Game:

Final Fantasy XII (2006)

Duration: 10:54

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This was an incredibly difficult fight, it blown Gabranth (2nd encounter) right off the top spot for hardest boss.

Zeromus and co. can rapidly deplete your HP in sudden spikes due to gravity based attacks, even the skeletons have some form of gravity based item attack which was dealing around 2k damage to me, Zeromus's Gravity does 25% of your max HP damage and Piercing Graviga does 50% to everyone in range which is one of the main problems in this fight along with Stop, Zeromus can cast Stop and his melee attacks also have a small chance to cause Stop.

You might be thinking why not keep HP lower to tone down on the damage of his gravity attacks but it makes the fight even worse since you'll be healing alot more often from of physical attacks, i tried with a Maximillian and no Bubble Belt which put me at 1.9k HP and Zeromus's attacks were doing 900-1k damage which is basically being hit by Peircing Graviga on every attack so there's no way lower HP helps especially in an LLG, it will when your an higher level for sure though.

With my rules there's absolutely nothing i could have done about the skeletons, killing them wasn't an option because they quickly respawn and i wouldn't have been able to get hits in on Zeromus + i would have had to keep equipping the Firefly accessory to recieve 0 EXP so i had to deal with all 6 skeletons + Zeromus at once.

Another annoying thing in this fight is that there's so many spells and enemy items going off that majority of the time you have to wait to use items.

The strategy for this is hard to describe but you should be able to work it out from the video, it just requires you to be aware of the situation at all times, that means keeping an eye on queued enemy attacks, your HP, enemy/ally positioning, running from enemies and staying close to your ally so they use their commands...That's alot to take it at once and to be doing it throughout a good few minutes is why it can easily go wrong, you need to keep an eye on queued enemy attacks to see Piercing Graviga, Stop or a skeletons item attack coming in since they can easily screw you over.

It took me about 15 attempts to pull this off, i tried different challenges and strategies and when i got them down it took me another few attempts to beat him since it can easily go wrong.

Rules:
122333/LLG - Low level game, 122333 is the respective levels of each character.
NTNEQ - No technicks (Steal exception), Nihopalaoa, espers and quickenings.
RIO - Restorative items only.
FBS - Fastest battle speed.

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