tell me if this gets annoying to you.

[Unmotivated]

4 steps, then battle
5 steps, then battle
another 5 steps, then battle
i'm sorry, but when battles are THIS constant, it makes getting where i need to go a chore. i needed to vent this out. random battles are fun, but they should not be this constant and annoying. if somebody knows how to lessen these a little bit, that would be great. just enough to where i don't dread every battle i get into.

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get the GF Diablos and learn his ENC Half or ENC None ability and there you go

[Unmotivated]

Originally posted by Jerzey NiGHTS:

get the GF Diablos and learn his ENC Half or ENC None ability and there you go

well, i've been trying to beat Diablos, but he's not making things easy for me. got any tips for me?

[Thunder-Z]

Draw Gravity on him?

But as Diablos has nearly the same lvl as you, he's very powerful at higher lvls. I always go for him ASAP, but later... don't know if blindness works on him, so he can't kill your team (the powers just drop HP, but don't kill, AFAIRemember). Spam Renzokuken, maybe use Zell for lot of hits and Selphie for her Ultimate (Full Heal included, depending of the weapon she has).

[MMLXXXVI]

Originally posted by Shirayuki474:

Originally posted by Thunder-Z:

Draw Gravity on him?

But as Diablos has nearly the same lvl as you, he's very powerful at higher lvls. I always go for him ASAP, but later... don't know if blindness works on him, so he can't kill your team (the powers just drop HP, but don't kill, AFAIRemember). Spam Renzokuken, maybe use Zell for lot of hits and Selphie for her Ultimate (Full Heal included, depending of the weapon she has).

Blind and Slows works on him though I doubt OP had many of them

Didn't one of the special "boosts" they add to game said you could turn off encounters?

[andreasaspenberg575]

one trick to beating diablos that i used is to fight him with laguna, kiros and ward. that worked well for me.

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Try this, outside of Balamb Garden there is a beach right next to it when you leave between the Garden and the city of Balamb. There is an enemy called Fish Fin and when you defeat it you get an item called fish fin. Get five of those and use Shiva's I Mag RF Ability to convert all the fish fin to Water. Junction the Water to the Strength Category for both Squall and Zell. That means get 10 fish fins. Also make sure you have the STR + 20 for either Squall or Zell and make sure both of them are critical HP. Spam Zell Booya and Heel Kick since those are the easiest to perform and use Squalls Limit and have the third character heal just themselve so that person can use Pheonix Down on whoever dies when Diablos hit them physically. Now I'm saying this when as soon as you get the Magical Lamp when Zell gets his board took in the story. Do that and you should have Diablos in the beginning and learn his ENC Half then his ENC None.

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Do all this before you go to Timber

[srsface]

I thought Diablos was pretty easy, but then again I think FF8 is one of the easiest FF games.

If you haven't figured it out already, being at "critical" HP is actually a good thing. Keep spamming the button to swap turns on your characters and you'll get your Limit Breaks to pop up literally every turn.

Keep Squall at low HP and your other two people are there just to revive in case things go south, and you should be fine. Spam Renzokyuken and you'll win. You can repeat this for pretty much every encounter in the entire game.

[Unmotivated]

Originally posted by Jerzey NiGHTS:

Try this, outside of Balamb Garden there is a beach right next to it when you leave between the Garden and the city of Balamb. There is an enemy called Fish Fin and when you defeat it you get an item called fish fin. Get five of those and use Shiva's I Mag RF Ability to convert all the fish fin to Water. Junction the Water to the Strength Category for both Squall and Zell. That means get 10 fish fins. Also make sure you have the STR + 20 for either Squall or Zell and make sure both of them are critical HP. Spam Zell Booya and Heel Kick since those are the easiest to perform and use Squalls Limit and have the third character heal just themselve so that person can use Pheonix Down on whoever dies when Diablos hit them physically. Now I'm saying this when as soon as you get the Magical Lamp when Zell gets his board took in the story. Do that and you should have Diablos in the beginning and learn his ENC Half then his ENC None.

so, in other words, start the game over, or forget Daiblos? x.x ugh. i purposefully held off on trying to fight him because i wanted to get stronger and make the fight easier. i never expected the thing to scale with me.

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Yeah I did not know that will happen also but just junction strong magic to your strength and keep irvine, zell, and squall at critical HP

[Unmotivated]

Originally posted by Jerzey NiGHTS:

Yeah I did not know that will happen also but just junction strong magic to your strength and keep irvine, zell, and squall at critical HP

umm, who is Irvine? i don't think i'm as far into the game as you think. i'm at the second Dream transition to Laguna Kiros and Ward.

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oh never mind, he is another character you'll get

[Wolfen Crest]

Just as someone mentioned before - blind works, but the bastard is resistant to it, so you have to cast it several times. You can get blind in communication tower's first level, just before Elvoret encounter. Otherwise beating him is almost impossible - combination of Gravija and one melee atack almost every time is fatal; also despite the fact that Gravija cant kill your characters it still can kill your GF, since the damage you get is based on yoyr character HPl, BUT not your GF, so GF gets clean damage based on your character current hp and can die. In other words counting on GF is not 100% effective. I vote for Jerzey's LB's plan with water Junction + blind. BTW each fish gives you 3 AM and you can spend some time to get Diablos's Enc Half and None early in game.

[Phade]

Originally posted by hey, it's Satan:

Originally posted by Jerzey NiGHTS:

get the GF Diablos and learn his ENC Half or ENC None ability and there you go

well, i've been trying to beat Diablos, but he's not making things easy for me. got any tips for me?

Diablos is really easy...seriously. The only threat is once he gets to low health he'll start using physical attacks for a crap ton of damage, so ideally you wanna just keep hitting him hard, have one of your characters designated to healer. make sure ALL of your characters have magic and cure avaliable just incase.

[commenghost]

I beat him with demi and regular visits to the clinic. Cast demi enough times on him and eventually it will only take 20-30 hit points...thats your clue to WHACK the bugger! [also, don't forget there is nothing stopping you from using the magic boost, you can make your characters freakishly strong in the early going from that.