Which Final Fantasy had the most difficult Final Boss?

[Wolf Kanno]

Final Fantasy, as one of the longest running RPG franchises have given players some epic final battles. So which villain gave you the hardest time taking them down?

[Omni-Odin]

I went Ultimecia purely because it was back in like middle school days when I first beat her. The level balancer or whatever killed me. I was young, didn't fully grasp the Junction System, and she kicked my ass a couple of times. Now, I can cruise through 8 and all bosses no problem.

I would actually assume the XI and XIV bosses to be the hardest. Considering MMO boss difficulty and strategies and all. I own XI (stopped playing after one day) and XIV (still playing), but I find it most fun to roll new characters here and there, so I haven't gotten to end game content.

[Karifean]

Braska's Final Aeon. It was actually a really fun and challenging fight when I finally decided to face him without doing sidequests and powerlevel.

Zeromus would probably take second place. He was pretty damn tough, and probably the only reason why I didn't pick him instead is because he didn't Game Over me (came so damn close though).

Honorable mentions to Ultimecia, Necron, Orphan and the entire XIII-2 final boss gauntlet.

[Sephiroth]

Orphan 1 is the hardest without using the Crystallium too much. Just a normal run will cause trouble.

Then Zeromus, Trultimecia and Neo X-Death. But you can still lose after Orphan 1 so if that is important, one of those or Bhunivelze.

[Rez09]

I feel kind of bad voting for him, but I guess I've got to go with Necron, if only because I sometimes forget to equip my status defense skills.

[Forsaken Lover]

Orphan is a fucking joke if you use Poison. That's literally all it takes. I was absolutely stuck against it when I played XIII, barely able to do any real damage, and then I found out about Poison. Suddenly I didn't even need to damage it, it killed itself.

I vote for Zeromus or The Undying. Zeromus with his Big Bang spam was a bitch and always killed Rydia in FFIV Advance. The Undying can also wreck your day if you aren't taking him seriously, which I wasn't my last playthrough.

[VeloZer0]

Hm, this is a really tough on between The Emperor and Cloud of Darkness. Both of them make anything in the later entries look like child's play.

I had more trouble with Cloud of Darkness, but I also did the power leveling/cheating method for FF2 and he still was non-trivial. But I can't comment on how he is on a normal balance.

[Shiva95]

Braska's Final Aeon. It was really challenging.

[Pumpkin]

Yu Yevon

Really Ultimecia for me. Everything leading up to it didn't help

[Spooniest]

Hm, this is a really tough on between The Emperor and Cloud of Darkness. Both of them make anything in the later entries look like child's play.

I had more trouble with Cloud of Darkness, but I also did the power leveling/cheating method for FF2 and he still was non-trivial. But I can't comment on how he is on a normal balance.

Cloud of Darkness is the final boss from III.

I haven't really played the series beyond X, which I found more or less easy after having basically played 9 of these games already.

I had the most trouble with Neo Exdeath, to be honest. The Job System takes such a spider web of interconnected strategies that it's really difficult to work out a combination that reliably works for a victory at lower levels.

(This is neither here nor there, but enough grinding will make the last boss of any FF into cake).

Also, FFV is the only game, that I know of, in the series that changes the ending if one or more of your party members do not survive the final battle. So how does that grab ya?

[VeloZer0]

In retrospect I probably could have made the wording more clear. I had more difficulty in FF3, but that has to be balanced against the fact that I had an unfair advantage in FF2.