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FFVII - NMNIIENANNMIL1L Challenge, Part 32: Hojo

1,683 views · Published 23 December 2018 · 10:38 · Indexed 29 October 2026

Channel: GarlandTheGreat · 2018 · Gaming

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Even though I am now considered over-leveled, this is the toughest battle in this challenge. The main reason is that he throws all the worst statuses at you and there's no way you can avoid them. Because one of them is poison, this has to be done on the lowest battle speed. As with Schizo, there's a level limit on this battle, as any more HP would require more than one attack to fill up Yuffie's limit bar and that would only make things much, much worse.

The first form is a joke, and he can go down in only one turn if you get lucky with the Dice. I believe this is the first time you ever get to see Cait with all six Dice on this channel. The only potentially annoying thing about this battle is Evil Poison, which does not inflict poison, but darkness. It's used by Bad Rap Sample and you're not very likely to see it.

The second form isn't too bad either, but this guy is notorious for doing the exact opposite of what you want him to. I've literally waited five minutes for him to attack Yuffie and I had one battle where he attacked Cait like ten times in a row. If Yuffie already has a limit break and you move her to back row and defend to save it until the guys have been attacked, you can bet your ass he's going to attack her all the time. You also have to deal with Confu in this battle and Bio Gas is guaranteed poison. The worst thing about getting poison here is not being able to defend.

Anyway, this battle is mostly used to set up your characters for the last form. Ideally, you want both guys to have limit breaks and the party to have as much HP as possible when you move on, but because of what I said earier, this can take a long time. In this battle, this whole process was skipped because of critical hits ending the battle prematurely, but I decided to go on anyway even though my chances of success in the final battle were severely reduced.

The final form is an absolute nightmare because now you have to deal with sleep and slow as well. That's a really bad combo at the lowest battle speed. Speaking of combo, the worst thing that can happen is one of the hits missing Yuffie. She needs the full damage to get a limit break and there's a limit to how many limit breaks she can get now that she has poison and needs to be attacked to wake up. Once you get slow, you also have to make sure you have one character ready to wake others up, because two characters falling asleep will result in a slow and painful death. Combo is some times used on the last character who attacked him, so you can somewhat control who gets hit, but this doesn't always work. Still, it's better than it being completely random. 

To sum it up, this battle relies heavily on strategy, but there's also some luck involved and that's why it's the toughest battle in this challenge. I didn't need too many attempts against the final form, but many attempts ended at the end of the second form because of him being a dick. Oh, and I had to fight this battle twice because I accidentally deleted the video the first time I beat him. True story.

NM = No Materia
NI = No Items
IE = Initial Equipment
NA = No Accessories
NNMI = No Non-Mandatory Inns
L1L = Level 1 Limits Only

Remaining mandatory inns:

24. The party is healed after Hojo, at the end of Disc2.

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