How do you deal with demons in this game?

[☠Black Knight]

I'm talking about the incredibly frustrating normal enemies, with a completely unavoidable one-shot kill spell. What the actual ♥♥♥♥?

They appear to have 0 weaknesses and take almost no damage from any physical or magical attacks that you throw at them. The only hope you even have of countering the spell is hitting them to interrupt it. And if you have a room full of them on opposite sides of the screen? GG.

Is the only viable strategy really to just try and back them in a corner, and pray one of them doesn't move out of range and get the spell off? Because if so... that's REALLY ♥♥♥♥ game design.

I tried googling for any information on this, and found absolutely nothing. Apparently I am the only person in the world that finds these things to be complete aids. Please tell me I am missing something obvious.

[☠Black Knight]

Oh... and if all of the above wasn't bad enough... apparently they can ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ heal too.

[CrescendoFuri]

What is the name of the one shot spell?

[Talon Rose]

For physical attacks that come with instakill status, simply R1 to block and you will not die.
It MIGHT work for the spell too, didn't try it. Generally tho yeah you wanna knock them out of it with a few hits of your sword or a strong magic. Hell Firaga is pretty nice, can status enemies up, 3 hits, so forth so forth. They aren't hard.

[AARXN.]

if you're talking about death, you can equip a hell version of fire, thunder or blizzard spells and a status ward materia. once status ward is mastered, it prevents any status ailments of whatever materia you have equipped.

[☠Black Knight]

Originally posted by Talon Rose:

For physical attacks that come with instakill status, simply R1 to block and you will not die.
It MIGHT work for the spell too, didn't try it. Generally tho yeah you wanna knock them out of it with a few hits of your sword or a strong magic. Hell Firaga is pretty nice, can status enemies up, 3 hits, so forth so forth. They aren't hard.

I will try blocking and see if that works I guess. I mean, holding your sword up stopping a spell called "death" makes no sense, but I'm out of options otherwise. And I don't have Firaga yet. You encounter these things as early as chapter 2 if your just doing as many missions as possible before continuing main story. I'm nowhere near a point of having end game level spells to work with.

[CrescendoFuri]

But yeah as Talon said, guarding blocks statuses, including death.
i've been hit by many instakill attacks and lived.
You'll know you're good when you see the big ol GUARD pop up

[ivanlyw7]

Death becomes a really annoying skill mid-late missions XD

Either block or use an anti-death accessory

One good thing is that you can keep re-trying the mission and redo the battle to try to down the death monster 1st.

[Xengre]

As others said this mission you need death resistance since there are too many mobs casting it. I did this in chapter 2, too. You will want to do the other missions until you unlock the shops for either the new materia (get quake btw, its amazing) and a Hell spell like Hell Blizzaga which inflicts death as one of its status effects (too rare to use for death btw, so don't bother). You want to also buy Status Ward from that shop and equip both materia to resist death. You can also buy a Safety Bit accessory from the other shop unlocked. Some of the shops come from certain chests in specific missions while others come as mission rewards. Both can be gotten in chapter 2. You also will want to buy the stop resistance accessory for later missions and definitely buy the Wizard bracelet when the shop is unlocked too (fire/ice/lighting will heal you and is great for later enemies, notably spamming magic claws).

[Lellodee]

Death is the spell. Pair it with Status Ward on your Equipment to have immunity to Death debuffs.