7 Cheapest Final Fantasy Bosses Who Didn’t Play By The Rules

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Published 2024-06-10
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Final Fantasy games are notorious for being packed full of various unique and memorable bosses.

Many of these bosses are incredibly well designed, but every now and again some slip through the cracks and are just simply unfair. Sometimes these bosses expect players to have knowledge they couldn’t possibly have had on a first blind playthrough. And in these instances, walking into a boss fight with the wrong build can be utterly devastating.

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All Comments (21)
  • @normal6483
    Yunalesca's primary tactic is to inflict you with zombify and other statuses so she can heal you to death, meaning you have to remove zombie and the statuses in order to survive and progress. But her secondary tactic is to cast megadeath on the party and kill everyone who isn't already a zombie, so you have to leave people zombified to survive. But if you leave people zombified she'll inflict them with status effects and kill them with healing. But if you cure or prevent zombie she'll inflict death and kill them, so they need to be zombies. But they'll die if they're zombies. But they'll die if they aren't zombies. But they'll die if
  • @asham868
    Yunalesca was the first boss ever in final fantasy that made me grind in order to beat it. Everything else had been easy up until that point (seymour flux made me reload a couple times, but i didnt need to grind). I remember grinding Wakka up to the point where he was just a powerhouse carrying the whole time with shear damage.
  • I remember having trouble with the Gafgarion fight until a friend told me “(before starting the stage) Just take all of his equipment off him and change Gafgarion’s job to Chemist.”
  • "Now! This is it! Now is the time to choose! Die and be free of pain or live and fight your sorrow! Now is the time to shape your stories! Your fate is in your hands!"
  • @jamesmayo9533
    This is a public safety announcement: Yunalesca is made trivial with the "eater" abilities (fire eater, water eater, etc.) You hit yourself with waterga and heal yourself for that much damage.
  • @MrEvilbyte
    My near foolproof strat for Yunalesca (which I lifted from some guide somewhere), no Zombie or death protection needed. > Bring in Tidus (for Cheer), Yuna (for Reflect and maybe Holy). 3rd member can be whoever (probably Wakka or Auron). > Before you attack, set up Reflect on all 3 (you have nothing to fear from Yunalesca's status ailments or healing spells while you're zombied). Tidus meanwhile casts Cheer 5 times. > Just keep attacking, until you're about to beat her 2nd form. If needed, heal from Zombie so you can heal yourself with potions. Let Yunalesca zombie you again before finishing her 2nd form. > Keep attacking until she bites it. If Yuna has Holy, now's a good time to start spamming it. > If Yunalesca bounces Regen onto herself, you might want to Dispel it. > Bonus points if you have Bahamut in Overdrive, or can Grand Summon Bahamut. Use this to finish off her 3rd form to get an Overkill (getting you multiple lv4 Key Spheres in the process). > Or use some other attack capable of doing more then 9999 damage for Overkill (probably one of Tidus' Overdrives).
  • @Duckman8213
    Yunalesca. I started that fight at 11 pm hoping to be done by midnight but was playing till 2 am.
  • @S1EEPLES5
    The thumbnail really knows how to pull me
  • @IceQueen975
    When Yunalesca's 3rd form showed up I literally went "OH MY GOD, HOLY SHIT!!!" out loud. Terrifying
  • When I fought Yunalesca the first time she completely wiped me out in the 3rd phase of the battle with Mega-Death. I honestly never saw that coming and she has to be one of the harder Final Fantasy fights in general because if your not prepared, she'll completely destroy you
  • @ShadowProject01
    Funny enough Seymour Flux and Yunalesca have the same boss fight music. So whenever I hear this theme I would get ready for a difficult fight.😂
  • @sparrowhawk2860
    Whenever possible, ALWAYS HAVE MULTIPLE SAVE FILES!!! Not to excuse bad design, it's just a good idea.
  • @asmodeusml
    If I would single out an unfair fight from FF7 Rebirth, it would be Alexander & Odin one, especially on hard mode. It is so frustrating to deal with them both at the same time, even when you know what you are supposed to do, and if you get unlucky and take too many hits, Odin might wipe you anyway.
  • @mythos6308
    I will forever be scared by Lady Yunalensca I literally spent two hours fighting her just to lose when she had about 500 health left because she suddenly got to do 5 moves in a row
  • @jamiephilip79
    Dude with Yunalesca's fight I literally had to be a strategist
  • @noahhobson4521
    Zodiark from Final Fantasy XII. Some bosses can put up palings and become immune to physical attacks. Some bosses can put up magick wards and become immune to magical attacks. Zodiark can do both simultaneously. He also starts the fight with a dark elemental instant death attack, his elemental weakness is constantly shifting and he has over three hundred and thirty thousand hit points to chew through.
  • I saw the title and was like: “Do you have any idea how little that narrows it down?”
  • @Duckman8213
    I absolutely hated fighting Rufus in rebirth on Hardmode. I abused level 3 limit break while continuously blocked to build up the charge.
  • @ytmndman
    What confuses me about Pandemonium Warden is that if a group tried for 18 hours and failed to beat it, how could anyone be expected to beat it in only 2 hours?
  • @civilwildman
    Note: You can actually save Kain from paralysis and dying in that fight against Golbez, at least in the original 2D version. Have him use Jump in that fight just before he uses that paralysis ability and again just before the Black Dragon uses that instant death ability. Presto! No need to revive him. Tested it on both the SNES and PS1 ports; it works. 😃