Beating Emerald Weapon without Materia

[FFGuevara]

Has anyone here ever beaten Emerald weapon without any Materia at all? I have took me Dozens of X-Potion's and Megaelixer's to do it also.

[Russielloyd]

how did you get attacks in with healing all of the time?

[G SpOtZ]

how do u do that? no underwater materia with no 4x cut? messed up... seems impossible.

[Russielloyd]

Even with all the materia i had, it took me bout 16 mins to beat him.

Just thinking now, it would be inpossible for you to beat him without no materia(that includes underwater materia).

Like G SpOtZ said, it seems impossible.

[FFGuevara]

I only attack with Limit breaks. I used a party of Cid, Tifa and Cloud. I basically didnt attack at all just healed every time he attacked, then when my limit break is charged i attacked.

[Russielloyd]

But with no materia on, how did you do it in less than 20 minutes?

[raskerino]

It's do-able, one thing that rally helps (though I haven't done it) is the fact that you can use materia before hand and max your stats. This way Omnislash+Hero's Drink will do a huge amount of damage. And without KoTr not a lot of time is wasted. Highwind with maxed out stats as well, and probably Yuffie's bloodfest are best for this. Or maybe Ungarmax. It seems very possible though.

And of course Emeralds Aire Dam Tyre Storm does nil

[Russielloyd]

hmmm, Can anyone capture themselfs doing this with Capture card or something.

[FFGuevara]

And of course Emeralds Aire Dam Tyre Storm does nil
Emerald weapons air tyre storm does 1111 hp damage per Materia equiped. So it did nothing to my party.

[Skyblade]

And of course Emeralds Aire Dam Tyre Storm does nil
Emerald weapons air tyre storm does 1111 hp damage per Materia equiped. So it did nothing to my party.

That's what he said. Nil=Nothing, Zero, Zip, Nada, etc...

Beating Emerald without Materia isn't too hard. Just go in with Fury on all party members, and bring lots of Megalixirs.

[G SpOtZ]

i thought it was aire tam storm.... backwards "materia"
and yeah it's not supposed to do anything, which is a huge advantage, and as long as you used the w-item trick to give urself 99 megalixers and 99 hero drinks. (also, hypers might help so if your character is in the Fury state, s/he will get a limit break quicker)
i also recommend sprint shoes, and each character with their final weapon, and i don't know about armor. if anybody can recommend good armor (besides the assumable mystile armor lol)
i personally like tifa, yuffie, and cloud. Yuffie's doom of the living is nice, and tifa's limit but i guess it's a little long....

anybody else got something to add? or separate suggestions?

[Skyblade]

Good armor? The Ziedrich, obviously. I mean, best stats in the game, and since you're not using Materia anyway...

[G SpOtZ]

what are the stats for the ziedrich again?

[FFGuevara]

*checks stradegy guide*

Defence:100
Magic Defence:98

[G SpOtZ]

would high defense lower the frequency of limit breaks occuring? because it depends on the amount of damage you take...

[FFGuevara]

Yeah but since Emerald weapons attack are powerfull anyway. Limit break's take 3-2 hit's to fill up top's. But i didnt use a Ziedrich. (Forgot about them at that time).

[d£v!l'$ ph0£n!x]

wizard bracelet (joke)

if u haven't got 3 zeidrich then warrior bangle might help (provided u got it of course!) tho i dont know if it's stats are better than mystile. thats ur job!!!

[Crop]

Yeah it can be done, it isnt that difficult when you know how, but Ruby weapon is a different matter....

[Carl the Llama]

[TR][TD]i have never bothered to take on Ruby without materia as it would take far too long, emmy on the other hand i have beaten and like crop said it isnt as impossible as it seems, yes it was difficault but not mission impossible i did it with cloud barret and cid i went in lvl 89 clod and barret and 87 cid and with fury and zeidrich i had barret and cid fill cloud up with 10 hero potions and cloud use a megaelixier for those turns then i had the same on cid then i unleashed hell and i still had about 5 mins to spare (bareing in mind i did 9999 every hit and that cloud has 15 hits it wasnt to hard at all. KDWAH

[Captain Maxx Power]

Seems some smart, hansome devil already posted a guide to a no-materia game over at gamefaqs.com. I'll post up an exerpt.


=======================EMERALD WEAPON========================

The following is provided through Mad-Psycho, found on the eyes on final
fantasy forums (www.eyesonff.com)

Emerald weapon is hard. Very hard. Under normal circumstances, even in a
materia game, fighting emerald weapon isn''t recommended by the most sane of
people. However, after perusing the internet, it turns out that their is,
indeed a way to defeat emerald weapon, sans materia. Unfortunatly, you won''t
get anything useful out of it (the experience and ap will be useless, and the
Earth Harp will do no good either). However, defeating emerald in itself is a
reward, much like Omega Weapon from FF5.

REQUIREMENTS
- Party: Cloud, Yuffie, Tifa
- Limit breaks: Level 4, all limit bars full before battle, hyper status
- Weapons: Ultimate
- Armor: Mystiles or other high defense armors
- Level: 99 for all (see how the experience is useless?)
- Items: 99 X-potions (see above), 10 Megalixirs

Secondary requirements
- Go to the config menu, and set the battle speed to as low as possible, and
the ATB to Wait. If you find that the timer runs out before you defeat him, try
setting the timer as fast as possible. WARNING, this is dangerous, but it will
cut the time taken in battle by one quater.

STRAGEDY

Start off the battle with an omnislash from Cloud. This should knock off most
of Emerald''s HP''s. Attack with your other characters limits. Now, NEVER
ATTACK UNLESS YOU HAVE A LIMIT. The rest of the time you should quickly heal
any character who are injured, either with an X-potion or an elixir. If the
whole party is in critical, use a megalixir. As long as you use a limit the
second it appears, you can defeat emerald quite easily. If this doesn''t work
the first time round, keep trying. It''ll be down to luck most of the time, but
perserverance is the key.

[The_Great_Question]

Well.....Emerald Weapon really takes me back BUT its actually possible to beat him without any materia all you need are....

ALL character lvl 99
ALL Ultimate Limit Breaks(Get That Omnislash Ready)
Lotta Life And Strength
.....
And A Lotta Luck!!!!!

And U Might Beat This Thing!

[FFGuevara]

Seems some smart, hansome devil already posted a guide to a no-materia game over at gamefaqs.com. I'll post up an exerpt.


=======================EMERALD WEAPON========================

The following is provided through Mad-Psycho, found on the eyes on final
fantasy forums (www.eyesonff.com)

Emerald weapon is hard. Very hard. Under normal circumstances, even in a
materia game, fighting emerald weapon isn''t recommended by the most sane of
people. However, after perusing the internet, it turns out that their is,
indeed a way to defeat emerald weapon, sans materia. Unfortunatly, you won''t
get anything useful out of it (the experience and ap will be useless, and the
Earth Harp will do no good either). However, defeating emerald in itself is a
reward, much like Omega Weapon from FF5.

REQUIREMENTS
- Party: Cloud, Yuffie, Tifa
- Limit breaks: Level 4, all limit bars full before battle, hyper status
- Weapons: Ultimate
- Armor: Mystiles or other high defense armors
- Level: 99 for all (see how the experience is useless?)
- Items: 99 X-potions (see above), 10 Megalixirs

Secondary requirements
- Go to the config menu, and set the battle speed to as low as possible, and
the ATB to Wait. If you find that the timer runs out before you defeat him, try
setting the timer as fast as possible. WARNING, this is dangerous, but it will
cut the time taken in battle by one quater.

STRAGEDY

Start off the battle with an omnislash from Cloud. This should knock off most
of Emerald''s HP''s. Attack with your other characters limits. Now, NEVER
ATTACK UNLESS YOU HAVE A LIMIT. The rest of the time you should quickly heal
any character who are injured, either with an X-potion or an elixir. If the
whole party is in critical, use a megalixir. As long as you use a limit the
second it appears, you can defeat emerald quite easily. If this doesn''t work
the first time round, keep trying. It''ll be down to luck most of the time, but
perserverance is the key.

Thats basically what i did except i used Cloud, Tifa and Cid and not Cloud , Tifa and Yuffie.

[DarkLord]

I'm working towards my ultimately innachievable goal! I will beat Ruby and Emerald with no Materia and without Limit Breaks. Chance of survival= zip squit, nada N/A. But I jst gotta try it.

[dan2k3]

i have done it put it took a lot of stat powering up and megalixiers. and ziedrichs. i used yuffie cloud and cid

[HunterFlamebrow]

I'm working towards my ultimately innachievable goal! I will beat Ruby and Emerald with no Materia and without Limit Breaks. Chance of survival= zip squit, nada N/A. But I jst gotta try it.

And after that, you can try it with a Cloud-only party.:D

[dan2k3]

the next best armour after ziedrich for the fight is adaman bangle. but it makes it a little harder. i thought emerald was ok without materia (without limits would be insane) ruby without materia i found a lot harder

[Cloud Lionheart]

It makes it easyer

[Ultima Shadow]

I've beaten both without materia and without stats boosting (no powerup-sources used trough the whole game).

Emerald is extremely easy compared to 95% of all the other challanges I've done, but Ruby on the other hand is without a doubt 1 of the hardest so far.