7 Incredibly Hard Super Bosses You Definitely Didn't Beat First Time Round

[@Oag1992]

I actually beat Ozma on my first try but it was PURE luck. After fighting it for several minutes, Ozma inflicted that one attack that gives everyone random status ailments and everyone else was dead except for Zidane but he was afflicted with confuse. So he was spinning and spinning and instead of hitting himself he hit Ozma and it ended up being the final blow. Couldn’t believe it.

[@UltimateDrDoom]

I can't remember how. But it was first try and took forever. 7s weapons? Five. Six tries. Omega? Same. Ozma. Once.

[@jaredmartin7040]

That's crazy luck

[@thepureheartofdark]

It is the most luck heavy fight in the list, powerful enough first timers can defeat it if RNGesus wills it. On the oposite end shitty enough RNG can end a perfectly prepared party just as well. It comes down to retrying it until jackpot is rolled, better preparation does significantly increase chances though.

[@Brian80s]

I found a trick on Ozma by happenstance years ago. You can use a tent on it and I believe it will bring about blind and a few other status ailments provided it works. Granted Ozma will remove them, but it buys you several turns if you need breathing room.

[@jackvazquez7471]

if i were you, i will never beat ozma again after that lucky blow!

[@HittingBandy]

The Yiazmat battle in a nutshell: Players: "Hey hey! Time out, bathroom break" Yiazmat: "sure, I go too"

[@wolfpackflt670]

That's what the gambit system is for, I made a system on the fly as I was fighting him and made a perfectly balanced strategy, until he changed his tactics at the end and I had no time to counter.

[@nicolasbaudoinos8780]

@@wolfpackflt670 Right, when he get angry, he just fucking destroyed me

[@ipatchymakouli415]

What's funny is that even on the DS game FFXII revenant's wings, Yiazmat is broken aswell, immune to everything but slow, inflicting stop with each AOE BREATH attack and eventually inflicting coma to anyone (100%) with Death Strike... If you don't have anti-stop gear for the fight it you're so screwed. Not to mention he's supported by Golems and healing Carbuncles spawning continually out of nowhere, pure hell. The true final boss of the game

[@douglascramer1501]

12 hour fight... 😫

[@sitthasimarugumapi2883]

3hr 38min , never play ff12 again...

[@youtubeuser4221]

Benediction wasn't just a significant amount, it was all of your HP. The problem with the initial "Wall of Justice" exploit was that it was discovered by NA players who got no drops, and were punished by the GMs for it if I recall correctly, before being used by JP players who got all of the drops and no punishment to boot. At least for NA players, the toughest boss of FFXI were the extremely biased GMs in charge of the game.

[@Hiredguns23]

It was discovered by LS called Apathy on Remora (My server as well), I also don't think they got there items taken away. Seems like I remember Papy had an item from it. Absolute Virtue was just dumb tho. I also think I remember they some LS used the whiff masters Dark Knights souleater ability to beat it and I think here was another that kited to some spot and beat it. All three got nerfed. Still, not as dumb as the artifact weapons from dynamis.

[@davidrobertson6014]

JP button XD

[@youtubeuser4221]

@@davidrobertson6014 {Impossible To Gauge}

[@TheZombiesAreComing]

So in short, Enix wanted it to be unbeatable and banned anyone who managed to beat it.

[@kiba32b42]

@@TheZombiesAreComing they didn't ban anyone.

[@christianstachl]

Emerald Weapon in FF7, what a fight back then. I was at a friends house and we hatched plan after plan on how to defeat this thing within the time limit. One time, after many tries, we landed the final blow 5 seconds before the end. We yelled and cheered...until we realized the death animation was so long that we still drowned. We were so damn pissed. Many tries and different tactics later we finally did it and beat him within the time limit. What a great feeling! Fast forward some weeks, my buddy approached me one day and said "Hey, i just heard from someone that you can get an underwater materia that stops the timer for the fight..." DOHHHH 😅

[@christianstachl]

@Johnny Herman Yep, but also i'm still proud to this day that we did it without the materia 😁

[@divinefallfromgrace]

@@christianstachl Also, Aire Tam Storm deals damage based on how much AP your characters have in their Materia, so if you stick to Materia that have low AP, or just use none, his Super-Attack is useless. 😉

[@grouch_gaming]

@@divinefallfromgrace regardless of the AP, all materia will add 1111 to Aire Tam Storm, meaning 9 or more materia is an insta kill.

[@Wawawawawhe]

Also Fun fact: If you kill ozma without finishing the friendly monster sidequest and then find the friendly yan and give it a diamond, it'll be like "wait, you already beat him?" lmao

[@band-maidsheep2665]

didn't know that. O_O Thanks for telling!

[@nunofontes9352]

Good luck trying to kill Ozma without finishing the friendly monster quest. Your attacks can't reach Ozma that way unless you use Freyjas limit break (which it's possible to kill Ozma with her alone). But still very very difficult

[@tonyoso1391]

Nuno Fontes It was hard but really fun! Worth it lol

[@zhaoyun255]

@@nunofontes9352 There is a strategy that I used but you needed Steiner+Freya, A lot of Remedies, Quina's Snack and Magic Hammer Enemies skill, make sure to have Mini and Confuse immunity, Auto-Regen, Auto-Life. I kill Ozma before completing the friendly quest. Steiner and Freya will be the main damage dealer with Shock+Dragon Crest (Shock deal 9999 and Dragon Crest deal depending on how many dragon you killed ignoring defense) while Zidane is busy stealing until he's done. Quina is your heart and soul in this because Quina Magic Hammer+Angel's Snack will force Ozma to waste turn to cast Curse. If Ozma had his MP low enough, he will start waste turn to Absorb MP instead of casting shit like Meteor or Doomsday. I got him into a loop long enough for him just use MP Absorb and Curse. Auto-Regen is fast enough to heal you duel to some long ass animation.

[@nunofontes9352]

@@zhaoyun255 I could be wrong in this but Zidane won't be able to reach to steal until you have finished the friendly quest. Other than that your strategy does work as I've used something similar, but I found that fighting Ozma a lot is dependant on luck.

[@milkshakeofpower]

Ozma is probably the most terrifying sphere I have ever seen in a video game

[@CurlyFromTheSwirly]

Sure plays a mean pinball 🎶

[@RukudoSage69]

I believe its designed after a jawbreaker...lolz

[@TheAuron32]

bet you had PTSD when seeing the sphere grid in FFX lol i know i did!

[@Iceman42069]

Fuck that ball of death hell no never again

[@tomsaavedra2012]

My very first and unforgettable Ozma encounter was when I was battling it for over 30 minutes (I think), and then when my hopes were finally crushed since it knocked my whole party out, Eiko's Phoenix summon triggered (which was my first time ever seeing it at the time), dealing the final blow and reviving the whole party. Man, that was an intense feeling! :')

[@dudemoon6571]

I beat ozma but still haven't completed the friendly monsters side quest even till this day 🤣🤣

[@Troy_The_Boi]

That is exactly what happened to me lol. It never activated before and that was the first time and the only time i saw it but damb what luck

[@insecdroid]

Penance: I am death incarnate. Destroyer of hopes and dreamed. Me: Here’s 100000 Gil Yojimbo.

[@Kafka_Garezerra]

Why so much? I usually just give Yojimbo 1.000 or 2.000 Gil when I use him and still get Ultra Esgrima (Sorry, I don't know how it is called in English, but it is the instakill attack)

[@chancecarlson2023]

You mean 28,250

[@Walamonga1313]

@@Kafka_Garezerra How tho

[@Kafka_Garezerra]

@@Walamonga1313 Luck, I guess. Or maybe the skill is buffes in the PAL version making it easier to pay

[@tianxizhao4961]

@@Walamonga1313 The algorithm for getting the instakill depends on not only the money you give, but it also depends on some rng and your affinity with Yojimbo. So your score is something like Log_2(money)+affinity+rng, if your score is higher than the insta-kill's threshold, it will be done. The margin benefit of the money you give decreases very quickly. 1024gil gives you 10, while 100,000 only gives you 16. The threshold is maybe 60..

[@Pintkonan]

in the german version, penance is called "Der Richter", which means simply "the judge" - giving him some other authority then in the english version.

[@ThorsShadow]

Yeah. I always felt like that was a more appropriate name. Also sounds a bit more menacing and fitting for the strongest enemy in the game.

[@kallmemikey1701]

what I find funny in FFVIII is that when you fight Ultima Weapon it's holding Cloud's Ultimate Weapon in his hand

[@Josh-fp2qn]

So does FF8 take place BEFORE FF7?

[@kallmemikey1701]

@@Josh-fp2qn I'm pretty sure that the maker's did that to make it an easter egg

[@amarcellus1714]

@@Josh-fp2qn It was just an easter egg bro. The entire FF series has easter eggs throughout. Zidane made a reference to Cloud in FF 9. 😎

[@ianbraun271]

Just gotta say, i see a lot of "not that hard, all you have to do is..." in the comments. I think this video is saying, that if you aren't prepared for the encounter, or if you stumble into the encounter, then these battles can be very difficult. Knowing the proper strategy for the boss ahead of time makes them much easier.

[@snuggie1849]

Thats what i was thinking, these people act like they wernt lvl 99 with the best items and gear winning the first try. I mean i did beat most super bosses first try but i was lvl 99 looking for them, not knowing they existed, like the war mech, tho i will say the gba ff 4 superbosses are pretty easy, even without knowing the strats, ds version tho is pure evil tho, and so is ff 5 on the gba

[@snuggie1849]

Btw kotr works on rubys tentacles, which kills him quickly

[@shino4242]

Sure, but almost everything in a videogame is hard if you are unprepared. Even normal bosses can beat you if you are underleveled/equipped/etc and not exploiting some broken mechanic. And while its true that back in the day when the internet was still a wee lad, and not owned by everyone, being prepared for such superbosses were virtually impossible without putting out money for a strategy guide. But nowadays only people who just don't WANT to be prepared are unprepared for superbosses. There's just no reason not to be, except as mentioned, people who are actively against it. And if being prepared makes them go from "Super boss" to "Super chore" then they really aren't THAT hard. Unless they have RNG involved, and if a game needs to rely on RNG to be challenging, then its a poorly designed fight that isn't there to make you feel rewarded, but frustrated.

[@etherraichu]

I accidentally beat Ruby Weapon without knowing what it was XD I read online that you could get an item to get a gold chocobo from beating Ruby Weapon. And I was too lazy to breed one. I remember thinking "Wow this is taking a really long time." I assumed it was healing itself or something XD

[@etherraichu]

well with FF8 its a bit different, at least with me. The strategy I found very early in the game was just so ridiculously powerful. I used it against Omega Weapon because I used it on everything else XD The ruby weapon thing though? I do not have any idea how I pulled that off. It had to have been just some completely absurd amount of luck.

[@itzillmaticdoe5703]

emerald and ruby were both pains, I couldn't find the strategy guide forever and we didn't have the internet until 99. Learning about KOTR and the underwater material was mind blowing once I had the guide

[@stark5679]

Luckily i had the strategy guides from psm. I beat emerald once and that is only because i had a gameshark and yet that was a long battle too. Ruby was hard as well all dependson who gets left to fight after the other 2 are kicked out.

[@Rhmtsky]

Thanks to that counter mime combo, the fight is a LOT easier. Just imagine battling weapon without that combo..

[@empressfordola]

as a kid i was lame enough to beat them by equipping counter materia on all the slots and basically defeating them both within just a few turns ._. kinda feels like i beat them the first time now for real without lame exploits like that

[@LavitosExodius]

I think I beat him once just cheesing him. Had like two materia on cloud KoTR and a HP materia KoTR hit he did Materia storm knocked me into all 7's and I think he was dead less then 5minutes later granted this was years ago so their might have been more to it then that. Also the most powerful strategy is just use Vincent's Death Penalty glitch.

[@natesoto1362]

Ruby's easy once u know what to do. Did u know if 2 of you're characters are ko'd prior to engaging him he won't cast quicksand allowing you to fight him with all 3 characters. He might cast it later though so you'll want to hit em with quandra magic-hades to poison and paralyze him followed by slow for the rest of the match. Hit him with that before using KOTR that way he won't be able to counter with Ultima. Makes that whole fight way easier.

[@alarsenal10]

I don't think I ever defeated any FF super boss on the first try. And I don't mind saying so, because after defeat, I had to plan a strategy to overcome them; and that was the part I had more fun with.

[@audidriver53]

I beat emerald weapon on my first playthrough of ff7 but i didnt fight him until i was level 91 so it was kinda easy.

[@CB-lh8gw]

I beat Omega weapon and adamantoise on FFXV on my first try but it took me 5 hours and the game is pretty hard to actually completely die in so idk if that counts lol.

[@sylvierose2799]

@@CB-lh8gw lmao nope, the Omega is hard but except for him FFV in general is super easy thanks to the broken job system

[@Clymaxx]

Of the ones I have actually attempted, I either encountered them way too early or knew nothing about them. So yeah. Some just piss me off because I know they'll be tedious and otherwise boring. Like Adamantoise in 13-2.

[@jc.1191]

Challenge can be real fun.

[@t3hp0larbear]

How can you talk about Omega Weapon in FF8 without bringing up how he opened the fight with Lv. 5 Death when your party most likely was all Lv. 100 at that point?

[@Buggaton]

This guy stated at the start of the video that the weapons were first seen in ff7 so that should have been a clue that he doesn't know shit xD

[@Buggaton]

"two new weapons, Ultima and Omega" Ultima was in ff7.... AND FF6 as Atma (a mistranslation)

[@TheJCHarkins2]

@@Buggaton Ultima was the only one you actually HAD to fight though. I do however concede Atma. It also had an ultimate weapon of the same name iirc.

[@Buggaton]

@@TheJCHarkins2 You also had to fight Diamond weapon in FFVII iirc. It marches on Midgar and the game won't progress unless you go and give it a good licking. I went and looked up previous FF games to make sure I didn't miss anything and I don't think I did: Final Fantasy 2 has an incarnation of Ultima Weapon albeit an optional boss but critically only in GBA/PSP versions, not in the original. Final Fantasy 6 has Atma which is just a mistranslation of Ultima and this is the first legit version of it.

[@thewebcamboyz]

My party was level 20ish by disc 4, power scaling

[@Waterking001]

Don't forget that it's very probable that ozma will kill you before you get a turn. Luck is also a part of beating it

[@vayneglory655]

Ozma was just total bs. So much of that fight was luck that I just didnt really like it. But of course ff9, arguably the best or at least one of the best, would have such a ridiculous boss.

[@Vellione]

There was a guy who made a list like this and he stated `this fight so luckbased. Your victory is never guaranteed´ And i can´t agree more.

[@blancfan1]

Magic hammer. Ozma is NOT hard at all!

[@trevorthornburg3874]

U can wear gear to make ozma kill itself no luck at all

[@Vellione]

@ Trever Thornburg: wait... what?? How???

[@Prodmullefc]

Does anyone else consider Warmech from the first game a super boss?

[@Cthulhoop]

Nah. It was tough but I used to use Warmech to grind before fighting Chaos.

[@JoaoGabriel-hk8ub]

FOR SURE

[@negiushegratte982]

Grind boss since he respawned near endgame. Prayed to run into him most games.

[@mikerobinson938]

@@Krucifus he was extremely tough the first time I ever ran into him. I was 8 when this game was released, and I had the bad luck of running into him the first time I got to the bridge leading to Tiamat. If you aren't ready for him he will kick your ass lol.

[@2Tall_Powerlifting]

Yes and shinryu

[@LazariArts]

My bf fought emerald weapon with amazing luck. He was doing badly against it, and wasn't prepared for it, but emerald hit cloud, bring his HP to 7777, triggering the lucky 7s. I was told that it would only hit for 7777 damage for a few times, but cloud DIDN'T. STOP. ATTACKING. XD cloud just kept going until emerald died

[@HenriqueAugustoNunes]

Emerald has an attack that deals 1111 damage per materia a character has equipped. So a character with 9999HP and 2 materia equiped would suffer 2222 damage, leading to a remaining 7777HP. Maybe that's what happened - although it's unlikely that Cloud would only have 2 materia equipped, unless this was intentional.

[@Hayssss]

This happen to me one time ever. During the ruby right.

[@alexczarnota3316]

It’s 63 consecutive attacks of 7,777 damage, which is actually only 489,951 damage, not even half of emerald weapon’s health

[@Hypersp4ce]

Oh man, the euphoria after beating Ozma was amazing. I consider it one of my greatest achievements in gaming! Was an epic battle!

[@HamJams]

I Zanmatoed Penance last week. I love FFX but by the time I got through the drag of an end game I had enough. Paid the Samurai 1.5 Million Gil. Walked away.

[@chocobro7]

Worth it

[@luf4rall]

i zanmatoed every boss after exploiting the pay system lol

[@HamJams]

Let me just say. FFX is my favourite game. Ever. But up until last week I'd never done the end game. If you want to keep loving that game... don't do it. Shit blows. Core game is 10/10 though.

[@chocobro7]

@@HamJams I agree 100%, I spent more time beating end game then I did in the main story. I love a good grind though

[@groudonvert7286]

Yep... and that's why FF13 has a better Endgame than FFX. You can do almost all missions without grinding too much.

[@frozennz1]

Penance was such a hard fight, every second of the fight was trying to remember how many turns before the arms will come back to life, and maybe getting three hits or so on the main body in-between

[@baneicorn7969]

Absolute Virtue is so far beyond a 'superboss' that it deserves its own list. Pandaemonium Warden, too. The nightmares linger.

[@thepureheartofdark]

Badly designed fights are badly designed. The fact that exploits were found before a consistent strat is telling.

[@MechagirlSachiko]

Absolute Virtue was never meant to be defeated. The developers ultimately admitted that they didn't want the players to beat him. That's why they patched away all strategies to kill it, and also why no genuine strategy was devised until actual controversy hit.

[@tracexl]

Absolute Virtue isn't just a boss. It's a god.

[@Hereticbliss322]

White Heart that’s not true at all. The devs even killed it at a live event to prove it was possible.

[@MechagirlSachiko]

In interviews, the devs admitted that AV was never meant to be killed. It had a chance to spawn after the jailer of love was killed, and if it spawned, you were meant to die. It didn't even have loot. It was only made 'killable' after a bunch of NA players used an exploit to not die to its attacks and reduce its enormous pool of HP to zero after a war of attrition. When the devs found this out, they changed AV in both NA and JP servers to have loot drops, but the ones who first managed to kill it had their accounts suspended for a while and their rewards from the raid where they did the deed revoked.

[@Zimmer9951]

rofl i remember when SE released the AV video...no one had a CLUE wtf was going on other than people using 2hrs, there was NO way that that video was a "tutorial"

[@WalkerRileyMC]

I remember getting invited to an alliance to fight that thing. Guy said they needed some help that they've been fighting the NM for awhile. I ask how long. Two...full...days of team members swapping in and out. Noped the hell out of that one.

[@ZefVolk]

6 Incredibly hard super bosses you wish you had Zanmato for. And also Penance.

[@coolcolorado127]

Don't use that ability then.

[@Dr_Trumpet]

There is no satisfaction in using zanmato to kill it, i would know, i beat it without using it

[@adeade3978]

if you're gonna say that, then you can also add Ultima Weapon from FF VIII on the cheese list cause Selphie can just simply end his story and win the fight instantly

[@OnePiece4ev3r]

@@Dr_Trumpet Overkill rewards > Satisfaction

[@cyanimation1605]

Let’s be honest here: If you’re using Zanmato, Dark Jimbo is pretty much still impossible. You can’t get that thing to trigger 5 times in a row without an insane amount of gil. (60,000 the first time 232,000 the second... God knows how much for 3, 4, and 5

[@shanegrayson7068]

The Ultimate fights in XIV will always be harder than any other fights in any single player RPG. Why? Because you need to find 7 other people willing to put in the time it takes to beat those fights. And for players just signing up to the game, good luck in finding a group if you are not on some popular raiding realm.

[@CrystVeno]

That's not true, there're a lot who run main story quest roulette since it gives pretty good exp.

[@enriquemartellhernandez1900]

Then the battles are difficult because of your teammates not the boss itself.

[@adityanoviant8180]

Finding team mate is the hardest part for solo player like to proceed the raid :(

[@Saccshop]

False - XI took full alliances for some bosses.

[@azuronburrito6176]

@@enriquemartellhernandez1900 No. As with every new raid tier, upon release there is a worldwide race to who clears it first. The participating groups have years of experience in the game and the players are pretty much the best there are. Still, clearing Ultimate Coil of Bahamut took them about two weeks of 6-18 hours of playing daily. No one can clear the fight on the first try.

[@misaelpiero5327]

Yiazmat is not hard... it only takes forever. That's like an artificial difficulty instead of a clever A.I and interesting mechanics... but maybe it's just me.

[@vayneglory655]

Not even that long with a solid black robes/yaguya dark blade combo. ;)

[@yeahyeahyeah688]

Yeah Omega was much harder

[@Jakjer]

@ADEBISI ADEBISI Who hurt you?

[@toroyoko]

it’s more of a test of endurance than a challenging technical boss

[@theneedforspeeder9575]

Misael Piero at 20% of his hp it becomes a beast tho, such a cool boss

[@jinxtheunluckypony]

I’ve just gotta say, screw the sadists behind FF11.

[@WalkerRileyMC]

#2: And that, friends, is why we have hard wipe timers in FFXIV

[@leeman27534]

tbh i don't think ff7 really 'started' the weapon trend, given ff6 started the idea of weapon with ultima weapon, on the floating continent, just ff7's were more iconic given they were related to the story.

[@ze0r05]

Atma weapon wasn't really a superboss though, his strenght was barely above the regular bosses.

[@leeman27534]

not trying to imply atma weapon was a superboss, just that ff7 didn't start the concept of weapons. they kinda started superbosses, but not weapons.

[@leeman27534]

@@M1Simulator except that was omega: they're considered different. omega's pure robot, whereas omega weapon's usually more of a cyborg centuar ish thing did forget about that with the whole superboss thing though.

[@deathstar6998]

Also people are saying that they beat ozma in their first try dont realise that the boss is pure rng and sometimes you will not beat him at all

[@ericwolff2700]

It took me 6 damn hours

[@karvis386]

True that, as long as Ozma doesnt cast Meteor or Curse in 2 turns, the fight is secured. Steiner's shock, Zidane thievery and Freya's dragon crest can deal max damage per turn. 4th party member can be anyone using a dark matter for max damage too preferably Eiko for her Auto-Phoenix for a chance to revive the team from a game over. Second turn guarantees the kill.

[@coreyp12290]

I always thought Ozma way a very lazy boss design.

[@1122markj]

No dude! People don't mean they beat him on the first try. They mean they beat him on their first playthrough of the game. Some might mean their first try though idk

[@Scradee]

Pure RNG sure, people win lottos all the time. Look at ff7 speed run champ, he owes his trophy to the RNG of the game as he's one of few to get a perfect RNG run. RNG might have killed 999 999 thousand of you, there's still that odd fellow though

[@teemukarkkainen2628]

Actually Ozma's meteor can miss if u have high magic evasion

[@onsidesilver7828]

Yo man wtf? To beat Omega (ff 8) you're suggesting to synthetize cards? That's a waste of collectibles! Shame on you!

[@bestaround3323]

Have he no pride?

[@RC-ve8dl]

You can get the cards back from the CC group on the Ragnarok if you completed their quest.

[@bradstevens8281]

@@RC-ve8dl Except the alien card

[@iLLBiLLsRoastBeats]

Onside Silver you can replace all cards endlessly on disc 4 from the Queen of cards

[@onsidesilver7828]

@@iLLBiLLsRoastBeats Oh i tought you could only replace "lost" cards as "lost in a card match" not "used" cards for crafting. That's a missprint in the guide for my country it seems, thx for the info i didn't know that.

[@charlesherbert1519]

absolute virtue : I am the strongest boss in gaming history!!! original non patched c'thun: hold my beer!

[@Grymmknight]

God's beard, no kidding

[@ragingbeast5401]

*Laughs in Inbachi*

[@JWolfen_TMD]

Oh jesus, pre-nerf C'thun had NO clears xD Good times

[@adimus25801]

The Weapons were introduced in FFVI, not VII. 'atma' is translated as 'ultima' in the later versions, therefore 'atma weapon' and 'omega weapon' (an optional boss in Kefka's Tower) are the original.

[@SweetyMiki]

The Omega Weapon was not introduced until the GBA version of the game actually after defeating Kaiser Dragon, what you're thinking of is the Ultima Buster actually, which is more implied to be a copy of Ultima Weapon. However, the idea of the Weapon moniker wasn't technically introduced until FFVII, with the Ultima Weapon of FFVI being tied more to the fact it is the brother of the Ultima Weapon sword found in the game that was created during the War of the Magi.

[@dragames]

You're both wrong. the weapon's introduction was actually FF5. It wasn't called by 'omega weapon' but its theme is always there. The bosses names are versions of 'the first// the last" and that's not changed other than adding the word weapon after it. Also, FF5 started the trend for it's story. Omega is so powerful a weapon (literally said in the game) that it had to be sealed in the rift. FF6 it was a weapon made in the war of the magi that it had to be sealed between the gate of the espers and humans. FF7 it had to be sealed to defend the planet in times of crisis. (okay, so not because it was so powerful). ff8 despite everything the scientists did to powerful creatures like Bahamut, it was Ultima Weapon that made them all flea and force them to lock the building down to prevent its escape. Ff9 didn't have it... ff10 finally deviated by just having it somehow being formed in the place that would essentially have kept it sealed and had no external influence.

[@wrath2501]

Actually Omega Weapon was a random encounter in the FIRST FF back in the NES days.

[@SweetyMiki]

That wasn't Omega Weapon, that was Death Machine. Completely different enemy.

[@leeman27534]

yeah, ultima weapon was in the original ff6, omega weapon was just the gba remake. there was a version of it in kefka's tower, too.

[@rejeanthomas0324]

0:53 "beefed up parties" you can't unsee it lmaoo🤣😂🤣

[@Feyrbrand31]

I certainly wouldn't mind attending such a party.... :)

[@JoaoGabriel-hk8ub]

That was actually hot

[@Olixxxooo]

@@Feyrbrand31 you people are fucking disgusting

[@JoaoGabriel-hk8ub]

We have good taste [:

[@marcohueber5130]

I would attend a party like that too :D But I need to lose like 10 Kg, I always feel a little fat T_T

[@theermac6024]

Dark Valeflor, purely because of how much of a surprise it was. I had already played ffx but not the international version, on my second playthrough I was. I know it's not the hardest one, and honestly anything can be beaten with yojimbo in ffx, but imagine someone just going back on the first temple to get the bonus item on there, and then BOOM 99999 damage. I didn't even know it was possible before to have this number appear.

[@LacasBaykal]

I found Omega Mk XII far harder than Yiazmat. Yiazmat takes a while (took me around 6 hours) but has no real nasty surprises you haven't seen before apart from if it manages to get restore off. Omega Mk XII has much less health but hits *very* hard. It can easily wipe you before you even get into melee range due to the sheer damage and range of it's attacks. Not to mention if you wipe to it you have to traverse a fairly annoying maze every time to get back to the fight. A few notes on Absolute Virtue. One thing which made the fight so awful was it's combining of 2 hour abilities. Notably Chainspell (remove cast time and recast time for your spells) + Manafont (All spell costs reduced to 0) which would then be followed up by rapid fire Meteor. AV was also reportedly designed to be unbeatable. Some devs have said since it was supposed to be symbolic "bad luck" for players (It used to only have a low chance of spawning when you killed the Jailer of Love) because you were slaying virtues to obtain sins. I find it kind of funny that when AV was taken down using an exploit the devs called foul but when Pandemonium Warden was first taken down using an exploit the devs allowed it and celebrated it's first defeat.

[@Swordkiller55623]

that just sounds like bad game design, a boss is meant to beatable like that, the fact that people using exploits were punished on such a broken boss fight is just wrong.

[@LacasBaykal]

I agree. I was just pointing out that there is a stupid reason to go with the stupid design. I loved XI and have many fond memories and met friends I am still friends with to this day. But I won't even try to defend the existence of AV.

[@Roundbeans]

Have the first line in every character's gambits be Ally: Reverse and wear bubble belts to be able to tank a single unreversed hit and Omega Mk XII is done.

[@3Rayfire]

I mopped the floor with Omega Mk XII, can't do anything with Yiazmat though. The Reverse strategy is the truth.

[@faburos9012]

Yiazmat got that annoying instant kill chance during attacking though. I got his HP down to somewhere around half then I got terrible RNG.

[@Stevesndkayla218]

Omega weapon is an easy boss if you know how to card mod and get good at triple triad.

[@mlburkh]

May not have known this, but there was more depth to the Absolute Virtue than mentioned here.He would do party limit bursts in a certain rotation. EG: Dragon 2hr summon pet (In this case like a dozen) Then Summoner 2hr (All pets limit burst) Then Ninja 2hr Mijin Gakura (All pets self destruct). While the abilities were 2 hr for a player, He would activate one part of a cycle every 30 seconds. And he was very capable of revisiting cycles. If he was seen using a 2hr a class with the same 2hr could quickly activate their own, and this would cause AVs 2hr to become locked for the rest of the fight. So a White Mage could prevent him from fully recovering HP after his first use if he or she activated his or hers in succession. Also fun trivia, when summoner got Alexander as an optional summon AV became much much easier. Giving you're party a minute long 90% damage reduction with ailment immunity is godsend. Your party has 0 concerns and you can just zerg the boss down.

[@bobsmith-ov3kn]

Absolute Virtue was and always will be the hardest boss, during the time it was actually released. It was quite literally IMPOSSIBLE to beat. The FIRST and ONLY way it was ever defeated were by people who both GLITCHED IT and then brought it halfway across the zone and EXPLOITED A WALL. Also, the supposed tutorial video SE released was an absolute joke. Besides it being completely useless, it almost seemed like a giant troll, with the gear people were visibly wearing being typical noob fodder garbage nobody who actually plays the game would ever be wearing at that level, let alone the hardest fight in the game

[@titotheninja]

IIRC they were all wearing the lvl 50-60 AF armor in the video. i think the trick to AV was to use the same 2hr move that it did? i really cant remember, its been years since i played in vanadiel

[@Zikk0_o]

@@titotheninja Well it really didn't help due to the fact that they always showed videos of AF armored characters that were obviously super buffed. Much like the rest of the game, the developers artificially inflated the difficulty of activities in order to prolong the life of the game. I truly believe that they never really intended to have the players able to defeat AV when it was discovered. There are fond memories of FFXI, but there was a good deal of bs behind the scenes that rarely gets addressed.

[@Breadfan14]

Ozma is my favorite, he was very challeging without doing any of the sidequest or reading a guide. It tooke me about 100 tries when I was child and a very lucky run, but it was satisfying nonertheless. And yes the most difficul is Penance all the way, true. The difficulty is not only the fight itself but also because you need to grind a lot and complete all the sphere grid for every character and customize their weapons/armor which takes a LOT of prep time

[@tjsnyder55]

Loved this video. I don't think I fought any of these bosses except Penance. I had to beat it for the trophy. There is a super boss in FF13 named Vercingetorix which does require a very specific strategy to beat and has 15,840,000 HP. One wrong move and it's game over and you have to restart. There is also some tough bosses in FF13 Lightning Returns. One in particular, Aeronite, if fought under certain conditions, it can reach 57,750,000 HP, which is the highest potential HP of any FF boss. Tho even if you don't have the conditions that makes him his strongest, he's still tough even on normal mode with 11,000,000 HP and hard mode with 38,500,000 HP. I don't even wanna talk about the final boss of the game if you play on NG+. He has multiple different stages with different HP bars on normal and hard. On hard mode, his HP triples and his attack changes and actually becomes more aggressive, using more powerful spells and takes a more specific strategy to take down then before. There was a few in FFX-2.. Trema and Angra Mainyu. Also some tough ones in FF15. Too many to name. Haha. Just a few to mention from my play experience. Great video. I was surprised you didn't mention FF7, but I suppose you mentioned those bosses before already. Haha.

[@sharkexpert12]

No one ever mentions the 13 boss fights despite the super bosses being an actual test of skill with little rng and not the endurance fights of the other games. You can kill any boss in any of the 3 games in less then 30 mins and i nuked aeronite in less then 10.

[@sharkexpert12]

@Jonathan McMahon just got my record down to 7:27 balls in your court

[@shadowsenpai2395]

no one mentions 13 which is a shame cause some of those bosses are fucking tough. but 15 bosses are a breeze at all times

[@Morphineck]

The friendly Yan on FF IX is definitely tougher than Ozma, not many mention it, since most just give it the diamond to get to Ozma. Just try beating it if you want an additional challenge.

[@M1sterE321]

A few of these I did beat on the first try, such as Penance (use Yojimbo) and Yiazmat. Yiazmat took me several hours of non-stop fighting. I couldn't believe that Square Enix was willing to troll the player so hard by giving us a boss with SO much HP!

[@Loctorak]

I feel like using Yojimbo to cheese a boss doesn't really count as "beating it on the first try"...

[@custardpup6385]

Finally beat the Unending Coil of Bahamut (Golden Bahamut FFXIV) earlier this year with my group of 8 friends. We spent literal months progressing through that fight. Let me tell you, there is no other feeling in the world quite like the your heart pounding in your ears and physical shakes you get when you're very close to clearing an ultimate raid in FFXIV, and then you finally do it and everyone is screaming in celebration and/or crying from joy. I still get emotional when I watch our clear vod. FFXIV has changed my life. Not only did it introduce me to the incredible music, world-building and storytelling of the Final Fantasy series, but I also made so many lifelong friends and core memories. Thank you for covering XIV

[@chriswilkinson8045]

FF8 Omega was an awesome fight! I know he may not be up to the standards of current day super bosses but it was still a great feeling being able to beat him fairly. Heros/ Holy Wars or any form of invincibility as well as The End limited break felt too cheap to me. He's a fair and manageable challenge if you know his pattern. His design is awesome nonetheless and is probably my favorite version of Omega in the series.

[@Azonavox]

That one about Absolute Virtue really upset me. I remember being banned for beating it and it too SO LONG. We had to keep cycling teams, constantly keeping up heals and DPS and Really keep up communications between many many teams! I quit and never went back. Don’t even play the new one because of this

[@พัฒนพงษ์ชยากร]

I think it was heavily cheesed. Until they were banned.

[@Firestorm214]

Ozma took me down in just a few seconds I was speechless and thought How the hell am i going to defeat this boss...

[@windhelmguard5295]

you don't beat ozma. if anything ozma decides to let you win.

[@MarkHogan994]

@@windhelmguard5295 I feel like if you have a good party, Ozma's really not that bad. I beat him on my first attempt. I found a lot of other bosses in FF9 to be way harder actually. Necron, for one, gave me way more trouble. But there were many others as well.

[@lonestar6709]

Ruby Weapon from FF7 was definitely not beaten on the first go. By anyone in the world. Because we all wondered what that red blob was in the desert around Gold Saucer Casino, and went and foolishly touched it. Surprise! Ruby Weapon. And if that wasn't bad enough, we soon found out the bastard was impossible to beat due to his insane high defense (480!) and that fucking whirlpool attack. Unless you utilized the old "Unleveled Materia trick", you didn't stand a cat in hell's chance no matter how high level you were. Seriously, this red machine was the biggest dick move ever thrown out by Square.

[@jakeaphipps]

Lol yeah the 1st time I fought him I said to myself "what's this lil red thing in the sand, let's bump into it" then he pops up and it was an oh shit! Moment. Then he gets rid of all but 1 of your party, has high def, and loves counter certain attacks w/ Ultima. And then you finally do beat him and what'd win a crappy gold chocobo which if you're like me you probably already have at that point from breeding which is way faster than the one you won. Yeah i'd say that was a dick move!

[@pilodrou4213]

Final attack, Phoenix, hp mp switch. Kills everything in the game. Cheap but effective.

[@ravenrodriguez7818]

Ruby Weapon in FF7 was the most triggering superboss that I have ever fought in my life.

[@Spllyn]

RedXIII was the trick, high evasion.

[@DrAbKaN]

Cheese... did you noticed his silly Ultima? 😂😂😂... relax there are other bosses stronger

[@marksantiago9841]

Dazers man.. dazers. You can steal some enemies in the forgotten ruins. Make sure you slow him down first to make the dazers effect to last longer

[@breezyphontain9686]

Mannnnnnnnnn

[@justinharshbarger4761]

Raven Rodriguez I accidentally stumbled onto ruby weapon for the first time, and absolutely shit stomped it without knowing it was a Superboss lol

[@p.b9085]

The beauty of technology : Making a video with still images.

[@PiLLbOt100]

All video is an amalgamation of still images. That is kinda how video has worked.

[@Thedanclan776]

@@PiLLbOt100 that's not what he meant

[@beans_potatoes]

@@PiLLbOt100 abhar's talking about how the creator has essentially created a power point presentation of still photos instead of an actual video

[@LukesYuGiOhChannel]

I did manage to beat Omega Weapon 1st time because I watched my friend lose to him a few times before I stepped in and had a try, that prior knowledge was a huge help. Penance definitely destroyed me, I used Zanmato, sometimes you just have to take the easy way out. Yiazmat I ran away from a few times because I got bored, he takes forever to kill. The Mysterious Girl in FF IV after story is pretty tough as well.

[@nugsboodlepoo]

Absolute Virtue and Pandmonium Warden from XI are unarguably the hardest bosses from any FF. Not only were they hard but it took an insane amount of time and effort to get all the items to make them spawn. It's my absolute favorite game of all time but, wow, that game was easily the most difficult game I've ever played. It took forever to level up and if you died you lost exp and you could actually level down, the best weapons (called relic, mythic, and empyrean weapons) took people YEARS to farm enough materials to make, and you just couldn't do much of anything without a group of people. I guess it's difficulty is what made it so fun though

[@QBrute_]

I beat Yiazmat on the European PS2 version. I didn't want the counter to go up, so I fighted him in one go... It took me 2,5 hours (and an all-nighter to farm dark weapons), but in the end it worked

[@hughnguyen5193]

Ozma is actual easy defeated, the key is Freyya if you let her kill enough 100 dragons. Her dragon skill won't be missed even under Mini effect and don't cause a counter-attack, the 3 left will be Zidane Eiko and Quina, 3 defends 1 attack. Beat this guy at level 50 cap team.

[@Goldnfoxx]

16:53 _"...and get lucky with the counters"_ And therein lies the reason I hate these fights and have grown to simply avoid them or not play the games outright because of them. If luck is a major factor in a boss fight, it's a badly-constructed boss fight. And I have enough problems in my life without willingly adding sado-masochism to the list. Between these fights and crap like the arrangements of balloons in that Chocobo balloon-catching crap in FF10 for Tidus' super weapon, I just don't need that kind of thing in my life. At all. Ever. Osma was bad enough; I don't need even harder "challenges", especially when the challenge is to try a hundred times and hope to get lucky.

[@superomegamkiii2313]

I sense great anxiety within you. Its a shame you let that limit your boundaries.

[@Jinny-Wa]

Doing Zanmato to Penance gives zero satisfaction and feels like cheating

[@bramnemeth565]

imagine actually getting yojimbo to fight

[@mamayareborn]

Beating a turn-based boss gives me zero satisfaction, as the only skills you really need are: 1) Patience to mindlessly grind for five billion years; 2) Looking up a guide to see what every ability does and just react to each of its casts optimally, which literally isn't hard to memorize Beat any of the Ultimate fights in Final Fantasy XIV and I'll be impressed. Otherwise, meh.

[@chrism1518]

If an ability is put into a game to be used at any time, it's not cheating to one-shot a superboss. It's an oversight by the developers.

[@luckydulla]

@@mamayareborn imagine thinking ffxiv is hard

[@GRIMLOCK07]

@@chrism1518 By that Logic I agree it's not cheating, rather, let's say using ZANMATO is a CHEAP SHOT. If a player wimps out and uses Zanmato on a serious Boss Fight, they shouldn't count it as a honorable win. Many FF players will frown upon a player who claims using Zanmato to beat Super Bosses as a Legit win.

[@daveabrams4463]

so proud to say I've defeated omega weapon and yiazmat

[@redX111t]

As a kid when I first killed Ozma, the fight took probably way more than half an hour because I had no idea what I was doing, it was the biggest grind ever. I also beat Emerald without the underwater materia and chocobo rewards, had no idea how to get things like that. It really felt like an achievement for a kid in the late 90's without the internet.

[@crimsonmaelstrom573]

Nicely done Red! How DID you beat Ozma anyway? I’ve never been able to. Any party suggestions?

[@chriskrause6280]

I found Omega Weapon to be easier than Ruby or Emerald in 7, if only because you can really overpower your party with proper junctioning and keep your enemies less powerful by not leveling as much.

[@TheSilverPhoenix100]

Omega is super slow compared to your party so having a party consisting of characters who's limits can break the damage limit makes the fight honestly pretty easy as you doing around 100k damage a round and your atb fills up in less than a second with a high speed stat and he gets a turn for every 3 of yours. Emerald can be a bitch to deal with if you over load on materia and and his airetam cannon goes off, but you only need like 5 materia to beat him. Ruby might be the easiest super boss in the series as W summon hades + KotR will inflict paralysis and Hp absorbs basically assures youll stay at full health the entire fight

[@TheBaldingPlebs]

Ozma first try...couldn't believe it. I screamed like the 14 year old that I was. It was absolutely incredible. I had the perfect team and just kept pounding and healing. I couldn't believe I won. I still remember getting the Dark Matter for beating him. Thanks for the video!

[@crimsonmaelstrom573]

What was your party? I’ve been trying for years and still haven’t beaten him!

[@crimsonmaelstrom573]

What was your party? I’ve been trying for years and still haven’t beaten him!

[@TheBaldingPlebs]

@@crimsonmaelstrom573 oh god that was 21 years ago. Freya Eiko Zidane Amarant....I think. Abused Reys wind, life, asuna, throw and other dragoon moves...I cant remember 100%

[@tiymakoizau]

>Omega Weapon is a "Hard" Super Boss >Use Zell with his Limit Break >Proceed to do a million damage in 13 seconds of Limit Break >Heel Drop >Booya >Win

[@Ateliera776]

Tiymako Izau that is so cheap though

[@tiymakoizau]

@@Ateliera776 Yes, it is. Still the fact that people will use and abuse it. Just shows that is all you have to do to win. Most people will want to do it this way, if it wasn't a way to do it than it is different and because the game was already broken as it was.

[@marksantiago9841]

I use rinoa though since she and squall for me are the “canon” party mates. Anyways i use the angel wing/meteor one. Have the magic meteor/ultima/meltdown/aura in that order (the order is REALLY important) on 1 tab of the magic list and the rest should be non damaging/ non enemy target magic like haste/curaga etc. with this, rinoa with angel wings will 95%use meteor and its until omega is dead or she is defeated

[@taekwon-do4life667]

Or you stay at lvl 9-10 the entire game. and the boss is a joke)))

[@tiymakoizau]

@taekwon-do4life667 How about Max Level, but use Selphie's The End and win. Simple, no?

[@Youngone0G9]

I find Zodiark more difficult than Yiazmat. When I faced Yiazmat the second time around, I was goofing around doing whatever, and I realized that, you can lower it's stats to the point it did no damage lol. Literally spent 5-6 Hours fighting it on the Ps2 version, and then I guess to 1-2 hours in the zodiac version. The same with Omega MK

[@fordelone]

no Ruby weapon? wrong list

[@nigralurker]

Ruby Weapon is piss easy, there's lot of strats out there that just make it completely trivial. One of which allows you to put the controller down and walk away and come back with a victory.

[@DrAbKaN]

His Ultima attack is a joke 😂😂 The ugliest silly Ultima attack across all FF games 😂 And his design is boring as hell 😁

[@exettgl]

@@DrAbKaN that doesn't mean he wasn't difficult

[@exettgl]

@@nigralurker notice how this specified "first try". No one put their controller down and cheesed it when first encountering ruby

[@chriswinkler284]

Before youtube and online strategies, Ruby WEAPON was a nightmare! I remember it being strictly a one on one fight because he whirlsanded two other party members and thank Aerith that the ones he exiled weren't the ones I had planned on using anyway. This creature was/is HARD. My strategy was the Ribbon accessory, a ton of x-potions, Turbo Ethers and Elixers. I slowed down his charge time with Time Materia and although I was tempted to do so, I didn't cast haste on Cloud because it would make the Wall disappear that much faster. I used a Mastered Summoned Materia (1 of 3 that you receive in exchange for the Earth Harp after defeating you know who) and W-Summon in order to take out the status inflicting tentacles and then just solely concentrated on Ruby. After that, I cast Knights of the Bound which was awesome because since it was part of the Master set, it didn't have a limit on how many times you could use it. As long as you had enough mp (500 total if you're doing the W-Summon thing) you were fine. With that in mind, I healed and restored lost mp when I had the chance and made damn sure that Wall was engaged and eventually, I beat him. I kept the Desert Rose as a souvenir in order to remind me that I had bested an optional foe that to this day, I still have a TON of respect for :)

[@LordEgilYGO]

Detail to point out: due to the presence of Cheer, Focus, Protect, etc, in FFX, the dark aeons, internally, are not limited by the damage cap. For example, Judgement Day ACTUALLY does special damage, meaning it cannot be reduced naturally, and it ranges from about 7 million to 8 million. Which is far more than anyone could survive.

[@TheBukoStudio]

Oh. So Ozma's AI is like a late-game SMT boss fight. That is hard.

[@yunan7692]

For me, Zodiark was more difficult than Yiazmat. I did died more times fighting Zodiark than I did the rest of the game combined. I thought leveling up Reddas and having him in the fight would be more helpful, but he was just one more person to keep alive.

[@formershadow]

I beat Ozma on my first try although I was OP'ed tho and Yiazmat took forever but it allowed for saving so i also beat it on my first try.

[@windhelmguard5295]

you didn't beat ozma. ozma just randomly decided to let you win.

[@hewmengshen7781]

Exactly, if he didn't use meteor, it's an absolutely win win.

[@rpgkingx3629]

I honestly have heard absolutely nothing about 11 until now!

[@RadinV1]

Ruby weapon used to be the bane of my existence.

[@Fenrisson]

That's my boy Omega Weapon over there. Thanks for including it!

[@nameforcomments4092]

Absolute Virtue should've been renamed "You Weren't Supposed To Do That"

[@chompison]

All I remember about Ozma was killing it very quickly and thinking "That's it?!" As with any RPG, I had grinded the hell out of everyone early in the game. Specifically at that one plateau with the difficult enemies, reachable from an alternate exit of a cave. Dragons and bird things which google says were "Grand Dragon" and "Garuda". While grinding I also made sure everyone learned every skill from every piece of equipment I found or bought, and kept that process going through the whole game. Killing all those dragons also maxed out one of Freya's abilities so it pretty much always did 9999 to everything. Quina's abilities were also very useful. I defeated Ozma in just a few turns with what seemed like no resistance. Some people like to struggle through RPGs at a normal or quick pace, always just a bit under-powered and under-equipped, using all that buff/debuff/status crap to beat harder enemies strategically. Too easily bored to put in the time, or to make things feel more "plausible" I guess? To hell with that, I like to invest some time early on so I can plow through enemies and focus on exploration and story without being interrupted too much by random encounters. Ozma was weird in that sense because usually even a maxed out party can't just stomp a super boss that easily. As a result, I would have swapped Emerald Weapon for Ozma in this list. Can't comment on the ones in FF10 and FF12 as I only played each for a very short time, or the ones in the online games as I'm not interested in playing those at all.

[@danielblair9535]

Ozma is difficult as hell if your RNG is poor, plus if you want to steal the 4 items, you have to stall until then.

[@divaalfirman3295]

“7 Incredibly Hard Super Bosses You Definitely Didn’t Beat First Time Round” Hah, bold of you to assume I beat any of these

[@G0LD3NR0D]

I'm still working on the unending coil of bahamut with my static. It's really REALLY difficult but we're getting there, as our most recent wipe had bahamut at 5% health. Also, I went with a group formed via linkshell in XI to beat both the pandemonium warden and absolute virtue recently, and actually beating them was incredible honestly. Then again I'm a sucker for those tough fights.

[@lpotts75]

Seymour was hard in Final Fantasy 10. I can't remember if it was his second form but it was the fight at the top of the snowy mountains. Took me 3 times before I beat him.🤣

[@TooLameToDie]

His second form, the one on Mount Gagazet is his hardest form. However, he can be poisoned and that makes any of his forms that much easier.

[@natsohigh5552]

@@TooLameToDie I said this 😂 He's easy every other time (before and after Gagazet). Ran back down the mountain to level up and finally realised that poison and zombie affect him🙄

[@TrixTrix228]

I remember playing FFXII for the first time without ever utilizing the gambit system or the bazaar and just relied on regular items, pots, spells and quickening... manually. Absolute hell when i fought the Hell Wyrm lol

[@martinwiseley2580]

I beat ozma on my first try and thought that everyone was insane for saying how hard it was. I tried it again and then I understood. One unlucky turn from him and it’s an automatic KO basically

[@NeoDMC]

FF9's difficulty hinges on 2 things. The first is Status Effects, which can be negated with Abilities...but you have to know what you need to block. The second is instant death, since there is no way to negate that true death outside of RNG. God forbid you fight an enemy with Death lvl 5 and all ur characters just happen to be a level that ends in 5 or 0. Besides that the game is incredibly easy, especially with Auto-Regen + Concentrate Summons. Oh you knocked all my guys to 1 health? Well let me summon Ark while Auto-Regen heals us back up to full.

[@tracexl]

There is also Warmech in the Tower of Air in the first FF. Completely random you'll come across it and then only on the top floor just before the boss, Tiamat. It could use the ability Nuke/Nuclear, which can wipe the entire party in one shot.

[@jamescook16]

Ive beat him for sure the sad part is there is no reward for it

[@OvielRodgem89]

@@jamescook16 later remakes it drops genji armor

[@pandahungry8000]

In final fantasy 7 i just used HP>MP and full revive linked with final attack. You gotta kill my whole party 99 times cuz I have 9999 MP and my attacks still do 9999 damage.

[@rerolol]

ruby weapon: imma f*** you up dazers & KOR materia: kek look at this duuuudee.

[@markyt6391]

why emerald and ruby weapon from FF7 was not included? really?

[@CurlyFromTheSwirly]

Because, well, um, the list is whacked.

[@injoy987]

I love that you put ffxi in your lists. I played for 4 years on the kujata server and miss playing it today. So many memories, laughs, smiles, and angry nights cause I missed a NM spawn.

[@tommynguyen8456]

Final Fantasy X: Dark Shiva. Who else went back to Macalania Temple after Mika dies and got kicked three times in the face with 99999 damage by Dark Shiva with the game over screen and your face in absolute wtf mode?

[@DreadKyller]

Considering you need to beat Dark Shiva to even access Penance, plus the 1 boss per game in the franchise. Also most of the dark aeons are like that, and some of them even start the turn off with their overdrives dealing 9999 to the entire party before you get a turn. Dark shiva is hard but I wouldn't put it at the top of FFX.

[@tommynguyen8456]

@@DreadKyller you do realise that i'm referring to bosses that you DIDN'T DEFEAT THE FIRST TIME. Did you even read the video title? It said bosses you definitely didn't beat first time. Not the hardest boss in the game. Also i didn't lose against Penance because by then i had the common sense to max out my stats and collect the best items. Dark Shiva was totally unexpected so i'm not wrong, you just need to learn how to read between the lines

[@moonraven6145]

Yep, I was kinda silent in shock when that happened, considering I was only at around the power of the games final boss

[@empressfordola]

ohh my first time was Dark Ifrit, back then i thought it was the only one and it was the superboss who was guarding something special in the camp XD oh was that a surprise

[@SiegeTF]

One of the best things about one of AV's exploits was that it was explicitly endorsed by the official strategy guide; it recommended getting enemies stuck in terrain for ranged jobs like BLM (black mage) and RNG (ranger). Doing this with AV would cause it to not use Benediction.

[@zacharyhawley1693]

Omega I beat with The End Never saw it the entire game. Then last one standing Selphie just decides to push it directly into the afterlife.

[@rushingwp]

lol i spin the slot so hard it could make a tornado, the shit never came in the right time.

[@SunBleachedGhost]

I'm currently playing Final Fantasy 12 TZA again (this is only my second playthrough since it got released, which sucks because my favorite Final Fantasy game, but my sister took her copy with her when she moved, and I just hadn't gotten around to picking it up again since then) and am planning on doing all the extra shit, including Yiazmat, which I knew was notoriously hard, butlistening to him describe the Yiazmat fight was like multiple consecutive punches to the gut, and when I heard him say "In The Zodiac Age, Yiazmat is much easier to defeat" I was so damn relieved.

[@mrtwentyfive638]

The main is cast refect on Yiazmat then he heals your party then himself.

[@2Syndras1Cup]

Being the FF8 nerd that I am I've spent several hours by just playing triple triad and getting cactorius below lvl 15 to get max stats + final weapons with Squall, Rinoa and Xell. Have at least Squall and Xell low HP and just special attack the shit out of everyone and enjoy your free wins. FFX was kinda the same tbh, just have the board modified and get max stats, Ultima Weapons and perfect shields, standard team is Tidus, Yuna and Auron and for Penance you should have Tidus, Rikku and Wakka. EDIT: Also also, you could also get Yuna to 255 luck and pay 1 gil for free wins (wich also depends a little bit on the answer you gave Yojimbo where your chance to get a zanmatou could either be near 100% or garbage).

[@chocobro7]

Iron Golem from FF3DS was a hard bastard too

[@eric-fz4xp]

Actually there a strategy with 2 meteor caster 1 healer and a fucking 2 shielded berserker. That the easier way to defeat it.

[@vibes5805]

Penance is definitely the hardest in ffx, but something is to be said for Dark Yojimbo - it comes in 5 battles, where if you try to leave or do anything like that then the sequence restarts. You also can't access a save point, if I remember right (correct me if I'm wrong). You have to be very prepared before you even get in there. Its Zanmato also does max damage to the whole party, and removes Auto-Life. The fight in general is just very, very difficult lol

[@Loctorak]

You are, indeed, incorrect about the save spheres during that sequence. Im playing through the remaster again and up to that bit now - you trigger two fights and then you come across a save sphere hanging out in the tunnels of the cave. You can freely save here, but I don't actually know if doing so resets the encounter triggers because I'm using the fights to farm dark matters 😅

[@BlueMageDaisen]

Shinryu is much harder than Omega Heck, I beat the 8 Omegas in Omega mk.II's room without even breaking to heal Between Thundaga spellblade and Romeo's Ballad you can beat Omega at incredibly low levels

[@migjordanpayawal7856]

When you get Rapidfire and Dualwield on your Freelancers, then the superbosses get really easy in FFV :D not to mention, you can steal Ragnaroks from Neo-Exdeath

[@sylvierose2799]

@Isaak van Dijk, MD this

[@WinoaKaronhiatens]

I remember doing Yiazmat fight. 8 hours sitting there and when he got to so much health you needed to keep syphon as an active spell so he couldn't heal himself or he'd bring his health back to full. Imagine playing another 8 hours if you didn't get the syphon off and he healed himself up. I didn't play FF11 but I assume they didn't expect people to sit at their computer focused on the enemy that long. They probably considered it'd be an enemy people would micro manage with various groups taking fighting and disbanding while other people fought it ongoing and to gather everyone at the end to finish it off when it was close to dead. It doesn't seem like an enemy they meant for people to sit their for 24 hours to fight

[@sinjull2256]

Having beaten both Omega in FF8 and Ozma in FF9 I can say that Ozma is the easier one and Omega being the harder one.

[@hewmengshen7781]

But I found out Ozma is harder, you need to understand his fight step

[@Dropkickdejv]

I Think that Ruby weapon should have a place on this list :) The fact that he sucks away one of your characters permanently at the start of the fight if you don't have two of them dead going in to the fight is kind of a big problem :)

[@TonberryGames]

You should do one where regular encounters are harder than the Final Boss. King Behemoths. Start there.

[@Hiiiiiiiiiiy]

TonberryGames I hate you, tonberry. You’re frightening. I always flee.

[@mrizqyabd1071]

As a mh fans i can relate

[@diego5262]

I followed a very detailed guide to beat Penance first try... no shame. However the journey was well worth it. I love FFX. Been wanting to do it again from the beginning

[@Horstveratu]

Absolute Virue wins by a lot because it would take at least 18 but more realisticly 36 people to focus super hard for a full day and to retry the fight it takes a week or so of effort by 18 people to pop it again and get another try. Simply being the tank or healer for stuff like is nasty enough but if its something that takes 3 tanks to coordinate and groups of people to stun moves and another group to heal and regain mp its on another level then again the fight was never possible without glitching your tank into a wall and bugging out the boss AI... maybe the original Pandemoium warden would apply it was doable but that was the actual fight that clocked at 18H and started the little outcry about FFXI. It would be cool if the devs would come out and give insight to Absoblute Virtue since no one actually knows what the mechanic was and now you can just faceroll it so no one really cares what the mechanics where. Maybe its all figured out by now tho didnt play ffxi for years now...Chances are AV was just a troll boss since it actually had no drop table until it was killed a few times and they patched it in.

[@lightningshy5287]

Yiazmat It’s actually made super easy if you begin the fight by using Wither until his rake damage becomes practically nothing. That combined with Expose Will make the fight a breeze aside from the death hit, so the only thing you’ll have to worry about then is how many phoenix downs you go through (which is guaranteed to be a lot.)

[@juur2495]

Got lucky on my first attempt with omega weapon in ff8. I pulled The End with selphie’s limit break.

[@apimpnamedslickback8847]

I was a kid when I came across omega weapon in ultamecias castle. I thought it was a required boss fight to get my powers back and never finished the game lol

[@airiakizuki5592]

Spamming Zells limit break can do about 300k damage to Omega. Twice as much as Squalls Lionheart. Omega weapon isn't difficult at all.

[@airiakizuki5592]

No, you really don't. Omega weapon takes about 20 minutes. Maybe it was supposed to be hard but it isn't. There is no equipment in FF8 so I don't get what you mean by 'properly equipped' either.

[@3Rayfire]

It wasn't luck, I planned to take down Omega Weapon with the End. 90 seconds. Still my finest moment as an RPG gamer.

[@jawstrock2215]

My first real time against Omega Weapon(ff8) : Aura on Squall - Squall Lionheart - Omega weapon dead, he got 0 turn.. I was like ... "that's it? aww man"

[@italobrilhante1769]

Great content, thanks for the video. I have beaten some of those bosses, but it was really hard.