Dude thank you so much, it took me 2 days of trying on my own, then I found your channel took me less than 30 minutes finally done with brutal challenges, definetly gonna subscribe, Thank you so much.

Dude, your strategy of attacking first & staying within distance of Sephiroth helped a lot. I used another KZfaqr’s idea to have Barrett utilize Barrier-All during the Virtual Sephiroth battle. Both of you guys helped me out a ton. Thank you man.

Square nerfed a bunch of stuff like the HP plus materia, the ATB charge rate, the Ga-Magic and tons of other stuff but they didn't even bothered with Tifa's divekick, still as broken as the previous game

THANK YOU! This build worked out for me. Needed to get used to Tifa’s combo, and then learning to more consistently parry Odin, Gilgamesh, and Shadowy Chains, but practice made perfect. Beat it on my second try of Sephiroth. I’m now subscribed, thanks so much.

I'm so tired with the Aerith and Yuffie combo, I will try this method instead. Edit: F*** THIS GAME!!!!!

Limit Support is really helpful! It actually helped me perform Tifa's limt and prevented Gilgames's limit in the last second! Thank you for your video!

Saved this video for future reference i've also seen the quakega build do some hefty damage

Finally managed to beat this using your guide as a base! Finally managed to consistently beat Greg using magnified manawall on Cloud and Esuna on Barret. Had to clutch up on parries to finally beat Sephy but its finally done!! Thank you kindly!

Still had a little trouble with Gilgamesh after this video but absolutely DECIMATED Sephiroth first try, thanks for this fam 🙏🏼

Thank you so much really thought I wasn't going to get through this despite the fact I'd platinumed both remake and intermission.

Thanks for making a vid with not only footage, but an explanation. I tried this build before, but I wasnt maxed out and left unimpressed. Tried it again now, and wow... Other very good build is aerith and yuffie atb spam with mp aborb, but not as good vs seph Dunno about anyone else, but I'm fed up with challenges that bore you through easy rounds just to practice the challenging part. Well prepped, you can enter these rounds full hp n mp anyways, so...

Out of all the guides, this is the best one. By far. Holy crap Barrett

I'm stuck on gilgamesh, been using cloud, barret, and red (completely different build). This was a well done video and gave me some good ideas/tips on how to progress. Thanks! Also liked and subbed.

Cleared using basically this strategy. Some of my changes in case they might help others. I swapped cloud to enhanced expeditionary medal so he'd have lvl3 LB. Then swapped his ATB boost materia with limit siphon. Whenever Tifa had enough gauge to fill his I'd have him siphon it off. That let me use his LB fairly often in the last 3 fights. His lvl 3 lb gives a ton of stagger and basically stun locks enemies so you are free to pound on them with Tifa/barrett while he's going off. Helped me a ton both offensively and defensively to have the enemy basically just sitting there for 5-10 seconds. If you notice they'll be staggered after the LB you can use that time to just build 2 atb bars with barrett and tifa. The second change was to have cloud equipped with barrier + magnify and more empowerment off in place of cleanse. That helped me a ton during sephiroth since if you manage to reach him with decent MP you can manawall his octaslash and survive it. I would just single cast bravery on tifa during burst windows. The last thing was a smaller change I removed barretts Opening ATB bonus since he starts fights with 2 atbs thanks to accessory+first strike. I forgot what i used instead.

I used the Limit Siphon on Cloud with the accessory that maxes out his limit level... then I used Yuffie as my battery... Transference Module and Limit Support. I used her broken Enemy Skill (Plasma Discharge) + HP Absorb along with ATB Assist... My third character I used Tifa to win. Had Barret in before her, and got far. But Tifa closed it. She definitely is a beast.

The Sephiroth fight is just obnoxious. Who actually thought it would be fun to fight an enemy with 100k health that non-stop spams a move that permanently disables one of your characters, then deals 6k undodgeable damage to them?

Congrats on beating him without having maxed out weapons. I didn't have maxed out Folios myself when I beat enemy 230.

You can pause or slow down game for decision making helps a lot here like pause figure out who is being targeted from sephiroths grab switch to character for perfect block.

FairPlay you make this look so easy! Gilgamesh is so annoying getting so close each time to beating him but finding my MP runs out fairly quick.

Can't wait to try this strategy. Still in chapter 13 on my first run. I've seen that it's a good idea to keep a backup save before fighting gilgamesh so that you can practice for this challenge. Thought I'd throw that tip out there even if I haven't gotten to it myself

You really goated for finding a different strategy than the limit break one, this strategy seems more fun imo

Unfettered Fury is the same thing as Unbridled Strength, but it buffs her magic based attacks instead. If you're using Divekick as your primary damage method, Unbridled Strength would be the more efficient buff.

Thank you bro, because of you I finally beat this! I didn't use your exact build and characters, but your guide was the best at helping me find my own way to beat it. Tifa divekick for the win!

I think one way to avoid shadowy chains would be to teleport the character that's about to be attacked, ala block commands

Thanks for the vid dude! Very informative and great, liked it alot. I will try this out but modify it a little. Cheers!

Man that fight with V Sephiroth was awsome to watch

I FINALLY BEAT Virtual Sephiroth! I used Cloud, Barrett, & Tifa. All I needed to do was have Barrett cast Barrier-All twice & I was able survive Virtual Sephiroth’s Octaslash each time. It was awesome. My final attack was EPIC!!! Cloud’s Limit Break Ascension occurred right after Sephiroth’s Limit Break cutscene for Octaslash. The game let Cloud go first & & I won! 😂 I never parried Sephiroth’s Shadowy Chains once. 1. Barrett cast Barrier-All 2x. 2. Tifa’s armor: Cetran Armlet 3. Tifa: Tranference Module 4. Cloud: Limit Booster 5. Cloud cast Regan-all at the beginning of each battle. 6. Tifa cast Haste-all at the beginning of each battle. It only took me 30hrs 😂 I couldn’t beat Sephiroth’s Shadow Chains & I kept having stupid deaths to Alexander, Odin, & Gilgamesh.

"Elemental Materia" is the key of this!!!! 👌🏻

Chakra on barret is really nice too heals him 50% with his passives i think

Thank you so much, and I subbed because of this. Altered somethings, because I also barely use atb boost. Limit siphon on Tifa with the enhanced medal with cloud worked a lot, and I did a white cape on Barret so he doesn’t turn into a frog.

Interesting. I notice from the Genji gear that you did this after hard mode.

YESSSSSS!!!!! THANK YOU!!!!!! I FINALY DID IT!!!!!!! YOU ARE A GIFT UNTO US ALL!!!! Side note, dodging Odin tends to work better than blocking since he won't Reprisal as much if you dodge. But anyway... THANK YOU!!!!!!!

Hey man, just wanted to say thank you, I got my platinum not long ago, I have beaten a good amount of the Legendary Bouts thanks to you, but this was the video that helped me out the most. The only challenge I struggled sooo much with and no other guides helped me like yours did. Well detailed and explained with pretty safe approach for what's it worth. So instead of spamming all of your videos with comments I'm leaving one here, this is hands down the best guide for RotOW. Some tweaks can be done to materia and stuff, but the 2 most important things are Tifa divekicking and parrying a lot. Seriously I am not exaggerating by saying that you have to parry a lot, it is absolute neccessity to beat Gilgamesh and VR Sephiroth. so from a mechanic I wasnt using at all it became a part of my playstyle and also very important for all the future Legendary Bouts that were to come. So thank you Solestro, you are the real MVP

Gilgamesh is my roadblock here. Timing the defends and parries are really difficult.

Honestly - been trying this for weeks, and multiple strategies. It’s frustrating and hard, but please do not label your strat “easy” when it hinges on good parrying abilities that much.

Gilgamesh can be practiced by having a save file right before you defeat him the first time. You can probably chapter select to chapter 13 on hard mode to get a more realistic practice session. I assume that he has the same move set, or at least he mostly does, compared to the VR mission one. EDIT: Looks like I missed the other comment that mentioned this when I skimmed them before posting.

I got this to work but I switched Tifa to Jarngreiper because I think the weapon skills are a bit better for this build and I switched Cloud to Slipstream Saber, the skill to recover MP when he receives big damage is super beneficial for making it to late game. After that, it all comes down to skill, knowing when to go in and when to be patient.

Hi! Fnally beat the challenge after god knows how many hours, enjoyed your build except fury ring it got my ass handled to me and dmg was already pretty good, so gg! time for legendary ones…

I can totally see them doing something disgusting like making the boss rush in the third game Sapphire Weapon, Ultimate Weapon, Diamond Weapon, Emerald Weapon, Ruby Weapon at this rate

You make Gilgamesh look ridiculously easy.

I’ll be putting the Assess Materia Earrings on for Cloud just so I can Assess Virtual Sephiroth. UPDATE: I beat the challenge and assessed Virtual Sephiroth at the same time.

I want to try your build with a twist, everything identical but with Aerith instead of Barret, Limit Siphon and expeditionary on Aerith, the ATB to Limit thingy on Tifa, advanced expeditionary on Cloud. A single (properly timed) Planet's Protection would mean Odin will never Limit, neither Gilgamesh nor Sephiroth can hit you for the most part, and you are free to Divekick and recycle for Finishing Touch over and over. In my mind it works 😆 EDIT: Oh, and DeBrave + DeProtect to instantly pressure Odin at the start.

I'm deleting all my other negative comments just to say THANK YOU! Finally managed to do it with your method, with a few materia tweaks. Gilgamesh was pure pain, whereas I beat Seph on my second attempt. Cheers mate!

Hello there! Have a quick question : where u got your 3rd magnify materia? Ik cait sith brings one if he join the party, one via side quest in cosmo and the 3rd or 1st u should finde in chapter 1... now my problem is I finished all 3 options, only have the buggy party animal quest left... and cant find the one who should be in nibelheim tutorial. Heard that the one u find in prologue u lose after it. So what can I do to get the 3rd magnify? Dont have them and dont find them >.

The first time I got to Gilgamesh, I was somehow able to beat him first try. And then Sephiroth spams me to death. Brilliant.

Well I used optinoobs strat and now I can make it to sephiroth and he kills me. So he does shadow chains and then I recover and he does it again like right after. It's weird why he does that so so fast a second time Edit: Swiftcast stunlock firaga after tanking one Octoslash was the one tweak that worked .

I improved the material equipment, removing the assist subjects and adding chakra to everyone and rebirth to everyone since barret dies very quickly but with the chakra material everything is healed

That Gilgamesh fight is a bit sweaty. But looking forward to trying this

So i swapped time and empowerment. Cloud has the first time strike on, and the atb boost, and as someone who forgets to use it also, this made sure i didn't cuz first thing i do each fight is use that thing, cast hast, then switch to barrett use the lifesaver. Then tifa, and if she's almost got 2 atbs then i attack until i have both, use a dive kick, then atb boost, and use back to back divekicks for a total of 3, that should give barrett what he needs to have atb for bravery, and remember everyone, Overcharge usually fills up an atb, basically unless youre slowed it will. So i can get up faith for cloud after casting bravery for tifa. That also allows me to take off barrets magnify and put a healing on him...im just uncomfortable only having 1 character out there with the ability to heal. I also realized, i could just use sonicboom with tifa, and that will buff her with bravery and haste and i could take that off entirely. Probably best to do one or the other of those changes... assuming you have the enemy skill on tifa per this guide, id say just use atb boost to give her two, then use sonicboom to buff her, get your rise and fall up and then divekick your ass off lol. Great video though, im sure lots of people did their own little tweaks for their own comfort but credit to you for a great base strategy thanks.

I found a way to kill the phoenix before using rebirth flame. In short its just using a synergy ability on it and using Tifa to powerhouse it while it's stun-locked. The fights still easy without it but it definitely saves time.

Kudos for beating it but Jesus Christ I hated how you never raised the stagger percentages with Tifa

If you pres triangle to use up your Concentration during stagger, you increase the multiplier to make your dive kicks do more. It's the easiest stagger multiplier that I've found so far 😉

just a nitpick but why dont you put divekick on a shortcut? lol

I combed through like 2/3 of the comments before posting because I didn't see any mention of it, but why did you give Cloud the Rune Blade (Magical Weapon)? Does his improved magical attack (not mp) affect his buffed spells in some way or help nullify the attacks with the armor-materia slot? I hope this question makes sense lol this game so complicated in all the worst ways.

Thank you for the video. I am currently stuck in the 4th brutal challenge. I believe it’s the one with a White Terror & White Flan on round 5. I have all tje materia here, but not all of it maxed. You mentioned parrying. I’m guessing that’s the R1? I seldom if ever use it in tjis game, bug if it’s like Sekiro/Lies of P, I should be fine. There’s a Barret ability you mentioned- a bullet that takes off his health to increase damage. Is that from the folio? I’m at party level 9, and having done all sidequests and intel combat (with the exception of hard mode proto relic games), is there any other way to raise party level? Playing chapters on Hard Mode, perhaps?

I've tried this strategy several times now, and i have to ask, How do you get the enemies to attack your other players. As soon as i switch to tifa i start getting attacked by both leaving NO time for me to do the dive kick methods. during several of your battles the other characters seem to be able to hold the aggro of the other enemy long enough to get the process started. but it doesn't seem to be working the same for me.

Idk how you say gilgamesh is harder sephiroth is giving me ptsd he keeps catching the team I don’t fail parry at all but he keeps catching everyone and stop us from doing anything

I’m definitely gonna try this, all I need to do that’s left in the game are the hard mode vr missions and hard mode for story.

Cloud's Finishing Touch does a pretty good amount of damage, but Tifa's Meteor Strikes might be the most damaging of the level 3 LBs. That said, man I can't wait until we get the ultimate limit breaks like Omnislash and Final Heaven in part 3!

I think you can stop Odin from doing his big attack is to debuff him. he wont do it while debuffed from poison etc

Actually, atb assist works as long as you use two command in a row, doesn't need to be the same command. I personnally like the overpower twirl that can be chained with dive kick, or if the timing is starpower followed by divekick to boost dive kick. But it doesnt need to be two of the same command to trigger atb assist

How to parry

I’m currently on attempt number 60 haven’t even reached Sephiroth yet 🙃

HI,how you get level 16 craftmanship??? I can't craft Genji Gloves 😔😔😔

thanks this build worked for me. still have to be fairly competent at the boss fights so i wouldnt call it easy. hard part being if any one of these guys die the party falls apart pretty fast

These combat sims are absurdly difficult compared to remake. Kind of annoying how many times you fight the summons

How are you not taking any damage at all? In the beginning of the video I didn’t see you lose one hp how is that possible

Animation cancelling on Tifa wins once again.

i saw the 4min spdrun of the guy doing the dive kick with courage buff, genji and dark arts

1 question a magnify-barrier could work for gilga and sephirot to mitigate some of the damage?

I'm still struggling against Sephiroth, I'm not good at the parry at all and it takes so long to even get to him to practice. I really hate that Shadowy chains moves. I need a method that doesn't need to parry so much..

i've only been able to reach sephiroth using the yuffie brumal form spam. But once there i just get wrecked. And ever since those three failures i either get trolled by gilgamesh's cheap rng or bahamut. I'm pretty much ready to throw in the towel on this BS as i hear the one with cloud and zack is even more annoying. a trophy isnt worth this level of annoyance. They severely over tuned these simulator fights just to make it insufferable.

Edit: Swiftcast stunlock finally worked on VR Im at attempt 300 or so. I instantly die on gilgamesh, it takes me about 6 hours to get through the attempts to actually get to him and now I have a strategy but it's too late because every time I get back there he's going to beat me again and again because I instantly die there's no down time at all whatsoever I don't know what to do anymore I'm thinking of changing my build again but it's not going to work. I have to slog through 6 summons in three rounds every single time I want to get to the guy that I'm trying to destroy and then he immediately kills me zero down time again zero down time it doesn't matter what I do for some reason fire max strength twice with the genji glove and 500 magic didn't do anything I don't understand what the fuck my problem is I don't understand why I can't just kill this thing its weak to fire I use fire and then it immediately jumps up again after its pressured for 3 seconds and then kills me again I'm sick of it I wish there was another strategy I have tried all of your biuilds and every other build on KZfaq that has the strategy listed I've also gone on Reddit and Facebook and a bunch of video game sites it's to the point where I'm looking for strategies every single day to see if something updated or somebody refreshed I need help here I don't understand why can't I just have a strong party that can get through this I don't understand why I have to use the stupid brumal form, and the dive kick doesn't work on Gilgamesh there's no chance for me to actually practice him unless I can go fight him right now on his Island but I already killed him. He was much easier back then I don't understand what happened Edit now I got Gilgamesh now sephiroth is destroying me

it’s anoying having to go so many rounds to get to final round , that’s biggest issue I have with the game , hate redoing multiple fights just to try the one i’m stuck on

Does ATB assist only trigger if you use the same ability twice or any two abilities ? Also I wonder if you can use both limit siphon and limit support and siphon someone’s max limit to give LB to both. Would probably be redundant but never actually tried

I haven’t done this but don’t you need to debuff Odin as well as dodging/parrying? He always used to use zansetsukan unless I did that

Have have equip Elemental Materia with Fire Materia on the right slots with all the party memebers and Phoenix always kills me with his Flame of Rebirth. Can somebody explain me please?

Are you sure you aren't the voice actor of Cait sith? Your accent is the same😂

I already beat this but messing around other builds - had a specific question is octaslash physical damage or magic damage? I don’t want to waste extra mp if I don’t have to thanks o/

This is clutch! How’d you get your health back when he hit you with the ‘Sloppy sword attack?’ It said 2222222

Had no idea unfettered fury had a 2 stage upgrade like unbridled strength. But why is divekick so strong

CAN SOMEONE....ANYONE...WHOS BEAT THIS SHARE PLAY WITH ME TO BEAT MINE...I CANT TAKE IT ANYMORE... PLEASE

My biggest problem when going with this strategy is that alexander always hits everyone with strong attacks, knocking out barret fast even with everything here, and I can never parry odin's attacks because of alexander's wave attacks. What can be done about that?

I can get gilgamesh about half way. But i run out of magic and can't build atb quicj enough . I took off the atb boosts because i need assess materia, as well as barrier and revive on tifa.

How does Tifa regain HP from Gilgamesh's attacks?

I think its absolutely wild you wouldn't suggest having more than one character that can heal here, and not to use magnify barrier for sephiroth, that made this so easy remove so much rng from the fight. But tbh fuck square for letting sephiroth randomly target an ability that disables your character completely. What a terrible fight to have after 4 fairly long but boring fights beforehand

How are you getting such good timing on guarding Odin? On the charging attack I don't even know when the hit is supposed to even register,

I dont understand why I copied everything down to the letter. Equipment, materia everything and my dive does no where near the damage yours does?

I get close to half HP on VS and get owned. 10 hours in and can pass that fucking boss

Does this method work on Genji questline? Opening rotation on Kujata and Pheonix doesn't even scratch Kujata HP like in video. Do they have more HP in Protorelic questline? :(

Wow he say make sure parry everything lol

i don't understand why your tifa is intant heal on every hit ?

Is this build working for the other Brutal Challenges too? Im struggeling at Challenge 4 and try the Aerith Limit Build but cant past Fight 9 because shes dying so quick

could at least toss poor barret a regen xD

Question. Are you holding down square when attacking with Tifa to get all that ATB? She just keeps doing her uppercut for me

10/10 awesome run

How did your just WHOLE team eat the rebirth flame without taking ANY damage?

You just got lucky with Gilga/Sephiroth in that run

How are u blocking their attacks so precisely?

Does this method work after a normal mode or do you have to complete hard mode first?