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i know there is already a forum for this, but i need more help, how do i beat them im level 75, have two master magics, kotr, still cant win, can anyone help

hit one of your partner (with maxhp higher than 7777 ^^ ) until he gets under 154 of life.. then equip Cat's Bell.. walk until you get 154... enter in a battle, use demi2 on him.. and run.. use 2 potions and 15 hi-potions on him and enter in the weapon battle, gl ;D

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This post has been edited by Rangers51 on 11th November 2005 13:36

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yes they helped but i still couldn't kill them , emerald kills me within 5 or 6 minutes ruby kills me in about 6 or 7. i just cant win. i got the final attack materia, kotr, master magic, but it doesnt help.

one strat that can sometimes work is if you summon hades and use kotr and mimic on them i dont know the point of hades but if you mimic kotr it can do alot of damage fast then just enter with cloud omnislash available with full life and omega weapon and bam alot more damage heheh

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what do the items you get from chocobo racing do they play any part in the game?? and about the mime, im still trying to get two of them.

Srry to dpuble post, but to daniayaw, that will enable the all lucky sevens for sure??? but it sounds kind of cheap

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This post has been edited by Rangers51 on 10th November 2005 20:49

The Hades-KotR Mimic strat is for Ruby Weapon. It's in our very own guide to beat the weapons, too! I purpose of Hades is to stop Ruby from attacking. He is susceptible to stop and that is the easiest way to inflict it.

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Also, I remember the item, Dazers, can actually paralyse Ruby weapon for 1 turn. Its quite useful, you can get them from monsters in the surrounding area.

EDIT: I managed to beat him with regular attacks, no KoTR, not many limit breaks, just lots of 4x Cut's and Mimes. Took about 40 minutes, even with 255 Speed stats on everyone.

This post has been edited by byblos on 11th November 2005 03:05

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beting the weapon isnt as hard as its cut out to be, do emerald first, get the master materia, and then go fight ruby. follow the strategy, and you'll do fine, also be quick, dont give them a chance to attack, pummel them

This post has been edited by 1ofakind on 4th December 2005 07:11

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At first back in 97 they where imposible for me, now a days they are just another Guard Scorpion (not really) The key is materia leveling up, as with that comes character leveling up, MIME is very important, as well as a good revival Final Attack. Final Attack+Phoenix been the best!

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Merged with the previous strategy topic, since that's the direction this has gone.

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Srry to dpuble post, but to daniayaw, that will enable the all lucky sevens for sure??? but it sounds kind of cheap

it will.. hit and recover with cat's bell until 154 life -> demi2 -> 77 life -> 2 potions -> 277 life -> 15 hi-potions -> 7777 life o.o ^^

ive also come up with the idea (though someone else has to have thought of it by now...) to only equip your people with two materia each when fighting emerald. (and they all have 9999 max hp) you keep em filled up with megalixirs, and when he uses aire tam, you all have lucky 7s!! ^^; at least in theory anyway. try counter mime...if you actally mastered those two times...

i must try it some time, i want to see if it works.

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thats not true o.o

The Hades-KotR Mimic strat didn't work for me, mainly because Hades sometimes fails to stop the ruby weapon. Am I doing this wrong??

And just to make sure, hitting the tentacles won't do any damage to the main frame of ruby weapon would it..?

This post has been edited by l46kok on 4th December 2005 06:52

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The Hades-KotR Mimic strat didn't work for me, mainly because Hades sometimes fails to stop the ruby weapon. Am I doing this wrong??

And just to make sure, hitting the tentacles won't do any damage to the main frame of ruby weapon would it..?

no, hitting the tentacles wont hurt rubys main body.

use w summon hades on the tentacles and ruby. (provided its at level two...) itll paralyze the tentacles as well, i believe.

or w summon KOR on the body and then on tentacles. tentacles first, since you may not have gotten KOR to level two. then , mime it, it will work on both for the two times. (funny how that works, huh?)

ruby'll spend most of his time burying and unburying his claws, with and occasional ultima, but if you equip hp absorb to KOR, and have a mystile on (or aegis armor?) it wont really matter.

but im sure others have thought of this too.

This post has been edited by Zeromus_X on 4th December 2005 08:52

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No, Hades can only paralyze either the tentacles or the ruby, because the tentacles will come out from the back of the party. Also, from several tries, it's official that Hades sometimes fails to stop the ruby weapon, so the Hades-KoTr Mimic strategy DOES NOT work. (I've tried like 5~6 times, but I kept failing until I actually got the Kotr up to level 2.)

When the Hades fails to stop the Ruby Weapon, it will counter with Ultima for sure. (You can tell if it has been stopped or not when the KOTR is casted. It will slowly move it's body up and down.) Because whenever KOTR is used on the Ruby Weapon, it always counters with Ultima.

Of course, you can beat the weapon by using HP Absorb on KOTR however, this only works for whoever is casting it meaning, you'll have only one guy left at the end of the battle. Since the Ruby weapon gives you shit load of AP, you might want to reconsider and figure out a way to make them all live.


.. I have a quick question though, why attack tentacles when it doesn't actually damage the ruby weapon?

I've never had Hades fail. I always use this basic strategy with great success.

What you may find is that Hades doesn't do anything if Ruby is already stopped. So if you mimic Hades AND KoR every round, you can sometimes have Hades wear off between your last casting (which did nothing) and the launch of KoR. I tend to hit it with Knights as often as possible and Hades it when it's no longer stopped.

You can pair Mime + HP Absorb on the characters without KoR and they'll also get healed from its damage.

You might get the odd bite of Ultima, but if you're too low level to survive a single burst of it, you're likely to find Ruby difficult in any circumstance.

Notice also that the previous poster said "W-Summon" Hades to take care of the tentacles and Ruby -- for the first of the two summons, hit the the tentacles, then for the second, hit Ruby, or vice versa.

Why attack the tentacles when it won't hurt Ruby? To make it waste time burrowing and unburrowing them. (Also because they're really annoying if not stopped).

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"You can pair Mime + HP Absorb on the characters without KoR and they'll also get healed from its damage."

You don't need to pair Mime with HP Absorb foe such effect

Accident, sorry for that.

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This post has been edited by Santa's Envoy on 7th January 2007 19:23

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i never got to chance to beat ruby but i did beat emerald heres a strategy,
Cloud-Mime,Ominislash,KoTr,and all materia and all that other junk
vincent-Bahamut zero,Chaos,underwater materia.
Red 13 - always get him attack so he can use Howling moon on my party.

Beating Ruby Weapon without Chocobo Breeding, i.e. No Mimic, KotR, etc...

I'd heard through the Grapevine about the prize for beating Ruby was a Gold Chocobo (through the Desert Rose and the guy in Kalm) and I said immediately to myself, HELL YEAH, I want to get the G. Chocobo from one fight instead of all that Chocobo breading/racing. I imagined that process taking forever and really really figured that there must be a good way to beat him without needing the Materia that you can get with the other Chocobos, particularly the Gold one and getting KotR.

1. I was pretty high level when I finally succeeded and on Disc 3. Patience and a good spot to get AP is all you really need, but I was giving Elixers to the Magic pots and killing Movers in the final area to get the Materia setup the way I wanted.

2. Coin, Hades, and a lot of time just about sums up the process. 100000 ( I think that was it) gill does 9999 damage to Ruby and we all know that Hades actually Stops him for a bit. Selling a few Maxed out All Materias helps here, they're worth a ton of gil.

3. Standard of 1 Alive and 2 Dead at start of fight. When I finally succeeded, I'd lost 2 to Whirlsand anyway late in the fight.

4. Final Attack Phoenix combo is pretty necessary. Plenty of HP Plus to get everyone at 9999. It heals Ruby but not much.

5. I think I had the Ultimate Weapon on Cloud and a whole bunch of Counter Attacks on him. He hit for 2000 or so each time if his health was high enough.

A little more tweaking and my method would probably have been cleaner. I only had 2 throw's with Coin ability when I beat Ruby. Three would have been much better, and maybe and extra Hades. I was left with Yuffie alone without final attack, plenty of Gil left, and she had on the Mystile armor, so thank goodness Ruby kept missing her or I would have been toast.

Anyway, the funny thing was, after getting the Gold Chocobo, I got all the hard to get Materia and went for Emerald Weapon. My early attempt with Ruby was to get double cut up to 4x a few times and try like hell to just keep pounding away. This didn't work on Ruby with his physical defense just too too high. Anyway, with Missing Score, Ultimate Weapon, and Confomer... Emerald was so damn easy. Didn't need Mimic, Quadra or KotR at all. 4x 9999 damange on 2 Characters and 2x on one with a final attack Phoenix combo in there to survice the Aire Tam Storm and we were in business. Even did it without Underwater.

This post has been edited by Sylus101 on 21st February 2007 21:28