Beating Xehanort’s First Form in Kingdom Hearts 3 ReMind
With all of this done, you’re finally ready to take Xehanort on. Head through the door with an image of the χ-blade at the front of the room, and Kingdom Hearts 3 ReMind’s secret Xehanort boss battle will begin.
As soon as the battle starts, Xehanort will come at you with a long range attack. It’ll consist of Darkness energy balls that you con block or dodge, mixed with grid attacks of Light that you can only dodge.
Block the first two Darkness energy balls, and then dodge backward to avoid the grid of Light attacks. Repeat this pattern until the attacks subside. Once they do, Xehanort will throw his weapon at you. Block it from anywhere between 1/4 or 1/2 of the arena, or else you’ll be hit with a massive AOE attack that has the potential to freeze you solid.
So long as you block the attack, Xehanort will be left wide open for an attack. Hammer away at him with combos, and use any form changes you get to increase your damage output while the windows are open. Once you’ve dealt roughly two health bars of damage, he’ll teleport away.
After he does this, he’ll activate his first Stage Transition attack. It’ll take you to a realm of light where he’ll have a series of Light pillars actively rotating around the stage, dealing damage to you if you touch them.
Keep to the edge of the battle arena to avoid these. As you do though, watch out for Xehanort’s new long-ranged attacks: Metal spheres covered in blades, which explode after traveling about 3/4 of the way across the arena.
You can dodge or block these attacks so long as you do so while they’re still in motion though, and if you move toward Xehanort while they’re being launched at you, you can attack Xehanort when he stops to take a rest after throwing the fourth or fifth sphere.
