Lufia 2 - Low Level Game Part III: Gades
49A close one. Guy survived several times with barely any health left and once with exactly 2 HP!
Defeating Gades in Gordovan is something most people cannot accomplish in a regular game (though it's still possible), and one would think doing it in a low level is not an option.
I remembered watching videos by Xuxon ('hyperspaced' on YouTube) who managed to beat Gades at an average level of 12.5. The experience distribution done prior to that battle was, as I understand it, carried out to ensure that Guy and Maxim gain all the mandatory experience from prior boss battles, as with their HP, far superior to the women's, they are the two characters who can withstand Gades's attacks.
My situation is quite different. Maxim is left at his minimum possible level (lv. 6) and therefore cannot hope to survive any of Gades's attacks. Guy is two levels below Xuxon's and has problems surviving either the physical blow or the Destructo Wave (latter due to his awful magic resistance).
To replace Maxim, I had to powerlevel with Tia a bit and raised her to lv. 26. This doesn't conflict with the LLG's rules at all (unless you're doing it hardcore and not allowing any extra levels for temporary characters), as Tia is about to permanently leave the party.
However, Gades still kills the two, even if equipped with the best available items. That means buffs should be cast during the first turn. The capsule monsters cannot increase our stats at this point, so their only purpose is to take damage from Gades on the first turn while our party reduces his offensive attributes and enhances own.
Everyone enters with the IP bar full, Maxim and Guy casting Menace to diminish the power of his physical attacks, Tia casting Ironclad on Guy to improve his defence and Selan casting Spell Repel on Guy to boost his magic resistance a bit.
The next turn, knowing that Tia will be hit (successfully surviving thanks to standing in the back row), I have Maxim use a Statue to get Tia back to full health, Selan increases Guy's MGR once again (this is important!), Guy uses Battle Lust to power up further attacks and Tia uses Ironclad again, this time on herself.
Next turn is Destructo Wave time! Maxim and Selan die, Tia and Guy barely survive it. Guy is now ready to begin attacking while Tia is on a healing duty until the end of the battle when Guy has to die not to gain any experience and Tia should finish the boss off.
When Guy has enough IP, he uses Blaze Attack (triple fire-elemental damage). In other cases, he attacks normally, which actually does double damage as I equipped the Undead Ring (adds the light element to attacks, to which Gades is weak to).
The damage dealt to Gades must be calculated very precisely (i.e. with an actual device, not approximately in your head), as the boss has not one, not two, but seven and a half thousand HP.
At the end of the battle, I reduce Gades's HP with weak attacks and spells so that a single Aqua Attack takes him down. I get Guy killed, make sure that Tia is at full health and end the battle.
And yeah, he still defeats you even if defeated. Nothing new here.
Contrary to popular belief, getting the Statues was the easy part. Bring some money from random battles to the casino (and by 'some' I mean a few thousand), get some tape and put it over the 'up' button (in my case, also the key corresponding to the emulator's turbo button to speed up the process dramatically). Then leave for a few hours while the slots play themselves. Once you decide to come back, spend the coins you've won on Statues.
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