The second battle with Maester Seymour...Let's use Bio and Auron. You get some funny battle quotes when you head back. Seymour Natus: HP: 36,000 (Overkill) (3,500) AP: 6,300 (Overkill) (9,450)
That's what I'm doing on my current playthrough. The EXP here is phenominal with a save point right there. Easy restore and grind. It helps get Yuna caught up for the segments she missed out too.
Real shit, dude legit said he wanted to become the next sin he is smart for attempting to kill him right then where he stood. Wish we had more people in the world like him
Tidus: “Hey, Kimahri! Save some for us!” Runs to help Kimahri. Later, on Mt. Gagazet: Kimahri: “Save some for Kimahri!” Runs to help Tidus. I love parallels like that. Tidus and Kimahri, comrades in arms.
Hershey Brown yeah i just started playing this game this year after i had it for a while and at first my auron didn't do much even though he hits hard and now he does some insane damage
This battle gave us clue how Seymour was gradually getting powerful until he got to the point of his peak at the Mt. Gagazet. He absorbed the souls of his guards and Kinoc to get the Natus form and perhaps, absorbed the souls of the Ronsos that he killed in Mt. Gagazet to acquire his Flux form. His power declined after his encounter with Yuna and her guardians at the Mt. Gagazet. Nevertheless, he retained a somewhat powerful Omnis form when he entered Sin.
You could say that in terms of just raw power, Omnis is where he peaks. But it comes at the cost of predictability, which became a glaring weakness. Meanwhile Natus and Flux both had more variety in their moveset, and had some genuinely dangerous combination attacks with mortibody and mortiorchis.
It's funny that Seymour is immune to almost everything except bio. He has to power to reflect, dispel and banish but doesn't even bother to remove bio. He just let it sit there then dies. This is every boss battle he's in
One of my favorite sections of the game. I stay near the first save point for quite sometime just to gain sphere levels and Gil. The convenience of staying near there is O'aka is right across from it and I can sell unnecessary items. I'll have close to a Million Gil by time I am done and the music keeps me going to level up my main team: Yuna, Auron, and Tidus.
You should level all characters equally, as xp gains don't diminish if there are more participants. I used to be a YAT purist too but now I even level lulu, when yuna is a far more op black mage.
i used him on that fight because i messed up his sphere and made him more powerful with magic than lulu and spammed double cast flare and had tidus use provoke while yuna used shell and protect on him while healing everyone
Wait, you can replace him? I can’t even ATTEMPT to do that without Seymour killing him immediately, causing me to constantly revive him, just for Seymour to rinse and repeat. Definitely the most annoying boss I’ve had to fight yet on this game.
@@bartleysbattlesif he’s killing you in one turn you probably need to level up your HP on the sphere grid, the hallway with this boss is a great place to grind some battles
In my most recent run, Kimahri was quite good. I used expert grid, dipping into Wakka’s, then connecting to Auron’s, and finally into Tidus’s just in time for Hastega. He was fast, strong, and had several nice utility options in Haste/Slow/Delay. I used him a lot until lategame.
I came up with this really stupid strategy for the fight and it somehow worked. Here's what I did: I started off using Bahamut's Overdrive, then I would let all of my aeons do as much damage as possible until Seymour used Banish. Then I used Rikku to give everyone on the field Reflect so Seymour himself couldn't do anything and I'd also have her use Dispel to get rid of Seymour's Protect. That way, his multi attacks, Break, and Flare would bounce back at him and help me out in the process. After that, I'd just go crazy on him. It was such a stupid plan, I'm amazed it worked.
@@watertommyz I did grind Rikku a lot so she did have Dispel. I loaded up my save file just now to check and it turns out that my Rikku did have Reflect. I did a huge amount of grinding at one point because I was having a lot of trouble with the Evrae and I came up with a strategy that required Reflect and Dispel. I can understand why you thought I had the two confused, though.
1st playing this and realizing this was awesome, by the time I got to Zanarkand I was sooo overpowered it was even a challenge anymore. I could be so calm in all my battles😁
Bio and Reflect were my saviors in this fight. Having Reflect on everyone in your party bounces the spells back at him, and casting Bio on him makes him poison himself every time he casts the spells. Double the damage. 🙌
I was slightly weak for this part. I just summoned 3 Aeons, used their overdrive. After a bit of grinding of course. I had him down to about 8,000 HP and died the first time around.
Interestingly enough this area can be the best if you spend days here you'll never have to grind again. Yuna Hastaga, Auron Dark Attack, Quick Hit. I spent days here and the rest of the way was a breeze.
All I did was use Tidus's provoke, and Yuna's reflect on Tidus. Simple yet very effective. I then finished him off with Bahumut's overdrive...I may have also accidentally given him the effects of Hastega.
Man I remember grinding the Machina enemies in this hall along to this awesome music. YKT-63s could sometimes be a pain but I also loved that weird leg animation they had
The same people that say the mainline content in the game is too easy are the same people that grind here for hours and then wonder why they will blitz through the rest of the story. It's why I only level from random encounters while progressing the story. Makes the mainline stuff still interesting and then save all the power leveling jacked characters stuff for when I'm at the end
@@sephservant lets be honest no one uses him outside the ronso boss fight. He's a sideline character that really doesn't do anything unique that others can do. He's basically a tier 2 auron/tidus hybrid.
@@lazava5150 idk I put him in Rikkus and lulus grid and their abilities on him make him op af. His magic stats become superior to lulus and then the health boost from rikkus grid plus her use ability is really good.
There needs to be an area to grind in before each boss in case you're under-leveled. They usually achieve this seamlessly, but this one is obviously desperately forced in.
It actually is forced in. In the original game there was no grinding area. So if you were under leveled before this boss fight in the original you were fucked. So they fixed it in the remaster.
@@chadjones967 Yup. I remember having a shit ton of trouble during the PS2 version of this game. I was underleveled as fuck. Looks like I'm gonna grind on the walkway before the boss battle.
Seymour: Time to die Ronso! Auron: Think again asshole! *hits Seymour so hard he went down like a wet noodle* Seymour: GAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!! *dies* Yuna: Yoink! *grabs Bahamut and runs off*
SOS Haste on my low HP status that had slayer as the overdrive mode. For some reason, human kills give double overdrive charge. Tidus could clean most 3 mook groups before they got a turn in. xD
Fun fact: the reason for the double overdrive on humans is because the gun counts as a second enemy (for some reason) and so you get double the amount of overdrive.
Tidus: Hey, Kimahri! Save some for us!! Later, on Gagazet when Seymour appears and tidus gets reqdy to 1v1 him while Rikku runs for help Kimahri: SAVE SOME FOR KIMAHRI!
Props to you sir if I do say so myself. Firstly my auron can single hit those bipedal guys he's really close to though. Also my strategy when fighting the bipedal guys is usually hastega with tidus. After that as I attack with wakka and auron I actually use slowga first then hastega. I'm actually using that area to get stronger. right now just with Wakka, Tidus and Auron but I also will train Lu, Rikku, Yuna.
I did this fight without reflect, or overlevling. Omg this was a pain, one of the hardest fights for me so far. Lulu, and Yuna the mvp in this fight; bio helps a lot in this slow fight. My characters have pretty low health, so it was annoying he kept putting my team low health, or straight up one shotting them.
The best place to farm is Omega ruins near save sphere. After ecery fight you touch it and walk nearby again. Without Omega I dobt know how would I defeat Penance
That's what I loved about Final Fantasy. Play like Southpark make love not warcraft, and you characters become strong. My favs will always be 2 3 7 and 10. I just bought the Double X-2. Fun times.
This was a cool fight. Too bad they decided to use the standard boss music instead of giving Seymour a cool track like in the other times you have to kick his ass.
