S-Rank Chapter Achievements

To get an S-Rank in a Chapter you have to finish every battle with an S.
Fortunately the game offers the option to jump right into the battle and exit out of the Game once we got our Rank, so you don’t have to watch everything again.
The special missions do count towards the Rank. Both difficulties; Normal and Hard.

The game is quite generous in giving you an S-Rank especially in the early stages of the game (Prologue to chapter 4). However, the last chapters are a bit more annoying.
For the Story fights I would recommend just taking your time and finishing the battles with quite a lot of health remaining. Particularly Chapter 8.
If you are still struggling, to figure out when to fight and when to dodge. Don’t rush things and take your time. Try to remember their attacks and find an opening. Also make use of the practice mode to get a good feeling for your combos.

Also: Pay attention to the QTE (Quick Time Events)

For the Special Mission’s you should focus on finishing the battle quickly and with a lot of health (above 90%) remaining. That will grant you a ton of ranking points. All of them are quite easy to combo. And once they fall down wait for them to get up and just engage a combo again and again until he reaches his desperate mode. You should also make use of your partner skills as much as you can even if you don’t engage the fight.

Also using your boost and/or finish with ultimate, getting a high combo-count, switching with your partner will grant you a good boost of points.
The “Ranking Information” will give you a good review on how you did.

Chapter 6 and 7 have no real battles except for the special missions. You still have to get both minicamps on both difficulties on an S ranks in chapter 7.

Prologue Rank Set an S Rank in Prologue

Chapter 1 Rank Set an S Rank in Chapter 1

Chapter 2 Rank Set an S Rank in Chapter 2

Chapter 3 Rank Set an S Rank in Chapter 3

Chapter 4 Rank Set an S Rank in Chapter 4

Chapter 5 Rank Set an S Rank in Chapter 5

Chapter 6 Rank Set an S Rank in Chapter 6

Chapter 7 Rank Set an S Rank in Chapter 7

Chapter 8 Rank Set an S Rank in Chapter 8

All Chapters Rank Set an S Rank in all Chapters

Special Story Missions:

Special missions are those:

I’m On It Clear a special mission for the first time

Special Agent Earn S ranks on five special missions (difficulty: normal).

Minicamps:
Smashing Gourds Clear Gourd Breaker in Chapter 7: The Butterfly Mansion for the first time.

A Lotto Hot Air Earn an S rank in the Gourd Breaker minicamp on normal difficulty.

(Don’t) Spill the Tea Clear Tea Splashier in Chapter 7: The Butterfly Mansion for the first time.

In Too Steep Earn an S rank in the Tea Splashier minicamp on normal difficulty.

Boss Battle Tips for S Rank

Rue

• Best here is to run around and strike once an opening presents itself. Don’t rush here. Take your time.
  Normal Mode:
  Basic-light-attack-combo:
• Attacks 4-5 Times with one Thread:
• Try to run in circle and/or dodge it with your dash. Once he is almost done with his final attack dash in and engage your combo. Don’t take too long otherwise he will dodge away or block.

Web wall:

• Summons a giant Wall of Threads:
• Run around the wall. Or run behind him if you are close to ruin. Don’t try to block it,

Web circle:

• Area damage around Rue where webs form in a half-circle
• Stay out of the red area. Once the attack is over dash in and engage a combo

4-Thread-Attack:

• Summons 4 Threads out of the ground:
• Just block or dodge them

Web-Throw

• Throws a single web.
• Dodge or block

Desperate Mode:
Don’t try to rush things here. Try to dodge and remain calm. Once the mode is over dash in and attack.
4-Thread-Attack:

• Summons 4 Threads out of the ground:
• Just block or dodge them

100-Threads-attack

• This is where Rue jumps on a tree and attacks you with a bunch of 3-lined threads. Run around
  and try to dodge. Stay calm here. It’s quite simple to just dodge them if you don’t overdo it. Once the attack is done the deep. mode ends and you can engage your attacks

Emma

• The first form is quite easy. The map however narrows down your movement and making dodging quite stressful.
• First Form
  Basic Combo:
• Attacks with close range basic combos
• He mostly does this when you are quite close to him
• Block or dodge his attacks and then instantly attack and combo

Projectile Throw:

• Throws 3 projectiles on you
• Lockable and dodge able
• Final Form
• There are a bunch of area attacks here. The best thing in this battle is to not fully combo him
• Just do a small combo and then dash out before he can do any kind of Area Damage
• If he is about to do the really big area damage. Run back to the edge out of the area and
  dash in once the attack is done
• The moment he opens up his body is where you can basically hit him with your full combo

Akuna

• Akuna is quite challenging. He dodges and blocks and gives you sometimes no real opening. Be aware of his movement and his attacks.
• First battle:
• The first battle is actually quite simple. All he does is a dash and sometimes run towards you to kick on the ground. Both easily dodge able. This is where you have to dash-attack and combo everything you have. Rentokil is quite powerful. With a good 25-30 combo you can take away 1/3 of this health.
• He occasionally engages a basic combo if you are too close to him.
• He does not have a deep. mode in this fight
• Second battle:
• The Second battle is more challenging. It’s important to mostly avoid being close to him or even engage without a plan. Run around, dodge and wait for an opening.
• This battle is divided into 2 parts. The first one is the harder one. Try to memorize his attacks and only attack when you know you are safe to counter.
• You should also spare your boosts for the second part of the battle (the part after he regenerated all his health). The boost give you a good amount of damage and he is easy to combo there because there is no deep mode in the second part of the battle
• Jump-Attack:
  He jumps in the area and falls down resulting in a big area damage. This is mostly the first thing he does. Run away and once he falls down engage an attack. Don’t try to block it otherwise you won’t get the opportunity for a counter attack in his 2nd boost mode he jumps in the sky and drops a huge area attack. This one is lockable and you can follow up with an attack combo
• Kick on the ground:
  He dashes towards you and kicks on the ground or does an upper kick. Try to engage quickly on that one. Don’t try to block that either if you are to slow he attacks you again.
  If an attack is too risky just don’t rush it.
• Dashes and performs fist combo:
  Similar to the kick on with the difference that he does more damage and it’s harder to dodge.
  Don’t try to block it. He will follow up with the jump attack. Once he punches out his final attack dash in and attack
• Projectiles:
  His projectiles are easy to dodge and block. Don’t try to dash attack if you are quite far away.
  He will jump in the air and throw a few more projectiles at yam.
• Projectiles on the ground:
  This is where he jumps a few meters and throws projectiles on the ground. Dodge them by stepping out of the way and once they are about to land engage a dash-combo-attack

Rentokil

• Rengoku: Rengoku acts here more as a VS-Mode CPU so it’s not that easy to describe his pattern. How I got an S is similar to the demon fights. The “only” safe opening I found is when he is done with his melee combo with his dragon skill at the end. Once you see his Combo getting to its end engage your own combo and inflict as much damage as possible.

His range attacks are lockable and his combo is actually easy to parry. But if parrying is too risky just ignore it. You can also try to land a heavy attack or even dash attack if he runs towards you and start your combo there but this is not always a safe bet

• In his second phase he is mostly the same with the little difference of splashing out 3 of those range attacks. When you block everything he mostly pushes you back to the edge and performs his 3rd area attack (which is the same as the second one). Once he is done with that you can dash towards him and combo him.

More of this sort of thing:

• Achievements Guide: Demon Slayer -Kimetsu no Yaiba- The Hinokami Chronicles

Written by Hurensohn