Tips on beating Emeral Weapon

[Erdrick Holmes]

Anyone wanna share any?

My team is a level 64 Cloud, 63 Cait Sith, and 63 Vincent.

They all have there ultimate weapons and I got KOTR already but he keeps killing me before I can even barely make a dent on his HP. Any ideas?

[Kirobaito]

Make sure every character has 9999 HP (you could use as many as 7 or 8 HP+10%s). That's the first thing.

CLOUD: Knights of the Round, W-Summon, Mime
YUFFIE: Mime, 4x Slash, Final Attack+Phoenix
CAIT SITH: Mime, Bahamut ZERO, (that one Materia that lets you cast 4 Bahamut ZEROs....I don't remember the name)

Alright, have Cloud start out by casting Knights of the Round. Have Yuffie and Cait Sith mime this attack. If at any point you need to heal, do so, and then have Cloud restart the miming by casting KotR again. If your KotR is only at Level 1, then have Cait Sith use Bahamut ZERO 4 times, and then continue to mime that attack. Phoenix is there just in case you die. This boss isn't that hard. RUBY Weapon on the other hand...heh heh.

[DocFrance]

Master eight Counter (Support) and eight Mime materia. Equip these on a character who has a limit break that hits many times (Omnislash, Highwind, Anger Max, Doom of the Living). Equip another character with the W-Item materia. Kill off the third character to increase the chances of Emerald hitting the counter character. Get the counter character to full limit break. When in battle, have the W-Item character give the counter character two Hero Potions. Then have the counter character use his or her limit break. When Emerald hits him, he will counter-attack eight times with that limit break. If your levels are high enough, this will be more than enough to kill Emerald.

[-N-]

However, if you actually want to make beating Emerald worth your while and reap (rape) it for his 50000 AP, you'll need all three alive, probably with triple/double growth stuff and whatnot. So, W-Summon Knights of Round is the best way to go. Use Hero Drinks to up the damage, and equip Magic Plus materia to up the damage as well. (One guy with W-Item can use two Hero Drinks on the other two people, one can W-Summon KoR, and another can Mime. Then Mime back and forth.)

[Erdrick Holmes]

I mean last time I beat him on dumb luck, I had Cait Siths limit break al ready to go and then he lets it off. All three slots make Cait Siths face and Emerald Dies before he can launch an attack.

[DocFrance]

Be sure to have one character that has less than nine materia, or Aire Tam Storm will wipe out your party. The equation for Aire Tam Storm's damage is 1111*[# of materia equipped], so if a character has nine or more materia, it means instant, unblockable death.

[Erdrick Holmes]

Be sure to have one character that has less than nine materia, or Aire Tam Storm will wipe out your party. The equation for Aire Tam Storm's damage is 1111*[# of materia equipped], so if a character has nine or more materia, it means instant, unblockable death.

Won't having Barrier and MBarrier block some of that damage?

[Death Sign]

Beating Emerald and Air weapon is a peice of cake... compared beating Ruby weapon... Geez dunno how many times I've died by him... don't either know how long ago it was since I beated him either! Geez... maybe 2-3 years ago... or longer don't remember! any way... use great Equipments and Materia and just go for it...!

Some advice... cast big guard as soon as it dissapears again... I meen the big guard the good players cast at eachother during boss fights... oooh if ya don't got it... try to manipulate the ... hmmmm well octipus looking enemies out side the Costa del sol!... or else ya could dive down to the submarine where Rino and Rude where found in! And learn White Wind as well it is pretty easy to find!

Any way... got it so far...? Well I remember using Vincent, Cloud and Nanaki (RedXIII)!
Ooh yeah got if ya got those E-Skills go down and put that cheese monkey out of missary. Ooh and I found Vincents level 4 limit (Chaos) very useful! Anything else ya would like to know!? It is just to easy... Specially when he never uses Airetamp-stomp... or what ever that SCREWED move was named!
Any way... that is the move I've just found irretating about Weapon... And if ya got the underwater materia... it may come in handy but I never used it... since IAm to lazy to morph i the... book from that pirate ship enemy in the Water reactor!

The swear filter is there for a reason, DO NOT try to go around it again, consider this a warning. ~Gau

[DocFrance]

Won't having Barrier and MBarrier block some of that damage?

No.

[Ultima Shadow]

Hey, beating Emerald weapon is easy. You don't need KotR to beat him, i never bothered getting a gold chocobo (that means i had to go Wsummon-BahamutZero-Quadramagic on Ruby weapon... god, it took me ages! :rolleyes2 i had to look at that Bahamut summonig a million times). Just Omnislach, 4-cut or wathever and use some megaelexirs if needed and he will go down in no time.

[aeris2001x2]

mine is a very inperfect one but here it is.

barret and tifa are dead still from ruby but i dont need them. the only things i have is ultima weapon, mystile and sprint shoes.

my materia is KOR 2 stars combined with hp absorb, hp plus max, under water, mime and w-summon.

then its just cast kor twice and mime it. your hp will be restored back to 9999 after each kor. the only flaw in this method is if his revenage stomp does more then 3332(which it rarely does) and he gets a air tam storm after it, you r dead since u it does 6666.

fortnatey this is rare, and his 4 eyes will never get a go, and those were always emeralds real threat. it takes about 11 KORs.

I know there are far better methods but its at lv 81 with little mastering of the best materia on disc 2. and its done with a solo cloud which is pretty sweet.

[ForeverZeroUltima]

i just did this:

W-Summon: KOTR+HP Absorb, Phoenix+MP Absorb (that's right...no Final Attack!)

then i had everyone Mime this, so if Emerald kills someone, the others can revive him/her.

[Linus J]

Working on a concept on soloing the weapons for the moment. One thought on Emerald is to only use 2 materias, get the characters hp to 9999 and keep on casting elixirs and rely on the air tame storm and lucky seven.
On ruby weapon I thought alot of counter attacks and hades+added effect could do it (would take time though), but apparently the paralysation on Ruby didn't want to work.
Oh yeah, the plan was to keep from using kotr. Otherwise I'd probably master kotr and linking it to hp absorb and mp absorb, use w-summon then mime over and over again.

[ForeverZeroUltima]

*adds*

I just beat Emerald Weapon earlier today! and WITHOUT KOTR, PHOENIX, OR FINAL ATTACK! I just had Cloud, Tifa, Cid, each with 6 or 7 Materia (to keep from dying when Emerald uses Air Tam Storm....which it didn't use). I kept Cid at full MP to power up his Venus Gospel, had him use 4x-Cut, and Cloud Mime it. I kept Tifa with W-Item to power up Cloud and Cid with Hero Drinks, and Megaelixirs to keep from dying.

and, some strategy guides say that Gravity wont work on Emerald. They're wrong. Demi, Demi2, and Demi3 will either Miss, or do 9999 damage.

[aeris2001x2]

foreverzeroultima? how fast is your team? cause the only reason i found him hard is his guns r so fast that coupled with revenage stomp and air tam storm he just over whelms u. do u have good stat maxing via morphing the sunken ship monsters?