Yakuza Kiwami 3 Dark Ties Professional No Upgrade Run (No Healing)

Kiwami 3 Dark Ties on Professional Difficulty with No Upgrades and No Healing. No accessories is not applicable therefore highest is NUR. Fixed Audio! There are only 3 hard sections you need strategies for the rest you can just brawl it and likely win. These 3 sections are the Trial of Origins survival hell, the Yakuza long battle and the final boss. Other sections only recommendation that I learnt later is to use hold circle triangle in dark mode for AoE damage but sadly I only learnt this at the final long battle. Would have been useful for the trial of origins. Anyways just going to ignore all other fights just focusing on these 3. Trial of Origins was is not too bad since I have experience with the enemy fighting styles from the base NUR+ run but I skipped all chests to be as unupgraded as possible but personally the boost are likely allowed since they are not an upgrade but I ignored it as an extra challenge. For this reason I just focused on the enemies blocking the next stages. First guy you bait him to run in then dodge block to try and get behind him then combo him and repeat. Second guy I just brawled trying to dodge when he attacked and aiming for the uppercut combo which I believe is s,s,s,s,s,s,t (6s t). Third guy also just brawled him doing similar strategy I did for second guy. After this you should leave so you can checkpoint and just keep attempting the final mini boss since he has Tesso moveset which can be very annoying. After checkpointing for this fight you focus on the basic enemies around then the mini boss. Easiest way I found was doing hold circle triangle to damage everyone and slowly beat everyone down. With extra knowledge I would just use dark mode hold circle triangle to quickly clear the crowd with 2 single charges and then fight the mini boss. For the mini boss I would likely recommend s,s,s,t for the evasion since you can not combo this guy as it just leads to you taking damage just try to get behind then do 3s t and repeat heat action and dark mode if you can. Ikari 1 is easy since it is just Kuze move set just dodge behind and combo to heat break then try to juggle for damage. Dark mode and heat action when you can. For the long battle start with dark mode and use hold circle triangle to damage the crowd and then dodge if needed and repeat. Once it runs out slowly clear everyone (you can wait for Kanda if needed) being wary of the Katana and hammer dude especially. Then once you go solo both fight are easy first one just melee them to win then for the next wave with the mini boss use dark mode jump strat to juggle the mini boss and try to beat him during the duration using the charge circle t to rejuggle if needed then just melle the rest again. Now the final wave being the hardest one just keep using single dark mode jump strat to clear the crowd trying to hit as many enemies as possible and heat action the mini bosses if you can. After running out I just let Kanda do most of the work since most people should be low and then just focus on finishing people off when they are low. After the ads just finish off the mini bosses. Lastly you have final boss Ikari. This fight without healing is insane because of the low damage you deal and the damage Ikari deals but found a no damage strategy. You dodge Ikari's attack which at range there are only 2 for the 1st phase his slow swing, kick, slam down swing and his armored running punch. Running punch is best you just dodge it then do s,s,s,t dodge back and you can never get hit thanks to the evasion just make sure not to do second t. For the combo string you need to delay the first dodge slightly then wait and dodge the kick then dodge again for the slam down then just do same string s,s,s,t (You can weave in a dodge attack here for some extra damage). Use heat actions when you can and dark mode when Ikari gets heat broken or you want to do grab floor heat action. After the QTE there is only 1 extra move to worry about which is the deadly attack. For this you dodge as soon as Ikari reaches you then dodge again and wait until Ikari teleports to you then dodge again 3 times to finish off the attack. You can do a dodge attack at the end for some damage otherwise I usually just back off and repeat phase 1 strategy. Now just a test of endurance and eventually you should beat Ikari. Overall pretty fun no upgrade until the very end but the amount of side stuff you need to do is quite annoying with Kanda and survival hell. Check out @ethanasherredfield3348 Dark Ties final boss NUR (   • Yakuza Kiwami 3 Dark Ties Final Boss No Up...  ) only other NUR content for this game I found. 0:00 Hunger (Chapter 1) 0:08 Punks (Tutorial) 2:01 Punks (Tutorial) 3:37 Tsuyoshi Kanda 6:07 Furukane 8:46 Complicity (Chapter 2) 8:54 Nagatani Family Soldiers 10:01 Surival Hell (Initiation Trial) 13:38 Suspicious Men 15:02 Survival Hell (Trial of Origins) 28:28 Shinpei Ikari 33:34 The Kirin's Ambition (Finale) 33:42 Yakuza (Long Battle) 40:08 Shinpei Ikari