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

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I like how the Judge Magisters fight is basically you fighting another FF party, and it demonstrates how incredibly powerful an FF party is.

I love how Aeronite's ability is basically just "Fuck this shit, I'm out". Just...being able to just get up and leave the battle completely feels even more embarrassing and insulting to just dying countless times.

It's about time the ff12 judges fight gets recognized. That was tough, especially since it's after 99 other fights

I can't even focus on the video with this music playing. It's taking me back to THAT scene with Nanaki and his petrified dad. My heart

Zack: took down the goddess Also zack...got killed by a couple hundred infantry.

You also forgot to mention that the judges punish you for daring to use Reverse by throwing Elixirs at you. That's one strategy down the drain.

Funny how Absolute Virtue, and Pandemonium Warden were fought for hours considering every time I logged in, there would be a message telling me not to destroy my life playing their game without taking breaks.

"There are many viable strategies online for obliterating Ruby and Emerald now" - Yes, thank you Mike from 4-8 Productions.

I have fond memories of the Judge Magisters fight. At the time, while there were guides online that told you how to access the fight, everyone was shockingly tight-lipped about it. It was almost like there was an unofficial community agreement that no one would let you know what you were in for.

Judge magisters took so much micromanagement but was super fun. Basically I saved all my items in the game for it.

“Pandemonium Warden” Oh god, I never even fought the damn thing and I get war flashbacks. I was *there* man. The drama was real, everyone was absolutely stunned at how difficult it was. And this is a game where the community had gotten *used* to large scale notorious monster fights lasting *4+ hours*. It was nuts.

Aaaah... Seto's theme in the background

My god nanaki's theme is one of the best composed songs in a game. still gives me shivers to this day

I loved the gambit system in ff12. It was rewarding to fully utilize the system during the Judge boss fight.

Of course, we never noticed the first time we got hit by Aire Tam Storm that "Aire Tam" is Materia spelled backwards.

That level 100 trial in the zodiac age was one of the few times in all gaming I could feel the 8 year old rage within me for the first time in decades. All you have to do is get one of them to fall and it gets easier, but that is some asking.

The freaking Tonberry from ffvii taught me a lesson for real, to never judge something by appearance. I actually find it really scary

Beat Yiazmat without the Reverse gambit back in 2007. The ultimate war of attrition. I didn’t even know the reverse strategy would have cut the time in half. The battle took 6hrs just to receive the Wrymhero Blade as trophy.

I tried fighting the 5 judges in FF12. In the first 10 seconds they cast Reverse (which turns damage into healing, and healing into damage) on Balthier, and then threw an elixir at him, killing him instantly. I shut the game off and never fought them again.

I'm not sure what's more surprising, the list of bosses, or the fact somebody willingly used Penelo as a leader in FF12.

We've all been there; Submerged in the submarine, you get a look around and suddenly this weird green thing is just moving around. Your curiosity gets the better of you, you make a move towards it, and then you're met with a game over.

I miss fighting the Judges! My PS4 gave up and had to be rebuted on 2018, taking with it 600+h of save data... and, since then, I haven't had the guts to restart some huge games like FFXII, FFXV and the KH collection (which I was in the middle of KH1, thank god) _but I'm definitely missing challenging my favorite fight from my favorite game...

The music, your voice, the editing ...so beautiful. Thank you for this content.

Thanks for the upload and thanks for showing FF3 some love 👍

I’ve played all FFs from 1 to 15. FF12 judges are still by far the most difficult superbosses for me. Honestly, most FF superbosses are manageable once you max everything out and have the right equips but even all that doesn’t work against the judges. They will still kill you in like 30 seconds

Glad you always dedicate some time to FF XI, used to love that game. And yes, I was around when Pandemonium Warden was fought pre-nerf and I remember all the drama that came from it in the following weeks. My Linkshell perished countless times to Absolute Virtue and to Pandemonium Warden

The judges were a beast. So much planning went into beating that fight. So much kiting around the room lol

Very few things scared me as a kid the way that the water in FFVII did. I'd completely avoid the ocean around Junon after a couple of bad days 😂 And the worst thing was when you finally muster up the courage to go beneath the surface and Emerald is just right in front of you and staring at you as soon as the screen renders... I hated that thing 😅

When I played FF7 ages ago, I avoided the weapons like a plague after getting my butt kicked more times than I can count.

All of them can’t hold a candle to the first great molboro you fight in the omega ruins

Dude I literally watched your other super boss vid the other day. And now you've a new one wow lol

When I first saw Emerald weapon in the deep, I steered clear of it and stumbled upon a cave that had that staff item by chance. My roommate glared at me for my luck. She had a lot of trouble finding that thing. Lol

Ah yes another quality video from a fantastic disembodied voice and an amazing team behind him

To this day, I’m still stuck on that magister fight.

Love the piano in the background. Wonderful stuff.

Final Fantasy XII: Zodiac Age is actually far easier than the PS2 version is. I broke the "time played" counter on the PS2 version 3 different times so I should know lol. Plus Final Fantasy XII is my favorite video game of all time and always will be. I beat almost all the bosses the first time on the PS2 version besides Yiazmat and Zodiark. In the Zodiac Age though I did beat them all the first time in the main game and in the Trial Mode. Get the Wyrmhero Blade and combine it with the Genji Gloves with Haste and you will combo hit bosses to death. You get an 80% chance to do combo hits. I've gotten Vaan to do a 10 hit combo almost every time he attacked.

Maybe I've just been oblivious... But I like the new intro. :-) Love these videos!

Oh man... Aeronite... that battle still haunts me... I don't know HOW I would have done it without Magic Slash from the Miqote garb...

I 100% Lightning Returns & very much proud. Aeronite was a beast. Thankfully i had 80'000 HP & dozens of NG+ stats lol

Minerva was a WILD fight when you first head into it. Took several tries and Goblin Punches to beat her.

Iron Giant, at full health: (Using literal space rock to crush you) Iron Giant, now at half HP: “Now I’m angy” (upgrades to slashing you with a sword)

Fun fact: you can fight a modern version of almost all of the bosses mentioned in this video in FFXIV

Hell, I just learned to start taking my time with big bosses on FFXII, especially the optional espers.

Judge magisters have that chad imposing walk. I'm scared already.

Me sitting here sweating nervously with a crazed grin thinking of what kind of super boss will be in Final Fantasy 16.

Glad to see Ruby Weapon on here, I thought everyone had trouble with this guy, but now in the future it seems it was only me.

The judges were always my favorite characters. So cool.

Unfortunately, I have only made it as far as level 81 in FFXII, so I haven't even seen half of the bosses... Gambits help, however, I've been too lazy to setup a solely ITEM based gambit, which is why 81 is troublesome. Thanks you sharing these, as I've only ever fought Minerva so far.

I love this type of video, FF has such a rich history when it comes to challenging fights. I feel I have to mention Bhunivelze+ on Hard difficulty for Lightning Returns, although he doesn't fit the category, because he's not optional, he is IMHO so much harder than both Aeronite and Ereshkigal (another optional boss that can be quite the challenge in LR). As for XII I should mention Omega Mark XII as well, but the Judges are way harder so, moot point 😁 As for other noteworthy bosses I'd mention the optional fight against Noctis in Ignis' DLC in FF XV, he will literally use EVERYTHING against you, Armiger, all of his Ring of the Lucii attacks (especially Alterna). Great video!

The only superbosses I beat in the Final Fantasy series is both ruby and emerald weapons in final fantasy 7 and ultima weapon in FF8. Great to see you guys still putting out great content wish I had time to keep up with all of it.

The Judges will always be my favorite bosses only and because of their cameo or specifically Gabranth as mediator for every encounter. Before I even knew of FFXII I just thought his design was cool AF

The judges are so broken. Gabranth, Ghis, and Zagabranth throw elixirs around like candy. Ghis has the lowest health but the other two will just toss elixirs at him. Only by using the bonebreaker was I able to bring the group down to two and make quick work of them.

Out of the bosses I've fought on this list, Minerva holds my greatest accomplishment: winning with only 1 phoenix down. Slots be praised.

i love the ruby and emerald weapon fights it took me and a friend over 2 years of no-internet theorycrafting before we finally got there our first guess was you needed a party of maxed characters so yeah we had alot of fun (or time for that matter) in ff7 without a doubt my favourite game ever with 500+ hours on steam and probably several real time months of time on the psx filling up full memory cards with special challenges me and my friends made up in the game it is a masterpiece even if i ignore the insane nostalgia factor

Super boss: Is this your first rpg? Newbie: ... Y-yes... Super boss: Don't worry boyo. I'll be gentle.

Ayyy Beyond the Limitation, and Sylphet in particular. She used to invite me to merit parties all the time, kept me going through a lot of the grind in the 75cap era.

FFXII judges did not mess around. Mostly used the Zeromus strat which took out the more obnoxious judges and kept normally going. Still says a lot how you can't even expect beating the trial with just the invisible bow, I like it

I maintain that Emerald is WAAAAAAAY easier than Ruby. Most of the strategies around Ruby center around crazy exploits, either by setting up the 7777 attack (which was barely known at the time of release), or exploits that use dazers, which are only found in a handful places (if not only one place). The fact that he was effected by stop is also EXTREMELY unusual for a boss, making it very unlikely for someone to figure that out on their own. Emerald only really required the knowledge of Final Attack, Phoenix, KotR, Mime, and Underwater materia (and even this isn't 100% necessary), most of which were found through normal progress. Once you get the first cast of KotR off, all you need to do is continue to Mime the attack, and wham-bam he'll be dead. If he does a party wipe, Final Attack and Phoenix have your back. Any Super Boss that can be killed by spamming the "Ultra-Omega-Super-Power Attack" should be considered too easy.

Great stuff!!!! Let’s add Culex!

In FF7 back in the day. As soon as I could access the _Sunken Gelnika_ I'd acquire the Double Cut Materia, equip it to the the Apocalypse Sword and head to the forests around Mideel and master it until everyone had 4 x Cut. With triple growth you'll get between 720 - 1120 AP a battle.With Slash-All/Flash equipped the battles will be fast and should take no more than a couple of hours of grinding to achieve.With this I defeat Emerald without the under water Materia with level 60s charactersIt also turns the Final battles with Jenova & Sephiroth into a joke.

Thanks for featuring me in a few seconds of the video ! 🙏🙌

Before watching the video: A super boss list, you piqued my interest, lets see your take on them

I bet no one has looked at emerald weapon on there first playthrough and thought AH I'm run right at that "easy" fight lol

It's so frustrating having the different versions of the games. I played the crap out of FFX-2 back in the day, and would have loved to have had the challenge. I don't know that I want to put in the hundreds of hours again though...

For the judge magisters,I used a combination of Ultima, bubble, and a spamming of the balance spell by the summon. Just had to keep it alive but low on health for its summon duration to crank out the damage. 5 digit aoe damage baby

Well this is great to see more in depth about the superbosses..or well more of them. But I'm curious on the Pandemonium Warden. I heard it took on many forms before you can finally beat it..and it took so long cause it had up to 20. What were those forms? If anyone can help with that.

Still makes me feel proud that I was part of the world-first Pandemonium Warden spawn. Character name was “Selendile” in the infamous ‘Atnm test’ pic. Haha

Judge Magisters took me many days and time to figure out best way to defeat them.

Mannnnn I miss superbosses... and by "miss" I don't mean to imply that they're gone or anything (since plenty of RPGs still have em), but rather, I miss actually trying to beat them. As I've grown up and school and my career has taken more and more of my time, I've found it tricky to engage in most game's difficult endgame/post-endgame content. Over the years, I've built up a rather sizeable backlog of games I would like to play... and I can't move on to a new game if I'm on hour 10 of trying to beat X or Y superboss in Z game. Of course... this varies. Not all superbosses are created equal, after all. Some of em might take long, some of em might not. The ones I miss tackling are the ones that'd take me *hours* to defeat... be it by grinding, smart use of tactics, or both. This doesn't only apply to superbosses, to be honest. I feel that nowadays, I have very little time for some of the other challenges or extra things RPGs offer once you've beaten the story. Nowadays, I beat the main story and move on... It might be a tad sentimental of me to say, but I do kinda miss my younger days when I was able to essentially hyperfocus on 100%ing a game simply because I had the time and lacked the money for getting MORE games haha.

Thanks for listening to me on the previous list including Minerva here! :D

Never knew that Emerald Weapon's instant-kill attack was actually based on Materia equipped, I thought it was just a cheap ass RNG party KO

I beat Emerald Weapon but never beat Ruby weapon back in the day. I have also beaten Minerva. Super hard boses is what makes the game more interesting

Last time I did emerald weapon I decided to not use underwater materia. I ended the fight with 9 seconds left, no more final attack charges and 2 of the team down. Finished with an omnislash and it was absolutely epic.

With regards the Emerald Weapon there is the Overflow glitch and the Mime, Counter Omnislash trick.

I was an avid FF11 player and encountered Absolute Virtue (AV) as well as Pandemonium Warden (PW) in their unnerfed states. Absolute Virtue was killed a few times originally but only through the abuse of the "Wall of Justice". Which was putting Black Mages into a whole other space of the area that only had a thin impassable wall to the area you fought AV in. This would bug out AV and allowed people to kill it. Later AV was patched and a "draw in" effect added that would pull all attackers to it when out of reach. To this day the community still does not 100% understand how AV was originally intended to kill. AV went into "Bracelet Mode" at around 60% where it would just spam AoE Meteors and wipe everyone. Additionally you could not even outendure it as one of it's moved could be the White Mage "Benediction" that would heal it back to full HP. Pandemonium Warden had a fun story when it came out. There was a "???" deep in the ruins to trade your key to. But also a "???" right infront of the town. The first group that got a key traded it to the "???" infront of the town. A Goblin spawned and died in 1 hit. Apparently this "???" was a renmant of the devbuild that SE forgot to take out. While the group eventually got their Key back from a Gamemaster the situation was more than absurd. The original Pandemonium Warden had many many more phases than the one we have today. Including all the different beat tribes of the expansion and the 5 Generals of the city. The group fighting 18 hours went through ALL of these phases to finally meet the real PW. They got it down to 75% where it instantly cast Astral Flow summoning multiple Avatars and exploded the whole room.

If it was in another video I apologise as I haven't watched them all yet but Ozma from ff9 should be on here. Even the guide book made you visit a website at the time

Back in the day, I beat the Weapons. I beat Ozma. I beat whatever the ones in 8 and 6 are. Nowadays, as a crotchety 36 year old, I just don't have the patience any more.

Culex in SMRPG was my first ever "superboss" (if you want to techincally count it) and as a kid who didn't fully understand roles in an RPG I didn't chose ideal stat bonuses at levelup so that boss was HARD and I felt SO satisfied beating it way back when. Sure as an adult I can piss through the boss like a joke, but as a kid it was an intense challenge that took me multiple tries and forever holds a special place in my heart

Me: Reads the title Also Me: Immeadiate Emerald Weapon flashbacks

7. Dark yojimbo (I struggled with that for ages more than all else in ffx and I kept missing one of them) 6. Emerald weapon 5. Judges 4. Ff5 shinryu/omega 3. Ff4 proto babil on ds 2. Ff8 omega 1. Ozma All bosses have certain ways to easily kill but those are the 7 I struggled with more than any other.

FF XII's idea of a hard boss usually boils down to: "Now that my health is at 25% I have 400% attack and 250% more defense. Oh, I'm also invincible for a minute so enjoy while I proceed to spam my area of effect, status altering super attack".

This list is crazy never knew crisis core had a secret boss Haha

I beat Minerva this morning before my coffee got cold. High Jump keeps you from getting hit by Krysta. And if you have Genji Armor, Helm, Gloves and the Zeidrich, with maxed stats, High Jump was hitting for 40k before she put up Barrier. Costly Punch hits for 100k regardless. Just keep it on X-Potion, put up Wall and make sure you use phoenix down after she uses Judgement Arrow. She's a tank, but not tricky to beat in a few minutes.

hit me up if you would like the story of the first Pandamonium warden to kill ^^ and more details of the competition for that world first. The regional fight we did was supposed to take 36 hrs and my LS had EU NA and JP players rotate 8 hr shifts.

The funny thing about Pandemonium Warden and moreso Absolute Virtue is that people did figure out how to beat them early on, but particularly with AV, every time some group found a viable strategy, Square would either nerf the method or buff the boss in some way. The infamous walls strat is basically dragging it far to the north where there's a cliff/mountain. Originally if you had a group of mages come in from a teleport crag entrance to that zone, they could stand on the other side, and nuke Absolute Virtue with no repercussions until it died. So Square changed the game so that if you try to move Absolute Virtue from its starting location's land, it would despawn. Later on, some linkshell got together enough Dark Knights with the infamous Kraken Club. With fully geared DRKs, the best haste gear, the best DPS gear, and a full compliment of Bard and Corsair buffs, using Souleater Blood Weapon zerg method, Absolute Virtue could be killed. So Square change the game and made Absolute Virtue immune to Souleater's damage, and this also changed Souleater's damage to a specific type of damage within the data. They only did it after the Pandy Warden induced nerfs, where they removed 1/3rd of its total HP, because when they did that, the Souleater method took far less prep/gear/KCs. Pandemonium Warden at the 75 cap could be beaten, but the strategy for fighting it is incredibly obtuse. Basically, every 25% of its HP it would change form and perform Astral Flow, and this would pretty much guarantee wiping your alliance. So you needed a 6 man party that was separate, waiting in the wings. Whenever the HP % was coming up, what needed to happen was 16~17 of the 18 main alliance members needed to logout. Then, when the Astral Flow happened, and the remaining players were annihilated, the party waiting would pick Pandemonium Warden up, to keep his HP from regenerating and keep him from despawning. Obviously this takes a massive amount of coordination, and the load times/other issues with logging in and out repeatedly really bloated the fight time. Beyond that you could have Blue Mages "zombie" it by raising them, having them cast Cannonball from its maximum distance, farther than most spells, have them try to kite it, and wittle it down slowly while the parties recovered. Both Absolute Virtue and Pandemonium Warden were bosses that the lead devs put into the game with the intention of them being an unattainable goal to always strive to beat, to try and make sure high end players always stayed hooked to the game. Since players were actually figuring out how to beat Absolute Virtue, and the devs knew that deep down their challenge had been surpassed for real, they created Pandemonium Warden. I got to kill both after the level cap raise. New abilities and new power obtained from being higher than level 75 made them into jokes for any prepared group. The funniest thing was sometime in 2007~2009 years, SE released a hint video trying to show people things they already knew about Absolute Virtue. Like, Baraera is useful because one of his strongest spells is Aeroga IV, and hey, you can lock his 2HRs if you use yours right after he does. What was hilarious is that some of the more dedicated people did digging... or SE admitted years later that in the hint video where they show themselves killing AV, they actually had to turn on God Mode because they themselves weren't skill nor geared enough to kill it naturally.

The massive problem we face with Chaos Aeronite is not its HP, it's Regen. Not because Regen heals Aeronite, but because of the status itself. Without Chaos, Lightning or an ennemy can have maximum 5 debuffs and buffs. But some buffs and debuffs can't be remove (in most cases, debuffs that came from a stagger and Regen from Chaos). The first three times we stagger Aeronite, he will add to itself a debuff that will last until the end of the fight. This three debuffs allow you to put only 2 debuffs on Aeronite for damage (Deprotect and Imperil). But if you fight Aeronite in Chaos, he will have 4 buffs/debuffs on it, so you only have 1 possible debuffs instead of 2. That's why this fight is much harder.

I think FFX-2 is pretty underrated... in terms of the battle mechanics... and animations for the time... and Yuna is hot..

12 yr old me trying to beat the ff12 judges without internet :'(

I just want to say I Did beat the Judges their first time, But that's because I was already max lvl and knew how effective the bubbled Zeromus is using big bang.

Judge Magisters fight sounds similar to the Ark Angels in Final Fantasy 11

Aire Tam from Emerald is material backwards. I played Final Fantasy 7 when it first came out in Europe. I learned this fact this week. Nice to be 20+ years behind most other people!

11:49 i like how he says divine slayer will boost most of Zack's stats, when the video shows 4 stats being lowered by it.

I can't believe you didn't mention Penance or any of the Dark Aeons in FFX or Ragnarok in FFV was nice to see Chaos Aeonite Minerva and Emerald Weapon

Wow. I actually beat Minerva way back when I was a freshman in high school. I remember needing to have 255 spirit and vitality just so you wouldn't get 1 shot right off the get go.

Emerald weapon is the only one on this list I've heard of! Damn!

The highest HP enemy in the Franchise is actually Eden Promise Savage in FFXIV with nearly 64 million HP.

Everyone: Judge magister is damn hard! Me with Zeromus Zodiark: heh I love FFXII I really hope someday square makes a return to ivalice.

The BG music for this video.

Emerald and ruby weapon were indeed difficult bosses. One thing that did make them easier is in FF7 characters can become insanely powerful unlike some of the other titles. Some of the materia just plain breaks the game so it's depends on what stage of the game you chose to fight them.