GarlandTheGreat | FFVII - Solo Rotating Character No EXP Challenge, Part 29: Carry Armor @GarlandTheGreat | Uploaded April 2023 | Updated October 2024, 16 hours ago.
This isn't difficult. Just annoying and luck reliant. Lapis Laser and Arm Grab are instant death, and he's got a more than 50% chance of opening the battle with either one of them. At most, I had 8 attempts in a row where this happened. I think the known record is 11. He can use two regular attacks per turn and Vincent can survive three at most, so Barrier and the lowest battle speed are a must.
Why Vincent? Because he's got the best magical potential. His Supershot SC gives a +54 magic bonus, the second highest in the game after Red's Spring Gun Clip at 55. This is found in the Ancient Forest, so I had to breed a green chocobo to get it. With the Wizard Bracelet and Circlet for another 50, Magic Plus at level 2 and some heavy green materia to boost it even more, I was able to get his magic stat up to 155. Not bad at level 7. The most important thing about getting your magic stat up as much as possible isn't the damage, but the healing. This is one of those battles where every turn counts, and especially at the beginning, so I set myself up with HP Absorb to get as much HP as possible back from every attack. You get 10% of the damage you deal, so when you can deal more than 3000 damage, that covers more than half your HP and roughly three of his attacks through Barrier.
As for the strategy, start with Barrier. I filled up my limit bar so that I would get the next turn as quickly as possible. Now, depending on your HP, either use Bolt3 to heal or start draining his MP with Magic Hammer. You only have to use it twice, so if you're lucky with his attacks, like I was here, you can do both before you even have to heal. Some times, he'll just stand there like a dork and not attack at all. After you've drained his MP and healed up, it's time to cast Trine. You need to attack the arms once each to reduce the chance of Arm Grab from 1/16 to 1/128. Just be aware that it likes to miss, so hope at least both of the arms get hit. Once that's done, you're pretty much safe, but there's always a tiny chance of Arm Grab or a nasty double critical combo. You also have to use another Light Curtain, so hope your Barrier doesn't run out at a bad time.
Rules:
1. Solo Rotating Character - Only one character may be used per battle. This can be any character, but no character may be used in more than five boss battles. All optional bosses must be fought.
2. No EXP - Achieved with gameshark codes
3. No Damage Dealing Items
Character uses so far:
Cloud - 5
Barret - 5
Tifa - 3
Aerith - 5
Red XIII - 5
Yuffie - 0
Cait Sith - 3
Vincent - 2
Cid - 0
Final Fantasy Challenge Discord: discord.gg/4gqshK6
This isn't difficult. Just annoying and luck reliant. Lapis Laser and Arm Grab are instant death, and he's got a more than 50% chance of opening the battle with either one of them. At most, I had 8 attempts in a row where this happened. I think the known record is 11. He can use two regular attacks per turn and Vincent can survive three at most, so Barrier and the lowest battle speed are a must.
Why Vincent? Because he's got the best magical potential. His Supershot SC gives a +54 magic bonus, the second highest in the game after Red's Spring Gun Clip at 55. This is found in the Ancient Forest, so I had to breed a green chocobo to get it. With the Wizard Bracelet and Circlet for another 50, Magic Plus at level 2 and some heavy green materia to boost it even more, I was able to get his magic stat up to 155. Not bad at level 7. The most important thing about getting your magic stat up as much as possible isn't the damage, but the healing. This is one of those battles where every turn counts, and especially at the beginning, so I set myself up with HP Absorb to get as much HP as possible back from every attack. You get 10% of the damage you deal, so when you can deal more than 3000 damage, that covers more than half your HP and roughly three of his attacks through Barrier.
As for the strategy, start with Barrier. I filled up my limit bar so that I would get the next turn as quickly as possible. Now, depending on your HP, either use Bolt3 to heal or start draining his MP with Magic Hammer. You only have to use it twice, so if you're lucky with his attacks, like I was here, you can do both before you even have to heal. Some times, he'll just stand there like a dork and not attack at all. After you've drained his MP and healed up, it's time to cast Trine. You need to attack the arms once each to reduce the chance of Arm Grab from 1/16 to 1/128. Just be aware that it likes to miss, so hope at least both of the arms get hit. Once that's done, you're pretty much safe, but there's always a tiny chance of Arm Grab or a nasty double critical combo. You also have to use another Light Curtain, so hope your Barrier doesn't run out at a bad time.
Rules:
1. Solo Rotating Character - Only one character may be used per battle. This can be any character, but no character may be used in more than five boss battles. All optional bosses must be fought.
2. No EXP - Achieved with gameshark codes
3. No Damage Dealing Items
Character uses so far:
Cloud - 5
Barret - 5
Tifa - 3
Aerith - 5
Red XIII - 5
Yuffie - 0
Cait Sith - 3
Vincent - 2
Cid - 0
Final Fantasy Challenge Discord: discord.gg/4gqshK6
![FFVII - Action Button Only Challenge [No EXP] , Part 39: Bizarro Sephiroth](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/Uc-zkOiydFM/hqdefault.jpg "FFVII - Action Button Only Challenge [No EXP] , Part 39: Bizarro Sephiroth
This finale is going to be a little anticlimactic in terms of difficulty and the main reason is the next battle. You have a very limited number of turns to deal with him, so you need to go in as powerful as possible. Since I didnt want to just Sneak Attack KotR them, I decided to go for something you will most likely only see once in any of my challenges - Barret and Vincent with fully realized ultimate weapons. Thats right. Barrets weapon has 8 mastered KotR while Vincent has 65535 kills. They both have Fury Rings for 50% extra damage, and Barret has the Gigas Armlet for +30 Atk and Vincent has a Ziedrich for +20 that he also needs to be able to survive Bizarros regular attack.
However, since their levels are so low, you are not gonna see any overflows here. Not even close. In fact, this battle is not an automatic win. If you get a turn before Sephiroth and kill the head, he will use Aurora Fence, which means the characters will lose both Fury and Berserk and then Barret wont be able to survive an attack. You also need to kill the arms before they can use their level 3 spells, unless they are used on Cloud, who has the Tetra Elemental. Barret didnt have room for any Elemental combos in his armor and Vincent doesnt have any armor slots at all. Then you have to hope he doesnt attack Barret or Vincent twice before you can kill him. Thankfully, it doesnt require a lot of luck for things to go right, and I only needed two attempts.
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![FFVII - Action Button Only Challenge [No EXP] , Part 14: Gi Nattak](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/UoYuH7BlWbw/hqdefault.jpg "FFVII - Action Button Only Challenge [No EXP] , Part 14: Gi Nattak
This is the first major roadblock in the challenge. Its the kind of battle where I had no clue what to do and had to do trial and error to figure something out. The main problem is that Aerith simply doesnt have enough HP. His regular physical attack deals 250 damage to her and she can only get 177 back from Healing Wind. She can also get healed by Fire2 if she gets possessed since I have level 3 Elementals now, but they will run out of MP and then you will die really fast. Even with Fury and Howling Moon the damage output is poor, so I just couldnt stay alive long enough. If I could use Pulse of Life, the battle wouldnt be a problem at all as long as she doesnt get criticald, but that requires an arrow button and Great Gospel isnt available yet.
Lets try Cait Sith then. Not only does he have much more HP, but he can heal too, right? Yeah, you can operate the Slots, but theres one problem. You cant slow them down with the square button. You can practice getting the combinations you want, and Mog Dance is one of the easier ones, so you can even get consistent at it. However, when youre five minutes into an intense battle, its suddenly not as easy anymore. You will see two examples of that in this battle. Instead, I decided to go for Lucky Girl at the beginning. Its harder to get, but since you do it at the beginning, theres no pressure and that makes it much easier to pull off. Lucky Girl makes you get critical hits all the time for constant double damage. With a Fury Ring on Cloud and Red using Howling Moon for an additional 60% strength boost, I was able to deal enough damage to last the whole battle even though my Mog Dance attempts failed.
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