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A small amount of luck being involved doesn't make a boss cheap. Yes, almost all RPG bosses are random to some degree. But whatever the boss throws at you, there should be a way to respond to it/counter it/prepare against it. The existence of an attack combination that's 100% impossible to survive and which a boss might use randomly can make the battle completely up to luck alone, however.
True, but again, in case of Ozma, Meteor isn't 100% impossible to survive since Meteor's damage is entirely random, no matter what enemy (or Vivi) uses it in the game. In IX, Deathguise opens with Meteor. The first time I faced him, it killed me in one hit. The second time, it barely did any damage at all. It's how the spell works. Now if Ozma had something that could always, 100% instant kill you, then I would agree it's cheap. But as it is, he doesn't, he just attacks fast and hard, and has one, one move that requires you to be lucky. It might kill you, it might not. I don't agree that that makes Ozma as a whole cheap. Especially since there are ways in which you can set yourself to survive even if Meteor decideds to smurf you, like auto-life. Ozma has no real, 100% instant game over move. He does have one move that's like rolling a dice, and you just need luck, and that move isn't even exclusive to him since the player has access to it as well.
No, Meteor isn't a 100% always kill. Neither is Darkja from FFXII. It doesn't matter, though, because nothing you do can affect it. If Meteor hits you for max damage, it will kill you (and Ozma can follow up with Curse which will kill you instantly even with auto-rez on). You cannot change this. If Darkja hits with the instant death portion on all of your active characters, you are dead, period.

I have no problem with Meteor. I have a problem with Meteor being capable of inflicting 9999 damage to each of your characters with there being literally no way to negate that. It doesn't matter how small the chance of this happening is, that is cheap, not difficult. And, again, remove the 9999 Meteor and he is a really, really easy boss. Setting up to absorb Shadow alone and healing from Ozma and Vivi's Doomsday can be enough to get you through the fight, as long as you don't get hit by the 9999 Meteor.

Hard is a boss you have to plan strategies and tactics around, that you have to know how and when to attack. Cheap is a boss being able to just go "nope, you're dead", which is what Ozma's 9999 Meteor and Curse combination gives him. It doesn't matter how rare it is, the fact that he can do it, and that is the only real thing that can set you back in this fight.

Oh, and don't argue that it's fair because you can do it as well. That doesn't mean it's not cheap, and then too, most enemies at endgame have more than 9999 health.