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Neoshadow
Japanese	ネオシャドウ
Rōmaji	Neoshadou
Type	Pureblood Heartless
Games	Kingdom Hearts Final Mix Kingdom Hearts Chain of Memories Kingdom Hearts II Kingdom Hearts 358/2 Days Kingdom Hearts Birth by Sleep Final Mix Kingdom Hearts χ
Variations • Novashadow

Neoshadow
Kingdom Hearts
A Heartless that travels in packs. Combining their powers allows them to attack Sora while also healing themselves. Leaving even just one alive will result in a never-ending battle.
Kingdom Hearts Chain of Memories
A nimble Heartless that swims through the shadows.
Kingdom Hearts Re:Chain of Memories
An extremely agile Heartless. It dives into shadows before it pops up in front of its enemy and delivers a rolling attack. The Neoshadow moves in the shadows, making it a difficult opponent to fight.
Kingdom Hearts II
It produces a shadow on the ground before attacking. Catch it off guard right after it attacks. Once it tries to jump and attack, use the reaction command Aerial Dance for a flurry of attacks!
Kingdom Hearts 358/2 Days
A Pureblood Heartless that flows across the ground as a shadow, completely immune to attack. It may unleash a shockwave as it emerges, so stay on guard. Block when it charges you to earn a few precious seconds during which you can deal double damage.
Kingdom Hearts Birth by Sleep
A Heartless whose heart has been lost within the darkness. It looks and acts like a Shadow, but is more agile.
Kingdom Hearts Union χ
Album KINGDOM HEARTS (2002) A Heartless that believes in strength in numbers. Quite the team player. Battle A fearsome foe and jack-of-all-trades boasting boosted attack power, poison, and more. Charge your special attack gauge before engaging in this battle!

	HP	STR		DEF	MP rec		EXP
Before rescue
After rescue	150	40		30	55		400
Weapon	Fire		Blizzard			Thunder
x1.0	x0.49		x0.5			x0.5
Percentage	Stop		Stun			Other
x0	x0.2		x0.5			x0.5
Rewards
First to sixth Neoshadows: (15) MP ball x 5 Seventh Neoshadow: (1) HP Ball x 20, (5) HP Ball x 5 Stormy Stone (35%)
World(s)
End of the World

Floor			HP		AP		EXP
Sora	Riku
12F	B1F		237		13		285
13F			252		14		310
Physical	Fire		Ice		Lightning		Neutral
x1.0	x1.0		x1.0		x1.0		x1.0
Stun		Percentage				Stop
x1.0		x1.0				x1.0
Warp		Bind		Confuse		Terror
x1.0		x1.0		x1.0		x1.0
World(s)
Castle Oblivion
Enemy Card
Ability			Duration				Cost
Bio			1 reload				25 CP
Description
Causes enemies HP to gradually drop.

Location		HP	Strength		Defense	EXP
Hollow Bastion		75				159
The Land of Dragons		76				170
Beast's Castle		77				0
Port Royal		79				0
Olympus Coliseum		82				0
Agrabah						0
Halloween Town						0
Pride Land						0
Hollow Bastion						0
The World That Never Was						0
Physical	Fire			Blizzard
	x1.0			x1.0
Thunder	Dark			Neutral
x1.0	x1.0
Rewards
(1) MP Ball x 2 (5) Munny x2 Lucid Crystal (8%), Bright Crystal (4%)
World(s)
Hollow Bastion/Radiant Garden, The Land of Dragons, Beast's Castle, Port Royal, Olympus Coliseum, Agrabah, Halloween Town, Pride Land, The World That Never Was

Cup		HP	Strength		Defense
Titan Cup		• Match 5: 3 Neoshadow
		86
Titan Paradox Cup		• Match 5: 3 Neoshadow
		150
Hades Paradox Cup		• Match 17: 4 Neoshadow • Match 26: 2 Neoshadow
		181
Physical	Fire			Blizzard
	x1.0			x1.0
Thunder	Dark			Neutral
x1.0	x1.0

Mission	HP				EXP		STR/DEF
	Story Mode		Mission Mode
29	352		1056		4		32
38	352		1056		4		32
44	352		1056		5		32
93	352		1056		52		32
Fire		Blizzard		Thunder			Aero
x1.35		x1.60		x0.60			x1.70
Ignite		Freeze		Jolt			Air-Toss
x0.40		x0.40		x0.40			x0.40
Defense Power Adjustment					Heart Points
• Full Body: ?					—
					Flinch?		Bloom-Out?
					X		X
Rewards
Missions 15-35 Combo Tech (30%) Missions 36-50 Lightning Shard (80%) Missions 73-93 —
Story Mode
Munny x21
Mission Mode
Munny x11
World(s)
Beast's Castle, Twilight Town, The World That Never Was

Location		HP	EXP	Strength	Defense
Realm of Darkness		122	48	26	15
Physical	Fire	Blizzard	Thunder	Dark	Other
?	?	?	?	?	?
Stun	Freeze	Mini	Blind	Ignite	Confuse
x1.0	x1.0	x1.0	x1.0	x1.0	x1.0
Bind	Poison	Slow	Stop	Sleep	Death
x1.0	x1.0	x1.0	x1.0	x1.0	x1.0
Zero Gravity		Magnet		Warp
x1.0		x1.0		x1.0
Rewards
Shop LV 8 Pulsing Crystal (?%), Mega-Potion (?%), Collision Magnet (?%)
World(s)
Realm of Darkness

The Neoshadow is a Pureblood Heartless that is found in Kingdom Hearts Final Mix, Kingdom Hearts Chain of Memories, Kingdom Hearts 358/2 Days, Kingdom Hearts II, and Kingdom Hearts Birth by Sleep Final Mix.

Story

Kingdom Hearts Birth by Sleep

Back when Ventus was the apprentice of Master Xehanort, Xehanort called the boy to the Keyblade Graveyard and then summoned a swarm of Neoshadows for him to fight. Ventus was not strong enough to win with only his light, and although Xehanort ordered him to use the power of darkness to win, Ventus refused and was defeated. Xehanort instead decided to use his Keyblade to forcefully extract the darkness within Ventus's heart, creating Vanitas.

While Aqua is traversing the Realm of Darkness, she battles Neoshadow along with a few other Pureblood Heartless.

Kingdom Hearts 358/2 Days

After returning to the World That Never Was in order to reclaim Kingdom Hearts and revitalize Xion, Roxas is attacked by several Neoshadows. He eliminates them, but is forced to side with Riku in order to finish off the rest of the continuously spawning Heartless. As soon as the Heartless are taken care of, however, the two Keyblade wielders turn on each other.

Kingdom Hearts II

Saïx summons several Neoshadows to attack Sora when the boy reaches the Hall of Empty Melodies. One of them also shows up in the next room, Naught's Skyway, to attack Mickey Mouse.

Design

A Neoshadow has a more humanoid body structure than a normal Shadow, but shares the same pitch black skin and spherical, glowing yellow eyes. Its crooked antennae are quite long and fall back behind the Heartless. It seems to be rather muscular, and its hands are very large, each one sporting five clawed fingers. Its feet, like those of a normal Shadow, are long and lack digits, but a Neoshadow's feet more resemble boots. Its body is also lined by several faint, blue veins of color.

In Final Mix, the Neoshadow will initially release five unique olive-green hearts within bubbles upon each defeat. These drift to the ground and spawn new Neoshadows, up until the final Neoshadow is defeated, at which point it will release a normal pink heart.

The name "Neoshadow" is derived from the prefix "neo-", which means "new", and "shadow".

Strategy

Kingdom Hearts Final Mix

The Neoshadow is stronger and faster than a Shadow, and is more strategic in combat. The Neoshadows are among the most difficult common enemies, working together as a team to defeat Sora. Fighting Neoshadows is a multi-stage battle, and the stages change based on how many Neoshadows are alive. At the beginning of the fight, there are seven Neoshadows, who will attack by jumping into the air and spinning, then launching at Sora similar to the Bandit. They will also use basic melee strikes and sink into the floor to avoid attacks, similar to a Shadow. At this point in the fight, they are vulnerable to Stop magic, but not to Gravity magic.

After there are only four Neoshadows remaining, they change tactics and sink into shadowy portals that appear beneath them on the ground. Afterwards, nine of these portals will appear around Sora, and the Neoshadows will choose random portals to jump out of and attack simultaneously. After attacking, they land on the ground for a brief moment, then the portals reappear beneath them and they sink back into the ground. The only time they can be hurt at this stage is right when they land on the ground, before the portals appear beneath them once again. If a single blow connects with one of them, it opens a short window to execute a combo. At this point, Stop magic no longer affects them.

Once there are only two Neoshadows left, they change tactics once more. In this stage of the fight, a single Neoshadow will wander around the room, and has access to all the attacks and abilities of the earlier stages (instead of several portals appearing on the ground like stage two of the fight, the Neoshadow will just use it as a way to get close to Sora to attack him). It also retains the immunity to Stop magic. While this Neoshadow attacks Sora, the other one appears as a black portal beneath Sora, then partially emerges from it to grab Sora's leg, which prevents him from moving, attacking, or using magic for a brief period. To counter this, Sora can jump when the portal appears beneath him, but cannot hurt this Neoshadow in any way. Instead, Sora must focus on the other Neoshadow that moves around the room, and attempt to kill it instead.

When there is a single Neoshadow remaining, it will move to the center of the room and attempt to summon more Neoshadows. Six portals will appear on the ground in a circle around it, and new Neoshadows will appear within them, attempting to climb out of the portals back into the room. Instead of going after the last remaining Neoshadow, Sora must focus his attacks on the ones emerging from the portals, who will emerge as fully healed Neoshadows after several seconds. Once the emerging Neoshadows are slain, Sora can direct his attention to the final Neoshadow, and defeat it to end the fight. If Sora fails to defeat the new Neoshadows after a certain amount of time, they will emerge from the portals and the fight will reset to whichever stage corresponds to the new number of Neoshadows (7-5 for Stage 1, 4-3 for Stage 2, or 2 for Stage 3).

Kingdom Hearts II

A powerful Reaction Command, Wind Dance, can be used to eliminate or intensely damage Neoshadows.