Tips on beating Emeral Weapon

[Ultima Shadow]

4cut-Ultimate weapon rules. I was at about level 60-70 when i defeated emerald as well. Just cast haste on party to make them fast enough.

[aeris2001x2]

i just beat emerald weapon the other day with my solo cloud kor method. i,ve come to the conclusion that with my ff experience now 4 years on i could prob beat him another way. but i have such bad memories of those 4 fast guns wiping me out like 20 times that i enter a "im gonna lose and have no confidence, i,m a newbie help" mentality when i think of encountering him.

to be honest emerald weapon is prob the only boss i actually fear, even though i can crush penenance and other harder bosses. then again he was the first super boss i ever encountered at the tender age of 15 on my first ff.

p.s- i fought ruby too the other day and lost!!! because the damn mystile for the first time ever didnt make his ultima counter miss on the one time hades failed!!! ohh the shame!!!

[Ultima Shadow]

You FEAR Emerald? Hey the eyes isn't THAT fast and powerfull.

[ForeverZeroUltima]

well, the blue orbs do about 2000-3000 damage, and the yellow orbs destroy about 500 MP. So if you're running low on HP, or if you really need those precious MP to cast spells, then yes, those orbs are annoying.

[Rinoabella]

for the record lucky 7,s when used properly can wipe out emerald before he gets a move!!!! r u sure u know how 2 use it? there super cheap 2.

I remember using Tifa's Lucky 7's (not using cheats), cos I figured out how to equip her and get her HP to 7777. Yeah, I tried numerous times, and Lucky 7's never actually bet the Emerald Weapon, despite the hit points adding up to over his HP. It only weakened him. Then Tifa would stop Lucky 7's after about 45 rounds and the Emerald Weapon would still be alive O_o.

[aeris2001x2]

well, the blue orbs do about 2000-3000 damage, and the yellow orbs destroy about 500 MP. So if you're running low on HP, or if you really need those precious MP to cast spells, then yes, those orbs are annoying.

and couple with revenage stomp, emerald beam and air tam storm thats quite a few moves.

like i said its an irrational fear cause he was the first ever boss to just flatten me again and again...man even penenance never did that.

and yeah there not THAT fast, but they were fast for there time. and it was the only reason he was remotely hard.

[ForeverZeroUltima]

uh yup...i guess...that's why i cast Big Guard first. and i dont carry much materia so then the Air Tams Storm will do less damage.

[Starcrest]

E.W. is hard, i musta tried like atleast a dozen times, with Cloud lv 67, Tiffa lv. 61, and Vincent at lv.65, and he still wooped my ass. I didn't use (bcause i no have) KOTR, or final attack+phoenix (dont' have final attack either), and i wailed on him and wailed on him for like an hour, and he still didn't dye, y wont' he die? I healed my ppl, but he's cheap, doin 2 moves in a row, not givin' me time to heal, it's pretty...gay.

[aeris2001x2]

he is just a fast and hard, not cheap or gay. and he has over a million hp so thats why he wont die...

[ForeverZeroUltima]

he has EXACTLY 1,000,000 hp.

Shiva's Effect, try setting your battle mode to "Wait", instead of "Recommended" or "Active". This way you'll have time to choose spells or items without E.W. beating on you. And it's good to have your ultimate weapons. I suggest bringing Yuffie with the Conformer, cuz she'll do 9999 every hit. Give her 4x-Cut and keep miming it, stopping only to heal.

[Starcrest]

good idea to move it to wait from active...very good idea. I don't have Yuffie's conformer, i think...I'll go check

[Ultima Shadow]

Just make sure you do 9999 damage with your characters, then use 4-cut (i only had 4-cut on one of my characters so you don't need to get 3 of them.) Then you will do (almost) 40.000 damage. All you need is to be fast enough (haste) and heal when your characters hp is running low (megaelexir.)

[aeris2001x2]

man mighty guard is Such a cool move in ff7. instant wall and haste.

yeah make sure u dont touch his eyes if your going to use that method. his revenage stomp and air tam storm counters r killers.

still, i think my method still reigns...

[ForeverZeroUltima]

his revenge stamp only counters like...70% of the time. as for air tams storm...less percentage i beat him before he even used it! :bgl:

as for the 4x-cut method, have Yuffie use it and Cloud and the third person mime it. if Cloud or the third person doesn't do anything close to 9999damage, use Hero Drinks (there are only 2 in the game, so duplicate them via W-Item). Hero Drinks are pretty useful...they boosted Tifa's damage from 4000 to 7800 with only 3 drinks!

[TheKolkster]

Why do you need W-Summon? All you need is have cloud use a mastered KOTR and Quadra Magic. Then have your other two characters have a mastered Mime. (Make sure KOTR can do max damage each attack)

Now, have Cloud cast KOTR. He'll cast it 4 time. Have your other party members use mime. Each of them will cast it 4 times. Now you've casted KOTR 12 times in 3 turns! This should only take 500 MP

I think thats how it works. I've never tried it yet.