Having trouble with Caius

[A State Of Trance]

I must be very near the end of the game. I'm at the part where you fight Caius in his flying form, then his human form and then you are sent to fight him in Valhalla.

Was trying to kill him in Valhalla for about an hour and a half before I decided to give up and perhaps grind out some more crystarium points.

Do you guys have any teams on beating him? I pretty much have to use my full ATB attack from Noel to take him out for his first life and then can never take him out in his second life. I didn't have any Wounding Potions so I stocked up on those for next time but do I just need to level up more?

[Above & Beyond]

Meant to put tips instead of teams in the OP lol I was in a hurry.

[Purplefairy22]

Caius is one of those enemies where the more you fight him the more frustrating he'll get.
(i did this game on PS3)
Walk away for an hour and then have another go. you'll probably find you'll beat him first time.
But i can understand he's a pig, his attacks are relentless.
he's even worse with a certain item equiped paradox sphere

[Above & Beyond]

I got him below 50% a few times on his 2nd life but I just couldn't ever get past him. I think the Wounding Potions will really help since my party would die so fast being wounded for half their health pool.

I feel like one of my problems is my Medic pet is under 2k HP so he just gets destroyed and I spend half my time rezzing everyone with Phoenix Down.

[Purplefairy22]

is this the battle where he casts body and soul and ultima and does chain break when you stagger him?
Tortoise is a must have for this fight as are medics.
Delta Attack and Relentless Assault when you get the chance. When his HP is at the last 20% you just have to go for an all out offensive but tortoise whenever you see Inferno

Sadly this isn't the last fight, but the next is slightly less tough IMO but has a real HP damage dealing move but you'll be warned before this attack comes

[Above & Beyond]

Originally posted by Purplefairy22:

is this the battle where he casts body and soul and ultima and does chain break when you stagger him?
Tortoise is a must have for this fight as are medics.
Delta Attack and Relentless Assault when you get the chance. When his HP is at the last 20% you just have to go for an all out offensive but tortoise whenever you see Inferno

Sadly this isn't the last fight, but the next is slightly less tough IMO but has a real HP damage dealing move but you'll be warned before this attack comes

Yeah, Ultima and Chain Break is stuff he does for that fight. It must be possible without a Tortoise. I don't feel like farming for one and then leveling it up. Going to just keep trying other ways.

[Purplefairy22]

Tortoise is a pardigm of 3 sentinels.
Green chocobo is a good medic - standard Growth max level is 99 about 6000 hp
Silver Chocobo is a good Sentinel - erratic growth max level is 45 about 9000 hp
Twilight odin is a good Com - Very late bloomer growth max level is 99 about 12000 hp Also halves all ailments and ATB+1

A SAB AND SYN would be nice but caius removes the buffs too quick to get any real use out of them

[Above & Beyond]

Ohhhh. I don't even have 3 Sentinels.

I am currently using the Green Chocobo for my Medic but he only has 1700hp roughly so he gets destroyed. I'm really not trying to farm pets for hours, that is beyond boring to me. It's probably my least favorite part of the game.

[Purplefairy22]

sorry if there are spoilers its not intentional i can't remember whats locked and whats not.
Twilight odin - Vile peaks 10AF & 200AF
Silver Chocobo - Academia 4XX AF - Throw mog onto platform beneth the holographic projection of cocoon (he's also the best in the chocobo races, has amazing stamina)

If you collect all the fragments for all versions of yaschas massif (can only be done after unlocking Bresha ruins 100AF) you get an ability called Encounter Master.
Allows you to increase or decrese your enemy encounter rate.

Collect all fragments for Bresha and yaschas obtain rollling in CP (double CP)
Farming takes far less time this way

[Purplefairy22]

2 Weapons that could help are The Tower and Nagaraja. 2 unique weapons obtained by winning the kalavinka classic and Proudclad Classic Races.
They make Noel's and serah's weaker stats (Magic for noel, Strength for serah) match they're stonger stats.

[Above & Beyond]

You didn't spoil anything, like I said I think I am really close to the end of the game. I'll just level up a bit and try again.

[Purplefairy22]

I wish you the best of luck. Happy Gaming

[talgaby]

SAB is actually decent in the fight since he is one of those enemies where SAB role actually works. (As opposed, you know, to practically anything.) Not too necessary though.
Although he breaks chain gauges, you can stagger him and keep him that way.

Frankly, compared to XIII combat is so dumb you have to adjust yourself to it. Literally the dumbest strategy is the best. So just use COM/COM/COM to get in stabilising hits, RAV/RAV/RAV to build chain, and MED/MED/SEN to heal.
If you don't want to waste the racing champ silver chocobo for SEN role, a plain old pulsework knight from the steppe will do perfectly. It's more than perfect as a SEN for the story mode, and it's cheap to get and upgrade.
But keep a SAB/SAB/RAV in there for the final form fight. Or don't. It makes only a slight difference, but it can help 5-starring it for the achievement.

[A State Of Trance]

Thanks for the replies guys. Just beat the game so it seems like getting some levels up on my 2 main members and adding 700hp to my Green Chocobo was the key.

That ending was so sad =(

[Purplefairy22]

Ah my first reccomendation. walk away for a short while.
Dunno why but that is most often the answer.

[chrcoluk]

wow you must have rushed through the game, sounds like you not levelled up well. I have never needed to use triple sen, but in one of the fights he will always target serah so making her a sen may help in that one fight.

As always been agressive is a good tactic, the shorter the fight, the easier it is.