7 Most Underwhelming Final Fantasy Bosses 

The worst part about Seymour was losing to him and... once again... sitting through that year long cutscene that you couldn't skip

Hmm interesting, I never saw Palmer as underwhelming since he was kinda designed as a joke and meant to be weak. Underwhelming to me implies that I expect smth great but it doesn't deliver, and I can't imagine anyone expected a grand, epic or even hard fight with Palmer. A better underwhelming fight from 7, would to me be the Red Dragon in the ancients temple, it kinda came out of nowhere since you wouldn't expect it there, but instead of getting a great fight alongside a great homage to a reoccurring creature in the series, it was pretty weak and underwhelming. Thankfully the Demon door made up for that soon after ;)

No matter what your opinion of Seymour's last fight is, the theme that plays in that fight is a legendary banger!

The fight I found most underwhelming was Yu Yevon in FFX. A final battle that was impossible to lose really took the enjoyment outta the fight.

I can't get behind Palmer. If anything, that fight shows how far the party has come and relieves some tension. I've never gotten the impression anyone considered him an unofficial boss fight.

Wait, people were unhappy with the Palmer fight??? I thought it was hilarious, lmao. Palmer always struck me as a guy who failed upwards. He's head of the now nonexistent space division, and is seemingly just kept on the board so that Shinra doesn't have to openly admit the space division is defunct. I never saw him as a legitimate threat like Heidegger or Scarlet. To me it seemed like an appropriate end to a guy literally just resting on his laurels.

With the Seymour fight I used anima. I felt it was a great end having his mother put him down.

I’d certainly agree that Palmer was a nothing fight but I also don’t think anyone was expecting Palmer to be a difficult or convoluted fight lol

Not often I disagree with you, but I didn't find Palmer underwhelming. He was seen as the meme and the 100% played on the 'haha fat guy funny' trope. Wasn't expecting much and we didn't get much!

Always thought that Proud Clod was a pretty underwhelming boss, considering its was the penultimate boss of Shinra

Nah Palmer doesn't belong on this list. His boss fight is literally exactly what you should expect from the character and was honestly hilarious.

every undead boss where you throw an elixir or an x-potion and the fight is instantly over

Man, the thing that will always get me about the Livia fight was that it was incredibly annoying too. Having to shoot her mech with the canons took up so much time (interacting with the magitek hand to load it, wait for it to get to the canon, fire and hope she doesn't move out of range before the attack goes off, dealing with adds so that they didn't destroy the canons, etc.) and meanwhile, she was never a threat, just sitting there doing *pixels* of damage to the tank. Then you'd get her out of the mech, and the fight would be over in 30 seconds max. Out of all the end-ARR fights, hers was easily the most tedious in my mind, I genuinely don't know why it was designed like that instead of you just... beating up the mech.(

I think that if the central ruins in ff8 feels difficult at all its probably because the only enemies that appear in random encounters are the tonberry enemies. And we all know how annoying those things are. Also you technically could grind the 20 defeated tonberries for the tonberry king since even when you get kicked out of the ruins the tonberry counter doesn't reset

Okay yes, I can see that the Palmer battle in Final Fantasy 7 was underwhelming, however, it was very charming. Name one Final Fantasy 7 fan who doesn't fondly remember the fight with Palmer in Rocket Town. It was moments like that battle and the flash back with Sephiroth that gavr the game its charm. I constantly hear from other content creators that they are looking forward to the "Boss" Battle with Palmer in Rebirth, assuming the game makes it that far into the story. Which I think it will. But again, Palmer was memerable. The rest of the list was needed as a mental refresher.

FF8's Odin was kind of stressful actually when you're trying to draw 100 Triples for each character... I would say Gerogero is the most underwhelming one when you know the Phoenix Down trick

Cape Westwind is the first 8man in the game - and was intended to be very straight forward and easy. Surprised you picked a fight with actual(yet simple) mechanics and not Lahabrea there. Lahabrea is by far and away the most underwhelming boss

I just finished Xenoblade Chronicles 2 and the final boss was quite disappointing tbh. No obnoxious monologue about world domination, no three-stage transformation, no epic choir music.

Memoria theme playing in the background. Love it !

Seymour Omnis was hard as hell! I had to overdrive every Aeon and spam those in just to beat him in my first playthrough. That was after he kept pimp smacking my party for a few days.

I remember the Seymour flux fight being the only fight I struggled with. After 2-3 tries I remember just grinding for hours and then going back and fighting him and walking over him. The rest of the game was a cakewalk.

I always love saving the last Seymour battle. I get the celestial weapons, grind out my characters & have LuLu slap Seymour with her moogle ending it in one shot.

Hey been watching a ton of your videos love them so far!

Seymour Omnis was rather uninteresting. At first I thought “this fight is going to be insane” but then as I fought, he was so damned easy that he fell from less attacks than expected

Adamantoise in FF15 felt underwhelming to me. It had this epic scene of a massive turtle monster that was an actual mountain emerging from the earth only to turn into a fairly easy fight that was just... long. My party was never in danger of going down and the boss wasn't terribly complex, it just took a really long time for no reason. In FF12, Yiazmat was also a long fight but required a fair degree of focus to ensure buffs were applied correctly. Yiazmat could wipe even high level parties if they weren't prepared so the encounter always felt like it was teetering on razor's edge. When I beat Yiazmat back on the OG FF12, I put down my sweaty controller and let the victory was over me. When I beat Adamantoise, I was just like "Finally, that's over" because the encounter itself was so boring.

Honestly, I liked Foras, it fit with Chapter 13's hard pivot into a horror game, and also with just how utterly inconsequential Iedolas was the XV's story to begin with. Granted, I played it a year after release, so I didn't have to play the original version of that chapter.

Pretty much all the storyline bosses in Ff1 if you play any version that isn't the base version, most of the storyline bosses in 12(vanilla) up to Tiamat and Fafnir in 12 due to the fact that getting to it is harder than fighting it.

Honestly, while I agree streamlining Castrum Meridianum and reducing the number of cutscenes were necessary, I honestly really miss the infiltration/spy feel that the original version had. Shutting off lights to hide your presence, blowing up the pipelines, generally exploring the place really made it a unique instance in the game and I wouldn’t mind one with a similar secret infiltration type feel in the future. Endwalker had a few solo instances like that, but maybe one where the party needs to coordinate would be more fun.

When Foras first came up my initial reaction was, who? 😂 and then when you said it was the emperor himself I was like wait what? Did I miss this 😂 and yeah Seymours third fight took me what seemed like years to beat in my first ever playthrough 👀👀👀👀 another great video folks 🥰😊

When you fight Seymour in Mr gagazet he’s hard af

Warmech from FF1 is hyped up as the first ever FF superboss. It was also the last entry I needed in the bestiary to 100% the remaster. I spent two full hours running in circles on that screen, and by the time it finally showed up I'd gained like 20 levels off the other encounters. I punched it once & it died.

Anything with a 1 shot mechanic, like giving a Phoenix down or x-potion to a boss that is classed as dead. The boss at the end of the Cave of the Gi in FF7 springs to mind as they give you an x-potion right outside the boss room just for it.

My vote goes to Fiend (aka Doom), the ice-elemental statue in FF6's Warring Triad. Demon (aka Poltergeist) uses fire and physical rushdown tactics. Goddess uses lightning spam and a particularly dirty Zombie/Countdown spell which doesn't play by the game's usual rules. Fiend occasionally throws out ice spells, counterattacks, and uses stall tactics. His position as an endgame boss, as a central story figure, and as an equal to two of the game's other dangerous bosses (with a special boss theme!) means that he should be scary, but he's actually an incredible pushover. His gimmicks (random element nullification, high HP, counterattacks) just don't do much to stop the player from burning him down, and his relatively low offense allows players to just back off and recover if needed. He's not only the easiest of the three statues, he's easier than many WoR bosses.

Not gonna lie but i think it was funny that Palmer avoided the chopper but got hit by an truck XD

6:00 Trivial nature of combat post Mt Gagazet has more to do with how broken the sphere grid system & character progression could become utilizing the fiend capture system & overdrive to ap.

i remember when i fought seymour omnis for the first time, i was so excited (especially with the banger music) but then i immediately summoned shiva and one hit him…

Seymore Omnis never hit for me as every time I encountered him, I killed him with one shot using an overdrive Anima. I refer to it as his mother sending him to his room without supper.

None of the undead guys you can just chuck a Phoenix Down at and call it a day, huh?

Um, they actually encountered Seymour at "Macarena" Temple

Biggest let down boss fight i.m.o was ff12 judge Ghis. You get arrested its this super intense time until you're free from the prison rescuing lady ashe. By times I got to Ghis I was level 16-19 range. And I just walked over him

Post-6.1 I think I'd say Bismarck is most underwhelming for me in FF14, it's a really aesthetically cool fight but it's just kill adds, kill different adds, kill third set of adds and I'm glad they haven't done anything like it again.

I did not remember we get to fight Rufus in the old FF7. That footage really caught me by surprise.

3:24 Seymour is a "fantastic antagonist"? Did we play the same game? He existed as a foil for Tidus and an example of how Yuna may have turned out if not for Lulu, Wakka, and Kihmari supporting her in absence of her father and mother. Otherwise, he really is a lackluster villain who mostly consists of character elements from Kuja and Sephiroth. If anyone wants to argue on behalf of Seymour's level of villainy, go ahead.

It has been a few decades so I could be remembering wrong, but wasn't there a final fantasy on the Gameboy where the final boss was undead and you could kill him with a phoenix down? I seem to recall that.

I felt most underwhelming combat experience in FFXIV to be Gilgamesh in Battle on the big Bridge, even more than Livia at Castrum, and especially now with the several dungeon reworks after the 6.1

I love these lists videos.

new players will never know the hilarity of the cape westwind hazing of pretending it is the hardest thing you are about to face before the boss is immediately curb stomped by everyone.

Guys please. Yu Yevon, 1 phoenix down is enough.

For the 14 entry I feel like Ultima Weapon would have been a better example. Back when it was 8-man you'd literally have 2-3 people sleeping at the keyboard through the cutscene just to have the fight killed easily by half the group. When this fight was changed to fit 4 people instead of 8, they actually INCREASED Ultima's HP instead of reducing it for the new party size. It's not a lot better than the 1-sided beat down we gave it in 6.0 and prior.

Can you do the origin of Lumina(FFXIII-LR),Cait Sith(FFVII),Minwu(Final Fantasy II) on your Channel? Please

Seymour Omnis was definitely underwhelming, you could just cast null of the current element he has switched to and....Get 0 damage from everything. Well except for Ultima then. Still a cool fight though but very easy. Never knew about the elemental weaknesses, I just spammed attack lol

what is the first music you used in this video ?

I loved the Palmer fights...

I liked the Palmer fight. I never had a boss fight in which the enemy tells me to "Kiss my @$$". You got to understand Squaresoft didn't want to make a game where it is just dark and dreary. They wanted to add some fun, some light humor to balance out it, to keep it from turning it into a game like ... FF XV.

Rhitatyn in ff14 was devastating for me. Because i fought him solo in my main story quest. His 2nd form almost entire screen jumping AOE attack always killed me in 1 hit. Had to retry at least 7 times before i finally managed to beat him.

what made Livia's encounter funny is that her magitek armor does peanuts for damage, so people will just stand still and dance while she would blast you eith artillery

In my opinion the first two Seymour fights, Macalania Temple & Bevelle make thematic sense. but then I'd want Unsent Kinoc to be at mount Gagazet, and finally after revealing you killed Yunalesca to Mika, it is Mika you face inside of Sin.

I have always just used Anima against seymor made for a quick fight plus always sick of dealing with so 1 overdrive from Anima made it so easy and satisfying

Hard to pick one particularly disappointing encounter since most games tend to be obscenely easy, but i guess that Leviathan in FFXV takes the cake. I expected a fight that could live up to its grandiose presentation, but all i got was the average Sony cinematic gameplay experience™ where you just press some buttons and watch the game play by itself. It was so bad that i got legitimately mad at the game, and i wasn't even liking it that much up to that point, which speaks volumes as to how utterly disappointed i was

Ah yes, Livia, the character that I fondly remember as being jealous of the Warrior of Light getting all the attention from Gaius.

Loved the Final Fantasy IX background music

what is the name of the song in the background? I love it

Hm, if i recall correctly, Odin/ Centra Ruins in FF8 were a DPS Check? Wasn't it that way, that you had a limited time to progress the dungeon and do a certain amount of damage to Odin before he used Eisenschneider to wipe out your party immediately?

The Shogun in Final Fantasy Legend 2 (Saga 2) I always thought was quite underwhelming since he was like the master of the house and I thought he would be the guy to defeat in the world (boy was I wrong!) but he was easily defeatable since you have the Muramas Sword which hits him with a weakness.

We need an ultimate super ultra omega Palmer fight asap

lol i was thinking "seymours 3 fights were difficult and challenging though" completely forgot about omnis

Name of the first background song in this video?

I'd love to see a video of "one-off jobs", jobs that only appeared once and never again

Vegangun really bummed me out on FFX2. Game was what it was but I paid for it and I wanted that fight to be challenging. Turns out it was super easy, barely an inconvenience.

Regarding the Odin battle. I think he didn't strike back cause he knew he'd kill us in one guy, so he just wanted to see if you had what it takes lol

Seymour Omnis might have been underwhelming as a fight but the soundtrack playing was epic.

Great work as always team FFU

man good thing the lucky 7 glitch happened when i fougt Hojo at the end of Disc 2, That boss was hyped in the story but hey lucky happened

Glad to see FFTA mentioned

I thought the Kanaizzo, Fiend of Water fight in FF4 was underwhelming. He was one of the four fiends... but by this point in the game you still had Tellah and he had remembered all his spells at this point, so you could cast Lit3 which was way, WAY overpowered for this power level of the game. Made the boss go down in like only 4 casts. Total cake.

I remember always dreading Seymour Flux.... then when the HD Remaster came out, I got it on psvita. And when I got to Flux, I summoned Yojimbo as my first move, who then just 1 shotted him. I just couldn't believe it! I laughed so hard! Ever since then I don't dread the Flux fight anymore. Lol. Instead of my tactic being summon all Aeons and use their overdrives, in order of weakest to strongest, my tactic now is summon Yojimbo first and hope for the best

Lel Palmer fight at the end looks as if he was isekaid by Truck-kun.

to be fair, the majority of the 14th were underwhelming prior to 6.1. like the Fight with Gaius was always a joke because he has a full 5 minute UNSKIPPABLE cutscene and his fight would be over in less then a minute.

Oh this I am excited for!

I was expecting Yu Yevon to be on this list. Seymour Omnis at least involved some strategy. Yu Yevon was built as the final boss but I guess it was really only ceremonial, which was underwhelming for me. I still adore FF 10 but yeah, probably the most underwhelming boss fight for me

I suppose the point is more modern FF, but for me it was pretty much every boss battle in FFII. At least once you realize that almost every boss is equally vulnerable to the same instant death spells as every other mob in the game and they're equally easy to perma-dodge with maxed-out evasion. You just kinda have to choose not to use those mechanics rather than having bosses that account for them and challenge you regardless.

I'm gonna get yelled at for blasphemy here so let me preface by saying that I'm a big fan of Kefka as a character and as a villain. But his final battle is SO disappointing, in part BECAUSE he's so great in everything leading up to it. The spectacle of it is unmatched--youve clawed your way through the origin of magic itself, the multitiered gods twisted into unholy parodies of themselves through Kefka's sheer evil will. The sky turns gold, the pipe organ from the intro screen starts up, the heavens themselves part to reveal Kefka's divine new form, he taunts you again, and then....the fight is over in a few minutes. He has SO few hit points that when he started crumbling away, I initially thought he was going to turn into something else. But nope, that's it, it's over, here's the ending. I felt let down. I know a lot of people rank this fight very highly, but those people almost always lump the divine tiers on the way TO Kefka in with fighting him.

Ozma from FF9, I don't know what I did wrong, but after two full plays of FF9 I remember Ozma being was easy compared to what I expected.

I honestly didn't think there was much to the Palmer fight. However seeing him get hit by a shinra truck afterwards actually made it worth it.

Something I wanna point out with Julia from XIV, si that the first phase was even easier than that. Julia would focus threat on whoever shot her last, so the tanks didn't even have to hold her aggro, and her magitek armor didn't hit for anything. so there was really no danger to being targeted by her

i kinda miss the second efie or whatever the bevelle dragon was called fight from 10 ... like ... its a zombie ... throw a pheonix down WIN ...

Seymour was fine. Livia was also fine, she's pretty easy just like all the other ARR main story bosses. Not sure exactly what you were expecting from her, all of her other colleagues were way easier and had a way less grand battle than she did.

A few of the bosses mentioned here were more of comedy spots than actual bosses per se.

Ff8's Odin is more a chance to stock up on useful spells than anything else. Palmer didn't get isekai'd after getting hit by truck-kun

I lost to Seymour's third battle that I LITERALLY CAN RECITE THE SCENE WORD FOR WORD, it was such a pain in the ass where with Seymour Omnis I just Yojimbo'd him to death.

How is the last fight with Seymour more underwhelming than the so called "final boss" of ffx. Like, I'd think that's one of the most underwhelming fights ever. Or even when you fight with Evrae Altana which can be killed with a Phoenix down

Those FF9 themes playing in the background of the video 👌🏽

Cosmic Marlboro. Boss at the end of the optional Tower of Yudecca, but the easiest encounter in it.

Calbazzo or whatever name I forgot from FFIV and Inferno from FFVI Advance.

You're wrong about the Ultima crystals. That shit could and would go sideways on a dime.

I love hearing the ff9 background music

I never actually used the Seymour mechanics until I played FFRK. I think I just used bahamut on him back when I was 12.

FFX Zombie Evrae, the second appearance of one of the major walls in the game, but turned into a really easy fight with incredible cheese.

Tritoch was pretty disappointing, gave us so much troublesome situations in FF VI, but was a pushover when we fought it.

Before the makeover, the trial against Rhitahtyn in ARR? To me, it was no trial, and the meme was prettey deserved. I haven't played the makeover version yet (because it's a single-player duty now), but I'm planning on doing it, when I get my alt character out soon. But here's my list of the most underwhelming bosses in every mainline Final Fantasy I've played. FFI: Lich. Being the first of the four fiends, he's actually surprisingly easy. Most, often, he doesn't do any damage. FFIII: Xande. Throughout FFIII you prepare for Xande, expecting him to be the final boss. But his fight is easy. I was rather unimpressed. FFIV: Dark Elf. You fight him in a cave where you can't use metal. Getting to him is hard, but after the first part of the fight, which is mainly cinematic, you can re-equip your metal gear, and then, he falls easily. FFV: Melusine. The fiend from Void that possess Lenna. She is really easy. Nothing much to say. FFVI: Warring Triad. They serve as the penultimate bosses before Kefka. If you have 12 members, these fall quickly. FFVII: Palmer. Totally agree with it here. FFVIII: Odin. If you do the dungeon puzzle, leave and then come back, the timer resets, making Odin even easier. FFIX: Deathgaze. The antepenultimate boss. Too easy considering you're at the endgame. FFX: Seymour Omnis. Just use correct aeon, and you're all but invincible. FFXII: Gabranth. Both times Gabranth is fought, the battles are lackluster. FFXIII: Midlight Reaper: Fought in chapter 8. Proper use of buffs and debuffs makes this fight rather trivial. FFXIV: Amdapor Keep dungeon (the normal one). It has no challenge whatsoever. All bosses there are jokingly easy. FFXV: Leviathan. While the battle is cool, I think it's virtually impossible to lose it.