Kill la Kill the Game: IF Trophy Guide & Roadmap

Rating is fairly self-explanatory for HP and Time. Having over half of your health remaining will normally give an A rating for HP, and Time is fairly lenient as long as you don’t take an overly long time during fights. Offensive is a bit more vague though, with some specific quirks to it in a couple levels. Typically you want to be using your special attacks during fights against COVERs, or initiating Bloody Valor when you can against normal opponents and aiming to win using your SEN-I-SOSHITSU secret art, which will instantly end the fight. Following this most of the fights are just win as fast as you can with as much health as you can, using as many abilities as you can. There are a few that have somewhat hidden conditions though to get an A in Offensive, which are as follows:

Satsuki Episode 9: Part A: HP if you get under half just start over, there isn’t a way to regain health in this fight. Make sure to use your specials as much as possible, as you can’t use Bloody Valor.

Ryuko Episode 1: Time there appears to be a bug where if you skip the cutscene sequence between each fight it always gives you a D, so don’t skip these 3 sequences.

Ryuko Episode 2: Part A: Offensive you need to use a fair number of Special Attacks to get A rank, so block some attacks from the opponent to gain more SP. You can use the Bloody Valor input in this fight but don’t, because it doesn’t initiate the sequence so it’s just wasting SP. Raising the difficulty may potentially help, I couldn’t get this to work until I played it on 3 Star difficulty, which doesn’t really make it any harder.

Ryuko Episode 5: Part B: Offensive you need to defeat all the Nui clones first, then the real one last (the one that’s holding the purple scissor blade).

Ryuko Episode 10: You need to first use your Bloody Valor attacks to get to Overpowered state, then use SEN-I-SOSHITU to end the fight. You heal to full health when you win the Bloody Valor sequences, so the main issue is just not getting screwed over by RNG and taking forever to get to overpowered, then not having Satsuki slam you before you can get the final attack off. For triggering Bloody Valor you can use the   + special if you want, because when you use it, it triggers the Bloody Valor attack right after in the same combo automatically.

After each round you will heal a small amount of health, ranging from 1% to 10% on the top end. Each round that starts you’ll be shown stats which correspond to different stats for you and your opponent. Valor Level will either show a reduction in your current Valor Level (Valor carries between matches in this mode) and Damage Proration shows basically the handicap level for you or your opponent (+/- 5 is the neutral, it will move to negative for you and positive to your opponent meaning you deal less and they deal more). It’s not always the same between matches, so be aware when it drops your Valor Level that you should try to win another sequence to raise it again.

The cheesy strategy for this mode is to play as Nonon Jakuzure. She is primarily a ranged based character, which lets you hold most enemies away from you by spamming her attack which shoots orbs that somewhat track to enemies, along with the final one knocking them backwards. You can follow up a combo of this with her beam attack, which when done right after the ranged combo seems to have slightly faster windup and will catch most opponents as they’re standing up, or later on just make them dash back and forth for a but to avoid it and waste some time. When you have 2 bars of SP start doing Bloody Valor sequences so that you can get into the Overpowered state, which makes you continually regenerate SP over time. Valor Level carries between fights and when you use SEN-I-SOSHITSU so you want to keep it at max at all times if possible. When you’re at max you can either aim to do SEN-I-SOSHITSU to end fights, or just keep spamming random and use the + special to deal large damage with its sweep. If you get a round against the big poncho story version of Ragyo you absolutely want to try and end the fight as fast as possible with your Secret Art, as this version of her takes way more damage than all the other opponents, so she can chip away a lot of your health if you try and get her’s all the way down.

For this you want to select Ragyo Kiryuin, and the basic strategy is to just constantly spam her standing guard break attack at all times. This is a beam attack that will go across the entire arena, and can be turned a small amount while it is being used so that you can take out more enemies. Ragyo will always target the closest enemy to you, so you want to have yourself close to the edge of the arena at all times and keep spamming this, aiming it each time towards the groups of enemies. If you get too many close to you, you can use her + Special Attack Break, which makes her do 3 rounds of upwards beams that will target enemies and knock them away, giving you a bit of room. You don’t need to particularly go out of your way to grab any of the pickups dropped by enemies, as you don’t use much SP and the Beam attack will one-shot all normal sized enemies, but you should be on the lookout for the Special Croquettes when they’re dropped, as you need to pick up 15 for Stay Hungry and this is really the only mode you’ll have them drop in.

Once you reach 1000 kills during the game the trophy will pop immediately, you don’t need to end the round to earn it. You should continue going though after until you actually die, as you need 5000 total kills in all COVERs Challenge modes.

There are 12 different SEN-I-SOSHITSU variants you need to perform for this. 10 are able to be done in Versus against COM or a second player, one for each character and then two for Satsuki and Ryuko (one each for their normal and dual wield versions). The other two are done in Story mode in the final level of each characters arc. The one for Ryuko you are required to do to beat the story, but the one for Satsuki you aren’t so this is the one that will likely be missed. Once you’ve performed all 12 (one time each), you will earn this trophy.

This fight in chapter 10 is the only one in the game with a win condition that’s different from the normal story levels, which are all just “beat up all enemies.” For this fight against the version of Satsuki from her Chapter 10 you need to win by using your SEN-I-SHOSHITSU secret art on her, as she doesn’t take normal damage otherwise. This means you first need to make it through 3 Bloody Valor sequences without dying to get in the Valor Overpowered state, then perform the move against her to end the fight. This can be somewhat tough as she deals a lot of damage to you with her attacks, so it’s a good idea to try for health regeneration command during Bloody Valor if you need it. Once you get into the overpowered state you can’t die anymore though, so you just need to be able to hit her with the attack to end the fight.

For this trophy I’d recommend you to play as Nonon Jakuzure. The reason for that is that she is very fast in normal movement, and she has a large sweep special that lets you clear a large number of enemies at once. When starting just use the basic combo or if there’s a large number of enemies in a row her attack to gain more SP, then when you have two bars of SP move to the edge of the area and use her   + to do a large sweep attack that will close to one-shot most of the enemies it sweeps over.

If you want to you can use Ragyo Kiryuin instead. With her all you do is just constantly spam her beam attack, which will one-shot any enemies. The only issue with using her is she moves way slower than Nonon, so it’s more annoying to get around to grab the pickups.

Whichever character you choose to do this with while playing you need to be on the lookout for the pickups the enemies drop, priority being on the two that look like a squarish wood base with a clear top, or the same with gold spikes. These both add to your available time for the mode, so they are top priority for you to grab when you see them, because it’s impossible to get the required number of kills without these. It will require some luck to get these drop, so you might need to give this a few tries just to have enough of the bonus time pickups to drop.

Starting out select your character, then select Ira Gamagoori as your opponent. He is easiest to go against for this as he is fairly slow, and due to how his regalia abilities work he needs to take damage in the first place to charge up his meter for better attacks. Choose whichever stage you want, then put the handicap to maximum (right side) for both you and your opponent. Doing this causes you to both deal a large amount of damage, instead of putting the handicap low which makes fights take far longer due to you dealing less damage. Then set difficulty to 3-Star and you’re ready to go.

With handicap at maximum you do a very large amount of damage to each other. Because of how Gamagoori’s mechanics work he will basically need to use his ability to damage himself which leaves him wide open for break attacks, then you can do simple combos to remove the majority of his health. Some characters if you get a wall juggle off you can do basically his entire bar in one combo because of the high handicap. Don’t worry about using Valor attacks or Specials at all, just keep putting pressure with breaks then combo with normal attacks and you should be able to take him down fairly easily with all characters.

The fastest way to do this would be to play against a second local player, with P1 Handicap set to max and P2 Handicap set to lowest. When done this way P1 deals a large amount of damage to the second player, so you can win fights very quickly. Done this way this should take just under 2 hours.

If you have a turbo controller you can idle this trophy while being away from your system and doing something else. Set up a match against the COM, and set P1 Handicap to lowest and P2 handicap to highest. In the match pause the game and go into Options > Button Config, then rebind Jump to , which will rebind Deathblow to . You can then turbo the button on your controller, which will make you retry the match each time it is complete, but won’t make you do anything in game to fight back against the AI as Deathblow doesn’t do anything unless you also hit another one of the face buttons. Done this way it will take slightly longer than played active, as the AI takes about 50 – 60 seconds to win a match, but you can walk away and do something else for a couple hours.

The stages are as follows:

• Naturals Election Stadium
• Polling Grounds
• Ragyo Stadium Runway
• Ragyo Stadium Grounds
• Honnou-cho Open Field
• Thread Palace (Potentially not required)

The commands work on a rock/paper/scissors setup, where Mock beats Taunt, Taunt beats Provoke, and Provoke beats Mock. When you’re the one who initiated the attack you either get life recovery, deal damage, or gain SP depending on which options you picked and win with, but if the defender wins they just deal damage back to the attacker. If the attacker picks a command that beats the one picked by the opponent you will launch into another Bloody Valor sequence immediately, if you pick the same you will still win and get the corresponding reward for the command you picked, but then the sequence will end.

For this trophy you need to win three consecutive sequences in one go against an AI, and there is no specific easy way to do this because what the AI picks is entirely random and unpredictable, so you will basically just need to work on this until you get it. The two places you should do this would be either during the Chapter 10 fight in Ryuko’s story arc, as you need to get three Bloody Valor wins in that fight anyway to finish it, or while working on the 100 Versus wins against a low level AI.