Help. I can't defeat Ultimecia.

[wendy4547]

I know Ultimecia is one of the easiest boss from the series, but I have trouble fighting it. The first fight is OK, then she summons a GF, fought it, then she junction herself and fought that one too.

I mean her final form. The ugly faceless one.

It's like a bomb with timer. If the time runs out, she start drawing "Apocalypse" and then cast it. Over and over again until I get a GAME OVER.

I tried again many times.
GAME OVER many times.
Times wasted many times.


At one point I gave up and use the "boosters" (no, it should be called "cheaters"), ASSIST and 9999.

Then you know what? I died again when the GF use Shockwave Pulsar. Because the damage exceeds my HP, the ASSIST "boosters" doesn't work and I died again.

I tried again, this time hoping REBIRTH FLAME shows up when I died before.

REBIRTH FLAME didn't show up. Died again.

Frustate, really gave up, I went to Youtube to just watch the ending. Then realize the videos are more then 20 minutes to watch. With rage I closed the browser.

Pathethic...

Can anyone tell me how to defeat this thing? And how to stay alive when that he use that Shockwave Pulsar? And the apocalypse, oh the apocalypse...

[wendy4547]

Oh I miss Zeromus from FF IV because he didn't steal any stat... If ultimecia steal your magic junctioned to HP stats, then you are ♥♥♥♥♥♥.

[Yuna Leonhart]

Well, my strategy was to junction the GF on three characters (in my case Squall, Rinoa and Selphie) and I junctioned Magic to all three, Draw to two of them and Item to one of them and Treatment/Revive/Recover to whoever is junctioned with the G.F. with the respective Ability. Of course, there's no guarantee that the three random party members Ulti chooses are those you junctioned your GFs to, but there is always a chance one of them is among them. Anyway, keep attacking her, heal when necessary and use your Limits. One good way that worked for me was when Ulti uses in her Final Form Hell's Judgement. Your party's HP drop down to one, so use your party's Limits. For extra measure, cast Aura first or use one those items to make one party member or every party member invincible. Reuse this item when necessary (or heal one or two party members) and just spam your Limits. I had Squall using Lionheart and Rinoa Combine. Selphie made sure to revive them when they were KO'ed (and I had her occasionally draw and cast Apocalypse).
It worked for me this way, at least.

[LilG]

Ultimecia in all her forms can randomly wipe your spells junctioned to a stat & also instakill your GFs.
If you're having trouble surviving I recommend you give your characters auto-haste, pro/shell abilities. Also have everyone's ultimate weapon , use the Aura spell which lets you use limit breaks more frequently which will knock off chunks of HP from the bosses. Renzokuken+duel+shot works wonders. Just make sure you have characters with revive/recover abilities

You can reduce the defence of each boss by casting meltdown & also junctioning earth/wind/holy maic to your elem defence to nullify or absorb those attacks, since the bosses do use those spells.
Shockwave pulsar is non-elemental so best to cast shell/regen or Mighty Guard to absorb some of the damage. Quistis can use that spell which is effective against each form of Ultimecia too, it can break the 9999 damage limit. The chance of rebirth flame occuring is only about 25% so its not really that reliable.

For apocalypse, kill her lower half first, then just zerg her down before she can use it & keep megalixirs etc on hand when she uses Hell's Judgement attack. If you have any holy war items you can just use them to make yourself temporary invincible for an easy win.

[twitch.tv/AgriasOaks]

I'm just going off of console memory here, but yeah. I used Zell. You cast meltdown on any boss, and use an aura/stone on Zell, and he can basically just continually dish out the ridiculous damage because of Vit 0 debuff from Meltdown. It's how I beat all of the weapons and Ultimecia in all her forms. Recap: Cast meltdown for vit 0, use an aura/aura stone on Zell, use his limit break to kill bosses.

This is assuming, of course, that you're good at inputting his sequences. It takes some getting used to, but his combos loop in a set reel. You use one of the three that show up randomly, then the next one will always be a specific combo, etc. Punch rush, heel drop, dolphin punch, I think was the loop that I used? I may have messed one of their namaes up. But yeah. That's my advice. Use Zell. He's the VIII equivalent to TG Cid in Tactics.