Kingdom Hearts HD 2.5 - Summons

[@nayemrahman9987]

Personally, Stitch is the best summon. He's a big help in fights like Terra/Lingering Will and both Demyx's (normal and data version). The only disadvantage is that he trolls with you a lot.

[@Vigriff]

+Nayem Rahman He's also quite helpful during the Underworld Cups.

[@nayemrahman9987]

+deathshadow2492 Yeah. Because of stitch i was able to plat the HD 2.5 remake of KH2 as the missions in the Olympics were a pain.

[@Jamestopboy]

See, I rage quit 2.5 due to the data fights being rigged as all hell...

[@DHTGK]

nah data fights are easy once you master basically everything about kingdom hearts 2

[@banriswirl6414]

That is literally the opposite of easy. "master everything and it's easy."

[@jakestrom8395]

I feel like an idiot for using summons for their limits.....

[@loganbigmo]

Nah, I did the same thing too. It's all good if got the job done LOL. I used Peter Pan and his limit to help me finish off that Experiment thing in Christmas/Halloweentown.

[@xXLunatikxXlul]

Haha sometimes they're great for finishing off enemies

[@MarkofWisdom]

don't feel too bad, that's the best way to level the summon bar if you can't juggle the exp bar between numbers-that is having it go below one number and collecting orbs/hitting enemies to have it go up a number again before it drains to the lower number once more. Both decreases give a summon exp point, while summon limits give however many bars of summon gauge they drain

[@tonigutierrez1155]

I only used chicken little for the limit.

[@clockworkdeity]

Genie: "I can't kill anyone. So don't ask." Also Genie: *photon blasts nobodies*

[@legionofcats5175]

They are No one so loop hole

[@Fenyx_Birb]

He can't kill, but he can still punch people.

[@zeroderorero3948]

Genie: I can't kill nobody Nobodies: So that was a fuckin lie

[@TenseMasterHalo]

I'll be honest, they really do poorly express to the player just what the summons do. Testing each of them out in my first playthrough years ago I've never really noticed any of these useful abilities. Chicken Little felt like a gimmick that was only there just because, Stitch did little overall except maybe launch and attack or stun everyone every now and then - though I found him useful in the underworld cups sometimes - and Peter Pan did little or nothing at all. The only one I valued was Genie since he could put out reliable damage to a group of enemies and was pretty easy to understand. I wish I knew each of the other summons had such utility, and wasn't about the damage output. I probably would have used them far more often than reserving the drive gauge for drive forms, which I had little understanding of their unique abilities anyways. Thanks for the video, it really helped a lot.

[@Voltricity435]

yeah same. i've played kh2 on crit twice and barely ever used summmons because i didnd't know what they did. now i'm doing a level 1 run and realized i should probably learn what these summons do lmao. kh1 also didn't really explain summons but those ones are more intuitive and easier to understand what they do without a guide

[@AmaryxGamesYT]

Summons in this game are super underrated! Stitch helped me beat Larxene at lv1!

[@Leon_Ryu]

I believe you forgot to mention that Chicken Little throws potions on Sora when low on HP, just like Genie does. This is on top of the small healing received for every hit scored on an enemy.

[@Bizkit047]

Leon Ryu I might have forgot to mention that

[@SonicsKeyblade]

It's also worth noting that Tink's Auto-Life will not trigger on Olympus Cups. Found that out the hard way on Crit Hades Paradox.

[@MuffinMythos]

BlueBlur64 Dude, sweet PFP! I that Sonic art is actually really cool. Lol

[@mi-nk]

@@MuffinMythos it's from sonic battle I think

[@ego2133]

This game is so nearly perfect. Even 10 years after I get this game for the first time, I still discover new things. :)

[@CataclysmicRamblerTe]

Chicken little is used to destroy record runs and be the RNG king.

[@ChibiTails]

7:07 Has anyone else noticed Stitch heals you 1 HP per drive bar?

[@MartenDE]

8 years. I have played this game since 2009 and still I learned things I never ever knew. It doesn't help that there seems to be no in-game way to look up this information. Thanks Bizkit!

[@block36079]

Chicken Little 1:27 Genie 3:28 Genie Valor 4:22 Wisdom 4:37 Master 4:48 Final 4:59 Stich 5:33 Peter Pan 8:03

[@real_swiftydragon]

Stitch is the main reason I bought Kingdom Hearts 2 he was especially helpful during Demyx's boss fight after numerous attempts with just Donald and Goofy. I so hated Demyx's water forms but using Stitch twice during the battle he helped me pull through

[@silviux93abletvsilviux88]

*Dance Water Dance!* i know the feeling i hate too demyx

[@knightshousegames]

While summons are underrated, I feel like stuff like Drive Forms and Limits are just better in most scenarios, which is why they mostly get thrown to the wayside

[@sofaris576]

I fell the oposide. Summons are way better then Drive Forms. Less Damage but safer. Well when they are available. There are a lot of Data fights where they are not.

[@honor2425]

Try playing level 1 critical. I literally cannot imagine fighting Demyx without summons, or the creation monster in halloween town second visit. I remember my original critical run. I actually leveled up and I struggled so much but only got through since I didn’t die In one hit. But boy does Chicken little and peter pan save my life. The only form that is useful in level 1 is Limit form. No joke, I literally die using the other forms. Limit gives me invincibility. I like to use Ars Arcanium.

[@thetronwarriors4817]

​​@@sofaris576 I agree and you don't run into the risk of anti form when using summons

[@KeybladeBrett]

Thanks for this video, I watched it back when it was brand new, and this is REALLY helpful for my first KH2 Level 1 playthrough.

[@TrainsAndMudkipz]

I don't know if this is correct or not, because i only just noticed it in this video, but when you said that Stitch can very slowly heal you over the course of time, by the looks of it you get a little bit of HP every time the summon bar goes down, which is probably why it seems so rare, cause whenever you use him, you continuously keep the summon bar up.

[@FourAngelsX]

I hope they put Bahamut in KH3

[@CaptainCJ97]

FourAngelsX same

[@mohamedab9033]

This ain't Final Fantasy bruh. One of the strongest points of KH is that it's very reminiscent of FF but only if you payed attention and tried to look real hard , because it's at the same time very different and original.

[@FourAngelsX]

+Matt Gray you dont have to look hard to see all the ff influence. Are you really telling me that you would rather summon something lame like chicken little over Bahamut.One ff summon wouldnt hurt the game.

[@nesoukkefka1741]

+FourAngelsX Also Bahamuth was supposed to be in KHI the option to summon him still exist in the game's data but for some reason they never finished to program it.

[@sofaris576]

+FourAngelsX Honestly I would prefer to summon Stich instad of Bahamut but only because is one of my favorit Character in all of Fiction. A Mix of Disney and FF Summons would be cool thought. Bahamut is meybe a bit to big fore the maps. And make him smaller takes away something of his apeal. But Summons like Shiva, Rhamu and the Magus Sisters could work in KH3.

[@brandonnetwork]

Genie saved my bacon during some of the Organization Data bosses and especially Lingering Will. Genie is the MVP.

[@coverandoacasa]

How about a kh 1.5 summons video? :)

[@StickmanSham]

+coverandoacasa KH1 summons overall were pretty straight forward, all of them except for tinker bell were used for damage output

[@sofaris576]

+StickmanSham You can combine Bambi and Thundara to Kill heartleas quick and farming Elexirs. But otherwise you right. With some MP management they are a great fore killing normal enemies.

[@Woodenfan]

Also, depending on world, Bambi can drop some really rare stuff. Great for Lucid Crystals...sometimes!

[@AflipKID91]

+Woodenfan I love you kory, best animu ever

[@xXLunatikxXlul]

@@Woodenfan had no idea! Thanks!

[@bentonic4998]

Chicken Little is absolutely GOATed in the Underdrome

[@Scep57]

I used Stitch in my first playthrough of the original KH2 when i was doing the cups, as well as Peter Pan for his Neverland to rack up several points, but that was about it. I never used Chicken Little or Genie because the lack of a tutorial didnt provoke me in any way to want to use them. Now that Ive taken the time to look at speedruns i know the full extent of what ive missed and now use them pretty much all the time, abusing Stitch and Chicken Little whenever necessary.

[@justcallmexen]

I usually end up using Peter Pan for the cave of remembrance nobody fights, the auto life fail safe is nice but magnet magic into combos is also rewarded with mp orbs to replenish the heftier cost of magnet. If Tinkerbell's auto life is lost, then I am a bit more careful and use his limit to heal up with hp orbs and run it out a little quicker to resummon.

[@Allyspill]

These videos are really great. Can you do a video about the mushroom 13 please? Most of them aren't too bad but mushroom 8 is just evil.

[@Chaineh]

I found genie's wisdom form rather useful against enemies that couldn't be hurt by physical damage such as the Mad Ride (when its headlights turn on) and the Magic Phantom (when its in the air).

[@infamouscha]

I didn't even know stitch could parry hits for you, that's actually pretty crazy and useful

[@charlesdhanielgarcia6961]

Hi Bizkit! I use your KH2FM lvl 1 speed run for my Critical speedrun. Thanks for the tips and techniques! You make it look so easy :)

[@haziq12ish]

*i've been waiting for someone to do this, its perfect, definitely subscribing*

[@maxpower4910]

I never used them ever. I feel like an idiot.

[@soha7617]

This is really helpful! I've played through KH2 several times and only attempted summons 3 or 4 times in total because I couldn't figure out what to do or which one is best to use. Thanks for the video! :)

[@heavyrain5949]

You play Love Nikki right?

[@phoenixkh93]

This was a really interesting video. Played KH2 and variants 6 or 7 times now and I never once realised they did all this, I used to just spam the limits

[@BrimBlam]

The thumbnail has a threatening aura

[@KeybladeWielderXV]

I've never considered using the summons in the lingering will battle. I was also unaware that tink can save you from death.

[@ThaRixer]

Excellent video

[@thegamewin100]

The game kinda tries to tell you what they do in the status menu like chicken little bringing distant enemies in

[@aerodblade1601]

''My friends are my power'' ''that sentimental b.s again sora'' ''no literally, my friends will fuck you up''

[@MatthewCenance]

The HP restoration seems to be linked to the summon gauge dropping by a number. Sora appears to get one HP when the summon gauge drops from 9 to 8 and then again dropping from 8 to 7, according to the clip at 6:56.

[@Bikestealer17]

Bro thank you so much for this video. Playing on critical for the first time and i knew there had to be a good use for summons

[@Prisma_Axolotl]

Cave of remembrance Peter revive was everything

[@wingsailor]

Thnx for the upload Bizkit047.This really helped out.

[@xeienar]

I love Stitch! He helped me to beat Terra in KHIIFM!

[@CaptainWesker88]

***** After seeing your speed run of Kingdom Hearts 2.5, I saw how useful summons can be (stun locking with Peter Pan to name a use) and it helped me with Saix on critical. Even in the Final Fantasy games they're mostly ignored, but I find them more useful in KH than FF. I wish I knew how useful they were before getting almost near the end of the game, though.Thanks for the help with both the games and for these guides~

[@nerdkingofgames]

THANKS! This vid got me through Titan Cup on Proud Mode and the Marluxia silhouette.

[@megasean3000]

Honestly Stitch is the most OP Summon. Once you get him in Hollow Bastion, all bosses become a cakewalk.

[@redandblue1013]

I found chicken little destroys all of xexions books. That and the lifesteal was quite helpful for the first half of the fight, made it essentially free

[@jamesporter571]

I can't believe that Bahamut was scrapped in the first game but Chicken Little made it into the sequel

[@theoneandonly8403]

I remember as a kid all I used was Summons, since I loved the characters and I didnt care for Drives at all.

[@yellowgamers5996]

8:51 Screenshots from the first Kingdom Hearts!

[@stevemclovin1566]

thank you for making this video. chicken little save me a lot during the last bit of lingering sentiment and in the bonus cavern.

[@BrenoRanyere]

the thumbnail looks so epic! Also, i fell stitch is a little broken, considering you can use magic to refill you drive really fast, you can pretty much have infinite stitch with infinite magic. great video man! what other videos do you plan on making next?

[@sofaris576]

+The odd one But he does his Abilitys so often that its still broken. And his ukulele paralize enemies and leave them helples aganst Soras atacks. It even works on Organisation Members. and it spawns HP orbs. I hear in KH 2 Final Mix he his Ukulele Move every time when Soras HP go in the read area.

[@sofaris576]

+Sofaris Oh gosh. I write the last comment before I watch this Video becuse I Already know all about Summons. He already has explainend the Ukulele.

[@Xolcin]

Nice, never knew about most of the mechanics from summons. I made the rookie mistake of spamming limits, seems like summons are more effective passively as you attack with Sora.

[@akbarnaqvi4737]

The Stitch summon saved my life in the Demyx fight

[@CocoHikari583]

An interesting side effect while you are in a summon you can't go into dice/card form from failing a gamblers reaction command.

[@thetronwarriors4817]

Which is a perfect way to practice mastering the gambler reaction command what I mean is if you fail the reaction command while the summons are on the battlefield you wont go into dice and card form and it's a good way to practice the gambler reaction command and Master it so you can do the gambler reaction command without failing it when grinding drive orbs to level up Master form and refill the drive gauge and when grinding money as well as when doing the reaction command when fighting luxord

[@itsddashrock]

Very great and informative video, you've opened up another element to explore for me..

[@scatlinksean]

I never let summons be an actual party member and just a glorified limit attack. I've learnt some things today!

[@dutchpotato3557]

6:02 yo biz throwing that shade at people who only use mp to cure lol.

[@dolphinboi-playmonsterranc9668]

DutchPotato Not much reason to use magic with Oblivion and Decisive Pumpkin

[@pingaspearce9403]

Dolphinboi except for using a fuck ton of different magic and limits

[@Ronldbx6]

I always thought chicken little sucked, I had no idea he had those abilities. I would always use the FP mode.

[@xLithiumFlower1]

+Ronldbx6 That's the problem the game never explains shit to us and most of us used the gimmicky shit like FPS mode and Stitch's guitar mode and never learned their much more useful mechanics, they just come off as gimmicky and you don't use them until you get into the higher level play and learn strats that others had to learn and explain to you

[@Fodimin]

The game explains mechanics as well as it explains the lore

[@KingMethyx]

Great video, you are amazing at explaining things.

[@evewhoo]

Stitch is so cute >.< Also, 6:34 Dance, Demyx, Dance!

[@Whirlwhind1]

Chicken Little and Stitch saved my ass several times in my first Critical mode run. I love them.

[@Gak2410]

I’m half way through a lvl 1 crit play through and I can completely agree

[@sl33zus]

How do you activate your summons?

[@panduvandal]

Press left on the command menu and pick summon

[@Bob-ks1zv]

Stitch also DESTROYS the underworld records if you are looking to platinum. Shown in video obv.

[@Roxaspwns]

Thanks for the rundown on summons!

[@munitz3740]

Are you planning to do any other guides, like drives for instance?

[@zikademais210]

Stitch vs nobody remebrance it's SOOOOO POWERFULL.

[@humangirl2122]

here are the summon i want to see in Kingdom Hearts 3 Madame Leota from the Haunted Mansion, Sparky from frankenweenie, and Olaf from Frozen

[@22Rallen]

As he talks about Stich, and fight against the Nobodys and the Heartless of Space Paranoids, where is he? It looks like the Arena of Olymp but i have never seen this place.

[@thelegendofkingdoify]

Hey Biz, is there any website that lists every gameplay change from kh2 to kh2fm? Besides the new things that were added many things that already were in the game were changed, and i'd like to know which ones and how (like the valor genie nerf)

[@amixofamix6443]

It's funny that I knew about the auto heal and party with stitch but I never noticed the free mp.

[@thearchangel2577]

Nobody: Genie: Phenomenonal COSMIC Powerrrsss!!!!! Itty-bity attack assistance.

[@lowhp_comic]

You forgot to mention that by using the right trigger on the controller, you are able to fly very high during Peter's limit. it's such a weird concept, but I like it anyways xD

[@dmas7749]

Uhh...what's the PS3 counterpart for that again?

[@Yoyo-r8o]

D MAS uhm... there is no counterpart since kh2 Final mix Available to PS... but it's R2

[@dmas7749]

Yosif Noorzad I knew that. -but xbox controls are fucking stupid microsoft pls-

[@lowhp_comic]

You can only do it when you are not attacking and it only works when you are in his Neverland limit. Theres no use in using it, but I like it haha

[@sakura368]

basically genie becomes a drive form weapon

[@rikukeyblademaster1575]

Yes but often times when I use chicken little I don't usually choose him for the fact that I cannot control his FPS mode. How exactly do you control it ? My problem is I've tried everything from moving the analog stick to using the directional pad and no matter what I do I can't seem to target an enemy correctly.

[@Bizkit047]

You just lock on to an enemy and attack with FPS mode. But that Limit sucks anyway, you use CL and most other Summons for their other abilities

[@OneGamer2EnvyThemAll]

FPS Mode is designed to create an opening in bosses at the cost of 5 Drive Points, what with the instant Cancel into combos.

[@masters5312]

Finally I understand what genie is all about

[@repetaki]

i may use peter pan in data batles

[@Mr.Savage565]

Not a bad move.

[@jazuii]

Chicken little is the best summon. He literally cancels any attack with a whistle he blows every 3 seconds.

[@ChromaLuke]

To be honest, I've never even used a summon during all my playthrough in KH2, the only times I would ever use them were in the Olympus Cup, and I only ever use Stitch or Chicken Little too. In fact, I never knew you could obtain Peter Pan in this one.

[@OneGamer2EnvyThemAll]

Which is the beauty of KH2. You have so many different ways to beat bosses that even without Summons (not saying they're useless), you can get by on a lot of things.

[@UnstandardOtaku]

Technically Stitch is in the Foreground not the background

[@mastertrain2210]

Is it known why you can't summon during Xigbar? Did the programmers just not want to let you summon in that fight, or does it cause some game breaking crash?

[@Bizkit047]

Jose Espinoza Nope, my assumption is they didn't want you to use Stitch to break the fight, because from my Randomizer run we learned Stitch can parry Xigbar's lasers, making the fight trivial. Either that or the game may not handle it, since that fight is known to crash sometimes

[@sofaris576]

+Bizkit047 Strange I summon stich in the Xigbar fight very often.

[@sofaris576]

+Sofaris Ok I take it back. I have test it after I wright this total wrong comment I just use stich so often and fore some reason I never noticed that you can not use him aganst Xigbar. I was wrong

[@SSBBPOKEFAN]

+Jose Espinoza The main reason is that Xigbar constantly changes the room layout during his fight, so it may have been too much for the programmers to readjust summon locations when he does this.

[@beyondperfectchaos]

+Jose Espinoza Xigbar suppresses your ability to summon because he has space powers

[@MrTrollicus]

Could you make a quick in-depth video on invincibility frames during dodge roll?

[@ilikethenintendo]

I probably would not have gotten thru the cavern of remembrance if it wasn’t for chicken little. Thanks Zach Braff

[@JohnSmith-bn5mi]

I liked Stitch the most as my summon, but during the Hades Cup run... he just never did much. I know it's RNG, but he went through multiple rounds.... just doing 1 or 2 attacks in total. I ended up having to switch to Peter Pan in order to get the necessary amount of orbs.

[@TophDaGreat]

0 Dislikes. That's what I'm talking about.

[@passion_flora]

1 dislike. Probably your fault.

[@FoampositBoyTom95]

Hey buddy, i noticed during the start of your video you was using genie to annihilate that nobody wave at the end of cave of rememberance. Please I need advice as I tried hundreds of times and still can't manage to pull a win.

[@Renyth]

What I never got was it was heavily implied summons were the remnants of souls strong enough to survive their worlds collapse, so it was cool seeing Simba again but with Peter Pan here does that mean Neverland got completely fucked?

[@darkuscarlet]

I still remember when rumors of a Mickey summon were floating around and taken seriously.

[@LionsouI]

Genie is pretty cool, Stitch too. Not a huge fan of the others though.

[@kermitwithapermit3634]

chicken little is the best . the thing about chicken little is that he heals you immediately once your health starts to get critical. and he's more predictable than stitch

[@LionsouI]

david corona genies do that too I think. Peter Pan revives you.

[@kermitwithapermit3634]

+Vote for Call on the Mighty No.9 kickstarter! :D genie is definetly more for bosses I feel. chicken little is pretty op if you spam magnet and his magnet at the same time.

[@LionsouI]

david corona Why the double magnet?

[@kermitwithapermit3634]

+Vote for Call on the Mighty No.9 kickstarter! :D ohp I mean thundaga and magnet plus his magnet. that's pretty much how I passed the cavern of remembrance at level 50

[@bazzjedimaster]

Was Chicken Little really that popular to deserve a summon in this game?

[@blazilfrazil2]

I can not believe summons are this OP lmfao. Stich is crazy for level farming as he completely refills your MP all the time, and the damage you do fills the summon bar, so he can almost stay out the entire time you run through a world

[@SgtTwilight]

Peter Pan is easily my favorite. Theirs been a few bosses where he and I just combo into infinity. The two attacks per hit also seems to charge the summon gauge keeping him out more often. Also his hits seem to generate MP orbs which makes him incredibly useful. Oh yeah and auto life. Seriously can't believe how many people say he's the worst summon in the game.

[@MrAnnoyingalien]

Which summon would be best to defeat lingering will?

[@Bizkit047]

Stitch is a common choice for Lingering Will for Summons. Peter Pan is okay too for his Auto Revive. The other two Summons probably won't do you much good though here

[@lucasmarinho6816]

Chicken Little in this game shows us how the amount of hope Disney put on the movie

[@DarkFrozenDepths]

I spammed the hell out of peter pan.... between his OP staggering and the heals, I didn't even see a use for the other 3...

[@OneGamer2EnvyThemAll]

At higher difficulty levels like Crit, Peter Pan is a good offensive Summon, but next to Genie as the poorest defense. Aside from the Auto-Life, absolutely nothing Peter Pan does helps Sora defend himself. Even Genie has the benefit of granting invincibility during Limits, which are more spammable than Peter's and have a much higher damage output.

[@reymontalvo6226]

i manage chicken summoning 1 time an i didnt know how🤷‍♂️ my max drive at 4 does it need to be 5?

[@patrick-cw5px]

pls can you do a guide on how to complete the cave of remembrance on lvl 1 I'm really having a hard time to get past all of those enemies.

[@davidchang1011]

Just spam final form geenie's limit and you win

[@TheKrypticCode]

Pfff. D-links are so much better than summons. So useful. Especially when they replace your command deck for sub-par commands and also replacing your finisher. 2FM just sucks compared to BBS. That would be what I'd say if I was a BBS fanboy and actually thought it was a good game. 2FM is so much better and my favorite. :D

[@demonnogo]

I've never seen anyone say that lol. Most people acknowledge the pros and cons of each game and enjoy them according to what they find enjoyable in a KH game.

[@thatlonelygiraffeinc.6989]

Whaddya think of BBS Final Mix?

[@easelys]

is it really that impossible to enjoy both bbs and 2fm at the same time lol seems like everyone thinks if you like one you have to shit on the other

[@dmas7749]

You got me for a sec with that. Good one, lol. -I actually do like BbS despite its many, many problems-

[@Joela393]

This was a really immature post

[@ericsavala4686]

First half of the game I used CL he made me practically invincible for farming. On crit some enemies like the cars 3 shot me in 2 seconds but once CL came on to the field my health literally stays on Max and the field is stunned for the 90%+ of the fights

[@SiveenO]

Something of note: Chicken Little will also throw a Potion on you when you are low life. Tested with the PC version of KH2.5.

[@MellowMeh]

Prepare to hurt!

[@brokenwrld2530]

Most times summons would not show up for my command menu.