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[DarkmoonTenshi]

Okay wait, you can level up before you have the Keyblade?

Yeah, by fighting Tidus, Selphie, and Wakka. I'd suggest Wakka the most. If you keep a safe distance and get the timing right, you can deflect the blitzballs back at him and get experience for that.

[Razorwind Keyblade]

Yeah, by fighting Tidus, Selphie, and Wakka. I'd suggest Wakka the most. If you keep a safe distance and get the timing right, you can deflect the blitzballs back at him and get experience for that.

Wow I never knew that. Well what difference does it make? Sora dosen't really have any attacks at that point of the game.

[deathrebirthsenshi]

Ha, I remember when I started a new game, I never fought Riku and I won the race just so I could proudly say that the score was 1 to 0! And I never raced again. lol I felt accomplished

[keystrike]

I would restart the game every time to try to beat him. This is the one side of the platforming element in kh1 I despised.

[yayitsdre]

AHH, I HATED THAT RACE. Well, unless I totally pwned his ass, ofcourse.
Lawl, I would always keep trying it over until my score was higher.

[Keyblader]

Ugh, the race was a pain at first, I've been able to do it more often now, but sometimes I epically fail. Same thing with Leon, except once I started winning against him, I never seem to loose, but there's always the chance that I will, I'm not a pro after all.

Okay wait, you can level up before you have the Keyblade?

And you were getting at other people for not knowing some stuff, that's pretty dumb if you ask me.

And in response to you saying that it's pointless to use them to level up, it actually can be useful, if you choose the shield at the beginning, you can level up to level 9 and get guard, which is a VERY helpful ability that early in the game.

[SoraKH]

it was soooooooooo ******* hard

[Kingdom Sora]

Ya the race was hard but what about the battle with Riku when hes been taken over by Ansem and he wants Kairis heart so Sora fights him so he will get Riku back. Oh GOD that took me a long time to beat it. Im not kidding because it was so hard that i almost hit the T.v because it was so frustrating.

[Aqua7KH]

when i first played it when i was 4, i sucked at it but now that i got KH1 again (old one was too scracthed up) i beat him like it was nothing in the race. But the first few tries i lost but i kept restarting it. But in the fight i learned his moves and was able to beat him. hit 4 times wait untill after he jumps at you and so on. But in traverse town with the optional Leon fight i was like "aw heck no" and i just let him beat me cause there was no way i would win agenst him

[hatok]

Yeah, levelling up gets you abilities before Goofy even teaches you about abilities
BTW, you can get infinite exp by fighting Selphie, and attacking when she uses her jump attack. She'll get knocked back for 1 xp, then her jump rope will land on her head for another exp, but it's impossible to beat her this way, so you can do it forever.

[Razorwind Keyblade]

Yeah, levelling up gets you abilities before Goofy even teaches you about abilities http://kh13.com/forum/public/style_emoti...
BTW, you can get infinite exp by fighting Selphie, and attacking when she uses her jump attack. She'll get knocked back for 1 xp, then her jump rope will land on her head for another exp, but it's impossible to beat her this way, so you can do it forever.

To be quite honest with you, I have never beat Selphie. But I'm not really interested in beating her anyway.

[Nami nom noms]

I have beaten everything in Kingdom Hearts before, except for that boss at neverland, which I never got round to doing for some reason.

As for levelling up before you get the keyblade... It's the FASTEST way to level up until you reach the Tarzan world.

All you need to do is fight Tidus, but don't attack him. Run away and he'll run after you. As soon as he does this, stop. turn around. and attack him once. He will swipe at you also and the attack will be parried and earn you 2xp points.
Then immediately run again and repeat. So long as you never hit him, you can keep this going for hours until you are any level you wish. I usually stop at level 12, which takes about 1.5 hours (much quicker then going through the worlds fighting heartless), which is a good level to be able to beat cloud comfortably.
The only time I hit tidus is when he gets tired and stands around... then I'll run in, clonk him ONCE on the head, which sets him off again, and then repeat the process.

[Razorwind Keyblade]

I have beaten everything in Kingdom Hearts before, except for that boss at neverland, which I never got round to doing for some reason.

As for levelling up before you get the keyblade... It's the FASTEST way to level up until you reach the Tarzan world.

All you need to do is fight Tidus, but don't attack him. Run away and he'll run after you. As soon as he does this, stop. turn around. and attack him once. He will swipe at you also and the attack will be parried and earn you 2xp points.
Then immediately run again and repeat. So long as you never hit him, you can keep this going for hours until you are any level you wish. I usually stop at level 12, which takes about 1.5 hours (much quicker then going through the worlds fighting heartless), which is a good level to be able to beat cloud comfortably.
The only time I hit tidus is when he gets tired and stands around... then I'll run in, clonk him ONCE on the head, which sets him off again, and then repeat the process.

Don't you mean the Phantom? Well anyway, when I do my next walktrough of KH1 I will use this to help me.

[Nami nom noms]

Don't you mean the Phantom? Well anyway, when I do my next walktrough of KH1 I will use this to help me.

Yeah the phantom lol, I faced it the first time, got owned. Read a guide on it and would have faced it eventually (after all the other things) but I never got round to that boss again.

Feel free to use this tip in a guide; the beauty of it is that at this level you can go straight from wonderland to tarzan jungle, and get the cure spell before you fight cerberus!

[Skylar.Love1]

It was hard but I managed to pass it.. I love the game, it's ideas are completely phenomenal!

[hatok]

Uhh... after you get the keyblade you can take out 2 Shadows for 2 EXP... that's kinda a lot faster than anything in Destiny Islands...

[Nami nom noms]

Uhh... after you get the keyblade you can take out 2 Shadows for 2 EXP... that's kinda a lot faster than anything in Destiny Islands...

Actually, it's not. It takes roughly 3 hits to kill any shadow. everytime you do that's 1 xp. 2 xp takes you 6 hits. thats about 2 xp in 5 seconds at a good pace. By parrying Tidus, you can do this at least 3 times in 5 seconds. Each parry is worth 2 xp.

3 times the xp in the same amount of time, not to mention you can carry on indefinately, without any need to search for more enemies when you've killed them all. And of course, there are other benefits too!

[OblivionRider]

I could never beat Riku (race/battle) or the three of them together.

I came back 5 years later and creamed them. Go figure.

[hatok]

Actually, it's not. It takes roughly 3 hits to kill any shadow. everytime you do that's 1 xp. 2 xp takes you 6 hits. thats about 2 xp in 5 seconds at a good pace. By parrying Tidus, you can do this at least 3 times in 5 seconds. Each parry is worth 2 xp.

3 times the xp in the same amount of time, not to mention you can carry on indefinately, without any need to search for more enemies when you've killed them all. And of course, there are other benefits too!

That's assuming you fight the heartless one on one. They're usually in clumps, so you can hit most of them at once, and provided you didn't give up the sword at the start you can usually start one-hitting shadows before long as well. Also, shadows are just the basic heartless, the others tend to give more. Also, you can get items by defeating heartless, which is a benefit.

[Nami nom noms]

That's assuming you fight the heartless one on one. They're usually in clumps, so you can hit most of them at once, and provided you didn't give up the sword at the start you can usually start one-hitting shadows before long as well. Also, shadows are just the basic heartless, the others tend to give more. Also, you can get items by defeating heartless, which is a benefit.

I agree with you on some points, but:

A. It's too inconsistant to rely on hitting multiple enemies at once. Even in the highest concentration of enemies (the gizmo shop) you can never hit enough of them consistantly to match the speed of Tidus parrying. You would need to kill a group of 4 shadows roughly every 2 and a half seconds to MATCH the speed. This is not really practical (nor really possible, but let's talk theory) AND you would need to leave and re-enter an area everytime you run out of enemies, eating up a bit more time.

B. While you can one-shot shadows, it is not for a LONG time after. Even leaving the islands at level 15 you cannot 1 shot shadows, so levelling up quickly at the beginning does not help the speed of shadows either.

C. other heartless do give much more xp, but they are also longer/harder to kill. Additionally you don't even meet other kinds of heartless until halfway through traverse town, and when they appear they still only give you 2 xp (the knights). Again this is far, far slower then the Tidus method.

D. If you still have doubts, why not try both methods? I guarantee you'll reach a high level much faster with Tidus then grinding or even racing through the story.