Solo Crit Master Aerith (Bladed Staff) vs Rude (Hard Mode, No Damage/Limit)
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- Опубликовано: 20 авг 2024
- Last time we abused Stop and Arcane Ward to decimate Rude quickly and efficiently with the Arcane Scepter, taking full advantage of Fleeting Familiar to stack tons of damage in the process. Both of those abilities are very powerful, so what if I don't use an Arcane Ward, cast fewer Wind spells, and don't Stop Rude?
Instead, we use a crit build Aerith; with the Bladed Staff, she has an improved crit rate and crit damage, and we stack 2 Magic Up and 2 Luck Up for maximum power and the highest likelihood of a critical. Although she doesn't score many criticals in Phase 2 due to bad luck, she gets so many in Phase 1 that a single Tempest and Ray of Judgment pushes Rude to the next phase with no additional hits!
The Bladed Staff's signature skill is Lustrous Shield, so we use that this time to nullify Rude without Stop. By prepping it in advance while he's sleeping, its ready to protect us as soon as Phase 2 begins so we can renew our assault right away. The shield sadly blocks sight of Rude while I barrage him with a clean combo, so just watch the damage numbers rack up instead.
When I use Aerora, the spell actually pulls him into the shield and bounces him off of it, which is pretty funny to watch, but also tactical because I use it to pull Rude into my Tempest as its exploding, and he's caught by nearly the entire move while being pulled in by Aerora and then bounced off of the shield; this gives me enough ATB to follow-up with Ray of Judgment! Wish I had moved my camera a little to more easily see that.
This battle went perfectly, and I even got good RNG with Rude opting for Shockwave instead of Spirit Geyser every time; Lustrous Shield renders Shockwave totally ineffective. If you like RoJ, this is a great battle to see it used. Enjoy!
Build is:
Bladed Staff + Chain Bangle + Fury Ring
Wind + Elemental, Binding + Warding, Skill Master, First Strike, Magic Up x2, Luck Up x2
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Claud casually transforms back and forth into frog between cutscenes.
Lol he realizes plot needs to happen so he recovers his human form long enough to exposition and then turn back 🤣
“I think you need more sleep”
Haha Sleep is your best tool against every human enemy not named Sephiroth (or Weiss I guess).
I love how Rude was beefing with Cloud when Aerith was the one whose actuallly doing the damage
0:49 that move from Aerith is sooo majestic and elegant wth-
This is the best Aerith showcase I've seen yet. Great use of her toolkit! Lustrous shield always flew under my radar and using aero like that, how did you figure that out? I even got to see Ray of Judgement being used not once but twice in the same fight! Its like seeing a double rainbow. Its so rare to see anyone using it. This is how aerith should be
Glad you like it! The Aerora idea was something I brainstormed might work after a few tries, and I realized that if everything went right, I could pin him in an exploding Tempest by bouncing him between wind magic and the shield, which in turn would give me more ATB and allow me to use RoJ before he can do much to retaliate. If he uses Spirit Geyser instead of Shockwave, it doesn't work since he interrupts RoJ with it, but if he opts for Shockwave, it's gravy. I have another Aerith battle to come that will use her kit in even more ways actually. Thanks for watching!
@@Ultinarok47 Now that you mentioned it. RoJ is sick af on PS5 coz the same ability that you said will interrupt RoJ will no longer be able to flinch Aerith out of RoJ. The latter is buffed up on the intergrade
@@cloudcs Yessir! It was given more armor on startup, which is one thing it definitely needed. Without that clutch Lustrous Shield, Aerith wouldn't be able to use that as a finisher on this version.
@@Ultinarok47 Hehe I hope you will come around to snag a ps5 someday. Can't wait to see what kind of crazy combo you can pull off with its buff!
@@cloudcs I'm going to grab one probably as soon as Part 2 is announced at least. I've already played Intermission on both Normal and Hard, and done Top Secrets on my friend's PC, along beating Weiss myself in his save file. So the itch to buy a PS5 is lessened a bit because I've already played the new content. But I kinda want to get it just to make Tifa and Cloud more insane, and solo fights against certain bosses will definitely be more bearable with the cancel frames added in and shorter load times.
That is so awesome! Bladed staff, lustrous shield, fleeting familiar, ray of judgment... all of them I didn't use much during my playthrough, and only now I realized how much fun I have missed. I really love this game's battle mechanics and there are infinite possibilities with the equipment, abilities and materia!
And Aerith chilling, Rude sleeping and the toad Cloud hopping around is too funny to watch. lol
Haha yeah I try to go for multiple creative builds for most boss fights. I've taken a hiatus to play a couple other games and eventually nab a PS5 for improved gameplay, but I used a few different things against Rude, so check out my other battles too if you feel like it.
Lol poor Rude getting blown away by aerora, only to ricochet off the shield. Now he's turning into a human pinball haha🤣
Haha I'm having a blast with this fight, can you tell?
@@Ultinarok47 If you went as far as setting up a 'pinball' shield then yea it's pretty obvious you're having a good time with Rude lol
Ray of judgement is so satisfying when it hits
Yes, it's a costly move and isn't usually very efficient compared to just casting magic but it has an undeniable cool factor haha
Goddamn, that was clean.
I appreciate it man!
Got damn girl been grinding up flowers for some muscle milk...muscle mako??
Either way def Soldier material
Aerith claims Rude's not a bad person and doesn't want to hurt him, then does this lol
_CLEAN_
the walk around made me nervous
Same, I was so uneasy 😂
why? i just downloaded this game to prepare for rebirth
But it's Rude who should be
That was badass.
Thanks! I was pretty happy with how this one turned out.
I think Cloud is smiling
I wanna play hard mode, but I might have to play the normal playthrough again, it's been a while.
Play Normal for the practice and materia training, then you can get into it. Its not too bad once you're used to everything. Good luck!
Not a real solo but still impressive
Love the music
The Turks battle theme is one of my favorites in this game!
oh wow damn! i never utilized the shield i am dumb
Rider + Shiro vs Alter Saber 😂😂
awesome! But why ray of judgement makes so much damage in that case ?
Two Magic Up, boosted critical hit damage, and I'm hitting his Elemental weakness of Wind. Rude doesn't have a lot of HP so this combination whittles him down fast.
@@Ultinarok47 amazing
how to get resisted by sleep magic ?
0:04
Warding + Binding materia!
how you do that ? he kill her when i fight him 🤐
Sleep disables him, while I protect myself against sleep with Warding materia so he can't do it back to me. Then I use the down time to set up her abilities. Lustrous Shield blocks Shockwave in phase 2, so if he uses that, he can't touch her. Then you pile on damage with Tempest and other attacks to defeat him fast.
Bullied him
whaaaaaaaat
Is the reason for the 47 in your username to match how many subscribers you have?
Haha no it's been in my username for years and years, just a coincidence now
@@Ultinarok47 Interesting (sips cola)
I don't understand what is happening.....but apparently this is FF7 now.
One of the worst final fantasy games I've played
No one asked for your opinion
Talented gamer, what's ur snap ?