More:Final Fantasy 8: Combat
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No random battles
Use the following methods to never have any random
battle outside of towns: rent a car for 3,500 gil, walk on train
tracks, walk on paved roads, or get Diablos' No Encounter ability.
Easy battles
To defeat enemies easily, learn the ability Revive
with Alexander and junction 100 Zombie to Status Atk on any player.
During a battle, attack until the enemy has Zombie status, and
then use Revive to automatically kill it.
Put Squall together with two characters that you do not prefer.
Then, take all three to the Islands of Heaven or Hell and level
them up to 100. Then, put Squall in a party with two low level
people that you do prefer. From now on monsters should be at about
half Squall's level and easy for him to kill with one or two hits.
Have some Auras, and use Quistis' Degenerator limit break. The
monster will just get sucked in and die. To defeat bosses such
as Bahamut or Omega Weapon, use Zell and keep doing the "Booya"
or the other easy Limit Break. If you get 10 or 12 seconds and
do this quick enough, you can take off 850,000 HP. Zell's Limit
Breaks are actually stronger than the Lionheart if you are quick
enough.
Note: this trick can only be done if you are fairly far in the
game, have a good amount of money, and have patience. You must
have your best character at 9999 HP and a good amount of attack
and defense. You also must have almost all the abilities for Alexander,
Cerberus, and Diablos learned. Have the ability of that character
to "HP + 80%", "Auto- Haste", and one other
of your choice. Set the in game attacks of your character "GF",
"Revive", and "Draw" or "Item".
Junction on that character in the Elemental Defense: Life, Protect,
Shell, and Ultima. If you have enough of each, you should have
a star next to each sign. That indicates that you gain life from
magic. Put on Enuna and Silence that are at 100 and two others
onto Status Defense. Put a 100 Drain onto Status Attack. This
makes it so that whenever you have a regular attack with your
character, you gain that much life. If done correctly, you should
not have to worry about dying. The Auto-Haste makes you go twice
as fast while you heal from the regular pumped up attacks on the
enemy. If the enemy is undead and does not allow you to heal from
the attacks or makes you get hurt by them, use Revive to instantly
kill them. If your other members die, heal them entirely with
Revive. If your other members get a status you do not like, kill
them, then use Revive to get rid of it. Note: Your character's
HP, Attack, and Defense must be high for this to work.
Have any of your party members get Elm-ATK-Zombie. Attack a monster
that is not immune to Zombie. If it gets a Zombie status, cast
GF Alexander's "Revive" on the monster.
To defeat a level 100 T-Rexar or other opponent on the Islands
of Heaven or Hell or any other place, do the following. Equip
the Death magic to ST-ATK. You must have at least 85+ but 100
Magics in stock. This causes instant death, as they disappear
unlike Doom. This is not true all the time. Attack an enemy and
if it does not disappear, attack it again until it is gone. Note:
This does not work on Bosses.
Easy Boss battles
Besides the obvious increases in Str up to 255 and
HP up to 9999, put Rinoa's Mag up to 255. Cast Aura on her, followed
by Invincible Moon, then Angel Wing. Just wait until Rinoa casts
Meteor, which will do up to 5000-7000 on each meteor, depending
on experience.
Get Cerberus and at least 20 Auras. Cast Cerberus, then Triple
Aura (one on each person). If Squall has Lion Hart, Renzekuken
should kill almost any Boss.
Get Cactaur and learn its Kamikaze ability. Use that on a Boss
or monster. It deals about 75,000 HP damage. Although your character
automatically dies, it is be worth it when fighting Omega Weapon,
Tonberries, or other strong opponents.
More damage with characters
When you are in a battle as Squall quickly press R1
when he is a second away from hitting the enemy to more damage
than a regular attack.
Note: This can also be done with Rinoa, Ward, Kiros, Zell, Laguna, Irvine, Quistis, and Selphie.
Remodeling weapons
Squall's weapon can be remodeled easily while keeping
his level low. Adamantine can be stolen from BGH251F2 in FH. Dragon
Fang can be gotten from a level 1 Blue Dragon in the Trabia snow
forests. Pulse Ammos can be taken from Energy Crystal 1 to 10.
However, this is tricky because there are no low level monsters
with this item. Even Elnoyle in Esthar must be at least level
40 to have them (and he cannot be leveled up) Therefore, in order
to get the Energy Crystal, get the Elnoyle's card, which can be
refined into an Energy Crystal for 10 to 1. Use the following
trick to get 20 Elnoyle's cards. The hotel keeper in front of
the Balamb hotel always uses the card for no reason. Just get
the card from him. Meanwhile, collect the Iron Giant's card which
can be refined into Star Fragments for 3 to 1. Zell's weapon needs
Dragon's Skin which can be obtained from Anacondaur with level
30 or above and can be found in the forest near Timber. They usually
appear in pairs and do not waste any of them. For Fury Fragment,
try the cards again. Adamantine can be obtained from Adamantoise
or from Scared's card. Adamantoise must be at least level 30.
Have 'Meltdown' magic drawn before fighting it because it has
a very high Vit. Do not let allow of the two be wasted because
Selphine also needs it. For Irvine, Dino Bone, Star Fragment,
and Screw can be refined from cards. Moon Stone can be stolen
from Elnoyle. Your party will definitely have one level up if
you fight him. Quistist's weapon items can all be obtained from
cards, and so can Selphine's, except for Adamantine. Regen Ring
can be stolen from Torama. Force Armlet should be obtained from
Edea at Galbadia Garden. With all of the above, Squall should
be able to have his Str above 230 junctioned Str with 100 Ultima,
and a Str +60% ability and level at 24.
Easy Fujin and Raijin battle
Have Rinoa, Squall and Zell in your party. When Squall
and Zell faint, select Rinoa use Reflect on her. Fujin will use
magic, so it reflects on Fujin or Rajin, but Rajin will say "I
don't hit girls" and Rinoa will not get hit at all. The battle
is also easier if Carbuncle knows Counter Attack.
Before you get into any fight, save in Zell's room, in case you
die. Junction at least two of your characters with magic with
one with Item. This way, you can use magic and the other person
can use the potions. Make sure you have Blind stocked. When you
get into battle with Rajin, the very first thing you should do
is to cast Blind on him to reduce his physical attack. The Galbadian
soldiers will be knocked out within seconds. Never use a Thunder
type GF on Rajin. He gains HP from the Thunder attacks. He will
be knocked out with about five shots of Shiva at level 24. When
you get into the duo battle, cast Blind on Rajin again. Have Selphie
in the group, because of her Limit Break that cures everyone in
the party. Do not use Carbuncle because it will not block Fujin's
most powerful attack, Zan. Never use a Wind type of attack on
Fujin. Try to knock Rajin out first because he is more dangerous
than Fujin. Do not forget to draw the GF out of Fujin.
When on Disc 2 in Balamb facing Fujjin and Rajjin, Rajjin will not attack the females in your party. Instead, he will attack the males. Get either Riona, Quistis, or Selphie in your party with Squall. Keep attacking Fujjin until she gives up. Then, attack Rajjin. If Squall dies, then Rajjin will not attack but pass his
turn. He will say, " I can't hit girls, man."Easy Fujin and Raijin fight in the Lunatic Pandora
PlayStation Cast Protect and Shell. Then, cast Reflect on Raijin
and keep hitting him with Bahamut, etc. Avoid wind and electricity
attacks as well as limit breaks. When he says "Time to get
serious ya know", he will cast Aura and it will reflect on
your party. Keep pressing Circle until the arrow appears,
then use Rough Divide, Fated Circle, Lionheart, etc. Fujin will
say "Callous" and drop down when he has been defeated.
Get limit breaks on every hit
PlayStation When the health of all your characters in the party
is low enough to trigger limit breaks, instead of using normal
attacks while waiting for the limit break option to appear, keep
hitting Circle to skip them until that option appears.
Remember that if you cure any of the team, they will not get limit
break options. However you will run the risk of having the entire
party getting wiped out with a single magical attack; it may be
best to keep one member at full health so he or she can revive
the others if needed. This also works when you cast an "Aura",
or if they are under poison, silence status. Note: Press Square
in the import version of the game.
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PlayStation Wait until your HP is yellow but you cannot use your limit break
during a battle. Repeatedly press Circle until the right
arrow appears. Repeat it on the next turn to do it again (if the
HP is still yellow). Now you can use your special move(s) as many
times as you want, as long as your HP stays yellow,
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PlayStation When the health of a character is low enough to have a limit break
and the small arrow does not appear, allow everyone else to attack.
After their attack, press Triangle repeatedly until the
arrow appears.
To do a limit break on your turn, either be low on energy, or
be on Aura. If it does not immediately appear, press Circle
to change to other characters until it lands the desired person.
If it still does not appear, repeat until it does. This is easier
if the other character(s) already have had an action during the
turn.
More frequent Odin appearances
If you want to have Odin to appear more often, get
one or more Luck-J Scroll and Junction Magic with the full 100
stock.
One hit kills
This can be done with every monster that can be hit
with Death magic (for example all the monsters in the Island Closest
To Heaven and Hell, the Warship Island, in Esthar area). Death
normally does not work very well as it has a low hit rate. To
avoid this problem, do the following. Have Quistis in your party
with her Special Disintegration (obtained by using the Black Hole
item on her. You can get it by changing the Gesper Card or by
stealing it in Laguna's last scenario by Gesper. You cannot fail
because he is the only monster you fight in that scenario except
for Esthar soldiers. Then, enter in a battle and keep her HP low.
Switch turns until you can use Disintegration on the enemy. It
is an instant death hit. This does not work against Bosses and
the two Weapons.
Strong attacks
PlayStation Note: This trick requires a controller with an auto-fire
feature. Set "Cancel" (Square) to auto fire.
Teach your GFs Boost. When they have learned boost, use the GF
that has the boost of your choice. When your characters disappear
and the GFs are coming out, hold Select and you will see
a hand pointing to the cancel button at the bottom right corner.
Hold Square and it will boost your GFs power to 250 (or
higher with Eden). Be careful -- if you see the a red sign over
the hand and cancel button (instructing you not to do so), quickly
do so or you will have to start again.
More than 9999 damage in one hit
There are four attacks that deal more than 9999 damage
in one hit.
- GF Eden: Draw from Ultima Weapon at Deep Sea Research Center.
- GF Cactuar: Defeat Giant Cactuar at Cactuar Island near Kashkabald Desert. Have GF Cactuar reach level 100 and he can deal 10,000 damage.
- Kamikaze Command: Deals about 50,000 damage, but character is KO'd and cannot be revived until end of battle.
- :Quistis' Shockwave Pulsar: Learn from one Dark Matter. Casts Meltdown at the enemy that deals about 11,000 damage..
More damage
PlayStation Press L1 in the PlayStation version immediately
before Squall swings his blade in combat for more damage.
Escaping battle
PlayStation Press L1 + R1 in the PlayStation version
to escape from battles. Note: This is not effective when fighting
Bosses.
Escaping from battle is the most effective way to keep low levels.
However, during the process of escaping, the party tends to be
attacked by the enemy. There is one way to prevent this. First,
make sure the ATB is in "Wait" status ( this can be
configured). During the battle, when you want to escape, open
either the "Magic" or "Item" menu, but do
not select any of them. Then, hold onto the escape combo. The
enemies will not move until your party escapes.
Junction warning
When you Junction Auto Reflect, you will no longer
you be able to cast Full Life effectively.
Level gaining without Squall
The difficulty of your enemies depends on the character with the highest level. That is usually Squall, since he is always in the party. If Squall ever gets too far ahead of the other party in levels, simply knock him out and level up the other characters.
Finding the Captain (Rajin)
When Bamalab is under attack from Rajin and Fajin,
you have to look for the captain (Rajin). Look around, return,
and talk to them. They will say that the commander is angry, and
to find him fast. Instead of looking around, just go behind the
hotel. Keep going to the back and front until they are sitting
down. Then, save the game in Zell's room. Go to those soldiers
and the battle will start. Note: Do not to pay the man hiding
in the truck behind the hotel.
Boss stats
| Name | HP | Weakness |
|---|---|---|
| Ifrit | 1068 | Ice |
| Biggs | 467-705 | - |
| Wedge | 416-640 | - |
| Elvoret | 1563-3523 | - |
| X-ATM092 | 5072-5770 | Thunder |
| Granaldo | 1314-9700 | Wind |
| Raldos | 111-6700 | - |
| Diablos | 1600-80800 | Wind |
| Fake President | 52-778 | - |
| Gerogero | 350-3650 | Holy, Fire, Earth, Cure magic |
| Sacred | 855-36375 | Poison, Wind |
| Minotaur | 578-27218 | Poison, Wind |
| Iguions | 127-1747 | Earth, Holy |
| Seifer | 176-1150 | Poison |
| Edea | 1300-7000 | - |
| Biggs | 1467-2235 | - |
| Wedge | 1416-2139 | - |
| Elite Soldier | 148-4940 | Poison |
| GIM52A x2 | 1431-19400 | - |
| BGH251F2 | 4200-8400 | - |
| Oilboyle x2 | 2136-15630 | Fire |
| Norg Pod | 2000 | - |
| Norg Left Pod | 57-2865 | - |
| Norg Right Pod | 57-2865 | - |
| Norg | 4400-12200 | Wind |
| BGH251F2 | 5100-7800 | Thunder, Water, and Earth |
| Raijin | 400-11600 | Poison |
| Fujin | 300-8700 | Poison |
| Raijin | 5400-22600 | Poison |
| Cerberus | 7100-10000 | - |
| Seifer | 1300-10300 | Poison |
| Seifer | 1200-7400 | Poison |
| Edea | 500-16000 | - |
| Ruby Dragon | 668-89100 | Ice, Holy |
| Abadon | 510-17010 | Fire, Holy |
| Fujin | 5300-18200 | - |
| Raijin | 5400-22600 | Ice |
| Mobile Type 8 | 30400-46400 | Thunder |
| Left Probe | 5100-9100 | - |
| Right Probe | 5100-9100 | - |
| Seifer | 3700-34500 | Poison |
| Adel | 6000-51000 | - |
| Rinoa | 6021-9036 | - |
| Sorceress (A) | 3390 | - |
| Sorceress (B) | 4496 | - |
| Sorceress (C) | 22500 | - |
| Sphinxaur | 10000 | - |
| Sphinxara | 10000 | - |
| Tri-Point | 2400-22400 | - |
| Krysta | 5200-16000 | - |
| Trauma | 5555-34114 | Wind |
| Red Giant | 30000 | - |
| Gargantua | 10100-15400 | - |
| Catoblepas | 10500-60000 | Earth, Water |
| Tiamat | 21200-89600 | - |
| Omega Weapon | 111105-1161000 | Ice |
| Ultimecia | ???? | ?? |
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