He almost had me giving up the game on my first run through. Um...I dunno, make sure you have a lot of Lightning attacks. Like Materia with Bolt2 on it...or, better yet, multiple ones. It'd be good to have Ramuh levelled a few times so you can summon him, and also Bahamut and Neo Bahamut (though I can't remember if you can even get him at that point in the game)