FFVII Rebirth Final Boss rush (no damage, Hard)

By god I am probably the first one in this world to do this. Before I delve deep into this I'll just say that every phase is a separate run as this is fully spliced with many retries and different builds. I eagerly await the day that someone does all of this in one run. Now let's get to it.
So we get the Cloud Zack portion first and it's not too bad, some fun stuff you can pull off but in order to pressure Sephiroth you need to hit a "heavy" attack in Sephiroth's openings which is from Cloud's Punisher Counter back into Operator Mode slash or most abilities and the unique Counterfire you have with Zack here. I just wanted to flex with showing off the Synergy Attack which unintentionally had the sickest dodge from Sephiroth's Skewer, and letting Zack limit clash with Sephiroth.
Reborn phase 1 and 2 are not that bad but you need to have limit in order to avoid Heartless Angel.
Whisper Bahamut Arisen might be tricky cuz of the near instant Gigaflare but since he aggros onto one party member instantly at the start just let them wail on them with HP-MP swap materia to get limit and boom easy stagger to take out the wings afterwards.
Phase 4 with Zack solo arguably the easiest so nothing to say but for some reason I did not get 3 ATB with the Synergy Ability here. Weird.
Phase 5 aka final phase of Reborn EASILY the hardest since you NEED to prepare hard for this beforehand. The worst problem with the final boss rush is trying to have the right party depending on your affinity with party members and whoever you date. Here Barret has limit carried over from another attempt with the earlier Bahamut fight and Red has limit from Götterdämmerung which I kind of didn't want to do since Yuffie needed to steal the limit from him but there can be other ways around this. Yuffie kills the first wing hard with Swiftcast Magic Focused Firagas and her Magic Ninjutsu kills the other wing. Red's Sentinal Stance is godlike to avoid taking damage from the wings physical attack Atonement, and if you time Ninja Bazooka good with Yuffie you can avoid damage with her and another party member. Then kill the core fast via stunlocking with tier 3 magic and Synergy Attacks. Heartless Angel the BIG obstacle here since it is only avoidable with Limits but Red going into Vengeance makes him invincible to it which is cool. Jump materia can also most likely avoid it too. Once you stagger should be an easy kill.
Final fight with Cloud Aerith and Sephiroth at the end one of the best fights in this game, very fun but he also has Heartless Angel here so be prepared. But yeah what a gauntlet and I'm very happy I was able to do all of this. Good luck to people trying to do this in the future.

[@HiBEARnationX]

The amount of times the HPMP Materia is being treated like a hot potato 😂

[@nekogamer2508]

And Kotaku says hp and mp swap was useless

[@TruthTF]

That was quite masterful. Well done!

[@KingdomKeyJT]

Nice job, first in the world for Reborn.

[@theyosh647]

Ayy ty. Wondering how you will pull this off in the future!

[@th3mush]

I tried using HP-MP swap, even with just the slightest mistakes and you're done. I have only done it with Cloud's solo fight, so just the legendary bout, Roche and Rufus. I don't mind dying on them cause I get something to learn. The one gripe I hate about using HP-MP swap in the story fights are the need to setup the materias every time I died to the boss. I can only imagine the efforts and how many tries you've done in order to achieve this. Yosh, you've earned my sub and my respect.

[@natelecarde962]

24:08 That timing with the music

[@gamerprince-tl5hg]

Hella impressive. Respect for accomplishing this even if its not all in one attempt

[@LoveIsBlue14]

This is awesome. How many tries did this take?

[@theyosh647]

Too many

[@VongolaBeverly]

​@@theyosh647 Lmao

[@shanlie3505]

what a mad lad

[@Gtboy_Editz]

Seeing Cloud 1v1 sephiroth in the first part gave me advent children vibes

[@Gtboy_Editz]

Ngl I wonder if Cloud was going to meet his future self in the next game aka advent children Cloud Strife (Cloudy wolf)

[@samugi01]

this is so impressive, respect times 100! I can't believe it took me 3 hours to just win, maybe it would have been "just" 2 if I could have edited my materia a little lol

[@stephenrogers2101]

amazing i couldnt imagine doing this haha. you think you could update it by also doing this against jenova lifeclinger?

[@Enoby_Darkness]

GG 🔥🔥🔥

[@jinyboi]

Can someone explain to me how red 13 was able to dodge heartless angel at 16:52?

[@theyosh647]

When you go into Vengeance Mode as Red he's immune to any attack.

[@jinyboi]

Thanks man!

[@hongccc]

​@@jinyboi RED13 Mechanism has a lot of small interesting details, sadly the dmg output is still a bit behind

[@jinyboi]

Yeah red is the character I used the least because of his defensive playstyle. I prefer aggressive characters like Tifa, yuffie and cait sith

[@JoseRodriguez-mi4ff]

Vengeance mode switch

[@TheSadJamaicanDude]

Boy oh boy am I lost lol. I'm assuming something happened with Red to have him sound like a teenager again.

[@jayemerengueli]

Haven't played the game yet, but why is Cloud's HP 96?

[@theyosh647]

HP-MP Swap Materia that switches the max values of the respective stat. Really good to build up limit breaks easily.

[@jayemerengueli]

@@theyosh647 I know it didn't happen here, but wouldn't that make it that much easier to get KO'd?

[@camsamhey]

@@jayemerenguelinot if you don’t get hit 😂

[@hongccc]

insane play - this 5 phase boss fight is just so annoying

[@iforgotmynamedip3243]

w

[@priambodo8697]

22:26 damn😮

[@Jpiddypops]

Just finished this boss fight, and it's one of the most bullshit boss fights in a video game ever. Honestly terrible design, don't know how you enjoy this haha