Got my platinum last week but still gotta show up for the views and algorithm since your hellions intonement guide was responsible for me taking all these challenges on with confidence.

You can knock Kujata out of his initial elemental change by casting aeroga anytime he roars. Kinda of just a pseudo stunlock for the whole fight as long as you can avoid his basic attacks

Just beat my last solo challenge a couple hours ago thanks to your video (it was Caith Sith´s) and hoped to see your next video soon. Good timing. Thanks for your guides, they´ve been very usefu! TBH dont think I´ve could beat these challenges without videos like these. They´re just so hard LOL

i`m on my way to platinum the game and your videos helps a lot, and now there are only 2 chalanges to go, i just hope getting so good as you are, thank you for the guides!!!

Thank you so much! I've been stuck on this challenge for days trying different builds, but I just couldn't get past Bahamut. Thanks to your guide, not only did I beat Bahamut, but I beat Odin on my first try!

I finished all brutal & legendary challenges a couple weeks ago & got my platinum this past weekend after finishing hard mode. Thanks to your guide & a medley of a couple others all this was made possible. I’ve subscribed to your channel & I just wanted to say thank you 🙏🏼

Ok, I finally got it thanks to this video and my own trial and error. To everyone struggling with Bahamut/Odin, I strongly suggest taking them on in their respective boss simulation at full strength. Get a feel for their patterns and what you can do in response to them. You don't have to become a god and perfect block everything on reaction, but the more you can react to, the better. Quick tip for Odin, any of the attacks that have the purple glow should be avoided as he'll automatically counter you if you do any ATB commands. If you do get caught by one, just switch to the other party member while the effect wears off. Also, when he divides the arena in two, the right side of the arena, from the perspective of how you started the fight, will always be the good side. Keep that in mind and be prepared to go there as soon as you see him leap into the air at around 50% health

Thank you for such a great tutorial! Was able to beat it from watching this video. Props to all the vids. You have helped me out so much.

Thank you so much for this. I managed to beat it on my first try following your guide. Nearly died to Odin at the last second.

Got my platinum yesterday also. But here to support the content!

Finally finished this challenge! Thanks for a great guide for this challenge. This build worked the best for me. I tried the other wind builds out there but the skill master and hp up materia worked better than magic focus and wind.

Thank you! You saved me from a lot of suffering!

This is where I throw in the towel. I'm not good enough to pull this off by skill. I was able to cheese my way to these very last two legendary battles, but I'm just not good enough to pull this off. It was a fun journey. Thank you for these guides, Naz.

Finally won tonight. Kept getting cheesed last second by Alexander of all things. Killed Cloud 3 times in a row right as he was about to get staggered by thundaga. Then Zack hits it three times and gets a useless stagger. Hella wack challenge, low key wish it was just Cloud so I wouldn’t have to divide my focus at all

Got the Platinum tonight, finally, your explanation on which attacks to avoid or dodge helped me tremendously on Odin, also what helped was when to use the Limit Break, it saved me, Odin was such a pain. I actually did To Be A Hero first to get the final Manuscript, for Cloud's Weapon Level to 9, with increased Magic Stats, it made Bonds Of Friendship really easy and demolished Odin quickly, but took me forever to beat Odin on To Be A Hero. I actually have my whole Play Log at 100% and all items possible, I'm tired haha.

Cloud build Quick reference: rune blade- genji glove- Cetran armlet/bracer Weapon skills: magic + 20, full power magic attack + 20 ATB charge rate up MATERIA: Lightning and wind linked to swiftcast First strike ATB boost Skill master Magic up Wind hp absorb Wind MP absorb Fire and ice linked elemental HP up Steadfast block Summon Phoenix Alternative build (Optinoob) Lightning and wind linked to magic focus Wind linked to HP absorb Wind link to MP absorb Wind link to swiftcast Fire and ice link to elemental in the armor Enemy skill First strikE ATB boost Magic up Phoenix summon ATB charge rate up and full power magic and magic attack plus 20 and enemy parts damage up *You can put attack power plus 20 instead of enemy parts damage up if you want I am working on a third build for people who want to absolutely maximize damage in order to run it faster but there won't be as much survivability Zack: the very basics Square square triangle! to quick charge Hold square to dash toward the enemy and attack and then press and hold square to do a downward slash. Perfect Blocking will charge quick charge For Titan I recommend using stop and destroying him with wind magic however you can get rid of the buff on his shield by attacking him right after he uses sling or thwack. Make sure to Target his hand if he uses granite shell with either chain slash 2 or a wind level 2 I've only completed this once I have done three solo success runs with Zack on just titan (If you want to destroy Titan with just Zack with or without cloud you are going to need to practice quick charge and combo quick charge and to destroy the shield I recommend to change / level 2 or level three and of course high braver but that takes a little bit of practice however if you debuff the shield and then use high braver it will take a huge chunk out of The shield. I do not know how to beat the other enemies with Zack yet.)

Got my platinum a few days ago. I guess Mage Cloud is the way to go for these things. One more to go! Great work Naz!

Thank you so much !! 😭 I never thought I’d be able to beat Odin but I did thanks to you ! 🙏🏻

The amount of work & trail it took to make this is C R A Z Y

Yeah this one has been kicking my ass so bad for a while now 💀 thanks

Finaly I just beat this fight after many attempts , my build is altered but very similar . I did beat Odin on my 1st time getting too him though 💪 bahamut caused me so many problems . I ran enemy skill ,revival swiftcast wind/thun hp up mag up hp absorb wind mp absorb wind magic focus wind 1st strike and steadfast block . On to my last vr mission really hope I have an easier time with that one

OMG thank you so much for this video! After several demoralizing runs ended by Bahamut/Odin I was getting ready to give up and just play through the game again on a different account, but this video gave me some great tips on beating the last two and got it first try! I might name my next son after you lol :D

Okay, now that I've completed this (after hours of practice). Bahamut is definitely the hardest/most RNG specific.

I lost against Bahamut 3 times but when I reached Odin I was able to beat him on the first try, even after Zack died because of temporal imprisonment, it was a thrilling ending...

nice work! I hope i can do this to :D thanks for tips I will use this, your commentary is second to none mate legendary ! :D

I just beat hard mode so this is all I have left. Hopefully can figure out how to use Zack

Thank you so much for your strategies! :)

Thanks Naz, this guide and Optinoob's helped a ton and I finally got the kill on Odin this evening after trying for almost a week. Please, please tell me To Be A Hero is easier than this :*) Some more info on Reprisal's mechanics would have helped, I was so confused about how he was countering Aeroga when he was at low health for the longest time but your vid was the only one I saw that mentioned his status at all. Thanks again also you have a great voice!

Thanks for your video. Excellent gameplay! I must be at my 30th try and got to Odin only 6 times, strangely I keep getting Zack killed by Irondad or Mindflayer cause he just stands in the way of AOE attacks it’s so infuriating!! I will keep trying but man this is so hard!

I tried doing a Zack solo challenge just to experiment with his combat, and no matter how many tries I die to Phoenix. It's that dumbass Hueyacoatl and his big-ass hitboxes that makes me spend so much MP I fail the next fight. I swear man, they nailed at making the -coatl variant enemies and that Bitchflayer so annoying, but at least I got the hang of Zack's combat

After hearing your intro videos always say the same thing.. Hearing you say “after clearing this 40+ times, you couldn’t find a way to cheese it so we’re just gonna have to get good”totally made my day at how you flat out admitted it, lol. Complete 180 from your usual intro.

I do everything like you said but I run out of mana mid fight. Run out of mana at bahamut fight.

I used a very similar Strat. I swapped elemental and fire for hp up and speed up. Just worked out better for me.

I'm being stubborn and got to round 8 without the gloves since I haven't started my Hard mode playthrough yet 😭 Ran out of MP for Cloud, I think because of the 9,999 limit on my atks I had to cast more spells, guess I'll come back later lol

NGL Steadfast was actually important but I cannot drop Mag Focus for it. Damage is just way more important than defense when you're bad at the latter. The goal is to capitalize on every single time Cloud get 2 ATB gauges. That's why HP Up isn't important either. You're trying to get your Aeroga and did recover from those resources. I see efficient use of ATB with ra spells but nah. Just easy way to die because you didn't do enough damage

How come you don't Synergy Ability for Round 10 earlier? Great guide as always Naz

I cannot seem to consistently beat Phoenix with Zak solo my strategy is manawall and bravery, then I use fire level 1 for the slime and then chain slash level 3 for the bomb and then level one fire for the grand horn I think the main issue is rebirth flame you have to make sure that you are either fully healed or mostly healed and then have a manawall. I swear that materia protect/shell doesn't work, hope they patch it! Anyway yeah i start with meteor shot 3, then do high braver and chain slash 3 then once he is really close to stagger I will high braver him into a stagger. I'm pretty sure I could get the pattern of the demon down but man that guy is like a Dragon Ball Z fighter he comes at you like a boss, wish i could change Zacks materia fr Phoenix is a very strange case he only has 75,000 health points he's kind of like a balancing act but I do know that once I get the fight down perfectly I'll be able to start practicing on that demon. Kujata is a beast too. Im rambling lol. I don't know why I'm torturing myself doing bonds of friendship solo but Zack really does have a good ability to damage with high braver! Hell even two level three chain slash is good!

Any reason why you alternate which spell you use for Bahamuts wings?

Man I'm waiting for someone to narrate a solo Zack guide but it's so difficult because of the extreme high tuning. I have to agree that ATB generation is bad, IT'S NOT HORRIBLE BUT IT COULD BE BETTER JUST LIKE VOICE TEXT CAPITALIZING EVERYTHING FOR NO REASON I DO ENJOY YOUR VIDEOS YOU OPTI AND SOLESTRO are really great.

I don't have "Focus Trust" on my abilities help

I finally got the platinum yesterday. Thanks for all your guides particularly with the brutal challenges, they helped me a lot 👍

Kujuta wipes me out every time. I get it down to almost no health but I end up dying. I just cannot get my wind attack timing right.

Did skill master proc at 7:05? I’m confused on how you were able to cast aerora with one bar, then you used atb boost to get 2 bars.

After multiple days of trying different builds (this one included), this one is just too hard compared to the Outer Worlds when you can cheese it and Sephiroth's VR fight due of him being OP compared to Zack here. ;w; Got to Odin twice now, both to low HP but then he starts doing attacks that are really hard to counter / dodge (or I won't have LB ready to bypass temporal distortion)

Why should I do thundaga and aeroga? Can't you just use one element for this? ;o

I'd change the Skill Master for a Limit Siphon materia. With that you can absorb Zack's limit gauge and have Cloud's full for when Odin casts Temporal Imprisonment. You will completely negate the stop effect if you're performing a limit break while he casts it.

i read you can solo on zack as well.

Been using your guides to do these battles. Can you do some of the harder battles in the six person bouts. Kinda stuck on those. Archfiends keep kicking my butt.

Damn it! That's more difficult of Ruler of outherworld....

Started this today. Tried a many times for a few hours and I think I may put this challenge on hold until my next day off! 😅My first run went good, got to Bahamut and then I got rattled and died. Other times the Iron Clad just messed me up... Until next ime 😂

Would you recommend adding Magic Focus linked to Wind?

I've tried so many variations of this caster build for this challenge and I just cannot get past Bahamut. I am so bad at blocking/dodging/countering his attacks, and I always end up with Cloud dying, and then it's impossible to get him back up and running before Bahamut has completely annihilated my team. It's so frustrating that Zack is so useless as anything other than a buffer and occasional stopper/healer. I would have much rather he have an actually useful kit and be able to play as him in this challenge, and then be able to build Cloud as the support/fill any holes in Zack's game, rather than having to use Cloud to cover everything because Zack is essentially all holes. At least these magic builds are better than any of the physical builds I've tried, can barely even make it past Titan with those ones. I'll just have to try again tomorrow, because at this point I'm just yelling at my TV and nothing of worth is being accomplished.

Hi, didn't you make a guide for "To Be A Hero"?

This would not be possible to complete for the average player without guides like this. So keep up the great work for many appreciate it!

FINALLY BRO, I GOT THE PLATINUM MOMENTS AGO AFTER TRYING FOR 3DAYS AHAHAHA... i'm still trembling!!!!... you deserves a good waifu and many kids LOL.. THANK YOU AGAIN!

Is there a way to pass this challenge without genji gloves? I'm having a lot of trouble in farms.

If Zack is a playable party member in part three, what combat changes would you like to see?

THE GOAT

i always runout of mp from the first battle

Please elaborate on how you were able to cast Aerora and then Aeroga consecutively against Brineborn Demon. You shouldn’t have had any ATB left to boost.

that odin is too much for me. the 9 bosses are easy but not odin... lost to him since 4 days now... but will keep trying.

i did it in my second try i killed odin with zack limit with cloud dead and zack with no atb and no hp 😂

I HATE THIS FIGHT REALLY, THE BOSSES ALWAYS HAVE THEIR BEEF WITH ZACK AND THEY KNOCK HIM OUT BEFORE ME. if only You can insert your progress from Crisis Core in this game, these bosses woule be one shot kill and zack will be Impenetrable lol

Guess which one im on now. 😂

I really think this is beyond me. I hope its not. But i think it might be.

This games layout and settings are intensely punitive, no doubt people don't want to buy it!