I did try to address this. Aerith is not equipped with Magic Up. Tifa is not equipped with Strength Up. Those 60 points of stat more than make up for the attack power gained from weapon level 9. I know STR Up is listed in Tifa's slots in the description, because that's what I recommend, but in the first 5 minutes of the video I show you I have that slot empty to compensate for weapon level 9. And considering she does the lion's share of the damage in these fights, particularly to Gilg and Seph, Barret's stats don't really matter. If your Tifa is weapon level 8 and uses my materia build, your Tifa is doing more damage than mine.

@@aethertruck I kinda glossed over that as I kinda knew what build you were going for but did notice the empty slots and wondered why that was. Thanks for explaining why. I’ll give this a shot with your method and see if I can’t finally get the Gotter after God knows how long… I’m at 430 hours now, granted about 100 of that is sightseeing and watching scenes all the way through again but damn, they made this one REALLY fucking hard.

@@zildog my first clear was a struggle too. I had many attempts fail at Odin and Gilg, but only 3 or so fails on Seph. That's how valuable perfect block is on Shadowy Chains. Almost nothing he does is threatening at all except Shadowy Chains, so if you really practice your answer for that, (and keep everyone topped up with prayer, magnify+regen and magnify+cure spells) the clear will definitely come.

@@aethertruck Will give that a go - it’s Odin that is wrecking me. Haven’t even dealt with Gilg yet but Seph looks a LOT easier. You were recommended to me by T Boom Gaming - solid reference as I’d never come across your vids before and I hate the Yuffie Brumal method. Will give it a go and hopefully make it stick!

I think you're probably misunderstanding the timing of the note you are missing. Some of these notes have tricky and deceptive timing. Increasing the speed makes it easier to tell exactly when the note is.

Thanks for your quick reply bro

Thank you for your advice Got S rank for let the battles begin and one winged-angel 👍

Skewer from Sephiroth too, why are they listed as unblockable if they are actually blockable? I completed all combat challenges including this one and I didn't know this was possible...

You have no idea how many hours I have in rulers of the outer worlds. 😵‍💫 A lot of my game hours have been explicitly for videos I've spent four or five hours trying to get a solo win and I just don't save the game after it's all done. My PlayStation tells me I have 360 hours in game. I'm not incredible at the rest of the game, I'm just very experienced with rulers of the outer worlds.

It does a small amount by default. Level 2 of precision defense focus makes that number go up, between 50-100% bonus pressure. It's my vote for #1 best materia in the game (if perfect blocks are something you actually try to do, anyway)

Pause (enter battle menu) more often. Just as a way to calm the nerves. As soon as you see the shadowy chains cast, immediately enter the tac menu and pay attention to the way he is facing. Make sure you use Precision Defense Focus materia on everyone. Parry has a much more forgiving timing window with that materia.

@@aethertruck thank you for the advice, I'll try again. Thankfully the build i have has precision defence and I am normally pretty good at parrying. Really hope I can get him next time fingers crossed hah

@@NeverAgain507 whenever he does the crouching version which will be most of the time, his left foot will be pointing in the direction of his target. Forgot to emphasize that.

Practice modes for rhythm games often include this type of accomodation. Unfortunately, this game isn't a real rhythm game, so they didn't include a practice mode. Slow rate video playback is the only option people have at some version of practice, good tip

This took me about a half hour. What some people don't know about me though is that rhythm games are my most played genre. A lot of the same skills absolutely translate from game to game. People who have never played a rhythm game in their lives are probably not going to be able to do this even if they had several days of practice. They didn't expect non rhythm gaming standard FF game players to be able to do it so they didn't give any rewards for it. It's just there for fun and the game doesn't record your accomplishments anywhere except for the song menu in the piano minigame.

Precision defense focus materia can block "bind" type attacks at level 3, which are attacks that have special animations when they hit you. Things like Bahamut's crush grip, Sephiroth's skewer, and Titan's throw move. Not every exclamation point is a bind attack, but every bind attack is an exclamation point move. Learning which is which is something you have to figure out, the game doesn't tell you. But you need max level precision defense focus materia for perfect blocks to work on them. Some of these bind attacks are much easier to perfect block than dodge. Gilgamesh pose is easier to perfect block than dodge in my opinion, but skewer is easier to dodge. Still though, perfect blocking generates a good chunk of stagger, so when I'm playing normally I try to parry a lot

@@aethertruck Why don't they make the ones that are Bind attacks be Orange or Purple instead of Red with the symbol?

Well to be fair, only two of these bosses aren't easily challengable on their own. Gilgamesh is the lions share of knowledge check in the whole gauntlet and he's not very likely to wipe you without having a few minutes to practice him. Sephiroth is really the only Elden Ring type boss imo. He will wipe you in 3 mistakes. But at least his lethal attack gives you plenty of time to prepare. It's like 3 seconds for the crouching version and there's no variation. You can also dodge the crouching version but it's a lot harder than perfect block. Just make sure you bring precision defense focus materia. The extra frames of perfect block make all. the. difference.

​@aethertruck Gilgamesh is pretty tough too, for me anyway. Yesterday was my 1st and only try at this challenge with a limit siphon build, walk in the park until Gilgamesh. The dude attacks non stop with so many different attacks it's hard to remember it all. Will try getting to Sephiroth this time, thanks for the tips!

@@GoldChocobo77 unfortunate for you, limit siphon doesn't get good til you get thre reward for beating this challenge lol. Remember that Gilgamesh only attacks your piloted character like 90% of the time. You might have more success building ATB, then switching to a different character for like 5 seconds before using limit siphon/other actions. Also be sure to pilot another character during limit breaks, and if you don't have subversion materia to get rid of Gilgamesh's buffs, you should consider it.

​@@aethertruck yeah I died 💀 on Gilgamesh again. Ive noted over 20 different attacks!? Need a phD to beat this guy

@@GoldChocobo77 the stress free way to learn is to watch others. Don't be afraid to pause to reference something. Most of his attacks have a name. Just make sure to think about his swordplay abilities: shoddy means he's gonna stand still, sloppy means he's gonna dash at you. Roll behind him for sloppy, roll away for shoddy. And don't be afraid to block things with steadfast block materia. Blocking his attacks often builds more ATB than hitting him yourself.

That depends on how you're measuring it. It hits a full party, the heal is guaranteed to come out, it can't be interrupted, and Aerith is invincible while using it. Healing wind doesn't scale with magic, it scales with max HP. It heals everyone exactly half of their max HP, but it can be boosted with +Healing traits.

Thing is though is I’m gladly using the Brumal form method because the way I see it if square enix wants to make a bs broken right then I will gladly return the favor by breaking it myself lmao Yuffie is goated