Ruby weapon: the laughing stock of all weapons

[BraSkAs_FiNAl_AeoN]

Well folks i spent countless hours facing off agianst one of the finest ff adversaries ever ..... or so I thought.
I spent many sleepless nights fighting ruby and was about to destroy the the s.o.b when of course he used seris of brusing atackes which left me laying in a pool of blood in the golden sand around the golden saucer. I tried everything, wither going into battle with to characters already K.I.A. and summond pheonix to revive them that only made my struggle much longer than needed. for 2 years i hadnt played until i played it at my friends house where of course i was losing when my frinds little brother said he would bet 20 bucks that he could beat it in under 15 minutes. low and behold he cast hades paralyzed him and the just keeped on summoning Knights and miming it and beat him in under 7. i found out that this so called weapon was nothing more than a hoax, a joke. Dont get me wrong i had him on the ropes plenty of time he must of been around 300-400 hp and i enjoyed myself but after his easy i just cant think of him as highly as i thought.(sigh)

[Strider]

Umm. . . what?

[Mr. Graves]

Yeah, pretty much every victory is ensured with KoTR. :D

[Lost]

Well, BraSkAs_FiNAl_AeoN, you of all people aren't allowed to say that Ruby is a joke. He managed to wup your butt so many times that you decided to just leave him alone. How can you laugh at an enemy that could kill you the 1st - 20th time you meet him 'till you found his weakness (then again you didn't actually find his weakness). When you manage to beat Ruby with another tactic, besides using Hades which was taught to you, repeatedly then you can come back here and laugh at him.

[Raistlin]

Try beating him without summon materia, and you'll see how much of a joke he is.

[Lord Chainsaw]

The weapons aren't really that difficult.

If you're having trouble on ruby weapon, Unlimited Indalecio in Universe Mode of Star Ocean would make you cry.

[Raistlin]

Or about every-other fight in FFT.

[BraSkAs_FiNAl_AeoN]

yea i did i beat him last night but agian i did use a summon i did KoRT with a hp absorb and just mimed it.
so ccan i call him a joke now?

[BraSkAs_FiNAl_AeoN]

and besides i was only saying that i felt cheap beating him with hades and thought i would express my guilt.

[Storm]

You probably shouldn't double post, there's that handy little "edit/delete" button which can be used instead.

The key to beating Ruby weapon for me was summoning Hades and casting Mighty/Big Guard(A life saver when he occasionally casts Ultima). Of course, once he is paralyzed it's Knights of the Round time.

I can't imagine how hard it would be to fight Ruby Weapon without Hades. I managed to defeat Emerald without any great summon(ie. Knights of the Round, the chocobo breeding was too annoying), but it took me like an hour to do.

[ForeverZeroUltima]

as for me, i W-summoned Hades AND KOTR and mimed all the way.

and against Emerald, i W-summoned KOTR and Phoenix (just to prove i can beat all the weapons without Final Attack) and mimed all teh way.

and just so that i can know, what boss is that in your sig? looks interesting, i might buy FF10 if they still sell it.

[Lost]

KotR without Hades doesn't work. His Ultima retalliation to KotR did way too much damage. I then tried Limit Breaks (Cid's and Cloud final Breaks), but found those barely did any damage at all. After trying everything, patience won out and it took me the longest time.

[Raistlin]

Pfft. You people wouldn't survive without KotR or Hades.:rolleyes2

[ForeverZeroUltima]

how much you wanna bet?

To the Cids Knights: is gambling allowed in these forums?

[Strider]

Maybe it's just me and that I'm going about it all wrong, but it seems like Hades doesn't do me much good. I'd use Hades, and then I'd be able to cast Knights of the Round once before Ruby Weapon was back to playing ragdoll with me.

I'd make progress, but I've yet to beat the guy.

[BraSkAs_FiNAl_AeoN]

my sig is the final boss of x
and as for you El Mariachi i i think its best to use hades once and then use w matiria kort and keep mining. summon hades when needed

[edczxcvbnm]

Hero yourself 100 times. All problems solve.

[ForeverZeroUltima]

huh?

oh well, anyway, connect Hades with MP Absorb (you get it from Yuffie's Wutai sidequest) and KOTR with HP absorb (you find in second screen [or was it third?] of the Northern Crater). Then connect Mime + Counter (second last screen in Final Dungeon of Crater) to one of ur characters. W-Summon Hades and KOTR. Then have all characters mime it. They'll do BOTH of the summons, AND gain 300 or so MP and 8000 HP per mime!

[edczxcvbnm]

Use 100 hero drinks and you are all good.

[Azure]

*hates Ruby WEAPON*
I thought it was a little man standing in the desert so I thought I'd go talk to him :cry: Then he just kicked my ass :(

[ForeverZeroUltima]

LOL

[BraSkAs_FiNAl_AeoN]

Yeah that sucks but i do think that he looks really friggin cool. if the re-did him on ps2 he would be amazing.

[Lehteb]

Hades works on Ruby Weapon?? aww man... that would have made it ever so much easier....

[BraSkAs_FiNAl_AeoN]

if only i

[Cloud_AA]

i have never used hades on Ruby i always attck with KotR and have Mystile armor on then his Ultimas hit u about 1/3 of time if u get lucky. if u have big guard up its ez cause 2 of them wont kill u anyway. if u want to make it real ez u can go to the downed shinra plane and morph every1 there so ur stats r maxed out that takes a real long time though

[Christmas]

Actually I solo-ed him with Cloud plus W-Item Hero Drinks and elixirs. Countless Omnislash later and it is gone. :bigsmile: