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How to Beat Brutal Challenge: Army of the Damned

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This is a guide on how to beat Brutal Challenge: Army of the Damned in the Combat Simulator of Final Fantasy 7 Rebirth (FF7 Rebirth). Check out the unlock requirements and rewards, list of enemies and bosses in each round, and the best party, equipment, and Materia to beat this challenge.

List of Contents

Best Party and Builds
How to Beat All Rounds
Unlock Requirements and Rewards
Related Guides

Best Party and Builds

Best Party for Brutal Challenge: Army of the Damned
Yuffie	Tifa	Aerith

Yuffie Equipment and Materia

	Weapon		Armor
Yuffie Main DPS
	Crescent Sickle		Cetran Bracer
	Accessory		Summon Materia
	Sorcerer's Earrings		Gilgamesh
Weapon Materia		Armor Materia
HP Up MP Up Magic Up Speed Up Luck Up ATB Assist		First Strike Steadfast Block Magic Focus Fire and Ice Magic Focus Lightning and Wind Revival Prayer
Weapon Skills
Shuriken Mastery		Precision Defense ATB
ATB Charge Rate Up		Opening ATB Bonus

Yuffie will be the Main DPS for this team thanks to her ability to target multiple different weaknesses with her Elemental Ninjutsus and the Fire and Ice plus Lightning and Wind Materias. Alternatively, you can swap Magnify and Magic Focus in the builds since you will face against numerous enemies that will have the same weaknesses.

She also has other great abilities like Shooting Star for crowd control and Doppelganger to double cast spells and abilities. When combined with her elemental prowess, Yuffie can easily take down the hordes of enemies in this Combat Simulator challenge.

Since Yuffie will be your main character, she will also hold the ATB Assist Materia to fill the other party member's ATB Gauges and Prayer since she will have her ATB full most of the time compared to the other two who would rather use Curaga's one ATB charge to heal.

Tifa Equipment and Materia

	Weapon		Armor
Tifa Secondary DPS
	Kaiser Knuckles		Valkyrian Bangle
	Accessory		Summon Materia
	Full Throttle Wristguards		Odin
Weapon Materia		Armor Materia
HP Up MP Up Strength Up Luck Up Skill Master ATB Stagger		Magnify Healing Steadfast Block Precision Defense Focus First Strike Revival
Weapon Skills
Martial Arts Mastery		Concentration
Synergy Damage Up		Enemy Parts Damage Up

Tifa will be your Secondary DPS on this team and the character that you will use if you need to finish off an enemy on low health or that's been staggered.

Make sure to switch to Tifa before an enemy gets staggered so that you can use the combination of ATB Stagger and Skill Master allowing her to quickly spam out her abilities, especially the ones that increase the stagger damage percentage.

Remember though to always have an extra ATB Charge during battle in case you need Tifa to cast Curaga or Arise on another party member.

Aerith Equipment and Materia

	Weapon		Armor
Aerith Support
	Ceremonial Staff		Cetran Armlet
	Accessory		Summon Materia
	Enhanced Psychic's Charm		Phoenix
Weapon Materia		Armor Materia
HP Up MP Up Vitality Up Vitality Up Steadfast Block Precision Defense Focus		Magnify Healing Magic Efficiency Revival Synergy Comet Time Cleansing
Weapon Skills
Reprieve		Max MP +3
Altruistic Buff Up		Altruistic Buff Up

If you don't have a Ceremonial Staff with 6 Materia Slots, you can use Gambanteinn with Spiritual Harvest, Max MP +3, Reprieve, and ATB Charge Rate Up instead.

Aerith will actually be used more as a crowd control support on this team rather than a traditional buffing and healing support. The combination of Synergy and Comet allows her to constantly cast Comet at no MP or ATB cost thanks to Yuffie and Tifa's quick ATB recharge speeds.

Aside from that, she has the standard supportive set of Healing and Revival in case someone gets too low or needs to be revived, along with Time and Cleansing for Haste buffs and Esuna/Resist to deal with negative status effects.

Do note that the two Vitality Ups are used to increase Aerith's physical defenses, but you could replace them with any other Materia of your choosing.

How to Beat All Rounds

Rounds 1-3

Jump to Round
1-3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10
Round 1 Enemies		・Kyuvildun ・Carnifex ・Insectoid Chimera ・Crawler ・Nidhogg ・Berserker Bee
Round 2 Enemies		・Grangalan ・Chimera Mimic ・Amalgam ・Stinger ・Bahba Velamyu ・Flan
Round 3 Enemies		・Scrutineye ・Daemonic Entity ・Orc ・Ignilisk ・Lavalisk ・Mu ・Mi

The combination of Yuffie's Doppelganger plus Shooting Star and Aerith's Synergy casted Comets should be enough to deal with most of the enemies for rounds 1 to 3.

If there are enemies that are still alive, use Yuffie to hit them with a spell that they're weak to.

Round 4

Jump to Round
1-3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10
Enemies		・Sandhog Pie ・Elite Security Officer ・Bandit ・Flametrooper ・Riot Trooper

Target Sandhog Pie first with the Doppel-Shooting Star combo plus a Blizzara to kill it off quickly. Once that enemy is gone, you can use Fire Ninjutsu and Fira to kill all the other enemies off.

Round 5

Jump to Round
1-3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10
Enemies		・Security Officer ・Grenadier ・Elite Grenadier ・Bandit x2 ・Thug x3

Start the fight with the usual Doppelganger into Shooting Star for initial crowd control, then use Fire Ninjutsu plus Firas to finish off everyone.

Round 6

Jump to Round
1-3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10
Enemies		・Saberhawk ・Spearhawk ・Velociwing ・Fleetwing ・Black Bat

Target the Spearhawk first with the Doppel-Shooting Star combo plus a Fira to kill it off quickly. Once that enemy is gone, you can use Wind Ninjutsu and Aerora to kill all the other enemies off.

Round 7

Jump to Round
1-3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10
Enemies		・Capparwire ・Pyrowire ・Mandragora ・Mandrake ・Daggerwing

Target the Daggerwing first with the Doppel-Shooting Star combo plus a Aerora to kill it off quickly. Once that enemy is gone, you can use Ice Ninjutsu and Blizara to kill all the other enemies off.

Round 8

Jump to Round
1-3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10
Enemies		・Special Forces Operator ・Type G Slug-Ray ・Slug-Ray ・Stormwing

Switch to Tifa first so that you can immediately use Omnistrike or any other ability with a fast animation to stop the Type G Slug-Ray from using Lacerate. Once you kill it off, you can swap back to Yuffie and target down each enemy's elemental weakness.

Round 9

Jump to Round
1-3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10
Enemies		・Grasslands Wolf ・Nibel Wolf ・Skeeskee ・Screamer

Go back to the usual combination of Yuffie using Doppelganger plus Shooting Star followed up by targeting each enemy's elemental weakness to easily beat this round.

Round 10

Jump to Round
1-3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10
Enemies		・Archdragon ・Necrotic Entity ・Drahdroh ・Shrieker

Target the Archdragon first with Doppelganger boosted Aeroras to quickly kill it. From there, use Tifa to beat down every other enemy with her powerful abilities since none of the other enemies have an elemental weakness to exploit.

Brutal Challenge: Army of the Damned Unlock and Rewards

Basic Information
Brutal Challenge: Army of the Damned A series of three-person fight in which you pick your team. Defeat a large horde of fiends that have descended upon you. ・Items cannot be used ・Only available on Hard difficulty
Level	70	Rounds	10	Team	1-3
Rewards		・Binding Materia Earrings
Unlock Requirements
・Defeat Gilgamesh

Technically, there are no requirements to unlock Brutal Challenge: Army of the Damned in the Combat Simulator, but you must first defeat Gilgamesh to unlock the Brutal and Legendary challenges in the first place.

Once you've collected all Protorelics and defeated Gilgamesh, you'll be able to take on the Brual and Legendary Challenges in the Combat Simulator.

How to Unlock and Beat Gilgamesh

Final Fantasy 7 Rebirth Related Guides

FF7 Rebirth - Combat Simulator Partial

All Combat Simulator Battles and Rewards

All Combat Simulator Articles

Combat Simulator Guides
Brutal and Legendary Combat Simulator Guide

Biological Intel

List of Biological Intel Missions
Know Thine Enemy	Blinded by Light
Breath of Life	At Any Cost
Head Case	That's the Smell
Stony Stare	-

Brutal Challenges

List of Brutal Challenges
Army of the Damned	Requiem for the Scorned
Unending Nightmare	Hellions' Intonement
The Seventh Seal	Rulers of the Outer Worlds

Legendary Bouts

List of Legendary Bouts
Cloud vs. The Warriors	Barret vs. The Colossi
Tifa vs. The Martialists	Aerith vs. The Magi
Red XIII vs. The Beasts	Yuffie vs. The Wronged
Cait Sith vs. The Abominable	Bonds of Friendship
To Be a Hero	-

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