One more thing to mention. Make sure you don’t get caught by the Megaflare at the same time the Ifrit is active. No way to survive that. For me it was easier to not damage him to 50% before the first flare. Survive it with manawall + magnify. Heal up then deal with Ifrit. Summoning Shiva to help bring him Dow quick was also nice.

First- This douche likes doing tons of DOT dmg via wide AOEs, offsetting this is actually pretty easy with spirit syphon and algid aura while deadly dodging (link enmySkl-HPabsorb, DD-HPabsorb) and if u have regen up your going to be restoring HP not losing. Second- it is absolutely crucial that you have Mward since this will even cut megaflare dmg by 1/2. Alongside most of its other attacks as they're magical Last but not least- Make the most of counters, specifically Counterstance. Victorious

>>6 umbral strike is closest non aoe, on hard mode he summons Ifrit as well.....

>>22 that is bahamut vs bahamut for hard mode or the secret battle, which has a bahamut in the 4th of 5 figts, the guide is correct

>>22 U can get Bahamut in easy-> Use it in hard Mode...... Dont see ur problem.

So you tell me to use Cloud, Tifa, and Aerith, but then give me strategies using Barret. Also the recommended summon to defeat Bahamut is Bahamut? Need to clean this up a bit. Good info over all, but need to proof read

>>19 No,you will be have access to Chadley in chapters 16 and 17

A quick way to stagger Bahamut is when he does the countdown. For example when it says Five, Four, etc, have Aerith use Firaga, Barret use Focused Shot and Cloud using Focused Strike. This is one of the quickest way I found to increase the stagger. I was able to stagger him before the crazy mega f ing flare.

Question! I've seen that I need to get the battle intels done by chapter 14, which I've done, but do I need to then beat Bahamut within Chapter 14?

Just remember that when megaflare starts, dont even bother healing or anything. Just go full out attack on him. You die eitherway.

>>16 This is like legit, the easiest boss on ultimecias castle so maybe u need practice?

I hate this FF Boss and it's here again

I found it is possible and easy to dodge umbral strikes with Tifa using parry materia

It appears that manawall greatly reduces the effects of umbral attacks.

Umbral Strike is avoidable. I personally have dodges both on them several times with different characters. One of them being Barret. BARRET dodged them. It's about timing and you have to have a little distance because it's fast.

This battle really forces you to go full offensive from start to finish. Letting him use mega flare is pretty much defeat. Rather than relying on revival for that move, better just go ham on him and kill him quickly.

Is using refocus when bahamut starts the countdown better to launch multiple moves or should I just use standard offensive limits?

>>7 nice extra strategy tips pal. thank you. and yeah dude that Ultimate is bad news.

>>8 Now I'm going to hear a different music when bahamut preps his megaflare.

When bahamut prepares mega flare.