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

Learning that you could run away from the Dark Magus Sisters to take them out 1 by 1 was a game changer for that horrible boss

The loss to Zodiark was so painful once I realize where the last save point actually was. All those traps and enemies just to get rekt and having to do it all over again.

I still remember how proud I was the first time I beat Ruby and Emerald Weapon. This was back when I was like 12 years old or so and I felt like a genius lol.

I don’t remember Zodiark being too difficult, however Omega Mark 12 shoots its attack so fast that 2 seconds after I’m in range I need to start a healing train until I’m ultimately dead.

I actually downed Zodiark the first time facing it. The spell animation limit in the original 12 worked wonders against him, i used some scythe motes and some other big attack items to lock him out of casts and just kept smacking him and this was something i discovered with pure luck. I tried him later on in TZA like a year ago and got completely annihilated

Shinryu was really a weird thing for me. Since the Coral Ring lets me absorb Tidal Wave and it always starts with that, I basically used him as a healing spot with a thief and someone fast in my party at all times, letting me try to spam-steal the Dragon Whisker whip while trying to find Movers

This reminds me I need to play FF12 again . Such an awesome game, mostly underrated

In general FF12's esper battles range from easy, to manageable, to hard depending on what level your party is. In my first playthrough it was definitely Zodiark and Chaos but in my recent playthrough it was Cuchulainn. The sap field, his little flan minions, and constant status inflictions (particularly sap + invert + potentially disabled healers) led to many retries. If you didn't have the right gear and try to get him early he's super hard. Not a super boss but neither is Zodiark. I'd say the 5 judge battle was the hardest super boss in that game but that belongs on a list of "7 Super Bosses you Definitely Never Reached the First Playthrough"

Dark Yojimbo is great to grind for Ribbon Armour. Anima and Bahamut are far more deadly and frustrating to kill.

Dark Bahamut in ffX will always haunt me, see i live in the UK, and the US did NOT have him so any guide i followed did not mention him... so imagine my shock when i find him there because i forgot the sodding Sigel!!!

Little fun fact for Shinryu in FFV, he’s weak to the berserk status. So you could inflict Berserk on him and he won’t be able to cast any magic. He would still do very high damage, but he would lose the ability to use AoE abilities. That’s how I beat him.

Does anyone else find these cathartic? I feel enamored with the same feeling I used to get when looking for those secret crazy bosses or enemies, finding all the best weapons, armor, etc. It's just such an awesome feeling, definitely inspires adventure in the heart

Zodiark was the bane of my absolute existence as a kid. Jesus, what a fight

In FF7 I had a very difficult time with the hidden WEAPON bosses, and Ozma always kicked my ass in FF9

Finally fantasy 12 was amazing the fighting, the summons needing to be killed before you get them, the hunts. It was so fun to play as a kid with a walk through book

When I fought Zodiark in the OG game on the PS2, he was a nightmare, hardest fight in the game hands down. When I fought him in the "Zodiac Age" recently, I went in fully prepared, and he was dead before I even realized it. Such a strange turn of events.

The music gets me every time! Hearing these classic songs with a twist is just great

Zodiark was always brutal, specially in earlier playthroughs as younger me had no idea about the consequences of dispelling Reflect. However, I never wiped to it - so yeah, I did beat Zodiark the first time. :D

I absolutely love hearing the piano version of Final Fantasy 8 Boss fight music. The Gym of the Fayth is also nice to hear as well. Good video.

Love this series. Makes me go through memory lane

Not to mention that Ruby Weapon is the one with the bug where if he does whirlpool a party member and you defeat him, the battle doesn't end

I somehow managed to beat Ruby Weapon way back on the original PS1 release of FFVII, and even discovered where to take the desert rose. Memories :)

I defeated Yiazmat first time but OH MY GOD THAT FIGHT TOOK ME AGES!!!

Trema is very easy once you know the trick: Three lv 99 mascots and spam Yuna's Moogle Cureja and Paine's Cactling Gun under the effects of break HP and break damage limit. Let Rikku spam buff and de-buff items. He'll go down like a sack of spuds.

Zodiark seems like that one kid who refused to accept loss. "Well _I_ have anti-punch armour that reflects the attack at you! And anti-magic armour! And I can kill when I want!"

that Zodiark fight was super dope

I never got a game over in either version of FFXII until Trial 86, mainly because of the VERY forgiving system of being able to bring in your backup party if your first 3 characters died (if only other RPGs did the same). Zodiark was definitely a tough fight but getting to it is just as difficult, so it's rare to get there underleveled. Trema is another one where if you've made it to the bottom of the Via Infinito and beaten Paragon, you're probably ready for him, and he's arguably easier than most of the encounters up to that point (especially Chac).

I managed to defeat several of the weapons in various FF titles, but Ruby in FF7 still kicks my arse to this day 😱

The last bit of time I spent playing Dissidia 012, I was doing single character challenges with Feral Chaos. Normally at the end of story mode, you're given a party of 5 and as one falls they get replaced but any HP dmg they did to Feral Chaos was saved. (He had like 120k HP). I managed it with quite a few characters like Cloud, Sephiroth, Cecil, Firion, Terra, WoL, Garland, Golbez, and Gilgamesh. Was a fun challenge with the fights lasting anywhere from 8 to 15 minutes.

Weiss is probably my favorite FF boss (to fight), at least the ff7R for sure. It's actually easy if you blitz him the right way. Great fight that feels really good to overcome and requires a deep understanding of the battle mechanics.

I beat yiazmat first try (original 12 release. Not zodiac age) even with only half my party leveled pretty high. It took about 2-3 hours but thankfully i had some really good gambits set up. So glad you chose the actual much harder boss from 12 lol

Zodiark was a trip to fight. One of my favorite bosses I had to keep a save around for. On Vanilla FFXII on the PS2 I really believe they should put the vanilla version in the Zodiac Age as a DLC, seriously. The game is different and harder, to some like me that can be important. I never played the Zodiac Age but I hear its easier although the characters seem relatively limited by the jobs.

All I know is Ozma cast 'Doomsday' on my party once back in 2000 and I haven't seen it since

I *did* beat Zodiark first try. it took almost 2 hours though. the most epic FF battle I've ever endured.

I best ozma on my first go thanks to the randomness of Phoenix resurrecting the party on a wipe. That was it. No defenses, nothing. Just phoenix giving me an extra life.

I still remember beating zodiark on my ng- run, so freaking tough but so satisfying

One of the neatest things IMO about FFXIV is that a LOT of the superbosses in other FF games can be found and fought in FFXIV. Some of the fights are also available in multiple difficulty tiers.

what an amazing channel for us ff fanatics. All I do know is watch these non stop and tell my friends to do the same lol

Zodiark is similar to Ozma in that it's essentially rng how the fight goes even with good planning. Although he is unique in that he's the only one that can't be planned against with his rng. Omega is a non entity with Wither stacks. Yiazmat is simple with good gambits and a quick hand on reflect phase. And there is a clear specific path to victory with judges. Zodiark can just choose you lose if he feels lucky.

You got one thing a bit wrong about Ruby Weapon, which is the reason you have so many videos of a party with two downed characters: Ruby would remove two characters from the board at the beginning of battle only, which is why people would start with unconscious characters they could revive. Also, and unforgivably by the developers, Ruby Weapon was invincible until he put his claws in the ground. I stress-tested this with Knights of the Round. They made the encounter deliberately this way, basically cheating in the monster's favor. However, I also learned of his weakness quite a few years ago from a friend and beat him later on.

9:25 it's not just US players playing the HD/International version for the first time. I remember when I first got FFX on PS2, after a while I started reading guides to do things like unlock all the overdrives. I wandered into Besaid after spending a while grinding in the Omega Ruins, only to be annihilated by Dark Valefor when I got to the gate. What those guides neglected to mention was the PAL version was based on the International release. On the plus side, I didn't have to import another copy and mod my PS2 to fight the dark aeons and Penance.

By the way, Kudos to you using FuzzFinger gaming's content. The guy is really passionate about Final Fantasy (and most games on his channel) and definitely deserves some more attention due to how often he responds to his fans and comments.

Ah yes, Feral Chaos. I remember being so excited when I actually unlocked him as a playable character, he became my main over Cloud for a good while. It was a reward well worth it in my opinion, he's a lot faster than he looks and all his attacks hit many times over. Never beat him on that first intro to him though so if you did, I salute you.

Idk how i did it but i beat Most of these bosses pretty handily. Zodiark in particular i beat first try on 4x speed because i came back to Zodiark before Sky Fortress Bahamut after ive gotten most of the best weapons/accessories/armor (that dont require godlike luck or RNG manips) and had some pretty thorough gambits set up. Feral Chaos stumped me as a Manikin @lvl 97 more than the lvl 130 version for like 3 months as an 12 year old haha.

Weiss, I streamed be fighting him and it took 2 days for me to finally get the strat right to take him down. When it happened on the second day I was so caught off-guard. Had to change my entire stream plans.

Zodiak is a very funny one to me because i did beat it first time. i had barely any clue about the game aswell, i did play the other parts (7-10) before tho. My dad was pretty lost on how to even get to zodiac so after like an hour he was so frustrated he let me try. found him quite quickly in maybe 10 minutes and proceeded to blast him lol

I think I remember beating Dark Yojimbo and not really having many problems with him. Probably spammed summons or something.

Imagine putting Dark Yojimbo on this list when he is easier than Dark Anima, Dark Magus Sisters, Penance and Nesmsis.

I'm not sure if it counts as a Superboss, but Shinryu's appearance in FF11 at the end of the Abyssea mini expansions was pretty damned epic. And also goddamn near impossible if you didn't know what you were doing - hell, even if you did he could be an insane challenge. Most players (myself included lol) would typically opt to just using a Primeval Brew, which more or less granted you God Mode very briefly but even THAT wasn't a guarantee because Shinryu could suddenly start absorbing the damage instead of you weren't careful, and those Brews were very, very expensive and you couldn't carry more than 1. I've beaten his FF5 version, Ruby and Dark Yojimbo, haven't done the others (Zodiark is such a nightmare) but Weiss is absolutely on my to-do list before Rebirth comes out and is much more manageable than you may think. People have solo'd him with Tifa. *EDIT: Honorable mention goes to Rani, also from the Abyssea expansions. OMG she is such a troll I have personally seen her wipe entire alliances in seconds.

I actually had way more problems with lv. 120 (or something like that) normal Chaos in the first dissidia than 012's Feral.

I wanted to give more info about Dark Yojimbo (and essentially why Dark Bahamut and Anima are harder): While Zanmato hits really hard and removes all beneficial statuses imcluding Auto-life, there is a way to survive it. Have an aeon with maxed defense of 255, teach it cheer (and protect I think) and increase its health to over roughly 50k. After all the setup, go in the fight ans summon that aeon, cheer 5 times, and when you see that guage full, choose "guard" as its action. It will, surprisingly, survive. This strategy, sadly, doesnt work for Anima as her overdrive is multi hit I believe, Dark Bahamut since his countdown flare kills outright iirc, and if you fight the Dark Magus Sisters together, their overdrive is also multihit, though they can't do it if even only one is down. Essentially you could use an Aeon throughout the whole fight with Dark Yojimbo all 5 times. Side note: Almighty Shinra, while still technically a superboss since Vegnagun was easy, can be absolutely devastated having a fiend with high attack stat, learned Quick Attack and "taught" to only use it, with Spellspring, and auto-haste. The fiend attack animation must also be fast. The gun snakes are an example. Sounds like a lot of set-up, and kinda is, but setup in FFX-2 is easy compared to other FF games in my opinion.

Forgot the name but I would add some of the bosses in Final Fantasy Tactics that came directly after the game asks you if you want to save. There were multiple instances where I had a to completely start brand new save because I was severely underleveled and the save point made it impossible to backtrack and farm.

Regarding the Dark Yojimbo fight, you can use your summons as a sacrifice to negate the first attack, then with the cap removed, use Entrust on either Wakka or Tidus, this will end the fight.

I don't remember having problems with Ruby, then again I was hideously overlevelled. I tend to farm for the best items for my party and getting all the ribbons and levelling all the materias to max had taken some time (Don't even get me started about breeding the Golden Chocobo). So yeah Ruby was no problem... Emerald was. Ruby was sitting in that desert area, Emerald you had to fricking find/chase with the fricking submarine :(

Although not technically a FF super boss, Alpha Weltall after Deus in Xenogears is another super hard fight that you're supposed to lose, but can be beaten with the right strategy (and luck), he even has a chance to drop a unique item if you beat him! (Not 100% drop rate unless you get another item from a previous boss which is also not 100% drop rate...) You also have to pick up certain items from a shop in disc 1 that you don't know that you need for a later fight, and they are very expensive as well, but miss getting these and the shop restocks the next time you get to it. 😅

I just beat Weiss yesterday. It was my last achievement to get in FF7 Remake intergrade. I'm so happy to be part of that 2%.

Catnip was obsolete because they added the berserk status, so the equipped could only auto attack. However, the thief jobs attack hit twice. So that, with haste rendered it still a good strategy for tremma

I remember I had to get back to a town or something in FFX, and I needed to get through the area with the Magus sisters. The bastards completely cut me off, as I could never run past them. I don't even remember why I needed to get past them (this was years ago), but I remember pulling my hair out trying to do it.

Ooooooh birthday vid! I'm excited!

I did Ruby with final attack-phenix(1 use)(havent thought this through but got lucky the correct one was thrown out and the other one died so I was left again with Cloud), HP-plus, mime, 2xobject(no dublication), counter with an attack materia(4xcut wasnt working iirc) and rest with counter materia(I think it was five), best weapon and armlett was equipped together with a ribbon. All I did was mime my conters or Omnislash, the fight took me about an hour.

Love Dissidia duodecim and Feral Chaos is A LOT of fun, the true fun is fighting him with just one character.

The only enemy i know for a fact everyone died to the first time was Tonberry. There's no way anyone fought him seriously the first time around.... "Oh what's that? A little green midget looking thing? Hahahahaha! Oh what's that widdle knife? Are you going to poke me with it? Oh booohoohoooooo! Hahahhaa, god I can't wait to kick this guy's-....... WHAT THE F*** JUST HAPPENED?!?!?!"

5:58 The final Feral Chaos fight in Dissidia was the most fun I've ever had in a 3D Arena Fighter. After I beat him I started using CWCheat to set enemy HP to 120,000 for normal fights. As an aside, the Jade Dissonance Feral Chaos halfway through Scenario 012 was far and away the hardest fight in the game for me. I deliberately set my character's levels relatively low and consequently couldn't get strong gear, and after a minute and a half you just *can't* damage him anymore like that, so I had to dodge like mad and spam HP attacks. Eventually I found the CWCheat code/mod that let's you play as normal Chaos too. Good times. Edit: I also used CWCheat to beat the intro Feral Chaos once. The game still treats it like you lost, even if you win.

Weiss was my first and most favorite super boss of my FF series play through

Gunner catnip ftw! That took so long til I managed to finally get him

Is your book no longer available? I would love to be able to get one!

The fact that you have to beat Dark Yojimbo 5 times made farming high cost equipment a brease.

I remember Ruby weapon for being my toughest challenge during my high school period, so much in fact that became sort of a nemesis for me. To make things even worse, I didn't have internet back then so I didn't know that you could actually bring the whole party into the fight. As a result, I ended up defeating Ruby, yes, but (unwillingly) doing the Cloud solo challenge xD When I found out the method to have the whole party into the fight I almost smashed my head against the wall out of frustration

I only beat Dark Yojimbo by paying Yojimbo to use Zanmato five times, calculating the minimal amounts of Gil each time to get a probability bump. It still took six days.

I actually did beat zodiark first try blind.... because it was so "hidden" that I basically didn't encounter it until I was already preparing for the full end-game and ended up so ridiculously overprepared it was kinda ridiculous. ...which was also my experience with the vast majority of "major" bosses in 12, and is why I actually found the game way harder in the zodiac age re-release, as I actually fought most bosses at an actual, appropriate, power level, instead of going there with my max level, max boarded, min-maxed, ribbon farmed, ultimate weapon party like I did the first time through the game.

I have to ask was Dark Yojimbo placed #5 because you must fight him five times to beat him? Or was it a lucky coincidence

A nice trip down memory lane, honestly I was worried Square lost their touch for super bosses but my recent struggles with the super bosses in KH3 DLC changed that, think I beat two of them my first try. Rest have been taking between 10-30 tries…. Which now is getting excited how that will translate to super bosses in later parts of FF7R.

I'm happy to say I'm one of the 2% of people who actually managed to beat Wiess. Just looked up a good strategy guide, and tried again and again until I was able to get it.

Feral Chaos is one of my favourite pranks that devs have pulled on me.

I'd just like to give a nod to Chac from FFX-2. Not only does she hit extremely hard with massive physical attacks and Heaven's Cataract, she can turn you to Stone EVEN IF YOU ARE IMMUNE TO IT. You practically need Cat Nip + Gunner Mode, Lady Luck flinching, or Bribe + who-knows-how-many gil to beat her regular version on floor 80 of Via Infinito. Because of this, most people (including myself) recommend you Oversoul Chac when you face her in that fight. That way you won't have to worry about Heaven's Cataract or getting stone-shattered. The worst part? She shows up as a RANDOM ENCOUNTER from floors 81-84, AFTER you beat her on floor 80. That means you either need to run far, far away from her, or be ready to rinse and repeat the tedious process of beating her AT ALL TIMES! The real complicated part is that on floors 81-99, you could instead run into an Elder Drake, Mega Tonberry, Mushroom Cloud, or any other cheap monster as a random encounter. DO NOT sleep on Chac, guys.

To be honest the only Difficulty about the FFX super bosses was grinding out the sphere Board and getting all ultimate weapons and armors. Once you have it, they are all easy.

I completely forgot about Trema/had those trauma scars buried deep until you drudged them up

Was playing FF12 shortly after it release. Just loved every character and didnt want to lvl up only 3 of them, instead was leveling everyone by constatntly changeng party. When I found Zodiark, beat him by first try =)

Ruby weapon gave me the most trouble shinryu beat on my first try a lost of other bosses haven’t fought yet but love to try

When it came to the Dark Aeons that were in FFX-2 (That was due to Shuyin's actions basically ripping them back up from the grave), I was actually so overleveled from grinding exp that I was able to completley wipe each Aeon I came across. That and I played FFX so much that I knew what kits each Aeon had and I knew how to counter each one. I didnt know that you could actually run from The Magus Sisters (they are my fav Aeon set since its a broken Trio) so that you can fight them one by one, but imo that makes it way too easy since in FFX you fought them all at the same time. Also Trema HOLY MOLY I beat him the first time as well but that was due to the fact that I had the official BradyGames guidebook for FFX/FFX-2 and there was a section about Trema and how to beat him. Long story short you have to max out all 3 party members to lvl 99 and you also have to max out a few of the dressspheres for SPECIFIC PARTY MEMBERS. I still remember the cycle of "Heal, attack, attack, dodge, heal" and so on.

If I had to choose a ridiculous boss I don't think you've covered before, it would probably be Magic Master from FF6. Just really unreasonably hard if you don't know what you're in for. However, similar to others you've talked about, if you go in knowing what to expect and have a plan (or follow an online guide), it can be a pretty trivial fight. Still, I wanted to pick one from my nemesis, FF6, and I figured that side-boss is one of the most difficult in the World of Ruin. There are probably others, but FF6 needs more love in this video series imo.

Im very proud that I managed to kill all 4 WEAPON bosses in FF7 waaay back in -97, before internet and all its spoiler tactics xD, did the same with Ultimate and Omega in FF8 (and FF10) and ofc Ozma in FF9. After FF10 I kinda lost interest in FF but I do return to those four from time to time :)

Trema was an interesting choice.... Via Infinito in general was tough but Chac always gave me the most trouble.

The way ive beaten feral chaos in dissidia 012 post game(particularly the stronger green maniken variant)is play as Kain,pick Ultimecia as my assist,use the shinryu summon to lock my BP at 9000+ and them spam Jump over and over and over again and use ultimecia's assist bravery attack to snipe feral chaos whenever he attempts to escape the Jump Spam It took a lot of time but hey it worked xD

funny thing about feral chaos is your not wrong took me forever to smoke that guy and i say smoke because when i finally beat i had faced him so many by then that i took no damage during the fight

I had to resort to spamming Yuna's Bahamut to defeat Feral Chaos in DDF 012. It took a long while but worth it. Mega Flare in tandem with Chaos's arena and Feral Chaos's sheer size made him a sitting duck. Is it a cop-out strategy? Sure. Did I have much of a choice? Not really. The first character I mastered was Kain and he was struggling. But no one can say I didn't try to beat him before resorting to Yuna.

my own personal list as i remember them: 1. Feral Chaos 2. Melusine 3. Bahamut (7R; still haven't) 4. Long Gui (13) 5. Angelus-0 (15) 6. Vercingetorix 7. Yomi Bonus. also Weiss (still haven't)

I play FF12 since PS2, in total played through the story 5 Times and last year was the first AND last time I managed to beat Zodiark (and the other Superbosses in it).

Neo Shinryu, Nemesis, Hell Wyrm, and Raspatil gave me trouble in their respective games

Ozma and the weapons are the bane of my existence

Ruby weapon was the only one that I didn't beat try but I think it's because of ruby weapon. After 7 I basically over prepared for everything

I managed to beat Ruby Weapon on the PS1 version, as well as the Emerald Weapon. I remember getting a Gold chocobo for the effort, even though I already had one with significantly better stats since it was hand-raised. S:

Feral chaos made my hands cramp

I beat Weiss, still proud of it. Also forgot to mention how you have 7 in-game minutes (funny ikr?) to beat him before he instakills the party.

I didn't really have access to the internet to look up the best way to defeat ruby weapon i only got tips from friends who read about it but never beat it. It took me over 80 hours of preparing my characters and exploring. I bred a golden chocobo got knights of round, I leveled my characters to 99 while mastering all summon materia which I took them to the large materia and made master summon. I mastered mime twice so everyone could have mime command I attached hp absorb to another mastered knights of round and mp absorb to the newly created knights of round i had ribbons equipped to my characters then I went in with everyone except cloud downed and used Phoenix to raise them then I pummeled it with knights of round and mime materia until it died which took over an hour

I would just like to say, I am one of the 2.5% of people that has the Corrupter of the Immaculate trophy. It took me 3 hours but I eventually found a strategy that did it. Don't ask me what it was because I forgot xD. I just know Tifa was the main and you could beat him in like 3 minutes if you pulled it off. I personally am of the opinion that they only made Weiss and Nero so tough in Intermission/Intergrade to get back at all the people who didn't like Dirge of Cerberus lol.

There's a whole lot of RNG involved with Zodiark's Darkja/Instant Death spam; it's pretty easy to get TKO'2 right off the bat. I beat Shinryu first go, but I fully maxed my squad's jobs by that point and had the best equipment in the game. I can't wait to fight Wiess. It won't take too long since I already plat'd the PS5 version of FFVII Remake.

Having just done a platinum run of FFX and opted to not Zanmato everything. None of the bosses in FFx are difficult at all. The only annoying fight was Penance purely because it was just a long fight where you repeated the same thing over and over again. Dark Yojimbo was a piece of cake. You beat him until his overdrive bar was maxed, then you summoned an Aeon when it's Dark Yojimbos' turn. Wiss was a complete nightmare. Fortunately, I managed to save my kill video xD

2/3 of my picks for hardest dark aeons were on this list, the last one that wasnt mentioned was. dark anima, i fought her for around 2-3 hours and then just gave up. she will also petrify and shatter your party, if i remember correctly

here a guy that defeated Trema. I remember how super ridiculous difficult it was to even get to this boss. And from what I remember, the item Catnip, one could only get when defeating Trema. At least that is how I got Catnip back then. So as you can imagine, the fight without Catnip was nerf wrecking. After defeating Trema, I didn't even understand how to use Catnip and just disregarded the item as nonsense. Until one day I figured out how to make best use of it... and it was glorious, lol. Btw... Angra Mainyu should be featured too! That was right up there with Trema.