Final Fantasy XIII - Adamantoise (No Summons)

Pretty simple walkthrough on how to kill an Adamantoise in Final Fantasy XIII without using the cheap summon/death method. This is one of the most efficient ways to get gil since they drop platinum ingots and trapzeohedrons.
The main thing you are going to need are Genji Gloves on Fang, and have her Commando role leveled to 5 but it helps tremendously if you have all of your base jobs leveled to 5, in this walkthrough howevver, Fangs Sentinel role is only role level 4.
To get this to work you will need 2 good ravagers on your team, I use Hope and Vanille because the main roles you will need are the ones they already specialize in.
You are going to setup your paradigms as follows,
Relentless Assault Com/Rav/Rav
Combat Clinic - Sent/Med/Med
Esponionage - Sab/Sab/Syn
You are going to start out and wait for the first stomp with combat clinic as your starting paradigm. Once he stomps your team should heal you almost immediately, that is when you switch to Relentless assault and attack the first leg. I use Ruin to attack the leg with Fang because it decreases the chance of getting stepped on which is pretty much an instant death. When you see the Adamantoise raise its leg to use stomp switch to combat clinic and wait until it does. Your party should heal you almost immediately and you can switch back to Relentless Assault. Repeat this process until the leg is staggered and get its stagger gauge to around 500% then use Highwind. It will immediately knock out the leg. Repeat this process for the second leg and the adamantoise will fall.
Once it is on the ground switch to Espionage and throw on Debuffs. The only 4 that matter are Imperil, Slow, Deshell and Deprotect. While you are doing this hope will hopefully have given you a few good buffs. When all four buffs are on switch to Relentless assault and go at it. If it starts to get up before you kill it immediately use a Highwind to take out as much damage as possible before its standing.
If it gets back up you just have to repeat this process and it should be dead in no time. This works on Adamantortoises as well, which have less hp but the same drops.
Obviously there is an easier way that relies more on luck than skill by summoning Vanille's Eidolon and then spamming death, but then you have to worry about running around the field getting the 3 tp back so I find it much easier to just go around and kill them the hard way because it is much more efficient.
And yes, I know it can be done in 2 minutes or less, and that is the average time I do kill them, I was playing it very safe in this video since it is a demonstration. Plus the fact I didn't bother to take the time to optimize my equipment for the fight put me back on time a bit.

[@vbathory3757]

I started playing this in 2009 on the PS3 but never finished it. Now I’m playing it in 2020 on the XB1X and this video helped me out immensely. Thanks 👍🏻

[@TitoLasma]

This Adamantoise seemed huge when I first played this game, now it looks so small compared to the one from Final Fantasy XV .

[@danaltamirano2546]

oh baby a tripol ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°) in ffxv is way easer. just takes more time to beat him.

[@noobdude5933]

dan altamirano more time means better risk to die

[@iammynonny]

Adamantoise in FFXV is easy if we have the right equipment and move set. I’ll only take 1-2 minutes to take him down but not that easy for the one in XIII

[@TheSuperSaturos]

@@noobdude5933 Ring of the Lucii kills it in 5 minutes and you don't even have to move an inch from the road.

[@magicalduckye2356]

@@TheSuperSaturos My hours of trying to get one to die via the Ring says otherwise...

[@mixey01]

Just playing this game on pc. Hated it at first but started to fall in love with it after playing it a bit longer This beast has an excruciating stomp

[@CebsJr]

Brings back good memories of spamming paradigm shift

[@bloody4558]

So much trouble for an overgrown dinosaur, in the old days it would only take us one float to turn him from monster to puppy

[@nfinn42]

Or just hit them with one Manipulate, poison them, and watch them slowly die... :P

[@johndemler838]

Vanish + X-Zone ftw!

[@cannnonfoddder]

Thank you very much for an informative, clear and concise video, much appreciated :D

[@TheLiveGames]

when i was recording this Fangs Ravager ability was still level 0. This is just a basic explanation on how to kill them using Highwind for people who don't have all of their jobs maxed.

[@nezkeys79]

This is what I do (non summon) and it takes 2 minutes ... Fang/Vanille/Hope 1) Syn/Syn/Med 2) Com/Rav/Med 3) Rav/Rav/Rav 4) Sab/Sab/Rav 5) Com/Com/Com Start off in 1) and cast haste on everyone, then faithra on vanille and hope, and Bravera on fang. Switch to 2) and targert a leg. As soon as fang stabilizes the guage switch to 3) and stagger. Switch back to 2) and highwind the leg. Repeat the above for the second leg. Once its falls switch to 4) and debuff/debilitate. Once everything is on switch back to 3) and get 999% stagger gauge. Then go to 5) and kill. Fang has Genji Glove. The rest of the accessories dont really matter if you are overpowered. For example I have energy sash, speed sash, and twenty sided die so no attack stat boosting accesories. If you are weaker then you are going to need to buff up longer at the start with protectra/shellra, and equip Gaian Rings and Black Belts/Imperial Armlets etc

[@Baka461]

man I kept fricking dying in this so I gave up XD now I wish I could go back and fight them off, great video ! :3

[@Monty2289]

Watched like a bunch of video. Congrats on the most reliable way to beat an Adamantoise. Some people's vids have everyone maxed out or using smokes or summoning etc. But this is an all around reliable way to beat one.

[@Tank02CA]

Thanks! This tatic works really well!

[@iBJanky]

Great guide. Thanks!

[@KooKookid520]

I like how you waited just a bit longer b4 using highwind in the end just to make it epic! lol

[@StarCrossLover]

thanks man, this is awesome!

[@xRocketzFighterx]

thanks for the help I never knew highwind was that useful.

[@odinuniverse797]

When I played this game years ago I just assumed that this monster was unkillable

[@JaguarKing1]

This was very good, not like others where they buff their party before battle, or using a summon. Well played.

[@ruleroftheapes]

Oh ya forgot BTW great video, nice to see someone who takes time to play it safe and let people see the actual commands, so we don't have to pause lol

[@pietromestu]

great walktrough!

[@MateoBrown]

Awesome! Thanks for sharing

[@TsukiDesign]

You have to "kill" both legs in order for it to fall into the ground, there it can't attack you for a period of time which you can use to buff/heal yourself, Stagger it and then continue attacking her, if she goes back up, you have to then again kill the legs, that's the only way to prevent her stomp attack which does a LOT of damage as you can see.

[@catbuffalo]

Did you grind sacrifices to earn gil for the tier 3 weapons????? Good video but i'd prefer to know how to take him before getting tier 3 weapons and having 20k hp. Right now i have fang at 2800 strength (power gloves) and she has around 14k hp. I think i might be ready.

[@MuaiThaips3]

can you tell me where to get genji gloves? and the dragoon lance or whatever weapon you used on fang

[@tnargtnarud]

I have an off topic question. Is it alright if I upgraded some of the characters weapons early in the game? Before ch.10+ ? I mean as long as I focus on their CP does it really matter how upgraded my weapon is? I feel like I kinda screwed up, and I don't want to start over -___-

[@musicmaniack256]

@Gothen146 the highest is 999,999 damge right? and for the limit breaker trophy, is there more than one way to get it besides using the g.gloves, cuz i got the trophy by using death on a adamantoise, but idk how much real damage it did.

[@chilliforthewin]

what mission do you get the collectors catalog in? and can you get it again if you redo the mission?

[@grimshat]

which mission or area do you get the genji gloves and what hp should my chars be at for that mission

[@TheWolfnoise]

@SilentStep64 did u complete all of the Faultwarrens missions yet?

[@ffjason]

Wow.... Gonna use this strategy now. I have pretty much finished the crystarium for all characters and STILL find it impossible to kill these without the spamming of the Death spell. Thanks for this! hopefully it'll work for me! *runs off to try*

[@gdamtbnms]

hey thanx man! i wasnt going to try this seemed complicated... but once you get the pattern its awesome!! and you can kill 3 get your tp up then use the summon way!! thanx man

[@sab3rm4st3r99]

@Chrissyyyyyo9 Nothing else. What is the 360 good for then?

[@BloodandRainbows]

Do you only have Hope and Vanille together for quick healing? Or some other reason. Cuz I would probably use Lightning as a second ravager. She's a decent medic as well.

[@voldemortisthebest]

Ride ze shoopuff?

[@nfinn42]

"Dangerous when shoopuf’s close! Wants to be shmooshed?" LMAO. Thanks, that cracked me up. ^_^

[@floydhuxtable3152]

All aboard!

[@hotwheelsgtg]

Thank you so very much!!! This helped me out alot. Do do happen to have a video on how to defeat the 2 floating Ceith would you? That would nice if you did.

[@DeathNote598]

Just a quick question would this strategy work on the long gui's if i have the crysterium maxed and i have tier 3 weapons for everyone with Fangs at max

[@KillyWildlands]

what does improved counter do?

[@KNK44]

how long did u CP farm to get those high stats? & how did u find all of those equipments?

[@keybladedavid1996]

@wateverwill uhhhh where do you get it im in chapter 11???

[@musicmaniack256]

does gengi gloves apply only to when ur attacking? or does it raise the dmg cap to 999,999 with magic atks too?

[@TheLiveGames]

@catbuffalo Fang only needs about 2100 atp to fight them, you can use a fully upgraded tier 2 weapon on everyone and be fine. Just make sure you have the Genji Gloves or your damage will cap out at 99,999

[@elysium20]

How do you do your Highwind attack from far away, in mine Fang always ends up running towards his leg and attacks it directly. Or am I missing something? Also I am using Glaive maxed out but I have yet to find a freaking Trapezoid delio.

[@quadassio]

@TheLiveGames hey bro where do you get the genji gloves

[@TheWolfnoise]

@Soldier941243 Upgrade any of Fang's Tier 2 weapons with a Trapezohedron once they reach level 41 or level 61

[@Tissifetissi69]

Have you tried pressing right directional button while in Abilities menu?

[@Balthazzarr]

What accessories do you use, because I was doing this and he does a lot more damage to my characters than he is doing to yours, and i have no damage reducing accessories equipped? Also, it looks like I have about the same amount of health as you do. I am guessing they are items like the gaian ring or imperial armlets or something like that, but I just wanted to know for sure.

[@ATK1734]

I miss this game. I wish I still had my PS3, so I could boot it up and hunt some turtles.

[@OmniLegend]

@raisin22 He switches Fang to a Sentinel right before he gets hit. I'm assuming at late Sen levels, the damage decrease is much better than early on, allowing this 3k-5k difference

[@Grynnongulos]

I like your strategy. Especially the 'Switch-to-dual-meds-as-you're-about-to-get-knocked-down' thing. Very sneaky :P

[@RyanxTran]

Is Kain's Lance necessary to 1 hit kill his leg with Highwind when staggered?

[@nosteh]

thanks for this, once you get control over what to do this is extremely easy to pull off. my chars still arent maxed so i cant get them down in 1 stagger yet, i kill one in about 5min or so with the setup shown here. much better than the silly death trick that takes just as long with bad death luck, or even a lot longer considering you need tp for your summons. if he dazes you, just spend 1 tp on renew & you're all set again.

[@TheLiveGames]

Mission 62 is where I got mine. I did it right after the mission became available to me, I have a strategy on how to beat it fairly easily in one of my other videos. It is located in the circle of stones in The Archylte Steppe.

[@Karifean]

Why do you cast Slow? It doesn't (seem to) have any effect at all.

[@Gothen146]

@musicmaniack256 The Genji Gloves removes the 99k damage cap on the character that's wearing it, allowing him/her to deal close to 1 million damage. The accessory is also needed for the Damage Limit achievement/trophy, where you need to break over 100k with a single hit

[@n3obuddha]

@princejmye You mean Aurora Scarf, which starts of with a full ATB, this giving you first strike. You upgrade a Whistlewind Scarf [iirc] which you can get from one of treasure spheres [can't recall which one] in Chapter 9 or buy from Moogleworks.

[@cannnonfoddder]

How much HP do the legs have?

[@SilentStep64]

@TheVerk51 Yup. The only mission I haven't completed is 54: Gigantuar. I'm trying to max out everything before I reattempt it.

[@XenonRider7]

this video helped me out a lot. now im not intimidated of fighting adamantoises! lol

[@Smarty4789]

Hey, how did you get 6 ATB bars? I have all my base roles for all characters maxed out and I don't see a new ATB level on the Crystarium.

[@TheLiveGames]

@ElitexxRainx No the ones that walk around are Adamantoise and the ones that stay still in the little chasms are the Adamantortoises. Adamantortoise are weaker but have the same drops.

[@shinigamiMgm]

AWESOME !!!!

[@Landmarkmoon]

@JWPnim can you send me a pm with what weapons to upgrade for each character, why, and with what? I'd really appreciate it, I am clueless in the weapons department. thanks

[@Gothen146]

@musicmaniack256 The G gloves reads that you can deal up to 999,999 dmg. Hmm, I used Death on several enemies, yet I didn't get the achievement/trophy until I used Fang's Highwind while she was wearing it.

[@katlynsuttle]

AWESOME NICE JOB

[@sonic1k]

i cant kill the second leg whit highwind i stagger it up too 800%!!! when i use highwind and its still standing! what am i doing wrong?

[@ReleasedProduct]

@sireenn Yeah I was a bit annoyed because I was looking all over for how you could pass that limit, and kept coming up empty.

[@RanBo88]

@NANOFORGE what im using Dx mines like 52 i think.. but im jsut gonna wait anyway.. i need those gloves..xD thought i could beat em without it.. but yeah doesnt really work out to well.. though im sure its possible but yeah..

[@ruleroftheapes]

He's wearing some damage reductions + sentinal role gives a passive def bonus (job and skill bonus). I was doing the death spam using Snow as the tank wearing the Ward bonus weapon and it only does like 2-3k per stomp (using damage reductions too ofcourse)

[@omegaweaponredux]

if they ever do an international rerelease titan better be a fucking boss.

[@zhoban]

@TheWolfnoise What was yours?

[@Kardall]

@Nikotiini69 I still don't get why people don't use Sazh method :( It goes faster, even by a little bit, with the reloading/re-building and such of your TP.

[@dragoknight9]

@Baka461 wrong.. gold dust are dropped by adamanchelids, which are the ones that don't have chains around their legs...

[@TheWolfnoise]

@3FruitsPunch The Death method and Summoning takes longer and death has only a 1% of hitting and it takes a while to fill up the TP afterwards.

[@kyleyoyo11]

NICELY DONE. :D

[@rikkuster]

It's a really good vid. However it would have been nice to see what paradigms you selected prior to engaging the Adamantoise. I can put them up if it's all right with you. Fang/Vanille/Hope Com/Rav/Rav - Relentless Assault Sen/Med/Med - Combat Clinic Syn/Med/Syn - Recuperation Sab/Sab/Syn - Espionage Sen/Med/Syn - Protection

[@TheGuardianCore]

@PeronMiles Yes. You get warp points that let you go to most areas of the game.

[@FFlover2012]

What's with killing the legs? I thought it was one monster, and what would happen if you DID kill a leg?

[@Speargate888]

Im just looking at gameplay before I buy this game( yeah it's kinda late). But damn, was that a boss or just a spawn?(rhetorical question please don't answer lol)

[@Urb4nN0rd]

Um...what if we can't even target the legs cause it's the Edden Adamantoise? I don't know if it's a glitch or what but I can't target the legs, just the entire creature.

[@wawawoo123]

Where do you get that Aurora Scarf?

[@SilentStep64]

@3FruitsPunch I used death a number of times and it worked. So thanks! The only problem with death is there's only a 1% chance of it sticking. So some of those battles took 15-20 minutes. But I've collected the genji gloves since so now I use the strategy shown in the vid. The difference is with the gloves, you can kill it before it gets back up. Now I'm stuck on the Shaolong Gui's lol. Can't find a way around them.

[@f17coolplane]

@topito1994 By letting a character equip his or her ultimate weapon, like Lightning's Omega Weapon or in this case, Fang's Kain's Lance, you earn an extra ATB slot.

[@bamboozel1234]

just a tip mate, instead of manualy choosing the "spam" attacks, just highlight abilities and hold the right direction pad and then when "repeat" comes up press X. it only works after you manualy choose the comands for the first time.

[@TheeFreakiishlyz]

@ZennExile It's not to show... It's to show people how to kill adamantoises without summoning for people who are struggling. Earth damage is physical damage... So it works fine.

[@lanteanboy]

@catbuffalo and btw only Fang got a tier 3 weapon in this vid, cuz Vanille's got Nirvana and Hope's got Nue as their tier 3 weapons

[@binjm3a]

Good job buddy good job

[@KooKookid520]

@JWPnim Great job on maxing out the chrystarium. But 5:30 is nothing to make jokes at, that was pretty good. 2 min is great also but this guy didn't max out everyone.

[@musicmaniack256]

what exactly does genji gloves do?

[@Darkstar263]

I reached Gran Pulse last week. I'm not even going to dare attempt to try taking down one of these things yet. I doubt I'm even strong enough. Where I left off last week, I obtained Hope's Eidolon Alexander. I'm just going to try grinding while fighting other monsters for a bit.

[@wanderer78]

Is it even possible for you to get a Trapezohedron from a Adamantoise before beating Orphan? I killed this thing 4 times while using the Connoisseur Catalog and didn't get the drop.

[@xxNefistoxx]

with the genji gloves?

[@gunnjam182]

I noticed in your accessories you don't have any added protection against "Roar", yet none of your characters were stopped. Was this just luck? or am I missing something else?

[@Azshmo]

Why on earth did you use highwind when you had a 900% chain gauge with 2/3 still left?

[@Chayraz2]

@TheLiveGames actually, the adamantortoise do have less health and streangth, but their magic is much higher, so a quake or roar is deadly. the most notable asthetic differance is that adamantortoise have broken tusks, wich leads me to beileve, on a fairly irrelevant note that they are the seniors of the adamantoise population.

[@JohnnyLeyenda]

@jed112 I agree, using Summons or Shrouds is effective but you need to wither keep buying more or regaining back the TP and it gets really annoying, I find it better to just use skills, haha. Plus it feels more rewarding too!

[@ranthony023]

Impressive fight. I was spending so much time debuffing the feet cuz the stomp kept doing like 10k damage to me. I guess that was because I wasnt lvled enough. Im using a party of Fang, Lightning and Vanille. I dont have Traps for Kami's lance yet. I hope I'm ready.

[@juggalo4lyfe789]

what weapon does fang have in this video somebody plz tell me.

[@AJamJammy]

i got this game today but i can't play it right now....OMG I CANT WAIT!!!!!!

[@fifthStitch]

I wonder if this is doable also with Sazh as the party leader, doing Blitz and Cold Blood instead of Highwind. Still, if I can manage to get this far in level and equips, I wouldn't have to swap party leaders each time I fight them Adamanchelids (I use the Daze technique, then again, with such stats, I might not even need to use said technique).

[@TheWolfnoise]

@brewerfan347 try using Rapid Growth, Combat Clinic, Assassination, Relentless Assault, Espionage, and Cerberus.

[@cole9693]

This was the only final fantasy that felt challenging to me

[@wiseguy240Winston]

13 was still far more challenging than 15 at least. Hell 13 is tougher than most ff games.