How to Beat Alexander at Full Power

Alexander is an optional boss found in the Combat Simulator of Final Fantasy 7 Rebirth (FF7 Rebirth). Read on to learn how to beat Alexander at full power, its weaknesses and resistances, a list of its moves and attack patterns, as well as tips and rewards for beating it.

Alexander Guides
Boss Guide	Sanctuary Locations

Alexander Weaknesses and Stats

Stats at Level 70

HP	Easy	Normal	Hard
Full Might	38543	55062	?
Power ↓	31664	45234	?
Power ↓↓	26712	38160	?
Power ↓↓↓	24507	35010	?
How to Unlock
Reach the Corel Region

Note: Alexander's HP may be different during your battle since the boss' HP will sync with your party's level.

Weakness and Resistances

Weaknesses	Lesser Resistances	Greater Resistances
Lightning	None	Physical Magic
Absorbed Elements	Immunities
None	Proportional Damage Berserk Deprotect Deshell Debrave Defaith Slow Poison Silence Sleep Stop Stone Petrify Morphable Items

Changes When Staggered

Weakness / Effective	Resistance
Physical Magic	None

How to Pressure Alexander

How to Pressure

Cripple both its right and left arm to pressure it

The entity will be largely immune to all attacks until both its arms are crippled. It accumulates karma by using certain attacks. The higher the karma, the more powerful its Divine Judgement becomes. Casting Esuna can remove one level of karma.

How to Pressure and Stagger Enemies

How to Beat Alexander at Full Power

Alexander Boss Fight Tips
Progress to Chapter 9 First and Analyze its Sanctuaries Aim to Destroy Its Arms to Pressure It Use Lightning Spells and Attacks Defeat Alexander Before Divine Judgement Use Characters That Attack at Range Destroy the Pillar of Lights that Appear Have Esuna Ready to Remove Karma Stacks

Progress to Chapter 9 First

Two of Alexander's Sanctuaries need you to first progress to Chapter 9 where you will be able to freely roam the desert south of the Gold Saucer.

Once you've unlocked that area, you'll be able to analyze all three of its Sanctuaries, making the ensuing Combat Simulator fight much more manageable.

Alexander Sanctuary Locations

Aim to Destroy Its Arms

If you don't destroy Alexander's arms, it will greatly resist all your attacks making the fight nearly impossible to win. Make sure that you aim for its arms first so that you can put pressure on Alexander and force it into stagger, making it take massive damage for attacks that it would normally heavily resist.

Defeat Alexander Before Divine Judgement

When Alexander's HP drops to 50%, it will activate Divine Judgement that fires a fast, sweeping laser blast that deals huge damage to the party. To deal with this, use Aerith's Arcane Ward and use Thundaga to cast it twice. This will deal massive damage especially if Alexander is staggered and will deal 50-60% damage to its HP.

Use Lightning Spells and Attacks

With Alexander being weak to Lightning attacks and spells, it is imperative that you have Lightning Materia equipped on your party members so that you can quickly take down its arms, allowing you to deal more damage with your other attacks.

Equip the Ramuh Materia

By equipping Ramuh, you will have a powerful Summon that can target Alexander's weakness on your side once you summon it. Remember to use Ramuh's skills instead of your own, unless you know that your attacks will do more damage.

Do note however that you can only get Ramuh if you have a save file from Final Fantasy 7 Remake: Episode INTERmission.

Use Characters That Attack at Range

Some of Alexander's attacks, like Punitive Sphere, can leave a lingering effect on the ground that will damage you if you step on it. This can make it difficult for melee fighters to get close to Alexander if the affected area surrounds it.

Make sure to at least use a ranged attacker as your primary character so you can maximize your DPS output to quickly destroy Alexander's arms.

Destroy the Pillar of Lights that Appear

Target and destroy the pillars that appear once Alexander uses its Pillar of Light ability. If left unattended, the pillars will explode which will accumulate damage and Karma debuff.

Karma debuff increases the damage taken when Alexander uses its Divine Judgement ability.

Have Esuna Ready

Make sure that your party has enough MP and ATB charges to case Esuna whenever someone's inflicted with karma stacks. With enough karma stacks, it's possible that you could get one shot from a heavily boosted Divine Judgement even at full health.

Alexander Best Party and Builds

Recommended Party Setup

Recommended Party Setup
Yuffie	【Main DPS / Leader】 ・Empowers her attacks with Lightning. ・Can easily dodge Alexander's attacks. Recommended Level: 30
Aerith	【Support / Mage】 ・Good magic stat for Lightning attacks. ・Save ATB for healing if you're struggling. Recommended Level: 30
Tifa	【Secondary DPS】 ・Becomes Main DPS once it's staggered. ・Can be out of range during the fight. Recommended Level: 30

Control Yuffie for Most of the Fight

Yuffie can use her Lightning Ninjutsu to hit Alexander's weakness from a safe range, plus she also gest Static Shock so that you can preserve MP while still using ATB charges to attack Alexander.

Remember though that once Alexander goes down, switch to Tifa since she will do more damage than Yuffie once it's staggered.

Aerith can Easily Flex Between DPS and Support

Aerith should primarily be your support that is healing and buffing up your party, but whenever she has nothing else to do, she can deal a lot of damage with Thunder spells.

Just make sure that you carefully manage your MP, otherwise she will no longer be able to heal or remove karma stacks on your party.

Tifa Deals Massive Damage

Once Alexander is staggered, Tifa becomes your greatest source of damage thanks to Rise and Fall plus Omnistrike boosting the damage it takes while staggered.

Make sure to also follow up with Limits and Synergy Abilities to deal massive damage before Alexander recovers.

Alexander Best Materia to Use

Recommended Materia for Yuffie

Weapon - Twin Viper
Assess
Armor - Oldbeast Bracelet
Lightning	Cleansing	Healing
Summon
Titan

Assess is used so that you can check Alexander's status during the battle. Optionally, this can be replaced with any other Materia of your liking.

Lightning and Cleansing are used because Alexander is weak to Thunder spells, and Esuna will remove any karma stacks your party may have.

Like Assess, Healing can be replaced with any other Materia you wish, but it's always nice to have a backup healer in case of emergencies.

Finally, Titan is the chosen Summon since it is the only one you get besides Phoenix without any DLC or bonuses. If you like, you could change this with any other Summon of your choosing.

Recommended Materia for Aerith

Weapon - Wizard's Rod
Healing			Auto-Cast
MP Up		HP Up		MP Up
Armor - Oldbeast Bracelet
Lightning		Cleansing		Fortification
Summon
Phoenix

Healing + Auto-Cast is very useful so that you don't have to manually swap to Aerith every time someone needs to be healed. If you don't mind doing it yourself, then you can replace Auto-Cast with any other Materia of your liking.

Lightning and Cleansing are important for this fight because Alexander is weak to Thunder spells and because Esuna can remove karma stacks, while Fortification is great for casting Protect and Shell on your party members.

HP and MP Up are flexible Materia slots, but considering that Aerith is pretty squishy and she casts a lot, boosting her HP and MP aren't bad options.

Finally, Phoenix is used because it gives the highest Magic bonus out of all of the Summons currently available as soon as you can challenge Alexander.

Recommended Materia for Tifa

Weapon - Dragon Claws
HP Up
Armor - Oldbeast Bracelet
Lightning		Cleansing		Chakra
Summon
Ramuh

Lightning and Cleansing are important as usual since Alexander is weak to Thunder spells and Esuna removes karma stacks, while Chakra is a great way to heal up without needing to spend MP.

Also, HP Up again is a flexible materia slot, but it is always nice to have more HP to make you bulkier.

Finally, Ramuh is used because it is the best counter to Alexander while also giving Tifa a balanced boost to her Attack and Magic stats. If you don't have Ramuh, then you can use any other summon that give a bonus to Attack.

Alexander Rewards and Details

Rewards

Alexander Rewards
Easy/Normal						Hard Mode
TBD						TBD
Items Dropped						Rare Items Dropped
・Alexander Materia						None
Stealable Items						Morphable Items
None						None

Basic Information and Details

Alexander
Location	Chapter Unlocked
Combat Simulator	Chapter 6
Species	Movement
Unreadable	Grounded
Details
A sacred summon recreated in virtual reality. This mechanical giant is the manifestation of humanity's judgement, bestowing either salvation or condemnation upon those who survive its trial. The entity will be largely immune to all attacks until both its arms are crippled. It accumulates karma by using certain attacks. The higher the karma, the more powerful its Divine Judgement becomes. Casting Esuna can remove one level of karma.

Alexander Location

Unlocked at the Combat Simulator Once You Reach Corel

Once you've reached the Corel region, you will be able to challenge Alexander in the Combat Simulator.

Remember that you can also analyze Alexander Sanctuaries to unlock lower difficulty levels in the Combat Simulator, making the fight much more manageable.

Combat Simulator Guide: How to Unlock and Win All Battles

FF7 Rebirth Related Guides

Boss Fight Guide and List of All Bosses

Story Bosses

All Major Story Bosses
Chapter 1	Materia Guardian
Chapter 2	Midgardsormr
Chapter 3	Rude and Elena Mythril Golem
Chapter 4	Terror of the Deep Roche
Chapter 5	Jenova Emergent
Chapter 6	Grasptropod
Chapter 7	Custom Valkyrie Gigatrice
Chapter 8	Dyne Anuran Suppressor
Chapter 9	Specimen H1024 Crimson Mare Mk. II
Chapter 10	Gi Nattak
Chapter 11	Diabolic Variant Yin and Yang Forgotten Specimen Galian Beast Roche
Chapter 12	Abzu Rude and Elena Rufus
Chapter 13	Red Dragon Ironclad Reno and Rude Tseng and Elena Moss-Grown Adamantoise Demon Gate
Chapter 14	Jenova Lifeclinger Sephiroth Reborn

Optional Bosses

Grasslands
Summon	Titan
Classified Intel	Quetzalcoatl
Side Quests	White Terror
Junon
Summon	Phoenix
Classified Intel	Mindflayer
Side Quests	White Mousse Hell Rider II Sandstorm Drake
Corel
Summon	Alexander
Classified Intel	Tonberry King
Side Quests	Dark Claw Joker
Minigame	Test 0
Gongaga
Summon	Kujata
Classified Intel	Great Malboro
Side Quests	Levridon Mastodon Gorgon Mane Gigantoad
Cosmo Canyon
Summon	Bahamut Arisen
Classified Intel	Jabberwock
Side Quests	Irasceros Gigaworm
Nibel
Summon	Odin
Classified Intel	King Zu
Side Quests	Queen Bee Dranabarga
Meridian Ocean
Gilgamesh's Island	Gilgamesh Titan and Bahamut Arisen Phoenix and Kujata Alexander and Odin
Pirate King's Treasure	Ogre Raider Brineborn Demon Hueyacoatl Sea Dragon