Kingdom Hearts BBS (PS4) - Final Boss: Vanitas No Damage (Level 1 CM/Ventus)

The final fights in Ven's story. Vanitas is really annoying to fight because he breaks out of everything like I mentioned before. It's even worse for these fights though because ignite no longer works on him so mine square is literally the only safe way to fight him. You can mix Aero in to make him fly into the mines but he breaks out of that usually as well. I wish this guy was exclusive to Ven's story but sadly this isn't the last we'll see of him.
No Damage
No Items
No Shotlock (Only for end of the fight)
No D-Link

[@dankusmemeus7093]

“Want to play test some of the final bosses” “No thanks”

[@Hyskaris]

imagine being so angry that you thawed ice

[@starslayer85]

Hell this one was hard, I had to defeat him 33 times (Yeah I counted them) just because I could not finish the second part, I was able to thanks to your strategy, THANK YOU!

[@dariuscross2946]

Lol I got it first try because I had xp farmed

[@watsmadhatter9068]

I still not finish, cuz i can't target him. Vanitas hit and combo me every time i try target the shotlock. The second part count more with lucky him doesn't push too hard. So i give up, watch the scenes on youtube and start a ng with aqua.

[@AuthorLeoKing]

​@Wat's Madhatter I was pulling my hair out duringthe space battle as well, until I realized a few things: 1. You only have to use Dar Splicer or Shotlock when Vanitas uses Dark Splicer or Shotlock. Amy combination will work because it results in you two clashing. 2. The QTEs for Dark Splicer and Shotlock are ridiculously easy. You spin the legt thumbstick for Dark Splicer and mash X for Shotlock. 3. After getting a segment of your command bar, if Vanitas hesitates, just dash in with Dodge Roll, hit him a few times, then dash out. That keeps the command bar from shrinking. 4. When you get last word, lock on to Vanitas and wait. The command won't vanish. 5. Lock on to Vanitas but don't use Last Word until he starts an attack. He needs to be committed to an attack. I've always waited until his Shotlock. 6. So long as he's started an attack, and you're locked on, you'll never miss, and you'll win the fight. Once I got used to him, the space battle was the easiest part. It's just so disorienting until you get the flow of battle. Good luck!

[@DogimiVN]

Well, I used tornado to drain his HP but still lose as yours :(-

[@quaoaaar]

@@AuthorLeoKing also worth noting that you dont need shotlock fully charged to clash. if he tries to hit you out of it while charging it, just challenge him anyway

[@StarluxXIII]

Oh my god! I finally beat him after watching your video! THANK YOU!

[@JustAthel]

Wow dude-

[@voidkeyblade7988]

Do you even have a square button on your controller anymore? xD Awesome video as always man!

[@Rhinihiliste]

Void Keyblade you’ve never a seen a MF fight I guess !

[@umatakhirzaman9672]

@@Rhinihiliste MF?

[@jemcel0397]

Umat Akhir ZAMAN Mysterious Figure (AKA Young Xehanort)

[@Moalei-Lolerfry-]

Vanitas Remnant: let me introduce myself

[@DanteDMC3]

The fact they throw the second part at you out of no where is slightly unfair without any warning and then making you fight him again

[@pligman1]

It’s a Square-Enix game did you really expect to fight the last boss just once?

[@DanteDMC3]

@@pligman1 I should have expected this tbf I was just salty that I died to him

[@pligman1]

@@DanteDMC3 I get it, I was like that with Ansem in the first game!

[@RikuTales]

10:21 *"Hmph, It's always about your friends, isn't it?"* Vanitas is not only referring to Terra and Aqua, but also to the Dandelions. This is not the first time that Ventus decides to confront Vanitas to protect his friends, just that he does not remember it

[@Rebecca_Violet]

I didn't know Vanitas was around at that time. Is that revealed in Union X?

[@RikuTales]

@@Rebecca_Violet Soft spoiler. Yeah. In Union X we basically discover the origin of Vanitas and his relationship with Ventus. And yes, believe it or not, their relationship originated from a long time ago

[@Rebecca_Violet]

@@RikuTales Huh, so is Vanitas a splinter of one of the original 13 shards or IS he one of the 13? I'm not in a position to play the game, so I don't mind spoilers.

[@RikuTales]

@@Rebecca_Violet Vanitas was originally one of 13 parts of a being simply known as Darkness; a cluster of darkness in its purest state and consciousness divided into 13 parts. As I say, Vanitas was one of them. He is the one who would later be Vanitas who possesses Ventus to kill Strelitzia. And in the end of the story, the dandelions can't beat that part of Darkness, since it's not corporeal. However, Ventus realizes something: That thing entered his body and then came out, as he took advantage of Ventus's darkness to become stronger. So if that thing is pure darkness, he is pure light. Realizing such a thing, Ventus understands that only he has the power to stop it. Thus, it is not well explained what happened, since there is a cut scene, but it is understood that Ventus attacked Darkness and this caused it to be reintroduced into his body, sealing it inside himself. Many, many thousands of years later, Xehanorth would draw the darkness from Ventus's heart. In doing so, what he extracted was that part of Darkness, the last one left. And there he was just baptized as Vanitas and given a new purpose and reason for existing: to be merely the antithesis of Ventus, a part of him

[@Rebecca_Violet]

@@RikuTales Wow. Thanks for the explanation. It really makes me wonder what Vanitas' goals will be going forward. If I'm not mistaken, the original goal of the Darkness was to return everything to a void. However, Vanitas is no longer Darkness (emphasis on the capital D). He is still darkness in a sense, but he has his own identity, his own body, and from his point of view his own family. He didn't seem too disappointed when Sora defeated him in KH3, a big difference from BBS.

[@2ndToLast501]

"Oh this kiddo thinks he's a full-fledged keyblade wielder?" >Ventus is retconned to be a Dandelion

[@elicary26]

Wait, WHAAAAAAAT?! When, how, WHY? Was it in DDD?

[@elicary26]

@Joaquim Floyd yeah, i figured thats where it happened. The story of that game is actually way more interesting that i thought. Wish it were a real game

[@rubydragoon720]

I wouldn't say retconned, since we had no idea where he came from. especially since a Dandelion is still a Keyblade wielder

[@nobgs4505]

Spoilers for KH3: >Braig/Xigbar turns out to be Luxu, one of the Foretellers

[@aoto8897]

How can it be a Retcon when Ventus in bbs was a complete mystery on how xehanort found him or where he came from? Not to mention he had memory loss the entire game.

[@masterseal0418]

"Hmph, it's all about your friends." "At least I have some!" He nailed that verbal destruction after that creepy laugh and horrifying purpose/motives of the Kingdom Hearts franchise's equivalent to the boogeyman(which isn't Oogie Boogie).

[@SSJWolverine]

Gonna need a Senzu for that one.

[@emishimaru-sama6449]

Oh no, Iv've been verbally destroyed!

[@JudeHavoc]

One of my all time favorite boss theme songs

[@MelianLimGachaVideos]

It took only 3 tries to defeat Vanitas on the first one. But the second one took me at least 5 tries until I understand his attack pattern.

[@PsychothicFlare1]

Yooo I just got this game and thank you so much I finally beat him!!! Now I can do the other characters

[@spiritofblessingsworship]

Vanitas got all, sora's bad ass move set and words set

[@davidplatt8308]

Wait a minute. Sora is two handed that carry Keyblade and Ven carried his backward Keyblade in one hand

[@Thisisthegreatestatofalltime]

The second part of this fight was the very definition of cool idea, but poor execution.

[@GreatNegus]

That's Osaka team in general.

[@Netherman14TheHellblazer]

This fight made me legitimately give up on completing Ventus's story and moving onto Aqua's, because of his Shotlock.

[@Grzesiek4Ever]

Oh come on, go back to Peter Pan's world and level up a little bit. I did it when I was losing to him. After 5 lvls up I went back to him, and beaten him without dying even once. Proud lvl 37.

[@lumaseed6490]

@@Grzesiek4Ever thats proud not crit

[@Grzesiek4Ever]

@@lumaseed6490 leveling up is also important on critical, isn't it?

[@lumaseed6490]

@@Grzesiek4Ever not in osaka games, command deck goes really far in carrying

[@Netherman14TheHellblazer]

@@Grzesiek4Ever It wasn't being underleveled that was the issue, it was the mashing X minigame that occurs when you use his Shotlock that killed me. That was also on my Standard save.

[@Nero_PR]

00:57 My paralysis Demon doing its work on me.

[@jackstone1825]

It gives you the suck?

[@MarkofWisdom]

at least the finisher on the last part of the vanitas fight didn't miss...

[@Jack-gy8gk]

Bro I always got him one hp then they teleport me to this stupid random dimension and kept dying. All I had to do was dodge and shot lock smh

[@cashewlater5317]

Holy shit I do not remember his theme being this fucking good.

[@nobgs4505]

This is probably my favorite of BBS' final bosses. It didn't feel extremely tough like Terra-Xehanort vs Terra, nor rather easy like Aqua and Mickey vs Ventus-Vantias. A one on one fight between Ventus and Vanitas, Ventus fighting to protect his friends, even at the cost of his own heart, so the X-Blade doesn't get completed, both sides bringing out everything they got. A proper final challenge for the game imo. Complete with a song that incorporates Ventus, Roxas, and Sora's themes all in one FANTASTIC final boss theme. And that final D-Link with Vanitas.... Good lord!

[@jordantolkar2586]

The “Finish him!” Info notifier on the top left when you reach the Vanitas D-Link was pretty cool too! I had no problem beating this one because I had Salvation and Faith, and I just kept mashing triangle to get my commands in before I eventually won. I honestly had no idea you could use a unique shotlock in this part. Lol Also the fight with Terranort vs Terra, I can confirm that it is no walk in the park. Even with a good command deck I ran like Ars Solum with Chaos Blade and a Curaga and Heal strike in my set, Terranort was relentless as heck and hits hard, even on Standard. Granted I only had Terra at level 44, but still.

[@MrChukinorris]

I had no idea you could use the shotlock to do that on the second part lol. Was breaking my fingers spinning the analog stick

[@omegadragoon1544]

At the last round, NEVER trade blows with him. It's suicide to fight him head on

[@Attackonmuffin]

Especially on crit mode lol

[@omegadragoon1544]

@@Attackonmuffin he'll destroy you with 2 or 3 hits on critical mode

[@Attackonmuffin]

@@omegadragoon1544 hell even proud mode was pretty hard

[@omegadragoon1544]

@@Attackonmuffin I heard major horror stories of that mode

[@dariuscross2946]

I was at level 40 something when I fought vanitas, it’s probably something with the amount of hp have because mines was blinking when I first used last words, I beat him first try due to exp farming

[@katie581]

15:14 what did you do to the game xD

[@yashkeshavpatnam1852]

after watching this battle, i'm starting to that if you can kite with mine setups, the game becomes easy

[@rovad55]

"Its always about your friends" "At least I have some" "Oh no, he has verbally destroyed me"

[@Wheeeeai]

THANK YOU FOR THIS

[@aycefn6072]

Had to come back to this one, the GOAT

[@tayj9448]

omg thank you this strategy worked perfectly

[@princessalicemare645]

GOD BLESS YOU BEEN TRYING TO BEAT TGIS DUDE FOR AN HOUR

[@atrea]

Can someone explain how the second part works? I finished him off but with lure luck. I shotlock spam him, but why it hits of misses I dunno. With with the finisher Last word. It failed a lot and for some reason it hit one time.

[@ewokcalypse4470]

I need help. Everytime when I use last words command when you’re about to defeat him, it doesn’t kill him, do I have to rapidly press the x button or something? I play this on my PS4 btw.

[@WillJV2]

Ewokcalypse I’m not sure. Try to get right beside him when you use it

[@eeriecode1628]

Make sure you're close to him, facing him, and that you've R1-locked him. The last one is essential, without it it's likely to miss. It happened to me once after like 50 tries, to say it's frustrating is an understatement...

[@BluePenguin-in-a-penguin-world]

OMGGG I FINALLY BEAT VANITAS THANKS TO THIS VIDEO THANK YOUUUUU

[@aidenhoffman312]

How come whenever I lock onto him and do the target thing it just makes him do the laser and kill me? .-.

[@ShiroMaKun]

I don't understand, why I can't kill Vanitas in the second part even I did the 'last word' part.... Why?!

[@elicary26]

For some reason that attack can fail, so you'll just have to keep trying i guess. I think its whe you're too close to him, not sure tbh

[@HarmonicVector]

"Oh no! He has verbally destroyed me!"

[@alejandrohidalgo210]

10:03 me encanta la risa de vanitas 7u7

[@estebansaravia5008]

The first phase killed me around 15 times, but I beat the second at my first try. Somehow was more predictible.

[@gradleyg472]

I can do all stages but the last word part is just confusing

[@user-ik8bg7nf2e]

amazing!!!

[@partialbullet2215]

I thought Ventus was a skill user not a magic user

[@Soulless_Fredvictim]

No he's balanced.

[@jordantolkar2586]

I honestly had no problem defeating Vanitas here, mostly because I was playing on Standard, and with my deck I had, I had Salvation and Faith which pretty much break the game in half for Ventus’s story, combined with the Heal Strike Finish command and a Curaga for added security. With all that I just went in and took the hits and hit him before he hits me. Lol

[@thelairofthedemongod]

18:12 which OST was this? i can't find it

[@m.neil_zr]

You can upgrade ability dodge roll with tundaga

[@huntoper9551]

Neil Zian Ramadhan but it doesnt give you invincibility frames so they are really risky to use

[@chasemartell1945]

this strategy doesn't seem to work for me he's dodging like 80% of my mines and his attacks are increasingly hard to dodge the longer the fight goes

[@user-jh5wt8lq9x]

You probably finished the game by now but if anyone else is having trouble you should focus on countering his attacks and dodge the attacks that can't be blocked. This was how I did it.

[@Sliffer_]

16:25 song ??

[@rizqi125]

mine simulator

[@HalvoDraws]

you can use a shotlock to knock vanitas off the keyblade storm

[@claudevalentine8657]

Last night, I got to the point of 16:03 and used "Last Word" and set down my controller (Thinking it was over.) To my surprise, for WHATEVER reason, the finishing blow didn't connect and Vanitas killed me before I could grab my controller again. Needless to say, I was pissed.

[@jalinbell6088]

15:01 15:40 15:41 15:42 15:44 10:02 10:04 10:05 1:52 1:53 1:59 7:54 7:55 8:00 15:00 10:08 10:11 2:00 16:30

[@pligman1]

I love how the X-Blade looks!

[@megang1396]

I just beat him on beginner and it was my first attempt to beat him. I just magically beat him with my switch version. (I am talking about the static part)

[@nezukolover2460]

Ven:shu up. And I'm like oop😳😳😳😳

[@Cast-Carnival]

we have similar strats. except I use Fission Firaga and Crawling Fire instead of Aero.

[@noahgonzalez6088]

Dose his keyblade have a name vantis ventus

[@Soulless_Fredvictim]

If you're talking about Vanitas, his Key is called the "X-Blade". X in KH terms means "Chi" or "Key".

[@BryanGD]

THANK YOUUUUUUUUUUU

[@earlwilliams7754]

16:11 Wow.

[@SF-pj6xv]

Thank you thank you

[@edsongutierrez8379]

Why you used only magic attacks? Why you never melee even once?

[@photonalchemist6574]

Cuz bbs has bosses randomly breaking out of your combos

[@josiahharris3151]

melee is useless against vanitas

[@edsongutierrez8379]

@@josiahharris3151 yet it took a freaking year for someone to say that?

[@josiahharris3151]

@@edsongutierrez8379 mkay boomer

[@heinoo9983]

So.... it's cheese tactics all along?

[@MrBlakmamba24]

This fight was hell on the psp man

[@shpankey1053]

I had the last word commmand and it didnt kill him...

[@megang1396]

Is it just me or is he saying Supper

[@Jhebior1313]

This final was 100 times easier than terras final battle

[@carloscanton138]

I disagree

[@ruyfire6913]

Objeción I needed a grand total of 2 months to finally beat his second stage (plus additional one day trying to figure out what to do ) I haven't played terra yet but I absolutely can assure this is harder

[@jordanhamilton3795]

Naw trust me terranort is hard as hell

[@jordanhamilton3795]

I kept dying on terranort so much I almost considered going ‘fuck it I’m done’ but vanitas gave me little to no trouble, basically just used my aggression from terranort on vanitas

[@jordantolkar2586]

Yeah, I have to agree. When I did Terra’s final battle, even with a Curaga and Heal Strike on me, and good moves like Ars Solum and Zantetsuken, Terranort still hits like a truck, and I was level 44 on Standard. He certainly gave me a run for my money although I did defeat him first try. But I did come close to dying several times if it weren’t for my Curaga and Heal strike.

[@Egyptana]

Final with Dark spiral... Impossible....T_T

[@sadtoad250]

Yo I never knew Nishiki was in Kingdom Hearts

[@emishimaru-sama6449]

8:58 Was It just me, or am I hearing something like a monster dying In FFVII's sfx? xDDD

[@ifritinfernian1738]

I used last word or whatever it said and he survived

[@Chillgamesh]

Shotlocks

[@Sparkplug.223]

I found the highest level mine shield worked a little better for me

[@cashbanucita0025]

Is so annoying getting the position right for the final blow

[@marielarsson6462]

Holy shit, my hands are not made for this! Do they really have to make it so extremly hard 🥵🥵

[@DSWappropriate]

10:34

[@HalfCelestial88]

The most epic Clash in KH...

[@HalfCelestial88]

@MemeRuler Close second.

[@IzzyMaeh]

I can't believe am back to this video after about 8 years cuz i found my psp back and am trying to beat Kingdom Hearts. I died against this mf aeound 37 times now and i STILL CANT GET TO THE 2ND FOOKING PHASE Edit: i give up

[@w-cosmujerbyorganics.6980]

Okay i hate vanitas now here the pegasus princess part 29 ventus vs the blot (ask vanitas) to kepp fightnig for me😕oh my god why!!! to love me ventus or vanitas?

[@bakedpintos]

Lmao for me it was just a battle of reversals and reversal slashes. Thats how i beat him tbb. Notas effective as mine spam but its more fun

[@quaoaaar]

beat this earlier today and i came out of it feeling like it was a bit of a dogshit fight that straight up didn't belong in bbs learning you can literally only fight him with non committal stuff in lvl 1 is pretty validating. now i feel less scrubby

[@umatakhirzaman9672]

Kh DARK SOUL

[@doomguy676]

I hate the 2nd phase so much

[@Egyptana]

Difficult - _ -"

[@ruyfire6913]

I beated him a total of 25 times in 1 month and I lost each and he just did it level one no damage Life can just be so painful

[@ventusoa1413]

not a single melee attack or parry, such a unsatisfactory gameplay

[@nw6454]

The fight itself is easy (without cheesing like this lol) I just didn’t get wtf to do for the second part. Watched this and my jaw just dropped like all I had to do was shot lock 😂 kind of dumb

[@wadeyhyena1657]

This was honestly the easiest fight for me. Though, I think that's partly because Aqua was underlevelled during my playthrough. (She was level 22 for context and I was playing on Standard Mode.). Compared to this battle, it took me around twelve tries to beat Terra-Xehanort and around fifty tries to beat Vanitas with Aqua, even with Mickey's help.) Ven's took me a couple of attempts to beat him, but it was satisfying. Also finished all the Rumble Racing tracks with all three... I hated doing those.

[@kiffley]

16:41 Da x blaaaaa..........

[@juses7584]

huh hi ha ho huh hi ha ho

[@dylanheisler6999]

That last sequence in the vanitas fight has gotta be one of the dumbest things🤣

[@spiritofblessingsworship]

So basically, Light side of sora is Roxas, and Dark Side of sora is Vanitas

[@danielfuentes2999]

...no

[@Alexander-wt8dg]

Eulid😂

[@sebastiansantini3410]

You won't make it interesting, uh?

[@caloFi]

The last part of this fight has to be the gayest thing I have ever done in a kingdom hearts game

[@Katsire]

Critical mode terranort on terras story is the gayest for me

[@StevenPerez-zo1st]

Katsire nah this boss is worse

[@Yurei2K]

the 2nd gayest thing for me was definitely Peter Pan world vanitas vs aqua fight.

[@davidfeddanigga54]

nice fake

[@jonathananderson1728]

Ven's story was a hot pile of shit to begin with and this boss just made it 100x worst, he has way too many invulnerable moves, i feel like im fighting Rechain of memories sora with a deck of 9's