Defeating Gilbert Tips

[Legendary]

I'm at the part where I'm facing Gilbert for the first time on the new base (If you have played, you know where I'm talking about). There appears to be a time limit as to when I have to beat him before somebody jumps in. How do I defeat Gilbert before the time limit is up?

[Hat8]

Originally posted by Legendary:

I'm at the part where I'm facing Gilbert for the first time on the new base (If you have played, you know where I'm talking about). There appears to be a time limit as to when I have to beat him before somebody jumps in. How do I defeat Gilbert before the time limit is up?

You have your specials charged?

[Cid]

If you search the base you should find some pretty useful meatballs. Death scream also goes a long way

[xXiaoDrag0n]

You should have 2 Proxy Puppets equipped on Estelle, a 200CP S-Craft ready, and last but not least, she must be able to Silver Thorn or Death Scream. Without these, you will not be able to defeat him, let alone beating the time limit.

[Legendary]

I never thought of equiping 2 Proxy Puppets. That would actually make things easier and make it so that I don't have to waste my turns healing. And, I do have some pretty useful meatballs as well that I can't believe that I forgot to use. And, I do have a 200 CP S-Craft ready. The only thing I don't have is the ability to use Silver Thorn or Death Scream. I hope I have the quartz to do it on me. Thanks for all the tips

[Arvelon]

Originally posted by xXiaoDrag0n:

YWithout these, you will not be able to defeat him, let alone beating the time limit.

On Nightmare - maybe. On hard beat him with one puppet and without rest of the things.
Still, using confusion (chaos brand) as a key.
Maybe it's worth to try to start battle with +50% evasion, but I can't test it, since I don't have a save near this battle.

[Hagen2900]

Originally posted by xXiaoDrag0n:

You should have 2 Proxy Puppets equipped on Estelle, a 200CP S-Craft ready, and last but not least, she must be able to Silver Thorn or Death Scream. Without these, you will not be able to defeat him, let alone beating the time limit.

This is a decent strategy on nightmare or hard (but even then one Proxy Puppet should typically be sufficient). On normal the question is how much damage you can put out. For this Death Scream and the meatballs should be better than Silver Thorn since the opponents probably won't hurt each other that much.

[Legendary]

Well, I currently have the difficulty on Normal because it's my first time playing through the game. And Easy just didn't suit my style so, I just went with Normal difficulty. I'm going to be trying these strategy's in a little bit and see what I can do.

[Legendary]

Thanks guys, I defeated them so quickly after I got Death Scream. I didn't even have to use a Proxy Puppet.