A lot of people don't understand what happened to Ravus so I will explain: When General Glauca was killed, Ravus was promoted to High Commander of the Imperial Army. During the scene where Emperor Iedolas Alderact is sitting at his throne with everyone, he orders Ravus to kill the Oracle (his sister). He refuses to go with the order, and Verstael and Ardyn both concur. It is at this point Verstael promotes Ravus. All along, Ravus was safeguarding Luna from Imperial harm and begrudgingly helping her summon the Astrals to Noctis' aid. He even mentions that he would gladly hand over King Regis' royal arms to the prince when they meet. Once the Empire catches winds of Ravus' behind-close-doors actions, they decide to decommission him and have him executed; the botched mission to slay Leviathan was used as an excuse. When you arrive to Tenebrae to let the passengers off the train from harm's way, you notice that the House Fleuret is set ablaze. As reprisal for Ravus' betrayal, and ineptitude to complete his mission in Accordo, Niflheim releases daemons to burn the place down. The moment you find Ravus' body in Zagnautus Keep, and reclaim the Sword of the Father, you also see Imperial soldier's bodies as well, insinuating he put up a fight before being slain in battle. However, just like the Emperor, the daemon technology Ardyn influenced the Niflheim to use managed to partially re-animate the elder Nox Flueret and what you see is whom you must do battle with. It should be noted, during this battle, he blames Ardyn for everything that has happened.

Ardyn HP: 200,000 Strength - 4,760 Vitality - 164 Spirit - 152 Element - Ice (99) Ravus HP: 275,000 Strength 8000 Vitality 148 Spirt 152 Enough said,.

I fought him with the Sword of the Father that he tried to deliver to us and killed him off with his sister's trident. I made it more emotional for myself than the game tried to.

This was one of my favorite boss fights of the game. This was amazingly fun, challenging, and the theme with it put up a pretty intense conflict.

I just love how 1:54 is a remix of "A Song to the Stars", thumbs up for the composer

Ravus as a character is one of the biggest examples of how clearly a lot of major stuff in the story was just randomly cut out. It's really disappointing because the story is alright in its current form... but it would've been SOOOO much better with proper storytelling. Even with watching Kingsglaive and Brotherhood, there are so many story elements that are never fully explored and it's really sad.

Ravus was such a good and interesting character. Only to be dropped like he wasn't.

The score in XV was nothing short of a masterpiece on in its own right..

Ravus should have been a recurring boss with his demon form being the last fight. I was so hyped to fight him when he first showed up at the base only for ardyn to break up the fight before it even starts

Like 5 years later,and I'm still amazed by the soundtrack of this game. Yoko is a genius

Yoko outdid herself with this one

This theme for me is such a complete orquestal masterpiece when you break it down. At the beginning you can hear the blaring of the horns as if announcing a tragic prince who should/would be king. Intricately Shinomura incorporates different elements of other themes that shape this character into this deamon presented in this battle as a result. For example there are bits of the Nifleheim theme in reference to his captivity and inevitable servitude to the enemy. It later progress to Lunas theme as if to make a statement on how he reached this state of inhumanity in order to protect her and at the same time it seems as though it mourns the loss of his sister and the tragedies their lives have resulted in by having destiny run its course. All in all wrapping these different themes into a feeling of desperation for it to end with its continuos daunting string and horn combination.

After Aranea the Dragoon , Ravus the Dark Knight

this was to me the hardest story boss

I can't imagine how extremely hard it is for Ignis to fight Ravus while being blind.... Poor Ignis....

Man, just imagine how epic this fight would have been if Ravus was developed as a character. It's so obvious they had to rush everything out the door and that this was supposed to be this really hard fought really emotionally tough battle. But instead it's just a hard boss. I can't believe how much potential this game in general wasted by rushing itself out the door. I would have gladly waited another 2 years for better.

This song is so epic I use it almost daily when I'm working. It makes me wish Ravus had a more complete story to go along with it. Would have tripled the epicness of this fight.

When I battled Ravus, I was WAAAY overleveled (late 60's). I even had the Durandal (super effective against daemons), and this fight STILL took me a long time.

I wish we got to see him trying to avenge his sister. :( Ravus vs Ardyn

This is a sorry end for the high commander, for anyone. He was a man with hopes and dreams

The story of Ravus; Having his mother killed in front of him, his land stolen, his pride broken and he sacrificed his honor by serving those who caused him all this to try to protect his sister from an unavoidable fate. In the end he tries to fix all his wrongs by delivering King Regis' blade to Noctis rebelling against the empire in despair knowing that the fate of her sister was now scarred and he had failed to protect her...but fails to do that as well.. But being killed wasn't enough, he was turned into a Daemon. And with little humanity left, he begs Noctis, the man who is the blame for Luna's death, to end his life. This song has a remixed part with the sister theme and the trident, the sister weapon, is super effective against him. a real tragedy that shows how much life sucks and how much potential this character could have"A sorry end for the high commander- for anyone. He was a man with hopes and dreams." -Gladiolus

"Uh, Ravus? You've got something on your, um...everything." "Hurry up and kill it, then!" "Less gab, more stab, got it. Sorry, man."

Ravus DLC please! Ravus vs Ardyn would be great!

My favorite boss theme in the whole game. I like to think the thumps are the sounds his heart makes, and it's just beating like that due to the fact that Ardyn wants to make a beat for this badass boss theme lol

Just wanna show some love here- FFxv might be my fav of them all. I know the game gets a lot of hate but I’ve beaten 1-15 and I just love this game. I think people are too stubborn to move past what it was at launch. Every time the team lets out more content a lot of people go “just let it die it’s never going to be complete!” I hope we see more of Ravis in Ep ignis but honestly, he was tragic. This is how tragedy is done. Ravus was overlooked by everyone, including his superiors, while he performed one of the most important jobs in the game. Without him, Luna might not have made it, noct might have missed out on leviathan and the sword of the father. No one knew about him, not even the player. Then he got shafted. THATS what we see here, in my opinion. Not that he was “dropped”. I think this is unique storytelling. We didn’t get a hundred scenes showing how Ravus was “secretly” the good guy. We got a handful, a surprise, and then we had to put the poor bastard down ourselves. Far more effective to me.

I went into the whole ending extremely under leveled and the difficulty of the fight and the whole ending made it so much better. Every mistake meant either a hi-elixer or Phoenix down. The rogue axemen cut me down in a single slice, and almost all of Ravus' moveset annihilated everyone besides noct and gladio. The final chapters of the game are tonally perfect. The ambient music and dark, empty atmosphere of Nifleheim along with Ardyn laughing at you through the loudspeakers gave the ending an incredible finale. You really feel Noctis' struggle and the madness, evil, and overall malice that Ardyn feels.

it's a remix of Prologue Theme from Kingsglaive when Ravus's mom got stabbed by Glauca

I hope in the future update we get to see more of Ravus I'm very interested in why he is the way he is. Also this boss fight was pretty awesome.

Lmao 11:05 the music sync

I've listen to this so many times. My favourite boss theme ever and I've heard some incredible ones out there

If ardyn did this to nyx or Regis that would've been some fight too. Or even glauca if you wish

Raevus was by far the toughest fight for me. And I love his character. It's a shame he and Ardyn weren't fleshed out more in the story. I know there's some fantastic backstory in there somewhere!

Definitely one of the harder fights in that game... Not to mention I marathoned that chapter... Actually, chapter 13 was so long it could be its own spinoff novel.

My favorite boss

Man he was a son-of-a-bitch. I had like 15 Mega Phoenixes saved up and use all of them on this fight. Even Ifrit was easier!

game was so easy than I got here with my meh stats we were all like lvl 37 and a blind ignis...

This fight is messed up, man. First Ardyn killed his sister, now killed him, even corrupt his body to be another pawn of his. By far, the most tragic FF I ever played, I just played few of the series anyway.

One of the best boss themes ever

This theme is so amazing and he's sooooo hard to beat too, so that fits together for an amazing boss battle. But I still feel bad for him that he was going to Rest In Peace until freaking Ardyn did that to him ;((((((

You were fighting a resident evil boss over here :D

Im very curious what cutscenes they will add in the future, and where they'll be placed. But I want at least one cutscene with a furious ravus confronting ardyn about luna. At least, make his death not offscreen like so many other characters in this game

Definitly my favorite boss that isn't a summon

This is a game I want to see remade down the line. Had the potential to be the best in the series, hands down. Also, some of the best music in the series...which is high praise considering some of the classics.

Thanks for not putting a spoiler on the thumbnail 👍🏻

poor Iggy :( it really hurt seeing him like that

His boss theme is the remix of Niflheim's theme and the Songs of Stars. It shows how he is both Niflheim's high commander and possess the blood of the Oracle-- Lunafreya's brother. This theme is very well arranged. Damn.

Jared FINALLY had a path to The Lands...

I kept expecting him to say STARS!

for a counterpart, he is Cid Raines in japanese voice actor

帝国のテーマと 神凪の唄がミックスされてて 最高にエモい

Devil and tragic theme, beautiful !!

Okay but this beat was lit

you almost feel the pain that Ravus felt when you face him... this song is in the top 3 of the game.

should have been multiple fights throughout the game. 1st fight: at the base. Basically curbstomps your squad. 2nd fight: In Altissa. Same fight, but you're stronger now. Prove your worth to face Leviathan. 3rd fight: this one. but should have played out a different. Phase 1 this fight. beat him. ardyn rezzes him. phase 2 defense up. give him souleater. beat him again. ardyn rezzes him. phase 3 attack up. give him extra 50k hp, besrerker mode, and zantetsuken.

The songs so good. Did the fix ravus's story in the final version of the game?

The Resident Evil stage with the Resident Evil boss.

My first thought OH MY GOD IT'S ULQUIORRA!

The sad part of this theme is it contains Lunafreya's theme within it. :(

This song is so powerful! I keep listening to it to plan battle scenes on my RPG campaing.

So funny seeing blind ignis hobble towards him to get wrecked so hard lol

I didn't like 15 but DAMN this theme is FIRE!!

THIS FIGHT WAS INSANE

I think fight he might scale with your level, I did it at level 120 party, and still was getting instant danger status when hit. Music track is great as is many of them in late chapters. Chapter 13 best of game, despite the chapt 13 haters.

With the way i played Kingdom Hearts, i took over into this. I make sure i'm a decent level before i go on. I think i was like level 62 with some pretty good weapons. Ultima blade, sword of the father, blade of the mystic, and drain lance 3. It was still challenging tho lol

If you know Song of the Stars was goanna be played Lunafreya's abuse and this song is remix of that it hurts much more.

This boss battle is my favourite. Like if you agree.

Awesome theme, broken boss. Be ready for spamming those healing objects. 10:24 "Nice one, Gladio!"

This game does get pretty edgy around the end. A real contrast to the lighthearted feel of the rest of the game.

Amazing boss battle the major reason ii'm doing new game plus to fight him again.

Never played this game in the series but just fought Ravus on FFRK and WOW, this music!!!! :O

One of the few 'proper' bosses in this game. Ravus really fucked shit up.

Reminds me a lot of Cid's boss in XIII. Cause like, "Oh I'm here time for a boss"

This game deserves a remaster. It had so many bad things happen, with one of the biggest being the director change. That'll derail any creation. I hope it gets done justice some time in the future

That opening melody... I wish it would go on forever.

Like 30 seconds into the fi- aaaaaaaaand prompto's dead.

This boss actually wasn't that hard, ignis kept dying tho

The only time the game looked you in the eye and said "Nah...you ain't ready."

😢 Rip Ravus

Oh god, that...that just looks painful. O_O;

This personally was one of my hardest boss battles. When it was my time to get out of there I gunned it running past every single enemy. I died like three times until I decided to just gun it past the enemies. It was so flipping funny.

I like how Somnus is interwoven among these significant battle pieces. The last fights too.

12:06 Damn.

Ignis has an ability which you can unlock at the ascension screen which analyzes an opponents weakness and shows their health.

Its THE boss of this game !

3:38 I had no idea you could save yourself after that final blow to Noct

When that aura surrounds him and he gets ready to do that 9999+ attack, warp fast as shit

Ravus reminded me of Sephiroth anyone else?

Personally loved this fight xD

There goes a boss that was harder than the actual last boss

one of the devs is a massive bleach fan..... ravus looksbso much like ichigos hollow form or his eventual hybrid form.

I wish we could learn more about his character.. this fight was kind of fun. The guys were only a level below him and it wasn't much of a problem.

If you ever wanted to fight the power of a god in FFXV, fight Ravus. The man is so powerful he can one shot your Arminger form.

THat fucking explosion attack, everytime reduces my hp to zero without fail. Even if I can avoid it, doesnt mean my teamates will. Then im stuck wasting potions on them

it pains me seeing ignis fighting blind lmao

Ravus has some pretty awesome looking moves

And people were surprised I beat him at lvl 30 something. It was actually easy. You can dodge everything if You know his pattern.

I lost count on how many times Ravus Kicked my ass he was hard as hell to beat

"Ardyn! Curse you..."

I will admit, this was the most difficult boss fight in the game

It sounds like a matrix theme sometome and i love it even more