Midgar Zolum at lvl 15!!

[=Angelus=]

But my initial plan was to get Beta .... haha... except i didn't know what else to do but pray his beat would miss (impossible ya?)

but well... most of the boss fights don't seem as intense as fighting Midgar Zolum at lvl 15 it seems... and i got the chance to use several limit breaks in a single battle got Climhazard in a snap

[Madame Adequate]

Hmm. I've done him in at around that level, but I think I used such an arrary of items that I killed him before he used Beta or something.

Of course, the most recent time through I got my chocobo, went through the mines, and trained around Junon/Fort Condor until everyone had all limit breaks except level 4s, plus they hit level 30+ and had reached level 2 in a fair few materia. Then I went back and kicked his tail. Then I had to do it again to actually get Beta, because I schooled him.

Edit: Good thinking with using the moves you used though. One of those never occurred to me!

[Hikaro Takayama]

I never try to defeat the Midgar Zolom that early (then again, I also power-level so that I'm at least LV 20+ by the time I leave Midgar), and don't bother coming back to whomp on the Midgar Zoloms until right AFTER the Gold Saucer, and then I just have one charachter with one of my Enemey Skill materias and the fire ring (null fire), and another charachter with the other Enemy Skill materia and elemental-fire on the defense (if I'd been REALLY twinking the game, the elemental-fire would have been to the point where it would nullify elemental damage), and I'd use Laser until the Midgar Zolom's HP < 500, at which point it would use Beta, and then once I learned that enemey skill, I'd kindly finish off the poor creature with its own attack

Of course, I'd also take a detour from North Corel to go down to the chocobo tracks and wander around (with the chocobo lure materia equipped) until I got a chocobo to appear with a chimera, then I'd just harass the chimera until it used aqualung, on my party. Needless to say, with Barret equiped with my best enemy skill materia (matra magic, flamethrower, laser, aqualung) I was able to defeat Dyne in all of three rounds.

[boys from the dwarf]

A cheap way of avoiding Midgar Zolom is to dash across and right as he's about to touch you go to your menu and save the game then reset and reload and he'll be far away from you again allowing you to make it to the other side. This is great for the no-materia challenge.

And here I thought I knew all the geeky secrets of the game.

i knew that too but i never use it, i alway use a chocobo or now im on disk 3 i just kick its tail.

[nik0tine]

I too have just beaten the Midgar Zolom at levels 15 (cloud) 15 (red XIII) and 13 (aeris).
My strategy was to poison the snake as soon as possible, and then use quake with cloud, and fire with red. Aeris just sat there and healed whenever it was necessary. This ensured that I stayed alive. Once I got him to around 1000 HP, I stopped attacking. This he can't use Beta. I just kept myself in good health and waited for the poison to slowly kill him.