As of November 8th, 2020,Max Level:
26Max XP:
87,000Definitely one of the more tedious achievements, normal play in online matches and offline bots will net you a very low amount of XP in comparison to the max that you need, so if grinding isn't your cup of tea, we're going to farm it.
This strategy originated from Dr Javicii (
https://www.trueachievements.com/gamer/Dr+Javicii) over on TrueAchievements where he made a guide for this exact achievement on XBOX (
https://www.trueachievements.com/a235080/100-achievement). His guide is very in depth and I highly recommend reading it, as this method is practically identical. For this guide I've altered a few steps to make it more PC orientated.
First off, you're going to want to go into your settings and configure the controls for every player (1-4). Player 1 is going to be the main character you're performing the grind on, so make sure his controls make sense to you. For the other 3 players, you want to bind the left and right controls to keys that are close to each other and that can all be used at once (not necessary to use all keys at once, but it speeds up the setup). For me, I bound each player to pairs of number keys (P2: 1 + 2, P3: 3 + 4, P4: 5 + 6).
Once your controls are saved, go to Online and create a custom game. Click add local on Player 1 and choose your character (stray away from gold characters even though they get an XP boost for this method as they have a handicapped powerup that will push your character back), then add local for all other player slots. Go into the Game options and uncheck everything except for
Fireballs and
Freezerays. Choose
Resort and walk all 4 players to the right. Stop the 3 other local players under the switch that is above where you spawn, and bring your player over to the 4 stacked powerups.
With everyone in place, start a timer (optional) and start jumping and spamming use looking at the other players. You should be constantly throwing fireballs and firing freezerays, hitting the local players and stacking medals (i.e. Strike!, Triple Freeze!). You can only obtain 50 of each unique medal per match, so you want to trial and error how long it takes to reach the max medals. For me, it was about 1.5 minutes for each spam session, so the 1-2 minute range would be good to test around. Once you've spammed for a minute or two, walk the 3 other local players to the left and kill them 3 times to win the game on your player. I found most of my matches I was receiving 1000-1500xp, with the biggest reason for low xp is missed Freezerays from how the timed with the jumps.
This method is the most efficient I've found and used myself personally, which got me from level 23 to level 26 very quickly (I was unaware that max level was 26 as I was seeing in a lot of places much higher levels).
Side note:
Regarding controllers, I find it easier to farm on keyboard over controller due to being able to easily control all 4 of the players at once, as controller keybindings only bind for one player, decreasing efficiency.
I fully encourage getting the achievement just from playing but with a low player count and an even lower XP output per match, it'll be a lot of work. From playing legit for ~80 hours I was only level 23. Best of luck <3