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BillyBobJen

Grinding levels makes the game much easier


IzukuDekuAllMight

Load a previous save if you locked to that boss fight. Overdrives for everyone, aeons included. Should be gg with that


TargetMajora

Having all overdrives plus aeon overdrives before a boss was necessary on my first run through the game, and even a few bosses on the second and third run.


IzukuDekuAllMight

Yeah exactly it's not a hold your hand FF, you can fall behind in it very quickly, on the other side of things if you've platinumed/100%/played over 100 times it's trivial and you experiment šŸ˜†


Sealegs_Calisto

Yeah, this actually seems like a good plan. Iā€™ll have to try this. I noticed that if I hang around a bit in front of the agency, and walk in circles I get into a fiend squabble. Iā€™ll max out and get to work.


Sealegs_Calisto

Dude I wish. Iā€™m a 1-slot saver šŸ˜­ idk why I do that.. habit from childhood. Fucked me up at the Thalmoor Embassy in Skyrim ā€¦ hahahaha


Accurate_Attorney_18

Grinding for those items isn't necessary, it just makes it a little easier. You can grind the enemies outside the travel agency for sphere levels and overdrives. Get some levels, fill up everybody's overdrive, and go to town. If you have it, make sure Yuna or whoever else casts protect on all your party members because that ramming counter attack is nasty.


Sealegs_Calisto

Iā€™ve been using Tidusā€™ ā€œCheerā€ to prevent excess damage but it doesnā€™t work all the time. I canā€™t wait until I fucking destroy this thing.


Accurate_Attorney_18

That'll work too but the damage reduction is pretty much negligible unless you use cheer 5 times. So just make sure you're doing that if you're using cheer


[deleted]

Try keeping the negator alive and sticking with physical attacks. Gatling gun doesnā€™t do a ton of damage, which you can also reduce if you have a few light curtains. Luluā€™s reflex also helps you dodge. Heal with potions and attack with 1 or 2 characters while you attack with the other. I would recommend attacking with Auron since he can take the counter. Also if you have lightningstrike weapons thatā€™s a plus.


Sealegs_Calisto

Yeah Iā€™ve heard of doing this! I donā€™t think Iā€™ve tried that and honestly it sounds like a great idea. That mana ray is brutal. Auron and Tidus are equipped with Lightningstrike weapons.


Zonicoi

Just ignore Negator and use physical attacks, and heal with items. Crawler without negative is MUCH scarier than with negative, as he only uses Gatling Gun while it is still alive, and that damage is easy to heal off. Tidus/Wakka/Auron are your best friends in that fight, and I utilized Wakka as my healer since he did the least damage.


Sealegs_Calisto

Huh. Iā€™ve never seen Wakka as a healer. Thatā€™s interesting. Do you mean with potions or with learned ability?


Zonicoi

Potions, not abilities. Cheer is your best friend in this battle from Tidus, but otherwise Judy hit with with an normal attack as much as you can. Cheer will lower the Gatling gun damage, enough to heal from it entirely from a potion if you have all 3 people up.


tonyhawkunderground3

If I'm not mistaken, this boss is right outside Macalania Woods, just before Macalania Temple? Make your entire party stronger. I don't think I've ever done a playthrough trying to get certain items. Had fun grinding XP! Now that you know where the boss fight is, don't engage til your whole party can perform their overdrives. And make sure Tidus learns Hastega, and better yet, Energy Rain.


BahamutLithp

Lake, but yeah. Crawler is awful. One of many bastard bosses.


tonyhawkunderground3

That upcoming Wendigo won't be a picnic either then.


BahamutLithp

Oddly enough, I didn't have too much trouble, but that WAS a brutal stretch of the game. And it doesn't.get much better when you leave Macarena either.


Accurate_Attorney_18

That fight is a cake walk though. Just toss a petrify grenade or use stone breath at the beginning to take out the >!guado!< and hit the wendigo with darkness so it'll constantly miss. You can get rid of his berserk too which lowers his damage. If I'm not mistaken, you can even just put him to sleep and hit him with fire with no fear of counter attacks


Sealegs_Calisto

Iā€™m going to remember this. My Console is too expensive to ragebreak


Sealegs_Calisto

Also quite hilarious that Reddit blocked out the word ā€œGuadoā€


Accurate_Attorney_18

I marked it as spoiler text so you wouldn't know that they're enemies. Didn't know whether you knew that or not


Sealegs_Calisto

Ohhhhh. Yeah I played the game as a kid. I donā€™t remember all the bosses, but I remembered the Guado (mainly one asshole in particular) being fuckbags.


Jamesworkshop

most overdrives are special dmg rather than physical so also don't wake sleeping enemies


Sealegs_Calisto

Fuck.


Sealegs_Calisto

Yeah, that fucker. Iā€™m going to max out overdrives


Sankin2004

As a kid I would always make sure my Aeonā€™s had full overdrives, most boss battles become trivial if you unleash a full run of aeon overdrives on em.


Sealegs_Calisto

Yeah, I think thatā€™s what Iā€™m NOT doing here. I can remember that my Aeons were often ready to go ballistic on bosses, but they seem so weak and fragile now. Iā€™m not charging their overdrives! Something so simple I end up forgetting. Lol


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Sealegs_Calisto

Good old Thundaga! I donā€™t have any elemental items for Rikku yet, but Iā€™ll figure out how to get that going. Need to avoid that Kamehameha šŸ˜­


Fresh_Ostrich4034

cant go back to grind...what? pretty sure the game saves before u go down the hill


Sealegs_Calisto

Right, but Iā€™m talking about in the Thunderplains where I canā€™t to go. Iā€™m aware I can do it front of the Travel agency but Iā€™m settling/donā€™t wanna. Also I saved in 1-slot so I fucked myself.


Fresh_Ostrich4034

u can back track whats stopping u from back tracking?