Final Fantasy IX - The Last Battle

[Turin]

I made a video about the final fight with Trance Kuja and Necron. Hopefully it can help other people out. It's not that tough of a fight though really.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yx65aPM9yuk

[Fli]

Necron can be the toughest boss in the game if you're unlucky.

If Grand Cross decides to straight up KO people twice in a row, you just need to accept that it was never meant to be.

His script must be bonkers, because I have had that happen before.

conversely he can be the easiest boss in the game, spamming innefectual attacks.

[Turin]

Originally posted by Aaliyah:

Originally posted by Eru Turin:

I made a video about the final fight with Trance Kuja and Necron. Hopefully it can help other people out. It's not that tough of a fight though really.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yx65aPM9yuk

Ha! Necron has to be like the easy final boss ever! Honestly, I'd hoped Ozma would be a final boss, be more suiting!
If I was in control...
No one would be able defeat my final boss.

Yeah, Ozma is way harder. I had to take Eiko and rely on a phoenix rez to do it.

[GuyInDogSuit]

Originally posted by Fli:

Necron can be the toughest boss in the game if you're unlucky.

If Grand Cross decides to straight up KO people twice in a row, you just need to accept that it was never meant to be.

His script must be bonkers, because I have had that happen before.

conversely he can be the easiest boss in the game, spamming innefectual attacks.

True. I've never seen a double Grand Cross, but he does tend to use worthless attacks.

Ozma, on the other hand.... All the preparation, and you STILL have to rely on sheer luck to beat him.

[(/*◔ ◡ ◔*)/]

Not necessary to be full of luck against Ozma, imo. Common tactics using Auto-Life (Salamander and Quina) and Return Magic (Vivi and Quina) makes it really easy to beat Ozma.

[Orphy]

Originally posted by Aaliyah:

Ha! Necron has to be like the easy final boss ever! Honestly, I'd hoped Ozma would be a final boss, be more suiting!

Ozma isn't hard either, it is just luck based. With the right preparations you defeat it in a few attacks and if you haven't had the right preperations it defeats you in a few attacks.
That's not hard or fun, just luck.

[GuyInDogSuit]

Originally posted by \(*◕ ◡ ◔*)/:

Not necessary to be full of luck against Ozma, imo. Common tactics using Auto-Life (Salamander and Quina) and Return Magic (Vivi and Quina) makes it really easy to beat Ozma.

You have probably never had Ozma spam a few attacks in a row and wipe you out before you can respond with healing spells.

[Narcoleptic Marshmallow]

Originally posted by \(*◕ ◡ ◔*)/:

Not necessary to be full of luck against Ozma, imo. Common tactics using Auto-Life (Salamander and Quina) and Return Magic (Vivi and Quina) makes it really easy to beat Ozma.

Quina doesn't have Return Magic, Amarant does. Auto-Life is also near useless, since it only works once, so I don't know where you got that "common tactics" from.

Normally you don't want extra Doomsdays thrown at you with Return Magic anyway. I mean yes technically you can cheese it by equipping both with Return Magic, dark absorb equipment, and then letting Ozma cast Doomsday on you, after completing the friendly enemies side quest. But outside of this specific scenario it's not a very good choice.

Being immune to a lot of things Ozma does (Lv4 Holy, Lv5 Death, and debuffs inflicted by Curse) increases the chance of being hit with Meteor, Doomsday or Flare Star, because he's smart enough not to waste turns, and which are going to wipe you pretty quickly. He counters attacks with Curaga often, so if you're dealing less than 9000 something each hit, you are effectivelly healing him. At best, you will deal a 3 digit damage during your turn if that happens. Or, he could counter with Berserk, which makes you lose control of your character, but is pointless if targetting a physical attacker.

So yes there's quite a bit of luck involved.

[(/*◔ ◡ ◔*)/]

I meant Salamander for Return Magic. Sorry for the names, don't know the English's ones, actually using Japanese's. By Auto-Life, I mean Reraise (リレイズ) obtained by eating Keroberos (ケルベロス) with Quina (that Salamander got too).

Originally posted by GuyInDogSuit:

You have probably never had Ozma spam a few attacks in a row and wipe you out before you can respond with healing spells.

Healing spells are not necessary with Auto-Regen, especially while Daysdoom is invoked. Here's the tactic used after having completed the friendly monsters' quest.

- The 4 characters used are : Zidane, Salamander, Quina and Vivi. These 4 characters are immuned to most of Curse's effects.

- The 4 characters are immuned or absorb Dark element.

- The 4 characters has : Auto-Regen.

- Salamander and Vivi has Return Magic (for Doomsday) : most of the damages dealt to Ozma come from there.

- Quina and Salamander have to cast constantly Reraise on the others.