7 Brutal Bosses With Ridiculous Weaknesses [Commenter Edition]

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Final Fantasy has featured some punishingly brutal bosses over the years, but even though some might seem insurmountable, there would be those that featured unconventional weaknesses that would make the bosses trivial by comparison. In this video we're covering a whole new selection, as chosen by our commenters!
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[@Evan.280]

RUFUS WAS WEAK TO STOP? That would’ve made my life so much easier back when I played it on hard mode in 2020 😭

[@PainMakesYouFeelBetter]

I didn't even have Time materia fighting Rufus, I just did the old strat from OG FF7 Kill the dog while whittling down Rufus with Bio and limit breaks. Died 5 times because of poor MP management and The damned gun punishment off whiffing heavy slashes.. .

[@zachfreedom644]

My strategy was kill dog and using counter

[@Xemnasty]

Wait. Is he weak to stop in Rebirth too?

[@darkinsanity98473]

​@@XemnastyUnfortunately no. They fixed those weaknesses in Rebirth against Rufus. You can still instant stagger him with Braver but you have to time and catch him with it after he reloads. Not easy to do.

[@juminlee]

Maybe I'm bad but I hit braver on Rufus in rebirth and no instant stagger.i got confused af and thought the devs just wanted us to find the new gimmick against Rufus. He doesn't instantly counter and hitting him during reloads is much easier than remake so I ended up fighting him like a "regular" boss.​@@darkinsanity98473

[@mayleelove4332]

Rufus' real weakness in remake was you being able to count to 6

[@richardk2455]

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[@nolongeraperson]

I wasn't surprised by Rufus' weakness in the Remake version because he was already weak to Bio/Poison in the first game, so I figured something like that would carry over and found out quickly.

[@feverpyretic]

Save your M-Tentacles 😁

[@corrinflakes9659]

It also makes sense a man raised outside the filth he and his forefathers placed on the world would be susceptible to toxic elements.

[@spottsswood9828]

Zombie Evrae FFX. 2 Phoenix downs and it’s over

[@alchalant4663]

Or just go into punisher mode and hold r1

[@supersmily5811]

I like the idea that Rufus, being ostensibly a humanoid on a similar level to Cloud himself, isn't immune to status effects like everything else on the planet is. It makes so much sense thinking about it logically, but because anyone would be approaching the fight from a meta angle of "this is boss therefore status = no" you don't know it's possible. Of course, this says a lot more about the rest of the system than it does the design of this fight. :{

[@TheBlackSeraph]

Yeah, that's one of the things I liked about the Rufus boss fight from vanilla FF7 but hated in Remake. Vanilla FF7's Rufus looked cool but was a cake walk even without weaknesses, but then again, what did you expect? He's a rich kid with a mako pistol and a pet dog and you are (supposed to be) a mako-enhanced super-soldier with an oversized sword. Remake, in its desperate need to turn everything into a spectacle, tries to make Rufus & Dark Nation into a viable threat.

[@NoctLightCloud]

​@@TheBlackSeraphthat's the most ridiculous complaint I heard regarding Remake & Rebirth. Imagine the oppsite were the case (an intially difficult boss made easy) - people would be MAD.

[@TheBlackSeraph]

@@NoctLightCloud not really, he's an easy boss that was pointlessly ramped up because everything in that game had to be a 10 minute epic. Considering there's at least 3 other boss fights shortly after makes the section a bit of a drag. I'm glad he wasn't cut entirely but the bosses overstayed their welcome and Rufus, who was designed to be an easy 2v1 in the original is one of the worst offenders (or at least top five).

[@alexanderinoa7850]

@TheBlackSeraph Y'know, thinking about it like that, I kind of agree. I mean, I love spectacle and the fight was fun as hell to me, but logically speaking, Rufus being able to keep up with Cloud even with his pet helping him out is... kind of stupid lmao. The original really got it right in that regard.

[@InfinityZeroEX]

@@TheBlackSeraphoh no let’s not make a boring boss fight from the original better, oh no that’d be just horrible. You sound ridiculous. If you’re going to complain about something, make it about how Nomura’d the story is. Because they Nomura’d hard in both Remake and Rebirth towards the end. Still great games and the combat is stellar and there are some cool and hype moments, but they have some moments that flop as well. Basically I’m saying having a hang up on the cool Rufus fight is weird and I don’t understand it, when the ending is so much stranger. And everything with the whispers.

[@rocafella142]

Nothing blew my mind quite like when I discovered I can just zombie Yu Yevon, and throw a Phoenix Down at him to kill him... the final boss of FFX.. I'm surprised Defender X was mentioned instead of this.

[@callmeshaggy5166]

Everything after Braska's Final Aeon are formality encounters. In fact, that's the entire point - that without his powerful Aeons, Yu Yevon is quite weak.

[@AncestorEmpireGaming]

Yu Yevon: “I AM INVINCIBLE!” Me: *Uses WCW Hulk Hogan finger poke of doom* Text: attack was extremely effective

[@Redmannowra]

Same with the second Evrae. The first Evrae was challenging for any number of people who had relied on Yuna for boss battles until now. Second version just throw some phoenix downs and bye bye

[@lyndsaybrown8471]

See, Rufus, being a rich person, is all about Status. In regular life, he just has the Wealth Status, but in combat, you can also inflict him with Sleep and Stop (it's impossible to remove that Wealth Status though).

[@Tony_409]

Maybe he was in such a rush he forgot to take his Coffee that would have made him immune to Sleep

[@KaiKrimson56]

Imagine thinking you're invincible just because you have a gun and a pet monster dog but forget you're fighting a guy that can fit a time-stopping gem into a sword the size of a door.

[@linkkenni]

Wow. The algorithm got this to me quick

[@LiminalMan777]

Hail the Algorithm

[@WhiteSupreme]

Yeah that's usually what happens when you watch a channel. KZbin recommends more and new videos when they release.

[@FlamingBeefCat]

Meeeeeee tooooooo

[@DoctorCarth]

The AI Overlord knows all

[@joncrum3748]

Facts

[@robertsilvermyst7325]

I remember SINs weakness: Zombification. It turns it's healing into its own death kneel.

[@mfntonberry]

Bro, that Rufus fight in rebirth was ridiculous.

[@geraldholt2755]

That was probably my favorite fight in the main story. So cool, iconic and actually challenging on the first playthrough.

[@SnowTheGoon]

once you realize that you can just stay back and attack his dog at times to build up ATB and use a ATB attack whe he's reloading to pressure him he becomes a pushover

[@callmeshaggy5166]

Idk why but the 1v1 aura of the situation made everyone, everyoneeeee, including myself, forget that magic exists.

[@minomorales2996]

Dude. I had to put the bitch in easy just so I can get past him, I mean it was a great boss fight but lord almighty, that stupid counter move where he grabs you and shoots you in the back was PIIIISSING me off so bad

[@awsomeboy360]

Yeah, you couldn't just cheese that fight.

[@tkharris5145]

I really love the FFIX battle theme being played in the background, I never imagined it to sound as awesome as it does here

[@AnimeNut101]

Best regular battle theme in the series ❤

[@tkharris5145]

@@AnimeNut101 I like the battle theme for X personally but the slower piano version for IX made me feel some sort of way and I dig it

[@AnimeNut101]

@@tkharris5145 can't fault you fir your tastes there. X definitely has the 2nd best battle theme (it's honestly a "1" and "1a" situation with them for me), but IX's makes me feel like an epic hero while giving me goosebumps at the same time.

[@lilsunny7399]

Seymore Flux has ridiculous spells, a bit that can absorb magic which he can re-summon at will if you kill it and a ton of HP not to mention at Mt Gagazet there isn't a lot you can do to prepare besides level up and maybe buy equipment from Wantz.....or just cast Bio.....because he's vulnerable to poison.

[@SonofTiamat]

There was also the Vanish Doom/X-Zone trick that easily made quick work of that boss in Cyan's nightmare

[@LevantineR1]

What's neat about that boss is X-Zone wins the fight without Vanish. If both flames are taken out at once by X-Zone, the fight's over. This is a whole different bug than Vanish bypassing immunities.

[@michaelmoore1627]

I never knew that one, I only used vanish then death/ x zone on Ultima weapon on thr floating island.

[@veghesther3204]

Sadly the PIXEL remaster forced you to kill Wrex Soul the HARD way in the Pixel version as soon as BOTH Soul Saver's DIE from that spell they are automatically revived IN the same turn and since I still had lv 65+ party members I had more trouble killing 1 of your OWN party members then the actual battle itself since 8x 9999 hits after wards still kills Wrex soul in 1 turn.

[@CD-Gaming]

Yeah, I kind of forgot about that trick during my Let's Play... not that it matters, I wanted to get my hands on the Memento Ring anyway, so... that and I wanted to show off taking him down the standard way, not abusing tricks! I'm very straight forward in my approach as I have jus realised...

[@TheBlackSeraph]

In the original SNES/SFC version, Vanish + Doom (or indeed any insta-kill spell) worked against virtually everything in the game. I think there are a couple of instances where it doesn't work (immunity to vanish, scripted dialogue/phases) but because it's a universal glitch where the vanish status bypassed the enemy's death immunity it's not really a "surprise weakness" - especially since I'm pretty sure most later versions fixed that bug.

[@lurdesrosa4740]

They should have added the itangir boss fight from ff6.Being one of the most challenging fights because itangir was immune to all elements, and keep getting on using the sleep spell on himself and counter attacked with meteor everytime the player attacked.Only to find out later that he was vulnerable to the stop spell.

[@greyknight627]

FFX, Yu Yevon final boss fight. Vulnerable to Zombie attack, throw a mega phoenix down, done. I am shocked more people don’t talk about this.

[@CD-Gaming]

I shall have to remember that, cheers!

[@AshendaFiremyst]

Zombie was useful in a lot of bosses in X

[@CloudianMH]

Yu yevon isnt a hard fight. So people dont bother to learn new things

[@callmeshaggy5166]

More people have access to reflect. Are there really _that_ many people borderline offended folks don't talk about cheesing a formality encounter that you can't lose anyway? Unless you intentionally petrified your entire party but then you're just trolling yourself.

[@AshendaFiremyst]

@callmeshaggy5166 I have to admit, I thankfully forgot to level up my aeons, so when I got to that fight it wasn't so bad. I had a friend who had super-powered Bahamut... I warned him...

[@slimscorpio09]

I just fought Rufus yesterday. the way I was screaming this is broken lol I felt like I was fighting a from soft boss from Elden ring or something with his endless attacks you can't block or his small window to stagger him for 1 second.

[@BibikiTV]

It always brings me a smile when I see a new video from FFU has been released. We're very lucky to have you two.

[@mightymanatee5342]

I have to add the Dark Elf from Final Fantasy 4's initial SNES release in the US. After he transforms into his Dark Dragon form he inexplicably becomes vulnerable to the Tornado spell (or Weak in this version) reducing him to 1Hp allowing you to one-shot him.

[@daviddalrymple2284]

Yeah. The reason it works is that the programmers forgot to give the Dark Dragon the "Boss Flag" which makes them immune to to weak.

[@hanniballahr94]

You could also simplify Chac in X-2 with a Berserker who knows enough auto-dodge/counter skills. You're basically invincible at that point.

[@minomorales2996]

0:29 That Rufus boss fight in the gold saucer (ff7 rebirth) actually started to make me lose my mind, I HAD to put it on easy mode so I can just get through it (I’m ashamed of that)

[@stevenruest8096]

I feel you. It was the exact same for me. Had to get over it when I fought him on hard mode and just pick my battles where I could. Triple slash was useful for getting in quick while he reloads, but I never found a way to get a braver in on him outside of easy mode because every attack would knock you down and stun lock until he stopped.

[@BleistiftSchwert]

For me it was the Remake battle I couldn’t take on. The insane thing is I replayed the chapter AFTER I finished the game. And I still couldn’t beat Rufus 🥲 Guess I’m just bad and don’t have any patience

[@TruthAndEssence]

It was very easy. He left huge windows to smash when he went to ‘reload’. Very easy.

[@daigorogreco1715]

I know it wasn't a super hard boss, but I will never forget when I was 10 years old and I was playing FF9 and my best friend told me that using a tent on Ghizamaluk would absolutely cripple him. Considering that it was a solo battle for Gidang and I was young and terrible, it was a huge help back then

[@ToGoodofaplayer]

Another honorable mention Is the life tree use a phoenix down and your done

[@daigorogreco1715]

@ToGoodofaplayer oh right! But that would require my compulsive hoarding mind to ever use one of the hundreds of consumables I collected specifically for this purpose. Instead I am going to beat the game with 99 of everything lol

[@dansmith16]

Start every boss fight with tent.

[@keeganlafferty1395]

ah yes, FFIX Tent, the predecessor to FFXII's Niho-Rem strategy (basically equip an accessory that inverts item effects and use a remedy on an enemy, works best if you have all Remedy Lore licenses)

[@dansmith16]

@@keeganlafferty1395 First effective for bosses, then your get out of jail card for every Marlboro.

[@Americansikkunt]

Defender X was such a roadblock. 2nd only to Snorlax…

[@Ethonra]

When Rufus puts up more of a fight than Sephiroth. 🙄 I'm only half joking, but c'mon. Rufus is essentially a puzzle boss while Sephiroth is just hit him hard till he stops moving. I will admit it is a really cool effect that Sephiroth will deflect Cloud's weak sword swings. I wish they capitalized more on that "Sephiroth is so far above you" feel.

[@supremeoverlorde2109]

Sephiroth was really stressful my first time and I died at the very end because I ran out of time lol. But all in all, it wasn't a bad fight and I got through it the second time. I actually ended up looking up Rufus's weakness though because I couldn't for the life of me figure out how to deal with him. I felt so silly afterward, because the solution really is hiding right in plain sight.

[@pandaeyez]

I aint joking. It took me a few tries to beat Rufus but I beat Sephiroth on my first try.

[@veghesther3204]

About that in the original FF7 game most bosses are a total joke to kill so Rufus is only a pain to kill in the REMAKES due to that KoTR isn't IN The Rebirth game and in that remake you still can't SUMMON free will like you can on the PS1/PS4 remaster of it.

[@Ethonra]

@@veghesther3204 Rufus being a pain runs a bit deeper than not being able to Summon Spam him to death, but I think I get what you mean.

[@jaysea838]

@@pandaeyezi had zero issue w/ Rufus but I expected him to have some solving mechanics since the way he played in Remake. Seph is also straight forward outside of the end DPS gate (if you don’t prepare accordingly). Mind you, I am referring to hard mode. On normal mode none of the bosses should cause any issues unless you are severely underleveled. Seph’s stagger DPS check / enrage almost tagged me in my first run through but that was on me for being in autopilot as it wasn’t expected since no other bosses had one. (That I noticed anyhow)

[@jaymckeown7601]

FF7 Remake Rufus actually had another weakness; counter. If you had a full Counter set, he actually couldn't hurt you. Also for Chak using three Gun Slingers in rhythm Chak would be stagger locked.

[@Sherudons]

The undead bosses dying to phoenix downs as stuff I feel is a reward for paying attention and thinking it through than anything, we know heal and life on undead is reversed since we are all no lifers who would 110% FF-X2 if we could... But not everyone tries out strange things... who would think healing a boss was ever a good idea if you didn't know undead are hurt by it.

[@Gang3rs]

woooow.....younger me would have love to know that about defender X, i was so frustrated by him. i grinded out the calm lands for so long to hold a chance again him and then got frustrated again when i had to use the lion guy (forgot his name) on that 2v1 fight where you HAD to win and he was horribly underleveled.

[@MrEvilbyte]

From FF6, there's MagiMaster at the top of the Cultists Tower. Who ironically enough is susceptible to Berserk. Which shuts down his Wallchange shenanigans and overpowered spells (which deal out 2000+ damage a piece). Of course you still have to deal with Ultima when he's defeated (Life3, Rasping away his 50k MP, or just having 7000+ HP all work). If Bravely Default can be considered a Final Fantasy game, then Chrono Trigger definitely can. From that game there is Golem (and later on, the Golem Twins). They have an absurdly punishing Physical moveset (1st off is a move that halves current HP, then that is followed up by a hit capable of one shotting characters outright). The trick to this fight is the Golems copy the element of the last attack that hit it. If you hit it with element magic, it will switch to a moveset using that element (it's ATB is reset when switching to a different moveset too). Good news is all of it's elemental movesets are WAY easier to contend with. There are tricks like switching them to an element your party is resistant to, or hitting it with different elements to repeatedly reset it's ATB bar.

[@StormVII]

Glad that I can finally come back to watching your videos now that I'm done playing through Rebirth. Thanks for keeping my spoiler free until I could!

[@Apolleh]

I dont remember the exact details of the method, but theres a later boss fight in Bravely Second involving both Rev and Geist which is its own level of annoying as Geist will continually undo Rev's HP keeping him alive longer. Normally this makes focusing on Geist a priority, but if you drain his entire MP pool you can make the fight go significantly faster and even beat Rev before Geist. And the thing is, theres unique dialogue for beating Rev first which has some PHENOMENAL voice acting that most players wont ever hear.

[@darkberserker94]

I loved finding the Bravely Second case by chance when I was playing it for th first time. Also it is cool that the Guardian is countered with the Exorcist and in the lore they were father and son, it makes it somewhat more meaningful

[@dougbabb1285]

I'm playing through FFV right now, the Omega Weapon strategy looks really fun! Thanks for the tip

[@TheBlackSeraph]

Just tried that trick on the Pixel Remaster (Switch version), and it seems like it's been removed - tried four times and it missed each time. EDIT: Oops, I was using the Time Mage version of the Stop spell which seems guaranteed to fail, not Romeo's Ballad. EDIT of the EDIT: tried again with Romeo's Ballad, and I think it *technically* hits (it's not missing), but Omega is still attacking way too fast meaning that either Stop isn't being inflicted, or it's wearing off almost instantly (for the record, I'm using a lvl 60 Black Mage to get the best Mag stat). On a slightly different note, Twintania has an odd weakness where he's susceptible to Twister, a randomised !Gaia attack that puts an enemy in HP critical range. Typically doesn't work on most bosses (or even a large range of normal enemies), so accidentally finding this exploit when the Pixel Remaster series is notorious for removing exploits (and adding bugs) was a surprise.

[@Lazzzzz99]

Hey can you make a video explaining about all the different timelines in Rebirth? Would be a great idea for a video. Cause I still get confused about all the timelines that were in the game.

[@BlueTurn]

Did not expect to see my favorite bravely game on the list let alone the boss fight that gives my favorite jrpg class. Gaurdian is so cool.

[@TheZeroNeonix]

"Hey! Hey! Hey. Stop." Rufus: "Okay." "Okay."

[@CardsOfTheHeart]

I remember having trouble with Chac, looking up the guide I had bought with the game, and seeing it was vulnerable to Delay. I would've thought that was the intended weakness.

[@GerikKnight76]

Man. I used to abuse the exorcist ability set in tandem with the dark knights ability set. Get full BP. Use the DK ability that deals damage by sacrificing your hp twice. Then use the ability that deals damage equal to lost hp. Then use the exorcist ability to return you hp to normal.

[@TJ-vp1sz]

I'm surprised you did not include Ruby Weapon. He's weak to the stop effect caused by summoning hades, allowing you to quickly dispatch it with x-summon > Hades > Quadra-Magic KOTR/ Your strongest summon.

[@Hc2p3n4t4rp]

I loved the fact thatif you land a Braver on Rufus during his reload animation you get an instant break

[@keeganlafferty1395]

not sure if this counts but Bravely Default's fight agains Qada, Yulyana, Ominas Crow, and the summoner girl (forgot her name) can be cheesed with the Spiritist asterisk, you see their strategy was for Yulyana and Ominas to spam Reflect Firaga while the summoner uses Prometheus and Qada spams a rather cheaty full party Fire Bane, the way I beat it was by using the Spiritist's Stillness ability (which prevents ALL damage for 2 turns), chipping away at Qada every chance I could before reapplying Stillness, eventually once Qada was down it was just a matter of using some of the Spiritist's other abilities to make my party immune to fire and the rest fell easily

[@DarkFrozenDepths]

auto-life and quick hit broke almost every FF10 fight anyway.... which is why the devs nerfed quick hit and made some of the dark aeons bypass auto-life with a dispel effect on their attacks (usually the strongest one). There's a reason why Delta Attack from the dark magus sisters was turned WAY up to eleven. You simply can't survive it.

[@bestintheworld82188]

Love your content

[@Blasted2Oblivion]

I am running though remake to platinum it before going on to rebirth and that Rufus one is really gonna help. The lack of items in hard mode is starting to become a bigger deal so every little bit helps.

[@saladinboss2507]

Wow! I am about to start my FFV pixel remaster playthrough and will have to try the bard tick on Omega. I don't think I ever took him on before in that game.

[@darksero4433]

I still love that you can beat Omega Weapon from FFVIII with the help of potions. Throw it at Omega Weapon and it resets its ATB to 0 and you can just whale at him with limits or try getting The End to work

[@mattsully2238]

Best accessory combinations that break the game

[@delcharmore3374]

Funny how a similar glitch to the Mystic Quest one occurred in Lufia 2 which was also on the SNES. The strongest boss, Egg Dragon, had max hp and by using a healing item/ spell on it, you'd overflow the HP and his current HP would become that number so by just attacking it once afterwards you immediately killed it.

[@dansmith16]

That giant slime in the bonus dungeon.

[@benc3462]

While not a specific weakness in Bravely default 2 essentially every boss is vulnerable to all non KO status effects albeit with low chance and poison doesn't do much. If you use a rank 12 phantom it causes every status effect to have a 100% success rate so if you use an alchemist you can basically stunlock or my favorite fear them. Fear prevents braving or gaining BP which is huge for the asterisk boss rematches. plus if their BP is negative gr is reduced to negative it is effectively stun.

[@Zeracheil]

My favorite was Evrae Altana in X. Just throw two phoenix down on him and he's dead.

[@silver9177]

by rufus i didnt know he could be affected by status effects so i learned what attacks i could counter

[@d.sack2727]

I'll be honest. I never use provoke, so I never thought of doing that in X

[@CD-Gaming]

It also completely negates the Marlboro's, especially those in Omega Dungeon, stopping their Bad Breath dead in its tracks! You can thank HCBailey for that one, not me!

[@venabre]

FFXIV has an interesting example in one of the Extreme trials from Shadowbringers Spoilers ahead for anyone who hasn't finished the story yet The Extreme version of Hades is overall a very tough battle. That is until you get to the final phase. During the final stretch of the battle all of Hades's attacks leave a specific point in the arena untouched, meaning once you get to that phase the party just needs to scoot over there and start attacking. All you have to do during that entire phase is heal raidwide aoes when they happen and have the tanks take a couple of towers that spawn here and there. Otherwise you're free to just sit still and dps to your heart's content.

[@evanroper6099]

Using blind on diablos in ff8 made it hard for him to kill anyone while his gravity magic put you in linit break range really quickly. Made a hard fight almost free.

[@sarrach94]

Another unusual weakness that Chac has is the oversoul system. While oversouls normally turns an enemy or boss into a more difficult version after fighting a certain amount of enemies that share a type, Chac actually gets considerably easier when oversouled.

[@tenkyoken]

A handful of endgame bosses in FFXI are so dangerous that they can wipe out an entire party if it gets its special attack off. As a result, players have decided to cheese them back by never letting them use any special attacks in the first place by constantly reducing their TP, the same system that lets players use weapon skills. It started with Cait Sith's Mewing Lullaby on Erinys, then beastmaster's TP drainkiss and blue mage's reaving wind/feather tickle on Mboze/Bumba, and the most recent example being Dark knight's absorb-TP spell cycled by the party on Aminon.

[@yunafinder4824]

Another Boss who would fit the list is Judge Bergan in the original FFXII. He wasn't immune to stop which could be easy afflicted with the Nihopalao and a remedy. I didn't know if it is possible to use the same strategy in the zodiac age

[@CrimsonCrickets]

The potion trick on Omega Weapon in Final Fantasy 8. If you have a character use a potion on him every turn it resets his ATB for some reason and you can essentially make it through the whole fight without him ever moving. I did it on the original and the recent HD remaster on ps4 and it worked on both. Squall and Zell use limit breaks and Rinoa just through all the potions lol.

[@callmeshaggy5166]

I think my favorite way to dismantle ff8 omega is taking a 255 speed and 255 magic Rinoa, take away all her magic except Meteor, give her haste & a hero drink & aura, and cast Angel Wing. Then just grab a beer or something. Rinoa will cast Meteor about 7 times hitting for about 7-8000 *_per meteor_* (that hits 10x per cast) before Omega gets a puny turn and bonks her for 0 damage before she repeats the process.

[@MichaelP833]

i was expecting this to be on the list, or maybe with diablos using either blind on him, or stocked demis (instead of draw/cast) was sad to see 8 not even make it into the video

[@ThundagaT2]

@@callmeshaggy5166 Cant use Angel Wing after Hero Drink, invincible status makes you immune to all status effects, and Angel Wing is considered a status effect, meaning it will miss.

[@tazlolol]

NGL, I was shocked (no pun intended) by the amount of things weak to Lightning in Rebirth.

[@nothing1375]

To me it seemed everything was weak to ice

[@raineiramparo2543]

Will there be a time wherein you will cover lore/character lore for suikoden series? I think it will be a very good content for you since you have a very good narrative skill.

[@perfj]

Dude it's a Final Fantasy channel.

[@metleon]

A bunch of fights in XII can be beaten easily with specific strategies. Fafnir can't break through Reflect, so you can just stand in the corner of the area where he can only hit you with magic and then let him kill himself. The Behemoth Kings size also means that he won't get close to trees and can only use magic against characters next to them, but he can pierce Reflect. This is still a good strategy, since his spells are much weaker. Pyleraster doesn't have a single attack that ignores Evasion, so you can equip something like an Ensanguined Shield on a character with 2 Shield Blocks and become immune to his damage. Note that weapon Evasion is calculated separately, so something like Main Gauche and Zodiac Escutcheon won't make you completely immune. Yiazmat and Omega can't leave their arenas, so you can have your characters stand outside of them and just keep receiving the one character that's actually fighting. You can shoot Yiazmat from the stairs, which is far enough away that he can only carry Death Strike. I don't think you can shoot Omega outside of his attack range (though maybe you can with Seitengrat), but you can still just have a character Berserk themselves to run in, and then have someone else revive them. Though my favorite had to be the judge fight at the end of Trial Mode. You can use Vanish to run behind them as they approach, and they'll end up reaching the other end of the arena and just stand there. You can then use Remedy+Nihopalaoa to inflict statuses on them and Reflect spells off of a character to hit them without them noticing you.

[@GregorDuckman]

Yes, thank you for the bravely default love!

[@LordFoxxyFoxington]

Do Status Effects work on Rufus in Rebirth?

[@jh9794]

Adamantoise, the fight was just spamming warp strike over and over. But the boss had one reprieve, you accidentally warp striking straight out of the fight and feeling like a moron when it happened. Likely off topic but seeing it reminded me of that.

[@janihelin8170]

Wasn't that just optional hunt target(or whatever they were called in ff15)? You could one shot it with death😅

[@jh9794]

@janihelin8170 death effect? I played on V1.0 only, so if it's the instakill bit with the ring, then I never actually got to use that.

[@TheBlackSeraph]

That was mentioned in the original list. Also since been patched.

[@wrathshorts2894]

A good weakness was the Dark Elf when it becomes the Dark Dragon in FF4. Use the tornado spell or whatever it's called in your version to reduce the boss to a single digit HP. Easy kill.

[@AnotherGeek....]

If only i knew about rufus his weakness 4 years ago.... The amount of pain and suffering i went trough, it all seems for naught......

[@kamikaze82]

Oh man, I'm going back for Omega now! I'm saved right in front of it right already.

[@oluftheexplorer9476]

Ruby Weapon is immune to everything, except paralysis. So using hades makes Ruby trivial

[@aspieatheist6040]

The Dragon Grass from Final Fantasy V was suseptable to instant death, so if you had a dark matter or the Berserker had the Death Sickle, you could beat him instantly. The Magic Master from FF VI changed his elemental weakness, but he was berserkable, so that would cause him to not use magic in the first place.

[@bjwsnafu8555]

Not sure if this was already covered, but, a ridiculously easy way to beat (cheese) Omega Weapon in FFVIII: 1.) Have Selphie in your party. 2.) Cast 'Aura' onto her. 3.) Keep scrolling through her limit break abilities until 'The End' appears. Meanwhile, keep having the other two party members throw potions at Omega Weapon to reset its ATB gauge and "stall" it. 4.) Select 'The End.' 5.) The end. This might not be considered a "weakness" but the fact that Omega Weapon could succumb to Selphie's Limit Break was like, "...REALLY???"

[@callmeshaggy5166]

That's not an omega weakness. FF7 had the Game Over attack that killed anything. FFX had Zanmato that did the same thing to any of its enemies including Penance. To put omega on this list for this reason, you'd have to put every superboss from these other games as well because they can succumb to an instant ko attack.

[@RestofBraves]

For the Bravely Second mention, I don't think you mentioned that the Exorcist Asterisk was obtained by defeating Revenant's father, Geist, who had put his son in the armor to begin with. So in a way, Geist is the reason his son was killed by the party.

[@MCastleberry1980]

I must have read about the Mystic Quest thing in Nintendo Power or something. Remember decemating him with it lol

[@irighterotica]

Rufus (7R) kicked my arse pretty good the first time. Didn't know about his weaknesses... or perhaps I forgot? Either way, I'll be sure to remember that next time.

[@Cozad2ll2]

The Bard song Omega one... Wow

[@Maelael]

Emporor FFII final battle: 16 count sword accuracy, 16 count evasion, + blood sword = 2 turn win (if both attacks deal crits of at least 7500)

[@scottydu81]

I come from the basement to remind you that using Cure on the final boss of Final Fantasy Mystic Quest will do five digits of damage

[@FalloutJack]

You know, it's funny how these things come to me after I've already beaten the boss. Looking at you, Rufus. I out-techniqued him, and I guess that means I'm rather good at the game for doing that, but also this was a funny surprise. Then again, my track record for overwhelming bosses with my devastating soldiers is pretty consistant. I mean, in Final Fantasy X, they give you a huge sandbox of enemies to fight with, becoming so strong as to one-hit them. After that, Defender X was never going to stand a chance. This is what happened to deal with all the Seymour fights and Yunalesca (Well, not Seymour's last fight. That one's a total cakewalk.) I grind enemies to a pulp and grin as the sheer power on display. You may be wondering why Seymour's last fight (Swymour Omnis) is so easy, just in case you didn't try this method out. You know how EVERY other Seymour Guado fight in Final Fantasy X has him basically spamming Banish if you summon an Aeon to deal with him? He doesn't do it in the last fight. What he does is his array of other moves, and then four elemental attacks on a bunch of turn tables that change around if you hit them. Do not hit them. Keep things largely consistant. Let him constantly give off fire spells or whatever. Because with no Banish spell and these four spells going off all the time, NOTHING he hits you with will take out the Aeon of your choice, which is likely Ifrit when he starts out with fire, and then Shiva when he switches the spells on the table, part way through the fight. That's it. You just have your Aeon physically pound him again and again, without failure. This guy, who has been a pain in the neck the whole game, goes down very easily. And don't worry about the EXP not getting around. There's PLENTY of opportunity for everyone else to gain experience here.

[@VinlandicSoul]

I remember getting stuck on Defender X for DAYS. One day I got fed up with my power house (Auron) getting KO’d and used provoke yo sacrifice Tidus instead… and then it was when I discovered this Hack, much to my relief

[@BleistiftSchwert]

Rufus was always such a pain in the ass to beat for me. In the original. In Remake. In Rebirth. Which is also one of the reasons i really like Rufus as a character and boss. Also (as Same had already mentioned in the comments) it makes a lot of sense he’s not immune to status effects. After all Rufus is no incredible strong, trained super soldier or a machine of anything. The fact that he’s fighting with guns and also with a gone-crazy-dog shows how much of a human he is. Hes just really afraid to get his ass kicked by an Ex-Soldier dude

[@korykapp8344]

I know this is Kingdom Hearts, and not Final Fantasy, but Lingering Will in KH2 Final Mix, you can beat him so badly, he won't even be able to move. Equipping Fenrir keyblade, and removing all finisher moves, combo plus/air combo plus, and turning on negative combo, just keep using the air combo finisher until he dies. It even bypasses his DM.

[@jerongordon]

Another one for Chac that trivializes her. 3 words: evade and counter. Using a single berserker girl with this skill makes chac an absolute JOKE. She'll never use stony glare vs a single target and you can use the first turn to throw a soul spring at her to drain her MP so she cant ever use heavens catatact (the command will display but chac will just waste time trying to cast the spell 😂)

[@lhfirex]

Always thought it was weird how Poison could be applied to the final boss in FF13, and if you really want to stall it out, it'll die from Poison. So you could debuff it with a SAB and then turtle up for awhile until you win. And I do think it's funny that the gimmick way to beat the ahriman type boss in FF4 who casts Death Sentence on the entire party is to kill one of your own party members, revive them, and he'll keep casting Death Sentence and resetting the timer.

[@Tony_409]

I mean, it was just born. Probably didn’t have a strong immune system yet

[@blazeknight2629]

Rufus was pretty easy if you just block(or dodge) his long range attacks since only one or two of them are actually unblockable but are extremely easy to dodge, my one probably tho is that he moves so fast and his pressure end has him counter you, so I got chip damaged over and over until the second phase where I commonly died bcs he now his also fast dog

[@Oalmax]

Dispite completing all the achievements for FF7 remake, I wish I knew about Rufus weakness :D

[@silvertayuun]

Defender x is a weird one, can’t say I ever had trouble with it even as a kid o.o

[@abruenin236]

Just today I fought the first Jenova incarnation in FF VII-2 Rebirth. It seems to have a weakness for Barrets shots, so just fire with Barret to shock it, then hit with Cloud and Tifa. The easiest Boss I can remember.

[@0Silvertooth0]

xD OMG i had no idea omega wasnt immune to stop.

[@blaat44]

For some reason I could only get Rufus to sleep once.

[@Yusei255]

Does the Rufus status weakness tactic still apply to his fight in Rebirth.

[@muby102]

From my experience, stop and sleep were resisted when I tried them

[@HarleyFenrir7]

How about Omega Weapon from FF8 and spamming Zell's limit break?

[@dongodongo12]

I can't believe i did not use that strategy on omega

[@Tylericous]

I just saw the video on super bosses, I guess it wants me to sub lol. Love final fantasy so why not

[@unholyrevenger72]

Man, i miss the old Punisher attack animations.

[@CloudianMH]

I dont think I ever had an issue with defender x.

[@KIWIMADNEZ]

What my pissed me off about myself with the Rufus fight is that I used every move against him except Braver because I never use it. 😑

[@clintonshumway5279]

The SNES FF2 (or 4 now) the water fiend would die if you had a thunder claw and Ice claw equipped on yang and hit him once when his water wall was up.

[@MichaelLongshanks]

Creator / God from FFL1/Saga1 I think could have made this list. Tough final boss; Greatest use of a chainsaw in gaming I can think off of the top of my head.

[@-fizzle-729]

This bravely second one is so ironic due to his own weakness Being his dad

[@nhel7]

ffx-2 chac can be exploited more with 3 thieves than lady lucks. simultaneously stun locking with physical attacks accompanied with auto-haste and a catnip on one of the 3 girls.

[@ThundagaT2]

You can stunlock chac with any dressphere that can use the basic attack. Just get Rabite's Foot accessories from Jumbo Cactuars to increase your luck

[@VirgoDurai90]

Gi Nattak in the OG infuriated me, cloud had died and I accidentally hit Gi with a Phoenix down almost making me rq till I saw him just…die

[@veghesther3204]

For FF4 GBA Kain's lance is TOO RANDOM I never had it trigger against that Braciosaur and worse is that to need to ATTACK with it the tornado effect doesn't EVER trigger via the JUMP command and Rydia using that spell NORMALLY on it won't work since its immune to it unless its via the Kain's lance.

[@AncestorEmpireGaming]

All too easy, but you’re not Solider yet, Luke! Luke: wrong franchise!

[@zakirstocks9514]

Rufus Shinra from *FFVII Rebirth* and Caius Ballad from *FFXIII* both the Toughest and Brutal Bosses I've ever seen

[@Vayne_Solidor]

Ehm....ever fought optional superbosses? Apparently not. Caius? Gilgamesh is the hardest boss from the XIII trilogy. Optional, of course. The trial Judges in Zodiac Age, Noctis from Episode Ignis, thats hard boss material.

[@zakirstocks9514]

@@Vayne_Solidor Yeah, I Absolutely see your point there dude