Final Fantasy VI Bosses

Fiend is one heck of an ice queen, I tell you. Not just a shell, this one! Luckily, she's also pretty predictable and one-dimensional, which in my opinion makes her quite easy to defeat (certainly easier than Goddess or Demon, even ignoring Stop). Her normal moves include the ever-present Battle, Blizzaga spells, Absolute Zero, and the annoying Northern Cross attack, from which one can be easily recovered by a simple Fire spell. Of course, she gets extra mean when you damage her enough. Once Fiend hits 32640 HP, the message "Fiend's aura is trembling violently!" appears, and, my goodness, so it appears.

By doing this, Fiend self-applies the Image, Reflect, and Haste statuses, meaning that you will want to cast Dispel to get rid of all three of them and quickly cast Slow or Slowga to reduce her speed even further. From this point on though, she will ignore her single- and multi-target Ice-elemental options and focus on a few select attacks.

Every twenty seconds, Fiend will use the Force Field attack, which is a Lore Strago will only be able to learn in this battle. Force Field takes an element (one not previously selected by Force Field, if using it a second time) and renders it completely ineffective. It doesn't matter how strong the caster is or if the target is weak to said element: Once the element has been picked, this element will do exactly 0 damage for the duration of the battle. Once all eight elements have been rendered useless, Force Field will do nothing. Aside from Force Field, Fiend will use Battle and Targeting. Targeting does absolutely nothing more than 'store' that target in her memory, and the very next turn she will use !Fiendish Rage on that person, period. Should this person suddenly be unavailable, !Fiendish Rage will be used on a random person. Of course, the game would have us believe that the Targeting move somehow makes !Fiendish Rage unblockable, but !Fiendish Rage is unblockable in itself, so the act of using Targeting is really just for show.

That's it! Pretty easy, I'd say. Set Slow at the start of the match, throw up the barriers you like, and pummel Fiend with the strongest attacks you have. Strago might be able to get some play out of his Lv. ? Holy attack now that you've a) obviously brought him here and b) made sure to rig it into always hitting. Have Gau engage in a Rage that will have him produce non-elemental damage, since you won't be able to easily stop him once Fiend starts nullifying the elements. The Holy spell is really useful when Fiend is in her 'easy' phase, but beware that you don't waste turns casting zero-damage Holy spells when she's left said phase. Make sure you don't allow Fiend to maintain her Image, Haste, or Reflect statuses: everybody who knows the Holy spell knows Dispel too, and Terra learned it naturally at level 37. Expand Full Strategy