7 Cheapest Final Fantasy Bosses Who Didn’t Play By The Rules

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Final Fantasy games are notorious for being packed full of various unique and memorable bosses.
Many of these bosses are incredibly well designed, but every now and again some slip through the cracks and are just simply unfair. Sometimes these bosses expect players to have knowledge they couldn’t possibly have had on a first blind playthrough. And in these instances, walking into a boss fight with the wrong build can be utterly devastating.
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@normal6483 21 день назад

Yunalesca's primary tactic is to inflict you with zombify and other statuses so she can heal you to death, meaning you have to remove zombify and the statuses in order to survive and progress. But her secondary tactic is to cast megadeath on the party and kill everyone who isn't already a zombie, so you have to leave people zombified to survive. But if you leave people zombified she'll inflict them with status effects and kill them with healing. But if you cure or prevent zombie she'll inflict death and kill them, so they need to be zombies. But they'll die if they're zombies. But they'll die if they aren't zombies. But they'll die if

@ThundagaT2 20 дней назад

Reflect prevents her from killing you with heal spells lol. Coincidentally her counters remove every buff EXCEPT Reflect and Regen. You just need to be able to outdamage how much HP she'll be getting from the reflected magic.

@corpussakahagi2116 18 дней назад

Esuna doesn't remove Zombie in Final Fantasy X. You have to use an item called a Holy Water to remove Zombie.

@Veladus 17 дней назад

There's a raid boss in FF14 that does this too, where you have to eat the zombification on purpose. Bodies everywhere, every time.

@ThundagaT2 17 дней назад

@@Veladus There's also Ultima in FF12 that does Holyja which hits the whole party with Reverse, then she attempts to cast Renew on the whole party. While that doesnt kill, it does leave you with 1 HP, combined with her HP Sap field effect if its the current one (she cycles through all of them), it can wipe your party lol.

@mokrah3632 16 дней назад

The worst part about it is, if you didnt know the damage of your Aeons, she outright banishes them. But if you do, you can kill her in between p2->3 and have the Aeon take the Megadeath for you.

@Duckman8213 21 день назад

Yunalesca. I started that fight at 11 pm hoping to be done by midnight but was playing till 2 am.

@Nexus-Flare 21 день назад

I started it at 10pm and ended at 12am😂

@Duckman8213 21 день назад

@@Nexus-Flare over the past year since may 2023 I have played and gotten the platinum trophy on FF1-10, 10-2, 12, 13, 13-2, 16, 7 Remake/Rebirth, Type-0, Crisis Core and Strangers of Paradise. Currently starting Lightning Returns right now as we speak. Getting ready for FF14 on the PS5. Really enjoying the franchise a lot. But yeah FF10 was probably the hardest one I’ve played because of a lot of annoying enemies and bosses. Just new to start and platinum Lightning returns and then FF15 and I’m done with all FF games I set out to play which is about 22 games in total.

@tophfb 21 день назад

@@Duckman8213hopefully you’re able to add tactics and tactics advanced in the future!

@ringobats 21 день назад

@@Duckman8213nice work! I only ever platinum’d ff10. The grind part of it was interesting in retrospect. I distinctly remember save scumming and grinding dark yojimbo for some great armor pieces. I did skip penance and nemesis with yojimbo though. Good luck with your platinum journey!

@Duckman8213 21 день назад

@@tophfb playing that on an emulator on my phone when not home at the PlayStation

@crazymulatto8981 20 дней назад

When I fought Yunalesca the first time she completely wiped me out in the 3rd phase of the battle with Mega-Death. I honestly never saw that coming and she has to be one of the harder Final Fantasy fights in general because if your not prepared, she'll completely destroy you

@marhawkman303 18 дней назад

Honeslty? I think the first boss that ever properly just handed me my ass.... was Shin-Ryu. In FF4 you have a few treasure chests that have unique traps.... opening them triggers a boss fight. And this one loves to spam elemental AoEs. Thus to win you need not only good armor ratigns... but also resistance or immunity to both fire and WATER. Yeah.... he casts Tidal wave on you... and that REALLY hurts. Ok, it's LESS painful that his atomic heat beam, but still painful.

@natedeezy1652 6 дней назад

My best friend who I call my brother is 6 years older than me & showed me this game when I was a kid. His Mom had got him a ps2 but no memory card so for a week he left the console on & made it all the way to Yunalesca 3rd phase without dying. Needless to say he still has PTSD from MegaDeath & got a memory card shortly after lol

@asham868 21 день назад

Yunalesca was the first boss ever in final fantasy that made me grind in order to beat it. Everything else had been easy up until that point (seymour flux made me reload a couple times, but i didnt need to grind). I remember grinding Wakka up to the point where he was just a powerhouse carrying the whole time with shear damage.

@michaelconnell1010 20 дней назад

I remember having trouble with the Gafgarion fight until a friend told me “(before starting the stage) Just take all of his equipment off him and change Gafgarion’s job to Chemist.”

@Veladus 17 дней назад

90s problems require 90s solutions

@dirrdevil 16 дней назад

Yep, this was a fun trick to employ on any sus guest character.

@adammatlack4667 14 дней назад

How low can you get? I love it!

@MrEvilbyte 20 дней назад

My near foolproof strat for Yunalesca (which I lifted from some guide somewhere), no Zombie or death protection needed. > Bring in Tidus (for Cheer), Yuna (for Reflect and maybe Holy). 3rd member can be whoever (probably Wakka or Auron). > Before you attack, set up Reflect on all 3 (you have nothing to fear from Yunalesca's status ailments or healing spells while you're zombied). Tidus meanwhile casts Cheer 5 times. > Just keep attacking, until you're about to beat her 2nd form. If needed, heal from Zombie so you can heal yourself with potions. Let Yunalesca zombie you again before finishing her 2nd form. > Keep attacking until she bites it. If Yuna has Holy, now's a good time to start spamming it. > If Yunalesca bounces Regen onto herself, you might want to Dispel it. > Bonus points if you have Bahamut in Overdrive, or can Grand Summon Bahamut. Use this to finish off her 3rd form to get an Overkill (getting you multiple lv4 Key Spheres in the process). > Or use some other attack capable of doing more then 9999 damage for Overkill (probably one of Tidus' Overdrives).

@IceQueen975 20 дней назад

When Yunalesca's 3rd form showed up I literally went "OH MY GOD, HOLY SHIT!!!" out loud. *Terrifying*

@MarcelisKhaldern 15 дней назад

"Now! This is it! Now is the time to choose! Die and be free of pain or live and fight your sorrow! Now is the time to shape your stories! Your fate is in your hands!"

@jamiephilip79 20 дней назад

Dude with Yunalesca's fight I literally had to be a strategist

@S1EEPLES5 21 день назад

The thumbnail really knows how to pull me

@sparrowhawk2860 21 день назад

Whenever possible, ALWAYS HAVE MULTIPLE SAVE FILES!!! Not to excuse bad design, it's just a good idea.

@daviddalrymple2284 20 дней назад

This was always a tricky proposition on the PS1, though, with those 15-slot memory cards.

@sparrowhawk2860 20 дней назад

@@daviddalrymple2284 True. I used to keep a single memory card just for whatever rpg I was playing at the time.

@unknownuser494 20 дней назад

Tactics ogre Luct and fft really requires multiple save.

@sparrowhawk2860 19 дней назад

@@unknownuser494 Absolutely!

@adammatlack4667 14 дней назад

Seriously, that was my aha moment for multiple game saves.

@ShadowProject01 18 дней назад

Funny enough Seymour Flux and Yunalesca have the same boss fight music. So whenever I hear this theme I would get ready for a difficult fight.😂

@adammatlack4667 14 дней назад

Makes sense, the theme is called "Challenge".

@ytmndman 19 дней назад

What confuses me about Pandemonium Warden is that if a group tried for 18 hours and failed to beat it, how could anyone be expected to beat it in only 2 hours?

@Nebin20 14 дней назад

Iirc, balancing and an later increased level cap. Another boss around that time was Absolute Virtue, and that too had the issue that players could not legitimately beat the boss originally. Only this time, it was because the boss had powerful spells and huge regen. Manykudos did a video talking about this in more detail. m.ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-ydO58rfQk4E.html&pp=ygUJbWFueWt1ZG9z

@mythos6308 21 день назад

I will forever be scared by Lady Yunalensca I literally spent two hours fighting her just to lose when she had about 500 health left because she suddenly got to do 5 moves in a row

@finalfantasy1912 21 день назад

I somehow only lost to Yunalesca once. I spammed the fuck out of Holy over and over and had a final Aeon attack the second time and beat her.

@Blknamor 21 день назад

Yunalesca took me out twice before I took her down but it was a lengthy battle because my first play through I didn’t get holy till literally after that battle 🤣

@user-wt7rm1ze3i 20 дней назад

I remember on PS2 and fighting her used to drive me nuts, I eventually found out that Mega Death does nothing to you if you are still zombified, I was shocked when I realized what happened, after that and I played it again, I started power leveling because I wasn't going through that crap again a second time lmao

@Blknamor 20 дней назад

@@user-wt7rm1ze3i I totally understand

@beckyweiss6072 20 дней назад

Maybe it was sheer dumb luck, but I don't remember needing multiple tries to beat Yunalesca. Perhaps 2? Something I did notice with her is that the moment I put Auron in my party, she was *ruthless* towards him. It made me simultaneously pissed off and impressed with the devs. I am absolutely convinced that the devs telegraphed Yunalesca to bully Auron in the fight if you have him in your party. Whenever I was cursing a blue streak at Yunalesca, it was because she targeted Auron 9 times out of 10.

@noahhobson4521 21 день назад

Zodiark from Final Fantasy XII. Some bosses can put up palings and become immune to physical attacks. Some bosses can put up magick wards and become immune to magical attacks. Zodiark can do both simultaneously. He also starts the fight with a dark elemental instant death attack, his elemental weakness is constantly shifting and he has over three hundred and thirty thousand hit points to chew through.

@escahfaidhe755 21 день назад

The paling bit is awful with him. I remember fighting his last 10% of hp for like 8 minutes because he kept putting up palings

@Degnique 21 день назад

yesss FF12 mentioned! Zodiark can be such a pain to deal with, holy fook. If you dispel his reflect the dude's just straight up flips the table on you and shoots you with everything he has just for good measure. lmao opal rings vs him were a must in all my playthroughs

@ReksVolstgalph 21 день назад

Yeah, the trick is to end the fight as soon as possible. With the right setup, it is possible to finish him off in less than 1 minute. But damn it destroyed me so many times before I figured it out.

@steveozone4910 21 день назад

Zodiark is easy when you know how he works. But yeah the first few attempts can be a pain 😂

@caitm4138 21 день назад

Zodiark is my last Esper, and I've been level grinding on and off for almost a year trying to beat him. I just can't get that last sliver of health!

@jamesmayo9533 16 дней назад

This is a public safety announcement: Yunalesca is made trivial with the "eater" abilities (fire eater, water eater, etc.) You hit yourself with waterga and heal yourself for that much damage.

@asmodeusml 20 дней назад

If I would single out an unfair fight from FF7 Rebirth, it would be Alexander & Odin one, especially on hard mode. It is so frustrating to deal with them both at the same time, even when you know what you are supposed to do, and if you get unlucky and take too many hits, Odin might wipe you anyway.

@Duckman8213 21 день назад

I absolutely hated fighting Rufus in rebirth on Hardmode. I abused level 3 limit break while continuously blocked to build up the charge.

@stephenb3026 21 день назад

That was the only way I could beat him too😂

@sunnyblack3359 21 день назад

Same but try to land a braver command on this mf as soon as he is reloading. Rufus will get an instant choc state and you will get the biggest dopamine hit you'd ever felt while gaming. I was literally laughing like a villain when it happened

@jesset1762 21 день назад

@@sunnyblack3359 I swear I tried braver, asses says one move will do it but not which one. In remake it was triple slash.

@sunnyblack3359 21 день назад

@@jesset1762 You have to hit it as soon as he starts to reload i typically spam the command menu to slow down time to see what he is about to do so that i can catch him asap, triple slash is also the strat in rebirth, it's more reliable and more consistent but it will only give you a pressured state. Sometimes you can even use Cloud basic attack and if he is far, he will leap towards him fast enough to catch him but it doesn't always work. Using triple slash is the most viable strategy don't get me wrong, but the braver tech is more like a cool little secret high risk high reward thing you don't have to feel forced to do at all.

@Raiyu3169 18 дней назад

There's actually a pretty simple strategy you can use against him. You can triple slash him, when he follows up a dash with an attack. It cancels his attack and leaves him open for a series of combos. Just do a full combo, dodge and combo again, until he counters. Build up your limit and save it. When Darkstar shows up, just continue focusing on Rufus. Stagger him and use your limit. If he's not beaten, then he'll be pretty close

@crimsonmaelstrom573 21 день назад

I saw the title and was like: “Do you have any idea how little that narrows it down?”

@dogoku 21 день назад

The dark aeon summoners ambushing you in FFX. Killed off a 90h save

@bobjoemac1 21 день назад

For real. I had no idea they were a thing when I played the ps3 remaster. Went back to besaid and was destroyed in no time at all... and I had no problem and was probably over leveled throughout the whole game. But that dark summon destroyed me instantly.

@dogoku 21 день назад

@@bobjoemac1 same here but this was on my original run on PS2. I went back to Besaid because I didn't get the upgrade for Valefor (Energy Blast overdrive) from the dogo in the village. The 2nd time was the magus sisters. Stupid dark aeons... I was only 15, I had no idea about optimizing my party, I had no chance against them.

@adammatlack4667 14 дней назад

Yeah, Mushroom Rock Road was scary to traverse.

@bayardkyyako7427 10 дней назад

If you were 90h in then it wasn't killed you were just caught off guard. The time you can face most dark aeons is after the airship anyways, so you can just do the endgame grind a bit early, since you'd have to grind anyways as even the easiest dark aeon is harder than all the sin fights pre-entering.

@yuantheblue 19 дней назад

My brother is undoubtedly one of many who hit the Gafgarion softlock. he still talks about it from time to time :D

@adammatlack4667 14 дней назад

Same.

@Freefall347 День назад

I thought he was going to mention the Weigraff fight, because I think the game prompts you to save right before hand, so if Ramza isn't up for the fight, you're completely screwed, and Weigraff is way tougher than Gafgarion. Oh, and then he changes into Velius and summons a bunch of demons. Nice.

@TearDownGenesis 17 дней назад

That Weigraf fight in FFT was the first time I cheated in a game. Bought a Gameshark. Its because I used custom characters for Ramza was not leveled that much so getting a sudden 1v1 with him, having saved, as I had always done in games up to that point, was ... memorable.

@Freefall347 День назад

Yeah, springing a sudden boss fight like that is cheap as hell. I thought that was the one they were actually going to be talking about in the vid; the Gafgarion one is kind of messed up too, but I just don't remember ever having quite the same problem with it.

@zachariahsmith9130 19 дней назад

You attack rufus with an weapon ability the moment you see an attack name come up. It will break his attack.

@user-wt7rm1ze3i 20 дней назад

I can't tell you how many times I died fighting against the Monster House in FFVII Remake, on Hard Mode it was an endurance test at least for me at the time, as for Barthandelus and Orphan in FFXIII, I hated those bosses, especially Barthandelus and his recurring boss battles (Azi Dahaka made me rage so many times)

@adammatlack4667 14 дней назад

Agreed, I'm not sure if I ever five-star'd Barthandelus.

@DrStunJosh 21 день назад

Geomancer Ramza against Gaffgarion is also fairly easy to use as you can status him on rocky or grassy terrain (IIRC). Other option I've used on him (and Wiegraf) is to use Monk with far movement and having already unlocked Chakra, Aurablast, and Shockwave.

@franimal86 21 день назад

Double punch as monk against Wiegraf is a guaranteed one-hit kill when it lands. Still my favorite strategy to this day.

@XSAGA87 20 дней назад

@@franimal86On both his forms?!?!?

@guestguest5716 20 дней назад

@XSAGA87 I can confirm this, ninjas two weapon ability plus being a monk sometimes let me punch for up to 400+ damage per punch without even increasing strength(guts ability focus or accumulate, I don't remember if Ramzas has a different name). Plus monk Chakra, revive, and purify are amazing, and ramza having tailwind, steel, and shout later only made it even stronger

@DrStunJosh 20 дней назад

@@guestguest5716 once you get Shout in Ch. 4, Ramza becomes almost a perfect flex dps unit. Shout on his first turn and go to town on anyone.

@guestguest5716 20 дней назад

@@DrStunJosh this, and especially if you got blade grasp/iaido from samurai as well, since with 100 brave anything physical just could not hit you, and if you lower faith enough for Ramza, magic does almost nothing

@saladinboss2507 21 день назад

Damn. I knew there was a reason I avoided the Hell out of Omega in XV!

@ajflink 10 дней назад

I think he may be the only enemy immune to the Ring. Final Fantasy XVI feels like it has an iteration of Omega that is challenging without BS resistances.

@caseyp3879 16 дней назад

I had a harder time getting stuck under leveled for the Wiegraf/Velius (Belias) fight and getting save locked out with no choice but to retstart the whole game

@drewtheunspoken3988 21 день назад

Rufus was a difficult fight. They key, however, was using either "counterstance" or perfect parry. That would create an opening to press an attack. Steangely, I thought the fight against Rufus got easier once Darkstar got involved. It could be a little tricky but Darkstar was far easier to deal with and Rufus seems to be less tricky once Darkstar is removed.

@franimal86 21 день назад

Yeah, Darkstar at least let’s you attack and charge up your ATB quickly

@MrEsarty 21 день назад

The other key is using triple slash to interrupt any ‘block able’ attack as soon as he calls them out. Still requires timing but not as bad as perfect timing blocks. Can build up enough limit gage to make phase 2 short with a cross slash

@Monty2289 20 дней назад

Rufus sucks because attrition not necessarily difficulty since they give you tricks to win. Probably to many. Rufus is dificult in that you can't mash Square to win but he can be attacked while using an ability that's not reload. Some of his abilities have end lag like Guns Akimbo or Bright Lights. His first phase was just made to be as stupid as possible. The attrition part applies to him just getting stray hits some of which will knock you down. You are technically right in that Counterstance and PP will rectify this and stop his follow up ability but well....Square Enix can't make a good parry mechanic to save their lives. Additionally whenever Rufus' connection to Darkstar is severed he'll be forced to use Heel and when Darkstar enters he uses Heel to reign him in. If you have limit you can attack him here and just auto win.

@marhawkman303 18 дней назад

@@MrEsarty That sounded like a Dark Souls boss fight strategy guide. :D

@MrEsarty 18 дней назад

@@marhawkman303 patience and adaptation is the name of the game~

@tcrobot 20 дней назад

Yunalesca channelled the power of Dave Mustaine.

@ultimaaxe 19 дней назад

The random red chocobo hoard battles is the most unfair battle in tactics. Even coming across a hoard of yellow chocobos early game can be a complete nightmare if they manage to ball up together.

@georgehouliaras7239 21 день назад

Gilgamesh in 13-2 was ridiculous. You stagger him and he hits you with every debuff imaginable.

@daviddalrymple2284 21 день назад

That FF 13-2 monster arena just loved bringing back all your favorite joke bosses from classic FF games, and having them totally wreck Serah and Noel.

@georgehouliaras7239 21 день назад

@@daviddalrymple2284 True but they were very OP once you obtain them. Especially Omega. I think he was the best Commando alongside Knight of Etro Lightning.

@RPsj 21 день назад

I agree, I never managed to beat him, not even at max level

@marhawkman303 18 дней назад

@@georgehouliaras7239 reminds me of the Malboros in FFX-2 and their "Bad Breath" attack.... poisoned, burning, blinded, silenced... etc..... they're not really even bosses.!

@MadameTeqi 15 дней назад

Huh. This is silly as all get out, and probably explained, but do you figure that's a reference to his Genji Armor stolen off of him in his debut game V negating those effects?

@UltimusTerminus 19 дней назад

I beat Yunalesca on my first attempt .... which took 40 minutes. At least she and Seymour Flux have a banger of an OST to go along with the fight.

@frankiemcgoo941 17 дней назад

Still remember keeping an eye on Yunelesca's hp value till it hit right around where a megaflare from bahamut would end her. Spent far too long in that fight and took a break from playing over it too.

@bw8685 19 дней назад

I sold everything just to buy 3 cherub crowns because of the instant kill from Orphan in 13. The fight was needlessly ridiculous.

@ViewTube_Emperor_of_Mankind 21 день назад

I wish that back in the days they made the "Dark King" in FF Mystic Quest completely unbeatable by normal magic and make him only beatable by using the "Heal/Res" spell. That would've been quite interesting.

@adammatlack4667 14 дней назад

Right, the heal spells are the only way to go.

@buddah1978egypt 20 дней назад

Pandemonium warden also spawned tons of ads per stage

@sesshomarusama420 20 дней назад

I was there. 3000 years ago. Still am too.

@adammatlack4667 14 дней назад

I remember when the vom was first reported.

@migicalmerwee9018 9 дней назад

Another issue I had with Omega in 15 was accidentally leaving the arena. The fight moves around if it goes on long enough, and it becomes difficult to know where the borders of the fight are. I would go do dodge an attack or get some distance to heal, and accidentally retreat from the fight, restoring its HP.

@lilsunny7399 8 дней назад

I remember as a kid, i managed to somehow reach Yunalesca. I'd beaten Seymour Flux with the power of Bio but Yunalesca was a different beast alltogether. I tried for like, a solid week. Every morning before school i'd take a shot at her. when i finally did it i was so happy.....that i left the Zanarkand Dome without the Sun Crest and because i was on the PAL version of the game, Dark Bahamut was there.

@Caluben 20 дней назад

That's funny to hear about Pandemonium Warden taking 18 hours and being unable to beat it because players were fainting/vomiting for playing for so long when the newest Raid in Destiny 2 that just came out also took 18 hours for a team to beat and players were still going afterwards and not one story about that happening came out.

@doihavetobeg 17 дней назад

Different kind of game and raid, I think. Destiny raids tend to be a huge number of repeats of a relatively short action sequence to defeat a boss/clear a gauntlet. It's the slight fuck ups which force a wipe/reset that prolong the raid. Also, there's a lot more movement and action involved. The FF one looks like it's a standard MMO raid boss with tons of health where you stand around, repeat the same sequence of skill/item uses and maybe move out of red zones. It also look like it might be an epilepsy trigger with the constant color flashes from skills.

@bayardkyyako7427 10 дней назад

Destiny also isn't an MMO rpg so it's going to be a bit easier on the eyes and brain just because FPS games are made to be that way anyways.

@civilwildman 11 дней назад

Note: You can actually save Kain from paralysis and dying in that fight against Golbez, at least in the original 2D version. Have him use Jump in that fight just before he uses that paralysis ability and again just before the Black Dragon uses that instant death ability. Presto! No need to revive him. Tested it on both the SNES and PS1 ports; it works. 😃

@MoonMagicks 21 день назад

That FFVII Rebirth fight was BS. I died so many times on that fight.

@Seru_Omen 11 дней назад

My problem with Gafgarion was never beating him with Ramza- it was my team getting absolutely wiped out by summoners without Ramza's help.

@CassidyListon 21 день назад

Without watching the video, im hoping he includes Wrexsoul from FF6. I was never able to beat that fight fair and sauare. I always had to use the vanish + x zone trick.

@Combaticon 21 день назад

Odin in VII Rebirth. Hated him the first time for his BS move of Zantetsuken when previous experience with other summons was to just tank and heal the damage (even after finding all the shrines) and still hated him even after doing To Be a Hero and Bonds of Friendship (as he often ended up being the source of so much time being wasted trying to complete Johnny's collection).

@georgehater8370 21 день назад

He is not bad when you get to understand his movement but the fact that he always comes out so late in challenges and that he can insta kill when you have low resources He is not that bad but only bad giving in certain challenges ( Zack sucks) and conditions that make him extremely wors

@guestguest5716 20 дней назад

I won't lie, I hated bonds of friendship because of both this and bahamut, mainly because like you said, Zack kinda sucks. But Cloud is actually pretty decent against Odin if you put a protect on him and go into the punisher stance, and use the punisher stances auto counter ability while you guard, it does wonders against odin

@gregburts4630 3 дня назад

it's been over 20 years... and I've never had a problem with the Yunalesca or Seymour Flux battle

@DerickClark-nu9mk 8 дней назад

My first playthrough I got decimated by Seymour and yunalesca. My 2nd playthrough I grinded between each boss fights, leveling about an hour or so. Coming back to these fights the second time and knowing their attacks I'd one shot them. That was the samr playthrough where I got all the characters to max there sphere grids, got all the celestial weapons, pretty much all characters did 99,999 dmg any attack on any boss. Beat all the dark aeons except the magus sisters. I was trying to max out my characters luck but kept running out of luck spheres and grinding for them took forever. So I never fought penance, want to revisit that playthrough though to completely 100% the game

@Typical.Anomaly 21 день назад

The number of times I've had to defeat CalBrina because Golbez annihilated my party right after... probably at least 20. It's bc he knows I'mma cast 'Warp' right after to get the Earth Crystal and skip the Sealed Cave lol

@daviddalrymple2284 21 день назад

Yeah. Even if Cecil is still alive, it's not a trivial battle. Golbez's spells hit hard, Rydia is very fragile and very slow...

@Typical.Anomaly 21 день назад

@@daviddalrymple2284 Back in the mid-90s, I levelled Rydia up to around 70 before the Leviatan (sic) attack. When I got Rydia, _Rosa and Kain_ back, they were _all_ around 70. That save file hit 99:59 before I got her that high too lol

@bobjoemac1 21 день назад

That fight and the demon wall were by far the hardest fights of my childhood. No other boss fight on the snes rpg Era came close.

@veghesther3204 20 дней назад

I could do that but its just best To SOLO LV Paladin Cecil TO LV 40 on Mt Ordeals THEN to LV 70 BEFORE The magus sisters bosses. BUT the WARP Trick is only on the SNES/PS1 version the GBA and Pixel FF4 the game won't even allow you to USE the spell after the dolls + Golbez battle at all. But if you DO the warp trick still KILL Ashura and Leviathan while Kain IS still playable and he won't be if you enter the Sealed Cave if you do the Warp Trick on the SNES and PS1 version to skip it.

@obsidianblack7249 21 день назад

The Judge of wings fight that takes place in the volcano in revenant wings. Its mainly difficult due to the fact you have to fight Chaos first and then the judge immediately after with little to no down time between the fights and you also have to deal with the other enemy units as well.

@snuggie1849 21 день назад

To this day i still consider that the hardest story fight in any final fantasy. If you send all the main characters at level 99 against her she can still beat you. Obviously with summons you win easily but still. That fight devolves into having the main character run away as flying units attack her.

@obsidianblack7249 21 день назад

@@snuggie1849 The Odin fight where Penelo is no-op is also difficult. Revenant wings is just a weird game. The game does deserve more recognition for better and worse.

@snuggie1849 21 день назад

@@obsidianblack7249 i lost the tutorial fight so yeah that game is hard. I eventually learned the game to the point where i had maybe 20 runs through midlights deep and i got the ultimate sword upgraded to the point vaan can solo almost anything

@obsidianblack7249 21 день назад

@@snuggie1849 then you have made it farther than me. I'm only slightly past the volcano fight and am feeling drained after that encounter

@snuggie1849 20 дней назад

@@obsidianblack7249 well its the hardest fight in the story unless you do all missions. If you can beat the judge you can beat the game

@ZiggyMandarr 21 день назад

I had the entire sequence ahead of Yunalesca seared into my mind for years.

@bujkaizack 21 день назад

Rufus came with a learning curve, I wish more bosses in rebirth were like that

@mattsully2238 21 день назад

Hey, ever heard of zombie status? No?! Neat. Have an entire major boss battle featuring it -ffx

@silentumbra1366 21 день назад

Tbf the boss in the underwater section of bevelle had zombie as well as the guards throughout the stadium in zanarkand

@silentumbra1366 21 день назад

Also the first time it's used on the player is the battle with Seymour on gagazette

@silentumbra1366 21 день назад

It still doesn't make yunalesca any less frustrating, even if I know her moves

@mattsully2238 21 день назад

Fair, but most people aren't paying that close of attention. So when yunalesca does her thing most are taken by surprise

@veghesther3204 20 дней назад

I have its just that in some FF games as soon as the ENTIRE party is zombied = GAME over though FFX is NOT one of them you won't get a game over if you zombie everyone in FF8 either but that spell in FF8 is pure crap anyways.

@K2813 21 день назад

The grind before I fought Yunalesca, I had to actually go online to find ways to fight against her! Never really had to do that before for a Final Fantasy game.. before her at least

@tattooitachi9424 17 дней назад

Crazy yunalesca was a pretty fun fight for me every play thru lol . First play thru I was a kid so maybe not then . Longest it took me was prolly like 4 tries . That dragon you fight when tryna get the thing for Anima in zanarkand was way harder for me but that also took me like 3 tries .

@adrianomp1895 5 дней назад

Having played FF11 for over a decade, I can say that MANY of its bosses are harder than every single other mentioned in this video. Pandemonium Warden and Absolute Virtue were just the most infamous and cheap bosses of them, but others like Dynamis Lord, Diabolos, the Divine Might crew, Omega+Ultima, Jailer of Love, the wyrms (Nidhogg, Tiamat, Vrtra) were, also, forces to be reckoned with, requiring discipline, teamwork and some luck to beat. Best FF ever.

@KresusFIN 16 дней назад

Rufus in FF7 Rebirth easymode: Cast Gorgon Shield from Enemy Skill. Rufus is now pressured after literally every move he makes.

@Te_N_ 6 дней назад

Missing out on the Behemoth from Final Fantasy Mystic Quest - The very first fight in the game (tutorial boss) that could two-shot you, or otherwise just kill you if you get even slightly unlucky.

@thatonecomicbookguy 21 день назад

Rufus in Rebirth (& Remake) was so brutal. I managed to beat him on my first try, but it wasn’t a satisfying victory.

@doubletee1320 11 дней назад

While i will always think wiegraf in fft was the biggest break from me (being i had to reload as i was underleveled and this is a multi battle area), gaffer was also rude because the party layout was backwards. Meaning if you are used to putting mages & ranged in back row, the map flips them and is in front row. In front of knights, archers, etc.

@jerodcraig8898 21 день назад

I brought red chocobos to the gafgarion fight. They can jump to the top of the gate and choco meteor is op.

@01bullbl 21 день назад

Tactics has like 3 different mean bosses. Elmdore, weigraf, and gafgarion. All 3 are probably harder than the last few bosses.

@beelor5777 14 дней назад

While yunalesca was hard you could grind and eventually overpower her. Weigraf on the other hand, felt like a scripted lost but then you see the game over. Forcing you to restart the whole game because you were a kid and didnt know about multiple saves so you had the 1 save while inside the castle and you lost to weigraf time after time. Throwing controllers across the room because you felt cheated.

@Foxiebuttercup 15 дней назад

I Beat Yunalesca my first try😁 ,although i'm a little fuzzy on the specifics. It was hard and i thought it was impossible until i gave up trying to keep zombie off of everyone and stopped trying to keep everyone at high hp. Instead i focused on healing, cleansing, and reflecting one or two party members at a time while attacking using the others then letting them die. When everyone else went down i just popped a mega phoenix (team revive) and if i only had one person alive and they had zombie i still used a mega phoenix to revive everyone else while that party member died and revived them again all while chipping away at her health with one or two members at a time. Basically i'm glad i farmed over 100 mega phoenixes before i fought her and remember a reliable way to clear zombie is through death for death cures all ailments 😇

@gbode2443 8 дней назад

The Cape Westwind duty from FFXIV in which you face down the legendary Rihtahtyn sas Arvina was the toughest boss ive ever faced. Honestly makes shadow of the erdtree look like a tutorial. Devs had to remove it because a large influx of players during endwalker were all getting to it and wiping over and over draining the servers with thousands more instances than normal. Its been replaced with a solo fight that while alright lacks the heaven shattering intensity of the old Cape Westwind. Thinking about the many weeks of attempts before i got past keeps me up at night even today...

@kingsylver4428 13 дней назад

Honestly I didn’t find yunalesca difficult as a kid I beat her on my 1st try. Seymour however that 2/3rd fight I struggled and quit for a while fighting him

@o-shawnspecific80 6 дней назад

The slow piano music really sells the unfairness of these fights.

@jashinsamael 20 дней назад

If we going to the mobile game territory, The Rumble of Malboro trial against 'super' Great Marlboro and it's two babies is probably the hardest in FFBE during release. While it now can be easily cleared due to powercreep, but back then, it was near impossible, even with cheese strategy it still insanely hard. Not only the Marlboro has insane def which you can neutralize it for 2 turns by killing all of it's babies at the same turn, you have to repeat the process again every 2 turns. That aside, you will have to deal with many status effects, and if any of the babies survive under 10% hp, it will trigger explosion. Another memorable one is Aigaion, during release it was notorious for being time consuming. Even players with meta characters need hours to beat it at that time.

@TearDownGenesis 17 дней назад

What game is the very first clip from? Is it FF16, I've never seen it before and that's the only FF I haven't played (of the main numbers).

@user-ki4no3ly5 17 дней назад

The thumbnail got me

@hathus5536 14 дней назад

Any of the Zodiac bosses from Tactics could be here as well..if you didn't know what to expect and were not leveling up, the Zodiac bosses could be brutal.

@user-yd4rv5tn8c 20 дней назад

Rufus is immune to most status effects apart from maybe deprotect, deshell, debrave, defaith. But he's super easy once you get used to his normal attack patterns, when to block, and when he's using ATB. Whenever he uses ATB. interrupt with triple slash. Darkstar is a nonfactor. He rarely attacks, and rufus is at 40% in phase 2. If you build up his pressure gauge before the cut scene, you can stagger pretty fast. Then infinity's end or limit break to finish him off.

@tylerrobertson6228 18 дней назад

First encounter with Yunalesca was ridiculous 😂 but once you do it again and know how she works it’s so easy

@axlefoley6330 21 день назад

I’ve completed XV so many times and defeated Omega as many times. How the hell did I not know to use the Royal Arms and I’ve never seen that beam attack.

@zidaryn 20 дней назад

That Gafagarian one hits for me. My first time playing FFT I made Ramza a self insert and made him a White Mage. Got to that fight and ended up having to restart my game. Made Ramza a Monk for my next playthrough.

@chrisdillon8376 19 дней назад

With Gafgarion, Chakra with Move HP up, while the rest of your party gains JP outside of the castle walls!

@truesoprano2152 20 дней назад

I don't think I've ever struggled with any FF boss as much as I have with Seymour Flux and Yunalesca. I feel like I was stuck on them for days when I first played. The raid bosses in MMOs are a different kind of difficulty though since you have to coordinate with other people and either be at the risk of static drama or the inconsistincy of party finder. Fortunately at least in XIV the hard ones aren't required to progress the story.

@dragonlord45461 20 дней назад

so the fight with Golbez has a bit of rng to it if at any point the shadow targets Cecil with its insta kill move its a guaranteed party wipe as Cecil must be alive to trigger Rydia entering the battle so and then its a pain getting the party back up to fighting while Golbez is hammering you with party wide third tier spells

@Smokyjohnson1983 6 дней назад

“Unfair bosses” Would you be talking about how Demons Gate gets about 335000 attacks off before you can even break wind… oh and petrifies you just for an additional laugh? (Before I discovered Great Gospel that is, shoe is on the other foot now 😜)

@thecrimsonmeteor 20 дней назад

For the sake of freshness, I'm going to share an alternative pick for ffxi and it's the shadow lord (specifically in the 50 cap era and global launch window) The shadow lord becomes completely immune to one damage type, meaning if you didn't have the right party comp (or a monk with their 2 hour off cooldown) the boss became unbeatable. Combine this with all the era difficulties and it would take hours to days to get another attempt at it

@NPDStudio 21 день назад

Yunalesca scared me every replay

@backupnoname 10 дней назад

Yunalesca was too easy, but I also had all the Aeons and legendary weapons. I grinded like a madman. Griever gave some trouble though.

@tedds1000 16 дней назад

I very much agree with Rufus Shinra being seriously frustrating. His attack combos tended to hit almost every time at least once and then it removed my chance to hit. Thankfully I had stocked up with max healing items available in the store by then, since I had to use over half of them on him.

@christiandelcarmen1278 20 дней назад

By cheap, I thought you meant "I killed them with an exploit". Because I would 100 percent put any boss with Zombie status. Doom train? Phoenix down. The underwater Exuvia fight? Phoenix down. Magic Meister from ff6? Reflect Ring+Rage Umaro, Celes just spamming runic whenever, Mog dancing to spam White Wind kinda makes the entire fight a non issue...

@DrkShd 10 дней назад

wait, no mention for FF14? you can take any boss from delubrum reginae and put it in here, failing boss mechanic 2 time and you will be dead, in savage mode you can't even get revive and straightly kick out of dungeon

@JoshuaVerscha 21 день назад

Future recommendation, Ff14, the masked carnivale #29 or 31. I’m partially disabled and am constantly left out of other blue mage events due to not having either of these completed.

@bayardkyyako7427 10 дней назад

I hate those events where you can't beat them, especially if it's a one time event for a great reward, you just feel like shit for not getting it especially if you put a lot of time into that. Never got past the intro of 14, too much bullshit for me.

@quinkelly1441 10 дней назад

This is why I stock 50 of each healing item and status effect items

@cylesteasunrise3199 18 дней назад

Ultamacia in 8 took me 3 hours to kill

@Evilriku13 21 день назад

Was Absolute Virtue from FFXI already mentioned in this list' past?

@moelupin4630 13 дней назад

pandemonium warden, but before that absolute virtue, was impossible to defeat, took several years, and abused dark night with kraken club to cheese the fight

@tpar83 21 день назад

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@kyoko16 8 дней назад

Final fantasy tactics advance 1 was the most frustrating game in bosses fights LOL but it was interresting, it lives up to it's name

@SuperReddragon90 21 день назад

I had to cheese a summon out before Darkstar to beat Rufus

@craigburns4577 21 день назад

Dude, that saved me so much. The summon kept them unlinked with attacks. I hated fighting Rufus. I got stuck on him in remake. I was dreading up to this fight in Rebirth, knowing it was going to come.

@mattwestrick6088 18 дней назад

As a gamer, I love your content. As a pc gamer, I very much appreciate the spoiler tag for rebirth. Thank you!

@thumbhead3370 20 дней назад

Rebirth Sephiroth I think had some pretty shit mechanics. This fight is just a series of Sephiroth starting 10 second countdowns you have to interrupt with very little skill involved. It's just dodging and waiting to use your ATB gauges on his wing over and over again for like 10 minutes all to see if you can maneuver perfectly to survive the last 5 seconds. I swear to god I could get to The End Is Nigh in my fucking sleep at this point, but it's literally just a tossup if you actually succeed. Even if you survive Octoslash, the game loves its instakill countdowns so fucking much that he instantly launches into another one just to make sure you're dead. And then you can't skip the god damn cutscene if you fail.

@Malacite 20 дней назад

OMG PW was such a pain. Yeah the group that infamously attempted it was Beyond The Limit, the best linkshell on my home server of Seraph (now merged into Bismarck) That thing was the absolute height of BS alongside AV. Worst of all, I think it was required to complete a Mythic Weapon (well the higher level versions) Honorary mention goes to Shinryu and Omega Weapons in XI, both of whom are supremely cheap even when fully prepared - nothing like popping a Primeval Brew during Shinryu only for him to suddenly change weaknesses and start absorbing your attacks. Rani too... Such a troll boss.

@dragonlord45461 20 дней назад

my first play through of ff 10 Seymoure flux walled after a few tries i said screw it and filled every over drive bar in the party plus the aeons and absolutely flattened him side note it was this battle when i learned that if you summon an aeon with yuna's overdrive it gets two overdrive bars Yunalesca walled me the same way so i did the same to but made sure my active had the zombies as mega death goes through the ribbon death proof ability another wall can be the giant fish boss in the temple where you obtain anima without stone proof that fight is almost impossible because if the boss turns a member of the party to stone they will sink and shatter so you cant revive them

@voidkingofswing5933 20 дней назад

Yunalesca almost made me drop FFX because outside of her fight, you really don't have to worry about getting zombie'd, and with those extra phases of hers that she just pulls out, I really have to say she's one of the worst boss fight's I've ever had in a video game, ever. I spent nearly 30 tries fighting her, and it was pure luck that I had Titus survive after she got a low damage roll. FFx was a trainwreck for me, beginning to end, and I'm still baffled that it's held in the regard that it is.

@abeeocta2599 6 дней назад

With gaffgarion i got lucky with weapon break in psx ver, without weapon cannot use skill

@commander392 16 дней назад

Gamers: "Hey we couldn't take a shit after 18 hours so we went unconscious." Square: "Don't make the boss easier, make it despawn after 2 hours."

@risersin7957 20 дней назад

This video got me thinking what Final Fantasy's have multiple good boss fights? This includes gimmicks, status effects, mechanics, and being fun/thoughtful. I'm sure the MMOs would automatically be on here, but not including those. I'm partial to FF5 and FFX.