Any tips for Don Tonberry?

[cally777]

It seems like whenever someone says "I can't beat so-and-so" someone else posts with "Why don't you raise your stats to some-ridiculously-high-figure" Try a bit of strategy. You don't need 200+ or even 100+ stats to beat the Don (though it will take time without them and bdl). When he approaches use someone mostly harmless like Yuna to attack him with Holy or just don't attack. Then use Auron with protect and sentinel to defend against his butcher knife. If he has any reasonable defence, say 50 and about 6-7000 hp (customise some armour if you must) he will survive. Again anyone with decent str can inflict 9999 dmg per hit. Cure, attack, sentinel, rinse and repeat. If he can't kill you, you will kill him, eventually.

By the way I'm not suggesting don't level up, just don't over do it!

[The Mog Ninja]

OR just own him with level-ups

[Firo Volondé]

It seems like whenever someone says "I can't beat so-and-so" someone else posts with "Why don't you raise your stats to some-ridiculously-high-figure" Try a bit of strategy. You don't need 200+ or even 100+ stats to beat the Don (though it will take time without them and bdl). When he approaches use someone mostly harmless like Yuna to attack him with Holy or just don't attack. Then use Auron with protect and sentinel to defend against his butcher knife. If he has any reasonable defence, say 50 and about 6-7000 hp (customise some armour if you must) he will survive. Again anyone with decent str can inflict 9999 dmg per hit. Cure, attack, sentinel, rinse and repeat. If he can't kill you, you will kill him, eventually.

By the way I'm not suggesting don't level up, just don't over do it!

That's not a bad strategy, except:

Knife sometimes hits multiple targets.*

*Sometimes meaning hella often, and multiple targets means attacks all, at least more than once.

So overlevelling is the way to go. Even if you have insanely high stats, you can still get a challenge from some fiends *coughNemesiscough*.

[utelektr]

Heh... Well I beat him, although with Aeon help. Voodoo can only hit one at a time... =) Now, to get the Sun Sigil... >_< Ugh.

[lordbolton]

Okay you'll wana get auto-pheonix. Easiest way you can get this by battleing ghosts in moster arena from 'sunken cave' and bribing them with exactly 199,980 gil which will get you anywhere from 25-45 mega pheonixs. Then simply custmize an armor with 20 of them to get Auto-Pheonix! Yes it's that easy! After that just buy 99 Pheonix-Downs to automaticaly use and wah-lah! You can like automaticaly beat Don. Note this is gunna cost a Bunch of Gil! But it worth it! Don drops Helter-Skelter (has slowstike, poisonstrike, darkstrike, and firestrike! (it's awsome!) youre gunna want to get auto on at least 2 characters so hopefully you'll get 40+ mega-pheonixs!

TM This is a custom stradegy by lordbolton. All rights reserved

[Firo Volondé]

Just so you know, trying to claim rights to the "use auto-phoenix" method is like trying to claim rights to the Bible. Nobody can do it. Not to mention, knife hits more than one character. When, not if, he hits your entire party, it's game over. Also, all non-Celestial weapons (except those with Celestial abilities customised onto it) = crap.

[lordbolton]

I don't think it hits all characters, I beat him this morning for fun and he only hit each character once.

[4evarisha]

Auto-Pheonix and keep on hitting him he will be gone.

[cally777]

Knife sometimes hits multiple targets.*

*Sometimes meaning hella often, and multiple targets means attacks all, at least more than once.

That seems like an exaggeration to me. Unless there's some difference between the versions. Regardless, Sentinel plus Protect plus a decent defence should reduce the damage sufficiently except from multiple attacks on the same target.

But bring in all your aeons, use overdrives and the time taken to defeat said Don should reduce, along with the chance of getting multiple hits. No need as I said for insane levelling up, or vast amounts of gil spent on auto-phoenix for all.

[remnant1]

auto life and 2 ppl with auoto pheonix lol thats works for anything(plus whailing on the damn thing till it dies works to)