Final Fantasy VI Bosses

Curlax is the strongest of the three Dream Stooges, and also the most vital one to take down. He has a random shot at casting White Wind every now and again, which heals the other Stooges and himself. Even worse, he will cast Arise on a fallen comrade when he notices they're down. He'll attack with the status-inducing spells when all three brothers are alive, and with the Fire-elemental offensive spells when a comrade has been slain (which is a useless bit of the AI script, as Curlax will always immediately make sure this is never the case with Arise). When he's hit four times by a Magic spell, he'll cast Reflect on himself and start bouncing Fira and Firaga spells off himself. When all three Stooges are alive, he'll cast Delta Attack every 30 seconds; Delta Attack is an unblockable single-target attack that sets Petrify (doesn't work on targets immune to Petrify, obviously). He has a 33% chance of countering any of your attacks with a Fira spell.

Laragorn is the weakest of the three Dream Stooges; his amount of HP is the lowest and his status vulnerabilities are horrible; as if Death wasn't enough, he's an almost exclusive spell caster susceptible to Silence and Confuse. He's the Ice-elemental of the three. Like Curlax, he'll cast Delta Attack when all three Stooges are alive and 30 seconds have passed since the beginning of the battle/the last time Delta Attack appeared. He'll cast Reflect once he's been hit by Magic four times and start reflecting Blizzara and Blizzaga spells off himself. Laragorn will normally just attack with Battle; he'll start using Blizzara and Blizzaga spells when one Stooge is down. He'll counter 33% of the time with Blizzara. The interesting thing about Laragorn is that he may run away in the middle of a battle. When one of the Stooges is down and Laragorn has been hit by four Magic spells, he'll run away. After 30 seconds (if you haven't won the battle yet), he'll return; his HP will be back to maximum, but his MP won't have changed and any status ailments you might've set will still be there.

Moebius is the middle child, and the only one without an elemental weakness. His bane is the Berserk status, and he has the Lightning-element. Like his brethren, he casts Delta Attack after 30 seconds, will cast Reflect on himself after four Magic spells, and start casting Thundara and Thundaga on himself which bounce off; normally he uses support spells (Protect, Shell, Haste, and Cura), but he will start to cast offensive spells (Thundara and Thundaga) when one of the Stooges is down. He may counter any attack with a Thundara spell. Moebius is certainly the most boring of the three.

A note about Delta Attack: when the global battle timer reaches 30, the first Stooge to act will attack with Delta Attack. After that, the global timer is set to 0, so that neither of the other two Stooges can use it. In other words, every 30 seconds only one Delta Attack will appear, not three.

How to fight this battle? Set Mute on Laragorn (the Silence spell is obviously the most prominent way, but Strago's Bad Breath is also a highly acceptable means of setting the same effect (not to mention that it'll also set Confuse); and Berserk on Moebius (with the Berserk spell, possibly). Don't kill off Laragorn with a quick Death spell just yet; our main priority is Curlax. Cast a Sleep spell on him (once again, Bad Breath works there) and pound him with magical attacks, preferably Ice-elemental attacks. When he's dead, abuse Laragorn's vulnerability to instant death attacks and dispose of him quickly. What you have left is a Berserked Moebius who is no threat whatsoever.

So long as you know what you're doing, it's really an easy battle; barriers like Mighty Guard, Hastega, Moon Song, Earth Wall, and Life Guard are nice, but really not necessary. You don't get any items for beating the Dream Stooges, but you will receive 6 Magic Points. Expand Full Strategy

The big sparkle's name is Nelapa. He gets 10 out of 10 for style, but minus one billion for good thinking. I mean, here you are, with a timer quickening your pace, and he thinks it's a good idea to cast Doom on the party. A bit redundant, if not outright illogical.

Sillier yet, the battle with Nelapa (or a Naude) will automatically terminate as soon as the global timer hits 0:04 seconds; enough time to dive from the Floating Continent to "safety". What was the point of the timer in the first place? 0:04 isn't enough time to wait for that special someone, though...

Anyway, after the pompous chatter and casting Doom on the party, he will finally get around attacking you. He can use Attack, Fira, Firaga, and Fireball. Very spooky. Firaga actually hurts a bit. Now here's a hoot: If you hit Nelapa with six Attack commands, he'll use Roulette. Next to the fact that Roulette can actually take Nelapa himself down, the mere thought that Nelapa could even survive six Attacks is laughable in itself. You'd need a Healing Rod or a rat-flail in order to pull that off.

Anyway, back to not insulting this guy into submission (although you could). He's weak to Lightning and Ice and Holy. He's also Floating. Just make sure you keep in the back of your mind this guy is inherently Reflective, which means you'll need to resort to your skills and summon attacks. There are literally hundreds of ways to off this guy, and they're all very easy. Gau's Mu Rage can enSnare him for a one-hit KO, as can a fatal Chainsaw attack. Bouncing a few Rasp spells off yourself will kill him. Bouncing a Death spell off yourself will kill him. You can even confuse him; enemies don't get any more pathetic than that.

Just use your strongest attacks, be it Gigavolt, or Aura Cannon, or Diamond Dust, or what have you. Nelapa has 2800 HP. That's it. If you played your cards right, you were doing 2800 in one attack back there against Ultima Weapon. Pushover. Expand Full Strategy