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Shadow Apprentice

Shadow Apprentice

Your Shadow reached 20 matches played.

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How to unlock the Shadow Apprentice achievement in Killer Instinct - Definitive Guide

If you're a lonely schlub like me who doesn't have any friends, this is a way to knock out Shadow Apprentice, Bounty Hunter, and eventually Shadow Ruffian if necessary if no one is challenging/beating your shadow at all from day to day.


1. Create a shadow on both your main account and a dummy account (remember dummy accounts share your Xbox live gold on XB1), playing through the 3 practice matches. DO NOT MOVE AT ALL during the practice matches other than to throw one or two quick punches. Save your shadow data after the practice matches are over.

2. Play ONE survival match against a random opponent's shadow. Again, DO NOT MOVE AT ALL except for one or two quick punches. Save your shadow data. This step probably isn't necessary but I did it so I added it here.

3. On either account, CHALLENGE the other account's shadow and defeat it. DO NOT SAVE YOUR SHADOW DATA after this match. This way your shadow (whether it be your main or the dummy) doesn't get any "better" and will always stand still.

4. Switch accounts to the one that was challenged and defeated, and play the bounty match against the other, defeating it as quickly as you can, but again DO NOT SAVE YOUR SHADOW DATA after the match. Just back out to the Shadow Lab so the win/loss for each account saves to the server.

5. Switch accounts to the other one and defeat the bounty match in the same method. Another reminder, DO NOT SAVE YOUR SHADOW DATA after the match. The idea is to keep getting your bounty wins without 'improving' either account's shadow.

6. Rinse and repeat, switching back and forth and defeating the bounties without saving the shadow data until you have your 25 wins. You'll get Shadow Apprentice in the process. It should take 1.5-2 hours with all the down time/loading time between matches to get Shadow Apprentice and Bounty Hunter. For Shadow Ruffian you're looking at 4x that or roughly 6-8 hours of grinding. Hopefully you still need fight challenges with the characters currently available. Why the hell we can't use the latest fighters so we can work on THEIR challenges is beyond me.

Here's a video tutorial:

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06 Jun 2015 17:45

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Wait but isn't it 50 matches played once you hit 25 bounties for both characters? So it would only take up to 4 hours to get Shadow Ruffian?

Or is it the matches that you actually are the one playing your shadow only count?

If thats the fact isnt there a faster way to get 100 once you get the bounty hunter achievement?
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By Strategy One on 09 Jun 2016 19:11
Awesome solution!
Cheers!
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By TheIrishBeast on 11 Jun 2015 15:27
Honest to god I forgot about live sharing lol great solution bud
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By KCXv3 on 14 Jun 2015 16:55
Why does it now say I can only issue another challenge every 24 hours now?
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By DarthGoose13 on 10 Jun 2016 11:49
Its been ages since I did this so forgive me if I'm wrong, but you could always only challenge a person once a day. I think maybe you could challenge different people all on one day, but could onoy challenge the same person every 24 hrs.
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By LifeExpectancy on 11 Jun 2016 04:53
As far as my guide is concerned, youre only issuing a challenge once. After that, youre just alternating between your account and the dummy account doing the bounty matches (which dont require issuing a challenge).
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By LifeExpectancy on 11 Jun 2016 04:54
If you have a computer with windows 10 this is even quicker
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By jimmyclutchman on 14 Mar 2018 13:11
Nowadays unfortunately, this mode is broken. That's a lot of problems. Since your Shadow is not visible to friends, other times it is not possible to avenge your shadow, etc. Since January 5, no one has unlocked anything about this mode of play. I've been trying to help every corner. But it seems no one cares about it these days!
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By Willy K Olho on 03 Mar 2020 00:43
these still bugged?
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By LIFTY187um on 28 May 2020 16:31
Unfortunately it seems that way I’m sure it’ll be fixed during EVO 2020
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By JaggedFire06362 on 04 Jun 2020 04:04
really hope so been trying this for ages :(
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By SpeedyCrossfire on 30 Jun 2020 22:11
Looks like this is has been fixed now. Just managed to unlock after the latest update.
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By MIGHTYMILTON09 on 22 Oct 2020 21:44
Is the Shadow Lab even a thing anymore ,I can't find it in the menu for the life of me.
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By BionicTriforce on 02 Dec 2020 18:19
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For this achievement, your shadow has to be picked to fight against a human player. It doesn't matter if you win or lose, and it can be through Shadow Survival, Shadow Challenges or Bounties.

If you challenge a friend (or several friends) and beat them, they will be able to go to the Shadow Activity menu (press Y in the main menu for the Shadow Lab) and fight your shadow for a bounty. If they beat your shadow, you will be able to do the same and go back and forth until someone loses. Each of these fights (the ones where your shadow fights obviously) will count towards your 20 matches played. If shadows are weak, you pretty much can go all the way to 20 and even 100 matches for the corresponding achievement.

If someone loses when it was their turn to win, the other player can in turn send a challenge and get the flow going again.

NOTE: This has to be done with the same shadow, if you have more than one shadow, make sure you pick the same one every time.
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01 Jun 2015 21:26

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Are you sure you can achieve this through shadow survival? I got my 15 matches recorded, did another 15 or so and nothin.
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By ModifiedMag8 on 16 Aug 2017 06:28
Just to make sure, when you say you did it through shadow survival you mean that your shadow got randomly picked by random players who were playing shadow survival? Since it's your shadow that has to "play" the matches, that means that you don't actually get to fight. If you played shadow survival by facing other people's shadows, then that doesn't count as your shadow fighting.
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By Runner eGirl on 16 Aug 2017 15:29
Oh ok. That makes sense. I was just doing basic shadow survival matches in the lab. Thanks for the response!
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By ModifiedMag8 on 17 Aug 2017 04:50
np, glad I could help :)
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By Runner eGirl on 17 Aug 2017 14:39
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