No Sphere Grid Initial Equipment FAQ/Walkthrough For Final Fantasy X Started Challenge on: 07/21/04 End Challenge on: 07/30/04 This FAQ was Started on: 07/23/04 First Submitted to Gamefaqs on: 8/01/04 at 4:44 PM Pacific Time Current Updated Version Submitted on: 8/01/04 at 4:44 PM Pacific Time Version 1.0 Best Viewed in Courier New Size 10 Font Email at: New_KADFC@hotmail.com =================== Table of Contents =================== I. Intro II. Initial Equipment III. Customization and Recommendations of Initial Equipments IV. Tips V. No Sphere Grid Initial Equipment Guide VI. Game Challenges Done by Author VII. CREDITS ---------------------------------------- Intro ---------------------------------------- As of right now, I'm currently on Mi'hien Road when I just started writing this guide. I know Gamefaqs has a lot of combinations of NSG Challenges. The first one is written by Dustman and Xharas. Then there were two alternative ones: NSNC by Gestahl and NSNO by Thundaka. Before I've started this challenge, I've read some of these guides to get my feeling of what the hell I'm suppose to do. I haven't played a regular NSG before. But since TrueDFX said that this challenge should be possible, I decided to take it. In hopes of sharing my knowledge, I've started writing this FAQ. I hope this file won't have more MB than the others, but I do talk a lot in my other FAQ. Added Later, this FAQ have been resumed after I have defeated BFA. Even though during that whole time I didn't write down any notes or strategies, I did a lot of saves while I was doing this challenge. Meaning that I could easily resume during any part of the game and pick out stuff that I need clearing out NOTE: This is my 6th FAQ This challenge is going to be a little bit different from the other ones that I've listed. Like all NSG Challenges, you can't use the Sphere Grid, or rather you're not suppose to have anyone using their S.Levels at all. I will allow Flee to be learned, if the player himself allows it. The Initial Equipment part will make it more interesting. For one, you can only stick with the equipments you got from the beginning or rather you can't change any of the equipments already setted by the game itself. So just don't equip any other equipments and your fine. You won't be able to capture any Monster Arena Monsters. You are not allowed to equip any other equipment manually, this includes the Legendary Weapons as well. You can't hope that a monster drop a weapon/armor that gives you an advantage in battle. However, since others take such so much out of Overdrives, Summons, and Customization, we will use them to our advantage. Stats of Characters in NSG - HP MP STR DEF MAG MDE AGL LUCK EVA ACC Tidus 520 12 15 5 5 5 10 18 10 10 Wakka 618 10 14 10 10 5 7 19 5 25 Yuna 475 84 5 5 20 20 10 17 30 3 Lulu 380 92 5 8 20 30 5 17 40 3 Kimahri 644 78 16 15 17 5 6 18 5 5 Auron 1030 33 20 15 5 5 5 17 5 3 Rikku 360 85 10 8 10 8 16 18 5 5 ---------------------------------------- Initial Equipment ---------------------------------------- (Note*) = Tidus Stats with Long Sword (No Ablities) at beginning, but due to Storyline, he gets the Brotherhood from Wakka. This is still considered Initial Equipment because I didn't change it myself. (Note2) = Brotherhood can't (can not) be customized. --------------------------------------------- Tidus Brotherhood Strength +5% (Empty Slot) (Empty Slot) (Empty Slot) Buckler (Empty Slot) --------------------------------------------- Wakka Offical Ball (Empty Slot) No Armor --------------------------------------------- Yuna Staff (Empty Slot) Ring (Empty Slot) --------------------------------------------- Lulu Moogle (Empty Slot) Bangle (Empty Slot) --------------------------------------------- Kimahri Hunter's Spear Sensor Piercing No Armor --------------------------------------------- Auron Katana Piercing Bracer (Empty Slot) --------------------------------------------- Rikku Claw (Empty Slot) Targe (Empty Slot) --------------------------------------------- --------------------------------------------------------- Customization and Recommendations of Initial Equipments --------------------------------------------------------- To be honest, if you're taking this challenge, you should be lucky because I included this section. I, on the other hand, had to compermise and think if it was really worth it, the power to give those abilites to those one timers (weapon and armors). Hoping that you won't regret that action for the rest of the challenge. --------------------------------------------- Tidus Brotherhood Can't Customize White Shield Ice Proof* --------------------------------------------- Wakka Breakaway First Strike No Armor --------------------------------------------- Yuna Wind Rod First Strike Haste Ring SOS Haste*** --------------------------------------------- Lulu Moogle ( Read Below )** Bangle ( Read Below )** --------------------------------------------- Kimahri Hunter's Spear Can't Customize No Armor --------------------------------------------- Auron Katana Can't Customize Bracer ( Read Below )** --------------------------------------------- Rikku Vanguard First Strike Haste Targe SOS Haste *** Iceproof = 8 Arctic Winds First Strike = 1 Return Sphere SOS Haste = 10 Chocobo Feathers * - The Ice Proof can be given to either Tidus or Yuna, but since this is a one time thing against a boss. I choose Tidus because of Brotherhood. It's not helpful, but Tidus' Overdrives are helpful. You decide. ** - Since I did beat this challenge without putting any abilites in these slots, you can put whatever. Some Recommendations that I would like to give are the abilities Evade and Counter/First Strike and SOS Haste/ Auto Phoenix/Master Thief. I just gave them First Strike and SOS Haste near the end of the game, and yet they weren't of any good use. *** -I don't quite remember these SOS Hastes being useful or not, but at one time I did remember them to be useful. A good reason why Rikku should have it is to steal more than without this ability equipped --------------------------------- Tips --------------------------------- 1. Like in all NSG Challenges, Run Away from all unnessecary battles. Like the ones that have a louzy items to steal and even if you did kill them, they give louzy gils. 2. To activate SOS Haste, have that person be KOed in the previous battle. After that battle, don't heal them, they'll have 1 HP, making them have Haste when they first enter the game. 3. Since Rikku was the first person that I gave First Strike to you should do this. This is for fleeing purposes that I find useful. Have her be in slot 3 and Tidus in Slot 4. Since Rikku has First Strike, she'll get the first turn, so get the list out and press confirm to change to Tidus and then use flee. After Battle, swap the slots Tidus with Rikku 4. I like to offer you to try out cursor memory instead of cursor initial. It goes great with using Steal and Use. Plus summoning the same Aeons over again. For Flee, it's the best thing ever. 5. Since we aren't equipping any other equipments, do pick them and sell them for a lot of gils. Use them to buy stuff and also for hiring people to play Blitzball. Don't try to get any Dark Matters, it's not needed for this challenge, trust me. I thought I needed as well, but I never did use it. Instead try to get a Return Sphere (First Strike). It's rather common for it so show up, really. 6. If you get stuck in this challenge and find that this FAQ doesn't really give any good tactics against a particular boss, please refer to the original NSG FAQ. None of the NSG can really help you since there main tactice got to do with changing the initial equipment. No offense to those authors or anything. 7. Do try to pickup all avaliable chests along the way. Even if it's very crappy, do remember you can sell them off. 8. Getting into battles and escaping them are good for your aeons, until a certain point. After 600 battles, there is no need to into random battles for this purpose anymore. 9. Blitz Ace isn't needed in this challenge. It's possible to beat this challenge without it. 10.I advise you to read further on because I might not have mention something that I wanted you to do, so read further on to figure out how I'll win certain battles. I don't want to responsible if you need start over because I didn't tell you to pick up a certain item. Even though, I've done my best to limit these factors. 11.You must've collected all the Al Bhed Primers from a previous save. If you don't, you'll miss out on all the cheap parts of this game. Not really fully cheap because you have to use strategy to use them. The 99x Underdog's Secret I mean, from Rin on the Airship. In that case, you'll have to fine an alternative for what I use. ------------------------------------------------------------------- No Sphere Grid Initial Equipment Guide ------------------------------------------------------------------- The Challenge starts at Zanarkand, but this really isn't a lot to do here. Just get pass everyone. The bosses are really not that hard at all. Heal yourself when necessary. Now I'm gonna skip all the way to Besaid. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Besaid - Still not a lot you can do right now. Open Chests. Head for the temple, take a nap at Wakka's Place. Visit the temple again. Do the Trial and use the destruction sphere to open the chest, this is for Anima BTW. More Storyline. After that you'll get the Brotherhood. What I thought was going to make this challenge easy was indeed false, read initial equipment to know why. Go talk to the Shop Owner to know about her dog. Then head for a house nearby Wakka's Place. Go talk to the dog to get Valefor's Second Overdrive, Energy Bomb. Don't buy anything. Now head for the docks. (You'll meet up with Kimahri in the process, but don't worry. Attack and Heal with Potions. This should be easy enough.) ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- S.S. Liki - Go to the bottom floor and kick a bag to get 20 Free Potions. Give Oaka some fund if you want, I did. I had plenty of money so I gave like 1000. Just for the heck of it. *Boss Battle* Sin You don't really need Aeon's Overdrive to beat this guy. Just take your time to kill the little minions. They indeed give you more Gils afterwards. I advise you to kill as much those guys as possible. Sin is no threat and he will never be one in this battle. Kimihri seems to be the best person his this battle, he heals himself when using his Lancet. Heal with Yuna only, she has too many MP and why not waste them. Build up Wakka and Tidus' Overdrive and don't use them. Save them up for the next boss. (After you beat Sin, Sinspawn Echenilles is next) *Boss Battle* Sinspawn Echenilles Open the battle with your overdrives. Then on Wakka's turn, use Dark Attack and have Tidus attack or heal. Keep attacking him and healing when needed. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Kilika Collect Chests like always. Don't fight Ochu, or until you get Ifrit that is. Head for the next Boss Battle *Boss Battle* Geneaux Use Valefor's Energy Bomb Twice and that should end it instantly. Enter the Temple and get the Chest needed for Anima. Even after you get Ifrit, I still wouldn't face Lord Ochu if I were you. IMO, not really worth it. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Luca This is where this challenge really gets different from the ress. Search every where and open all the Chests. You'll get some really good Spheres needed to mix in the future. When Yunas being captured, you'll encounter a Save Sphere, Save. Now you'll need up get Hi-Potions, about 50 of them to be safe. Hi-Potions are dropped by the only robots running around and attacking you, so they are common and the only ones you can encounter. You should use only Lulu Thunder attack. Its the fastest way to beat them. If you use Tidus and Wakka, you'll only be wasting your time. One Thunder to kill each robot, easy enough. For me, the author, I got 80 Hi-Potions just in case I did needed it for the future. Trust me, 50 is good enough. More if you like. Hi-Potions will be buyable and a common drop later on, but not before the battle you'll need it. So stock up on it, or you'll regret it later on, like I did. *Boss Battle* Oblitzerator Use Lulu's Fury Thunder to quickly activate the crane, if you don't have it, then just cast Thunder on the crane. Have Tidus and Kimahri use defend before that, just don't attack the boss yet. After Tidus has operated the crane sucessfully, then you can do whatever you want to it. After the battle, you can win the Blitzball Tournament or not. Doesn't matter. You your Overdrives for the upcoming battles. Use Wakka's Overdrive when you face against the pack of 4s, my advise. Auron will join your party shortly, a battle in the process as well. Have Wakka use Dark Attack, Auron use Power Break, and keep on attacking after that. More Storyline. Go back into Luca and sign up Wedge and Jumal into your blitzball team. Sign them up for 10 Games, no more no less. You can add more if you want, but that isn't needed. You can fire Keepa, since you do have Jamal now, fire Botta as well when you get the chance. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Mi'ihen Road Open all the chests here. Run away from most battles, but there is two enemies I want you to use Lancet on. Dual Horn and Bomb, for Fire Breath and Self Destruct. Very important to get. Talk to people as well to get some common items. Start powering up your overdrives and don't use them. Proceed to the inn and save. Buy at least 10 Grenades and Maps. Also make sure that you have a good handful of phoenix downs, 30 should be good enough, you have the money right? Of course you do. Talk to Rin to get good items and then it's time to face the Chocobo Eater, Save before going. *Boss Battle* Chocobo Eater First, use your Aeon's Overdrives. I beated this guy with 3 Aeon Overdrives 1 from Ifrit and 2 from Valefor. Valefor got two because it evaded two of the Boss' Punches. Finish it off with the rest of the party's overdrives. Save Self-Destruct for last and use phoenix downs whenever an ally is down. If that still doesn't work, use Sonic Wings and use Fire on Ifrit to get some more power out of the aeons. Now go back into the Inn and sign up Ropp as part of your blitzball team. Rent a chocobo and ride it to Mushroom Road Rock. Storyline... ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Mushroom Rock Road As you run to the command center, talk to peps to get some items. Open some Chests as well. *Boss Battle* Sinspawn Gui I took a different approach for this boss. Use the Aeon's Overdrive to take down the head. Auron uses Power Break. After that have Lulu and Kimahri use Fire and Lancet. You can use Auron to take down the arms and then attack, but I prepare just attacking the body head on. After this battle, there will be one of the same thing. Don't sweat it. Seymour can handle this one by himself anyways, just let him cast *aga spells on the body only. You don't worry have to worry too much about the head. Just use phoenix downs on fallen allies. Keep on using Lancet and sooner or later, you'll win. Long battle though. Storyline. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Road to Djose Temple Talk to everyone thats in the path. Encounter a fiend called Basilisk and have Kimahri learn Stone Breath from it. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Djose Temple Open all the chests nearby and get the chest from the temple as well. A whole bunch of storyline. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Moonflow On the way there, make sure to get all the chests and no need to fight the summoners battle. You won't need it. Save before riding the Shoopuff, then ride the shoopuff. *Boss Battle* Extractor This is the first real challenge in this game. He opens up with Aqua Shoot, which deals damage to one person. Use a potion to recover that guy and have the other one attack. He would start going up and charging for his next attack, so in the mean time attack twice. He uses his attack now and you're close to being dead if he uses that attack again. So for this turn, just have everyone recover with Hi-Potions, to get their full HP back. You have to keep on recovering yourself until a certain situation happens. You have to get 3 consecutive turns, plus one of your characters must get an overdrive. Use two of the turns to heal and the third one to use the overdrive. You need about 11 or 12 Overdrives to beat this guy. If you used a Overdrive, put on your next turn you didn't get two consecutive ones, then just use a mega-potion. For my battle against him, I used two of them. Both Tidus and Wakka's Overdrive do the same ammount of damage, relativly. Slice and Dice should be gotten in this battle. If not, make sure to get it after the battle by fighting fiends. About it doesn't make a lot difference if you get 2 or 3 Lighting Symbols in Wakka's Element Slots. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Moonflow to Guadosalam Now go get Rikku. Mix 2 Power Spheres instead of the Bomb Core. There will be a couple of random battles here that have chests, steal from them to get Mega Potions. This will get you back the used Mega Potions in the Extractor battle, if you used any that is. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Guadosalam Do the whole storyline first. Get the Lighting Marbels near the path to the Farplane. Now to replace any Nul Shock Armor needed in any other games, we must get First Strike on someone's weapon. I pick Rikku because I want some quick mixes before any boss does anything nasty. You could pick Yuna, but I decided to pick Rikku instead. For us to get First Strike on a weapon, we must get a Return Sphere. So Save your current game, go to the Save Sphere and go into Blitzball. In the League, try to get the Return Sphere as the 1st Prize or the Top Scorer's Prize. If you are lucky, you can maybe be able to get the Return Sphere as part of the tournment, so you won't need to play this many games. If that happens, just stick with which tourny requires less matches to get the prizes. Shoot with Tidus a lot, Jecht Shot it, and soon you'll win that Return Sphere. Give Rikku the Vanguard and proceed to the Thunder Plains. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Thunder Plains Take advantage of Rikku's First Strike weapon and flee all the battles, Swap her for Tidus and Flee if needed. Race yourself to the Thunder Plains Inn and Save Now we must do some stealing for the upcoming battles. Item Ammount Stolen From Electro Marbles 25+ Aerouge and Gold Element Chocobo Feathers 10+ Cactuars (To let the Cactuars out, you must pray at least once to a cactuar stone) Silver Hourglass 10+ Rare Steal from the Dragons Light Curtains 5+ Iron Giant Lunar Curtains 5+ Larvae Try to open most of the chests as well in this area, I know it's gonna be a toughy. Oh well, none of the chests are really needed anyways. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Macalania Forest Learn Aqua Breath from the Chimera. Sell off any equipments if you think you're short in cash. You don't really need neither actually. Get everyone into overdrive mode though, this is needed against the upcoming boss. Steal Ar *Boss Battle* Spherimorph For one, you don't need to heal, if you do you'll only have wasted a turn. Start with Rikku in your party to get 2 turns in the beginning. Make good use of her Mix. Attack once to find out the element than use her mix to opposite of that element. Use other elemental items as well, also use other elemental attacks as well, like Lulu's Magic, Aeons, and Kimarhi's Ronso Rage attacks. Storyline and Auron learns Shooting Stars. Head to the Macalania Inn and Save. Buy until you have 40+ Phoenix Downs. Go outside and steal at least 8 Arctic Winds from the Ice Flans and at least 5 Sleeping Powder from the Snow Wolves. Get everyone's Overdrive full. Go back inside and save if you want. (NOTE) Due to the fact that the encounters of enemies increases Aeons' status. Here are my stats for the Aeons that I have so far. If you have anything less than these HP, I advise you to get into more random battles before you move on with the rest of this FAQ. Valefor - 1169 Ifrit - 1547 Ixion - 1545 *Boss Battle* Crawler This battle is tough if you don't know what you're doing. Setup your party so that it is Rikku, Wakka, and Tidus. Have Rikku use a Chocobo Feather on herself. Then use Electro Marbles Negator on the Negator until it comes down. Swap Yuna in and summon Ixion, quickly use the Overdrive. After Ixion dies, have Rikku use her Mix Lighting Bolt. Then do the same thing for Ifrit. If ever an Aeon uses a Overdrive, but is not killed. Quickly heal them up because it takes a while for the Mana Beam to recharge. If you're truly skilled, you would use Shield more often and not attack it directly. If you did attack it directly, he would counter and your aeon would lose more than half it's full HP. Use your shield to charge up your Overdrive bar instead. I can actually beat this boss with 2 Aeons and you could to, it doesn't take luck, it takes skills. If this boss is stupid enough to send out his Negator before he shoots with Mana Beam, then your in luck. Because you might get a shot at a second Aeon's Overdrive, like I did. If you find it hard to kill the Negator. Keep having Rikku throw Electro Marbles at Crawler, not Negator, to charge her Overdrive bar up, revive her and use Lighting Bolt again. Lightning Marble and Level 2 Key. *(NOTE: No Matter What! Don't use Yuna's Grand Summon)* ( Don't use Kimarhi's Overdrive) ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Macalania Temple Storyline... and after that Save before entering in. This could be tricky, but I've done this a few times, to know the routes of this battle. *Boss Battle* Seymour and 2 Guado Guards You'll enter the battle with Yuna, Tidus, and Kimarhi, just perfect isn't it. First, have Tidus use Talk on Seymour to raise his attack. Then Swap Yuna for Rikku, she should get 2 turns now, throw a Silver Hourglass at them and then use a Chocobo Wing on Tidus to speed up the process. Hopefully Tidus won't be the next one killed after you've used this. On Kimarhi's turn, have him use Stone Breath to take the Guado Guards away. Next Seymour should cast a magic and kill one ally, hope it better not be Tidus. If it hit's Rikku, then good, he might as well fill her Overdrive Bar for this battle or the next battle. Have Tidus attacking Seymour and revive all fallen allies. Soon he'll summon Anima. *Boss Battle* Anima I'm not gonna give you the full details, but here is the full background of what I want you to do. Whoevers turn it is, Swap Yuna in and Grand Summon Shiva. Then her instantly unleash her Overdrive. It doesn't matter if Anima uses 1 or 2 Pains on her, she won't die. Just to let you know, her Blizzard heals ~500 and her Blizzara heals ~1000, keep this in mind. Now I want you to build up a second, healing in the process. If Anima's Overdrive bar is full, be smart and use shield, you better have at least 400 though when she does this. When the coast is clear, meaning she has full HP and a full overdrive bar, unleash it again. Now heal up again. Use Shield when needed. One thing though, his Pain should be dealing ~500 so, you better know when to use shield and when to heal because you don't have enough MP to last this long in the battle, so use your MP wisely. Now for the last thing I want you do to with her. Have her refill her Overdrive one more time. As long as you get it, quickly dismiss her. Then have Yuna summon Ifrit and have him attack until all of Anima's HP is gone. Once Anima dies, Seymour will kill Ifrit. Hope when the party back and fight, that Yuna's turn will come up before Seymour's. If her turn doesn't, try to have Rikku use a Chocobo Feather on her. If this doesn't work, you can use Rikku's Mix Sleeping Powder + MP Sphere. If Yuna's turn does come before, have her summon Shiva agains and use the Overdrive to get an instant win. This is what I did BTW. She did like ~6100 After the battle, it's time for you to do the Trials, make sure to get the chest though before you leave. After this, head outside and Save nearby Oaka. Flee from all encounters with the Guados and anyone else. Save at the next Save Point. If you don't have a Sleeping Powder, steal some from the wolves. Get Rikku and Shiva's Overdrive bar up *Boss Battle* Wendigo This battle should be easy enough. Have Rikku use Chaos Grende (MP Sphere and Sleeping Powder). Then Summon Shiva onto the field. Keep on using Heavenly Strike. Even when it wakes up, keep using it. Soon he'll throw a punch at Shiva. Since he's Blined during that punch it'll miss, but it'll refill Shiva's Overdrive the process. Use a 2nd Diamond Dust to end it. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Bikanel Island The storyline will take place here later on. Gather everyone up in the process and head for Home. *Force Battle* Zu Just defend, until Auron and Lulu appears, than flee from battle Then everything after that, just flee all of them. Get Overdrive for Rikku, Kimarhi, and Auron. Also, I almost forgot, steal at least 25+ Smoke Bombs from the Birds around here. I used a lot in the future, but since I used up my batch, I hope you won't. There will be a Sandagora in your way, just use Auron's Shooting Star to Eject that bastard out of battle. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Home Since I have not made up any strategy for this place, I will stick with the NSG's strat and summarize it here. Get Rikku's and Kimahri's Overdrive ready. Put Rikku in the party. Battle 1: Use Potatoe Masher (Map+Map) Have Rikku in the party, but not Kimarhi Battle 2: Swap Rikku for Kimarhi and use Stone Breath Save on the Save Point, Powerup Kimarhi's Overdrive by having both Rikku and Kimarhi in party. Have Rikku Escape and let Kimarhi powerup. Take Kimarhi out, Rikku in. Battle 3: Swap Kimarhi in and use Stone Breath. Pick up the Level 4 Key after battle and open all the chests, more storyline ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Airship -Go talk to Rin and get those 99 Underdog Secrets -After the scence that talks about the fiends are on board, Save and encounter some bombs. Steal from them and get Bomb Core. They aren't really needed, but why not steal something new. Who might know, you may find it useful later on, I didn't though. Added Later: I did find some use for them Steal at least 8, more or less if you will. -If you are thinking about playing some blitzball anytime soon, for Dark Matters maybe, if you feel a little bit not too confident about this challenge. If so, you should add Nimrook onto your team. He is by far the greatest Goalie ever. -Overdrive Kimarhi, Auron, and Rikku. Then pick two out of Lulu, Wakka, and Tidus and Overdrive them as well; Needed for the boss fight. *Boss Battle* Ervae Well, for this battle, I decided to take a chance. I had Tidus and Lulu, and Rikku was using the Quartet of 9999, I didn't have the items needed for the Trio, so I used Underdog Secrets with a Level 3 Key instead. Start the battle with Smoke Bomb. Then use QO9999 and hope that it hits the person you want. For right now it doesn't really matter, just make sure that person isn't Rikku. No ways you could've obtain any elemental gems. (Added Later: Nevermind, I do have the items needed for TO9999, use a Underdog Secret with the Level 4 Key you got from Home) *Force Battles* #1 - With First Strike Rikku, throw 2 Smoke Bombs #2 - Have Rikku use a Chocobo Feather on her self. Use a Silver Hourglass on the Enemy Swap Rikku for Auron, use Shooting Star on the Robot Swap Tidus (aka Next Ally) for Rikku, use Sleeping Powder Than use a Sleepin Powder or Smoke Bomb #3 - Like before, two Smoke Bombs $4 - You could use the #2 Strats again, or something else like this. Chocobo Feather on Rikku, SIlver Hourglass on enemy Sleeping Powder on enemy, Bomb Core on Robot, Hopes Robot doesn't kill Rikku, Revive fallen ally if needed Keep on using Bomb Core on enemy, just 2 needed #5 - Chocobo Feather on Rikku, Throw Bomb Core at Robot, Get Kimarhi out and use Stone Breath, Use one more Bomb Core to end it Go to the Bevelle Temple and get the chest from there as well. More Storyline Make sure that you get the tressure chest on the left side of where you exit this place. You can use the Destruction Sphere and still not get the chest ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Via Purifco Walk forward and Save. Then keep on walking forward. You can escape from most battles here, except for the one called Maze Larvae. Don't touch any pads and keep on walking straight. Soon you'll meet up with Auron. Save. *Force Battles* Maze Larvae There are two ways to end this battle, I prefer you use 1. If not possible than use 2. 1. If Yuna is alive, summon Bahamut and use Thunderaga for a instant win. Larvae might just kill Yuna if you don't get first attack. Use 2 then. 2. Have Auron keep on using Hi-Potions on himself until he gets a full Overdrive. Then use a Shooting Star and eject it. And before facing Issaru, It will be best if you overdrive Valefor, Ifrit, and Shiva. At least that's what I did. *Summoners Battle* Issaru #1 Ifrit - Summon Valefor and Overdrive #2 Valefor - Summon Ifrit and Overdrive, unleash a second one as well. Use Shield in the process as well and remember to heal. #3 Bahamut - Summon Shiva and Overdrive. Keep on using regular attacks when he's counting down, Shield when his Overdrive is full, Heal when Shiva has HP around 500. Two Overdrive should do it Now it's back to Tidus and Company. Save if you want and keep swimming foward. You'll face a boss that is extremly easy. *Boss Battle* Evrae Atlana In the first two battles scence, have everyone just use 'Open Lock.' Don't worry about who he kills or not, they'll be back from the next round anyways. On the third battle scence just have Rikku use 2 Phoenix Downs, and from what I see, this is a Overkill as well. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Upper Bevelle aka High Bridge Walk to where Seymour is at. Save there as well. If you don't have enough Phoenix Downs, this is the time to stock up on some. Now you must decide before fighting Seymour. You must give either Tidus or Yuna the Iceproof. Like I said before, I choosed Tidus because he has a crappy weapon. (Added Later, I'm not sure if this helps or not, but if you are getting really pissed on this boss, I like to suggest giving Yuna's Weapon First Strike. Sooner or later, she'll get it anyways. So as a First Attack, you should use Bahamuts Overdrive to take away a total of 10000 away from Natae) *Boss Battle* Seymour Natux Well I'm just going to describe what you need to do beat this guy without First Strike. In the beginning, both bosses will attack everyone. Just hope that either Yuna or Kimarhi is alive when it's your turn, meanig you've two people to use. For my battle, Yuna and Tidus was alive. When you get your turn again, Tidus should be first. Swap him for Rikku, use a Chocobo Feather on herself. Swap Yuna for Tidus and change weapons, making his turns under Rikku's. Have Rikku use TO9999 or QO9999, I kinda chanced it and used QO instead. When it's Tidus' Turn, hoping that he got the QO, use Slice and Dice. Hope that 4 out of the 6 hits Seymour, if so this battles end. If not, read below to get some inspiration. (Copy and Paste, from the Message Boards) For my battle today, I only got 3 hits instead, but I can't believe that I could still win. After the Slice and Dice, Netus used Protect on himself and then the Crab like thingy killed Tidus, which meant Rikku was the only one left. Then I looked at the Turns Column and Rikku had two turns. OMFG! So I went to my laptop and read all the FAQ about what I should do, but sadly I didn't find any. But in your FAQ, Thundaka, he said that you used Dragon Scales and I wanted to revive Yuna and use her Bahamut Summon to finish him off. He only had 3200+ left. Then I sent like 20 minutes thinking what I should do. #1: Revive Yuna and use Chocobo Feather on Yuna hoping that his turns will come out before the bosses #2: Well, there isn't a second option, but the Dragon Scales. So I sticked with #1 and revive Yuna and then tried the Feather out, no use. So I then decided to use the Scales on him instead, I had no choice. It dealed like 1000+. Then the miralce happened. His partner used Cura on Netus and Netus used Break on Rikku and Yuna was left standing. I had Yuna summon Bahamut the battle was over. What a great Battle, ey? ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Calm Lands Not much to do here. Storyline/Talking. Don't do the summoner's battle yet. For one thing, you have a very low chance of beating them and the second thing is, it will hardly improve your future battles, for this time. But you should really try to get 3 or more chests in the Chocobo Race, they'll give you 30 Wings to Discovery. Use two of them in a mix to get TO9999. But I think'll be better if you mix Wings of Discovery with something else to get TO, it'll save you time to get more mixes, but you don't really need it. Overdrive Tidus, Lulu/Wakka, and Rikku. Have the Overdrive party up. *Boss Battle* Defender X Use a Chocobo Feather on Rikku, then use a Smoke Bomb on X. Then Mix a TO or QO of 9999. Doesn't matter who it lands on. Tidus can use Slice and Dice, Lulu can use Fury, and Rikku can keep on using Grenades or use a Elemental Gem. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Mt. Gagazet *Boss Battle* Biran and Yenke This battle is very simple. Have cursor on memory, set Lancet on Birna. After that, keep on pressing X. Doesn't matter if you learn White Wind or not, it's not used in this battle anyways. Use Aqua Breath to damage them, but when Biran uses Mighty Guard, start using Jump after that. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Mt. Gagazet Trails Well, it's that time again. Another hard boss up ahead. This is strategy, but most of it base on luck. This, IMO, is one of the hardest battle in this challenge, not strategy wise, but time wise. If you lose once you have to watch all that talking over again. Nevermind, I just tested this battle out. It's not hard at all. Apparently Lulu's Fury attack didn't reflect back. So Overdrive Lulu, Tidus, and Rikku. Give First Strike to Yuna and Wakka's Weapon as well. Have Rikku, Yuna, and Wakka in your first slots. I know for a fact that the last battle with Biran made them drop Return Spheres, 2 of them. *Boss Battle* Seymour Flux Have Rikku change weapons to get her to the bottom of the turns. Swap Wakka and Yuna for Lulu and Tidus, and have them change their weapons as well to lower their turns under Rikku. Now have Rikku use TO9999. Now the rest of this is based on luck, and when I tested this out, I was rather lucky. Remember the whole battle rests on the next two moves that you do. Have Tidus use Slice and Dice. On my test, 5 of the 6 hits made it to Seymour. Seymour would then cast Protect and Reflect on himself, but that doesn't matter. Now have Lulu cast Fury and hope you get 8 like I did. With luck, Seymour would be dead and it's time to move on even further. Do the whole thing with Tidus, Rikku, and Wakka. After that it's about time to face the next boss. Need to Save, just in case anything happens. *Boss Battle* Sanctuary Keeper Easy. Rikkus Change weapons, Swap one of the First Strike people for Tidus, have him change weapon as well. Rikku uses QO or TO of 9999 and Tidus uses Slice and Dice, end of that battle. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Yevon Dome Charge up Tidus, Lulu, and Rikku's Overdrive. After that, flee from all battles. Complete the Trial and you can't get the tressure from this place until after you get the Airship. Save before approaching Yunalesca *Boss Battle* Easy as well, with strategy though. Form #1 - Have Rikku use TO 9999, Tidus and Lulu Cures. Use Grenades or Elemental Gems on him. Heal everyone up with Hi-Potions or Mega- Potions, before killing this form. Try to give Tidus a Chocobo Feather as well. So he can have the first attack against the next form. Form #2 - Boss attacks party, not killing them, but turning them into Zombies. Have Tidus use Slice and Dice. Form #3 - Boss casts Mega Death, it doesn't effect your party. Have Lulu use Fury, aim for 7. Having 6 won't kill her, meaning Slice and Dice won't kill her. Exit this place and the Airship will come ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Airship Storyline and a lot of talking. When you get the chance, go back to the Zanardkin/Yevon Dome and get that last tressure chest, so that you can get Anima now. Go to the Baaj Temple, find it yourself *Optional Boss* Geosgaeno Have Rikku use TO or QO of 9999. Rikku use Gems, Tidus use Slice and Dice, and Wakka use Attack Reels. I didn't have Attack Reels, so just have him attack. I had to restart over. Go inside and get Anima from the Fayth. Next goto the Remiem Temple in the Calm Lands. Now battle Belgemine's Aeons Fight all of them, but you won't fight Anima because you didn't get Yojimbo, not needed anyways. You only need to fight up to Shiva. You may fight Bahamut as well, but it isn't needed. The Aeons that give the best items are, 1st time only: Ifrit = 30x X-Potions = Aeon Learns Cura Ixion = 10x Chocobo Feathers = Aeon Learns Haste Shiva = 60x Mega-Potions = Aeon Learns Curaga Let Anima Learn all of these spells. As you probably know know, Anima will now play a great part against BFA. Cura is optinal, since you have Curaga. Now do a little checkup on Anima. If Anima have a HP Max of 5090, then perfect. If not, that means you gotten into less than 600 Battles. Worry not, there are some battles that I want you do to, it's for stealing items. Even if you reach 5090, I would like you to increase that even more. I made her HP to be about 6090, just so that I can have more free room to deal damage with Pain. If you want to go to the same direction like I went Then keep on fighting Ixion to get 8 Power Spheres. IMO, this is the best way to get Power Spheres fast. It only took me half a hour to reach my goal. Oh, just keep on casting Pain on Ixion, you won't die. PS. You could also increase Anima's Defense, Agility, and MP as well. Go to the Thunder Plains and Steal up to 6 Light Curtains for Protect Steal up to 4 Silver Hourglasses for Slow. Go to the Calm Lands and Steal up to 10 Mana Springs from the Coerl for Osmose. Teach these to Anima as well and now we are almost done with teaching Anima Also for consideration: Focus, Luck, Cheer, Reflex ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Sin Now it's time that we face sin. Set all the First Strikers in the front line. Overdrive for Tidus, Rikku, and Lulu. *Boss Battle* Sin's Left and Right Fin There both the same, so we use the same strategy. Summon Anima and keep on using Pain. After 10 shots at each arm, the battle is over. Heal with Cura or Curaga if you get anywhere around 1000 HP. *Boss Battle* Sinspawn Genais Have Rikku change weapons. Swap the next person for Tidus, change weapons. Swap the next person for Lulu, change weapons. Rikku now uses TO9999. Tidus uses Slice and Dice, enemy dead. Now for the Core. Have Lulu use Fury up to a minimum 4 Times. Now lets prepare for the last battle. Overdrive Rikku, Wakka and Lulu. Make sure you have a few Elemental Gems. Fire Gems are easy to find in Mt. Gagazet Trails, steal from the bombs. A Chocobo Feather or Wing is would be nice, but isn't necessary. First Striker in the front as always *Boss Battle* Sin Have Rikku change weapons. Swap Yuna for Lulu, change weapons. Wakka change weapons. Then have Rikku use TO9999. Wakka use Attack Reels or just do a regular attack and have Lulu use Fury. If still not finished, have Rikku use the Elemetal Gems. Easy battle, ain't it? ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Inside Sin Flee from all battles until you reach the next boss, aka Last Seymour. Do try to Save before fighting him though. Overdrive for Rikku, Lulu, and maybe Wakka if needed. First Strikers in the front again. *Boss Battle* Seymour Omnis Have Rikku change weapons. Swap Yuna for Lulu, change weapons and have Wakka change weapons as well. Have Rikku use TO9999. Wakka use Attack Reels and Lulu use Fury, but remember not to select Fire, as that would only heal him, rather than kill him. Now it's about time to face BFA. If you haven't taught Anima the mentioned spells/abilities listed above, do now. If you already did proceed on. Do Save before fighting BFA. My Anima's Stats, I may have added a lot to his stats, I'm not sure. ============================================= HP 6090 MP 130 Strength 65 Defense 75 Magic 67 Magic Defense 69 Agility 30 Luck 17 Evasion 44 Accuracy 20 Specials ============ Pray (Not needed) Focus Luck Cheer Reflex Doublecast (Not needed) White Magic =============== Cura Haste Protect Curaga Slow Black Magic (Added Only) =============== Osmose *Last Boss* Braska's Final Aeon 1st Form Since, Yuna's the only one with a First Strike weapon on her, we will indeed make good use of it. Your opening party will be Tidus, Yuna, and Auron; You can't change this fact. So I'll just make this as simple as possible, later I'll explain what I've tried before or attempted to do so. Just Summon Anima and you'll win this battle easily, but this won't be short battle. Once Anima is out, have it cast Protect on himself first. Then cast Haste, followed by Cura/Curaga, if you think your HP is low. Now, there is one thing you have to do first. You have to slow down each the stupid Pagodas . You'll have to cast it on them. It might say miss though, but after a few tries it'll work. Curaga will fill up your Anima's HP all the way, even at 6090 HP. BFA's Jecht Bomber will do about 2300 when you don't shield, so do try to try to remember to shield if you think he'll unleash it during his turn. But Since I have 6090 HP, I can take like 2 of these and I'm still ok. The Pagados can't really do anything to you, but the problems is that they keep on healing BFA, that's the reason why we must slow them down. If not, Anima's Pain won't be effective in this battle. BFA's hand/wind pushing attack really works against Anima, it will delay his turns, but it helps you rather than hurt you. This will give you the advantage or chance of using Pain on him. Using Pain does take a long time to recover you know. Before kiling off the 1st form, I advise you do use Cheer, Luck, Focus, and Reflex a total of 5 times each. This will make his attacks do less damage and you'll increase your dealing damage by 3000, which totals 14000~ from my battle. By doing this, this will also increase the numbers of turns you can get in a row. If your low on MP, use Osmose on the Pagodas. They have unlimited ammounts of MP for your convience. And when you're using Osmose, you can get a turn very quickly. Here are some numbers: At 5 Cheers and Shield Jecht Bombs does about ~400 - ~500 Other attacks ranges from 100 - 300 *Last Boss* Braska's Final Aeon 2nd Form His Sword Swipe acts like a delay attack, so does his hand slam/push. His Sword Swipe can miss a lot, if you have used Relex in this battle or last form. It does about 700 with Shield and many Cheers, same with other attacks as well. When you have used Reflex many times, still use Pain even if it saids BFA has two attacks after you've used Pain. His attacks will miss or be very weak. But still try to use Shield right before Jecht Bomb though. Sometimes it's best to chance it, espically when you have full HP. When BFA has 20,000 Hp or less, use Oblivion to end this battle. Congratz! You've just completed one of the funniest Challenges for FFX! Ever! Ever! With this strategy, I've beaten BFA twice. Once for the record books, the second time to write this FAQ. I'm playing this guy as I'm writing this part write now. The rest of the game, like some other NSG author said before, I won't go into details. You know why? I figured out why, while I'm typing this. You Can't Die! Ever! You always have Auto-Life on your peoples. Even if they do die, the Auto-Life will still be there. Now listen to this, I'm going to describe it the best I can. With a lot of luck, you can get BFA 2nd Form's HP down to 50,000 left. I did this before and believe that someone can actually beat him. I, on the other hand, have decided not to test this out. This is meaning, beat him without depending so much on aeons, like Anima. Read more for the facts and figured. --------------------------------------------------------------------------- *NSGIE on BFA without Depending on Aeons* With Yuna's First Strike Weapon, I can make the first 10 moves without making anything different. The rest will be determines by your luck. First Swap Rikku for Yuna, and Use Chocobo Wing Then Swap back Yuna and Summon Anima. Let him be killed by Jecht Bomber Then it should be Tidus' Turn now. Use Talk Auron's Turn, Swap for Lulu. Have Lulu change weapons Swap Yuna for Rikku. Use TO9999 Have Lulu use Fury, if your lucky, BFA should have 7,000~ left Swap Tidus for Yuna, and summon Bahamut and Overdrive it. Again on luck, Bahamut will evade most attacks, until the Jecht Bomber After Bahamut is killed, Jecht will use Jecht Beam on one person. If he doesn't use Jecht Beam, and decided to use Sword Swipe, then your dead. The rest of this is determines by luck. If 2 of the guys are still alive, this is what you must do. Swap this one for Tidus and Use Blitz Ace. This will knock BFA's HP to 30,000~ left. Then BFA kills Tidus leaving Rikku left. This is where I was at. Rikku was still alive and since she had the 9999 on her, and if she used an Elemental Gem, I would be really close of beating him. But even if I did, he would have a couple of HPs left and another thing, when Rikku was the only one left, antoher Pagoda was back up. Dare to try this out? --------------------------------------------------------------------------- ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ Game Challenges Done by Author ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ Not to brag about my accomplishments or anything. These are the challenges I've done when I've started to become a true gamer. And I've also listed some of the challenges that I'm wanted to do and complete. Final Fantasy IX: Level One Game No Equipment Game Excalibur II Perfect Save Without Maxing Stats Final Fantasy VIII: No Junction Game ODINS Challenge (One Day In No Saves) Perfect Game (Maxing out every stats, except for Speed and Luck) Final Fantasy VII: Initial Equipment with No Materia Challenge Perfect Game (With Best Materia Combo for everyone, missing one KOTR though, until I have 8 KOTR) Lowest Average Level Game (LAL) Lowest Level Party Game (LLP) Speed Run (Bottom of Crater at 9:47) Final Fantasy X: Perfect Game NSGIE Super Marino RPG: ODINS (One Days In No Saves) Perfect Game Zelda OOT: Perfect Game Other Challenge I hope I can complete in the future: Final Fantasy X: NSGNCNONS ODINS (One Days In No Saves) Final Fantasy X-2: Six Iron Dukes (I got 5 so far, working on 6) Level One, One, Two Game ODINS Final Fantasy IX: Attack and Item Only Game ODINS (One Day In No Saves) Zelda OOT: Three Hearts, No Death, Minimum Requirements Game ODINS (One Days In No Saves) Zeld MM: Three Days Game (Even better than ODINS) Super Mario RPG: Level Three Game Starcraft: Get over 1000 wins (Currently have 700s) *Note* If you don't know what ODINS is, it stands for 'One days in No Saves.' Also known as a No Save Game, except that you have to beat it within 24 hours. The concept of a No Save game doesn't really explain it's true meaning. You can just leave the system on and go to sleep and by tomorrow you can play it some more. That isn't a real challenge. ODINS give you the full name that you should do it. It's a very enduranced base challenge. You must know the game very well and you must not sleep throughout the whole process, even if you're using a automatic turbofire controller. ---------------------- CREDITS ---------------------- This section if for all the credits I want to give out. They've said or have given me knowledge about this game, but for this FAQ. I won't say what they have been advice on. Only their names are listed. I'm doing this because I've never been good at crediting people in my FAQ anyways. I always make people flame on me. Like for the one I did on FFVII, O well. I hope they understand. This will now be listed accordingly to whoever posted on my topic first and the rest will be credited to inspiration alone, nevermind I'll just mix it for god sakes. TrueDFX Thundaka zzanmato juarezmj (aka Ultra Spark) Dark Locke rake handle weilder Ah The 2nd Merlock Others: Hyprophant CB! Dustman Xharas Gestahl CJayC of Gamefaqs Last, but not least, KADFC the author of this FAQ. Well that raps it up! Hope no one is dissapointed on this FAQ. I did type it up in 3 days BTW.