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Complete the first tier of every Combat Challenge.

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How to unlock the Bucket List achievement in Dead Island 2 - Definitive Guide

If you’re struggling to obtain the Ninja Challenge like any other person, it’s probably the only one you need.

The BEST “hot spot” for this IMO, is the Los Angeles Tattoos building in Venice Beach, just a few steps from the Blue Crab fast travel point.

It’s on the right corner as you almost exit into the premises of the beach. There will be a button that can open the shutters to get in. Do that and they’ll drop down again as you let go, make your way in.

**Disclaimer: I’m not sure if this can be accessed immediately upon arrival, if it’s locked, know that there will be a side quest that makes you go to the area later on. It’ll be available all the time after that point (Can someone please confirm in comments if it’s available the second you first enter Venice Beach?)

The shutters will only be open enough to expose the legs of zombies and they cannot get inside, making it the perfect spot for this. Just lure 3 to the shutters and stand back a little, ideally close to the desks to make sure the shurikens spread out well.

Aim for the shins/ankles as the shurikens seem to rise upward a little when you throw them.

This took me just TWO tries to get the challenge. If you need some zombies at the shutters, head back out and lure some towards the shutters, then rinse and repeat until it works.

NO CARDS REQUIRED, just aim well and stress free!
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27 Apr 2023 20:20

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Thanks Recovski! You saved my day!
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By Jacky chaud on 01 Mar 2024 11:37
Worked on my very first attempt, amazing tip.
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By The SCHWARTZ 00 on 01 Apr 2024 17:22
First try for me. +1
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By Or1g1nal S1nn3r on 07 Apr 2024 12:34
Thanks worked for me
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By Suky on 27 Apr 2023 23:13
Trick kick is easily done on the fence at Venice beach safe house, ninja is just pot luck
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By Colzzh on 05 May 2023 13:05
I just completed this. Easiest and fastest way to earn this is to spawn the at blue grill leave and turn to the left gate. There were already 3 walkers there so I got them down to 1 hit each used zombie bait to get them all together and hit em with the shuriken and it popped instantly. took me 2 attempts because the first time I did not damage them before trying to hit them with the shuriken.
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By EV1LP1MP82 on 06 May 2023 19:58
@EV1LP1MP82 your spot and mine are only 100 meters or so apart, makes little to no difference where it’s done in that instance.
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By Cryptic#5867 on 06 May 2023 21:14
Thank you, worked first try for me. Was worried I’d never get it done.
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By Ov3R fR4g Uk on 27 May 2023 16:22
Huge thanks for the tip with ninja managed to get it first go using that method now just to try get the jump kick one!
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By KandeeRebel on 23 Jun 2023 23:44
Como consigo a shuriken ? Eu só tenho a de choque
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By Lukascs92 on 21 Jul 2023 01:40
@Lukascs92, sorry I can’t answer in your language, google translate is too inaccurate. But the Shuriken can be found on one of the first few cars when you first enter the Halperin Hotel area.
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By Cryptic#5867 on 21 Jul 2023 20:58
Be aware that after a certain point in the side quests there will be a screamer in that tattoo place with you. She’s lying on the ground behind the cash register and looks dead at first, if you disturb her though you’ll be stuck with her in close quarters so be ready.
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By TymanTheLong on 31 Jul 2023 20:14
ABOUT NINJA:
if you host a online game,it looks like you can not do ninja,you must play a single game or be client to another's game.
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By zhaolinjia on 13 Aug 2023 18:24
My 35m IMPRESSIVE AIM! is bugged,

I got the achievement for 10g but no challenge tick for this..... (did it again too I think so)
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By HoxB on 18 Feb 2024 23:33
It's not bugged mate. You have to do this one with a melee weapon throw - did this with a knife. Technically the other cheevo is bugged, because it clearly states "melee weapon" not throwables 😂
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By Recovski on 19 Feb 2024 18:33
Ninja challenge worked for me eventually under the gate in the tattoo shop but it took a lot of tries to get it to work. Glad to get it done
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By Brasshande on 20 Feb 2024 23:00
I don't know if I was just extremely unlucky, but it took me SOOOO LONG to get the Ninja challenge to work.

Has to be the worst one in the game by far!!!
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By Reelbiggerfish on 28 Feb 2024 00:17
Got bonk but no challenge,watched a video from this site where the person used the shuriken and got the challenge? Last challenge for the achievement. Frustrating.
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By PensFan4Life71 on 19 Apr 2024 01:34
Here is a video of this spot: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZEblXucjzQM (I still struggle with this) And it's done, my mistake was to be too close to the door.
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By Moe GZ on 27 May 2024 20:18
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The Dead Island 2 combat challenge 'Trick Kick' required you to knock down 4 zombies (it used to be 3) with a jumping kick. It can be a bit difficult, so here's a relatively reliable method:

- Under Skills, make sure you have Block as you first card in your 'Abilities' section. You also need Drop Kick equipped (not Flying Kick) in the same section.

- Go to an open, controllable area with low level enemies. I chose the Blue Crab safehouse in Venice Beach. If you fast travel to there, the location in the video is just out the door and to the right, over the fence.

- Move around and get the attention of surrounding enemies until you have a clustered group. Make sure they're easy zombie varieties (Shamblers, Walkers, Runners etc). Assemble a group of around 5-6. Hold Block (cn_LB/L1) and slowly edge around until you get a good angle. They can't damage you, so take your time. If they grab you, just mash the escape button (cn_X/O). Line them up and jump, and hit the kick (cn_RS). Hopefully it pops!

It may take a couple of tries, but this technique works pretty well. As you can see, I knocked over 5 (I'd previously completed the challenge).

The kick has to knock them down, not kill them, so be aware of zombies health when attempting.

Good luck!

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10 Mar 2024 16:36

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This was extremely helpful
Worked like a charm
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By StumpyCometh#846 on 28 Apr 2024 04:56
Most of the challenges will be done when you finish the main story as they're pretty simple to do, but some of them require you to go out of your way to do something in a certain way;

Blood will have Blood, Dissolving Problems, Electrifying Personality, and Ferocious Firestarter - Slay 50 zombies using a specific element: I'm lumping these all together because they're basically the same. Mod your weapons with whatever challenge you're doing, and kill 50 zombies with it. You can use curveballs that also apply the effect you're trying to go for, and be careful of special zombies that can be immune to a specific element.

Serial Killer - Complete 5 combat challenges: Literally impossible to miss this challenge.

Broken Bones - Maim 50 zombie limbs: Impossible to miss as well, it's super easy and you should have this fully completed by the time you reach Venice City.

Cooling off - Make 25 zombies Soggy: This is super easy to complete once you reach the Haperin Hotel, as you will unlock the Chem Bomb curveball, which will make any enemy soggy when hit. You can also destroy the backpacks of Hydration Walkers, or throw Water Jerrycans to also get this.

Dangerous DNA - Slay 25 zombies at the max Autophage tier in the Skill Deck: This one requires you to have progressed some of the story to unlock Autophage cards. The game explains it, but I'll explain it further. As you complete the story, do sidequests, and search around the map, you'll start to unlock cards that have a skull looking to the left at the bottom of the card, these are Autophage Cards (They will also say they're an Autophage card when you reach them). You need to have 3 of these cards equipped to be able to complete this challenge, and it will also tell you what tier you're at when you go to the Player Menu. The downside is that you don't auto-heal, and healing effects are reduced, but you gain massive benefits to compensate. Fury Mode is a great way to get this done as you get a huge chunk of health back after every kill, and a couple of cards give you more time in your Fury.

Dinnertime's Over - Interrupt 5 Butchers while they try to eat: To do this, you must progress the main story to unlock Butchers, which is when you reach the Santa Monica Pier. Funnily enough, this challenge can be completed very quickly after you unlock Butchers, as the area you load into after getting the laptop and killing the Butcher will be a Butcher Hotspot. To actually do this challenge, you must damage a Butcher and have a corpse nearby for it to run to heal at. Once it starts eating, kill it, as you have to do this to 5 separate Butchers. Do not try this with Vicious Butchers as they heal by eating their own arms instead of eating a corpse.

Finish Them - Slay 25 zombies using finishing moves: To do this, you must kill a zombie with a counterattack. Block or Dodge right as a zombie tries to hit you and they should be stunned, leaving them unable to move and have a prompt on them (or you can use the Flashbang curveball as well). Hit them a couple of times to lower their health, then do the counter. Counterattacks let you get 2 free hits on the enemy, so either one of those hits has to be able to kill the zombie to get the finishing move to play. Note: Make sure to have a melee weapon equipped when doing a counter, as if you have a gun out when doing it, it'll do the damage of an unarmed punch.

Furious Fighter - Slay 50 zombies using Fury: Don't need to explain much, it's that simple.

Hazard Pays - Slay 10 zombies using environmental hazards: Pretty simple to do, use Jerrycans or barrels to pour liquids on the floor, then either shock it (if it's water) or light it on fire (if it's fuel) and lure zombies into it. There's a load of areas to do this without having to activate it yourself, so you should get this done easily.

Headshot Aficionado - Slay 25 zombies with killing blows to the head: Again, this is self-explanatory. The best way to get this done is to use a Sporting or Hunting Rifle as they kill Walkers, Runners, and Shamblers in one shot to the head.

Hey, Catch! - Slay 5 zombies with explosive zombies: When you reach the Haperin Hotel, you'll unlock Grenadier Zombies. Hit their chest a couple of times until a warning logo appears on them, then try to get them into a group of zombies.

Impressive Aim - Throw a melee weapon and hit a zombie 35+ meters away: Unfortunately, this challenge comes done to skill and luck. The way I did this was to have an objective marker on the map, then move 35+ meters away and throw stuff to find where I needed to look for it to land exactly on the marker for practice.

Live Long and Prosper - Slay 25 zombies without dying: Unless you are absolutely garbage at the game, you WILL have this challenge done super early, not much to say otherwise.

Mostly Armsless - Main 5 Crusher arms: Self-explanatory, just beat the crap out of them and you'll get this.

Ninja - Dismember 3 zombies with a single Shuriken Throw: Like the Impressive Aim challenge, this one comes down to skill and luck. The way I did it was to get a group of Walkers, Runners, and Shamblers and just throw shurikens at their legs and pray I got lucky. Make sure to have the Pain Magazine, Deadeye (hey, that's me!), and Clear Sightlines cards to help get your Shurikens back and have them do enough damage to main the zombies.

No Time to Grow - Slay 1 Mutator before it mutates: I actually put a guide for this on the Not Even My Final Form achievement, but I'll summarise it here. Complete the main story, get your best Hunting Rifle an have it be at your level, then head over to Rikky's House in Beverly Hills (bottom left of the map, below where you spawn in if you fast travel). His house will become a Mutator Hotspot, so there will always be one there. A non-mutated Mutator will have one of the basic zombie names (Walker, Runner, Shambler) but they are a pale zombie with white pants and is shirtless, and it will be lying down on the ground if it isn't alerted. Move around the house until you see this zombie then shoot it in the head to kill it, as it takes on the health values of whatever zombie it is impersonating. If you alert it and it mutates, get out of the house then save and quit to reload the map and the Mutator will be back to lying on the ground.

Perfection - Pull off 25 perfect defense moves: You'll get the I Got a Zombie Army and You Can't Harm Me achievement for doing this as well, so that should be your cue. Use Block or Dodge just before they hit you to stun them, which allows you to do a counterattack. If you can do the counterattack, you get the perfect defense move. Just do it 25 times and you'll get it, but make sure to have some medkits just in case.

Pushover - Knockdown 25 zombies; Simple to do, use weapons/ mods that drain zombie stamina and you'll get it quickly. You can also use Drop Kicks to do this easily.

Shut Up - Interrupt 5 Screamers while they are screaming: You unlock Screamers when you get access to your first gun, and Curtis's home will become a hotspot when you do his sidequest and unlock Screamers. Wait for them to start screaming, then throw a Chem Bomb to interrupt them.

Speed Freak - Pull off 10 multikills: Gotta kill 3 or more zombies in quick succession, so either use your best melee weapon, or use explosive Curveballs like Pipebombs, Military Grenade, Sticky Bomb, or Bait Bomb. You should get this fairly quickly, but check up on this one just in case.

Splash Zone - Slay 5 Slobbers with melee attacks: I don't need to explain how to do this. The house where you meet the Screamer will become a Slobber Hotspot once you leave the area after getting your first gun, so got here and have fun.

Trick Kick - Knock down 3 zombies with one Jump Kick: Drop Kick, just use Drop Kick and get a group of zombies and this should be done super quick.

Zombie Space Program - Launch 25 zombies: Heavy attacks from a Two-Handed weapon should do the trick, but also explosives will work just as well, if not better
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24 Apr 2023 02:38

19 Comments
Great guide. Thank you!
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By MRriNICKulous on 24 Apr 2023 06:55
I keep trying to get the ninja challenge done but it's not working :(
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By DetectivBananas on 25 Apr 2023 02:17
I am around 30 hours in and havent stopped using the stars.. and still cant get ninja. Anyone know a hot spot or a easier way to get it?
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By Epic Joe Smash on 25 Apr 2023 19:01
trick kick isnt working, even when i knock down 5 with one kick
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By LaTrickster2 on 26 Apr 2023 00:58
Anyone else having issues with this not unlocking after completing all the first tier?
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By ShadowlessAU on 26 Apr 2023 01:00
Yeah mine won’t unlock
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By xMADMANGUNNERx on 26 Apr 2023 04:01
Trick kick ain’t working anyone know a fix?
Edit worked after I closed the game and tried again
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By Suky on 27 Apr 2023 17:14
Mine didn't unlock either. When I loaded up my single player game it popped as soon as I loaded in.
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By Skate 323 on 28 Apr 2023 22:15
Trick Kick and Ninja ain't working for me, tried loading in and out of the game, single and co op player, hopefully they patch it!
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By Sazaline on 29 Apr 2023 21:48
Anyone else having issues with the 35 yard thrown weapon challenge
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By GREATDISTURBED on 01 May 2023 09:55
Trick Kick is the only one not working for me. I've done it multiple times on my lvl 30, and my lvl 7. Also tried it on a friend's game. This is the only achievement I have left 😭
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By o FiFi x on 01 May 2023 16:37
Ninja will take a while, but this is a good strat: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2tQlOQqWvX0
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By Ultamisia on 08 May 2023 14:53
I got the achivement for throwing 35 meters but not the challenge!?
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By TommyTusj on 03 Jun 2023 22:14
Never mind. Got it by throwing an actual weapon and not the electric shuriken. Since so many said they got both the achievement and challenge using the shuriken I thought it was bugged.
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By TommyTusj on 05 Jun 2023 20:04
Trick kick isn't working for me either. Have tried so many different method and have kicked multiple zombies many times but it just won't unlock.
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By Don Nielson on 23 Jun 2023 19:53
Como consegue a Shuriken ? Só tenho a de choque
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By Lukascs92 on 21 Jul 2023 11:10
Trick Kick is actually for 4 enemies not 3 (whether a patch updated it?) I’m really struggling to get it, I’ve tried so often on the missions where there are lots of enemies and you have to “kill them all”. I’ve been playing in co-op whether that impacts it, will have to try solo - was using Drop Kick rather than the flying Kick skill card too
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By metallicafan459 on 27 Feb 2024 08:10
Got impressive aim first time with this https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3A93h0ob3YE zero skill or luck required.
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By Calex dEUS on 10 Mar 2024 22:36
Headstomping low health zombies on the ground is also considered a finishing move along with executions after block/dodge.

For Trick Kick I had trouble, I found the Blue Crab gates ideal since you can exit over the fences by way of the dumpsters and gather a large group of zombies by circling out to pull several in, use a Meat Bait to push them all along the main fence gate. When you jump over they’ll be more bunched up than a normal horde and you can run around in circles trying to knock three down at once with a running jump kick.
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By TymanTheLong on 31 Jul 2023 20:42
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Regarding the Trick Kick Challenge - I didn't get this to pop the entire game with the"Flying Kick" card in my hand. I switched to "Drop Kick" and got it after about 15 minutes. I theorize "Flying Kick" was killing the zombies instead of knocking them down. Good luck!
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19 Aug 2023 04:43

The Combat Challenge trophy of the 5 Challenge trophies is by far the hardest individually. And that's for a few reasons. 1. There are more challenges than the others, so from a purely numbers perspective, having to do 26 Combat Challenges is going to take more time; and 2. Because of the Ninja Combat Challenge - which we'll tackle on its own shortly.

First things first though, like the Weapon Challenges in Variety is the Spice of Death trophy_silver.png , you're going to need to vary your playstyle a bit throughout your playthrough so that you aren't grinding out in the end. That means killing zombies with bleed weapons, killing them with caustic damage, shock damage and fire damage, and making enemies 'soggy' with water - let's call those the elemental challenges.

There's also specific zombie challenges in here too to take note of, like interrupting a Butcher when it's feeding, maim 5 Crusher arms, slaying 1 Mutator before it mutates (see Not Even My Final Form trophy_bronze.png ), interrupt 5 Screamers while they're screaming and slay 5 Slobbers with melee attacks.

Then, aside from that, you'll need to do a whole variety of other challenges. The truth is, they'll come naturally though. A few that might not. Firstly, Impressive Aim, which requires you throwing a weapon 35+m and hitting a zombie (see Donk! trophy_bronze.png ); and then there's the Ninja Combat Challenge, which requires dismembering 3 zombies with a single Shuriken throw.

First things first, you need to grab the Shuriken - see our Dead Island 2 Curveball guide for assistance there. Let's talk about what you need to do to accomplish the Ninja Combat Challenge. Well, the first thing you need to do is to finish the Weapon Challenge, "Batter Up!" which when you get to level 3 gives you a persistent stat boost for your Curveballs ("Equipped Curveball Damage +++" to be precise). Then, what you want to do is find some shamblers and walkers (the Halperin Hotel and the Venice Beach regions are decent for these), and then weaken them somewhat. Then, get them all in a bunch and throw the Shuriken. 

We've actually created an in-depth Dead Island 2 Ninja Challenge guide if you need it, where we talk about the prep, and where to do it and what not. We've tried and tested our strategy multiple times and it works like a dream.
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