FFX NSGNSNO Challenge - #27 Braska's Final Aeon (death_unites_us)

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Published on December 8, 2014 6:23:17 PM ● Video Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DupO-dh7VUk

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Final Fantasy X (2001)

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I finally did it.

Let me start off by saying that a majority of the difficulty of this fight comes from the prelude. You have to dodge stupid crystal spikes and watch a long cutscene every time you want to fight him making each attempt nearly an hour long. After all of the setup to make this fight possible it still took several nights to finally take him down.

The fight is actually pretty easy up to the end. Auto-Phoenix, Auto-Potion on Auron and Stoneproof make the first twenty minutes impossible to lose. The problem with this fight is Ultimate Jecht Shot, which becomes his overdrive once his hp is below 60,000 in his second form. It is an automatic game over, so the only goal of this entire fight is to set his life as close to 60,000 as possible and have a perfect setup to blast him down before he can use it. However, no matter how much work you do and no matter how perfect the setup is, if BFA uses the sword (which kills Rikku causing her turns to reset, and delays Auron even though he survives) any more than a few times, you lose, and he uses the sword 60% of the time at that point. Because the sword also delays Auron he could hypothetically use it over and over again and your characters will never get a turn, and sometimes he does.

The setup basically looks like this: We want Auron with protect, haste, reflect (for a possible curse although rare), and double HP. We want Tidus with Haste. We want Rikku with haste. We want BFA as close to 60,000 hp as possible and hopefully also zombiefied at the time we make our move. Most importantly, and also most rare, we need Rikku and another character to have a turn before BFA gets his turn. If all those cards are stacked, we have a chance, and Rikku can open up with a gem, drop BFA under 60,000 and start our countdown to doom. (I've read that some throw a supreme gem first to drop him below 60,000, I think my technique works better, since I waited so Tidus could get a turn right after, I let the pagodas drop a power wave right before his overdrive is drained due to talk, then kill them extending the amount of time the pagodas stay dead)

At this point Tidus comes in and gives us some turns with talk. BFA will just sit there and we have to pray that the supreme gems take out the pagodas fast enough, and the pagodas don't revive at the same time. If the pagodas come back up at the same time they can Power Wave meaning he gets Jecht Shot faster and some healing.

It may seem like turning BFA zombie and throwing mega-potions is a waste of time, but trust me, you need every single point of damage. I have come within hundreds of damage of winning before, and depending on how he uses the sword you only have a limited amount of time to do anything before he decides you're dead. It is really all thrown up to luck though, on this attempt my setup was good, not great, but then he didn't abuse the sword like crazy and I was able to pull it out. If you're doing this challenge, all I can say is, keep trying, eventually he'll be nice.

Well, it took me three years, but I finally finished this challenge. My final save time was 81:39, so we can round that out at about 80 hours. Obviously this shouldn't have taken 3 years, I could have done it in a month, but as everybody knows things get in the way. I decided to finally knock it out because I have a new challenge on the horizon, and I felt it would be unfair to start another when so many people were waiting for the end of this one. So, I just want to thank everybody who followed this challenge, and anybody watching it now. It was not for the feint of heart, and I'm proud that I was able to finish it using a lot of my own ideas mixed with what had already been done.

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NSGNSNO
- No Sphere Grid
- No Summons
- No Overdrives

There are 6 total exceptions to this challenge, but none of them will be shown in the videos. They only involve tutorials where you are forced to use overdrives and Aeons, plus the Aeon fight against Isaaru.

If you have any questions about this challenge, comment on any of the videos ;)
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