new keyblade). - At the elevator, do reflect > magnet > finishing leap > fire on the dragoons to recover drive gauge. Go anti form after beating the nobodies. - Talk to the Moogle on the next area and buy as many ethers as you can. Open Synth menu to get an Elixir. - MENU: o Items: equip Hero’s Crest keyblade on Sora. - XIGBAR: o Hold the stick down and mash the RC at the start. o Wait until he does 3 shots. As he does his third shot, start duck flare > aerial dive > horizontal slash twice > rocket flare as second horizontal slash hit end > 2 finishers > aerial dive > rocket flare as aerial diving > horizontal slash twice > end duck flare > two finishers > use aerial spirals. o Wait for his 3 shooting sequence again. After the third shot, go Valor. o Do a short air combo with square finisher and revert. Wait for him to reload and use duck flare while he’s reloading. In this part, it is important that he is above 2.5 bars od health. o When Duck Flare goes off, repeat the air combo sequence during it to finish him off. - Go Wisdom form and climb all the way up until the next cutscene. - MENU: o Items: equip Decisive Pumpkin on Sora. Equip Oblivion on Valor. Equip the Elixir. o Abilities: remove aerial finish (in case you used it on Xigbar). - LUXORD: o Mash jump backwards to avoid his attack. Jump back towards him when the attack ends to hit him while in dice form, so you reduce your drive gauge faster. o You can do 3 jumps close to him, and the 4th jump is to get away from his front attack. Maybe you can jump back on him after his done attacking to stagger. o Ground combo > finishing leap > aerial spiral > walk towards him > reflect > slapshot > reflect > finishing leap > aerial spiral. o Walk where he is reflect > slapshot > reflect > finishing leap > aerial spiral. o When he lands, reflect > slapshot > reflect > magnet. o When he does minigame, slapshot > reflect > slapshot > reflect > guard break > 2 air hits to loop him. o If he does cards, run away and react by jumping and reflect. Do 3 air hits on him to try to loop back. You can also do a thunder and magnet to make him use minigame again. o If he goes on the ground as a card, when he comes back up, do a full ground combo with blizzard as a second finisher. o When his yellow time bar is about lined up with the left corner of the upper black bar (where “time gauge” text is), use trinity limit twice. Go limit form > ground combo > ars arcanum > another ground combo > ars to finish him off. - SAIX: o Guard the first hits, mash triangle to get the claymore. o Go around Saix to use the RC attack, and try to prevent Donald from dying. o Duck Flare > full ground combo > finishing leap > end duck flare > 5 aerial spirals o Full ground combo > finishing leap > use Wisdom form > reflect > thunder > reflect and revert after the second reflect hits. o Reflect > slapshot > reflect > duck flare > ether > end duck flare > 4 aerial spirals > ether. o Mash magnet > mash reflect > mash duck flare > end duck flare > aerial spirals and finisher until dead. - MENU: o Party: Riku and Donald. o Items: take Riku’s Ethers (to be safe, get potions too if you want). - Use Wisdom form to climb all the way up until next cutscene. After the cutscene, go to the top of the castle for the Xemnas 1 fight. - XEMNAS 1: o Quick run forward, stay at the bottom of the building (below the star). Do the RC (use the 3rd triangle prompt (“Finish”). o Fall closer to the star again, jump and attack him on the back with air combo and 2 finishers, so Xemnas is pushed away from the building area. Quick run to him. o Reflect > slapshot > reflect. Do it three times, but on the 3rd time, use guard break after second reflect. Then ground combo > finishing leap. o When he starts teleporting, repeat the combo when he starts attacking you, and always finish the combo with guard break > finishing leap. You can also do ground combos on him until he is a little above 1 bar of health. o Use limit form > full ground combo > ars arcanum > 2 hits > ars arcanum to finish. o You can use Limit at about 2 bars of HP too, and then do the ground combo + ars strat, in order to avoid his second building RC. +=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+ FINAL BATTLE =+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+ - Go to the final door and press triangle to begin the final sections of the game. - Use the buildings RCs at the start to get to the Engines. - ENGINES: o Use magnet when you land and swap Riku for Donald. o Use like 3 magnets to send the nobodies to the cylinder, and hit the very last ones. Use the RC. o On the next plataform, use magnet when you land. Go Master when 5 nobodies show up, so the explosion send them away. o Use 1 or 2 magnets to clean up the rest and use the RC to finish. - CORE: o Target the core and use magnet in Master form still, and revert immediately. o Do as mush damage as you can in the air on the creepers. o Use magnet into trinity with major drive > ultima > finisher, to recover drive and deal damage. Kill any survivors if there are. o Summon Genie and use 2 Ethers. Combo the core with the “Genie Cancelling” strat (change Genie’s form while horizontal slashing) as more as you can. Switch to master Genie when possible. o When Beserker spawns with more creepers, target him and use Magnet > Genie Arcana with BASH finisher. o Magnet the creepers as you’re falling down, dismiss Genie. Do another magnet when your party come back > trinity (ultima) > finisher. o Valor form and full ground combo with 2 finishers in valor. Revert and use duck flare. Either stall it or finish right away depending on your damage. o Go Valor and press triangle to progress. - ARMORED XEMNAS 1 o Full combo with Valor with 2 finishers. Revert > reflect > hit > reflect > guard break. Heal Donald. o Full combo > reflect > blizzard > reflect > duck flare > end duck flare. - DRAGON XEMNAS: o Section 1 - spam square and use circle to absorb the attacks. When you get Megalaser, use it immediately to kill the tail. o Section 2 - same as section 1, except when Megalaser is ready, save it for the next section. o Section 3 – fly in circle to avoid snowflake lasers, use Megalaser moving up and down a bit to destroy this part fast. o Section 4 - when he fires missiles, wait until they move towards you, and move around to avoid. You can use X to try and deflect some. Spam square and circle and don’t use megalaser here either. o Section 5 – Dodge snowflakes and missiles before this section, attack 2 bombs and use megalaser. - ARMORED XEMNAS 2: o Slide dash fast to him > reflect > guard break into another finisher > reflect as the puts up barrier > little delay > reflect again. Repeat until he progresses his phase (around 3 bars of health). o Fall down after he pushes you away, fly to the middle where buildings spawn and use the RCs. After the RCs, aerial dodge immediately and glide to skip snowflake lasers. o Keep doing reflect with ground combos until he changes phase again. o After he throws you again, keep falling until you go by 3 sets of snowflake lasers, then fly forward and repeat building RC. Repeat aerial dodge and glide movement afterwards as well. o Make sure you use an Ether for full MP before final Xemnas. - FINAL XEMNAS: o Mash reflect at the start and immediately use RC to start reversal. o Do 5 reversals > reflect > 2 reversals > reflect > 1 reversal > reflect > 5 reversals > reflect > 1 reversal > reflect > 2 reversal > reflect. o Reflect > Session limit after you fall down and Xemnas attack you. Use X > triangle > X and so on. Stop when he is a bit above 4 bars of health. o Go Limit Form to dodge his retaliation, and use Ars Arcanum (no finisher as always). o Full ground combo > ars arcanum again > 1 slapshot > ether > full ground combo > ether. o If he does the grab/vines attack, do the same thing as the start of the fight. If he does lasers, jump over/guard the first set and time reflects on the others to deal damage to him while defending (when he disappears after putting the lasers out). o If you get to the laser dome, the fight is over. You just have to mash attack and triangle to deflect the shots. o After the cutscene sequence, use a Thunder or session to finish him off. o Celebrate.