FINAL FANTASY VII REMAKE (HARD MODE) Part 10 , Chapter 9, Hell House Boss, Materia Loadout Shown
0This fight probably took around 2 hours to beat. Tough fight. I show my materia loadout in the intro of the video.
I linked Warding and Subversion materias together in the linked slot. This makes Cloud immune to Insta Death, which the minions will cast on you and wipe out your party. Thats the hardest part of the fight. I only had one Subversion materia so I couldnt protect both characters from insta death, but with Cloud alive he can revive Aeris I use chakra and prayer to self heal myself and the party, revive on both characters, and cloud has Poison linked to the HP absorption materia. Poisoning the house works great. I re apply bioga whenever it wears off the house. With HP absorption linked to poison it may do some healing to cloud as well. Aeris is the main healer. I save cloud's limit break and the summon for the final form of the boss. Its around the time he brings out two robots to assist and goes much more wild. The other phases are easy with this strategy, just take patience. Ray of judgement does good damage from Aeris, but you have to decide when to use pray instead to heal your team, or chakra to heal Aeris. Aside from that I keep my distance, dodge and do most of my damage with poison. MP is a scarce resource on hard so I only cast Bioga and Revive with cloud.
I also removed the elemental materia from lighting magic for cloud. You dont want any elemental attacks linked to your base weapon for this fight as the boss switches elemental immunities frequently and you will end up healing the boss with each hit, rather than dealing damage.
The strategy is to poison the boss and mostly avoid it as its health slowly drains. Focus on keeping the team alive over attacking and save Cloud's limit break and the summon for the final phase. Try to use both of these attacks when its barrier is down for max damage and choose either Ifrit or Sheeva depending on what element barrier he has up. If he has a fire barrier up use Sheeva, If an ice barrier use Ifrit. Aeris' limit break can be used to heal the team as needed.
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