What is the easiest way to defeat two Hewdraw heads at once?

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To unlock a panel, I need to defeat two of the Hewdraw heads at once on any intensity. I have tried a few times already, and it seems that wearing two heads down and using an ultimate attack doesn't defeat them. Has anyone done this yet, or do you have an idea, weapon type I should use or strategy to do this?

Asked by Leo5882723

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I played the level on 0.0 difficulty (Couldn't do it otherwise :P).

I used a Knuckle Staff (Most staves will probably do the trick though).

Then I just fired off both special attack orbs once he was targetable.

Once i used the attacks, it knocked both heads off. Not too hard at 0.0 difficulty.

Hope i could help.

Cheers, Dio

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How do I capture the Chaos Kin in an electro trap?

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The treasure hunt says:

Chapter 21: Capture the Chaos Kin 5 times with an electro trap.

How can I reliably train it into the trap? It's really skittish.

Asked by Joe Wreschnig

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What I did was I put the electro trap in between me and the Chaos kin. Every once in a while, it will rush at you, and doing so will trap it in an electro trap. If the battle lingers for a few minutes, Viridi will spawn more electro traps to trap him easier.

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How to get a gold laurel wreath at Arlon's Lunar Sanctum?

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I have played this level multiple times, and I cannot seem to find everything in that level. Could someone point out where all of the treasure boxes and intensity gates(If there is any for this level) are?

Asked by Leo5882723

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• In the first mirrored room, the false wall on the left has a chest behind it. (May require 5.0+ - sometimes I've had it only spit out hearts.)
• Rather than go in the door after the bridge where Palutena sneezes, go around behind it to find a chest.
• There's a chest on a platform only reachable by an Exo Tank jump, in the outside area. You do not need to boost to make the jump.
• You need to take out the enemies on the spinning platform near the end of the level to make another chest appear.
• Right before the boss, turn left to find a level 7 intensity gate.

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How do I “narrowly avoid” a shot?

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There are Treasure Hunt panels with the condition "Narrowly avoid a total of 5 (or 25, or 50) shots in Air Battles."

According to my records, I've narrowly avoided two shots so far, out of what must be at least ten hours of air battles. Getting another three by accident sounds reasonable, but not 23 or 47.

What kind of maneuvering counts as narrowly avoiding a shot?

Asked by Joe Wreschnig

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You must be gliding to "narrowly avoid" a shot. If you graze while shooting, or after shooting before you go into a glide, it doesn't count.

It also seems entirely unrelated to rolls (flicking the pad in one direction then the other). It's only about how close the shot comes to you. Although, if you're bad at grazing, doing rolls might help you get them faster.

(Now I've got 7, off to get 43 more...)

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How do I destroy eight Aurum Core guns?

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One of the Treasure Hunt items reads

Chapter 15: Destroy 8 of the Aurum Core's guns

I just finished the boss fight on intensity 6.0 and there were only six guns. I blew them up right away and waited a few minutes, but more didn't appear. I also triggered the second stage of the boss, when it starts flashing red, but none reappeared then either.

How do I destroy eight guns?

Asked by Joe Wreschnig

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From what I remember, you need to play it at a higher intensity. Also, there are guns by the core and behind you on the walls as well.

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How many different Kid Icarus AR cards are there?

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Kid Icarus AR cards all have a number on the bottom left (e.g. AKDP-001). These seem to be continuous. The highest one I have is AKDP-375, and I've heard that one of the rare cards Nintendo Power gave out is AKDP-404.

How many different cards are there total?

Asked by Joe Wreschnig

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I just completed the idol collections and apparently, there are 404 available idols. Meaning there could be 404 different AR cards for us to scan.

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How can I know the effect of a weapon ability?

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Most of the abilities are fairly straight forward, such as Walking Speed +1, but for some of them I have no idea what they mean, like Shaking +1. I assumed there would be someway to see a description of a weapon ability, but I'm unable to find anything in-game.

Is there anyway to see the description of a weapon ability, so I can see what it does?

Asked by Wipqozn

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There's no in-game explanation, but I found most of them pretty obvious based on things that happened to me during Solo. For example Shaking is when your aiming reticle starts shaking and jumping all over the screen.

There's an image floating around various message boards that does explain them all:

Offensive

• Shot range: Increase the distance your shots travel
• Shot homing: Increase the homing ability of weapons, if they have any to begin with
• Various attacks: Increase the power of that kind of attack
• In-peril attack boost: Raise attack when in Crisis Mode
• Full-health boost: Raise attack power when your health is full
• Shot cancellation: Increase ability to cancel incoming fire
• Power attack: Increase damage done by attack powers
• Item attack: Increase damage done by offensive items

Defensive

• Overall defense: Reduce the amount of damage received
• Melee defense: Reduce the amount of damage received from melee attacks
• Shot defense: Reduce the amount of damage received from ranged attacks
• Knockback defense: Reduce the chance of getting knocked down
• Evasion: Increase the size of your dodge window
• Health: Increase your max health
• In-peril autododge: In Crisis Mode, you will sometimes automatically dodge

Status Effects

• Confusion: Causes reticle or movement to be inverted
• Petrification: Target turns to stone; they can't move and defense increases
• Freezing: Target is unable to move
• Paralysis: Target speed is reduced
• Shaking: Target's reticle goes haywire
• Burning: Small damage-over-time from fire
• Poison: Small damage-over-time from poison
• Weakening: Target's health max is halved
• Recovery effect: Status effects do not apply to you as long
• Status resistance: Status effects are less likely to apply to you

Movement

• Speed: Increases all movement speed
• Walking speed: Increases only walking speed
• Running speed: Increases only running speed
• Stamina: Increases the time you can run for

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Where are all the Zodiac Weapons located?

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Zodiac Weapons are required to unlock a variety of things in the game. Due to this I want to make sure I find them all.

Which levels contain Zodiac Weapons, and where in each level are they located?

Asked by Wipqozn

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Not all zodiac items are weapons; some are powers.

• Sagittarius Bow: Chapter 2. The chamber is hidden behind a tapestry; you can walk through it.

• Taurus Arm: Chapter 4. In the room with pendulums, fall down. Look for the hole that's emitting some light.

• Gemini Orbitars: Chapter 6. After the fight in the underground area, scale the wall until you find a pathway to the chamber entrance.

• Cancer Claw: Chapter 8. Instead of walking on the jump-pad in the area where the pirates keep their treasure, walk to the end of it and walk off, then go through the door.

• Leo Cannon: Chapter 10. Take the usual door out of the room with the statue you put in the lava, and keep hugging the left wall. The chamber entrance is obvious.

• Virgo Palm: Chapter 12. In a room with two bomb items, you normally step on an elevator platform to exit after defeating the enemies. Take the other elevator platform that wasn't there before.

• Libra Sponge: Chapter 14. In the room immediately before the boss, there is an electrified door. Dodge through it.

• Scorpio Staff: Chapter 16. There's a shaft you fall down; if you're still in the Ether Ring, you can find a passageway to the chamber right before the bottom.

• Aries Armor: Chapter 18. Left of the hot springs with the Souflee.

• Capricorn Club: Chapter 20. Walk through the wall in the last cell door on the left in the castle.

• Aquarius Blade: Chapter 23. In the part with the bunch of grind rails. At one point you switch rails to avoid falling down. Once you stop, get back on the rail you just came from.

• Pisces Heal: Chapter 24. When you're told to start the trials, go the other direction. It's an obvious path.

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An easier way to clear chapters at level 9.0 intensity in Kid icarus: Uprising?

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I have been playing the chapters for the past few days, and I only have a handful of chapters completed on the hardest difficulty, 9.0. I was wondering if anyone had any tips, strategies, weapon or power preferences that can help me clear thewse chapters easier.

Asked by Leo5882723

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I cleared the first 4 levels using this method. Make a weapon that has petrification +4(or more)- really useful for the sky battle portion. You want it to have 6 melee / 6 range. The optimal weapon for this would be a claw.

For your skills, add super-armor, librasponge/ Trade off (save it for the boss fight), Invincible and crisis recover. Everything else, you can fill it in with whatever space you have left.

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Where are Rare Treasurefish?

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I need to defeat at least five Rare Treasurefish (probably more, in Treasure Hunt panels I can't read the requirements for yet).

Where can I find Rare Treasurefish? Are they visually different from regular treasurefish? I feel like I've shot a ton of fish, but apparently only one was rare so far.

Asked by Joe Wreschnig

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Slight Spoilers:

Rare Treasurefish have a golden hue where the hold the chests at. I have seen one in chapter 8, when you are outside of the space pirate ship. There is also another one in chapter 11, while you are in the maze. Just play those levels a few times, and you should get it.

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What determines what type of weapon will be produced through a weapon fusion?

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I've noticed a fusion of two weapon types will always produce the same weapon type, so I assume there is some sort of system for determining the weapon type produced, as opposed to it being random.

What determines what type of weapon will be produced through a weapon fusion?

Asked by Wipqozn

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You are right, this is a predictable system. In order to figure out what weapon you will get, you will need to know a few different things in order to figure it out.

First, you need to know what weapon combinations will result in the weapon type that you are going after. This (translated) chart will help with that:

From there, you need to know what “number” the weapon you want to make is. There are 12 of each weapon type, and they are numbered from 1 to 12. This chart lists the weapon numbers for each of the weapons in the game:

When you fuse two weapons together, you just add those numbers together to get the number of the resulting weapon. If the result is higher than 12, it just wraps back around to 1; in other words, if the two weapon numbers add up to a number that is higher than 12, subtract 12. (For example, if you want to make a Palutena Blade, you could use the Cragalanche Cannon plus the Dark Pit Staff - 12 + 11 = 23, 23 - 12 = 11.)

If the fusion results in just an X and a ?, it means that you haven’t unlocked the weapon in-game yet, and you can’t just fuse things to create it. You will need to explore the game more completely, finish more levels, etc. to unlock all of the available weapons, but then you can fuse things to your heart’s content.

This is not entirely foolproof - sometimes you might randomly get something you didn’t expect. it does work most of the time, however. Also, there hasn’t been a way (as of yet) to know what stars and abilities get carried over when you fuse weapons, unfortunately.

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Is there a positive relationship between staff damage and distance from your target?

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The game manual states:

With powerful, penetrating shots, staffs excel in long-range sniping. Although weak in close combat and lacking homing performance, staffs feature shots that grow in power over distance.

According to this, the damage dealt by Staffs should increase the further away you are from your opponent. However, after experimenting in the training mode this doesn't seem to be true. For normal shots, distance makes no differences. For charged shots, damage actually increases the closer you are to your opponent. Obviously something is amiss here. I'm hoping this is simply a bug in the training mode, but since damage done isn't reported during missions it's hard to test how much damage my staff is doing.

Does staff damage decreases the further you are away from your opponent, or, as the manual states, does damage increases with distance, and there is simply a bug with the training mode?

Asked by Wipqozn

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I've done some experimenting, and it turns out that it varied based on the staff type. A staff will have one of the following three relationships between damage and distance (along with an incomplete list of staffs which fall under each relation):

• Direct Relation: As distance from the target increases, damage increases.
• No Relation: Distance has no affect on damage.
• Indirect Relation: As distance increases from the target, damage decreases.

Minor spoilers below this line

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• Direct Relation: As distance from the target increases, damage increases.
  • Thanatos Staff
  • Ancient Staff
  • Dark Pit Staff

• No Relation: Distance has no affect on damage.
  • Laser Staff

• Indirect Relation: As distance increases from the target, damage decreases.
  • Knuckle Staff
  • Lancer Staff

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What's special about the zodiac weapons?

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Some chapters in Kid Icarus: Uprising have hidden rooms with special weapons in them, named after zodiac signs. For example, in chapter 2 you can find the Sagittarius Bow. These seem to be unique items; if you replay the level it's no longer in the room.

But at least as they are when you get them, they don't seem to be much better than the other weapons available.

Is there a way to improve them? Do they have other special abilities? Or should I be fusing them? If I do, is there a way to get another again later?

Asked by Joe Wreschnig

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Zodiac weapons...

• are required to get a gold laurel wreath on the level.
• unlock more weapon fusion options, though they still don't seem to be special in any way.
• unlock a square in the Treasure Hunt grid, required for finishing the Treasure Hunt and 100% completion.

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Why are some weapon fusions blocked out with a question mark?

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In the weapon fusion menu, some combinations of items contain an "X" in their location box, and both their name and display image are just quesiton marks (??? and ? respectively). I'm unable to combine these items, but my instincts tell me that there is something more to this.

Is there some restriction that prevents me from combining certain items until later in the campaign (and if so, what is it, and how do I remove it)? Or are some items just not able to be fused?

Asked by Wipqozn

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These are weapons that can't be fused at the moment, but will become fusable later. There's at least two different kinds:

• Zodiac weapons - Leo Cannon, Sagittarius Bow, etc. These are unlocked for fusion when you find their hidden chambers in different levels.
• Boss weapons - Pandora Claws, Gaol Blade, etc. These are given to you when you beat the boss of that name, and are unlocked for fusion at the same time.

Whether eventually all combinations become fusable, I don't know - I haven't beaten every boss or found every zodiac weapon yet. But my fusion grid is becoming very dense, so I'm guessing yes.

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What do I need to do for a gold laurel wreath?

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On the chapter select screen the ones I've finished are marked with a laurel wreath. Some of them are gold; some of them are green. It doesn't seem to be based on score (or at least not consistent across levels) or intensity; I thought it might be based on dying vs. not dying but my wife says she didn't die on some levels where she has green.

What decides if I get a gold wreath or a green one?

Asked by Joe Wreschnig

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I do not know for sure, but for every one of mine that's gold I have gathered every treasure in that chapter.

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Is there any way to change which button I use to shoot?

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I poked around in a bunch of menus, and found a lot of interesting stuff, but I couldn't find any way to change the controls. I would love to be able to move the shooting button to the left trigger on the Circle Pad Pro, or to the R button. Is that possible? Or am I stuck with having a sore pinky forever and ever?

Asked by Ashley Nunn

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You can edit all the controls of the game via the Control Configuration menu.

Options > Controls > Control Configuration (step 3 will allow you to change your shoot button)

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