Easy way to do Proud Mode

[Axel_KG5]

This way requires some early game "farming" for at least 2 Red Nocturne and 2 Blue Rhapsody enemy cards and some luck but its pretty much minimal. This is actually a speedrun approach.

I beat the game on Proud at level 42 while also getting the Undefeated Trophy (meaning it was deathless) using this strat. It requires no sleights or enemy cards (other than those included in the guide) so the way to level up Sora throughout the game is pretty straightforward.

Get CP to 850 1st. DO NOT LEVEL UP ANYTHING BEFORE THAT
After your CP is at 850 just upgrade your HP
The reason Sleights are ignored is because they are not needed at all on this playthrough.

1. Play through Traverse Town farming for those enemy cards mentioned above. Make sure to break/hit everything that may contain Cards/ Moogle Points (MP)/ Health Orbs.
2. After that go to Agrabah and play through almost to the end. 3 rooms before Jafar boss fight open up a Moogle room. Now you should have Blizzard and Fire magic cards on your collection (as well as some other magic cards ie. Simba). Go to the Moogle and buy all the sets of Magic cards (Blue cards) available. Then go ahead and create another Moogle room doing the same thing until you exhaust all your MP. You should open 3 Moogle rooms and get all the Magic cards given. If you have barely enough MP then sell some attack cards to get to that 200 MP needed for another pack.
3. At this point you should have about 20 Blizzard and Fire cards each. For now just go in and beat Jafar normally since he is pretty easy.
4. After beating Jafar create 2 new decks. One Blizzard deck (including at least 2 Ether cards, 1 Cure and the 2 Blue Rhapsody enemy card) and one Fire deck (including 2-3 Ethers, 1-2 Cures and the 2 Red Nocturne enemy cards). Make sure to use lower value cards for the first column when you edit the deck so when you use Blizzaga/Firaga the lower valued card vanishes. Also use about 3-4 Premium cards at that place so they are cheaper. These decks will carry you to the end of the game. The Blizzard deck is used for enemy encounters (except Blue Rhapsody and Green Requiem just escape from these) and the Fire deck is designed for Boss fights (except for the 2 Axel Boss fights ahead).
5. Now play through the game using the Blue Rhapsody card at the start of every enemy encounter and spam Blizzaga until enemies are dead. Same for the Fire deck but make sure to add some 0 value Attack cards at the end of the deck to counter Bosses sleights when they use them.
6. At the very last Boss fight (Marluxia II and III) you will need to add some high value Attack cards (ie 7,7,8,8,9) to counter his Doom sleight that works like Riku's Duel mechanic as well as all remaining 0 value Attack cards to break his other sleights. Feel free to add any Cure or Fire card you think you will need even though your normal deck should be enough to beat him after you get used to his attacks and countering them.

This "guide" is my way of taking a Speedrun strat and using it to "break" the difficulty of the game. Credits for this go to the KH Speedrun community and the streamer Jagslash for showing me this strat during a stream of his.

Edited November 6, 2016 by Axel_KG5

[Wavergray]

Interesting strategy, I'm guessing you just run from anything that's immune to whatever deck you have equipped.

 

I like using a version of this strategy that uses a Blitz Sleight deck in place of the Blizzard and Fire decks.

[Dragon-Archon]

*snip*

Too bad the gameplay guide didn't have enough info for this, though we can add it to the guide with a credit to you and Jagslash, if you want?

[Wavergray]

Too bad the gameplay guide didn't have enough info for this, though we can add it to the guide with a credit to you and Jagslash, if you want?

The credit would go to KH Speedrun community for coming up with the strategy.

 

That strategy is pretty old and was one of the base for the Blitz/Sonic Blade/Lethal Frame strategy I used for the Boss Guide.

 

The biggest problems with the strategy is that you need to get the Blue Rhapsody and Red Nocturne cards and that bosses can card break you.

[Dragon-Archon]

The credit would go to KH Speedrun community for coming up with the strategy.

 

That strategy is pretty old and was one of the base for the Blitz/Sonic Blade/Lethal Frame strategy I used for the Boss Guide.

 

The biggest problems with the strategy is that you need to get the Blue Rhapsody and Red Nocturne cards and that bosses can card break you.

So, which one is better: the fire/blizzard or sleights strategy?

[Wavergray]

So, which one is better: the fire/blizzard or sleights strategy?

IMO the sleights strategy because it's unbreakable and you don't have to worry about RNG to get the cards you need.

 

In terms of speed the the fire/blizzard is a little faster on some bosses, but overall they are about the same.

 

If you want to see the fire/blizzard strategy in action just skip around in this WR speedrun of Sora's story.

Edited November 7, 2016 by soultaker655

[Dragon-Archon]

IMO the sleights strategy because it's unbreakable and you don't have to worry about RNG to get the cards you need.

 

In terms of speed the the fire/blizzard is a little faster on some bosses, but overall they are about the same,

Ok, guess we can leave it like that then.

[Axel_KG5]

Sorry for not responding guys been inactive for a long time!

 

Soultaker655 seemed more capable in answering your questions though so I appreciate that.

 

Haven't actually seen the sleights strat just thought about posting the fire/blizzard decks strat since its easy and requires minimum skill.

 

Feel free to use the post however you want, but as soultaker655 already said credits go to the KH Speedrun community. I credited Jagslash too because he specifically showed and explained how the strat worked!

[Wavergray]

It's been awhile since this was brought up, but since the PS4 version of Re:com is out, I can now record evidence of the point I was making about the sleights strategy being better in most cases.

 

Here is the first Larxene fight using 3 different strategies. (Fire, Blitz, and Sonic Blade)

As you can see all 3 strategies work, but at this point in the game Sonic Blade is the easiest way to deal with bosses like Larxene.

The Fire strategy can work, but the bosses can card break you and you are kind of forced to keep a few 0 cards in your deck to stop the bosses sleight.

The Blitz strategy can work, but because the Blitz sleight is kind of weak at this point in the game you may end up getting card broken towards the end of the fight.  

The Sonic Blade is not only one of the strongest sleight in the game, but card powers 20-23 it's hard for bosses to card break you even without attack bracer.

This is why I feel the sleights strategy being better in most cases.

 

(All of these fight are on proud mode)

 

Fire strategy

 

Blitz strategy

 

Sonic Blade

 

Edited June 3, 2017 by soultaker655

[MMDE]

Yeah, I just finished the Sora proud mode yesterday.  Went pretty well. Sonic Blade and Blitz something (basically jumps on the enemy) is great, especially early on, Fatal Frame is awesome once you unlock that, and Ragnarok is also great once you unlock that. For Sonic blade you want 21-23 combos cards of different types, for fatal frame you need stop magic and two cards, all of as high value as you can, Ragnarok you should just do 3,3,3 cards. Of course, use the premium rooms to lower the cards requirements, that way you can equip tons of these combos. Makes normal fights super easy too. I can't remember the Blitz thingie, where you jump on enemies repeatedly, but very useful. And if you place them correctly in the deck it's just to spam this over and over.  

Edited June 3, 2017 by MMDE

[Wavergray]

1 hour ago, Gamehelp said:

you didn't even use a Red Nocturne card at all during the fight, using this "elemental" strategy without using these heartless cards is just handicapping yourself at the least, the fight would have been over in half the time it took you to beat Larxene here.

your argument is redundant, the "elemental" strategy is still the most efficient and easiest way to play this game.

I would have used the red Nocturne card if I had it at the time. Which is one of the point I'm trying to make about the Elemental strategy. The fact that the strategy relies on you to obtaining a card that drops randomly severely weakened the usefulness of strategy. After grinding on red nocturnes for 3 hours one still didn't drop.

 

Even if I did have the red Nocturne card the point that I'm trying to make about bosses still being able to card break you still stands.

 

Look if you like using the elemental strategy that's cool use it ,but don't come at me with such a useless argument that makes it look like you didn't even read the posts I made about strategies.

Speed was never the point I was trying to make about the slight strategies. I even said the elemental strategy is slightly faster than the others. My points were entirely about unbreakable attacks in the fact that the elemental strategy has a little too much RNG in it.

 

The fact that you completely refuse to acknowledge the points I made in my posts make your counter argument completely redundant.

[MMDE]

2 hours ago, Gamehelp said:

you didn't even use a Red Nocturne card at all during the fight, using this "elemental" strategy without using these heartless cards is just handicapping yourself at the least, the fight would have been over in half the time it took you to beat Larxene here.

your argument is redundant, the "elemental" strategy is still the most efficient and easiest way to play this game.

 

IIRC, I just spammed one combo over and over, and by the time I was running out of cards, I would use a card to restore them all and then do it again until the boss were dead. Boss wasn't even able to attack me or something.  Not sure what you would need fire for then. Requires no skills.

Edited July 23, 2017 by MMDE

[Lawless_Llama]

This is a very interesting strategy, thank you for sharing! 

 

Now....time to finish my backlog of 20 other titles before I can tackle this beast. ?

[UndergroundVagos]

Do I have to re open rooms in traverse town to get 2 of each enemy card?  Isn't there a faster way to get them? I mean, I still don't have any...