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FFVII - LLNIIENACMO Challenge - Optional Battle: Rapps before the Temple

2,971 views · Published 13 May 2011 · 6:24 · Indexed 24 October 2026

Channel: GarlandTheGreat · 2011 · Music

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The Wutai quest will be done much later this time, so I'm keeping this as an optional battle.

Anyway, this sure was an interesting battle. There's no way to keep Enemy Skill or Throw, so the only way to deal damage is with regular attacks and limit breaks, and you can only heal with Mog Dance. Rapps likes to attack twice in one turn and he's got the ability to inflict poison, which renders the Defend command obsolete. That's somewhat inconvenient, as the Defend function is very helpful in this battle.

Cait has just enough HP to survive three attacks without poison. One more level and he could have soloed the battle. In other words, you want the other guys to stay alive as long as they can, but that's up to Rapps. If he's in a good mood, he might let them live long enough for you to complete the battle without relying on luck, but you already need to rely on luck for Rapps to be in a good mood, so yeah.

Lucky Girl lives up to her name, as she makes the battle less luck reliant, so let's start by summoning her. Then it's attacking time. Cloud only needs half an attack to get a limit break, so let's keep him defended for now. If Cait isn't poisoned, you can use Toy Soldier when he gets attacked once. It deals almost 1000 damage, or almost 1/6 of Rapps' HP. If he is poisoned, you can still gamble and use it, but Cait will die if he gets double attacked now. Once you bring his HP below 1000, you can wait for the other guys to get killed and finish the battle with another Toy Soldier.

To sum it up, this was a fun, but somewhat luck reliant battle. I only needed a few attempts to succeed. That is, if you exclude all the attempts that failed because he opened the battle with Aero3. I also had to keep track of his HP in my head, and that certainly added to the difficulty.

PS. I included the Yuffie battle just for fun. Yes, that's the only way to defeat her. After all, she is a ninja.

Music: Guardia Millennial Fair (Chrono Trigger: Brink Of Time)

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

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