7 Cheapest Final Fantasy Bosses Who Didn’t Play By The Rules
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Final Fantasy games are notorious for being packed full of various unique and memorable bosses.
Many of these bosses are incredibly well designed, but every now and again some slip through the cracks and are just simply unfair. Sometimes these bosses expect players to have knowledge they couldn’t possibly have had on a first blind playthrough. And in these instances, walking into a boss fight with the wrong build can be utterly devastating.
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I remember having trouble with the Gafgarion fight until a friend told me “(before starting the stage) Just take all of his equipment off him and change Gafgarion’s job to Chemist.”
90s problems require 90s solutions
Yep, this was a fun trick to employ on any sus guest character.
How low can you get? I love it!
That's not for the fight he's talking about in this video. It only works for the battle at the bridge. You could also just take all his equipment and then he can't using his sword arts.
The fights you have against him at the execution grounds and castle he'll have his sword back and his original job. For those fights you can either grind until you have the ninja dual sword ability and use it on a monk to trivialize the fight, or if you want minimal grinding you can steal/break his sword. Auto potion will buy you the time you need to do so.
@@Tengokuchi Youve played fft on psx, and stole all the genji stuff from the marquis, didnt you?
Yunalesca's primary tactic is to inflict you with zombify and other statuses so she can heal you to death, meaning you have to remove zombie and the statuses in order to survive and progress. But her secondary tactic is to cast megadeath on the party and kill everyone who isn't already a zombie, so you have to leave people zombified to survive. But if you leave people zombified she'll inflict them with status effects and kill them with healing. But if you cure or prevent zombie she'll inflict death and kill them, so they need to be zombies. But they'll die if they're zombies. But they'll die if they aren't zombies. But they'll die if
Reflect prevents her from killing you with heal spells lol. Coincidentally her counters remove every buff EXCEPT Reflect and Regen. You just need to be able to outdamage how much HP she'll be getting from the reflected magic.
Esuna doesn't remove Zombie in Final Fantasy X. You have to use an item called a Holy Water to remove Zombie.
There's a raid boss in FF14 that does this too, where you have to eat the zombification on purpose. Bodies everywhere, every time.
@@Veladus There's also Ultima in FF12 that does Holyja which hits the whole party with Reverse, then she attempts to cast Renew on the whole party. While that doesnt kill, it does leave you with 1 HP, combined with her HP Sap field effect if its the current one (she cycles through all of them), it can wipe your party lol.
The worst part about it is, if you didnt know the damage of your Aeons, she outright banishes them. But if you do, you can kill her in between p2->3 and have the Aeon take the Megadeath for you.
half of the battle and frustration with Yunalesca/Seymour is the long unskippable cutscenes before them 😭
I will forever be scared by Lady Yunalensca I literally spent two hours fighting her just to lose when she had about 500 health left because she suddenly got to do 5 moves in a row
I somehow only lost to Yunalesca once. I spammed the fuck out of Holy over and over and had a final Aeon attack the second time and beat her.
Yunalesca took me out twice before I took her down but it was a lengthy battle because my first play through I didn’t get holy till literally after that battle 🤣
I remember on PS2 and fighting her used to drive me nuts, I eventually found out that Mega Death does nothing to you if you are still zombified, I was shocked when I realized what happened, after that and I played it again, I started power leveling because I wasn't going through that crap again a second time lmao
@@ProToken420 I totally understand
Maybe it was sheer dumb luck, but I don't remember needing multiple tries to beat Yunalesca. Perhaps 2? Something I did notice with her is that the moment I put Auron in my party, she was *ruthless* towards him. It made me simultaneously pissed off and impressed with the devs. I am absolutely convinced that the devs telegraphed Yunalesca to bully Auron in the fight if you have him in your party. Whenever I was cursing a blue streak at Yunalesca, it was because she targeted Auron 9 times out of 10.
I saw the title and was like: “Do you have any idea how little that narrows it down?”
Note: You can actually save Kain from paralysis and dying in that fight against Golbez, at least in the original 2D version. Have him use Jump in that fight just before he uses that paralysis ability and again just before the Black Dragon uses that instant death ability. Presto! No need to revive him. Tested it on both the SNES and PS1 ports; it works. 😃
I recently streamed the PSP version and wasn't even trying, and Kain helped revive everyone.
I remember as a kid, i managed to somehow reach Yunalesca. I'd beaten Seymour Flux with the power of Bio but Yunalesca was a different beast alltogether. I tried for like, a solid week. Every morning before school i'd take a shot at her. when i finally did it i was so happy.....that i left the Zanarkand Dome without the Sun Crest and because i was on the PAL version of the game, Dark Bahamut was there.
I very much agree with Rufus Shinra being seriously frustrating. His attack combos tended to hit almost every time at least once and then it removed my chance to hit. Thankfully I had stocked up with max healing items available in the store by then, since I had to use over half of them on him.
I had a harder time getting stuck under leveled for the Wiegraf/Velius (Belias) fight and getting save locked out with no choice but to retstart the whole game
Replaying my favorite, FF9 and it is still a challenge at times. I have not died yet and I am on disk 2 but I was quickly reminded of how difficult the game is when I met Gizmaluke and was forced to use items. I never use items.
Damn. I knew there was a reason I avoided the Hell out of Omega in XV!
I think he may be the only enemy immune to the Ring.
Final Fantasy XVI feels like it has an iteration of Omega that is challenging without BS resistances.
Yunalesca is an interesting case of a boss being made more difficult by vague Scan descriptions & the *very* rare use of zombie & confusion in the story progression. The first phase is her least threatening by a wide margin & is mostly filled with her using status effects as counterattacks against your characters & using the occasional absorb to damage you and heal herself (if you use magic, she'll retaliate with silence, if you use physical attacks, she'll retaliate with blind etc).
The 2nd phase is where her mask begins to slip. She induces zombie status consistently on the current 3 characters out, then casts cura & regen. This kind of strategy is difficult to truly neutralize, but it's manageable. Just keep a high HP character out & make sure shell or reflect are on them (shell halves magical power, reflect bounces the heal back onto her, but it helps zombied characters survive longer).
The 3rd phase is where she reveals her true colors. She opens with Mega Death, offlining anyone who's not a zombie or who lacks deathproof armor (this requires 60 farplane winds to sythesize, which requires catching 1 of every monster in the calm lands after activating the monster arena sidequest, which is annoying grinding). She uses the extremely elusive ability called Mind Blast, which curses (disables overdrive use) & causes confusion (two VERY nasty effects). She uses Curaga in this phase as well & can use mega Death whenever as well. You *need* 2 characters zombied in order to have a good chance at surviving (unless mind blast's confusing utterly screws you over if your party starts attacking each other lol)
The bulk of her difficulty comes from her 3rd phase pumping out confuse, zombie, & death effects. All of these have *Very* limited counterplay when used in tandem in this way. You can buy Holy Waters from the merchant at Mt. Gagazet for 300 gil, but remedies are 1500 a piece. Most players will lack complete protection against all the status effects she has. There's no reliable armor for death, zombie & confuse all at once, so it's very annoying dealing with her.
One thing with FF9 you could find yourself at lvl 12 and be on the 3rd disc lol. Ruby Dragon farm and lucky Garnet Odin bombs worked well to resolve this near Gizamaluke's Grotto. With some save scumming because if Odin failed, so did you.
That FFVII Rebirth fight was BS. I died so many times on that fight.
Honestly I didn’t find yunalesca difficult as a kid I beat her on my 1st try. Seymour however that 2/3rd fight I struggled and quit for a while fighting him
That Gafagarian one hits for me. My first time playing FFT I made Ramza a self insert and made him a White Mage. Got to that fight and ended up having to restart my game. Made Ramza a Monk for my next playthrough.
Bloody Yunalesca traumatised 12 year old me on my first runthrough; every single subsequent runthrough in the 20 years+ since, I've spitefully overlevelled at Mt Gagazet so I can Flare and Holy spam that bikini armoured witch into the Farplane.
I brought red chocobos to the gafgarion fight. They can jump to the top of the gate and choco meteor is op.
Sure the Gafgarion fight was kinda cheap, but it has nothing on the Wiegraf, Velius, Elmdor + Assassins gauntlet at Riovanes castle. Maybe you covered some of that in part one or two idk, but any one of those three fights make Gafgarion look like a cakewalk. You basically have to end the Elmdor fight in half a turn or it's game over. Wiegraf is virtually impossible without auto-potion or being leveled so high that you could beat the final boss in one turn. And Velius is just Velius. I break the game every time I play now, but on my first play through I got soft locked there. Had to start over. Thus, the dual-wielding knight was born lol.
Yunalesca scared me every replay
And here I was, as a black mage Rama, blasting Gaffgarion with Flare
This video got me thinking what Final Fantasy's have multiple good boss fights? This includes gimmicks, status effects, mechanics, and being fun/thoughtful.
I'm sure the MMOs would automatically be on here, but not including those.
I'm partial to FF5 and FFX.
Rebirth Sephiroth I think had some pretty shit mechanics. This fight is just a series of Sephiroth starting 10 second countdowns you have to interrupt with very little skill involved. It's just dodging and waiting to use your ATB gauges on his wing over and over again for like 10 minutes all to see if you can maneuver perfectly to survive the last 5 seconds.
I swear to god I could get to The End Is Nigh in my fucking sleep at this point, but it's literally just a tossup if you actually succeed. Even if you survive Octoslash, the game loves its instakill countdowns so fucking much that he instantly launches into another one just to make sure you're dead.
And then you can't skip the god damn cutscene if you fail.
I hadn’t saved in a long time and Kimhari got his whole self absolutely smoked by those Ronso bullies. My word man, I think I turned that game off for a year and had to start all over.
I had to reduce the difficulty when I got to Rufus in Rebirth.
On my second play through I realized learning “ignore height” by the Gaffgarion fight would make his fight a joke - just sitting there stuck behind the gate while you join your party in the front.
Stealing his sword is, by far, the best strategy, though. No more Fell Knight skills for you!
[Spoilers for FFVII Rebirth]
It wasn't the hardest fight I also found very cheap the last moments of the final battle against Sephiroth, you know, because if you don't stagger him at the very end he will insta-kill you, which is very hard to do when he's attacking you from every direction, dealing a ton of damage, and is not entirely clear he will destroy you if you don't stop his attack
Yunalesca is not that hard. I don't understand how it takes hours for someone. Just save all Aeon overdrives, use Lulu's doublecast-Firaga and that's pretty much it.
5:07 - I just summoned Bahamut, immune to death and Megaflare hit for 40,000 Hp *shrugs*
It took me a hour of beating on omega with 99 mega elixirs and phenix downs to final down him.
I feel like that Gafgarion fight was quite easy really, I struggle more around the fight against that silver haired character (Marquis?) with Raffa always running into her own death turn 1...
Haven't get to Yunalesca yet but you really didn't include Evrae here? It's totally unfair, you tell Cid to pull back and he only moves the airship AFTER being hit by poison breath, anti poison equipement don't work against Evrae, neither reflect, AND if you're lucky and won this battle you had to face another tough enemies in the wedding immediately, no save points in sight!!
What?! You were supposed to fight FF9 Tantarian later in the game? I never knew that and always beat him during the time limit.
At the same time, I don't remember Yunalesca or Seymour boss mechanica at all. Just stomped over them every time. I guess I was overlevelled at that point. I always felt FFX itself was too easy, while dark aeons were too hard.
Why is everybody hating on yunalesca. I beat her first try and again to get the sun crest i forgot
Use Disorder on Rufus after he does one of his special attacks. Disrupts him and pressures him immediately.
In FF10, when I'm in doubt...
I will just Yojimbo'ed all the bosses
Yeahhh.,.. Gafgarion wasn't even the most unfair boss in his game.
Weigraf and Marquis @ Riovannes were both far, FAR worse. Matter of fact, Marquis @ Riovannes was the only boss in any game i've ever played I've been forced to 100% restart and build myself with the expressed intention of curbstomping him specifically as fast as I possibly could. I've never encountered something like that before OR since.
Seymour Flux was honestly harder than Yunalesca. Playing WoW for years taught me to recognize mechanics and work around them. As soon I saw the first zombie into instant death, i knew what to do. Seymour Flux required me to go into it with EVERY Aeon and every character's Overdrives ready to go and just bumrushed him with them and i BARELY snaked by him.
Golbez ragdolled me the first time I fought him. But even young me realized "Get Kain in the air, recover everyone faster with Life item + Elixir as soon as Rydia's out". Worked like a charm and I still use that strategy on every playthru of 4 I do to this day.
Weigraf was in the first video, so it's already been covered. Marquis Elmdore @ Riovannes Roof was more "your loss could be entirely out of your control with no sane solution" as Rapha was prone to charging Lettie and Celia, leading to her falling and you auto-losing very likely without getting a single turn of your own to even get out of the poor starting position; I personally fine Weigraf more worse from the perspective of "you can do something about this", whereas Elmdore and the Assassins was very "pray RNG lets you get a turn".
Yunalesca is easy. If you're the type to save overdrives. Or 'overlevl' Yuna so her summons deal massive amounts of damage to the first two forms. Like Valefor and Shiva finishing off the first form in one attack or similar.
Been a long while but I know that it was a breeze when I only used Yuna on the PS2. During a secpnd playthrough I tried to use all partymembers to give them a share of exp and that made things more difficult.
Tbh I think Rufus became easier after Darkstar was on the field. Maybe that was just me though. Either way I'm not looking forward to the hard mode fight
Yunalesca was the first boss ever in final fantasy that made me grind in order to beat it. Everything else had been easy up until that point (seymour flux made me reload a couple times, but i didnt need to grind). I remember grinding Wakka up to the point where he was just a powerhouse carrying the whole time with shear damage.
The boss looks like lose/lose fight because you get zombify then she uses heals to damage you but if you aren't zombie, you get mega death. In essence, the entire goal of the fight is to have half your party zombify, let her status effect hit the party members and when party member is low, get rid of her zombie status effect saving that party member and then you cycle their hp bar with other members turning into zombies. this insures that if she does cast mega death, it doesn't wipe party. Only half of it. A complicated fight that most people won't figure out and endless lose over and over.
I thought Zanarkand in general was pretty thought starting with this big tiger thing.
"Now! This is it! Now is the time to choose! Die and be free of pain or live and fight your sorrow! Now is the time to shape your stories! Your fate is in your hands!"
The only thing that made Yunalesca tolerable was that outfit.
Cool speech the first time you see it, but when you lose to Yunalesca five times in a row it gets old, lol
Absolute legend of a character.
Epic line from Auron! That one hit hard!!
When Yunalesca's 3rd form showed up I literally went "OH MY GOD, HOLY SHIT!!!" out loud. *Terrifying*
This is a public safety announcement: Yunalesca is made trivial with the "eater" abilities (fire eater, water eater, etc.) You hit yourself with waterga and heal yourself for that much damage.
Whenever possible, ALWAYS HAVE MULTIPLE SAVE FILES!!!
Not to excuse bad design, it's just a good idea.
This was always a tricky proposition on the PS1, though, with those 15-slot memory cards.
@@daviddalrymple2284 True.
I used to keep a single memory card just for whatever rpg I was playing at the time.
Tactics ogre Luct and fft really requires multiple save.
@@unknownuser494 Absolutely!
Seriously, that was my aha moment for multiple game saves.
My near foolproof strat for Yunalesca (which I lifted from some guide somewhere), no Zombie or death protection needed.
> Bring in Tidus (for Cheer), Yuna (for Reflect and maybe Holy). 3rd member can be whoever (probably Wakka or Auron).
> Before you attack, set up Reflect on all 3 (you have nothing to fear from Yunalesca's status ailments or healing spells while you're zombied). Tidus meanwhile casts Cheer 5 times.
> Just keep attacking, until you're about to beat her 2nd form. If needed, heal from Zombie so you can heal yourself with potions. Let Yunalesca zombie you again before finishing her 2nd form.
> Keep attacking until she bites it. If Yuna has Holy, now's a good time to start spamming it.
> If Yunalesca bounces Regen onto herself, you might want to Dispel it.
> Bonus points if you have Bahamut in Overdrive, or can Grand Summon Bahamut. Use this to finish off her 3rd form to get an Overkill (getting you multiple lv4 Key Spheres in the process).
> Or use some other attack capable of doing more then 9999 damage for Overkill (probably one of Tidus' Overdrives).
This is a great strategy. But may I make a recommendation of not using reflect. First off I understand why, it nullifies the cura and Regen which are your main issues but at the same time yunalesca is healing herself too. A regular cura from her deals around 2k-3k damage maybe more. But the Regen deals damage based on the HP of the one it's on, so depending on the HP it will most likely count as a regular attack dealing around 200-400 damage. The issue is when Regen is applied to yunalesca as she heals for a massive 4k with a single tick which is a few attacks healed off right there. Plus cura uses having a similar effect. Over all everything else I can agree with. That is just my one critic.
When I fought Yunalesca the first time she completely wiped me out in the 3rd phase of the battle with Mega-Death. I honestly never saw that coming and she has to be one of the harder Final Fantasy fights in general because if your not prepared, she'll completely destroy you
Honeslty? I think the first boss that ever properly just handed me my ass.... was Shin-Ryu. In FF4 you have a few treasure chests that have unique traps.... opening them triggers a boss fight. And this one loves to spam elemental AoEs. Thus to win you need not only good armor ratigns... but also resistance or immunity to both fire and WATER. Yeah.... he casts Tidal wave on you... and that REALLY hurts. Ok, it's LESS painful that his atomic heat beam, but still painful.
My best friend who I call my brother is 6 years older than me & showed me this game when I was a kid. His Mom had got him a ps2 but no memory card so for a week he left the console on & made it all the way to Yunalesca 3rd phase without dying. Needless to say he still has PTSD from MegaDeath & got a memory card shortly after lol
@@marhawkman303thats in 5 not 4. But yeah his abilitys hit for near 7000 damage which unless your level 99 your probably dead unless you have the rings. I always thought omega was harder personally. Rocket punch and encircle are brutal
@@snuggie1849 Well, yeah, Omega is harder since Omega needs a logic puzzle to figure out how to damage the -----. But Omega isn't something I accidentally ran into while picking up loot.
@@natedeezy1652 Hardcore mode.
Yunalesca. I started that fight at 11 pm hoping to be done by midnight but was playing till 2 am.
I started it at 10pm and ended at 12am😂
@@DiademAce over the past year since may 2023 I have played and gotten the platinum trophy on FF1-10, 10-2, 12, 13, 13-2, 16, 7 Remake/Rebirth, Type-0, Crisis Core and Strangers of Paradise. Currently starting Lightning Returns right now as we speak. Getting ready for FF14 on the PS5. Really enjoying the franchise a lot. But yeah FF10 was probably the hardest one I’ve played because of a lot of annoying enemies and bosses. Just new to start and platinum Lightning returns and then FF15 and I’m done with all FF games I set out to play which is about 22 games in total.
@@Duckman8213hopefully you’re able to add tactics and tactics advanced in the future!
@@Duckman8213nice work! I only ever platinum’d ff10.
The grind part of it was interesting in retrospect. I distinctly remember save scumming and grinding dark yojimbo for some great armor pieces. I did skip penance and nemesis with yojimbo though.
Good luck with your platinum journey!
@@tophfb playing that on an emulator on my phone when not home at the PlayStation
The thumbnail really knows how to pull me
Would it still pull you, if she were Flat?
If I would single out an unfair fight from FF7 Rebirth, it would be Alexander & Odin one, especially on hard mode. It is so frustrating to deal with them both at the same time, even when you know what you are supposed to do, and if you get unlucky and take too many hits, Odin might wipe you anyway.
I absolutely hated fighting Rufus in rebirth on Hardmode. I abused level 3 limit break while continuously blocked to build up the charge.
That was the only way I could beat him too😂
Same but try to land a braver command on this mf as soon as he is reloading. Rufus will get an instant choc state and you will get the biggest dopamine hit you'd ever felt while gaming. I was literally laughing like a villain when it happened
@@sunnyblack3359 I swear I tried braver, asses says one move will do it but not which one. In remake it was triple slash.
@@jesset1762 You have to hit it as soon as he starts to reload i typically spam the command menu to slow down time to see what he is about to do so that i can catch him asap, triple slash is also the strat in rebirth, it's more reliable and more consistent but it will only give you a pressured state.
Sometimes you can even use Cloud basic attack and if he is far, he will leap towards him fast enough to catch him but it doesn't always work.
Using triple slash is the most viable strategy don't get me wrong, but the braver tech is more like a cool little secret high risk high reward thing you don't have to feel forced to do at all.
There's actually a pretty simple strategy you can use against him. You can triple slash him, when he follows up a dash with an attack. It cancels his attack and leaves him open for a series of combos. Just do a full combo, dodge and combo again, until he counters. Build up your limit and save it. When Darkstar shows up, just continue focusing on Rufus. Stagger him and use your limit. If he's not beaten, then he'll be pretty close
Dude with Yunalesca's fight I literally had to be a strategist
The dark aeon summoners ambushing you in FFX. Killed off a 90h save
For real. I had no idea they were a thing when I played the ps3 remaster. Went back to besaid and was destroyed in no time at all... and I had no problem and was probably over leveled throughout the whole game. But that dark summon destroyed me instantly.
@@bobjoemac1 same here but this was on my original run on PS2. I went back to Besaid because I didn't get the upgrade for Valefor (Energy Blast overdrive) from the dogo in the village. The 2nd time was the magus sisters. Stupid dark aeons... I was only 15, I had no idea about optimizing my party, I had no chance against them.
Yeah, Mushroom Rock Road was scary to traverse.
If you were 90h in then it wasn't killed you were just caught off guard. The time you can face most dark aeons is after the airship anyways, so you can just do the endgame grind a bit early, since you'd have to grind anyways as even the easiest dark aeon is harder than all the sin fights pre-entering.
Funny enough Seymour Flux and Yunalesca have the same boss fight music. So whenever I hear this theme I would get ready for a difficult fight.😂
Makes sense, the theme is called "Challenge".
I love multiple boss themes. More games need to do that. Chrono Trigger's got two (and one that is in the game files but unused) and that was pretty epic.
True. Seymour flux is so annoying. Zombie touch followed with Life will fk u up. The boss forces us to buy the zombieward gear from oaka nearby.
They both gave me problems and I’m not ashamed to admit I used a guide for them. Only time I needed to in any FF game (excluding super bosses).
Zodiark from Final Fantasy XII. Some bosses can put up palings and become immune to physical attacks. Some bosses can put up magick wards and become immune to magical attacks. Zodiark can do both simultaneously. He also starts the fight with a dark elemental instant death attack, his elemental weakness is constantly shifting and he has over three hundred and thirty thousand hit points to chew through.
The paling bit is awful with him.
I remember fighting his last 10% of hp for like 8 minutes because he kept putting up palings
yesss FF12 mentioned! Zodiark can be such a pain to deal with, holy fook. If you dispel his reflect the dude's just straight up flips the table on you and shoots you with everything he has just for good measure. lmao
opal rings vs him were a must in all my playthroughs
Yeah, the trick is to end the fight as soon as possible. With the right setup, it is possible to finish him off in less than 1 minute. But damn it destroyed me so many times before I figured it out.
Zodiark is easy when you know how he works. But yeah the first few attempts can be a pain 😂
Zodiark is my last Esper, and I've been level grinding on and off for almost a year trying to beat him. I just can't get that last sliver of health!
What confuses me about Pandemonium Warden is that if a group tried for 18 hours and failed to beat it, how could anyone be expected to beat it in only 2 hours?
Iirc, balancing and an later increased level cap.
Another boss around that time was Absolute Virtue, and that too had the issue that players could not legitimately beat the boss originally. Only this time, it was because the boss had powerful spells and huge regen.
Manykudos did a video talking about this in more detail.
m.ruclips.net/video/ydO58rfQk4E/видео.html&pp=ygUJbWFueWt1ZG9z
There's a point I feel you failed to mention about the Rufus fight. Not only is he an absolutely cheap opponent, but you have to defeat Rude and Elana before you can even fight him. And if you decide to "restart from before the fight" so that you can adjust your equipment and materia to better suit the fight... you had to beat Rude and Elana again. And ALL of that, is at the end of an already potentially grueling series of progressively challenging battles.
I remember being absolutely incensed by the seemingly endless gauntlet. By the time I finally beat Rufus, I very clearly told myself if there was even 1 more battle, I was going to straight up quit playing. It was that needlessly obnoxious.
Missing out on the Behemoth from Final Fantasy Mystic Quest - The very first fight in the game (tutorial boss) that could two-shot you, or otherwise just kill you if you get even slightly unlucky.
I sold everything just to buy 3 cherub crowns because of the instant kill from Orphan in 13. The fight was needlessly ridiculous.
Poison makes that fight significantly easier because Orphan loses ridiculous amounts of HP from it thanks to Poison dealing more to high health targets in FF13. Poison and one Cherub Crown on your leader if you want to avoid some bad RNG and the fight can be done in 1 stagger phase. Congrats on beating it. 😌
The solution to the Yunalesca fight was to let yourself be zombied because Zombies are immune to Megadeath. This was actually an interesting boss fight because Zombie as a status means that you can't restore lost HP, so when characters are KOed due to HP loss, pick them back up with Life or Phoenix Downs.
I can't tell you how many times I died fighting against the Monster House in FFVII Remake, on Hard Mode it was an endurance test at least for me at the time, as for Barthandelus and Orphan in FFXIII, I hated those bosses, especially Barthandelus and his recurring boss battles (Azi Dahaka made me rage so many times)
Agreed, I'm not sure if I ever five-star'd Barthandelus.
Same goes for the final boss in Remake on Hard mode. The whispers are so hard to get through that by the time I reached Sephiroth I was tired
@@MaxNMotion In Rebirth I had to actually scale down the difficulty fighting the final boss, it was on Normal difficulty and I was still getting killed off, had to swallow my pride and put it on easy just finish the game
(My people were pretty high level too, it's a freaking gauntlet)
I think Hell House was the point where I decided Remake was garbage.
I still finished the game, but nah, it was bad. No PS5 means I don't have to worry about whether Rebirth is also garbo!
@@bahamutbbob I don't really mind it, I grew up playing the original and by the time this came out, there was so much created for FFVII, from spin-offs to whole novels, what they are doing with this one is putting it into a context that makes sense, lots of questions didn't get answered, so I look at Remake and Rebirth as an alternate universe (in which they are)
(I forgot, the InterMission dlc for Remake brings back Weiss the Immaculate and Nero the Sable of Deepground, a secret covert group within ShinRa like SOLDIER, but way more powerful in the fact that they were still being experimented on even after getting their enhancements and refining them, Azul the Cerulean can turn into a Behemoth, but that's because he was created too be a tank)
Geomancer Ramza against Gaffgarion is also fairly easy to use as you can status him on rocky or grassy terrain (IIRC). Other option I've used on him (and Wiegraf) is to use Monk with far movement and having already unlocked Chakra, Aurablast, and Shockwave.
Double punch as monk against Wiegraf is a guaranteed one-hit kill when it lands. Still my favorite strategy to this day.
@@franimal86On both his forms?!?!?
@XSAGA87 I can confirm this, ninjas two weapon ability plus being a monk sometimes let me punch for up to 400+ damage per punch without even increasing strength(guts ability focus or accumulate, I don't remember if Ramzas has a different name). Plus monk Chakra, revive, and purify are amazing, and ramza having tailwind, steel, and shout later only made it even stronger
@@guestguest5716 once you get Shout in Ch. 4, Ramza becomes almost a perfect flex dps unit. Shout on his first turn and go to town on anyone.
@@DrStunJosh this, and especially if you got blade grasp/iaido from samurai as well, since with 100 brave anything physical just could not hit you, and if you lower faith enough for Ramza, magic does almost nothing
Yunalesca strategy; Obtain deathproof.. Easy. I'm surprised to see how many people struggled.. Did no one utilze the armor abilities???
My brother is undoubtedly one of many who hit the Gafgarion softlock. he still talks about it from time to time :D
Same.
I thought he was going to mention the Weigraff fight, because I think the game prompts you to save right before hand, so if Ramza isn't up for the fight, you're completely screwed, and Weigraff is way tougher than Gafgarion.
Oh, and then he changes into Velius and summons a bunch of demons. Nice.
Without watching the video, im hoping he includes Wrexsoul from FF6. I was never able to beat that fight fair and sauare. I always had to use the vanish + x zone trick.
I just beat Wrexsoul in Pixel Remaster last night! Unfortunately, no vanish/x-zone in this version...
The entire ending chapters of FFX made me HATE the game. Specifically the bosses being not just hard, but complete BS
Gilgamesh in 13-2 was ridiculous. You stagger him and he hits you with every debuff imaginable.
That FF 13-2 monster arena just loved bringing back all your favorite joke bosses from classic FF games, and having them totally wreck Serah and Noel.
@@daviddalrymple2284 True but they were very OP once you obtain them. Especially Omega. I think he was the best Commando alongside Knight of Etro Lightning.
I agree, I never managed to beat him, not even at max level
@@georgehouliaras7239 reminds me of the Malboros in FFX-2 and their "Bad Breath" attack.... poisoned, burning, blinded, silenced... etc..... they're not really even bosses.!
Huh. This is silly as all get out, and probably explained, but do you figure that's a reference to his Genji Armor stolen off of him in his debut game V negating those effects?
Still remember keeping an eye on Yunelesca's hp value till it hit right around where a megaflare from bahamut would end her. Spent far too long in that fight and took a break from playing over it too.
You attack rufus with an weapon ability the moment you see an attack name come up. It will break his attack.
Rufus was a difficult fight. They key, however, was using either "counterstance" or perfect parry. That would create an opening to press an attack.
Steangely, I thought the fight against Rufus got easier once Darkstar got involved. It could be a little tricky but Darkstar was far easier to deal with and Rufus seems to be less tricky once Darkstar is removed.
Yeah, Darkstar at least let’s you attack and charge up your ATB quickly
The other key is using triple slash to interrupt any ‘block able’ attack as soon as he calls them out. Still requires timing but not as bad as perfect timing blocks. Can build up enough limit gage to make phase 2 short with a cross slash
Rufus sucks because attrition not necessarily difficulty since they give you tricks to win. Probably to many. Rufus is dificult in that you can't mash Square to win but he can be attacked while using an ability that's not reload. Some of his abilities have end lag like Guns Akimbo or Bright Lights. His first phase was just made to be as stupid as possible. The attrition part applies to him just getting stray hits some of which will knock you down. You are technically right in that Counterstance and PP will rectify this and stop his follow up ability but well....Square Enix can't make a good parry mechanic to save their lives.
Additionally whenever Rufus' connection to Darkstar is severed he'll be forced to use Heel and when Darkstar enters he uses Heel to reign him in. If you have limit you can attack him here and just auto win.
@@MrEsarty That sounded like a Dark Souls boss fight strategy guide. :D
@@marhawkman303 patience and adaptation is the name of the game~
Yunalesca channelled the power of Dave Mustaine.
I wish that back in the days they made the "Dark King" in FF Mystic Quest completely unbeatable by normal magic and make him only beatable by using the "Heal/Res" spell. That would've been quite interesting.
Right, the heal spells are the only way to go.
Tactics has like 3 different mean bosses. Elmdore, weigraf, and gafgarion. All 3 are probably harder than the last few bosses.
That Weigraf fight in FFT was the first time I cheated in a game. Bought a Gameshark.
Its because I used custom characters for Ramza was not leveled that much so getting a sudden 1v1 with him, having saved, as I had always done in games up to that point, was ... memorable.
Yeah, springing a sudden boss fight like that is cheap as hell. I thought that was the one they were actually going to be talking about in the vid; the Gafgarion one is kind of messed up too, but I just don't remember ever having quite the same problem with it.
Both of them are pretty well countered by auto potion. It uses the weakest potion you own, so just make sure you have no hi-potions or potions and it heals you 150 each time. I believe you can purchase hi potions before gafgarion. And he does around 60 damage while hi pots heal 70.
Or if you want to grind. Monk with double punch trivializes every single boss fight in the game.
That's funny to hear about Pandemonium Warden taking 18 hours and being unable to beat it because players were fainting/vomiting for playing for so long when the newest Raid in Destiny 2 that just came out also took 18 hours for a team to beat and players were still going afterwards and not one story about that happening came out.
Different kind of game and raid, I think. Destiny raids tend to be a huge number of repeats of a relatively short action sequence to defeat a boss/clear a gauntlet. It's the slight fuck ups which force a wipe/reset that prolong the raid. Also, there's a lot more movement and action involved. The FF one looks like it's a standard MMO raid boss with tons of health where you stand around, repeat the same sequence of skill/item uses and maybe move out of red zones. It also look like it might be an epilepsy trigger with the constant color flashes from skills.
Destiny also isn't an MMO rpg so it's going to be a bit easier on the eyes and brain just because FPS games are made to be that way anyways.
Rufus in Rebirth (& Remake) was so brutal. I managed to beat him on my first try, but it wasn’t a satisfying victory.
Pandemonium warden also spawned tons of ads per stage
I was there. 3000 years ago. Still am too.
I remember when the vom was first reported.
Yunalesca is annoying fighting her blind 1st time sure, but since you really don't need to worry about healing and you're coming off 2 sections with really high AP rewards she's effectively just an auto attack sponge.
You don't even really need to be super high level to start hitting 9999s
The only real reason anyone would struggle there is because they butchered their sphere grid path.
Meanwhile on my most recent playthrough if it wasn't for me trying to get the rare steal i would have legit just closed my eyes and mashed attack so let's not exaggerate her difficulty too much
Hey, ever heard of zombie status? No?! Neat. Have an entire major boss battle featuring it
-ffx
Tbf the boss in the underwater section of bevelle had zombie as well as the guards throughout the stadium in zanarkand
Also the first time it's used on the player is the battle with Seymour on gagazette
It still doesn't make yunalesca any less frustrating, even if I know her moves
Fair, but most people aren't paying that close of attention. So when yunalesca does her thing most are taken by surprise
I have its just that in some FF games as soon as the ENTIRE party is zombied = GAME over though FFX is NOT one of them you won't get a game over if you zombie everyone in FF8 either but that spell in FF8 is pure crap anyways.
I beat Yunalesca on my first attempt .... which took 40 minutes. At least she and Seymour Flux have a banger of an OST to go along with the fight.
Show off.
While yunalesca was hard you could grind and eventually overpower her.
Weigraf on the other hand, felt like a scripted lost but then you see the game over. Forcing you to restart the whole game because you were a kid and didnt know about multiple saves so you had the 1 save while inside the castle and you lost to weigraf time after time. Throwing controllers across the room because you felt cheated.
The number of times I've had to defeat CalBrina because Golbez annihilated my party right after... probably at least 20.
It's bc he knows I'mma cast 'Warp' right after to get the Earth Crystal and skip the Sealed Cave lol
Yeah. Even if Cecil is still alive, it's not a trivial battle. Golbez's spells hit hard, Rydia is very fragile and very slow...
@@daviddalrymple2284 Back in the mid-90s, I levelled Rydia up to around 70 before the Leviatan (sic) attack. When I got Rydia, _Rosa and Kain_ back, they were _all_ around 70.
That save file hit 99:59 before I got her that high too lol
That fight and the demon wall were by far the hardest fights of my childhood. No other boss fight on the snes rpg Era came close.
I could do that but its just best To SOLO LV Paladin Cecil TO LV 40 on Mt Ordeals THEN to LV 70 BEFORE The magus sisters bosses. BUT the WARP Trick is only on the SNES/PS1 version the GBA and Pixel FF4 the game won't even allow you to USE the spell after the dolls + Golbez battle at all.
But if you DO the warp trick still KILL Ashura and Leviathan while Kain IS still playable and he won't be if you enter the Sealed Cave if you do the Warp Trick on the SNES and PS1 version to skip it.
See, this crap is why I don't play The FFVII Remake anymore.
Nobody asked for it to become a stupid soulslike. I don't want to play something that requires disgustingly perfect timing.
The final boss of Rebirth (no spoilers, the two-on-one battle) is absolute garbage. I had six separate failed attempts (having to sit through the cutscene every time) before just saying screw it, and bumping it down to Baby-Mode for the final fight. Very cheap, very unfair.
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Surprised you didn't mention Angra mainyu from ffx2. Shit sucks
I Just beat Yunalesca today and didnt had much difficulty tbh. I Just blasted her First place with the ice aeon since She can heal and Same thing with the second phase. On third phase i unleashed a storm of overdrives and won
By cheap, I thought you meant "I killed them with an exploit".
Because I would 100 percent put any boss with Zombie status.
Doom train? Phoenix down.
The underwater Exuvia fight? Phoenix down.
Magic Meister from ff6? Reflect Ring+Rage Umaro, Celes just spamming runic whenever, Mog dancing to spam White Wind kinda makes the entire fight a non issue...
Having played FF11 for over a decade, I can say that MANY of its bosses are harder than every single other mentioned in this video. Pandemonium Warden and Absolute Virtue were just the most infamous and cheap bosses of them, but others like Dynamis Lord, Diabolos, the Divine Might crew, Omega+Ultima, Jailer of Love, the wyrms (Nidhogg, Tiamat, Vrtra) were, also, forces to be reckoned with, requiring discipline, teamwork and some luck to beat.
Best FF ever.
I got lucky against Gaffgarion as I hit him with a weapon break very early. Could have been really rough!
Odin in VII Rebirth. Hated him the first time for his BS move of Zantetsuken when previous experience with other summons was to just tank and heal the damage (even after finding all the shrines) and still hated him even after doing To Be a Hero and Bonds of Friendship (as he often ended up being the source of so much time being wasted trying to complete Johnny's collection).
He is not bad when you get to understand his movement but the fact that he always comes out so late in challenges and that he can insta kill when you have low resources
He is not that bad but only bad giving in certain challenges ( Zack sucks) and conditions that make him extremely wors
I won't lie, I hated bonds of friendship because of both this and bahamut, mainly because like you said, Zack kinda sucks. But Cloud is actually pretty decent against Odin if you put a protect on him and go into the punisher stance, and use the punisher stances auto counter ability while you guard, it does wonders against odin
Gaffgarion ? Really.
The fight is a bit hard.
But it's piss easy compared to Wiegraf.
Wiegraf:
Is in the middle of a castle, so you can't leave to train.
Also, the game asks you if you want to save before, so you CAN softlock yourself.
You start a 1v1 against him with Ramza, except he got some of the strongest attacks in the game and hit from afar, so if you got no way of healing yourself well enough, you might find yourself constantly too close to death to hit him.
His second phase has him summon a bunch of minions who are slightly less violent, but you get your team to join. However, Ramza stays where he was, meaning if you're on the other side of the stage, he's good as dead already.
Ultamacia in 8 took me 3 hours to kill
While I enjoyed FFXV, I did dislike how easy it was. You can seriously start the game on the hardest difficulty accidentally and not even realize it because it's so easy. If you have 99 phoenix down, you can't die. Even the dungeon that you can't use items in isn't a challenge since it lets you rest at different points, and the enemies aren't that powerful if you're over level 80. Omega isn't exactly easy, though, but if you have the PD, mega potions, and a bunch of elixirs, you're in no danger of dying. But I did have fun playing the game.
Symore flux was cheap with his mega cleave and the attack after saying "death awaits you", but I found a cheaper way to best him and its a goodly amount of grinding to do but itll work 100%.
All thats needed is to get all summons limit break and characters except Yuna. Then summon aeons and cast their breaks, theyll get "death awaits you" and one shot ko. Once thats done then use character likit breaks and revive. He'll go down quick.
“Unfair bosses” Would you be talking about how Demons Gate gets about 335000 attacks off before you can even break wind… oh and petrifies you just for an additional laugh? (Before I discovered Great Gospel that is, shoe is on the other foot now 😜)
Gafgarion wasn't hard, he was your party member so you could just unnequip ALL his equipment and he wouldn't be able to use any of his dark knight skills only punches...
Ok damn I didn’t expect you to put something from Rebirth without a brief spoiler warning but oh well
But yea, Yunalesca sucks and is the biggest example of what’s wrong with FFX-its boss fights. The game loves to curb stomp you at so many points with these bosses and it made getting to the end frustrating. I got tired when I reached Sin on the airship and decided to just watched the end on RUclips because of it lol.
18 hours? Jesus, I'd think after maybe the first few hours people would start to wonder if they're just doing something wrong. Or does the boss legit take that long to bring down? Maybe I'm misunderstanding the whole thing; was this a single 18 hour encounter, or was it more like a group of players decided to just band together and fight him over and over until they finally figured out the strat?
See, Back in the days, when we encountered those "unfair" bosses we just thought "challenge accepted!"
Yunalesca almost made me drop FFX because outside of her fight, you really don't have to worry about getting zombie'd, and with those extra phases of hers that she just pulls out, I really have to say she's one of the worst boss fight's I've ever had in a video game, ever. I spent nearly 30 tries fighting her, and it was pure luck that I had Titus survive after she got a low damage roll.
FFx was a trainwreck for me, beginning to end, and I'm still baffled that it's held in the regard that it is.