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[Shoden]

oh yeah i forgot about that damn im gettin mixed up with sin again. well make sure someone else knows white magic holy and is good with it auron uses full break tidus throws a shot you go out cast like hell for a few turns return to close distance use auron and keep going.

theres about a hundred strategies for this thing

[Kathryn]

I haven't got holy

[rubah]

Okay, you're just going to have to get lucky, okay? That or spend a friggin' long time levelling up with the random encounters inside the ship.

You only have underdog secrets at this point if you manage to get all the al bhed primers by this point, which without cheating you can only do if you already had them [mostly] found in previous games (which strangely enough, was my situation exactly) and you don't have a level3 keysphere at this point anyways, just the lvl4 one you can pick up in Home (unless there's a part of the game I need to seriously replay)

Evrae is immune to slow, but he can be dispelled. And the easiest way to have dispel at this point is if you ran kimarhi through rikku's grid to get to yuna's. which strangely enough I did as well, and it helped to save my hide Obviously, Holy is a long ways away for normal levelling, so that's out.

You probably would be best to go and level up inside the ship. Set tidus' overdrive to something that will load very very very fast so you can build them up and get energy rain (or if you really need to level, blitz ace ^^) I'd hope that you had slice'n'dice already@.@; I don't think you can leave to play blitzball at this point, so you're left with whatever overdrives wakka has. You can't get to enough places to get another of auron's, and incidentally, I'd use his initial one. It seems to have a delay action in it. and you can't eject evrae from battle anyways. Although I don't remember if it does as much damage or not. Also, you can level lulu's by getting to the next spells. Rikku's and Kimarhi's are also stuck as what you have (unless those bosses on the ship have good items, or you can steal very well from evrae).

Do you have a special sphere? Use it on someone (preferably someone extra fast) to get them to have Use. Then you can throw your damaging items at the stupid thing. From a distance, too, I think. if not, well just get back in close.

Things to watch out for obviously: poison breath--like I said, have someone else learn Use if possible, and throw al bhed potions like crazy; swooping scythe thingy-- annoying because he'll use it to get back in close, often before the missiles shoot out¬¬ but it also does damage to everyone in the party-toss more albhed potions. and when he hastes himself. dispel this if at ALL possible. it'll make it so much easier. ffx doesn't have dispel tonics, does it? -_-

good things to Mix: Super Mighty G (light curtainx2, lunar/lunar curtainx stat+(hp, acc, mag etc)or key sphere) Cluster Bomb (power/mana/speed/ability sphere+ statsphere (hp mp str etc)) Aqua Toxin (dragon fin (which I'm almost positive you can steal from evrae)x Musk (which you can steal from the eyeball dudes inside the ship.)) That's one protective mix, and two damaging ones. I tried to look for items that you would be likely to have (and that I knew for sure I have right now, since I just did that part) or could get. Super Mighty G woud be the first I'd use, it'll put rikku in haste and you can use Ally to great effects to reboost her overdrive up.

I had auron and tidus in my party when I had her mix up the super mighty G (if you don't have those exact items, there's about five million other ways to get it, and if you don't need regen, Mighty Guard might work as well, although I don't think it does haste, but you have tidus for that) because like I said, I forgot to use the missiles and I was up in that nasty dude's face the entire time. But you might want to use Lulu and Wakka instead, since they can hit from a distance (but I don't think wakka's overdrive works like that, so either use it first and start building it back up, or wait until evrae decides he misses your company and swoops back in)

Oh, and all those useless boosting abilities? Cheer, and focus especially?

They work better than you think. And they're rather slow on the usage time. Try to time it so Evrae can't batter you too badly, or that Cid's busy smacking it with missiles while you cheer everyone up ten times. (I think that it stops after about that far. that or I'm mistaking it for x-2) Cheer can raise your strength by like 500 though, and I'd assume that Focus does the same for magic.

You'll want to hurry though, incase he decides to kill you.

(I can't think of another way to dispel his haste. If you can't get anyone over there to get it, you'll just have to deal with a monster that's just as fast as [faster] than you are.)

Keep trying though. Experiment. Evrae is tough if you're not expecting him or having been stealing and levelling. Remember you can buy [rather crappy] weapons from rin and customize them. Consider that. Buy up a lot of antidotes and give people poisonward?

[lord shishio]

oh yeah did you kill off them emerald and ruby bitches in ff7?

anyway which boss is this, sin or that dragon?

if its sin make sure you have loads of elixers so yuna can keep casting holy which does over 6000 damage then use aurons full break atatcks so it does more and everyone can do over 1000 damage, keep hacking away till the damn sod dies then you have to battle the other side.

if it isnt then cast holy on him as spells are long distance, lulu must have overdrive and ara or aga level spells to make it effective keep blasting away from long distance then use aurons full break to weaken it you should go out after 3 turns of hitting the damn thing.

Yeah, I got Emerald, but I can't get ruby, it's hard enough just to get him out of the ground. Thanks for the site.
I also noticed you changed your avator

As for Kathryn, I had the most luck when I fought him close to the ship using Tidus and Auron, if that doesn't work, I guess you're screwed.

[Kathryn]

nerly all of my characters are in there 3000 hp

[Ultima Shadow]

Take a deep breath, pick up your controller... and then go and level up a bit.

THEN it will be alot easier for you.

[I Don't Need A Name]

pull out and have rikku heal with al bhed potions and wait for the airship 2 fire all of its rounds. then go back in (still healin wit rikku) and give him all uve got (tidus's delay attack/buster helps). also when he inhails delay its attacks and pull out. later on in the game u have 2 its zombie form. uze pheonix downs on him and its easy! hope that helps

[Kathryn]

that didint worjk ither

[lord shishio]

Hmmmmmm.............well............................ I actually had to start a new file a while back, when I got stuck at a different part..............................did you try.....uh, man, I'm out of ideas, sorry.

[rubah]

If you're at 3000 hp (and equivilent other stats) you really shouldn't have having a problem.

What exactly do you do every time?

[Old Manus]

You could try getting attack reels....or TRAIN.

[Kathryn]

If you're at 3000 hp (and equivilent other stats) you really shouldn't have having a problem.

What exactly do you do every time?

I let Rikku do her break limit and it was potato masher, then pull back then haste then magic then Wakka then game over

[Lone Wolf Leonhart]

It seems that you just dont understand ALL this help but I will say this helps:




Train: You will thank your self later! And you will like the results!

[Kathryn]

I ain't got any spheares left

[VoodooChild]

Lmao! How many times have you tried defeating this guy?!

You say your characters are on 3000hp, Im sure I was the same when I tried defeating him. I had lots of trouble because I didnt know how to use the Al Bhed Potions - I didnt realise Rikku was the only one allowed to use them, when I figured that out - I just made Rikku use the potions almost every turn! Beat him easily

If your really stuck, try reading some Boss Walkthroughs ...

http://db.gamefaqs.com/console/ps2/f...y_x_boss_a.txt

Thats a really good one - Boss 18 Evrae Good Luck!