How do u kill the weapons?!

[Kenshin IV]

You kill the Weapons by depleting all of their hit points.

[G SpOtZ]

i hate when people reply to someone who needs help with stupid obvious answers to be funny, just like the one above...

the only time i like obvious answers is when they actually are funny, like meat puppets. lol. if the replies are obvious but not clever and funny(like kenshins), it'd prolly be better to not say it cuz the person needs help.

anyway, you can find the cave by wutai somewhere.... i think. or maybe that was the other one... the only other caves are the KoTR cave (northeastern), the cave by the entrance to Mt. Corel, or the cave somewhere Mideel chain of islands...but you definitely should get mime so don't give up looking for it or anything, it helps A LOT...

[Kenshin IV]

I <3 people who don't know how to capitalize.

[Rengori]

And I know I just LOVE to try and understand that goddamn f***in' leet.

[MushroomZOMBIE]

:rolleyes2

[Darth Tjador]

inside Wutai or on the world map?

[Rengori]

It's on the world Map. Chocobos can't enter towns anyway.

[Dell]

does everyone know how to beat ruby and emerald without KotR, mime, Mp turbo or absorber, hp absorber, counter, master materias? It really hard to master more than one materia and KotR takes a lot of AP to master.

[Dell]

does everyone know how to beat ruby and emerald without KotR, mime, Mp turbo or absorber, hp absorber, counter, master materias? It really hard to master more than one materia and KotR takes a lot of AP to master. they made me mad:mad2: and crying out for loud:(

[?????]

does everyone know how to beat ruby and emerald without KotR, mime, Mp turbo or absorber, hp absorber, counter, master materias? It really hard to master more than one materia and KotR takes a lot of AP to master. they made me mad and crying out for loud

There are easy strategies to beat both Ruby and Emerald Weapon. All you need to master is Counter, and maybe some HP Plus materia. You only have to get KOTR up to where you can summon it twice per battle.

For Ruby, equip Cloud with Mystile, and link Mime + Counter in one paired slot, and KOTR + HP Absorb in another. Put enough HP Plus materia to get him to 9999, and put W-Summon on him as well. Finally, add all the extraneous summon materia you can to raise Cloud's Magic stat, and equip him with a related accessory. Now, KO your other two characters before you initiate the battle, so Ruby will bury his arms right away. Then, W-Summon KOTR on him. The key here is that as soon as he does anything, you'll automatically counter by miming KOTR, and since it's linked to HP Absorb you'll get all your HP back every time it hits. He should be dead in fairly short order.

For Emerald, make sure Cloud has 9999 HP and two materia on him. The other two should have KOTR, Mime, and W-Summon arranged in a fashion that will allow you to quickly summon KOTR four times, as well as healing materia to keep everyone at 9999, a few Megalixirs, and a mastered Final Attack + Phoenix. As far as I know, you have to do a certain amount of damage to him before he uses Aire Tam Storm. But if you've hit him with four KOTRs already, once you get in 7777 mode he's dog meat. If he still doesn't die, a couple of Omnislashes or other comparable attacks ought to fix that.

There are of course a number of strategies, but those are what worked for me.

[chronic_Maniac]

I tell you the truth. To beat the weapons, you must have leveled materia first. I speak with these words, If you don't HIT THEM WITH YOU SWORD!!!
No just joking.

Emerald
Have your hp up to 9999 with one hp plus.
Equip that and a comet materia that can use comet2. Thats all you gotta equip.
When emerald uses air storm you'll get all lucky 7's.
Follow after those attacks with comet2. Each comet will hit for 7777 damage. Keep up and have the rest of your party use any good attacks.

Ruby
Get w-summon
Cast hades on him. Follow that with knights of the round - hp absorb. Start miming

[Ultima Shadow]

I tell you the truth. To beat the weapons, you must have leveled materia first.

In all honesty, you do NOT tell the truth.

[raskerino]

Yeah, neither of these are too tough.

There are some general strats that have been listed but the reader should understand that not all of this or any of it is necassary.

-KoTR is a very strong attack, this can be effectively combined with W-Summon for two casts or HP Drain, which will heal you ginormous amounts every turn.
-Another summon, Hades is very useful against Ruby, which will be paralyzed for 15 (or a lot) of turns.
-Most players that can't beat the WEAPONs won't have master materia, so those suggestions won't help, if for some reason you do have it then it'll allow you to combine multiple materia with KoTR.
-I thought I should mention the cheepest way, if you use Cait Sith's limit break slots and get all Cait then you'll kill either. There is a way to slow the slots down but I don't remember.
-Lucky 7s can help. If you have 9999 HP against Emerald and have two materia equipped it will deal 2222 (1111x#of materia equipped) and bring you to 7777 which will cause all attacks to deal 7777.
-Underwater materia is gotten by going to the place you got the submarine and killing a ship enemy with the morph command. You'll get a guidebook which can be traded to a man in Kalm for the underwater materia.
-Final Attack (achieved through the battle arena in the golden saucer) is great, it allows you to cast a spell at death, I recommend Phoenix against Emerald and Revive against Ruby.
-Which brings me to the point of using one character against Ruby, it's whirlwind attack can knock a character out of the fight, to avoid this have one character with all your best stuff and fight it solo, otherwise your best guy could be knocked out of the fight. This is why to connect revive to final attack, so only the one character is healed.
-You don't need to master any of the above, though it helps.
-HP pluses are useful (they're bought at Cosmo Canyon).
-Gravity materia does heavy damage to Emerald.
-4xSlash and hero's drink are very helpful if you're not using KoTR.
-Mimic is the uberness. It as the name implies allows an attack to be mimicked such as w-KoTR.
-Counter combined with mimic means as a response to any attack you counter with your last move, which might just happen to be w-KoTR.

[six underground]

Here's how when you DON't want to go out of the way to level up your materia to master, or have 8 counters, or final attack, or whatever :

at lvl 70+, you can!! just luck. I found Emerald harder, get him first. Equip Cloud with KOTR, doesn't matter if it's not mastered, and Slash-All and give the other 2 people (mine were Vincent and Cid) only 2 materias (give one person HP plus and Mime and the other person HP Plus and Enemy Skill - you need BIG GUARD). The 2 MUST HAVE 9999 HP!! Then sit around and try to stay alive with Megalixirs - use W-item - (occasionally shaving off some of Emerald's 1 million HP with limit breaks and KOTR). When your unmastered KOtr runs out and you can't mime anymore, just attack. Get one guy to throw Megalixirs nearly every turn. MP's not that important anymore, just make sure your 2 extra people are at 9999 HP everytime it's Emerald's turn to attack. Then wait for Aire Tam Storm, if it hits your 2 characters at 9999 hp they'll be 7777 hp and get lucky 7 fever. THIS is where you'll get all that damage done. About 2x of that and he'll turn red and die. This is easier said than done because sometimes you might overshoot the Megalixirs and cure yourself from 7777 hp to 9999 hp back again (GUILTY!! ). But just be patient, even with just 1 or 2 lucky 7 runs you can finish the rest of it off with Omnislashes (and you'll be getting a lot of that). After which, run to shore and SAVE!!! Get your Master Materia please.

Now go to Ruby and all you have to do is equip Cloud with your newly mastered KOTR/MAster Summon, give your 2 other characters your 2 Mimes (you now have two - your normal Mime and your Master Command Mime). Give someone else the Hades materia/Master Summon if you didn't use that as well. Give your 3rd person Enemy Skill (BIG GUARD again). You must be able to cast KOtr and Hades multiple times, that's all the work you must prepare for this. Do the kill-the-other-two characters bit, ram the Highwind into Ruby. When the tentacles appear call Phoenix to bring everyone else back, then with your 2nd character (the one who has Hades) SUMMON HADES FIRST. This will paralyze him, muhahaha. After that you're FREE to cast KOTR without being countered with Ultima until the sky falls. Keep Big Guard up as needed, otherwise just call KOTR and Mime and Mime. But don't forget to KEEP TABS ON RUBY'S PARALYSIS, after about 6 KoTRs he'll come back to the world, just cast HAdes again.

[Dell]

hey!! thank you everyone , i beat emerald and ruby myself without a mastered KotR, counter, phoenix or final attack (all of them still at level one except lv2 KotR and Phoenix lv4). here are my equipment::D
Cloud: LV 77
Ultima Weapon
Mystile
Ribbon
Barret: Lv 72
Missing Score
Escort Guard
Tetra Elemental
Cid: LV 72
Venus Gospel
Mystile
Sprint Shoes

Cloud Weapon Slot
HP Plus (mastered)+Master Command
Cloud Armor Slot (nothing)

Barret Weapon Slot
MP Plus (mastered)+HP Plus (mastered)
Barret Armor Slot
W-summonLV1+Underwater, KotRLV2+HP AbsorbLV1,
Luck PlusLV1+Magic PlusLV1

Cid Weapon Slot
HP Plus (mastered)+Master Magic
Cid Armor Slot
Final AttackLV1+PhoenixLV4, MimeLV1+CounterLV1

Ruby:

The equipment are same except For Cid And Barret changes for Fire Ring.

Cloud Weapon Slot: Master Summon+HP Plus(mastered), MP Plus(mastered)+W-summonlv1,
Master Magic+Master Command, MP Plus(mastered)
Cloud Armor Slot: Lv4 Phoenix+Final Attack, HP AbsorbLv1+KotRlv2
You can Put Any Other Materia You wish to be mastered to any empty slot.

Barret Weapon Slot: MP Plus(mastered)+HP Plus(mastered), Master Magic+All(mastered)
Barret Armor Slot: MimeLv1+Counter, Luck pluslv1+Magic PlusLv1
You can put any other Materia You wish to be mastered

Cid Weapon Slot: MP Plus(mastered)+HP Plus(mastered), Master Command
Cid Armor Slot: BarrierLv4+All(mastered), TransformLv1+Added EffectLv1

Strategy:

Cloud cast Phoenix to revive other after ruby seal his hand. Then start casting Kotr twice with added effect of healing. If cloud Somehow lost MP, Use megalixir or Turbo ether. Two method:

1) Kotr Till the end (miming it always)
2) Cast Phoenix and Kotr. This will aid you if someone fall down after ruby ultima. (keep miming with it with other character)