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FFVII - LLNIIENACMO Challenge - Optional Battles: Cheap Pagoda Strategies

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Channel: GarlandTheGreat · 2012 · Gaming

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Ninjamonkeypirates wanted me to show the cheap strategies as well, so here they are.

0:00 - Gorkii: Poison combined with the highest battle speed makes him go down quickly. Not really cheap. Only more effective.

1:36 - Shake: The hardest battle in the entire challenge can be very easy with the help of L4 Suicide. It reduces his HP to 1/32, so all it takes is one more attack. You still have to deal with one Ragebomber, but that just means you gotta put up a Big Guard. You can only lose if it criticals.

2:18 - Chekov - This isn't cheap. It's just a much better strategy that I don't know why I didn't use the first time. The highest battle speed makes poison much more effective. Drain his MP to prevent Stare Down and wait until he's got just above 2500 HP before you start attacking. That's when he starts using Absorb every turn.

4:53 - Staniv. Another L4 Suicide-able battle. When his HP is below 750, there's a 50% chance he'll counter with Iron Attack, so you have the choice to gamble on whether or not he uses it. I chose to include it because it's a rare attack that some people might not have seen. It was also featured in my rare enemy attacks video.

5:38 - Godo: This is pretty much the same strategy as before except that I use Laser to take away most of his HP. Come to think of it, it's not really that cheap after all, since he's still got the ability to use Cure2 on himself. I also found out he only uses it on Yuffie when she attacks him physically, so you can't abuse that as much as I thought you could.

Last time these battles took nearly half an hour, but I managed to push them below ten minutes this time. Not bad, even though it takes away all the challenge from Shake and Staniv.

LL = Low Level
NI = No Items
IE = Initial Equipment
NA = No Accessories
CMO = Command Materia Only

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