A simple strategy to own Emerald Weapon in Final Fantasy 7!

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Emerald Weapon is one of Final Fantasy 7's optional SUPER Bosses and can be encountered from disk 2 onwards (once the party has gained access to the submarine).
I want to show multiple strategies for defeating the big green one but today we will focus on the most basic. Knights of the Round paired with HP Absorb and a leveled up Counter paired with Mime. Don't forget W-Summon and HP Plus though!
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[@blueclaws9894]

So, I thought of a way to make a small adjustment to your strategy which may prolong the fight, but will keep your whole party up at the end. Basically your setup but as a first cast, W-Summon Phoenix then KoTR. Phoenix revives anybody who's down and KoTR hits hard. Again, your same strat, just takes longer as not as much damage each counter-mime.

[@danielgloyd4529]

That would also allow a lot of flexibility for gaining AP on the other 2. I can't believe I have never thought of this before. I have always either used full KotR with mimes or all lucky 7s 🧀. With that setup you could literally cast, and go do something else. Come back after like 30 mins and collect your rewards. You could even use full double and triple growth equipment as long as the attacker can still survive a hit from full HP.

[@blueclaws9894]

@@danielgloyd4529 Glad to be of help! FF7 was my biggest obsession back when it first came out. Had the discs before I had the system to play it on! 😄

[@MrSHADOWANGEL999]

your strategy worked flawlessly although im not sure how CId ended the fight with only 3 hp

[@Deathisi]

Worked perfectly, I just set it off and went elsewhere for 25 min or so and returned once I heard the kill screen xD

[@fabianocgrj]

Works perfectly! Thanks!

[@linkz35]

This is the strategy I used the first time I beat Emerald years ago. I love how if you're creative with your materia you can make some fights a total joke! Great minds think alike my friend.

[@avabethmcghee3048]

Literally just go make a sandwich, watch some TV with my dad and wait for the fanfare music.

[@iceman4208]

Omnislash😂😅

[@supersaiyanzero386]

Update: I mastered counter and got level 2 KOTR quickly and it worked exactly like the guide said. Thank you. Didn't have to spend hours grinding KOTR AP!!!

[@ShadowReborn]

Thank you for such marvelous strategy! I timed it in a way where I knew that Emerald was two KoTR hits away from being killed and decided to break the chain to have Tifa's Final Heaven hit instead, followed by Cloud's Omnislash, thus killing this thing in the most epic of ways! Thank you!

[@Carnifex902102]

I will use this method with some Bourbon for my Mint Juleps! Thanks JF for sharing

[@ilovecorpseparty8930]

Emerald Weapons: *hits Cloud* Cloud: So you’ve chosen death!

[@loukwan7838]

thank you once again! another childhood dream fulfilled. Even though I had a mastered counter materia, it didn't go off every time so on my first try, I walked away and came back to a game over screen. tried again and turns out my KoTR for some reason was only hitting the main core and none of the eyes. An Aire Tam Storm plus another attack took my party out on the 2nd try. So for insurance, I gave Yuffie a magic plus and a Mime materia. I had her mime after Cloud. Cloud did miss a counter and Yuffie stepped in with her mimed KoTR x 2. very handy that she also mimed the HP absorb. after that, Cloud countered just fine. KoTR was hitting all the eyes and somehow, everybody survived. Thanks again!

[@RickyRicardo03]

Thank you so much for this brother! This is my last achievement that I needed!

[@yoghurt8397]

Yooo! I played this on my OG PS1 back in 1997, couldn’t crack this back then. Had a successful go now, got inspired to return after finishing Intergrade. My PS1 cd drive is on its last legs - what a satisfying way to finish. Thank you so much for this guide 🎉

[@RickyRicardo03]

Thanks Fuzzy! I always dreaded this boss, now I can make a drink while fighting him! Cheers to that!

[@Feanor1972]

Thx Fuzz! Had lots of trouble defeating this guy in the ‘old days’😅

[@nix2939]

Thanks man. Always end up watching one of your vids during a Final Fantasy playthrough

[@aidan738]

Worked like a charm! I used this strategy on Ruby but I did a W Summon with Hades and then Knights of the Round, because he doesn't counter KoR with Ultima if you paralyze him with Hades. Thanks for the strat!

[@Apollo-71]

This was a great way of defeating Emerald Weapon I used the same strategy to defeat Ruby Weapon as well. 👍

[@spikeman4pres]

finally finishing ff7 for the first time ... and you have been a great help - last fight is with sephiroth now

[@LoneWolf81684]

Thanks for the strategy! Time for me to head back to Battle Square!

[@Wesker1213Gaming]

I modified this little by putting a mastered counter/mimic combo on my other 2. Had 2 party members standing at the end.

[@hapticgaming]

as a child I used the combo with final attack + (phoenix) + other stuff that I don't remember pretty well, but I used my whole team to do it and was over kill tbh! I remember farming AP like crazy at the sunken submarine with the x3 ap gain weapons! but I don't have that time anymore.

[@ellieB5806]

Thanks so much. Never defeated emerald before and this did it first try 😊

[@cybersamiches4028]

The real question is, where did that guy get all those master materias, Id love to see that dude in battle!

[@mikemchugh694]

Just beat emerald weapon for the first time ever. Thank you!

[@user-cm9wm7tg2p]

Another set up is Quadramagic-Gravity, Quadramagic-Gravity, Gravity-HP Absorb, Gravity-MP Absorb, W-Magic-Mime, on Cloud and Counter-Mime on the other two in the party.

[@quack_a_doodle5922]

Thank you for this strat Fuzz, I needed a reminder for my run :) I ended up killing him with 2 k.o.t.r linked to HP/MPAbsorb, 4 Counter-Mimes Mastered and Final Attack phoenix which I didn't really need lol I was so lucky he didn't do AIRETAM STORM xD

[@FuzzfingerGaming]

Nice!!! Always helps when it doesn't use that :D

[@quack_a_doodle5922]

@@FuzzfingerGaming yeah I bet he would have if he ever had a 5th turn xD

[@thelastfantasy]

Just killed it at level 61 with just Cloud 🙌🏻 Had him equip 2x 5☆ HP UP, KotR + HP Absorb and Mime. I gave Underwater to another member of my party. This disables the timer and caps the damage of Aire Tam Storm to 5,555 on Cloud as he only has 5 materia equipped. Then it's just a case of doing exactly as you did, cast KotR followed by Mime each turn after. Doing it this way takes longer as you're only castting KotR once per turn but as a result, it cuts out the Battle Square BP grind!

[@MezurakWoW007]

You have the best videos they work every time thank you.😊

[@Walamonga1313]

Amazing strategy, I tried others but Emerald always got bullshit double turns that wiped me anyways. This is the only strat that is 100% guaranteed. Or at least the only foolproof one that doesn't require you to stupidly grind literally 4 counters and 4 mimes (like Omnislash)

[@CM-be2gs]

Hi this isn't fool proof , somehow I followed the steps in this video but my Mime ain't auto activate and I got killed by Emerald.

[@iceman4208]

Are u joking omnislash with 8 mime and counter materias on clouds ultima weapon u start with omnislash u end with it

[@kohlod]

I've done this on Nintendo Switch and works absolutely great. Thanks for the guide!

[@vergozero9806]

You are a genius, oh and perfectly works against Ruby

[@mossyd3636]

You can use this exact same strategy on Ruby Weapon, as long as two characters in your party are KO'd before the fight begins. Also, equip a ribbon to the one character who's still alive.

[@nubworthycigars6682]

Nice thought!... Ruby was so tough if you used the Brady games guide back in the day lol. Then I learned he can be fing paralyzed and he’s a total joke after that.

[@marcbedard3245]

Ah! Emerald took it right in the face XD. This is funny. Considered such a hard boss. Nice strategy :)

[@craigmoscarell2027]

Totally works. I need to try it legit next.

[@gorkskoal9315]

you can also use lucky 7's here with basically this set up. Granted it's been litteraly decades. I'm just going from memory. You'd gain lucky 7s from cactus island somehow. with knights of the round, w sommon and command in their someplace, with mimic. From what I recall you use w summon with knights of the round and then each the rest of the team mimics that. I think they also would mimic the lucky 7 as well. If it works you'd get 6 sets of lucky seven then 12 sets of knights of the round. Probably alsoing stupid amounts of damage to other bosses. Maybe sepheroth as well.

[@StormFive]

This is brilliant!!!! Thank you for posting!!!! Liked, subscribed.

[@tommyherrick8220]

@FuzzfingerGaming I was a little impatient and went into this fight without counter. I was still able to beat him on my first try! Thanks so much for the video 🤩

[@Melissa_287]

Thank you so much, this really helped a lot! This video deserves far more likes!

[@mijulee6783]

Oh my days this strategy is amazing!!

[@CM-be2gs]

Hi there I followed every single steps but it isn't fool proof, my Mime stop auto activating halfway and I got killed by Emerald. I tried few attempts yet still stuck now

[@DantGryet]

I use cloud barrett and whoever, cloud and barrett have 4x cut and 3rd person throwing hero drinks for the first 3 or 4 rounds and megalixirs when needed. Normal attacks, and Anger max was doing insane damage and omnislash 9999 every hit. Super simple stuff and emerald goes down quick

[@Sincerely_NUVO]

I just used this strategy and it worked perfectly!! 🤯 All three of my characters survived and I had 4 minutes to spare. It was so satisfying to bully this asshat of a boss lol.

[@davidbalija]

This strategy really works. Thank you

[@eddiegesch8645]

Thanks man I've spent forever trying to beat emerald.

[@seanmichael9625]

Gonna try this need to level up my counter materia first thou

[@JeffSGamer1]

Did the exact same thing and I still died, no changes what so ever

[@uncensored6177]

Bro I just beat him after searching the internet to figure it out. All you need is W Summon & 2nd level KOTR + HP absorb & someone with Mime. Cast KOTR then it'll do it twice, then mime. Repeat mime for the rest of the battle & you'll win. Whoever has mime should have only a few materias to survive the Aire Tam attack (Mime & HP Plus materias). The mimer will live but the rest of the party will die.

[@Wesker1213Gaming]

It is a little RNG based, but is doable. I modified it a little but putting a mastered counter/mimic combo on my other 2. Had 2 party members standing at the end.

[@martinmccarthy4037]

Nice job.(slightly better than the live stream! Lol.) As Emerald Weapon doesn't have any status attacks Sprint Shoes is a great accessory. (He can also be slowed e.g. using a Spider Web.) Looking forward to seeing you use other strategies later on. LOMAX had better get a move on!!!

[@ik496]

Absolutely farking brilliant mate

[@cloudsopowera6248]

Your the MVP of Final Fantasy VII

[@Iceman42069]

No that's me 😅😂

[@AlanDike]

I've always just walked in with either cloud and omnislash or barret with ungarmax. Two dead except for either cloud or barret. Hit with ungarmax, and then let emerald weapon hit me. I have 7x counter and 7x mime. Last combo is a final attack with phoenix on it, just in case. Literally walk in, ungarmax or omnislash, then let the counters do their thing... Basically a 3 minute kill

[@TwilightFusionX]

this was super helpful, especially since somehow my underwater materia just vanished from my inventory.

[@masoprid3]

i had 2 kotr 2 mimes 2 W summons and emerald got smoked by cloud and barret

[@laithamekir5778]

Used this back in 97 thanks for posting just did this tonight and needed refreshing

[@vickxplay]

this is great strategy ever..AFK for entire battles.. Nice!!!

[@lukegilmore372]

Yo…did my man just fart at 3:39? 😂😂😂 great strategy though! I used similar to this on my first attempt

[@AllMy78s]

When I first played this game 26 years ago, it took me days to work out how to kill Emerald, lol...

[@adthomp]

this is awesome! I am doing my crazy platinum trophy now. I am assuming this same thing will work with Ruby Weapon too (only have 2 dead party members in your party so you dont get knocked out)

[@nubworthycigars6682]

Very clever!... I only wonder if this also works with quadra magic as well?

[@diabolicarrrot6920]

I'm having a problem where cid will counter with a physical attack not w summon any help would be appreciated

[@boyatall2]

I’m having same problem

[@TheTsunaru]

​@@boyatall2 You have to use the blue Counter materia linked with Mime, not the purple Counter Attack materia.

[@svsps]

I don't get it. I'm following your guide EXACTLY and Cloud runs out of summon power and Emerald kills me.

[@KarlHessey-db6mf]

How did you learn all the tatics, I've completed the game few times, however how did you get your understanding of the materia combinations ?, did you just play the hell out of it

[@angiesworld8038]

Man, there ain't no way I'm EVER gonna get that W summon. You put a lot of time into this game. I'm at level 64, and I rely so much on limit breaks and straight forward attacks. I don't do strategy attacks.

[@gustavohal2401]

To get the Master Summon Materia, which is by far the longest grinding in the game, takes about 2 and a half hours using the magic pots/w item glitch strategy. So you can pretty much get the W summon materia in less than 3 gameplay hours for sure.

[@ColossalCrib]

Materia system was the best

[@shontamcfarland9330]

Ngl I just used my limit break with red 13, cloud and Barrett all level 4 you just gotta time it right so that the WEAPON doesn’t get a turn oh and have underwater

[@ivanmetal]

BEST STRATEGY EVER!!!!!!

[@Iceman42069]

Nope

[@foldinoscopy5341]

I tried this and for some reason with the exact same setup, it won’t work for me. It seems that mime is in my command list and has to be done manually. Even that won’t seem to have the same effect. Maybe it has to do with the ios version?

[@neilblack4985]

Please help this isn't working for me every time I try it just does knights of the round twice and then that's it. Am I doing anything wrong?

[@xavierfelix6991]

THANK U SIMON!!!

[@moistcheetoman8195]

I have a question, do you have to have w summon or can you just use kotr?

[@TheTsunaru]

You can use just KOTR, it just takes longer so you might need Underwater materia as well.

[@dracolich1201]

Thanks a lot!

[@gigidalessio-n5x]

Could someone explain to me why this strategy is not working? I've literally done everything that he said in the video. Am i doing something wrong?

[@justkilling08]

Imagine fighting him in the remake and doing this exact same thing.

[@mr7oclock346]

Please cover Vincent's mug glitch against this boss. He can defeat emerald very quickly. Also, I never give The Kalm Traveler any rewards beside The Guide Book. You can get those rewards anyway, and I would rather keep The Desert Rose and Earth Harp in my inventory

[@TSyoyo]

Why? They serve no other purpose..

[@mr7oclock346]

@@TSyoyo My purpose for keeping them is that they look nice in the inventory when you are showing off your save file. The Master Materia's aren't really that useful in my opinion, except for Master Command, and you can easily farm for them. If you set your party up with a Double Cut materia, a slash all materia, and 3 mime's the last bosses are really easy, and if you can beat the weapons, you can beat the remaining game with no problem anyway

[@magheed_gaming]

You can't take the counter materia out of Northern Crater anymore, at least not on Playstation console.

[@stevedowling8564]

It didn't work for me......I must have done something wrong. The problem I had was getting smoked when it attacked twice in a row with the blue crystal thingies

[@hairaru]

Thanks!

[@robbiepsychiccatman]

Got w summon finally and also where are there bad ass enemy’s to fight

[@ccc44413]

For me Cloud hit KOTR twice then stopped. What am i doing wrong?

[@tarmac7777]

does not work for me, every time cloud gets hit he mimes with his sword, taking KOTR off the table as far as mime goes.

[@TheTsunaru]

You have to use the blue Counter materia. You're using the purple Counter Attack, which does a counter with a regular attack whenever you're hit instead of countering with the linked materia.

[@unknownunknown5244]

OMG will Counter-Mime really work??? Wouldt it be better if you use the other 2 party members to heal themselves? And how comw Cloud never ran out of Mana?

[@unknownunknown5244]

OMG i just used this strategy right after I posted my comment and I defeated the Emerald Weapon in 1 try!!! All my party members are alive with less than 3mins in the clock! 1. Cloud as you advised (without Magic Plus) 2. Red XIII (Megaelixir and Hero drink Items caster) 3. Vincnet (Demi-Quadra Magic with W-Magic) There are a lot of videos out there but yours is the one that truly helped! Thanks a lot!!!

[@conanrodgers3977]

Why not put the same materia on the others won't they do Knight of the round after cloud once there hit aswell ??

[@vaclavjanoch9627]

Two questions. What's "motovia" and "submoween"?

[@Iceman42069]

Ikr 😂😅

[@supersaiyanzero386]

Thanks ill try this i just need to master counter ill update how it went

[@supersaiyanzero386]

Update: got lazy

[@lyricxlmxchi8676]

lol I gave up after 10 deaths. I'll just go straight to sephiroth. thank god emerald weapon is optional

[@supersaiyanzero386]

@@lyricxlmxchi8676 you gotta try OZMA in ff9. not a long battle but so insanely unpredictable and destructive

[@spacship123455]

Thank you. =)

[@RedMarioXIIINanaki36]

Fuzz! Like I Said Make SURE You LOOK AT MY FF7 Where I Used A COMBINATION Of STRATEGY, And I Had ALL 3 STANDING When I Killed Him! AND He ONLY GOT 1 ATTACK Off!

[@xavierfelix6991]

I'll look it up too buddy😁

[@TSyoyo]

For some reason my hp absorb is not healing cloud with this method.. not sure why

[@Walamonga1313]

Your materia wasn't linked

[@TSyoyo]

@@Walamonga1313 this was a while back when i was replaying the game but my materia was def linked. You would have to have no understand the system at all to not know such a basic beginner step my dude..

[@wicked-witch-of-the-west]

Easiest way to beat Emerald? Omnislash. 4 Hero drinks on Cloud. And get the other two party members to spam MegaLixers. No chocobo breeding. Done

[@Iceman42069]

Hero drinks aren't necessary 😂😅

[@craigmoscarell2027]

Why doesn't this work on Ruby Weapon?

[@theartist8189]

Is this the counter meteria or the magic counter meteria?

[@supersaiyanzero386]

Counter. Not magic counter. Magic counter just has a chance to attack with paired magic materia. Counter is general. You get hit, it counters if mastered. The paired materia being mime you'll Counter with kotr 5x

[@robbiepsychiccatman]

Can u list where y get those specific materia from

[@cygnia]

Could you put Underwater on one of the guys who're just gonna die anyways?

[@FuzzfingerGaming]

I always find it cool to beat him with the timer, but certainly you can equip that materia if you wish.

[@larryrowan4653]

I don't have discs I downloaded it from the PS store on my PS4.

[@DemonSlayer648]

Ultimate weapon + Wizard Armor + Counter + Mimic in each slot Use omnislash as your first attack let emerald attack and sit the controller down. In about 3 to 5 minutes Emerald will die.

[@Walamonga1313]

How do you heal the damage doing that?

[@Iceman42069]

​@@Walamonga1313don't need to omnislash 😂😅

[@darksideenergy22]

Can you still defeat Emerald Weapon with Counter Materia not mastered? Say, if you just got it from The Northern Cave, and wanted to go defeat it right away? I have Knights of the Round at Level 2, at least.

[@beezwaxx]

yes with mine materia. mine materia is auto repeat for free. just beat green and red weapons today. while i left the room for phone call.

[@darksideenergy22]

@@beezwaxx I went back and leveled Counter Materia up to max, while also getting Knights of the Round to level 4. Went and fought Emerald. Managed to get a Mime in. In total, I had four Knight of the Round attacks before Emerald completely destroyed my team. So, I don't what I did wrong... But I wasn't able to just put my controller down. It attacked...

[@darksideenergy22]

@@beezwaxx I just facepalmed so hard... I had the Underwater Materia instead of the Magic Plus. So, I'll try again.

[@beezwaxx]

@@darksideenergy22 I maxed exp cloud and put protect ring on. Hope that helps.

[@darksideenergy22]

@@beezwaxx Yeah! I actually just brute forced, and kept attacking it with everyone. Doing summons and all. As max damage as I could. Healing whenever I could. And I WON! So that's awesome!

[@無-v7p]

but wouldn't you run out of mp?

[@sarcasticat9473]

Mime doesnt use mp :D

[@zaphod77]

not quite as foolproof as you think. as you showed, two people died. that w-summon kotr will get counterattacked by aire tam storm once he's below half health. If everyone has too much materia equipped this will fail. And if you final attack and phoenix to protect yourself, this breaks the mime chain, although miming phoenix is pretty decent. That said, if you get the underwater materia, try kotr followed by bahamut. this should fool the KOTR detection routine because w-summon is a single action, and still kill the eyes fast enough to avoid Aire Tam Storm.

[@FuzzfingerGaming]

Hi Zaphod, thanks for your feedback. As per the video, Emerald Weapon can only get one attack off between each KOTO due to the counter materia, and his Air Tam Storm is not a problem if you have less materia per 1000 hp of your attacking character (this is how I setup the lone attacker). The other two party members will always die as explained in the video. As I said, this is the strategy to use if you want a guaranteed kill (if the tophy, and the Kalm Traveller rewards are what you really care about), but not the ideal method if you want to get the most AP for materia after killing it. As long as you follow my steps exactly, I don't think this can fail.

[@zaphod77]

@@FuzzfingerGaming SO what would you recommend for a zero grinding zero duping sure kill strategy? One you can use if you have just played the game normally and the northern crater is available. My best plan is to get ruby first, as there's a strat requiring only one star on each materia involved, and use it's AP to level the counter attack and the hp plus. the 5 star counter is required for this strategy.

[@joebsmokin890]

On PS4 I don’t have a counter materia it’s counter attack is it the same

[@FuzzfingerGaming]

No my friend, the Counter materia is different to Counter Attack. Counter Attack counter's enemies with physical attacks.

[@joebsmokin890]

@@FuzzfingerGaming i can’t find counter in game on PS4

[@TheTsunaru]

​@@joebsmokin890It's in the final dungeon on one of the branching paths.

[@Shaneyislive]

Love your videos but unfortunately this is wrong u need that knights of round 4 star, I even have 4 blue counter maxed out and mimes , but my knights is only 2 star , make sure u have knights at 4 star guys

[@gt750kr]

I do love a good cheese

[@Iceman42069]

Mime and counter on cloud barret and vincent🤣😂😅 255 strength 😂🤣😅 one shot ooh ra 😂🤣 and its 1111 damage btw

[@biggs4193]

Tried this three times on Steam version and failed every time...

[@robbiepsychiccatman]

Where can I get counter and w summon

[@sarcasticat9473]

Counter's in the last dungeon and w summon is bought with battle points at the battle arena

[@Stokeslots]

Mine stops after 4 KOTR and and mastered counter and x2 star KOTR strange

[@michaelvasquez7961]

yeah same. i have 4x star kotr and it stops at 8. it also subtracts mana..so i can actually only do it 7 times before im interrupted