Dragon Ball Z: Kakarot Trophy Guide & Roadmap

You will come across them very frequently during the story. After the story there are still more than 10 sub stories in free-roam, so the trophy isn’t missable.

It’s recommended doing them as you advance through the game because they give XP to make you stronger and unlock new Community Members for you. This makes tough battles a little easier. There are a lot more than 10 side quests so this shouldn’t be a problem.

To see how many you’ve done, go to Pause Menu > Story > Completed (scroll down to the blue icons).

They are groups of enemies that unlike normal enemies have a red glow around them. They are stronger than normal enemies. After you progress the story far enough to unlock them, they will start spawning all across the map.

On the world map you will see a red crown icon  over areas that contain these enemies (it will also say “A Villainous Enemy Appeared!” on world map).

Check the map to see where exactly they are. They will always be inside red clouds. When you get close enough, the fight will start. Defeat 30 of these groups. Since there are multiple villainous groups per map this can be done fairly quickly. After the story it will be easier as they have fixed levels and you will be very strong by that point.

Keep in mind that for “Down with the Demon Realm!” you need to defeat ALL villainous parties in the game, not just the 30.

Here’s an image of what Villainous Parties look like (the red orb in the sky):

To fight Mira you must first defeat all Villainous Parties in the game. They are marked by a red crown icon  on the map (see trophy “Purging the Plague” above).

Once all Villainous Parties are defeated, Mira can be found on Planet “Land of the Kais” (press on world map to see other planets). He is a level 100 enemy and has lots of health.

Tips for defeating Mira (same applies to all other high-level villainouse parties):

• Stock up on lots of healing items (equip them to your Pallete by going to Pause Menu > Items > Register Palette).
• For healing items primarily use Energy Supplement Z every time your first health bar is depleted. If your health gets really low, use a Senzu Bean to restore 100% health instantly (they regrow over time at Korin Tower Summit, talk to the cat NPC there). Bring additional Ultra Healade as a last resort (recovers 30% health per use).
• Healing items are quite expensive. Put everyone in the Adult community to get reduced prices, wish for money from Shenron after finding all seven Dragon Balls (he gives 100,000 every time), and sell things from your inventory to merchants (quickest way is to find a cave with many rare crystals, destroy them, make manual save, reload save, everything respawns, destroy crystals again and repeat). As long as you have enough healing items you can brute force this fight, no skill required. You can do it easily at level 70+. No need to grind out level-ups.
• Make sure you put 2 other characters on your team to help out (the highest level ones). Use their support abilities with . When their support gauge is filled (two party member avatars on right side of screen) press + to use a Z combo.
• Use Saiyan 3 transformation all the time by pressing + . You deal more damage this way.
• Use Melee attacks only. Super attacks tend to land only 1 damage because of the huge level difference.
• If you still have too much trouble, do all available side missions to level up (but this should not be necessary with enough healing items).

They are random comments he makes when you explore the world, usually when finding ores/crystals or collecting a lot of Z Orbs. This will likely be one of your last trophies. The reason being that it’s random when he makes these comments and there’s no way to track how many you have unless you write them down. By the time you are done with all other trophies you should have received nearly 20 telepathic messages. After that go to any Mineral Deposit marked on the map, destroy the crystals, create a manual save, immediately reload the save (respawns the crystals), destroy them again, repeat. Just keep overwriting your save each time and reload it immediately. It’s best to stick with Save Slot 1 so you don’t get confused what save to overwrite/reload.

Every few crystals you will get a message from King Kai congratulating you on your mining efforts. This is by far the fastest and most reliable way to get lots of telepathic messages from him. The more crystals the Mineral Deposit has the better. He won’t make a comment every time but on average he should send 1 message every ~10 crystals destroyed.

Once you have unlocked Dragon Balls, they will be marked on the world map for you with an orange ball icon .

There are 7 of them. It’s different for each player where they will be, but because they are marked they are easy to locate. On the world map it says which area contains a Dragon Ball. Travel there, then open the Area Map. Zoom in to make the icons easier to see and place a waypoint on it. Then a golden beam will mark the spot.

After you found all 7 Dragon Balls, go to Pause Menu > Dragon Balls and make a wish. This summons the Dragon Shenron. Repeat a total of 10 times.

After each use there’s a cooldown period of 20 minutes in-game playtime (this cannot be cheated by manipulating time in PS4 settings, you need to stay in-game to get 20 minutes added to your save file). Then you will receive a popup that the Dragon Balls have respawned. They will show up in random locations. Collect them again and repeat until you have the trophy. You can still do this after the story in free-roam!

List of available wishes:

• Fighting a story boss of your choice again
• I want Z Orbs! – Get lots of Z Orbs of each color (Green, Red, Blue). They are used to unlock and level up Special Attacks.
• I want to be Rich! – Get lots of money. Used to buy materials and other items from merchants marked on the map.
• I want rare items! – Receive rare items that are difficult to acquire by normal means.

They look like blue fountains of light when you approach them:

Each challenge unlocks a new Super Attack for you. Complete 10 with any character, e.g. Goku. At the Training Grounds you can also see the requirements for unlocking more Challenges. It’s best to do this after the story. The reason is that you need to reach certain level milestones to unlock new moves. During the story you won’t have access to enough Training Ground Challenges. You also need some D Medals (you get 100+ from the story and Encyclopedia automatically) and you must also buy the Super Attack Upgrades (Pause Menu > Characters > scroll over character and press to open Super Attack Skill Tree). When you bought all the skills leading to a new move and meet the level requirement, you will unlock the Training Ground challenge for it.

After entering Capsule Corporation (fast travel via world map), head down the corridor on the right and enter the first room. Inside you can talk to the female researcher. Select “Modify” to upgrade the Training Room to Level 10 to unlock Challenge #10. Then select “Train” and complete the 10th Challenge. You don’t need to complete all 10, only the final (10th) challenge is required to unlock the trophy. It’s best to tackle these after the story. What makes this a bit tedious is that you must also obtain the materials for upgrading the training room.

The easiest way to beat the challenge: stock up on lots of healing items (equip them to your Pallete by going to Pause Menu > Items > Register Palette) and simply spam Goku’s “Super EX Spirit Bomb”. This tends to hit multiple enemies at once. When your health goes down you heal yourself and keep using this one move only. This way you can brute force the challenge, no skill required. For healing items primarily use Energy Supplement Z every time your first health bar is depleted. If your health gets really low, use a Senzu Bean to restore 100% health instantly (they regrow over time at Korin Tower Summit, talk to the cat NPC there).

To find the required upgrade Materials for the Training room quickly, open the world map, scroll over an area and press to view the Area Info. This shows you what materials can be found there. Watch out for people with dialogue boxes above their head, they will call out rare materials to you. Also talk to merchants and buy materials from them (be sure to put people in your adult community to get price reductions and sell items you no longer need for quick money). You can also wish for money from Shenron (he gives 100,000 Zeni per summon after the story).

List of Training Room Upgrades with required Materials:

*D Medals come from Story Missions, Side Quests, Encyclopedia Entries, finding them as glowing orbs in the open world

Level 2:

• Zeni x4500
• D Medal x5
• Sturdy Bolt S x1
• Refined Iron x1 (found in Gizard Wasteland – go to a Mineral Deposit marked on the map, destroy the crystals, make manual save & reload it to respawn crystals and repeat until it drops)

Level 3:

• Zeni x15500
• D Medal x10
• Gear Bearing S x1
• Steel Nut S x1
• Refined Iron x1 (found in Gizard Wasteland – go to a Mineral Deposit marked on the map, destroy the crystals, make manual save & reload it to respawn crystals and repeat until it drops)

Level 4:

• Zeni x25000
• D Medal x10
• Sturdy Bolt L x1
• Sturdy Bolt Z x1
• Refined Silver x1 (found in Gizard Wasteland – go to a Mineral Deposit marked on the map, destroy the crystals, make manual save & reload it to respawn crystals and repeat until it drops)

Level 5:

• Zeni x35000
• D Medal x15
• Gear Bearing L x1
• Gear Bearing Z x1
• Refined Silver x1 (found in Gizard Wasteland – go to a Mineral Deposit marked on the map, destroy the crystals, make manual save & reload it to respawn crystals and repeat until it drops)

Level 6:

• Zeni x55000
• D Medal x15
• Steel Nut L x1 (bought from development merchant in Satan City)
• Steel Nut Z x1 (found in Lucca Village, where the training grounds are in the west of that area you can find an NPC that shouts at a Steel Nut Z)
  
• Refined Silver x1 (found in Gizard Wasteland – go to a Mineral Deposit marked on the map, destroy the crystals, make manual save & reload it to respawn crystals and repeat until it drops)

Level 7:

• Zeni x65000
• D Medal x20
• White Meteorite x1 (bought from development merchant in Satan City, you can sell him something you don’t need to get the money)
• Refined Gold x1 (found in Sacred Land of Korin – go to a Mineral Deposit marked on the map, destroy the crystals, make manual save & reload it to respawn crystals and repeat until it drops)

Level 8:

• Zeni x80000
• D Medal x20
• Black Meteorite x1 (bought from development merchant in Satan City, you can sell him something you don’t need to get the money)
• Refined Gold x1 (found in Sacred Land of Korin – go to a Mineral Deposit marked on the map, destroy the crystals, make manual save & reload it to respawn crystals and repeat until it drops)

Level 9:

• Zeni x95000
• D Medal x25
• White Meteorite x1 (bought from development merchant in Satan City, you can sell him something you don’t need to get the money)
• Black Meteorite x1 (bought from development merchant in Satan City, you can sell him something you don’t need to get the money)
• Refined Gold x1 (found in Sacred Land of Korin – go to a Mineral Deposit marked on the map, destroy the crystals, make manual save & reload it to respawn crystals and repeat until it drops)

Level 10:

• Zeni x125000
• D Medal x30
• White Meteorite x2 (bought from development merchant in Satan City, you can sell him something you don’t need to get the money)
• Black Meteorite x2 (bought from development merchant in Satan City, you can sell him something you don’t need to get the money)
• Refined Gold x1 (found in Sacred Land of Korin – go to a Mineral Deposit marked on the map, destroy the crystals, make manual save & reload it to respawn crystals and repeat until it drops)

Some Mineral Deposits are blocked off by boulders (big rocks). These Mineral Deposits are marked on the map. Not all of them will have a boulder (about half of them do). Check all of them. When you’re near press to highlight boulders in purple.

Walk up to the boulder and press to destroy it. You must be really close to the boulder to do this. If you don’t get the button prompt, then proceed the story further. After the story you can still do this in free-roam. There are more than 10 boulders. They don’t respawn, which means you must destroy 10 different boulders.

Full-course meals can only be cooked by Chi-Chi, found inside Goku’s House. You unlock full-course meals automatically after the first Saga (Saiyan Saga) as part of the story.

Each Full-course meals consists of 3 dishes. First you cook each individual dish (requires ingredients), then you combine them into a full course meal.

Talk to Chi-Chi > select Full-Course Meal > to select Ingredient (write down missing ingredients) > check with food merchant in Satan City if he sells it (all merchants have same inventory) > if it’s not purchasable click on the world map to see where to find it. Ingredients are from fishing, from underwater pickups, and from trees marked on the map. You can also get lucky and get fully cooked dishes by destroying Enemy Bases marked on the map, but it’s not as reliable as going straight for the ingredients. Just collect anything you come across.

Because you must cook 5 different full-course meals, you must also get additional recipes. These are given by specific people around the world. They will have speech bubbles above their head mentioning the word “recipe”. Some recipes are also from Side Quests.

Full-Course Recipe Locations:

• Ramen & Rice Course Recipe: Satan City – where all the merchants are in Satan City, you can find 2 recipes by the people standing around the marketplace
  
• Deluxe Pasta Course Recipe: Satan City – where all the merchants are in Satan City, you can find 2 recipes by the people standing around the marketplace
  
• Special Ramen Course Recipe: West City – inside West City where the marketplace with all the merchant is, talk to the lady in front of the Cook House and she gives you this recipe
  
• Deluxe Seafood Course Recipe: West City – just south of the city you can find a food truck parked at the beach, talk to the two guys arguing in front of it to get their recipe (a fishing spot is also here).
  
• Super Deluxe Meat Course Recipe: Level 59 Side Quest given by Android 18 (request reward)

• Rewards for Main Story and Sub Story Quests (1 D Medal per Side Quest)
• Found as glowing orbs in the open world. The world map shows how many there are per area, but you don’t actually need any of them to reach 100 total.
• From the Z Encyclopedia. Open the Pause Menu and press . Every few entries grant you some D Medals.

The easiest option is to simply play through the story, then open the Encyclopedia. You will automatically get 100+ D Medals just from the story, so don’t even worry about it. No need to find them in the game world but pick up any you can find.

D Medals are used at the Training Grounds to unlock new combat moves for your characters and also for upgrading the Training Room to level 10.

This is cumulative across all your characters! This means you can buy 25 across 4 different characters to make it 100 total.

So simply buy 100 of those “fields” in the Super Attack Skill Trees across all your characters.

Buying new Super Attacks costs Z Orbs. Those are the blue, red, green orbs found everywhere in the sky. Don’t worry about farming them, you get 100,000 of each color from just the story. After the story you get well over 1000 from single enemy encounters and wishing for Z Orbs from Shenron gives minimum 10,000 of each color. Don’t waste your time flying around the map collecting them, you get more than enough automatically.

Around the open world you can see flying enemies. As you get close to them you’ll see a distance measurement in the sky and a little arrow next to your character pointing in their direction.

The way you get instant victories is by pressing to fly faster and flying directly into these enemies in mid-air. This instantly kills them without having to engage in combat. Do this 50 times. You can still do it after the story in free-roam.

This is the ideal way to do it:

1. Go to Olive Village (East Ravine Area). Go to the south-east corner of that map above the ravine. Enemies tend to be below your level here and always respawn in the same place after a few seconds. See the video for location and demonstration.
2. When there’s a distance measurement in the sky, press to scan for the enemies. You will see a colored “cloud” when scanning. Only focus on blue clouds (means they are under your level). Stay away from yellow/red clouds, I found them to often go into combat instead of giving Instant Victories.
3. Adjust your elevation level to be perfectly aligned with the blue enemy “cloud” (press / to fly up or down while scanning with ).
4. Fly forward and press to speed up and hit the enemy cloud straight on. This should instantly defeat them without going into combat. You can use any character for this, but it should be your highest level character (I used Goku). Your level doesn’t matter. The hitbox is as wide as the cloud outline, which is the same for all enemy types (so small enemies have the same hitbox as big enemies).
5. If you are being chased by other enemies (eye icon in sky, red indicator around your character), fly away to lose the enemy. Never attempt this while being chased. Always stop using the fast flying between enemies (they detect you from far away when you fly fast). Instead, hover slowly back and forth between enemy spawns until you see another distance indicator in the sky, adjust your height and repeat the process. Just fly back and forth at the same location and enemies will keep respawning (see video).

After entering Capsule Corporation head down the corridor on the right and enter the first room. Inside you find Bulma.

Talk to her, select “R&D” and build one of the car parts. If you need Zeni, go collect all Dragon Balls and wish for money from Shenron or sell some of your stuff to merchants. If you need any parts, press on the world map to see what parts can be found in each area. You can also add more people to your Development Community to make the building process cheaper.

After entering Capsule Corporation head down the corridor on the right and enter the first room. Inside you find Bulma.

Talk to her, select “R&D” and build the Hovercar. First you must build the parts for it (in the same menu as the hovercar press to switch to Machine Parts). If you need Zeni, go collect all Dragon Balls and wish for money from Shenron or sell your stuff to merchants. If you need any parts, press on the world map to see what parts can be found in each area. You can also add more people to your Development Community to make the building process cheaper.

It’s advisable to make a manual save beforehand, then reload it to craft the Bipedal Robo Walker or just keep the money/materials to upgrade the Training Room instead. The vehicles aren’t required for any other trophies and don’t serve much purpose.

After entering Capsule Corporation head down the corridor on the right and enter the first room. Inside you find Bulma.

Talk to her, select “R&D” and build the Robo Walker. First you must build the parts for it (in the same menu as the Robo Walker press to switch to Machine Parts). If you need Zeni, go collect all Dragon Balls and wish for money from Shenron or sell your stuff to Shenron. If you need any parts, press on the world map to see what parts can be found in each area. You can also add more people to your Development Community to make the building process cheaper.

It’s advisable to make a manual save beforehand, then reload it to craft the hovercar or just keep the money/materials to upgrade the Training Room instead. The vehicles aren’t required for any other trophies and don’t serve much purpose.

You can find the Encyclopedia by opening the Pause Menu > press (this feature is unlocked early in the Saiyan Saga / 1st Saga).

There are 984 entries total, but you only need 400. This will happen automatically at some point in the Cell Saga (third Saga). You get around 700 entries automatically from the story, don’t even worry about it and enjoy a free gold trophy.

Below are images of where you find Master Roshi after the story to unlock the trophy (Kame House):

You can keep track of completed challenges under Pause Menu > Story > 2 x to “Turtle School Training Manual” > scroll down to the Training Exercises to see their requirements. Scroll to the bottom of the list and the ones you completed will have a star on them.

There is a cooldown on this ability. You need to wait for the Support Gauge to be charged, which happens automatically in combat.

Odds are you’ll get this trophy naturally during the story. If you don’t have it after the story, go add 2 people to your party and fight a few more enemies.

During combat you can see round icons of your teammates on the right side of the screen. Around their icons is a ring (‘Support Gauge’). Use Team Assists to fill up that Support Gauge (press + displayed button to trigger a Team Assist).

When the circle around both of your teammate icons are filled you must hold + to perform a Z Combo. This deals massive damage and never fails to hit the enemy.

Once you unlocked a transformation, you can press + during combat plus the allocated transformation button (e.g. is default for Super Saiyan). While in transformed form, you must have a full Tension Gauge (yellow bar in bottom right corner) and hold to Surge. This way you have a Transformation + Surge active at the same time.

While in this form, land the final hit on an enemy with a Super Kamehameha (normal Kamehameha doesn’t seem to work). You get a special animation when the match finishes saying “Super Finish”. Be sure to weaken the enemy first so they will die in 1 hit. I did it while having Super Saiyan 1 Transformation active, but you can try with other transformations too.