Yeah, it' kind of a double standard, but Yu Yevon is also a longer fight than the intentionally cinematic Sephy duel.Originally Posted by Karifean
Honestly, I think you give BFA too much credit. He's like Kefka and Sephiroth where there are multiple ways to break that fight in your favor and the only way it would be challenging is if you went in completely unprepared and low leveled or you purposely dragged the fight out which frankly any end game boss in the series can be lethal if you drag the fight out for too long. Even without the celestial weapons though, Yuna can two shot him with Bahamut or any Aeon above him as long as you went in with full Overdive gauges. So it really doesn't require a whole lot of extra effort on your part to beat him easily, at least nothing more time consuming as getting KotR or teaching your whole party Ultima.
Poison will wreck Orphan's first form though and you can effectively beat him by just poisoning him and then switching to a defensive Paradigm set and turtle your way through his attacks. How I beat it. I think the second form is actually a bit tougher, especially since the list forgets to mention how low the odds are for Death to land.
As for Ultimecia, she was the oddest ranking on the list cause frankly, I don't think I've ever lost to her. Like you said, she sounds devastating on paper, but she usually only spams her HP=1 attack which frankly screws her over big time. Her anti-GF abilities are not dangerous cause GFs are kind of useless in this fight, and her anti-stock could be devastating but only if you were silly enough to have the character equipped with only spells Junctioned to them and even then, it's a crapshoot if she'll hit the one that will hurt you like Strength Junction. I never even realized she had a cinematic super attack until I purposely dragged out the fight and it's frankly the least impressive of many FF villains.
Fixed that for you. The strategy for beating her is simply in theory until you realize her Flarewave does ridiculously high damage and nothing short of exploiting the HP Trick with high levels or grinding for a FEOK is going to not allow that attack to kill you in two rounds, if not just the first round. Throw in the fact you have to beat four incredibly tough bosses just to actually be able to hurt her to begin with, I feel she deserves first place on this list. I beat her in the Famicom version and it was a much closer battle than I would have liked, and she honestly would have killed me in the following round if she had just enough HP left.And I guess they only used the NES version of CoD who you throw Shurikens at and spam Cure 4 every round until she kills you or you kill her? Very challenging.
I honestly found her DS incarnation to be significantly easier. More varied for sure, but a lot easier to deal with considering how beefed up many of the classes are in that version.
I think Emperor Mateus is the character who got robbed here because he's actually a bit more challenging and easier to waltz into the fight unprepared. The Blood Swords make the fight ridiculously easy but it's very likely you may only be going into the fight with one of them cause you either missed the second one by not talking to a specific character in a very short window of time, or your playing the remakes and gave one to a dying character in order to have it for the Soul of Rebirth segment. Even with maxed stats this fight can drag on as it quickly turns into a war of attrition since he can regain all his health by punching your party. He's not ridiculously powerful like some bosses, but he's certainly tougher than Kefka and Ardyn.
If I had to rank them...
15. The Dark King
14. Safer Sephiroth
13. Kefka
12. Braska's Final Aeon
11. Ultimecia
10. Orphan
9. Ultima the Last Seraph
8. Ardyn
7. The Undying
6. Chaos
5. Neo ExDeath
4. Emperor Mateus
3. Necron
2. Zeromus (if going by original, he'd be fourth otherwise)
1. Cloud of Darkness
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