Originally Posted by Acid Angel 13*
Getting Omnislash
First, you need to level up, a lot. To stand a chance, you need to be
at Lv70, at least. Before you go into the Battle Square, get 99 of
each-Hi-Potion, X-Potion, Hyper, Remedy, each of the individual status
cures (antidote, cornucopia, ect.) note that echo screens are
pointless, S-mines, Fire Veils, and Swift Bolts. Also try to have
plenty (10-20) Dragon Scales and M-Tentacles. These are extremely
important as D.Scales basically cast Aqualung, which is brutally
powerful against anything (Adamantiose, found on the beaches north of
Wutai drop these), and M-Tentacles (and possibly Deadly Wastes) cause
instant death to some of the more annoying foes you'll be up against.
What you want to do is set Cid's limit to level 1 and use him. At
Lv70 Cid OWNS the Battle Arena. Try to use Cid's brute strength and
limits instead of items, and try to land the slots on what are usually
the most debilitating handicaps (broken acc., broken materias...)
Break your weapon or armor and you're pretty much done.
Once Cid wins two complete sets (all 8 rounds), you should have about
23,000 Battle points, if you scored good handicaps (Break All Materia
on the last round will make BP skyrocket).
At this point (23,000 BP), the game starts to be really cheap with
its enemy choices. Switch to Cloud, using his L3 limit and abuse
Finishing Touch. Fight as long as you can and always, ALWAYS, duck
out after the 7th roud (if you get that far). NEVER fight the last
battle, you'll end up agaist a Marlboro, Ochu, or that damned
Ghost Ship... All 3 of these guys will eat you for lunch and
you'll forfiet all your BP for that round, as well as any items you
used. You'll be bringing down 2-4 thousand BP for each 7 round stint
(usually), and you'll gradually get to 32,000.
Is it worth it? Omnislash nails any group or single enemy 15 or 16
times with a high critical rate and deals over 2000 damage per shot at
Lv70. Thats 30,000 HP from a single target, plenty enough to
slaughter Hojo in a single shot. So, I'd say, yeah, yeah it is.
Notable enemies: The 8-Eyes (they look like Jell-o molds with
eyeballs all over them) can absorb several hundred, or even thousand,
HP from your charcter per turn, and they appear in sets of 2. But
they are ridiculously weak to Bio; toss a M-Tentacle at them and they
go bye bye.
Jezemny (long haired girl in a one-piece) There's two versions of
her; one appears with a group of Toxic Frogs and one with Wind Wing
(a dragon type, looks like a miniature version of the Rapps boss).
She can use Fascinate (confuse) on your guy, which is potentially
fatal, especially when she pulls it every round. Luckily, she, too,
is weak to Bio. (Note that Toxic Frogs ABSORB Bio, but they only take
1 hit to wipe out. Deal with the tramp first).
Tonberry. Rare, but will most certainly end you.
Ghost Ship. Everybody hates this cheap bastard. For some reason,
though, I came up against him in my first battle set with Cid, and it
never used Gonnani against me.
Serpent. My favorite. Simply fall back and defend until the idiot
uses its stock of MP (this takes a while though). Use limits when
you get them, and keep healing. Once its MP are gone, it just
floats there and you can pound it at your leisure.
