Beating Emerald Weapon without Materia

[FFGuevara]

Yeah but since Emerald weapons attack are powerfull anyway. Limit break's take 3-2 hit's to fill up top's. But i didnt use a Ziedrich. (Forgot about them at that time).

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wizard bracelet (joke)

if u haven't got 3 zeidrich then warrior bangle might help (provided u got it of course!) tho i dont know if it's stats are better than mystile. thats ur job!!!

[Crop]

Yeah it can be done, it isnt that difficult when you know how, but Ruby weapon is a different matter....

[Carl the Llama]

[Captain Maxx Power]

Seems some smart, hansome devil already posted a guide to a no-materia game over at gamefaqs.com. I'll post up an exerpt.

=======================EMERALD WEAPON========================

The following is provided through Mad-Psycho, found on the eyes on final
fantasy forums (www.eyesonff.com)

Emerald weapon is hard. Very hard. Under normal circumstances, even in a
materia game, fighting emerald weapon isn''t recommended by the most sane of
people. However, after perusing the internet, it turns out that their is,
indeed a way to defeat emerald weapon, sans materia. Unfortunatly, you won''t
get anything useful out of it (the experience and ap will be useless, and the
Earth Harp will do no good either). However, defeating emerald in itself is a
reward, much like Omega Weapon from FF5.

REQUIREMENTS
- Party: Cloud, Yuffie, Tifa
- Limit breaks: Level 4, all limit bars full before battle, hyper status
- Weapons: Ultimate
- Armor: Mystiles or other high defense armors
- Level: 99 for all (see how the experience is useless?)
- Items: 99 X-potions (see above), 10 Megalixirs

Secondary requirements
- Go to the config menu, and set the battle speed to as low as possible, and
the ATB to Wait. If you find that the timer runs out before you defeat him, try
setting the timer as fast as possible. WARNING, this is dangerous, but it will
cut the time taken in battle by one quater.

STRAGEDY

Start off the battle with an omnislash from Cloud. This should knock off most
of Emerald''s HP''s. Attack with your other characters limits. Now, NEVER
ATTACK UNLESS YOU HAVE A LIMIT. The rest of the time you should quickly heal
any character who are injured, either with an X-potion or an elixir. If the
whole party is in critical, use a megalixir. As long as you use a limit the
second it appears, you can defeat emerald quite easily. If this doesn''t work
the first time round, keep trying. It''ll be down to luck most of the time, but
perserverance is the key.

[The_Great_Question]

Well.....Emerald Weapon really takes me back BUT its actually possible to beat him without any materia all you need are....

ALL character lvl 99
ALL Ultimate Limit Breaks(Get That Omnislash Ready)
Lotta Life And Strength
.....
And A Lotta Luck!!!!!

And U Might Beat This Thing!

[FFGuevara]

Seems some smart, hansome devil already posted a guide to a no-materia game over at gamefaqs.com. I'll post up an exerpt.

=======================EMERALD WEAPON========================

The following is provided through Mad-Psycho, found on the eyes on final
fantasy forums (www.eyesonff.com)

Emerald weapon is hard. Very hard. Under normal circumstances, even in a
materia game, fighting emerald weapon isn''t recommended by the most sane of
people. However, after perusing the internet, it turns out that their is,
indeed a way to defeat emerald weapon, sans materia. Unfortunatly, you won''t
get anything useful out of it (the experience and ap will be useless, and the
Earth Harp will do no good either). However, defeating emerald in itself is a
reward, much like Omega Weapon from FF5.

REQUIREMENTS
- Party: Cloud, Yuffie, Tifa
- Limit breaks: Level 4, all limit bars full before battle, hyper status
- Weapons: Ultimate
- Armor: Mystiles or other high defense armors
- Level: 99 for all (see how the experience is useless?)
- Items: 99 X-potions (see above), 10 Megalixirs

Secondary requirements
- Go to the config menu, and set the battle speed to as low as possible, and
the ATB to Wait. If you find that the timer runs out before you defeat him, try
setting the timer as fast as possible. WARNING, this is dangerous, but it will
cut the time taken in battle by one quater.

STRAGEDY

Start off the battle with an omnislash from Cloud. This should knock off most
of Emerald''s HP''s. Attack with your other characters limits. Now, NEVER
ATTACK UNLESS YOU HAVE A LIMIT. The rest of the time you should quickly heal
any character who are injured, either with an X-potion or an elixir. If the
whole party is in critical, use a megalixir. As long as you use a limit the
second it appears, you can defeat emerald quite easily. If this doesn''t work
the first time round, keep trying. It''ll be down to luck most of the time, but
perserverance is the key.

Thats basically what i did except i used Cloud, Tifa and Cid and not Cloud , Tifa and Yuffie.

[DarkLord]

I'm working towards my ultimately innachievable goal! I will beat Ruby and Emerald with no Materia and without Limit Breaks. Chance of survival= zip squit, nada N/A. But I jst gotta try it.

[dan2k3]

i have done it put it took a lot of stat powering up and megalixiers. and ziedrichs. i used yuffie cloud and cid

[HunterFlamebrow]

I'm working towards my ultimately innachievable goal! I will beat Ruby and Emerald with no Materia and without Limit Breaks. Chance of survival= zip squit, nada N/A. But I jst gotta try it.

And after that, you can try it with a Cloud-only party.

[dan2k3]

the next best armour after ziedrich for the fight is adaman bangle. but it makes it a little harder. i thought emerald was ok without materia (without limits would be insane) ruby without materia i found a lot harder

[Cloud Lionheart]

It makes it easyer

[Ultima Shadow]

I've beaten both without materia and without stats boosting (no powerup-sources used trough the whole game).

Emerald is extremely easy compared to 95% of all the other challanges I've done, but Ruby on the other hand is without a doubt 1 of the hardest so far.