Jounin Exam Walkthrough (Part 5)

So in this fight you will need 2 very powerful recruits who can both take blows and dish them out, as well as give status effects...if they can't hit hard with their normal moves, hellfire and a bunch of supportive jutsus is probably the best bet here...


The breakdown of this fight is broken up into 2 segments -

The First Segment:

You will be fighting against the mighty Orochi (an alteration of Orochimaru's Hydra I think) and this part is very very easy, just bring him down to half health by keeping status effects on him at all times and then either physically hitting him or using your highest powered jutsus, you should be able to cover this part no problem...


The main issue presented here is his Multi Breath move that hits all of you for around 300 damage, not too bad however it could present a problem if say you have a partner with critical health and he is using evasion, the area of effect moves go off of the party leader only (you) so no matter what your partner's evasion is, if the area of effect hits you all of your partners get hit, so that is really all you need to watch out for, onward!


The Second Segment:

This is where the fight really picks up, two enemies, Kyotaro (Hidan) and Modu [sp?] (Kakuzu) will join the fight and they are each level 60, DO NOT FOCUS YOUR DAMAGE ON EITHER OF THEM, the quest is to kill the Orochi, not the S-Class criminals, Shin even gives you a warning by telling you "focus on the Orochi no matter the circumstance" and I think it would be wise to follow his guidance.


Anyways, this fight is very hard just based on the fact that you can get surprised by a hard hitting jutsu, the main person you need to watch out for is Kyotaro because he can hit up to 800 (without crit) on a single hit on one opponent quite frequently, and although his damage is similar to the Orochi's damage, the Orochi's damage is spread (300 to each partner), the damage caused by 700+ to one person is much harder to fix then 300 to 3 different onces.


As for strategy there really is not much that you can do, applying a fixed method will do you nothing but get you killed, you need to be able to adapt to the situation and make the most out of what seems like certain doom. Make sure you pack a lot of scrolls and are very familiar with your team mates and you should be fine.




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Jounin Exam Walkthrough (Part 4)

Part 4 is one fight against 3 elemental monsters who can control any and all elements, this fight is rather easy if you can PAY ATTENTION TO DETAIL: Both the color of the floor and surroundings and the color of the Shikigami will change, and BOTH are vital to your success...the Shikigami's elements are difficult to see at times but you will be able to tell by looking at the body (earth will have floating rocks, lightning will have electricity flowing around it, fire will have a red glow, wind will have wind moving around and water will have bubbles around the body) you will need as many scrolls as you can carry, and you will need to ask your friends about their ninjas and the ninjas elements and such because you will need to have 2 very strong recruits with full earth stats (makes it so much easier)

There is no point in doing a full breakdown of the elements and cooldowns and such because it changes every battle, I also don't know who your recruits are, their elemental jutsu or their ability so I won't pretend to be god here and say things I don't know for a fact, so on with the guide, here is what you will need to know to face these guys...

One more thing before we get to the actual guide, since there are 3 people you can control that all use from the same scroll pool make sure you bring plenty of scrolls...

Also, it would be wise to know that once you get it down to the last Shiki, he will always match the color on the floor, if he has high HP I would highly recommend only killing the second shiki if you have hellfire, keiko or a ton of status effects like sleep and stun, he will take minimal damage unless you have percentage based attacks

Hint for earth users:

Earth absorption *** 750 chakra so it gives you more then a charge and deals some damage on top.

Strategy and Breakdown:

The most basic thing about this fight that will make it ten times easier for you is that you need to pay attention to your surroundings...the fact that the color of the seal on the floor changes after X amount of turns (it varied during my two fights) and the fact that the 3 beasts all change their elements as well will play a huge role in how this fight plays out...

If the color on the floor is the same color as the element in use by one of the shikigami then that monster will get an 80% damage reduction making it not worth your while to attack it (unless you use burn) simply put it to sleep and focus on hitting the beast with the element OPPOSITE of the seal on the floor (see elemental weaknesses below)...if you can follow this your damage gets BUFFED, my friends Mud Golem Fist was hitting for 950 damage with no buffs used on my part (imagine that + strengthen + critical!)

Always always always focus your attacks on one shikigami if he is not the buffed beast, once you take out one of the shiki then the difficulty is reduced tenfold, same goes if you can take out two...I took out my first one when the other two had full health still...

I really don't have much else for you, this fight is very variable meaning it changes a lot, all you need to do is pay attention to which element to attack, stay alive (keep your HP relatively high, if all three focus their attacks on you they can take out 1,000 damage so try not to dip below that) and pack a lot of status effect jutsus like stun, burn, restrict and sleep and you should be alright.

Elemental Weaknesses:

Blue - increases the damage and defense of Water Shikigami - decreases damage and defend of Fire Shikigami
Red - increases the damage and defend of Fire Shikigami - decreases damage and defense of Wind Shikigami
Violet - increases the damage and defend of Thunder Shikigami - decrease damage and defense of WaterShikigami
Brown - increases the damage and defend of Earth Shikigami - decreases damage and defense of LightningShikigami
Green - increases the damage and defense of Wind Shikigami - decreases damage and defend of EarthShikigami




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Jounin Exam Walkthrough (Part 3)

Part 3 is a puzzle to measure your analytical skills, you have to live up the name of genius if you want the title of genius jounin (tensai) you have to break the seals in order to move on to the next seal and the seals are tough if you have no background in puzzle solving...


Locations of the runes:

the first seal I found was straight north 3 screens, you don't have to fight the enemies if you don't want to...then after you unlock that rune you travel south two screens and west one screen to get to the third rune...after you break that rune you must travel East one screen and then South 4 screens...from there after you unlock that one, travel North twice, and East once to get to the final rune.


Strategy to take them out:

Here is how the green and yellow markers work, say for example we need to guess 3 kekkai in the right order, we will give them each a number, 1-6...say you guess 4-3-1 and get 1 green and 1 yellow, that means one of the kekkai, 1 is the right kind in the right spot, and 1 of them is the right kind but in the wrong spot...so then we guess 4-1-3 and get 0 green and 2 yellow, we then know that the correct combo has to be SOMETHING-3-4, then you can go through and guess the kekkai until you get the right one.


NOTE: multiple of the same kekkai may need to be used in the same rune!! my final rune was 1-6-5-4-6 so there was two of the final kekkai, THEY REPEAT.

Additional Map:

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Jounin Exam Walkthrough (Part 2)

This is a series of 4 fights, the 1st 3 are extremely difficult unless you have a proper strategy to implement, also, it has been brought to my attention that right before you kill the 3rd boss, if you switch to your weakest weapon it will make your clone use that weapon, so buy a kunai and switch to it right before you kill Takeshi, it will make your clone that much easier. Also try to ration your scrolls like this: 3 for kiyoshi, 5-7 for sen ryo, 8-10 for takeshi and 2 for your clone...anyways on with the guide! (if you have WATER AND LIGHTNING as any of your two elements, read the MY METHOD section to know EXACTLY how to defeat them, I am a water/lightning free user and the exact strategy I used is found there).

Cheap method for scroll salvaging:

If you guys want a cheap way to take 20 scrolls with you after the fight with Kiyoshi, it is quite simple...you can do this fight unlimited times so if you lose its not big deal, for this you MUST have a red card though. Just spam your physical attack with the red card without using any jutsu or items until either the effect activates or you die...if you die, do it again, you don't lose anything when you die, and if you win you have 20 scrolls for the other fights.


KIYOSHI, PART ONE:

So Kiyoshi is just your standard water nin and he is vulnerable to all types of status effects so go hack away and defeat him like I did...beware of his water bundle he uses it like crazy and make sure you pack lots of scrolls because you will be needing them for the future fights, try and ration them so it is 3 for this fight, 5 for the next, 10 for the third and 2 for your clone, try to stay under that amount if you can because the fight can change in the blink of an eye with an unexpected dodge and you might need more or less scrolls so stay flexible...

Full Breakdown:

He uses his jutsu in this order, Restrict (~200 damage, two turn restriction) Shark Rain (275-450 damage) Water Dragon Missile (200-350 damage) and then dual cut which is two melee hits (60-110 each hit), and then once he gets under half health he will start casting water heal (1500 heal, crits for 2250 at times).

Jounin Exam Walkthrough (Part 1)

Before we start, here is my most important advice: If you can't beat it and start to panic, please, I beg you, do not cheat, you will still be able to be a jounin after they nerf the exam so please don't cheat and ruin the game for hard working people who can pass it on their own.

Part 1 is a simple quiz, my advice? Use all the resources available, whether it be printscreens, pictures, cell phones or video camera whatever you can use, do it, this is almost impossible for a human being to do by pure memory (you have to memorize 10 seals in 7 seconds, unless you give each seal a number before hand or know all the names you won't be able to do it) this is a test to see your resourcefulness anyways, ninjas need to be able to use everything possible to their advantage (without cheating) and thats all I got for this section...unless you want to legitimately do it, in that case good luck to you.


For those of you who want to do it, here is the breakdown of what you will be doing:

Ok for this you will be given a skill and the corresponding hand signals that go with the skill, you will be given a certain amount of time to memorize the skills and an infinite amount of time to put the skills back in...The first two skills you do will have 2 hand seals each, you will have 10 seconds to memorize them and then input them back in...The 3rd skill has 4 hand signals in it and you will once again have 10 seconds to memorize them...the 4th skill is where it starts to get hard, you have 4 hand signals however you have just 5seconds to memorize them...then on the 5th skill the hand signals jump up to 6 signs in 10 seconds, and on the 6th you have less seconds then hand signals! 5 seconds to memorize 6 signals...it is pretty straight forward as it follows this pattern, on the 7th skill you have 8 hand signals to memorize in 10 seconds and on the 8th skill you have 8 signals in 5 seconds...then for the last 2 on the 9th skill you have 10 signals to memorize in 10 seconds and the last one, you have 10 signals to memorize in 7seconds.


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