Game:

Final Fantasy XIII (2009)

Duration: 2:03

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Just wanted to show off this little battle, because it has a kinda strict time limit for the 5 Star rating. You'll see how I finished the battle in 38 seconds, that is the exact cutoff point for 5 Stars for my team. I tried to do the battle faster (could only do it in 37 seconds), and found out that if you finish the battle in 39 seconds, you'll get 4 Stars. Of course, the target Time is dependent on your party's stats and ATB levels, so it'll be different for a differently set up team.

This battle only requires 3 Paradigms, I show them at the end. They are:

COM/COM/COM (Cerberus)
COM/SAB/SAB (Exploitation)
SEN/SYN/SYN (Prudent Planning)

Start the battle with Prudent Planning. It's recommended that you play as the SEN so that you can Provoke as soon as possible. Just keep throwing them out. I suppose you could defend if all enemies are provoked, but I didn't bother. I wasn't really using Auto-battle much anyway. Wait for your SYN's to provide everyone with Haste and Enthunder. In Lightning's case, this would require either not using LIbra on the Ceratosaurs, or not teaching her Protect. My party is maxed out, so I did the former. Once you have the 2 buffs on everyone, change to Exploitation and start spamming Ruinga if you're a COM, or Cursega/Deprotega/Deshellga (your choice) if you're a SAB. The SABs/COM will prioritize whoever you are targeting, so don't target the same enemy for too long if you want to inflict as many targets as possible. Once some targets are down or you've inflicted a satisfactory amount of debuffs, switch to Cerberus and finish them off. I think I spent a bit too long in Exploitation, so Cerberus lasted like 3 seconds lol.

Whistlewind Scarves (ATB Advantage) might be useful here for any character, but I didn't even bother changing my setup from the standard, lol. Minimal effort here, but to be fair, this is just for fun.

Sahagin seem to have First Strike. If you see a Sahagin start the battle with Water instead of a physical attack, just Retry. The ability can inflict Slow, among other things. No time to deal with that. That's RNG for ya!

Also, Ruinga stun-locking ftw.

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