Beat Gades and get an AWESOME WEAPON - Lufia 2 Boss Strategy Guide (SNES) 

Top Guide, finished him myself.

They continued this trend in the third game, where you can actually defeat the Sinistrals in earlier fights to get cool gear.

This game is amazing, I couldn't believe it when I beat Gades for the first time, and after being beaten so much in the ancient cave, I discovered on my own that deadly items are the secret to beating the strongest enemies.

Thank you for this guide!! I followed your strategy to a T and was kind of astonished when I beat him 🎉🎉

you can get even stronger befor fighting gades but it requires a lot of luck or save scumming. in lufia 2 each boss can drop a strong item at a very low chance. the giant fish can drop the earth jewel with the quake ability and camu can drop the camu jewel that lets you use his berserker attack. both of those items boost a characters stats way more than what is normal at that point and their ip skills deal massive damage.

I never knew he could be beaten. Just beat him today with your help. Many thanks!

I was so excited as a kid beating Gades here for the first time, we had no idea it could be done and wanted to try

Interesting fact: Gades' Blade also counts as a blue chest item in the Ancient Cave. So that way you already have at least one weapon if you decide to make the descent later on. ^^

Best to get a few levels by farming the red cores near Parcelyte on top of all the setup since stat increases are random. I'd say get to high 20's.

I remember grinding the casino for this fight and spamming statues to offset his damage until I whittled his health down.

I did the fight yesterday and after some attempts and afterwards succeeding I had to do some testing. Turns out buffing your INT doesn't make healing spells heal more, it only works for offensive spells. Kind of like some IP attacks doesn't get buffs from things like berserker (notoriously the elemental x1,5 don't get buffed but the x3 ones do)

I eventually ended up having this setup ten years ago. The major difference was that I gave Guy the light knife. All senestrals are weak to the light element, if you use the anger brace or mini shield to cast battle lust on guy then he will deal 300ish damage per swing. There is no point in using the light knife's Ip ability because it will deal the same amount of damage as a regular swing.

I managed to kill him with a full party at LVL 22 . Made a challenge out of it xD. By the way it is verry helpful to get some statues from the gambling machines. It heals every party member 200 hp

Amazing that he can be beaten at such a low level. Trying to do it without the Spido jewel at the same low ish level ... ha! Now that'd be a challenge. Finally beaten in my recent return on normal mode mainly due to being lv 35. I grinded up bee rocks for lv4+ capsule monsters before the fight lol

Anyone else notice this guy is wearing house slippers to a sword fight? He must just have gotten out of bed when he went on his rampage....

I thought Egg Dragon was the big challenge for this game, had no idea this was a thing despite playing the game since it came out. Looks like I'll be doing this on my next playthrough

For those who don't want to pause the video all the time or search through it: Maxim: Mandatory: Head - Jet Helm (Alunze Northwest Cave) Accessory - Muscle Ring (Gordovan West Tower) Suggested: Weapon - Cold Rapier (Treasure Sword Shrine) Rest of gear ATP or DFP based on personal preference Guy: Mandatory: Armor - Camu Armor (Tanbel Southeast Tower) Accessory - Undead Ring (Treasure Sword Shrine) Head - Fury Helmet (Ruby Cave) Suggested: Weapon - Fire Dagger (Tanbel Southeast Tower) Shield - Anger Brace (Treasure Sword Shrine) Rest of gear ATP or DFP based on personal preference Tia: Mandatory: Armor - Holy Wings (Parcelyte Castle after clearing the Treasure Sword Shrine) Shield - Power Brace (Alunze Northwest Cave) Accessory - Speedy Ring (Lake Cave near Sundletan) Accessory - Bee Rock (Farmed in Ruby Cave) Rest of gear DFP for more defense (Holy Wings heals for 75% max HP so more INT does nothing here) Selan: Mandatory: Accessory - Mind Ring (Treasure Sword Shrine) Suggested: Accessory - Water Jewel (Alunze Basement after acquiring Hook from Gordovan West Tower) Shield - Pearl Brace (Tanbel Southeast Tower) Rest of gear either INT for stronger heals or DFP for more defense.

Honestly, Destructo Wave is the least of your worries in this fight. The thing that is the biggest threat is him physically attacking one of the girls early in the fight before you can do any buffing/debuffing, cus that will most definitely mean an instantly dead party member unless you are vastly overleveled.

Gahaha " ... he kills you anyways " lol xD

Took what felt like a half an hour to pull it off, but I managed it. Thanks for the winning strategy. Although I do have one question: Where the hell did you find a Bee Rock before this fight? Because I couldn't find it anywhere and had to improvise to get Tia's speed up.

This game NEEDS a port to modern systems. I know there was that remake for Nintendo DS some time ago. But there are a lot of differences between it and this game. The SNES cartridge is so hard to find and I'm not technically proficient enough to play it outside of an emulator.

Lufia 2 wasn't underrated it just came out to late in snes life cycle. Had it came out 1-2 years earlier it would have been a massively bigger success.

I am just playing this game again and found your video haha. The strategy shown in the video is quite cool, but for me it didn't work. Tia dies instantly with the destructo-wave, no matter what buffs she has. In the end, I fell back to using Guy to attack and Selan for healing. With a bit of luck and using miracles I could beat Gades. Funny enough, when it was the last hit, he attacked Selan, and only Guy survived and got the exp hahaha; Nice video BTW! I was still impressed I could beat him at lvl 25 (first time I beat gades at this stage was just ultra-grinding and getting to lvl 50; but that is boring)

Do you also cover and or make strategy for more recent game? Because i've ben struggling with Wandering Sword and can't seem to find much info on it even on steam. :(

Thx i take it based on your intro that you don't necessarily need to win this fight to progress the plot? I didn't realize that as I kept resetting and trying to defeat.

On the plus side you can use Gades blade in the ancient cave so you’ll have a decent attacker from the get go

I'm about to do this fight & was actually considering giving Guy the Light Dagger. Even though it's attack power is around 30 less than the Fire Dagger, it is light based & thus does double damage to Gades! It also allows me to put the Undead Ring on Maxim instead since he has the more powerful Cold Dagger with the 3x IP attack but can still get respectable damage from Guy too with that light dagger. I put all of the Anger equipment on Maxim instead of Guy. I can use both characters to deal damage this way & Guy will still have the 1.5x IP attack of the Light Dagger. Am going to try this & see how well it works. I also prefer having the Mini Shield on Tia since it has the IP ability to raise attack power which is nice, cus it means I can raise the attack of both Guy and Maxim in a single round since there will be 2 characters with that IP ability. Not really sure why you had the Small Shield on her which is a very weak early game shield. It appears you had the Mini Shield in your inventory so there was no real reason not to have it on her.

I have to say that I could not agree more about how incredible this game is, & how sad it is that it doesn't get talked about more. It's ABSOLUTELY one of THE best JRPG's on the system & is in the Top 3 imo! The music is incredible as is the story. I felt the story to be VERY refreshing as it lacked the usual Anime trope writing that the JRPG market is just FLOODED with, specially today. Character's actually talk like real human beings in this one & actually say what they mean for once. Ppl actually tell each other that they love each other, & have kids. I really love that. The fact that EVERYTHING JRPG seems like it's being written by Anime writers these days just makes me sick & I hate it. It's not a knock on Anime really, as Anime used to actually be pretty damned good, at least some of it was. It's more a knock on what Anime has become. Aka this stale ass genre with characters that don't look, dress, act or talk like real ppl ever would, & that has bled over into 99% of JRPG's these days & it makes me VERY rarely play a new JRPG now because of it. It's just unrelatable when characters dress, talk & act like Aliens from another planet. Or maybe it's just a Japan thing, I dunno. But it's kind of weird when Japan feels like it's becoming even MORE.... Japan, these days. If that makes any sense. It's all a bit too wacky for my tastes. I prefer stuff that is more grounded in reality, stuff & characters I can relate to.

You don't need to farm the shit out of the monsters. Just go the upper left corner near parcelyte and trigger fights on the tree tiles on the world map. (beneath the sword shrine) There you'll may find some red cores which give a lot of xp and are easy to kill.

I remember when I beat Gades on my first try. I didnt know he was supposed to be a fight you're supposed to normally lose. I just thiught he was a BS boss.

Destructo wave is a Magic attack right? I believe theres an accessory at this point that ups Magic Resistance, so that might also be handy to withstand that attack?

Even at lv 30 NG+ runs I STILL had his OPENING Destructo wave do OVER 300 damage to a lv 30 party whom doesn't even HAVE 300 HP to begin with so I still didn't even last 1 TURN at all.

Also in the GBC, u can beat twice using High bombs, pretty hard and so much farm, but is awsome, destructo wave sucka

I actually never did a game without killing him. I always grind the strenght potion dropped from the crab. There is also an item healing I think like 200 hp to everyone you can buy amd spam every turn for an easy win.

So what is his agility? I've tried looking for it online, but I can't find it anywhere.

Ok fine RU-vid I Play lufia 2

How ist can you have Stronger so early in the Game....

This fight is actually not that hard if you're a player that actually uses their brain aka uses strategy. This is really the only place in the game where you really need to in order to win, the game is that easy. But yeah, there's really no reason that you'd need to grind as long as you use the right setup & gear.

No.... full Game :(

Can u do a guide on how to beat Gades in Lufia 2 hackrom Age of sinistrals

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