7 Cheapest Final Fantasy Bosses Who Just Didn't Play Fair 

So you've seen our list.. but who would make your list when it comes to cheapest Final Fantasy bosses?

10:23 Tactics taught me how to save. You don't just make one save file. No no, you make 3, and alternate saving over them.

re: Magic Master. There was a very interesting mechanic for that entire tower that you missed. Every enemy, including the Magic Master, would die if they ran out of MP. This meant that it was far easier to use your Rasp and Osmose spells when climbing the tower than to use other traditional spells. And because of this mechanic, you could avoid being hit with ultima entirely if rather than reducing his HP to 0, you focused on his MP. Get his MP to zero, he will die, and upon death, he will not have the MP required to cast ultima, meaning that it would not go off. You could make this encounter even easier by casting berserk on the Magic Master at the start of the fight, cutting him off from anything other than physical attacks, then using the Phantom magicite to turn your party invisible, meaning that no attacks would hit you and you could just use Rasp over and over until he died making him probably the easiest boss in the game to cheese outside of the Vanish + Doom exploit.

The dark Aeons in FF10... Jeez the ramp up in difficulty for those guys was brutal! I actually thought at first that they were impossible to best and were just there to stop you going back to certain areas in the game.

If we feel cheated on these hard bosses, imagine all the bosses talking to each other about how players were made to win all boss fights. I bet they all felt cheated as well.

But none of these compare to a single Tonberry.

I still remember my shock when Magimaster wiped my group with ultima after dying. One of the tactics I came up was to use RASP to drain his MP before killing him. It was so good to read "ULTIMA" then "No enough MP"...

Fighting Seymour In FFX Pissed Me Off So Much When I Was Younger, it’s the reason I grind in every rpg I play now

When I played FF9 as a kid and encountered Ozma for the first time, my entire party died to meteor before the fight started. I was confused by this, tried to swap around some skills or something and the same thing happened again. So my thought process was that this was not actually a boss fight, but was just a trap inside the dungeon designed to give you a game over rather than just some hard boss to fight.

I beat Ruby Weapon in FF7 by chance. Cait Sith got his lucky Game Over roll on his limit.

I think what people also had to remember about Wiegraf is that back in the day, you couldn't just rotate saves. Memory cards only had 15 blocks for you to use and you definitely had other games using those 15 blocks (some probably with different saves too). So you didn't think to save over it because you've almost always seen the world map after every battle.

The thing about Ozma that is super cheap is that, no matter what, your victory is never guaranteed. It doesn't matter how high level you are, what gear you have, or what strategy you use. Ozma just has a certain series of moves that cause an unavoidable game over.

There is an alternate way to defeat Magi Master that prevents him from using ultima to begin with. Just spam rasp and destroy his mp, when his mp hits 0 he dies and because his mp is 0 ultima fails.

Yunalesca stage 3 did not play fair. She turns your whole team into zombies and unless you were using a guide, that was killing you

There was an item for Mog in FF VI that reduced the random encounter rate to 0. Forgot its name, but it was hidden in the room where you recruit him. Made the Cultist Tower a breeze.

Always grateful that those games always released a strategy guide starting with 7. I read about Ozma and was really lucky, that it never cast meteor and could beat it the first time around.

What some people haven't realized about Ruby Weapon, is that even if you do the start the battle with one character alive strategy, if you take too long in the fight, it'll cast Whirlsand anyways

8:30 looks like celes is giving the finger

Ah, the bosses that have access to your status sheets and reorganizing itself to beat down your teams.

Everyone saying Wiegraf was the reason for multiple saves. Meanwhile I'm way back having 4 saves trying to beat Gafgarrion

Had several failures through third Seymour, Yunalesca, and Braska’s Final Aeon back in base FFX

Ozma: are you prepared? Player: no! Game Over Ozma: are you prepsred? Player: yes!! Game over Ozma: are you prepared? Player: Hell yeah! Game Over

Ozma was the bane of my existence when I was playing through the first time as a teenager. Years later I went back to play through again and got lucky and beat him - it felt like a giant weight had been lifted off my shoulders 😂

Oooh the rages I had on mt gagazet because of Seymour 😂

Seymour 3 was the bane of my existence as a kid and still sometimes gives me trouble to this day. Such a huge spike in difficulty!

A friend and I spent so much time overleveling in FFXIII that we just kind of bullied Orphan to death in a couple of minutes.

For Progenitorial Wrath in FF13, you could switch your Paradigm to have your two non-leaders become Sentinels. This would force them to spam Provoke, which would increase the chance of Orphen targeting them with Progenitorial Wrath instead of the leader. Reviving party members doesn't take too much time, so you can paradigm shift again to get back into the fight pretty quick. Also, Orphen can cast Progenitorial Wrath during Consummate Dark, so there's a chance of Orphen immediately killing you since it *always* begins the fight by shifting stances.

I remember that tactics fight, that was roughhhh. Took me many a try.

Wiegraf 3/ Velius was a nightmare the first time I played Tactics.

*Opens up video* *Sees Seymour Flux* NO NONONONONONONO

I was going to say that they should have mentioned Vercingetorix from FF13. Even though it is not a main story boss, it is quite formidable, and over time the monster keeps on increasing its attack and amount of turns it will do.

As soon as I saw the title I thought of the FFT Wiegraf fight. Jesus the flashbacks that caused! (An exploit to help is auto-potion with only X-Potions in your inventory.)

The Weigraf/Belias fight got me the very way you mentioned as a youngling of 10 years. Since then I use every save slot that a game gives me, just in case~

I remember as a kid, playing Final Fantasy "II" as it was then called on Super Nintendo, the fight against Odin was always so frustrating. Then when I finally beat him, his summon was super useless. 😆

Back in the day, at early 2000, i remember spending entire weekend trying to beat weigraf, had to restart the game and do it all over again(apparently only lancer or ninja ramza could do it).

Great video! Really loved the usage of footage for all the fights.

Pretty much any Seymour fight I can think of. Even the first battle can catch a lot of players off guard.

I'm so glad that Wiegraf fight made the list. The first time through I didn't save and was underleveled/underclassed so thus I couldn't beat him and was essentially forced to start over. Auto-Potion with X-Potions did the trick the second go around.

I still remember the 1st time I fought Ozma, I remember it had lvl 5 death (insta kill on any character with a lvl multiple of 5), and it would heal for a crap ton of damage, it took me an entire weekened to kill it.

Magic Master could be "silenced" by using Berserk, preventing it from even casting Ultima.

Ozma... I legit did a happy dance when I was a small one and -finally- beat that Jupiter-looking orb.

The one that got me was the second phase (Griever) of the Ultimecia fight in FFVIII because of that attack at the end of the phase that killed everyone instantly if their spirit wasn’t high enough. After realizing that, I spent an hour running through the castle leveling up and trying to get the +20-40% spirit boosts for all my junctions that had it.

Such an underrated channel ❤ Loved this video and looking forward to more!!!!

Needs more Midgar Zolom and Seymour Flux. Especially for those playing a blind/first playthrough. The Zolom for just being stupidly powerful the first time you meet him (and didn't bother going to the Chocobo Farm), ejecting party members, and using the beast of an enemy skill Beta. And Seymour Flux for firstly inflicting the zombie status then casting Full-Life immediately after. If you survive that hot mess, there's his other attack which can wipe your whole party out at once. He also casts things like Haste and Protect once you get him to a certain HP gate. And last but not least, that stupidly long cutscene you're forced to sit through beforehand, similar to the Riku fight at the top of Hollow Bastion in KH1.

The three phases of Yunalesca was a huge kick in the teeth for me. I had no idea what I was getting into. Her third phase was especially infuriating, since she would constantly inflict Zombie on the party

last time I played FFT i knew it was coming, and I still got caught, that's how strong he is.

That seymour line in the beginning goes so damn hard. The way he delivers it with such baffled contempt still sticks with me 20 years later

Some bosses on Xenogears would put you through the trials of hell it felt like....

legend of dragoon last boss would take an hour to beat and he had like 5 forms. 2 in which he could utterly destroy you

Wiegraf out here teaching us the importance of Auto-Potion.

That intro with Seymour takes me back to such simpler times…..not just in my life, but the world in general. God I miss that time in my life.

I love how you start this with the Mt. Gagazet Seymour fight in the intro, that shit SUUUUUUUCCCKS

Glad to see FF3 getting some love, Iron Giant was a nightmare. Great video!

Moogle charm equipped Mog laughs at the "arduous journey" up the cultist tower.

At the beginning of the video that has to be my favorite quote from any final fantasy game

I beat Ozma on my first try with no plans heading in, didn't even know it was a super boss tbh. Took about 30 minutes, used Zidane, Garnet, Vivi, and Steiner all about level 70. Got the Ozma card too! Was a very long fight and used so much pd.

What I truly hate are scripted loss, or scripted HP wall. That you could wreck the boss and they'd still beat you. That really piss me off.

I had a lot of trouble with FF4’s antagonist, Golbez in his first encounter in the Dark World. I was playing the DS version and wasn’t prepared but I was stuck in the dark world so I couldn’t do much to grind. It led to a frustrating fight where Golbez kept changing the logic of the battle in his favor by making attacks heal him and healing items hurt him and then back to the norm. It sounds kind of simple as I say it, but I was also really young and relatively inexperienced in RPG’s.

Fun fact: you can beat Ruby and Emerald without needing to press a button if you have the right combo of mastered materia.

That Wiegraf fight and the boss fight after oof, but actually the that area where you fight the mercenary guy you were with at the beginning of chapter 2.(gallows location) gave me more trouble.

Final Fantasy XII's way of making a boss "hard": Boss: Now I'm invencible for a whole minute and have 500% more attack and 300% more defense, fuck you.

Omega Weapon, Final Fantasy 8 Unholy Bastard!.

Ruby weapon strat: beat Emerald Weapon first, take master summon materia, link with HP absorb, plenty of HP-Up and MP-Up, max Barrier and Time materia. Use W-Item for plenty of Elixirs. Go into battle with only Cloud and two other members down. Attack only with KoTR. HP absorb fully heals you at the end of each cast and wall stops half of ultima damage. Refresh wall and haste as they run out and spend a turn on an elixir or max ether when you need MP back. No final attack-revive/Phoenix required. You literally can’t lose unless you get distracted and don’t keep up with the fight.

I just finally beat the Ruby Weapon battle for the first time ever, and unless you have a ton of copies of mime and counter, and maybe KOTR, it is a straight up endurance challenge. Props on the video!

I didn't even knew Orphan had that attack xD I just staggered him quickly and the fight was over before it started. Lightning's One Man Army while switching to Cerberus results in hilarious damage and gauge charge. On some clears I got him down to 10% HP before he used the gravity attack. It's genuinely one of the easiest fights in the game if you don't try to poison him to death :P

I got so mad at Orphan killing my team leader while so close to finishing the battle I refused to ever play FFXIII again. I absolutely hated that leader/death mechanic.

I got Lucky 7s on Emerald Weapon in 98 and it remains as the greatest thing that's ever happened to me.

I'm glad Bellias made the list. His was the only fight I remembered over a decade after I'd last played it in the 90s.

I found zodiac to be very easy with proper preparation but the boss I think it's called Omega 13 or something that you fight in the great Crystal is just crazy

I am really surprised he did not have the Seymour battle where he deleted your summons.

The idea of crazy hard story bosses, MMO or otherwise, sounds interesting. The ones you posted that you must fight are the craziest because of their necessity. Great video, though!

Those two lines of Seymours at the beginning of this video is amazing

The Magic Master from FF VI wasn't too hard. You could berserk him or just use non-elemental magic against him.

For me, it would be Omega from Final Fantasy XV. It takes 1% damage from all weapons except the Royal Arms, which drain your HP when attacking, and lightning magic, which dealt 80% damage. On top of that, it has insanely high stats which can allow it to wipe out a party with postgame gear. And it's attacks do incredibly high damage, and even go through the Magitek attire's shield, which is in my opinion, the go-to attire for tough bosses. But not here. It can also inflict ailments such Confusion and Toad. There is an antenna on it's head, in which resistances don't apply and attacks deal 200% damage. But attack that and it would go into Berserk Mode, where it loses all resistances, but actually becomes immune to the Royal Arms, and will charge around the battlefield, keeping players on their toes. It also had a giant blue laser attack that would bypass the Danger state, outright killing anyone who wasn't wearing Ardyn's Ensemble and at 9999 HP, but even then massive damage would still be dealt.

I remember being stuck on wiegraf for so long when I first played tactics.

I've beaten Wiegraph a few ways but it always takes tinkering with my Ramza and a bit of good luck

Orphan infuriated the hell out of me when I first fought against him, I was always pretty much in control of the fight until suddenly my party leader would die instantly without warning. For quite a while I didn't even notice the attack due to how much is normally going on and even after I had no idea how you were expected to avoid it. I had to look up a guild online to see how you were supposed to win the fight a even after using the right party composition and winning I wasn't entirely sure why he never used his instant kill during that attempt. It was only after I though about how it differed from my normal party alignment that it hit me was always using the attack in a situation where two party members were set to the same class he would using it on which ever one was the different class.

I always thought Emerald Weapon was harder than Ruby. Mind you, I say this because I have a strategy for Ruby. I have one for Emerald, too. But it takes WAY longer to prepare and doesn't always guarantee a victory

The trick to Ozman is that you make moves (in your selection panels) ONLY WHEN Ozman is in the midst of casting spells (during spell animation). Considering how easy it is to get 9999 damage in FF9, Ozman is pretty easy once you figured that out. Don't move when Ozman is charging. Move only when Ozman is casting a spell. Get 9999 damage from the following (Zidane= Thievery, Fatty = Frog Drop, Freya = Dragon Crest, Tin-Soldier = Shock) Auto-Haste as many party members as possible Auto-Life as many party members as possible (with equip or with Fatty's Spell) Have Eiko around to cast Phoenix in case multiple parties wiped out (Dagger's useless) Equip HALF of your party to absorb darkness elemental but NOT ALL, so Ozman will still waste turns.

I think a good way to discuss cheap bosses from the MMOs would be to only include story progression fights or just initial difficulty fights so you can exclude the extreme/savage ones, this would remove the obviously cheap mechanics of super bosses. (Yeah im looking at you shinryu and the people rage quitting it to this day when i get it from a roulette) that way, you can add ozma to your list yet again

FF9 Ozma takes the cake for me back then. His battles are heavily affected by RNG and it can make your life a little more hellish by not knowing you need to finish the friendly monsters quest to allow Ozma to be attacked physically for the first time you encounter him (There's a workaround but still).

I'm going to have to go with Trema from X-2. I spent a whole damn day on him swearing every attempt was my last. Tried looking up strategies none of which really worked before I took some ideas from various strategies and coming with my own before I finally defeated him. Damned worth it too

The strat i used on weigraf was to run back and forth in the arena just out of his range casting yell(or whatever the speed increase one was) until i had max speed, then use my unlimited turns to kill him and everything before they could move, yes this took a while

I save-locked myself with Wiegraf first time. Levelled about 20 levels in the fight using the shout for +1 speed and avoiding him with move talent and boots, took a while to figure out

I always used the Moogle Charm with Mog so I can get to the Magic Master and one of the dragons with very little headache. So the Cultists tower is easy

I was stuck on weigraf. I used squire with monk abilities to beat him. Lets just say i yelled and accumilated ALOT. And those stat boosts also transfer into the second part of the fight.

You open the video with my favorite boss from my favorite game. Seymour Flux was a fun fight.

Wiegraf devastated me as a child. I worked so hard to get that far, and of course, fell for the save trap. Had to start all over... a few years later, because I absolutely gave up on the game after that.

Every molboro is incredibly cheap and annoying in all FF games. Though, not a boss (usually). How many times have you gone hours without saving, and then run into a molboro and every party member gets hit with sleep, blind, poison, and confuse... you can only watch helplessly as your party members painfully kill each other and themselves 😭

I tried to beat omza but I literally died in like 2 seconds I will face him again just actually started a new ff9 game just cuz that's one of my favorite games of all time but only on disk 2 atm

With the Ruby Weapon fight, I'd go in with two of the party dead, revive them as soon as the tentacles are buried, and then just W-Summon Hades/KotR with 2x Mime, drop a megaelixir when it retaliates, and then repeat. Great strat to go with. As for the cheapest one I remember, I'd say Minerva in Crisis Core: Final Fantasy VII. Mainly because of that one attack she does that deals a lot of damage. That'd be fine, if not for the fact that when her health got low enough, she'd use it TWICE IN SUCCESSION, giving you no chance to recover. Tried so many strategies and I could never beat her because of that dirty tactic.

Saw the video title... Saw that opening with Seymour and got PTSD. I broke 2 controllers Because of THAT fight 😑 great vid!

Great list, makes me want to pick up some of the older FF games that I’m yet to venture into. This list could very easily be followed up with a “cheapest non-bosses” tonberry and marlboro anyone?

Zeromus of Final Fantasy 4 on Playstation. I've been trying to beat him for nearly 20years

Wiegraf... I struggled there so much the first time. Basically use one party member as bait for his Cyclops summon, make them stand alone and away from the party when they are targeted by it. Kill the demons asap, then pound on Wiegraf's zodiac form. Revive party member if they go down to Cyclops. The Riovanes encounter has a part 3... after defeating him, you end up on the roof of the castle, where an AI-controlled NPC has to be saved (their death causes game over) from Elmdor and his two assassins Celia and Lede. Thing is, the AI is dumb and stays to fight from a distance, instead of running back to your party. Due to the climbing required to get up there, the NPC is nearly guaranteed to die to the onslaught of those three....unless Elmdor's sword spirit (samurai) skill manages to inflict Confuse on the NPC. Only then will they ignore the NPC and go for your party instead. Talk about cheap bs mechanics...

I remember ozmas meteor well. Starts fight Ozma casts Meteor: 9,999dmg to all party members. GAME OVER.

I feel like it's kinda fair that Ozma's behaviour adapts to your setup. After all, how many of us don't look up a guide before fighting a super boss and then adjust our setup to gain whatever advantages we can? Ozma is just doing the same, fighting accordingly to his opponent. Everything else about him is kinda cheep tho

I want a battle with Ozma from 9, and omega weapon from 7 and 8, nemesis from 10 and yiazmat of 12 at the same time in 1 battle. - - *But I want the level cap be till level 999!*

Love your content! Id would be so amazing if you made a ff xiv video about what main line series the bosses come from. its really intresting

As someone who has defeated Yiazmat, i can assure you that going on auto-pilot with gambits can still get you killed even if you have a perfect setup. Lure+reverse+auto revive gambits are not enough to keep you alive. Not by a long shot. I was level 80 when i beat him but even with a perfect gambit set up he still nearly wiped my entire party several times. This is because he uses melee attacks with increasing ferocity and they can always 1 hit kill you no matter what you do. So if you are unlucky he can kill all 3 active members in a few seconds. The gambits help, but they do not give you an auto-win like they do with Hell Wyrm. Regardless, i don't think you get to call optional bosses cheap, because you don't have to fight them. It is universally understood that optional bosses are allowed to be bullcrap because it is not mandatory to deal with their bs. That said, Weigraf is by far the most BS fight in FF main story history. I mean, Ozma was crazy the first time i encountered him, but i've beaten Ozma multiple times (and again, he's optional). Weigraf is literally a check of "Do you have enough hp and also access to the right job class for Ramza? No? THEN GTFO NOOB" lol. To be fair though, the game literally TELLS you to have multiple save files because you might not be able to progress otherwise (You only ever need 2 files, 1 for before you start a dungeon set, and 1 for saving after each fight within the dungeon set). But yeah, he's still a pain. Even knowing what to do and having beaten the game several times, i can still say without question that fight (and the one immediately after with Velius) is the hardest battle in the game. Even the final boss by comparison is a joke.