The FASTEST way to GRIND EXP in Every Kingdom Hearts Game! 

In Re:Coded the fastest but also hardest method to level up is to go through the final bug zone and complete every single challenge. Then at the rewards screen convert it all to EXP. 1. Use cheats to set everyone's health as low as possible (sora should have 2hp) 2. Equip a bunch of magnets some elixers and the oathkeeper keyblade (should have it set to have auto life) 3. As you go through make sure you always have an elixer up and just spam magnets and finishers before the gauge runs out to kill all heartless (including obliterators) in one hit. 4. Then before reaching riku simply turn off all cheats and equip the Throw 3 Keyblade attack. Can get through the whole thing in under half an hour

Step 1: Learn not to die. Step 2: Kill everything.

I can't believe you went through every game and found the best exp farming methods! Thats dedication!

For BBS, I'd add that along with your method, Ven and Aqua players can also use their D-Link with Mickey (I think Ven gets it after his first fight with Vanitas, and Aqua in Radiant Garden?). If you level it up to max, he gives you a straight double-exp while in use. It's quite useful!

Another EXP method for KH3 is during the part where you're going after the Lich in Olympus, once get to the first set of stairs, just stay there and beat the literal endless waves of heartless. May not be the best since it's a one time sort of area, but gets the job done.

I was so proud to find out that Riku grinding strat myself the first time I played it back on ps2. Good times.

A few corrections, all due respect... KH1: Assuming you can beat Hades cup, which isn't too hard, fight Ice Titan. No need to win. Equip all the Tech Boost abilities you have and block his ice shards. You keep the exp even if you lose. If memory serves, depending on how many Tech Boosts you have, you can get 100/200+ per icicle, typically 5 icicles per volley, and in rapid succession. Throw on some ice resistance to not die from mistakes, intentionally die when you see you got a Tech Boost from leveling up, equip ability, repeat. Days: As in video, but some added info. Zero gear, three Sight buffs in gear, perfect guard, guard counter, fira, extreme ring. Fira deals the most damage reliably. Use it to sneak safe damage in for Riku. Otherwise, perfect guard and counter his attacks. Perfect-countering guarantees a critical hit. First phase, use the Y ground combo. It should stunlock him if done quickly. When he powers up, perfect counter him. A full magic build with Fira can be about as fast, but you can get unlucky with his guards or being caught casting. BBS: For early game, mirage arena. Grab a Victory Pose and flex after every enemy kill. Victory Pose awards you triple the exp and cp of the last enemy you killed. Combine that with anything early-game, let alone arena kills, and you rocket up levels staggeringly fast. As for the arena, it isn't hard to unlock Magnet very early on. Grab a melding guide and putz around the first world a bit to grab whatever stuff you need to meld Magnet. Meld it, buy a second, meld them for Magnera, buy another, meld for Magnega. Follow the melding guide to try to meld Magic Hastes as much as possible, even if you're only melding two Fires to get them. With five Magic Hastes, you can easily and reliably chain Magnegas together, which trivialize most non-boss Arena waves. Cast Magnega, wait, cast another just before the first ends. Enemies will literally never touch the ground and take steady damage the whole time. No need to beat the bosses if you don't want, but if you do, put a few Firagas in your deck. Firaga staggers most bosses. With max Magic Hastes and a little smart timing, you can stagger most bosses to death in a corner by cycling Firagas. Meld a "Reload Boost" and let your health drop low intentionally to make the timing even easier. Obviously, Fire Boosts help immensely. With enough time and bullheaded stubbornness, you can actually clear most of the arena before the second world. KH2: If you're playing the vanilla game, top of Pride Rock, use Magnega. The enemies drop magic orbs, so you keep getting magic refilled while retaining the Exp Boost effect. In FM, those enemies drop health orbs, making them worse to exp farm. Instead, go to the second platform of the room in the video with the repeatedly spawning little nobodies. Enter from the previous room, dispatch the assassins at the entrance with Magnega into Thundaga finisher, run up the bridge, when berserkers spawn, cast Reflega to reflect their hammers flying into their hands, Reflect should kill them. If not, Thundaga them. Then stand right where the little nobodies spawn and double-cast Magnega (with Finisher Plus) to auto-kill multiple waves as they spawn. As you level up, you'll only need one Magnega to kill them. This is a magic-heavy run which might drain your mp even with the enemies dropping mo orbs, so you might want to stock up on ethers just in case. 0.2: The mirror room. Can't remember offhand which one, but the one with shadows and flame cores. Not much of a strategy here. Thundaga is your best friend.

I love how looking for a level grinding tutorial brings me straight to Key 🤣 thank you!

<a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="535">8:55</a> For BBS method I don't recommend using the EXP walker since if you use the victory pose it might give the amount of XP from the EXP Walker instead of the Unversed

Simple and clean answer. Nice.

Nice video. Another great level grinding spot for KH1 if you're good at fighting him is actually Sephiroth. He gives you at least one level up each time you beat him.

He made a love letter to KH with this video! What a project of a video! Great work as always sir

Were any of these helpful to you? lemme know! also when I beat Re:coded I promise to make a proper grinding guide LOL

In kh 1 when you get to oogie boogies 2nd form (when he takes over the big house thing) if you just sit and block the fire balls you’ll get 24 xp each time

Kh1 my go to farming was right outside Neverland: Cabin. This requires Encounter Plus, but even then if you're playing on something with decent enough load times, leaving the world and coming back will respawn. After Hallow Bastion, the room is replaced with 3 darkballs and 3 pirates. With Thundaga and enough strength, you can wipe the room within a couple seconds, turn around, go to the save spot just in case of magic/health, and repeat. Based when I did the math, it was very neck and neck with the Rock Titan Hades Cup. It's a super simple route, since you gotta synthesis grind anyway.

This is gonna help me get through Re: Chain of Memories. I put it down originally because of how much of a pain it was to level up.

Holy moly, I don't know if you remember me first stumbling across this channel but I didn't mean to find this channel, the fact this is one of the many videos that people already made, this one came up first

very helpful video bro, thanks man! (currently replaying 1.5)

I guess you don't need my footage anymore 😂 amazing video key!! It was very informative I'm def gonna give these a shot when I can. Keep it up!

As an addition for Re: CoM Sora mode, if you're wandering around the 13th floor, as you should for the late game level grind, you'll consistently run into Wizards and Prismatic Melody Heartless that are immune to the Mega Flare. This is where the Holy Sleight comes into play and, if you're doing this for trophy grinding, the extra benefit of the Marluxia card to double all sleights (though it is *not* always necessary.) A deck of alternating Mega Flare and Holy sleights plus some cures for safety and a few keyblade cards to clean up any stragglers will see you through within just a few hours of tedium. It's still tedious but it's faster than any other method I've attempted.

I could be mistaken, but I think you get infinite respawns in the Climbing Trees area in Deep Jungle in KH1, at least after you beat the level, so you don't have to move away and come back like with the Treehouse. It became a go-to grinding spot for a while for me.

<a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="127">2:07</a> I tend to use the spot in the world where the monkeys keep spawning indefinitely (at least until later in the story or something) and grinded up to level 33. took a while but was a nice little grinding session!!

It's interesting seeing the vast difference in general difficulty settings and how the developers decided where to put good grinding spots. Like in KH1, I constantly felt like I needed to be higher level and went out of my way to get max before the ending. This was helped by the Olympus Colosseum to gain exp. Then I went to KH2 where I barely ever leveled past like 60 and when I finally decided "Let's just go for it, let's see what level 100 Sora is" only to find that there was just no reliable place to grind because they decided that the *Hades Colosseum doesn't give exp for some stupid reason.* Then KH3, end of the saga, fighting Xehanort, I want to do it at max level to really end the saga with a bang. The developers, in all of their infinite wisdom, leave the only reliable grinding area and secret bosses completely locked until *after* you've beaten the game, which seems pretty pointless. That being said though, it was hilarious grinding up to 100, going back to the final boss, and absolutely smacking Xehanort with out having to block, dodge, or even heal the entire fight.

thanks for making this tutorial(guidance)

Because of how stats cap in Re:Coded, you don't need to grind levels at a certain point. Trophy chips and major +stat chips are easily able to get you close if not actually at the 400HP 200ATK,DEF,MAG cap by the time you've beaten the Hollow Bastion sector with Ultima Weapon and Olympus's 30 layer run. There's also going for the 100 Floor Avatar Sector, but that requires minimum a 2nd DS and copy of Re:Coded, since there aren't enough defaults available if you have just those. But if you're going for that you should be at max stats by the end of it. Speaking from experience btw, I've actually done that 100 Floor challenge

Love the guide but a side note, that sweater is awesome. Buying the exact one rn on crunchyroll

for kh1, there is a skill that makes enemies respawn always, also if you use a finisher on the magicians, thats when they teleport

Hey by the way speaking of KH1 , I think the kingdom key wasn't meant for Riku and here is one of the reasons why , the tutorial in the beginning of the game, I know that some may say that it is just a tutorial and not connected to the story but if so why Sora mentioned it after he woke up, and also kairi mentioned it too in KH melody of memory and said that the door that Sora opened there was the start of his journey and it happens on the hearts of the princesses of hearts and we know the kingdom key and its counterpart are connected to their hearts which means that the kingdom key chose Sora a day before destiny island was attacked by the heartless and Riku giving it into the darkness and for who is asking for why the keyblade First appeared only in that moment, well first Sora at that time didn't know anything about keyblades and remember what Riku said in KH dream drop distance that his keyblade sort of just appeared when he needed it the most , I think the case there is the same (Sora's keyblade just appeared in his hand automatically when he needed it the most.)

It has been discovered that 4 exp items, 4 exp abilities, encounters+ and Gizmo Shop after being buffed up by defeating Rikubis the best possible exp/s Grind

Literally the best kingdom hearts player wtf key this is impressive

For Birth by Sleep, I found Magnega+Thundaga to be highly effective and useful wherever there are lots of enemies.

Thanks man.

The "sh" phoneme used in words like "show" or "shadow" is meant to be pronounced by pushing air through your front teeth, not your back teeth.

For Kingdom Hearts 1 My first grinding spot is Destiny Island when you first get the keyblade. It's helpful because you can farm potions pretty easily, and it saves Munny on potions after Destiny Islands I do a little grinding mostly for a bit of Munny and little exp after that I don't really grind again until after the second visit to Hollow Bastion and then I just use the Hotel. For BBS, my early grinding spot is Cinderella's word. If forget what it's called, but that's only for Terra and Aqua because they have access to the dance hall, but grinding levels isn't usually what I'm after because I actually just love building my deck from nothing, so the levels are just a little extra and depending on time Aqua gets to around level 20-25 and Terra is around level 30. Ven is my only issue because Cinderella's world is his first one, so if I need to grind levels with Ven, I just do it later. Kingdom Hearts 2 for me, it's usually before you go to mansion as Roxas, then again at Beasts castle on the first visit, then Beasts Castle second visit I've also grinded to level 99 in Twilight Town before you meet up with Micky outside the mansion, but I also use The World That Never Was. My only real grind spots for KH3 are just before you save Riku's heart and the Battle Gates.

For late game KH1 I recommend just fighting Sephiroth. He gives either 10K or 15K EXP every time you win and it's not very difficult once you learn his moveset. It's almost like leveling up once per victory. And it's a solo match but D&G also get the EXP and level up too. TL;DR: Farm Seph in KH1

Nice video. Just an alternative for EXP grinding in KH3 that I found better. Either 1). Use Battle Gate 0 in the Keyblade Graveyard. The one that transports you to the Realm of Darkness coastline and Thundaga spam, or 2) during the Lich chase in Olympus, get to an area just beyond the initial open space but before you go up to where the sand worm heartless would normally be, you can reliably spam Thundaga/Thundaza/ use Ultima Weapon Shotlock/ Form change Finisher when in MP recharge.

I do love a game guide 😊

KH2 Vanilla specifically has a great grind in pridelands with the room full of the Rapid Thrusters. In FM the room has a very low chance to respawn the heartless and Rapid Thrusters don't drop MP orbs anymore, but If you happen to be playing vanilla that gives insane amounts of exp.

Another trick for Days is to unlock Mickey and do the final Mission in Mission mode with the Extreme Ring. With both auto life and the extra life system, you can risk being hit a couple times. Moreover, Mickey's limit break can be used in midair where you're out of reach, is extremely potent even against Anti Riku, and directly targets enemies nearby automatically.

Oh you know my pain of wanting a Days Remake, like to you my fellow brother.

Definitely believed him when he said this was 1 year in the making. 🤯

Honestly based off the cutscene movie alone if 358/2 Days got a remake or remaster it would be my favorite Kingdom Hearts game no cap

Idk if this is true but i heard from somewhere once you level up in recom dont increase soras health instead focus more on the cp and learning new sleights

Ballroom Its also a Good spot to grind exp for terra anos Coliseum for ventus And deep space for Aqua

Needed this for kh1 ngl

I am playing recoded and I am trying to level up in the game and get all the good commands. Are there any good commands I should get

For vanilla kingdom hearts 2. I think you’re better off grinding on top of Pride Rock. If you have reasonably strong magic just spam magnet And the little flying guys disintegrate then you can leave and then re-entering the stage

Thunder on triangle is nasty work

There's a battle gate in San fransokyo where the Ultima weapon shotlock can instakill everything and it's got a good lot of high exp enemies

That 358/2 Days strategy gives me hope of completing that game.

For KH1 you actually get a lot more experience per hour at the coliseum Hades Cup

Aeroga, Thundaga, Ultima. Rinse repeat.

I found a early game method for kh2, in The Land Of Dragons, you can go to the village cave and fight the Assault Riders, it's not that effective for players over level 35+ though

The fastest endgame farm in kh1 is actually achieved by equipping encounter plus, entering the third district from first district and using thundaga to clear the 3 waves of heartless that spawn there. Then, exit back into first district, rinse and repeat. This is the method that speedrunners always use to reach level 100.

Kh3 grinding is the easiest to do and I'm all for it

My way for kh2 was at the top of pride rock with all the heartless back in kh2 for ps2

Recoded is my favorite one 😭

Hello how do you get mushu in kh rechain of memories

For kh1 i just ended up farming sephiroth, he gives 15k exp every time

Every other KH game: A sophisticated routine or place to grind for EXP 358/2 Days: *KILL EVERYTHING* Ok, for Days, I need to become a genocidal maniac, got it.

I grinded the monkeys while Jane was trapped.. if you never kill the plant monkeys endlessly spawn

KH2, top of pride rock, it will spawn thousands of heartless every 2 to 3 loops

I’m pretty sure Wave of Darkness I has more notes?

I had a pretty easy time leveling up by fighting the ice titan over and over.

im finishing my first KH3 run (also, first KH3 critical run, yes, im kinda stupid sometimes) and im at the last world... i want to platinum it

I usually stay on the island till lvl 15-20.

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Actually the days method was right, but just play as axel, his Limit ability is broken for this Missions.

I NEED someone to tell me whether the 3ds or the 2ds has the most backwards compatibility please!

Your hair built like Sora's

In 358/2 days there's a stun lock you can perform on riku to make beating him trivial even with the extreme ring equipped by using the Pandora's gear with 3 ability units equipped and doing the 2 hit air combo. ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-6Zma_96Jsj0.htmlsi=WD6Qb_xQk_0-K76f&t=2538

How does your Kingdom Hearts 1 look that good?

when u said "heartless" in BBS they r actually Unversed not Heartless🤓

There’s a glitch in kh3 where you get lots of experience. In the lich segment, when you got to Olympus there’s an area with neoshadows. If you use aeroza and thundaza at the same time and then slow the game down using a shotlock. A bunch of neoshadows will respawn over and over giving lots of exp. I don’t know who found it but Stickman sham has a vid showing how to do it.

How do you do that spam jump attack

Where can I grind levels in kingdom hearts record?

Re:Coded is goated, please stop sleeping on it.

Slander by not playing Re:Coded. It has the best Keyblade and Glide ability in the whole series.

Recom Riku is so ASS. Just did it and it took 11 hours, almost double the time it took for me to beat it lmao

you can play it on the ds lol

@key Completely misinformed my fude, the best grinding soot in BBS is most certainly NOT radiant garden, but Deep space, in the big area where you can fight the eviljellyfish unversed mission, it literally gives you x3 the exp amount you'd get by in radiant garden