I BEAT EVERY MISSION IN FF13 AT C9 

What a sick playlist I'm gonna go through this again for my next playthrough

@@hiimcolors107 Thanks. I always like finding kindred spirits who gut out all the Gran Pulse stuff with a Ch. 11 party. I played JP & NA editions of the game on both PS3 & 360 when it was released. 14 years later, playing the Windows version, it’s amazing how well the game has aged. Each video in the playlist has a detailed description. Sadly, I don’t have your talent for narrative commentary-you do an exceptional job-so I just use text banners. The 6th video on the list is intended to show some of the subtleties: -Fang is a beast. SAB COM SEN results in a much faster battle time. -Though most of Verc’s attacks are physical, Wind Shear with non-elemental magic damage is deadly. A bracelet (magic resistance) & a belt (physical resistance) is better than an armlet (combined physical & magic resistance) & a belt. The Sylphid Ring (elemental wind resistance) is of no value because the magic damage is non-elemental. -After Poison, the most important debuff is Slow. Snow, therefore, is a better 3rd party member than Sazh & Lightning. Sazh & Lightning’s AI have them cast too many debuffs whereas Level 9 Snow can only cast Slow & it usually sticks rapidly. -Vanille, as the leader, does not need help casting Poison. If she is not the leader, then it’s best to have 2 poison casters because the AI does not reliably focus on inflicting the poison status. -Vanille should cast only Poison & Death. Fang’s main job is to dispel & cast debuffs other than poison. Snow’s only job (as a SAB) is to cast Slow. -Fang should use her debuff weapon-tier 1, 2, or 3. This is true in almost all fights. Though some prefer her with a Dragoon Lance or Taming Pole type weapon, one gets the fastest times with a Kain’s Lance from a Pandoran Spear. The time savings from the faster debuffs is significantly more than the savings from greater strength. Since the 5-star rating is based primarily on battle time, the debuff weapon ends up being Fang’s best.

yeah thats fair

I think the video was clear in what C9 meant, which it says in the first minute. And for RU-vid titles, you want something short and snappy, and not “I completed every single challenge in the JRPG Final Fantasy 13 as soon as we reached Gran Pulse while my characters can only access the ninth stage of the Crystarium, which restricts their abilities greatly.”

think i was running a 5900x amd chip and a 4080 when i recorded this

are those 13 years "Light"(ning) years?

ye that was the intention, but i screwed it up a few times trying it and managed to survive it anyway

@@hiimcolors107 ah fair enough

Yaya give it a shot its a fun challenge

thanks - I think ff13 reminds us the importance of appreciating the things we love even with their flaws pointed out to you it may have a long tutorial and some cringey moments, but hey so does life

​@@hiimcolors107Yeah! I think XIII is very character rich, but people miss it because of how linear it is until Gran Pulse, but I don't really mind the linearity, I actually think it helped keep the pacing feel very focused

People don't hate on it because of hallways. They hate on it because it wasn't good.

@@TheMockedystill high on that delusion?

Why wasn't it good? The idea that it was railroad? So what? You never get any real access to the over world before late game without glitches..and the locales were all pointless. Ff13 is a vibrant no nonsense tactical spectacle. It's a wonderful game​@@TheMockedy

thanks! blazefire saber for lightning belladonna wand for vanille dragoons lance for fang

@@hiimcolors107 thx for letting me know! I plan on coming back to 13 after many years, this will help me get into the endgame i never done :D

I think you need more than 2x of str over magic or vice versa to make her keep to one attack style. I went with just her base blazefire sabre in this video, but I think I'd recommend choosing her magic weapon since the attack animations for her com and rav spells is pretty quick

@@hiimcolors107 I was also considering using blazefire. Im torn between blazefire for some extra strength when using blitz or army of one or just going with Edged Carbine to stick with magic casting entirely. I thought of just using Lightning as my main controlled character. Is Army of one worth it for quickly upping the chain gauge to make her your controlled character. Army of one uses str, also theres blitz so I feel having some STR would be good as well. but is it enough to justify having those awful attk>spell>atk>spell animations if i dont use Lightning as main controlled?

@@pyguy7 I say just try it out! I don't have a long of army of one experience, but this game doesn't really require that much min-maxing where the character+weapon you choose may not work. You should be fine to have fun with lightning if you want :)

​@@pyguy7Army of One do meaningless damage. You don't use it for that.

I think the noticable difference was the tortoise has a broken tusk right?

@@ameliakyle7054 correct

I have not tried hard mod

@@hiimcolors107 i did it all up to mission 62 (i did 63 as well) but 62 seems almost impossible(specially because i limited the stagger to 600% so it seems impossible to kill one of them in a single stagger) yes i need to see a doctor

@@kimpetrasisaqueen3955 XD

C9 i meant crystarium 9 chapter 11 is when you get to gran pulse. Less linear, far more variety in monsters + missions to do

@@hiimcolors107 Ohhhhh.... that makes so much more sense. I was like chapter 9!?!

Oooo i didnt think of this! I’ll give it a shot my next play-through this challenge

Ain't no way to slice it though Gigantaur sucks ass... esp the 5 star

its a challenge run/guide/playthrough thing

oh okay xD it seems like a good video i need more damage right now so ima try see what weps i should use for the boys@@hiimcolors107

Neochu with Death is annoying as fuck lol Zantetsuken is a much better strat (and can be done at every level).

@groudonvert7286 eh? Isn't that the final move of odin? You can't spam it like you can spam death. Death on neochu makes it easy. Also did you mean "Neochu with(OUT) death is annoying as fk"? As I said...killing neochu without using death is one of the most annoying battles in the game

@@nezkeys79 I'm serious, Neochu with Death is just RNG. You spam Death like an idiot each turn and you pray you don't die on either Neochu's Screech or Picochu's attacks (and they're quite resistant to Provoke). Zantetsuken has a bit of RNG, because you need RIC and Neochu to not drop under 50%, but it's much more skilled based than just waiting for RNG before death (also the biggest drowback of this strat is that most people don't even know how to deal with the Picochu next lol). Basically, Zantetsuken is used twice. The first time to kill the Picochu, the second time to kill Neochu once RIC triggered. An Elixir is used in between, but if you're low level enough you don't even need an Elixir because of the lack of damage. Once the Picochus are dead, spam Ruin with Lightning until she's out of range of Screech. The rest is easy. No death, an intersting and a bit challenging strat to do and doable no matter your level is. 300 HP Lightning can do this fight without problem that's how easy it is.

​@groudonvert7286 calling people idiots for using death on Neochu, and bragging about how using zantetsuken is more skill based just makes you look pathetic Most people don't spend very long against it. It's barely any different than spamming death against the turtles and "praying for RNG like an idiot". Dealing with the little ones is fine with snow or elude

@@nezkeys79 It's figuratively speaking. Of course nobody seriously plays a game by mashing a button while laughing maniacally (but I would find it fun if someone does that in front of me just for fun... yeah it's my type of joke xD ). So no, I'm not treating anyone to be an idiot to use Death because... well 99% of the players does that, 0.999% use Cold Blood RIC and there are like 3 people outside of Japan, myself included, that uses the Zantetsuken strat who's by far the most consistent strat to deal with the mission 55 at low level (at high level Fang can basically kill Neochu on her own lol)

People take Lightning for her RAV role which is far superior to Fang's at that point.

​@AndreasFleissner she doesn't even get the role without considerable investment so it's hardly a fair comparison. The positives fang brings far outweigh the presence of an extra ravager. It's easy asf to pre-emptive most encounters too even without deceptisol so the extra ravager is really not the big thing people think it is. If I wanted an extra ravager I would use hope anyway since he hits everything on screen and has every element plus high magic and is the best medic plus all the defensive buffs Lightning is just a really average "balanced" character because she brings rav com med, but her medic is the worst in the game and she needs gladius/edge carbine with four strength/magic accessories to even do decent damage anyway. At this point people aren't gonna be smashing it with crafting to that degree

@@nezkeys79 Of course it's a fair comparison. It's the reason Light/Snow have advantage over Fang in some fights. At stage 8 Light isn't taken for just being a good RAV, she is also the second/third best damage dealer at that stage after Fang, the best one probably if you need magic dmg since Hope has no com role levels yet and the best group clear com with an axis blade. Don't know what you mean insinuating she needs upgrades to do damage, she has the second highest Str/Mag by default.

@@nezkeys79 Oh and Fang is by far the worst medic.

​@AndreasFleissner Lightning is not the 2nd/3rd best damage dealer at any point. Fang, controlled Sazh, and Snow all do more damage than her at any stage of the game pretty much. As for her ravager, it's just ok. Vanille and Hope are better ravagers because they target every elemental weakness to -aga level and have high magic stats. Conveniently, that works well with them both having medic as a primary role too and being the best two medics in the game. As for the medic comment, Fang isn't "way worse than Lightning." Both are bad and about the same. The difference is that Fangs medic isn't a primary role. Lightning is the only character with a primary role, which is #5 / #6 rank. Both only get cura iirc. Fang can also get high magic with Taming Pole If you don't even know what I mean about making her stats lobsided (instead of balanced) then you shouldn't really be saying anything. The AI on autobattle alternates between strikes and spells which slows her animation down. Her other most popular weapons all have low balanced stats except for the two I named so her having high balanced based stats means nothing if another character can get higher in the stat they specialise in via their weapon and passives. Lacking adrenaline is a big deal for example. It's easy to track this too. Fang Sazh and Snow will all reach 99,999 damage cap way before Lightning will If you're comparing Fang V Lightning the only plus point for lightning is she has a ravager earlier on. This is not that important because com/rav/rav and sab/rav/rav are perfectly fine paradigms for staggering. rav rav rav isn't this "omg absolutely needed for every single encounter" thing. Also pre-emptive strikes exist (via sneaking up or using deceptisols) so it's better to switch out of ravager unless ravager is the main source of damage (vanille hope who don't have their commandos yet). If you want a 3 rav and 3 com team it has to be three from Fang Snow Lightning Sazh. Ignoring Vanille and Fang at any stage of the game is bad because of debuffs and debilitates (and the best two synergists at max crystarium). So you're left choosing between Sazh and Lightning, and Sazh is all round better than lightning because he has a better commando if controlled, a better ravager special in Cold Blood, plus offensive buffs and enspells. He also gets the most OP T2 weapon. Fang Snow Sazh teams downfall is that it doesn't have a medic early on though, but this is an irrelevant comparison because Lightnings medic is awful. Doctors code still exists though. Later on Sazh and Snow become the best medics anyway after vanille and hope, because of curasa. You need to sacrifice one commando role to get one of the best medics in the game. Everything is trade-offs