Final Fantasy VIII Boss Guide Written by Mordruk Ver 1.4(10/16/99) Copyright 1999 ================ INDEX ================ 1-About the Author 2-Introduction to game 3-Version Info 4-Bosses for CD 1 5-Bosses for CD 2 6-Bosses for CD 3 7-Bosses for CD 4 8-Optional GF Bosses 9-Omega Weapon! 10-Coming up! 11-Copyright ================ 1-About the Author ================ This is a FAQ I started the day I got the game because I love the Final Fantasy series very much. I have also written FAQs for Soul Reaver: Legacy of Kain, Darkstone, Donkey Kong, Sonic Adventure, and Blue Stinger. You can contact me with any corrections or questions at Mordruk@hotmail.com. If I missed out on a boss(which is unlikely) or there is a very powerful monster you wish me to make a strategy for then just e-mail me. I hope you like my boss guide for Final Fantasy VII:) ================ 2-Introduction to game ================ Well it took them long enough but they finally got it out and it is not a dissapointment in any way. Maybe it is just me but doesn't the map in this game look like the map in FF7 but just a little different here and there? When you begin this game you'll notice another similarity in all the Final Fantasy games-Cid is back but as far as I know you can't choose him for your team. He is the headmaster of the Garden for SeeD and is nothing like the FF7 version:( I hope you like this FAQ and it helps through the bosses. ================ 3-Version Info ================ Here is all the stuff since I update my FAQs sometimes three times a day so you don't miss all the info I've put all the changes I've made below. 1.4-Added a little note for Adel 1.3-Added HP info for Ultemacia, thanks to oscar614@webtv.net 1.2-Added a boss that I forgot(imagine that) and added some info for the Servants of Ultemacia 1.1-Added a site to my copyright 1.0-Finally Finished! 0.19-Finished all bosses for CD 3 0.18-Added Tonberry King 0.17-Added Jumba Cactuar and Odin(Tonberry King is next) 0.16-Added Ultima Weapon and a few corrections 0.15-Added a new section and Bahumut to it! 0.11-0.14-lots of minor updates but mainly added the rest of CD 2 bosses and a CD 3 boss 0.10-Added some more bosses for CD 2 0.9-Added an extra site that this can be posted in the Copyright Section 0.8-Added an extra boss for CD 2 0.7-Added the first strategies for CD 2:) 0.6-Added a much better strategy for Diablos 0.5-Did some major changes in the setup of the FAQ and added some future bosses for CD 2 0.4-Added all the bosses for CD 1 0.3-Added a little info in the copyright because some sites haven't honored it 0.2-Added Granaldo and the Spider Robot thing 0.1-My first copy which had some of the first bosses ================ 4-Bosses for CD 1 ================ -------------------------- Boss:Ifrit -------------------------- Location:Fire Cavern HP:1000 Notes:Have Shiva junctioned Strategy:Your first real boss that you can't really die at but you have to kill him in the given time. I chose 10 minutes the first time and got it with 20 secs to spare but I have no idea why you get to choose your time. You'll notice your attacks don't do much damage to him and then you might think, hmmm, what is good against fire, oh yeah, ice. So wipe out your Shiva GF and hit him with it. He'll start saying stuff like "Oh no! You have Shiva!" which kinda tips you off you should use it. Keep using it and he will decide to join you instead of being defeated. -------------------------- Boss:Biggs -------------------------- Location:Dollet Communication Tower HP:700 Notes:Stock up on Cures from Fire Cavern Strategy:This one is a little tougher because when you scan him it won't list a weakness since he isn't a monster. Just use normal attacks because GF isn't that useful and keep your HP above 250 just to be safe. After awhile Wedge will come(hey, another similarity between the two games) but when I faught him he didn't hit me at all???? Just keep hitting Biggs and I don't think Wedge will bother you. After awhile they will get swept away be the real boss. -------------------------- !GUARDIAN FORCE! Boss:Elvoret -------------------------- Location:Dollet Communication Tower HP:2000 Notes:Make sure Selphie has "draw", you can draw Siren Strategy:This guy is tough. Now remember that all my HPs are around that much. The game varies HP but this one is a big differenc of up to a 2000 difference in HP. With that in mind if he get's in the 3000 range it would be better to start a new game if you can't beat him since it is still early in the game. This guy has a new draw technique called "double" that is useful but isn't really useful in this battle. He also has cure, Woo hoo! You can now designate Selphie as the medic and keep drawing cures and have Squall as a backup with any cures you have left from the Fire Cavern. He doesn't have a weakness though which makes this an annoying battle so just keep using the GFs. I haven't had a GF die yet but Shiva got to 9 life when I stopped using her because the boss only had 100 HP left. You can also get a GF from this guy called Siren which you will regret if you didn't get it like I did:( After this you'll find out who the real boss is, but he is split up to be easy. -------------------------- Boss:X-ATM092(Robot Spider) -------------------------- Location:Chases you through Dollet HP:5,500 Notes:Selphie has Quezacotl and Squall has Thunder Strategy:So he has the most HP in the game so far, but unlike Elvoret he does has a weakness-lightning. So use Quez. against him and that will do around 500 each time and use some thunder also. This guy is split up into 3 battles that you MUST fight him. You can fight him however many times you want but you only have to fight him 3. Between fights use potions and cure on your party members and any of that other stuff that you need to do. When you do around 1000 damage to him it will say flee so hold R2 and L2 to run away. Keep doing this until you reach the street with a blue car and you'll see a movie. Congrats! You just beat the robot(or rather your teacher did) -------------------------- Boss:Granaldo -------------------------- Location:Garden Training Center HP:1500-10,000 Notes:Make sure you have some sleep stocked but even if you don't you can get some from Granaldo Strategy:I don't think that is the actual range of the boss but it is based on level and I was lv 14 when I faught this guy. You'll also see 3 Raldos that he picks up and throws at you. Whatever you do don't kill Granaldo before the Raldos. The Raldos had aroun 200 HP when I faught them and Granaldo had no more than 2000 so it was an easy battle but I had fun with it. Use sleep on Granaldo so he or the Raldos can't attack. With him asleep you can take out the Raldos one by one safely and then just woop Granaldo with GFs. Pretty easy huh?:) -------------------------- !GUARDIAN FORCE OPTIONAL BOSS! Boss:Diablos -------------------------- Location:Magic Lamp you get from Cid HP:15000-80,000 Notes:This is a submission strategy Submission Strategy:anyway, to defeat diablos, just simply cast blind on him, if you'relucky he'll go blind. all u have to do is just wait until he keeps onusing demi or the other magic (both lowers HP to 75%). when your hpreaches critical just keep on using limit breaks. take note that demiand the other attack will NOT kill nor damage you unless your hp ismorethan 1. when it gets to 1, he won't be able to kill you with magicand physical (since he's blinded). if he kills your character with thephysical attack just cast life and keep on using limit breaks until he's dead. -------------------------- Boss:Gerogero -------------------------- Location:President's Pricate Car HP:500-3500 Notes:Have "Item" equiped so you can cure adnormal status Strategy:Not much to really say here-no trick, no special magic, nothing! So you can just hit him with magic and stuff like that which is what I did but my friend said that if you use cure or cura on him since he is undead it will actually kill him! I tried it out and it works great:) You can even put on the double command and hit him with all your guys for a total of 6 cures a round which will kill him in no time. Good luck:) -------------------------- !GUARDIAN FORCE OPTIONAL BOSS! Boss:Sacred and Minotaur -------------------------- Location:Tomb of the Unkown King HP: Sacred:1000-35,000 depending on your lv Minotaur:500-30,000 depending on your lv Notes:Have tornado and float Strategy:This is easy if you can wait to fight these guys till you get tornado which it so happens that you can get it from those birds outside the cave when you refine the windmills they give you. Isn't that convenient! Also having float will make this much easier. When you fight them do not underestimate Minotaur because he is actually stronger. Cast float on both of them right away. Wow! They can't regenerate because they aren't touching the ground. If you cast float on you as well then you can't get hurt by their mad cow attack. Now when they are floating cast Tornado on them and you will waste 'em. Float will stay on them for about two rounds so don't forget to cast it again. These guys are great when you capture them. -------------------------- !GUARDIAN FORCE! Boss:Iguions -------------------------- Location:Deling City Parade HP:200-2000 Notes:EZ Boss Strategy:I killed both of these guys with one hit from my Brothers GF but before you do don't forget to draw the legendary Carbuncle from them! Yes, he is back after a vacation from FF7 and is funnier than ever. Not to mention cute but don't tell anyone:p Nothing more to say about these guys but they are immune to fire so don't try Ifrit. -------------------------- Boss:Seifer -------------------------- Location:Parade Car with Edea HP:200-1000 Notes:have Carbuncle and some other powerful GF Strategy:cast Carbuncle because Seifer will try to cast Fira right away. After that just have some fun and mess around with him. After this easy battle get in gear for a much tougher fight with Edea. By the way, weren't those awsome movies with the parade and everything:) -------------------------- Boss:Edea -------------------------- Location:Parade Car with Seifer HP:1300-7000 Notes:Have the higher elemental magics like Fira and most importantly Tornado Strategy:You can draw some great magics from her but since she doesn't have a lot of HP you can use Tornado which does around 300-400 and you should also try uses some GFs but they aren't the best to use. Have one character dedicated to casting Carbuncle so you don't get hurt a lot. After this watch a GREAT movie but I'm not giving it away:) ================ 5-Bosses for CD 2 ================ -------------------------- Boss:Biggs & Wedge -------------------------- Location:D-District Prison HP:Biggs-1500-2500, Wedge-1500-2200 Notes:Have Zombie for an easy battle Strategy:E-Z bosses! These guys will take no more than 4 turns but to kill them right away you can cast zombie and phoenix down them and they will die. You can draw some cool stuff from them though so stock up because the next boss is hard. A fun thing to do is cast confuse on Biggs and when he attacks Wedge he will say "Stop picking on me!!!!" It's pretty funny:p -------------------------- Boss:Elite Soldier and Crew -------------------------- Location:Prison Rooftop HP:Elite Soldier-150-5000 Robots-1500-20,000 Notes:Have electrical spells Strategy:The Elite Soldier is very easy to kill but be sure you kill him first and not the harder ones because he runs the show. He has massive spells and they are all extremely effective! When he is dead kill the robots with any electrical spells and they'll be toast. If you don't have any electrical spells(which I find hard to believe) then tough luck:( -------------------------- Boss:BGH251F2(tank) -------------------------- Location:Galbadia Missile Base HP:4200-8400 Notes:Have Quezacotl and the strongest thunder spells Strategy:This guy is really easy if you have Quezacotl. I beat him without it however but I had a huge supply of Thunder spells which hit around 300 each time. There are 6 engines in this thing that when they explode you know you are closer to beating it. When it is down to two it only has around 700 so smash it. Then those 3 idiots will come out and you must kill them. I beat this without Quezacotl with 50 seconds remaining and I chose 10 minutes which will raise you a rank. Good luck and enjoy the movie sequence -------------------------- Boss:Oilboyles -------------------------- Location:Balamb Garden Basemen HP:almost exactly 1000 every time Notes:Have Ifrit and tons of Esunas Strategy:8 out of 10 times at least one of them will have 1000 HP or close to it so these guys aren't hard. A couple hits from Ifrit and use some Fire, Fira, or Firaga and they will be out in no time. One thing you have to watch out for is most of their attacks are status changing and affect your entire party. Use Esuna right away because after that their attacks can do up to 6000 in one hit! -------------------------- !GUARDIAN FORCE! Boss:NORG -------------------------- Location:Garden Master's Room HP:4000-12000 Notes:Have Tornado(or an Aero magic) and Brothers Strategy:Keep two of your guys(not the ones with Tornado or Brothers) and keep the two arms on blue because his magic is powerful. With that he is kinda helpless to you and I found Brothers is more effective for this part of the battle. After he is drained about 2000 life he will blow up part of his ship so now he directly uses magic like Water but keep the two arms still on blue. Now an Aero attack is better and if you got that extremely powerful attack from the birds near the Brothers quest called Tornado you'll do around 900 each time. Do NOT forget to draw Leviethan like I did and have to go back and beat the Oilboyles and NORG again:( -------------------------- Boss:BGH251F2(again) -------------------------- Location:FH Tracks HP:5000-8000 Notes:Have any electrical magic or GFs Strategy:This is a very easy figth but takes some time. Just use any of the thunder magics and Quezacotl. It rarely attacks and only wastes around 200-300. However, your thunder magic only wastes around 300 every time so you'll have to stock up on a lot of these to take it down. But don't worry, after this you won't face it again:) If you mug this guy you can steal some Adamantine which is great for weapons so try that out too. -------------------------- Boss:Raijin -------------------------- Location:Balamb Hotel HP:500-12,000 Notes:Bio works wonders:p Strategy:This is a extremely easy battle if you have a bunch of bios which do about 500-600. Demi is also a great spell to use since it wastes 25% of his current life. But I wouldn't waste all of your demis on this since you have to fight him and Fujin after this. Don't use thunder on him because it will cure him which I found out after I made everyone use a thunder attack on him:( After this is a much harder battle so if you had trouble with this then you most likely won't survive the next. -------------------------- !GUARDIAN FORCE! Boss:Raijin and Fujin -------------------------- Location:Balamb Hotel HP:Raijin:5500-23,000--Fujin:500-9000 Notes:Fujin has the GF, make sure you DON'T use wind or thunder magic Strategy:This battle doesn't have a trick to beat it except on what NOT to do. That is not to use wind on Fujin and thunder on Raijin because they will gain life from it. Again I learned this the hard way:( They are both weak to bio again so this makes it much easier. And as always demi is great in the beginning of the battle because it works on percentages. I would get rid of Fujin first because she attacks more than Raijin. Also, don't cast any reflect magic or Carbuncle because it doesn't protect you from her most powerful attack which she will use if you cast any of those magics. Good luck with the battle and don't forget about the GF! -------------------------- !GUARDIAN FORCE OPTIONAL BOSS! Boss:Cerberus -------------------------- Location:Galbadia Garden Main Hall HP:7000-10,000 Notes:Don't use Wind or Thunder magic Strategy:If you use thunder on this guy then you will give him life and wind doesn't do anything to him at all. If you are thinking of NOT fighting this guy please rethink because I found after I got him that he is priceless!(not to mention a great revenge device) I would use Demi on this guy to lower his HP a lot and try to Dispel his Triple attack which he loves to use against you, especially Aero. When you get this guy you won't regret it and I'll mention it A LOT in my future strategies because it is awsome! Good luck with this guy:) -------------------------- Boss:Seifer(2nd time) -------------------------- Location:Galbadia Garden(top floor) HP:1000-10,000 Notes:If you didn't get Cerberus it will be a long fight Strategy:Use your new GF Cerberus and start hacking away. This will give you a double and a triple to everyone so make the first two cast Demi on him with triple and then the last one Bio since that is his weekness and he will be down in no time. Keep your HP up though because he has a very cool but bad attack that causes around 1000-2000 damage. Another easy fight though:) -------------------------- !GUARDIAN FORCE! Boss:Seifer AND Edea -------------------------- HP:Seifer:1000-7500, Edea:500-16,000 Notes:Edea has the GF, have Diablos or Demi Strategy:Even though you don't fight these two at the same time it is the same battle so I put them together. First of all, use the above strategy for Seifer because it is almost the exact same battle. After that you fight Edea which is just a tad angry at you. Use Cerberus again and then use some triple Demis or just use Diablos if you didn't get Cerberus. She isn't weak against any magic but doesn't have a strength against any magic so just use about anything. I find that Squall's normal attacks work best against her after that some Demi attacks. What out for Maelstrom because it got me a couple times until I finally acted quickly enough to heal my guys. I neat little thing to do is steal her Royal Crown if you have Mug:p ================ 6-Bosses for CD 3 ================ -------------------------- Boss:Abadon -------------------------- HP:500-17,000 Location:Outside Esthar Notes:have "item" equiped Strategy:Just use some hi-potions, curas, or a phoenix down and you'll kill him right away. If you don't have any phoenix downs just draw some curas from him and use them against him since he is an undead monster. There really isn't too much of a trick to this guy so have fun!:) -------------------------- Boss:Fujin AND Rajin -------------------------- HP:Fujin-5000-20,000, Rajin-5000-25,000 Location:Lunatic Pandora Entrance Notes:Have Doomtrain GF Strategy:Use Doomtrain right away and that will make these two extremely easy. With them asleep just pound on them with your GFs and/or use my all time favorite Aura on Squall and they will go out fast. I recommend killing Fujin first because she has strong support magic. If you become extremely desperate you can cast reflect on them and their support magics won't work on each other. The only downside is some of your magic won't work either on them. After this battle you won't have to fight these morons ever again..ya know? :p -------------------------- Boss:Mobile Type 8 -------------------------- HP:30,000-50,000(around 10,000 for each probe) Location:Lunatic Pandora Notes:Have lots of thunder and restore magic Strategy:This guy may seem easy at first with little threat from his attacks but if you don't act quickly on defeating this foe he will use his Corona attack which reduces all your HP to 1. There is a way to prepare however and that is when he seperates all of his pieces he is about to use Corona so setup for mass healing on your characters. Like all the mechanical stuff in the Final Fantasy games they are weak to electrical magic like thunder so just use Quezacotl and Thunder magic and he should fall quickly. An even quicker method is to use Aura and that will do around 3000 each hit and around 20,000 for each limit. If you use this it is likely he won't even get a chance to use his Corona attack. -------------------------- Boss:Seifer(Last Fight) -------------------------- HP:4000-35,000 Location:Lunatic Pandora Throne Room Notes:Draw as many Auras as you can Strategy:Seifer even isn't tough the last time you fight him but he does have something that will help you with the future battles including Omega Weapon which is Aura. Make all your characters draw as many as possible of this and then just unleash attacks on him and he will fall quickly. But make sure you get some Auras because you will need it. -------------------------- Boss: Adel -------------------------- !WARNING! SAVE IN A DIFFERENT SLOT BEFORE ULTEMACIA BECAUSE IF YOU DON'T YOU WILL BE STUCK AT ULTIMACIA AND MIGHT HAVE TO RESTART YOUR GAME! HP:5000-50,000 Location:Lunatic Pandora Throne Room Notes:DO NOT hit Rinoa Strategy:Just keep hitting only Adel and cure Rinoa when Adel takes some of her life. If Rinoa dies then it is game over so it is best to cast Regen on her. Just keep pounding on her and it will be fast. Be sure to use some Aero on her also because it does almost double the damage as usual but DO NOT use holy. That just makes her mad. Make one character the designated curer since Adel constantly uses Ultimas. Good luck and then your on your way to Ultemacia's Castle in the future! ================ 7-Bosses for CD 4 ================ Here is when my Boss Guide strays from the usual Boss, HP, Location setup because there are many bosses that you can fight at any time but I'm listing how I beat them and when because I found this more efficiant. -------------------------- Sorceress Battles -------------------------- You find the first sorceress when you first enter the Time Compression and they will start making clones of themselves. Don't worry though because they aren't infinite. Once you kill about 5-10 of the first sorceress the next will appear. Just use mainly physical attacks because she is strong against magic. The second sorceress is also easy. Now the third may hurt you a little because there is only 1 copy of her and she can cast Ultima spell. You will know when she is about to because she will count down. Just kill her before she does and you should be fine with these battles. -------------------------- Ultimacia's Servents -------------------------- These bosses you can fight anywhere to release certain skills like Item, Magic, Limit Break, GFs, etc. I suggest you fight them in the same order I do because you need to unlock some skills before you fight the harder ones. NOTE-You can get some Gfs that you missed throughout the game but make sure you unlock the "draw" ability from Sphinxaur so you can if you missed any. SERVENT:Sphinxaur HP:exactly 10,000 Location:Stairwell at entrance Strategy:Well there really isn't much of a strategy since all you have is attack. Just keep attacking and hope you kill it before it kills you. If you had auto-reflect on someone then that comes in handy when they try to cast magic on him/her and it will reflect it. After you beat this servent you get to pick which skill to release. I chose magic and if you are going to follow this part of the guide step by step I suggest you do so also. SERVENT:Tri-Point Missing GF:Siren HP:2000-25,000 Location:Wine Cellar Strategy:Do not use any physical attacks because Tri-Point will always counter with a move that does 3000 damage to all of your members. Instead switch between using fire and blizzard magic. Start with fire, then make the next character use an ice magic, then the next a fire. If you do this then Tri-Point won't counter anything. If you use ice twice or fire twice it will counter it so just keep following the fire/ice pattern and it won't do much. Release the GF command from this foe when you beat him because the next retaliates against physical AND magic attacks. SERVENT:Krysta HP:5000-20,000 Missing GF:Carbuncle Location:Room pass chandelier Strategy:Krysta will do another 3000 damage move like Tri-Point if you use physical or magic attacks so instead use GFs like Eden, Cactuar, and Diablos at the biggining to cut down on it's life. After you kill it Krysta will cast Ultima so watch out for that or you'll have to do this all over again. What you release next doesn't really matter for the next servent but I chose to unlock the Item command. SERVENT:Trauma HP:5000-35,000 Missing GF:Leviathan Location:Gallery next to Krysta room(after puzzle) Strategy:Use the Doomtrain GF to kill it's little Dromas it creates and it will half this strong boss's defences. After that just keep using Eden and Pandemonia since he is a flying monster and it will fall quickly. What would you do without Eden?:p I chose to release the Limit Break command because I love my Aura. However, if your planning on facing Omega make sure you keep around 30 auras in reserve for him. SERVANT:Red Giant HP:exactly 30,000 Missing GF:Pandemona Location:Dungeon Strategy:Use the Doomtrain GF on this guy too because it will bling him so he can't hit you very often. With his only powerful attacks in check you can use Aura on Squall and kill him in one limit if you have his ultimate weapon. If you don't have auras you can just attack this guy with GFs but don't use magic because he has a perfect defence to it. I released the save command from this guy because I don't plan on doing this again. SERVANT:Gargantua HP:10,000-15,000 Missing GF:Cerberus Location:Armory Room(after you kill Vysage) Strategy:This guy is just like Trauma so he won't be that hard. Don't use physical attacks because he will just retaliate to them. This guy also does berserk which makes you use physical attacks so remedy that ASAP. Just use some GFs like Eden or if you have the Lion Heart weapon for Squall do a limit and you can kill him with one hit of it so he can't retaliate. I chose to release the Draw command. You can really release anyone you want because the rest aren't that useful. SERVANT:Catoblepas HP:10,000-60,000 Missing GF:Alexander Location:Treasure Vault Strategy:Just use any GF besides Quezacotl or any magic besides Thunder magic because it will heal him and the fight is simple. The only hard part is how much HP he has which you can solve by using some limits on him with Aura. Remember though if your planning on fighting Omega have at least 20 auras with you. Pick any of the remaining two skills you haven't released yet and now onto Tiamat. SERVANT:Tiamat HP:20,000-90,000 Missing GF:Eden!!!! Location:Tower Strategy:Yikes, 90,000 HP! This sad GF now has to fight you. And yup, you can get the most powerful GF from this guy if you didn't do it the hard way from Ultima Weapon. Use the Doomtrain GF to slow him down so he will rarely get a chance to use his Dark Flare attack which is very powerful. Use Eden over and over or use your limit with Aura. Just don't use Ifrit or Quezocotl because they won't hurt him much. And now onto Ultimecia.(or Omega which has it's own section for just that one boss) -------------------------- !FINAL FIGHT! -------------------------- Make sure ALL of your characters have some GFs and they have the suitable magic because Ultemacia can pick ANY three people she wants to fight this last battle. I would keep resetting the game and starting over until you get Squall in your party because without him the battles are practically impossible. Now onto the first fight. Ultemacia HP:30,000-60,000 Strategy:None of her magic is fatal so take your time on this one. Just use limits with Aura and normal attacks. Or you could use Eden 3-6 times to kill her. Either way it is an easy battle. Make sure your guys are all healed because the next battle is no piece of cake like this one. Remember this is all one battle so you can't heal or anything like that between these fights. Greiver HP:around 150,000 Strategy:This ultimate GF doesn't get too annoying until you take about 50,000 off of him. Then he will talk a little and now use his strongest attack called Shockwave Pulsar that does 2000-5000 damage to each party member. Just keep healing and again use Aura for limits and use any wind magic or GF to take him down quickly. Ultemacia(with Greiver) HP:200,000-900,000 Strategy:You think these two were ugly before they joined! This is one hard battle(as it is meant to be) because of the mass amount of life she has. Just use the normal strategies like Aura and magics. When you take about 1/3 off of her life the map will start swirling and she will start using a spell called the Great Attractor which is a halarious spell to watch but does a lot of damage to your guys. Just keep pounding and reviving and you should be OK. Now when she has only about 50,000 life left her lower body portion will come off and she will start floating. Just do one limit of your Lion Heart and she is outta there. She blows up and makes little twinklies and congrats for.....ALMOST beating the game:p Ultemacia(in space) HP:230,000-950,000 Strategy:The reason I didn't put an HP is because I seriously wasn't keeping track when I was killing her because I was too much into the game:p If you have an accurate HP amount I would be happy to post it and give you credit for it. Anyways, she will immidietly start using Hell's Judgement spell without any warning that brings all characters down to 1 HP! Just have triple and curaga to heal all your party members. Use your Aura and limit for Squall and you can do around 100,000 damage each time which will hurt her but REALLY piss her off. She will will do a spell called Draw Apocolypse which is a warning that next turn she will use a very powerful attack called...duh...Apocolypse which will kill 2 of your party members. You MUST revive them ASAP or else she will destroy them from the battle! Another character will take the fallen ones place but you really don't want that if you have a good group. She does this Apocolypse move a lot so be careful when she says "draw magic". When she starts blabbering her little mouth again saying some stuff then you know she is about to die. Just keep going and you have destroyed her. CONGRATS! Now enjoy the almost 30 minute movie sequence that (in my oppinion) is much better than the Final Fantasy VII ending. Squaresoft, you really out did yourself, how are you going to top this one for Final Fantasy IX? ================ 8-Optional GF Bosses ================ -------------------------- !GUARDIAN FORCE OPTIONAL BOSS! Boss:Bahumut -------------------------- HP:11,000-90,000 Location:Hidden Research Center Notes:Blind is soooo helpful Strategy:Use bling on bahumut and right there you most likely solved your problem if your stuck on this boss. All of his status changing magic doesn't work now so you just have to watch out for his physical attacks. Shell is also another great spell to use on yourself but keep your life above 3/4 at all times because if he casts Magic Flare it is all over. Use mainly Shiva or any others besides Ifrit, Brothers, and Quezacotl because they don't do anything to it or very little. Just get lucky and don't have him at 80,000 which I did. -------------------------- !GUARDIAN FORCE OPTIONAL BOSS! Boss:Ultima Weapon -------------------------- HP:50,000-160,000 Location:Hidden Research Center Basement Notes:Aura is helpful, so is Hero Strategy:This guy was not any challenge to me when I figured out a great strategy for me and he has 100,000 life when I faught him. Make sure all party members can revive another member because you will be killed otherwise. First off, if you have a Hero I would use it even though it only made one of my guys invincible for three turns it helps out. After those are used keep casting Aura on Squall and he will use his Limit Break a lot. Squall is my strongest guy so I hit him for around 2000 without my limits. Now Ultima Weapon will either unleash his 9999 attack on you or just use it when you get him angry. Just dumb luck on which one you get. When someone dies revive them immidietly so he/she can revive any others. If you keep Squall hitting with his limit and no magics at all you can have him down to 10,000 in about 5 turns. Wow! Just keep pounding BUT DON'T FORGET TO DRAW THE GF EDEN. I forgot the first time and since this is the most powerful GF in the game it is well worth to go back and beat him again for it. When you kill him you can give yourself a pat on the back for beating this hard foe!(wait till you fight Omega, or IF you fight Omega) -------------------------- !GUARDIAN FORCE OPTIONAL BOSS! Boss:Jumbo Cactuar -------------------------- HP:6000-600,000 Location:Cactuar Island(South of Esthar) Notes:get lots of Auras and/or waters Strategy:OK, my friend told me that my HP range was wrong because his official guide said it was 6000-60,000 but I faught this guy at 100,000 and my other friend has faught him at 600,000 so that's what I'm putting. Now it says he is weak to water but that is not a good thing to use unless you want a really long dragged out battle. A great thing to use is use Aura on any character(most likely Squall) and that will do around 10,000 damage to the Cactuar. Water only does aroun 2000 and Leviathan about 7000. This guy has a move called "10,000 Needles" which causes 100,000 damage.(talk about overkill) So make sure all you characters have means to revive someone. When you get Jumbo Cactuar around 5000-10,000 life left it will say he is "hesitating". When this happens DO NOT attack him with any other attacks. In my experiance with this battle you only have one chance to hit him and kill him, if you don't kill him in one more hit he will run away. You really don't won't this especially if you faught him around 600,000. So use Aura on Squall and keep pressing the "O" button until his limit comes up and then get him. It will most likely kill him and then the battle is over. Congrats:) -------------------------- !GUARDIAN FORCE OPTIONAL BOSS! Boss:Odin -------------------------- HP:1000-35,000 Location:Centra Ruins Notes:Do NOT fight optional battles Strategy:Odin will NOT attack during this entire battle. However, if you faught the optional battles on the way you are not going to beat him. With the time limit at 20 minutes you have very little time left when you get to him to kill him. He has way too strong magical defenses so use Aura on Squall and pound on Odin and he will fall easily. I know I mention a lot about Aura ever since the Ultima battle but I really like it and it is very useful in these battles but another strategy if you ran out of Auras is to cast Triple or Cerberus(which you can find on Odin) then pound on Odin with lots of magic although it will be close to the time limit when you beat him. !!!NOTE!!! When you beat Odin you will NOT be able to summon him in any battle. Odin appears maybe 1 out of 25 battles and helps you out by hitting the enemies. He will NEVER appear in a boss battle with one exception and that is Seifer but you'll see that when you face him. So if you think you'll get the same results with this Odin as the Final Fantasy VII version then you are in for a surprise:p(he does however still have the 6 legged horse that I don't fully comprehend) -------------------------- !GUARDIAN FORCE OPTIONAL BOSS! Boss:Tonberry King -------------------------- HP:5000-250,000 Location:Centra Ruins Notes:Patiance is a virtue Strategy:I hope I never fight another stupid green tonberry for the rest of my life. After those something 20 odd tonberry battles the Tonberry King will appear which is not a dimwit like the others so is much faster. Put Haste on all your characters and use your best GFs. Eden is my favorite but is a long one so try Cactuar if you have that as well. Sorry that I don't have any other advice than to use Aura to make this battle go by in 10 minutes instead of 30. If you keep up the assualt that gives him little time to react so almost never hits you. Even if he does he has Full-Life and Curaga to draw from him so your pretty safe. Unlike the other Tonberries Demi and Diablos(which I personally hate) doesn't work on him so just keep pounding witht he limits and/or GFs. ================ 9-Omega Weapon! ================ This optional boss is the most challenging boss in the game(more so than the final boss) and has the most HP out of all the Final Fantasy games so if you think your prepared-your not. If you think your over-prepared then get more prepared because this guy is extremely hard. Here are a lot of helpful pointers for the boss in this section. -------------------------- Preperations -------------------------- First of all here are some things you will want to do or have before you even think about fighting this guy. First, make sure all your guys are at lv 100 when you get to Ultimecia's Castle so you can be well prepared. Make sure you upgrade all the weapons to their ultimate ESPECIALLY Squall's because he is going to prove inreplacable in this battle. Make sure you have all the GFs and make sure you refine from Gilgamesh's card 10 Holy Wars which make your entire party invincible. Junction Death to your Stat-Def because Omega casts Level 5 Death which can kill your entire party. Have 100 of all your vital items like Hi- Potions, Remedies, and Phoenix Downs. Also have at least 20 Auras for someone other than Squall. Make one party member do nothing but heal and revive other members and have another that can do the same if that primary one dies. Your main focus will be Squall. Make sure you give Eden and any other powerful GFs you plan on using to someone else because Squall is going to do nothing but limits. If you've done all of this you might be ready to fight him. -------------------------- Vital Stats of Omega Weapon -------------------------- HP-100,000-1,100,000 Elemental Stats-Absorbs all magics Status Magic Stats-Blocks everything AP-250 Draw Magics-Flare, Holy, Meteor, and Ultima -------------------------- Strategy -------------------------- First off use the Doomtrain GF to lower Omega's defences so you can do double damage to him. Then use Aura on Squall and then use a Holy War so you can't get hurt. Now keep pressing the O button till Squall's Limit Break comes up. If you have his ultimate weapon-Lion Heart, then the limit will do around 100,000 damage to Omega. After that make another party member use Eden on Omega and then go back to Squall and use his limit again. When Holy War wears off cast another.(you should have around 10) Remember to cast Aura on Squall and keep using his limit. If you don't have solid defences against death when Omega uses his Level 5 Death spell it might kill all of your members. Be sure to have one just casting Revive and Curaga on your party members. If you do this fast enough you will kill Omega with Squall's limits before you run out of all your Holy Wars. If you do run out of Holy Wars try to find a Hero item in your inventory and cast it on Squall. That is all my advice on Omega. Good Luck! (By the way, if you beat him look in the Tutorial section to see a new option that says "Proof of Omega") ================ 10-Coming up! ================ Wow, I actually finished something I started. That's a first!:p If you have any ideas for additions to this boss guide just E-mail me at Mordruk@hotmail.com and I'll start a new section for it. And of course I will give you credit for giving me the idea for the section:) Nothing else is planned for this FAQ because I have to work on my other FAQs now that I've been neglecting for over a month:p ================ 11-Copyright Info ================ I would like to thank Squaresoft and it's parent company Square for making yet another great game that will become a classic.(can't wait for FF Anthology) I would also like to thank S.C.E.A. for publishing that great game as always keep up the good work:) Now on with the Copyright so nobody tries to pull anything. I would also LIKE to thank several people who e-mailed me about my missed Guardian Force but I lost their e-mails so I cannot, but thanks anyways!!! Special Thanks- oscar614@webtv.net for the HP info on Ultemacia in her final form. netbyte@mnl.sequel.net for the MUCH better diablos strategy. Also thank you to all the people that submitted one after this one even though I'm not posting it:) Mugen92@aol.com, CVIEW@webtv.net, gameaddict@juno.com, and mamoru@sprint.ca for submitting great guides to Ultima AND telling me how to get to him even though I did not print their guides they still helped a lot. If I left anyone out of this that submitted a guide to Ultima please e-mail me and I will add you if I still have your letter in my folders. This FAQ is mine and cannot be copied and sold for profit or promotional purposes in any way. I do not want this published in books, magazines, guides, etc without my permission. It can be printed(please 1 copy per person) Unlike my other FAQs I DO NOT want this one posted on any websites at all besides www.gamefaqs.com, http://members.spree.com/sip1/psxpitmaster which is a website I help out with, and www.rpgfan.com so please don't ask me permission. That means YOU www.consoledomain.com for stealing my FAQ. 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