Killer Instinct

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A Shadow Lord’s True Power

You broke two combos using Eruption in a single match while in Gargos’ Instinct Mode!

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How to unlock the A Shadow Lord’s True Power achievement in Killer Instinct - Definitive Guide

Yummy Baklava

TrueAchievements

27 May 2016 23:07

Same as with similar achievements, this can be done while in Practice.

Press Menu to open options
Change action to CPU
Press

Scroll down to Instinct Meter and switch to ~~Infinite~~ Refill

When opponent goes to attack, just press

to perform Eruption and it should stop the attack. Do it a second time and achievement will unlock.

Note that I didn't have to perform a combo breaker for the achievement to unlock.

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27 May 2016 23:07

19 Comments

I know this sounds stupid, but the instructions should say you need to be in Instinct Mode for the Eruption to work ;-)

By Sovanitzky on 27 Oct 2021 05:11

Thanks to all the commenters.

By its whateva on 28 Apr 2022 06:33

Did it 20 times and nothing popped, tried in the air and on the ground as well.

By New xDante1986 on 09 Dec 2022 20:06

@New xDante1986 I had that for certain achievements. What I do is just launch it on xcloud or close and open on console and it unlocked

By Mike Langlois on 15 Dec 2022 00:03

Can confirm that it works in practice with Instinct set to refill. Yummy Baklava should edit his solution.

By Gnislew on 30 Dec 2020 01:02

Got it on first try... Done it 3 times and it popped... Probably a delay

By on 15 Jul 2021 02:29

I would ad that the player needs to activate instinct mode before pressing

. Gargos will appear to explode - that is the Eruption move.

By uyadaddysson on 12 Jun 2016 06:12

You should add (LP + MP + HP) after

for those who don't use default controls.

By SweetArkhane on 13 Feb 2017 14:15

I just did this about eight times and it didn't pop...am I missing something?

By ZensMeatSlab on 30 Jul 2017 19:08

Activate Instinct first --

-- then press

for Eruption.

By jh51681 on 31 Jul 2017 20:30

Didn't pop for me in practice mode

By brooza664 on 07 May 2018 19:56

Didn’t pop for me in practice mode either.

By HRoark00 on 28 May 2018 21:24

Like others here, I was unable to obtain this in practice mode, despite numerous attempts. I got it in a versus match against beginner AI. Also, unlike the other characters' instinct achievement, this is two in one *match*, not in one instinct activation. Each time you perform eruption, you drop out of instinct mode and have to re-activate instinct to use eruption again.

By nightw0lf on 21 Jul 2018 07:00

It worked fine in Practice mode for me. Thumbs up.

By Naberios on 09 Dec 2018 05:29

Worked in practice mode. Be sure to set instinct meter to "refill" and not "infinite" and this should work.

By TheAnonymity on 19 Apr 2019 07:19

Refill worked for me to in practice mode. No luck with infinite

By o Heres Jonny o on 12 Sep 2019 20:25

I know it's an old guide, but it really should be updated so that it reflects that infinite instinct doesn't work for this, only refill. I tried your way for a few minutes and got nowhere. Soon as I switched to refill like the other guys above me suggested, it popped instantly. Still giving you a +1 though.

By The SCHWARTZ 00 on 02 Oct 2019 04:45

If you are trying this, Make sure that you are using Eruption when the opponent is doing a Combo, not just on one attack. The opponent needs to land at least one hit. That was a mistake I was making.

I did this in practice with Dummy set to human. Instinct set to Refill.

By on 11 Oct 2020 16:32

I did on practice. set instinct bar to refill instead of infinite. set opponent to record and spammed X and then dash forward a couple times.. changed opponent to playback instead of record. then spammed right stick up and Lb maybe 10 or so times and it seemed to work quickly enough

By Netechma on 07 Dec 2020 01:15

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RetroDron

stratege.ru

15 Mar 2021 16:29

This guide was translated automatically.

While using instinct ( RB + RT ), Gargos will be covered in armor, you need to break it ( LB ) while the enemy is performing a combo on you, thereby interrupting him. You need to do this twice per match.

15 Mar 2021 16:29