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Final Fantasy VII (1997)

Duration: 9:25

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The Midgar Skip and Hojo.

If you want to try out the Midgar Skip yourself, which is incidentally the (currently known...) second most major (after Yuffie Warping) and the easiest skip in the game, just hold [DOWN], [RIGHT] and [RUN] down when the scene fades to Hojo starting at 00:50.

The most important thing in the Hojo battle (and in all the remaining boss battles) is ATB on Wait. It will (among other very beneficial effects) allow one to skip Hojo's capsule attack sometimes.

I am very glad I spent 1 second on grabbing the Vaccine in Icicle Inn. It's extremely useful in this battle, as is the War Gong.

Berserked characters will do 1.5 times as much damage. Additionally, in contrast to what I have read on ffwikia all too often, their chances at getting a critical hit are entirely unchanged. Also, they choose their enemy targets randomly, which is slightly bothersome for the second part of the battle against Hellectic Hojo and his two arms since Tifa seems to take greatest pleasure in attacking Hojo's arms instead of his main body.

In order for my strategy to work, Tifa has to hit Hellectic Hojo critically at least once, which happens with a probability of around 5%.

Hellectic Hojo may choose any of his attacks before his early demise as long as it does not hit Tifa or Cloud.

Finally, Lifeform-Hojo-N's Combo attack must not hit Tifa or Cloud and he must not afflict Tifa with Slow.
Lifeform-Hojo-N dies after its first attack because I make use of the Wait Trick. Cid is only attacking Lifeform-Hojo-N for that very reason, it didn't even matter if his Deathblow would hit because Tifa's twofold 2xCut deals enough damage (32K+) to kill Lifeform-Hojo-N (30K HP) regardless.

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