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Marluxia is the first boss with 4 full HP bars, meaning this will be a long fight. A good tactic for Phantom Saber is to use a 0 attack card to break the attack and deal damage. Beware of his Card Breaks if he uses a 0-valued Phantom Saber within range. To avoid that, the Jafar card can prove to be useful by using and breaking one card at a time and taking advantage of Marluxia's weakness to physical combos. The other attacks can be dodged by jumping over them. His two [[sleight]]s, '''Deathscythe''' and '''Blossom Shower''', on the other hand, are easy to dodge. For Deathscythe, all [[Sora]] has to do is head up or down towards the wall after he swings the scythe. If timed well, this can allow Sora to dodge the attack. Blossom Shower can also be dodged. If [[Dodge Roll]] is used at the right moment, it can nullify the damage the sleight would have otherwise caused. Dodging Marluxia's attacks as often as possible is the key to victory.

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This battle is the first time the real Marluxia is fought. Marluxia fuses with the giant [[Specter]] and is fought largely in two stages. In the first stage, the objective is to destroy the scythe hands. The main attack it uses in this stage is a Deathscythe. It is possible to damage the main body in this stage, but Marluxia is only vulnerable after a card break, making Omnislash useless at this point of the fight. Once the blades are destroyed, Marluxia takes on a different strategy. He uses floating flowers that shoot lasers first using Bit Attack, which can be easily destroyed simply by card breaking them. At regular intervals during the battle, he fires 2-5 slicer waves which can be dodged by jumping and heading to the fore/background. He occasionally uses Blossom Shower, which can be dodged with a well-timed Dodge Roll.

After this, Marluxia hovers above Sora and slams the mechanical vehicle down using Circle Reject, creating a shockwave that can be avoided by jumping at the right time. He does this three times in succession, and it is important to note that as his HP get lower, the succession becomes faster and harder to dodge. After this attack, Marluxia rears back and uses Body Blow. Card breaking this is important, as doing so puts Marluxia in his most vulnerable position and becomes targettable. Once the attack is broken, Sora is placed on the back of the mech and Marluxia sends out three more shot buds to protect him. It's important to note is that the less buds remain on screen, the harder it is to remain on the mech, as Sora is constantly forced backwards away from Marluxia. A good strategy is to use high level [[Cloud]] cards (around 7-9) in succession (one at a time, not in a sleight) while in front of Marluxia, while boosted by the [[Crescendo]]'s enemy card. Doing so deals a lot of damage in a short amount of time, and can also deal with the shot buds when card breaking them. If Sora has Marluxia's Double Sleight Enemy Card equipped, he can use it and combine it with [[Omnislash]]es, dealing even more damage, but must do so only when all shot buds are destroyed. Eventually, Sora is forced off and the whole process begins again. This pattern repeats until Marluxia is defeated.

|Marluxia moves forward and has the Specter swing the scythe down. Used when at least one scythe remains.

|Marluxia rushes forward with the Specter. Only used after both scythes have been destroyed.

|After a Card Break, Marluxia gets immobilized while near ground level, giving Sora the opportunity to jump on the Specter's back. Marluxia will fly away if nothing's done, but if Sora gets on its back, Marluxia will try to push him away by flying away faster every time a bit gets destroyed.}}

|Marluxia dashes and attacks 3 times. When Marluxia has less than 40% of his HP remaining, he'll perform 3 extra attacks when hitting Sora, ending with a downward swing.

The battle in ''Kingdom Hearts Re:Chain of Memories'' is very similar to the battle in ''Kingdom Hearts Chain of Memories'', although Marluxia is always targettable, the field is much large and the arena itself is different, and Marluxia will often glide away from Sora. He uses many of his attacks from ''Kingdom Hearts Chain of Memories'', including the shot buds, slicing waves, and the drop-down shockwave attack. Marluxia still uses only one card at a time, but his new attacks are more like sleights. The first of which is when he engulfs the field in [[darkness]], preventing Sora from seeing his cards (except for the reload card), while also turning the skies of the arena into a night sky full of shooting stars, similar to that from the original fight, and the second is when he creates a massive Blossom Shower. The perspective in these attacks changes to Marluxia, which can make it difficult to dodge these attacks. There is a way around the card seeing, stock cards and keep using sleights or removing when they are memorized.

|The bits fire a bullet each. The bullets can be avoided by running in a big circle or gliding.

As this fight takes place as soon as Marluxia's second form is defeated and there is no chance to modify the deck. So what will work well is before the battle with Marluxia, put in at least 12 attack cards, three or six of which are zeroes. Put in several [[Cure]] and [[Thunder]] cards and if possible some Cloud and [[Stop]] cards to use Cross Slash+. Finally, put in the [[Vexen]], [[Oogie Boogie]], [[Jafar]], [[Shadow]], [[Trickmaster]], [[Barrel Spider]], and [[Air Soldier]] [[Enemy Card]]s. [[Guard Armor]] and [[Axel]] are also useful as Guard Armor lets Sora attack Marluxia from a greater distance and Axel gives a slightly better chance of escaping Omni Laser. Marluxia cannot break any of Sora's sleights if their values are higher than 24, as the enemy doesn't use any zeroes.

|Doom

|{{Sleight|Marluxia (Third Form)|Marluxia (Third Form)|Marluxia (Third Form)||Three cards with a value of 6 - Total: 18}}

|Marluxia shoots thorn-shaped beams towards Sora. When hit, the screen zooms focuses on Sora, while he gets a counter above his head starting at 6 and the specter slowly approaches him. Sora has to break 6 of Marluxia's cards (valued 1~8) before the counter reaches 0 (within 18 seconds).  When succesful, the screen returns to normal. If the counter reaches 0, the Specter will make Sora's HP drop to 0 with a scythe swing, ignoring any Enemy/Special Card effects. The thorns can be evaded with Dodge Roll.

|{{Sleight|Marluxia (Third Form)|Marluxia (Third Form)|Marluxia (Third Form)||Three cards with a value of 7 - Total: 21}}

|Marluxia and the Specter generate 3 tornadoes that chase Sora and circle around. When hit, they scatter the Cards from Sora's Deck across the arena (excluding stocked Cards, Enemy Cards, and Special Cards), and add 1 to the Reload count if not already at 3. Sora can retrieve the Cards by walking over them. After about 20 seconds, Cards that haven't been picked up will fly away (except the Reload Card), but will return to the Deck when reloading.

|{{Sleight|Marluxia (Third Form)|Marluxia (Third Form)|Marluxia (Third Form)||Three cards with a value of 5 - Total: 15}}

|{{Sleight|Marluxia (Third Form)|Marluxia (Third Form)|Marluxia (Third Form)||Three cards with a value of 8 - Total: 24}}

|Used at short range. A shock wave sends Sora flying, and a gust of wind from the Specter prevents him from approaching. However, Sora can still glide to get closer.

|{{Sleight|Marluxia (Third Form)|Marluxia (Third Form)|Marluxia (Third Form)||Three cards with a value of 4 - Total: 12}}

|Marluxia envelops the party in thorns, which explode after 3 seconds.

|The thorns stop moving along with the targets a split second before exploding. Used along Disturbed Bloom.

|x2.5

|The light dims and petals fall. Marluxia follows Sora around, summoning red light from the floor 15 times, before throwing his scythe down, and ends with a plunging attack.

|Used at low HP. Marluxia stops following Sora around once he throws his scythe down, but the plunging attack warps him above Sora.

{{Atk-c|note=Hits on Sora from attacks with a x0 power modifier decrease the count on his head by 1. When the count hits 0, it results in his instant defeat.}}

{{rc|{{nihongo|'''Aerial Strike'''|エアトランプル|<br>Ea Toranpuru|lit. "Air Trample"}}|Physical|x1.0<br>Knockback: x10.0|Can be used when near Marluxia as he rests after using Tornado Slash.<br>Attack Marluxia three times and knock him back. The knockback acts as a finisher.}}

{{rc|{{nihongo|'''Restore Count'''|ロブカウント|<br>Robu Kaunto|lit. "Rob Count"}}|—|—|Can be used when near Marluxia's scythe as he rests after using Tornado Slash.<br>Steal Marluxia's scythe, slash with it, then throw it at him, knocking him back. Does not deal damage, but Sora's overhead count recovers up to its starting value by 13.  

 

When fighting Marluxia's Replica Data, the amount recovered is reduced each time Restore Count is used as such: 13 → 7 → 3, and is thereafter fixed at 1.}}

|Used below half HP along with Larxene's Thunder Lion attack, and at the outset of the fight if he is the only remaining target.

If Marluxia throws a large spinning scythe, he is doing his three-hit scythe spin combo. The scythe will start by spinning vertically along the ground toward Sora, then spin horizontally, then Marluxia will re-appear with a pink aura and catch the scythe, then throw his scythe vertically for the final hit. This final hit is unblockable. Marluxia will re-appear in the last scythe's path to catch it, and will be open to attack. Block the first two hits, dodge the third, then jump and attack to get to Marluxia's position. Alternatively, enter focus at the end and Airstep to him to attack.