Almighty Shinra... missable?

[Dread Mirror]

I have a question about Almighty Shinra because I might've screwed myself over and I just need to confirm it. Apparently, Almighty Shinra is only fought in one of the cups in the Fiend Arena, but in order to unlock that specific cup I need to level up some monsters for their fiend tales etc.

Now, the problem here is that my YRP are already lvl99. I cannot unlock the Aeon cup as well because of it.

Is there really really no other way to fight Almighty Shinra? I want to beat him, but I really dislike the Fiend Arena, I find the whole capturing and sphere farming tedious and boring, and now I have to start over from chapter 2? Bruh.

[Hinnyuu]

Yes, the cup is the only way to fight/get Almighty Shinra. If you can't level your fiends enough to increase their fiend tale levels to where you need them, you've pretty much screwed yourself out of it.

You can restart the game, or you can use a tool like Farplane or CheatEngine or whatever to either reduce YRP's level manually, or to manually set your fiends to lower levels so you can get the required fiend tale levels.

[Dread Mirror]

Originally posted by Hinnyuu:

Yes, the cup is the only way to fight/get Almighty Shinra. If you can't level your fiends enough to increase their fiend tale levels to where you need them, you've pretty much screwed yourself out of it.

You can restart the game, or you can use a tool like Farplane or CheatEngine or whatever to either reduce YRP's level manually, or to manually set your fiends to lower levels so you can get the required fiend tale levels.

Oh, I wasn't aware that's a possibility tbh. I might just do that since I already got every achievement the legit way so it's not a big deal. It's not like fighting Shinra is required for anything, I just want to do it for fun. Thanks for the advice, I'll try to research how to do it.

[pre-eminence]

Correct me if I am wrong but can't you get progress for fiend tales by winning cups with those fiends? You don't have to level them right? It's level or win cups no? Been a while since I played so could be wrong.

[Hinnyuu]

Originally posted by pre-eminence:

Correct me if I am wrong but can't you get progress for fiend tales by winning cups with those fiends? You don't have to level them right? It's level or win cups no? Been a while since I played so could be wrong.

You can, however these are capped by level. You only gain fiend tale levels for fiends that are at or below these levels:

Standard - 19
Std:Hard - 29
Grand - 39
Grd:Hard - 44
Chocobo - 59
Cactuar - 69
YL - 79
Aeon - 89
Fiend World - 89
Farplane - 99

Which means that if you haven't unlocked the Farplane Cup and all your fiends are 97+, you can't progress anymore since you at minimum need 3 story levels (IIRC) and up to 5, depending on the fiend.

You also get +1 story level to all fiends for completing a main story chapter, but of course the higher cups are all exclusive to Chapter 5 so that doesn't do it either.

[pre-eminence]

As always Hinnyuu has the full answer ;) guess it's the editor tools for the op then :/