Game:

Final Fantasy VII (1997)

Duration: 5:29

613 views

9

Your friend D.

In order to save time in this fight, several things must go right.

First of all, Cid or Cloud must be able to use a Limit Break before Diamond gets his first turn. This is much MUCH harder than it may seem as Diamond Weapon has a Dexterity stat of 180. Afterwards, Cloud or Cid will be able to use a Limit Break as well due to the precedence of Limit Breaks over usual attacks.

Hence, Diamond Weapon will then use Countdown and become susceptible to physical attacks. Provided everything that follows turns out perfectly, Diamond Weapon will be able to attack a character twice in the course of the battle. He may not attack Tifa even once, Cloud only once and Cid up to two times.

After Diamond Weapon has started his countdown, Cid and Tifa have to attack him in that order.

As Diamond is weak to Lightning-elemental damage, having Ramuh=Elemental in his weapon allows Cid to do double damage to Diamond. Cid's two Deathblows must hit, which is not that unlikely thanks to the nice Def% boost of the Ziedrich.

However, the main problem is Tifa's 2xCut. Diamaond Weapon will only die before his third turn, which is more than desirable, if one of Tifa's attacks becomes critical. The Curse Ring gives a +10 boost to Luck, which is just enough for a critical hit to become possible in the first place. The probability of at least one critical hit by Tifa is as high as 6%.

As soon as Diamond dies, it's FMV time until the end of this segment.
The menuing at the end is (unnecessary) preparation for Hojo in the next segment.

06:17:10

Other Statistics