Persona 4 Arena Ultimax (PS4) Trophy Roadmap
- Estimated trophy difficulty: 6/10
- Approximate amount of time to platinum: 30-40 Hours
- Offline Trophies: 36 ( 3
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, 29
) - Online Trophies: 15 (1
, 1, 13) - Total Trophies: 51 (1, 3, 5, 42)
- Number of missable trophies: None
- Glitched trophies: None
- Does difficulty affect trophies?: No
- Minimum Playthroughs: 3 Arcade Runs, 5 Score Attack Runs, 1 Story Playthrough, 300 Combo Challenges, Tutorial, 100 Online Fights
- Release Date: March 17, 2022
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, 1Introduction
Welcome to the Persona 4 Arena Ultimax (PS4) Trophy Guide! This PS3 fighting game is re-released on PS4 after almost 8 years. It is the newest version which was only available in arcades so far. Expect some balance changes to your favorite characters and game mechanics. The trophy list itself is almost a 1 to 1 copy of the original list on the PS3, the only difference being The P-1 Climax Begins! Trophy which this time around is awarded by starting the story mode and not by simply booting up the game like in the original.
People who played the original will notice a few changes from the PS3 Version when it comes to the Golden Arena mode. The amount of floors for each course is doubled now. Bathhouse Course went from 50 to 100 Floors, Void Course from 100 to 200 and Research Lab Course from 200 to 400. This sounds like the trophy requirements doubled for this mode but there is also a new type of Golden Arena Course called Event Course. The first Event Course has only 50 Floors but a difficult battle at the end. It may be worth checking out the Event Courses now and then to see if they rotate since they are called Event Course after all.
Another big change is the Combo Challenges – the DLC characters from the main game are now no longer DLC so their individual trophies got removed. However, old methods you might have used for the puzzle challenges #25 may no longer work. The Arcade Update of this game reduced damage all over the cast and your old methods for performing a Combo of certain damage pretty much are useless now. For example, for the old known methods for characters like Adachi, Marie and Margaret their SP moves deal significantly less damage and reach only about 75% damage of what they did before. Therefore you need new methods to clear this challenge, since once again you can’t view a demonstration for the required combos unless you clear them first.
Step 1: Finish the Tutorial and Combo Challenges
As per usual in a fighting game you should do the tutorials first to get used to the game mechanics. Follow up with combo challenges which will give you an overview of what all the characters can do and might help you find your character preference for the game as well. You obviously don’t have to remember all the super difficult expert combos but basic knowledge of your character should always be your first priority when approaching a fighting game.
Step 2: Story Mode, Arcade Mode, Score Attack
Either watch all the cutscenes in the story mode or skip through them and it will be done in less than 90 minutes, you can also turn on Auto-Mode so the AI does all the fights for you. Arcade Mode you will have to finish 3 times with a different character each time – you can go to the options and set round count to 1 and difficulty to safe and breeze through it in no time. For Score Attack you can simply finish the 4 courses on the easiest difficulty and one on the second easiest – you don’t have to do the hardest one.
Step 3: Golden Arena
This is where you will spend the majority of your time with the game. It is just fighting as usual but with RPG elements like upgrading your character’s stats and using equipped skills to your advantage, which the enemy can do as well. Ideally, you want to use a character with a good SP move, preferably a multi-hit projectile like Naoto’s to take advantage of a specific skill you want to use but more about it in the trophy guide.
Step 4: Online Mode
You will have to fight a total of 100 fights in the online mode and you should get all the other trophies on your way. It is highly recommended to simply boost the online trophies since it is extremely easy to boost the game and also helps with fighting all the different characters in the game, since playing random players is a lottery – you can’t force them to use a specific character you still need to fight against. With a partner the online trophies become extremely easy.
Persona 4 Arena Ultimax (PS4) Trophy Guide
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Thou Art I You mastered Persona 4 Arena Ultimax! |
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| Unlocked by obtaining all the other trophies in the game. | ||
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The P-1 CLIMAX Begins! You started an episode in Story Mode. |
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| The only trophy that got changed in the PS4 rerelease. Instead of getting the trophy by booting up the game you will instead have to start one of the story modes for it to unlock. Still basically a free trophy. | ||
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Arcade Novice You completed Arcade Mode with one character. |
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| See Arcade Master just below. | ||
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Arcade Master You completed Arcade Mode with three characters. |
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You will have to finish the Arcade Mode with 3 different characters. It is just 8 fights you will have to win and it can be sped up drastically by changing the game settings in the options to 1 Round and difficulty to Safety. Once the round starts you can simply use your Burst  offensively on the opponent to fill up your meter up to 100 immediately and follow up with  +  +  for the insta kill move to finish each round in a matter of seconds.
Note: Shadow Labrys’ insta kill is |
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Score Attacker You completed one Score Attack Course. |
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| See Score Master just below. | ||
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Score Warrior You completed three Score Attack Courses! |
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| See Score Master just below. | ||
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Score Master You completed five Score Attack courses! |
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| The easiest way to obtain the trophy is clearing all 4 courses on the Safety difficulty and one of the courses on easy difficulty. After winning one round you can once again go for the Burst followed by instant kill + + in the second round. Should your instant kill miss just finish the round normally or try again when your meter fills up to 100 again. It is a series of 10 fights each time but on the easiest difficulty the enemy AI is not a threat at all. |
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The P-1 CLIMAX is over! You completed Story Mode from the P4 perspective. |
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For this you will have to finish the P4 story. You can set the AI to Auto Mode and relax while the AI does the fights for you. Additionally in the pause options you can set the text skip speed to instant and allow to skip new dialogues to skip the text very quickly using  . Each time you finish an episode, some new ones will appear. It doesn’t matter which option you choose in the story (which character you want to use) – the only thing that matters are the 2 dialogue option towards the end of the story but more about it just below in A New Journey. |
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Shadow Operative You completed Story Mode from the P3 perspective. |
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| For this you will have to finish the P3 story, which unlocks after finishing the P4 story. You can set the AI to Auto Mode and relax while the AI does the fights for you. Additionally in the pause options you can set the text skip speed to instant and allow to skip new dialogues to skip the text very quickly using . Each time you finish an episode, some new ones will appear. It doesn’t matter which option you choose in the story (which character you want to use) – the only thing that matters are the 2 dialogue option towards the end of the story but more about it just below in A New Journey. |
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A New Journey You witnessed the story’s True Ending. |
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Towards the end of both stories simply choose the following dialogue options:
This will unlock an additional episode in the P4 Story which will lead to the true ending and this trophy. Note: Adachi story and P4 Arena stories do not have to be finished at all and are just a bonus. |
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Brave Gladiator You raised a character to level 10 in Golden Arena Mode! |
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| You will need a total of 3100 Xp to reach Rank 10 in Golden Arena, check Arena Domination for infos on this mode. | ||
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Daring Gladiator You raised a character to level 30 in Golden Arena Mode! |
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| You will need a total of 26500 Xp to reach Rank 30 in Golden Arena, check Arena Domination for infos on this mode. | ||
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Heroic Gladiator You raised a character to level 50 in Golden Arena Mode! |
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| You will need a total of 82100 Xp to reach Rank 50 in Golden Arena, check Arena Domination for infos on this mode. | ||
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Not Unlike a Boss You defeated a boss character in Golden Arena Mode! |
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| Every stage that is a factor of 5 is a boss enemy in Golden Arena Mode (5, 10, 15, 20, etc.) so you will fight them a lot. They are usually black and a bit stronger but nothing spectacular. | ||
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Arena Dabbler You completed one Golden Arena course. |
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| See Arena Domination just below. | ||
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Arena Experience You completed two Golden Arena courses! |
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| See Arena Domination just below. | ||
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Arena Domination You completed three Golden Arena courses! |
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| The most time-consuming trophy in the game.
Start by picking your character – characters with super moves dealing multiple hits like Elizabeth or Naoto are recommended. Choose the Bathhouse course first and use Labrys as your social link. After each level up you can spend your points on strength, magic and other stuff. You want to focus on your health and strength and you can also put a few points into Luck so you level up a bit quicker. SP Bar and Burst are pretty useless. The first course has 100 Floors with a boss each 5 floors which will grant you a skill you can use in one of your 4 skill slots. At the beginning try to got defense/attack buffs and healing. Towards the higher floors you want to keep an eye open for skills called Die for Me! and Black Viper. Black Viper has you and the opponent start with full SP bar and Die for Me! gives you a chance to instantly kill the opponent when using an SP move – with this combination and a multi-hit sp move like Naoto’s or Elizabeth you have higher chances to instantly finish the fight. The second course is 200 floors long and has higher level enemies. Once again keep an eye open for the 2 skills mentioned and keep leveling your strengths and health. Labrys social link makes the opponent and yourself unable to block but it is more a disadvantage for them than for you if you play super aggressively. With the Black Viper skill you can use your super as soon as the fight starts and the opponent can’t block it and might die immediately. After clearing the first 2 courses you have the choice of either going through a 400 floor course or going through the 50 floor event course which is way faster but has pretty strong enemies towards the end and an extremely unfair fight against Margaret at the end which requires luck, up to you. We recommend the 50 floor event course since it is way faster but you need a bit of luck for Die for Me! to trigger on the final fight against Margaret since with Labrys skill you can’t block and you can’t combo her at all. Your attacks will hit her but she will not react at all and can tank through them. You need one single lucky hit for Die for Me! to trigger and that’s why multi-hit supers are recommended – more hits mean more chances for the skill to trigger the instant kill. |
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Irreplaceable Bond You maxed out a Social Link in Golden Arena Mode! |
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| After choosing a course in Golden Arena you can choose a Social Link which will provide you with buffs during the fights. Sticking to one of them through your runs guarantees it reaching the max level 10 automatically. Recommended one to use is Labrys which disables blocking for both you and the opponent making them punchbags most of the time. | ||
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Baby Steps You started on the road to knowledge. |
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| Unlocked by completing a single tutorial lesson. | ||
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Cram Session You studied 20 different Lessons. |
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| Unlocked by completing 20 out of the 60 tutorial lessons. Very easy to obtain the trophy but if you are new to the game you probably want to finish all the remaining tutorials as well to learn how the game works. | ||
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30-Minute Workout You Trained for 30 minutes straight! |
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| Head into training mode and spend 30 minutes there practicing your combos or situations. You actually have to be hitting the enemy for the time to count – just letting the game idle for 30 minutes will not unlock the trophy. | ||
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Don’t Think, Feel You completed all of one character’s challenges! |
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| Luckily you only have to finish one character for this trophy. People who played the original on PS3 might immediately think of Margaret as the chosen one. Unfortunately, she is no longer the easiest character to finish all challenges with. Because of the game being the updated Arcade version, many moves went through balance changes making many old combos obsolete.
Because of reduced damage on SP moves many known routes for challenges 25 no longer work and will have to be rerouted to deal the required damage again. Margaret, Adachi and Marie (the DLC trio from the PS3 version) are no longer possible with the known methods because of the high scaling on their SP moves in their combos. With those 3 eliminated the easiest character to finish the challenges with is Shadow Labrys – not only are her combos the easiest, but also her Challenge #25 stays the same because it doesn’t require any specific damage number but instead asks you to combine Brutal Impact twice in a combo. Additionally, she only has 25 Challenges compared to 30 most of the other characters have since she doesn’t have a Shadow Version and with that the additional 5 Combo Challenges. Check the Video below on how to perform her combo challenges.
For Challenge #25 the inputs are:
Explanation of what is happening: the first move You will hear a clicking sound when inputting the 3 moves during Titanomachia confirming your inputs and the number next to the fist will go up to 4. Right after inputting the 3 moves for the bull to perform input your first Brutal Impact with |
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Combination Fighter You completed 150 challenges! |
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| See Combination Master. | ||
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Combination Master You completed 300 challenges! |
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| You will have to complete 300 Challenges. The good news is it’s barely half of all the available challenges. Each character has 25 Challenges + 5 Additional Ones if the character has a Shadow version. The first 10 combo challenges are always performing some simple moves and challenges 11-16/17 are always simple bread and butter combos. Just do as many as you can with each of the characters and you will probably unlock the trophy without even trying out all the characters in the game. | ||
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P4AU Player You reached Level 30 in Network Mode. |
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| For every fight in online mode you will gain progress towards your level. When boosting with your partner after you both reached C grade you should have the one who has the lower level defeat the one with the higher level until the other person is higher now. You get more points for defeating someone who is higher level than you so that speeds up the process. Additionally keep in mind that ranked matches give you more points than private matches and you also get bonus points for perfect victories, SP skill finishes, Insta Kill finishes, first attacks etc.
It is recommended staying in ranked until you reach C and move on to private matches afterwards. |
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Battle Hymn of the Soul You did battle against all the different characters in Network Mode. |
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| Best done in private matches. Your boosting partner will have to use all the characters at least once. | ||
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Investigation Team You defeated all the Shadow characters playing in Network Mode. |
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| Best done in private matches. Your boosting partner will have to use all the shadow characters at least once. – Shadow Yu, Shadow Chie, Shadow Naoto, Shadow Kanji, Shadow Teddie, Shadow Akihiko, Shadow Yukiko, Shadow Yosuke, Shadow Yukari, Shadow Ken, Shadow Rise, Shadow Labrys, Shadow Junpei, Shadow Mitsuru, Shadow Aigis. | ||
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The True Self You fought your own Shadow type in Network Mode! |
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| When you choose Yu, your partner should choose Shadow Yu, when you choose Rise your opponent should choose Shadow Rise and so on. Fighting the Shadow Version of your own character will get you this trophy. | ||
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First Victory! You won your first Network match! |
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| Self-explanatory. Can be done in both ranked or private matches. | ||
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Tried and True You completed 20 Network matches. |
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| Self-explanatory. Can be done in both ranked or private matches. | ||
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Thorough You completed 50 Network matches. |
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| Self-explanatory. Can be done in both ranked or private matches. | ||
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Rock Solid You completed 100 Network matches. |
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| Self-explanatory. Can be done in both ranked or private matches. | ||
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Wildcard Master You used all the characters in Network Mode! |
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| Self-explanatory. Use each of the characters in the game at least once in an online match: Yu, Shadow Yu, Kanji, Shadow Kanji, Chie, Shadow Chie, Yosuke, Shadow Yosuke, Teddie, Shadow Teddie, Yukiko, Shadow Yukiko, Rise, Shadow Rise, Naoto, Shadow Naoto, Akihiko, Shadow Akihiko, Mitsuru, Shadow Mitsuru, Aigis, Shadow Aigis, Labrys, Shadow Labrys, the other Shadow Labrys, Ken, Shadow Ken, Yukari, Shadow Yukari, Junpei, Shadow Junpei, Sho (without Persona), Sho (with Persona), Adachi, Marie, Elizabeth, Margaret. | ||
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The Manly Way Beginner You reached Grade F. |
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| See The Manly Way – Mortal Combat just below. | ||
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The Manly Way – Fierce Fighting You reached Grade E+. |
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| See The Manly Way – Mortal Combat just below. | ||
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The Manly Way – Mortal Combat You reached Grade C. |
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| While playing ranked mode you will rank up occasionally following the school grades, starting from F- going upwards. After winning 18 fights in a row you will reach rank C needed for the trophy. Boosting is extremely easy in this game since you will be shown the opponent’s name before you accept the fight. So only accept your boosting partner and get it done in no time. | ||
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Midnight Rerun You watched a replay in the Theater. Was it everything you dreamed of? |
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| After having an online fight you will be asked if you want to save the replay. Choose yes and head to the Theater to watch it. | ||
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You’re on My List You’ve registered a Rival in the Player List. |
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After fighting someone online you can add them to Good Players list. There head to their name and press  to register them as your rival. |
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Cleanup Grand Slam Hit a home run with the bases loaded, full count and two outs in Arcade or Network Mode. |
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Without a doubt a trophy that should be done online with a partner because the AI or a regular online opponent will not let you set it up.
Doing all the steps will give you the trophy. |
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Nice Burst! Failed a Reversal Burst in Arcade or Network Mode. |
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| Reversal Burst let you stop the opponent’s combo by blowing them away from you. What you want to do is failling to blow the enemy away from you. It is best done by having the opponent do the auto combo started by pressing twice and you burst using which your opponent blocks. Use a character with quick auto attack recovery like Margaret or Elizabeth and you should get it in no time. The one who did the burst on block will get this trophy while the one who blocked it will get one just below. Just do it twice switching the roles for both trophies. |
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Fishing for Beginners Your opponent failed a Reversal Burst in Arcade or Network Mode. |
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| See Nice Burst! just above. | ||
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Mashy Mashy You pulled off 100 Auto Combos in Arcade or Network Mode. |
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| Keep spamming the button to perform an Auto Combo, repeat 100 times. |
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100 Furious Stories You performed 100 Furious Actions in Arcade or Network Mode. |
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Furious Actions are performed by pressing  + at the same time. Repeat 100 times. |
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Ultimate Suplex Hold You used the S Hold System 10 times in Arcade or Network Mode. |
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| Hold until the bar that appears fill up completely and let go of it. Repeat 10 times. |
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World Class SP Skills You won 30 rounds with SP Skills or Awakened SP Skills in Arcade or Network Mode. |
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| Can be easily boosted online. Memorize how to perform an SP Skill with your character and finish a round with 30 times in Network or Arcade Mode. | ||
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You’re Not Me! You went on a Shadow Frenzy! |
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Shadow Frenzy is activated by using Burst  with a Shadow Character (Shadow Labrys with Astorus is not a Shadow Character, Shadow Labrys which you can choose when choosing Labrys is a Shadow Character, don’t get those 2 mixed up). |
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Advanced Fishing Manual You performed 10 Fatal Counters in Arcade or Network Mode. |
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| The easiest way to perform a Fatal Counter is the fully mashed All Out Attack. Press + and keep mashing until you reach the maximal amount of hits and finish it with a input for a blowback. This is always a guaranteed Fatal Counter. Once again it can be done either online or in Arcade Mode. |
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Awakened SP Skill Boosts Made Easy You used an Awakened SP Skill Boost in Arcade or Network Mode. |
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| To use an Awakened SP Skill you will have to awaken first, which happens once your health drops a certain threshold. Your character’s face will appear over the screen which means you have awakened. In the pause menu you can check how to perform your character’s SP skill – you will recognize it by a small red square next to the move’s name. Since it is a SP move it needs at least 50 SP bar to be performed. | ||
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The Punk’s Way You defeated an opponent without letting them Awaken in Arcade or Network Mode. |
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| The easiest way to do that is by instant killing your enemy with Burst + + + combination. Since it kills the enemy instantly on hit they are left with no change to awaken. |
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The Divine Way You successfully used each character’s Instant Kill move in Arcade or Network Mode. |
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| Instant Kill move can be performed in the final round of a match by spending 100 of your SP bar. It is recommended to do it in a private online lobby with a partner.
The following characters have a Install Kill move:
Once you perform each once the trophy will unlock. Shadow Characters and Sho (without persona) do not have an Instant Kill move. |
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Good Job! You achieved a Perfect victory in Arcade or Network Mode! |
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| Beat your opponent without getting hit yourself. Easiest way is by boosting it with a partner online. But the AI in Arcade Mode on Safety is extremely easy so you might unlock it there easily as well. Additionally using the Burst + Insta Kill Combo also perfects your opponent most of the time. | ||
Kirby says
Thanks for the guide, recently got back in fighters. Having a blast learning this
LCCL123 says
Can somebody help me boost some online trophies? My psn id is LCCL123
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