Any tips for the dark aeons?

[RPG Gamer Man]

I basically beat ultima and omega..but those dark aeons are just too hard..and sadly, i cannot get the magus sisters or the other summon because i missed items in some of the temples, in particular, the besaid one..and whenever i go there..i get koed. I have some celestial weapons, but dark Valefor keeps killing me. Any tips?

[Hinnyuu]

Dark Valefor you can beat with reasonable stats, but for the other ones you really want to grind up your stats to close to maximum.

You can use the Fiend Arena to farm +4 stat spheres for all categories, and with them you can get max in the relevant stats: 255 STR/DEF/MDEF, 170 AGI; ACC/EVA depend on how much LCK you want to farm (it's a major pain to farm). If memory serves 114 is a good compromise for LCK as that will allow you to always hit Dark Yojimbo and Penance (and you won't need extra ACC); it won't always let you hit Dark Mindy (the most difficult to hit enemy in the game) but you can just use overdrives for her which can't miss. I believe you need 290 EVA+LCK to evade everything that can be evaded. Also get 9,999 HP and 999 MP, obviously. You do not need Break HP Limit.

Use Celestial Weapons on everyone you want to use in the fight. Custom-made weapons can't compete, because CWs have a special hidden ability that makes them ignore the enemy's DEF stat when attacking (you cannot copy this ability in any way).

For your armor, use a 4-slot with the following: Auto-Haste / Auto-Phoenix / Auto-Protect / Stoneproof (or Ribbon if you have spare Dark Matter, but you don't need to farm for it specifically).

Start each fight with Auron in the party using his CW, so you're guaranteed to get the first turn. Swap him for Rikku and use her overdrive to mix Ultra NulAll so you start with all stat boosts x5. That way you won't need more than 9,999 HP to survive unpredictable AoE hits (like Dark Yojimbo's Wakizashi). Predictable hits you can't reduce below 9,999 you either survive through Auto-Phoenix (for single target) or use an Aeon to take the hit for you (mostly enemy overdrive attacks).

Spam Quick Hit on enemies until they die. Use Wakka's or Tidus' overdrive as you please pretty much, though they aren't really required except to kill Dark Mindy if you don't want to max out your LCK stat, and potentially for Penance's arms (since you never want them to get a turn).

For Penance, use a different armor: Auto-Haste / Auto-Protect / Auto-Potion / DEF+20% as you should never die on that fight if you keep killing arms before they have a turn, and dispel Penance's Full Break when it's applied (and start the fight with x5 stat boosts to get Cheer status).

[RPG Gamer Man]

thanks..ill try this..i be grinding i guess awhile in omega ruins and in monster arena.

[Xaphnir]

Originally posted by RPG Gamer Man:

thanks..ill try this..i be grinding i guess awhile in omega ruins and in monster arena.

There's a way to quickly gain a ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ of AP, described in this guide: https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/ps2/197344-final-fantasy-x/faqs/13619

[ShuShay]

You might find dansg08's videos on Youtube useful; he actually beat Dark Anima in a No Sphere Grid challenge once

[RPG Gamer Man]

Still working on getting wakka's celestial weapon. Also lulu's with that darn lightning dodge thing...My tidus and riku already can attack more than 9999 attacks with their celestial weapons. Also ive been getting triple AP weapons from the big eye in monster arena. This monster drops triple AP weapons.

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[RPG Gamer Man]

So far beat Valefor and Bahamut with Yojimbo one hit ko attacks. I read some other forums that you can kill them easily with the yojimbo one hit ok thing. I want to get shiva next so i can get into that temple.

Question: Does the yojimbo thing allow you to kill all dark aeons and the boss penance?

[Hinnyuu]

Originally posted by RPG Gamer Man:

Question: Does the yojimbo thing allow you to kill all dark aeons and the boss penance?

Yes, everything can be killed by Yojimbo (even Magic Pots!). Though bosses with multiple "forms" like e.g. Yunalesca will only progress to their next form; they'll only die if you use it on their final "form".

[Xaphnir]

Originally posted by RPG Gamer Man:

Question: Does the yojimbo thing allow you to kill all dark aeons and the boss penance?

Yes.

But you may feel like you've cheapened the experience by doing so. I know I would have felt that way had I used it when killing them.

[RPG Gamer Man]

Originally posted by Xaphnir:

Originally posted by RPG Gamer Man:

Question: Does the yojimbo thing allow you to kill all dark aeons and the boss penance?

Yes.

But you may feel like you've cheapened the experience by doing so. I know I would have felt that way had I used it when killing them.

Well considering i am having a very hard time even killing them. I even had setup some custom armors i set their personal things, and still, i am having such trouble. The fact yojimbo ko move actually is helping me. It is probably a cheap way to kill them, but for me, i find it helpful. Sadly, if that is the only way i can beat them legitimately, even when i made auto- skils on my armor and using my celestial weapons, i cannot beat them. It is like a last ditch effort way i guess for me.

UPDATED: Finally beat yojimbo 5 times, and opened penance..now to design the armor for fighting it next.