Thanks for this guide. It helped me quite a lot

Arial Drain- all these guides are missing you can fill your health with Arial drain fuse it max HP or ATK Whatever you want for the fight but is INSANELY GOOD

that thumbnail is fire!

My strat has been using the full Genji set for protection, with my Materia being Mug (for the phoenix downs, obviously), High Jump for damage and I. Frames, Rebirth Flame and Healing Wave materia to help boost the DMW odds (the Rebirth Flame materia from the cave questline more than does the trick), Gil Toss, and of course, a materia to boost your HP as high as it can go. Of course, this strategy isn't completely foolproof, especially without the stats you need. I personally didn't bother much with defense in this fight, if only because the damage is so ridiculous that you might as well just abuse her phoenix downs and the rebirth flame limit to keep respawning. My materia to boost my HP has been Aerial Drain for pretty much the whole run, the problem admittedly comes in that Aerial Drain simply doesn't have the same attack power as High Jump. I mean sure, it heals back, but like I said, Minerva hits so hard that you might as well abuse raise status instead. I could do the costly punch method, but with only one hit to do 99999 at most, I figure at least Gil Toss has a better damage per hit ratio. Either way, both attacks have large wind-ups so you're risking it for the damage. Love this game, but as the final challenge left, having done literally everything else on hard mode, I think she just is a bit joyless outside of the "oh you can steal a ton of phoenix downs from her" you can get. She's the sole thing I turned hard mode off on.

Unreal. I guess the only difference in my setup was I didn't have the Genji Gloves, I'm gonna try that again tonight with thoae equipped.

I will try this! It’s tough I’ve had many goes and tried different stats my maters is all hp and magic lol

Can you please make a guide on how to get the materias you are using?

Thanks for the guide, even though it is now outdated seeing as Judgment Arrow does 75k dmg at 75%

Trying to beat her now but every time she uses flash flash it takes away my phoenix down does anyone know why ?

That is what iam stuck on how do I max out my attack and vitality stats ?

for hard mode with 77 million hp isnt better to use assault twister+ or gill toss right?

Missions are so fun and addicting

Getting the stats right is the hardest part 😪

I cheaped her with SP defence SP attack, she does 0 damage on me I have around 30 million SP to spare it took me down to 6 million but I pulled it off 0 damage to me haha. Maxed out vitality and attack stats, didn't need to bother just spammed all attacks for 99,999 damage and a gil toss of about 50k x6 was it or 8 hits can't remember lol. she went down in less than a few minutes lol.

All you need to do is max your stats. Farm golden rolling pins from tonberry. Sell them to get like 5 mil Gil. Then just spam Gil toss in buster stance so they all hit critical High jump a lot Spam elixirs Keep Phoenix down on Fight on normal takes 5 ish mins that way

You can hear the joy suck from him after this fight because this fight will make you cry.

Hey I have a question. Does it make a different or does it help if I fight against her when I am level 99 instead of for expample 78? Does it help in a way ?

What about hard mode?

Damn already, let us time to download the game brother, you are too fast lmao. Still glad to see you doing these guides man, keep on the great work.

Do you need Genji Armor? Why is that?

Every move can be dodged. If you can deplete her ability bar, you can do this without taking damage.

Ive been trying to beat her for almost 2-3 hours and I got her down to like 2 mil or something before she used judgement arrow and killed me somehow. I couldn't even use another phoenix down 😭

Haven't fully tested this but does buster stance block reduce the damage of enemy ap abilities?

Why do you get reduced damage from her hits? I have nearly the same stats, same equipment and vit 255 spr 215 and her hits are dealing 50-60 k while i am guarding. WTF?

I was wondering why I died so quick, 65000 hp is not enough

I have one issue when she does her judgement ability even though I have 99,999 health with Phoenix down on it still one shots me and I don't get revived? What do I do? (I'm on hard difficulty btw)

I got the same stuff as you, but she still does 99999 demage with every attack. Any help?

They really gave us a drawback for costly punch and Gil toss lol

You can cheat your way with this if you spend some grind time getting darkness materia in mission 6-3-4 Item in the caverns in there with double item accessory if you got it and rare drops only then keep getting darkness materia of those demons and then level them up to max in 1st mission you can afk it on guard with an elastic band check back with it every 20 minutes or so all of them get maxed out and equip the other darkness materia, once you get 20 million SP or more then equip SP master which has guard all attacks using SP instead to block them, I beat minerva with 0 damage on me throughout the whole fight lol. my skill were Gil toss, darkness HP+999% SP Turbo attack, Aerial drain, Mug, and SP master. Getting hp+999% is fusing darkness matera on top of darkness materia and that takes a while to fuse but that is fastest way to get 999hp% My equips were Admant- bangle Black garb Ziedrich Genji glove 0 damage on me, and I'm doing 99,999 per hit lol. Didn't use costly punch, I find that too slow, Aerial Drain is the best.

It's cool I stole 99 phoenix downs from her too, actually she says take them your gonna need it.

why flash slash take off my phonix down ? :(((((

If you use steal on her you get 99 pheonix downs

Fair warning guys judgment arrow removes phinox down

Just happy the end game builds hasn't changed. Use ap or mp punch and use a gear that nullifies spending ap or mp costs

I did this fight with a 5 star SP master and took 0 damage, and also used Gil Toss, finished in about 50 seconds 😀It was very enjoyable 😁

i don't know why but even with 87k hp and 255 vit judgement arrow still 1 taps at even at 50% effectiveness

You can steal 99 pheonix downs from her btw.

I never had to fight her. Is it because I played on normal mode?

now try it on hard mode

If only she would have been a summon once you beat her

🤦🏽‍♂️ I forgot to take it off HARD…much easier after that little fix (ugh)

uhhhh bud, flash slash removes raised...why isn't removing your raised status at 2:33. That's a bit sus

Cheese the boss.

this boss on hard mode mixed with every preparations you need to do beforehand has to be the most unfun thing i've seen in a long time

Not my idea of a superboss, that term is reserved for dark souls. A superboss has aoe that cover the entire play area and dodge windows of 1 milli second. You can cheese this with the same few actions over and over. This is my essay, your welcome.

How come your a** don't lose the Phoenix Down when she does that spinning attack? 👁👁😂💀 Man, how did you do this? I have all my Stats (except for luck) at 255. I have all the Genji Armor AND the Ziedric. I'm playing on Hard, as well. How the literal f**k did you do this!?! Seriously? I literally do Death Jump (which is mastered) and I do exactly what you did. It hits her with 99,999. Yet, her health don't be movin' like hers was with you 😂💀. Seriously, please help!

whats the point of even fighting the super boss if you just look up a guide

do you think this can be done at lvl 10 with a curse ring? because that's where i am at