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Tag Climax with a CPU Partner

Tag Climax played alone with a CPU partner: the 49 Story Verse Cards, the four secret cards that turn up at random, the two characters they give and the Card Collector Tear.

Tag Climax is its own mode on the Title Menu: rounds of six battles fought beside a partner, each battle a Verse Card you choose. This guide plays it alone, with a CPU partner. The four story runs have already given you the Story cards and the characters that come from Story clears; what is left is four secret cards that the game offers at random, the two characters two of them give, and the Card Collector Tear. Because the secret cards are random, this section has no fixed length: keep playing rounds until all four have come up and been won.

How a round works

A round is six battles in a row. Before each one you pick a card and set your bet in halos with the stick: a bigger bet makes the enemies tougher and multiplies the payout, and after each battle the higher scorer is paid. In a CPU round you always pick the card. Witch Time from either of you slows time for both, hitting the same enemy fills a shared gauge that sets off Umbran Climax for both, and Torture Attacks are switched off. If one of you falls, the other can revive them by standing close and holding the revive button before the countdown runs out. If both fall, or the revive fails, the round starts again from its first battle: you keep the halos picked up from enemies but lose the bet and the bonus. The game saves when a round is finished. Story weapons, techniques and costumes come with you; the Bracelet of Time and the Climax Brace are not allowed, and the Mallet of Rewards does nothing with Torture Attacks off. Halos you win here go into the same purse as your Story halos.

Start Tag Climax with a CPU partnerQuest step
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Tag Climax · Title Menu – From the title screen, load your save and choose Tag Climax on the Title Menu, next to Story and the Umbran Tears of Blood screen. Choose to play with a CPU partner rather than with a human over local wireless or online, pick your character, and start a round. Whether the CPU option needs a network connection is unconfirmed: if it asks for one, connect and try again.
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Summary
Opens the mode alone, with the computer as your partner, which is how every item in this section is done.
Nintendo Switch
On Wii U, Tag Climax was an online mode, and the CPU partner was something to play with while waiting for an online one. Nintendo shut down Wii U online play on 8 April 2024, and whether the CPU option still starts there has not been checked. Local wireless play is new on Switch.
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Check the Story Verse Cards (49)Quest step
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Tag Climax · Card picker – Before your first battle, page through the card picker and count the cards: after four story runs you should hold 49. The four still missing should be the secret ones, Nos. 13, 24, 26 and 53. If the count falls short, note the missing numbers: no list ties a card to its chapter, so there is no single chapter to send you back to.
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Summary
Of the 53 Verse Cards, 49 come from Story: each chapter clear adds the cards for the new enemies met in it. Card Collector needs every one of them.
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The four secret cards come at random

Nos. 13, 24, 26 and 53 are not earned in Story. They turn up at random while you play Tag Climax, and a card you are offered is yours to keep only if you win its battle and then finish all six battles of that round. Quitting part-way loses it. How often they come up, and whether a CPU round offers them at all, is not known: if many rounds pass with none, they may need a human partner over local wireless or online. Tick each card below as it comes, in any order.

Winning a round with a secret card in it

Bet the least you can: the bet is the difficulty setting, and only the win matters for the card. It is not confirmed that a win at the lowest bet keeps the card, so look for it in the picker after the round. Fight near your partner so either of you can revive the other, and hit what it hits to fill the shared gauge. Since Torture Attacks are off and the Bracelet of Time is barred, Witch Time from dodges and Umbran Climax are your main tools. Once a secret card is won, fill the rest of the round with cards you already know you can beat. Your character changes the rules: Jeanne can dodge without limit but gets Witch Time only through Moth Within and takes one and a half times the damage, and the 3rd Climax character deals and takes far more damage.

Secret Verse Card No. 13Hidden spoiler – activate to revealCollectibleMinor spoiler
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Tag Climax · Secret Verse Card – Take it whenever the picker offers it. The fight puts a late Story boss in front of you with almost every attack he had in Story, but without most of the team attacks and the button prompts. Dodge his weapon swings to trigger Witch Time, then win the card and finish the round.
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Summary
One of the four secret Verse Cards, subtitled "The Light & The Dark". Winning it also unlocks a Tag Climax character.
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Tag Climax character from Verse Card No. 13Hidden spoiler – activate to revealOtherMinor spoiler
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Tag Climax · Character select – Once the round with card No. 13 is finished, the new character is on the character select screen; pick them once to check. A quicker way, if it works on Switch: replay Chapter IV from Chapter Select (pick the difficulty in its menu before you start) and, just after Verse 5 and the large door, as you come into the city at night, find the small green door on your right. Face the door up close and knock on it three times (on Wii U, three taps on Bayonetta's upper body on the touch screen; on Switch, try the touch screen in handheld mode) until the camera swings round to face the door. Then key in Up, Down, Up, Right, Left, followed by X, B, Y, A, and accept the price. Nothing happens if you already own what the door sells. It costs 5,000,000 halos. Whether the door also adds card No. 13 to your collection is unknown, so win the card anyway for Card Collector.
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A character playable only in Tag Climax, unlocked by winning secret card No. 13.
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Secret Verse Card No. 24Collectible
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Tag Climax · Secret Verse Card – Take it whenever the picker offers it. Labolas lies still and does nothing until someone hits it, so you choose when the fight starts: get into position with your partner first. Win it and finish the round.
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Summary
One of the four secret Verse Cards: Labolas, Destroyer of Fates, the one demon fought only in Tag Climax.
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Secret Verse Card No. 53Collectible
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Tag Climax · Secret Verse Card – Take it whenever the picker offers it. Here Rodin fights with the moves he has as a playable Tag Climax character, not those of his Story boss fight: he cannot dodge, but he has a block that turns away every attack, so expect hits to bounce off while he guards. Win it and finish the round.
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Summary
One of the four secret Verse Cards: Rodin, The Infinite One. Winning it also makes Rodin playable in Tag Climax.
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Tag Climax character: RodinOther
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Tag Climax · Character select – Once the round with card No. 53 is finished, Rodin is on the character select screen; pick him once to check. He has no dodge, no Witch Time and no accessories, but a timed block that stops every enemy attack, and his shot can interrupt an Accolade's attack. A quicker way, if it works on Switch: replay Chapter IV from Chapter Select, go to the door for the card No. 13 character (on your right just after the large door past Verse 5), then walk on a little and turn the corner to find a second door tucked away there. Face the door up close and knock on it three times (on Wii U, three taps on Bayonetta's upper body on the touch screen; on Switch, try the touch screen in handheld mode) until the camera swings round to face the door. Then key in Up, Down, Up, Right, Left, followed by X, B, Y, A, and accept the price. Nothing happens if you already own what the door sells. It costs 10,000,000 halos. Whether the door also adds card No. 53 to your collection is unknown, so win the card anyway.
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Summary
Rodin as a Tag Climax character, unlocked by winning secret card No. 53. He plays only in Tag Climax.
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Umbran Tear: Card Collector (every Verse Card)Achievement
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Tag Climax · Tag Climax – It pops once the last of the four secret cards is won and its round finished, with the 49 Story cards already in hand. If it does not, count the picker again for a missing card.
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Summary
A Bewitchment, so one of the 50 Umbran Tears of Blood, for holding all 53 Verse Cards.
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About this guide

Four clears. Run 1 on 2nd Climax walks every chapter and takes every collectible, portal and hidden Verse. A quick 1st Climax clear unlocks one accessory. 3rd Climax and Infinite Climax each need every chapter cleared, and Infinite Climax is the real test. The Witch Trials, medal replays, the Rodin fight on Infinite Climax, and Tag Climax with a CPU partner finish the list.

Last verified: Nov 8, 2026 · Patch Nintendo Switch, Ver. 1.2.0 (Wii U differences noted) · 0 community corrections shipped

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