Hell Rider II (Hell Rider 2) Hard Mode Guide

Hell Rider II (Hell Rider 2) is a boss in the Beneath Still Waters side quest of Final Fantasy 7 Rebirth (FF7 Rebirth). Learn how to beat Hell Rider II (Hell Rider 2) in Hard Mode and normal difficulties, its weaknesses and resistances, and a list of its moves and attack patterns in this guide!

Hell Rider II (Hell Rider 2) Weaknesses and Stats

Stats

	Easy	Normal	Hard
HP	?	?	71703

Weakness and Resistances

Weaknesses	Lesser Resistances	Greater Resistances
Ice	Poison	Slow Stop
Absorbed Elements	Immunities
None	Proportional Damage Silence Sleep Stone Morphable Items

Changes When Staggered

Weakness / Effective	Resistance
Ice	None

How to Pressure Hell Rider II (Hell Rider 2)

How to Pressure

Equip Ice Materia and use Ice spells to Pressure it.

If you are able to inflict enough damage by exploiting its Ice elemental weakness, the boss will be pressured allowing you to stagger him during the fight.

How to Pressure and Stagger Enemies

Hell Rider II (Hell Rider 2) Best Party and Builds

Notice from Game8	This section is for players who are playing on Easy and Normal difficulties. To check out the best builds and tips for Hard Mode, jump to our Hard Mode Guide section, below!

Recommended Party Setup

Recommended Party Setup
Cloud	【Physical DPS】 ・Main source of damage once Hell Rider II gets pressured. ・Physical Damage dealer when Reflect is up.
Yuffie	【Elemental DPS / Stagger Buildup】 ・Mainly used to build pressure with Doppelganger and Ice Ninjutsu. ・Can safely deal damage from a distance.
Aerith	【Support】 ・Can easily pressure Hell Rider II with her Ice spells. ・Can focus on healing all allies using Pray and Limit Break.

Best Materia to Use Against Hell Rider II (Hell Rider 2)

Materia	Effect
Ice	・Deal Ice Elemental Damage ・Best equipped on Yuffie or Aerith.
Magnify	・Heal all allies in battle when linked to Healing Materia. ・Best equipped on Aerith.
Healing	・Heal a single ally in battle. ・Best equipped on Aerith.
Prayer	・Heal all allies in battle (alternative for Healing Materia if you do not have Magnify Materia). ・Best equipped on Aerith.
Subversion	・Removes any beneficial status effects on the enemy. ・Best equipped on Aerith.
Enervation	・Temporarily reduces the Physical and Magical Defense with Deprotect and Deshell. ・Best equipped on Yuffie.
HP Up	・Increase the HP of a character. ・Can be equipped to all characters.

How to Beat Hell Rider II (Hell Rider 2)

Hell Rider II Boss Fight Tips
Dispel the Reflect Buff Move Away When Hell Rider II Uses Perdition Pressure Hell Rider II with Ice Spells

Dispel the Reflect Buff or Wait for Polarity Shift

During the second fight, the Hell Rider II will have Reflect and is immune to all Magical Damage. Immediately cast Dispel using a ★2 Suversion Materia to remove this buff and continue to stagger the Hell Rider II using Ice elemental attacks.

Alternatively, you can instead rely on using Phyiscal Damage with Cloud and pressure the boss to remove the buff or wait for the Hell Rider II to cast Polarity Shift, which will then change the Reflect buff into Barrier.

What Does Magic Attack Do?

Move Away When Hell Rider II Uses Perdition

When the Hell Rider II uses Perdition, all nearby characters will be slowly pulled towards the boss, which then explodes, dealing massive damage to all party members within its range. You can spam Dodge to escape its range and wait for it to explode before continuing to attack the boss.

Battle System Explained

Pressure Hell Rider II with Ice Elemental Damage

Using the Chocoking's Cape and the ATB Boost Materia, you will be able to start the fight with two ATB bars. This will allow you to instantly use your Ice Materia at the very start to immediately apply pressure to Hell Rider II.

Additionally, you can cast Banishment as soon as it reaches Level 3 and the boss is staggered from spamming Blizzaga with ★3 Ice Materia. The Banishment's damage is based on Yuffie's affinity, which can be changed by using Elemental Ninjutsu.

Make sure that you are using Ice Ninjutsu to deal Ice damage with Banishment. You can learn the Banishment ability from the Crystalline Cross weapon. Maxing out its proficiency will allow you to use Banishment even when you have a different weapon equipped.

Crystalline Cross Abilities, Stats, and Skills

Change Affinity Using Ice Ninjutsu

You can use Yuffie and change your affinity to Ice using the Elemental Ninjutsu to consistently deal Ice damage and build up the stagger meter quickly.

Hell Rider II (Hell Rider 2) Hard Mode Guide

Hell Rider II Hard Mode Tips
★ Best Hard Mode Builds for Hell Rider II ★
Use Deshell to Improve Elemental Damage Check the Color of Hell Rider II's Chest and Head Summon Your Doppelganger As Soon As Possible

Hell Rider II Hard Mode Builds

Notice from Game8	The builds featured in this Hard Mode section are at Weapon Levels 7~8. If you find that you don't have enough Materia slots to complete the setup, consider getting all the possible Manuscripts on Normal, first.

Use Deshell to Improve Elemental Damage

To further increase your damage output with the Ice element, you can also equip an Enervation Materia to use Deshell on Hell Rider II, temporarily reducing their magic defense.

How to Get the Enervation Materia

Check the Color of Hell Rider II's Chest and Head

Yellow Glow	Red Glow	No Glow
Reflect	Barrier	No Buffs

You determine the buff on the Hell Rider II depending on the icon below the health bar or by looking at the color of its chest and head.

Battle Icons, Status Effects, and Ailments Explained

Summon Your Doppelganger As Soon As Possible

Use your first ATB bar to cast the Doppelganger, as it will copy any spell or ability that you cast with Yuffie. This will drastically help you build up the stagger meter. Additionally, you can easily bring other members of your party back to full health with Healing Materia because of the double cast from Doppelganger.

You will also be able to fill up your ATB gauge twice as fast because of your Doppelganger. Use this to your advantage and spam Ice elemental damage to build up stagger.

Learn Doppelganger From Bird of Prey

You can learn the Doppelganger ability from the Bird of Prey weapon. Maxing out its proficiency will allow you to use Doppelganger even when you have a different weapon equipped.

Bird of Prey Abilities, Stats, and Skills

Hell Rider II (Hell Rider 2) Rewards and Details

Rewards

Hell Rider II Rewards
Easy/Normal						Hard Mode
・50 Party EXP						・10296 EXP ・12 AP ・1808 Gil
Items Dropped						Rare Items Dropped
None						None
Stealable Items						Morphable Items
None						None

Drops Telluric Scriptures Vol. XIII on Hard Mode

You can obtain the Telluric Scriptures Vol. XIII Manuscript for Aerith by defeating the Hell Rider II on Hard Mode.

List of All Manuscripts Guide

Basic Information and Details

Hell Rider II
Location	Chapter Unlocked
Junon Region	Chapter 4
Species	Movement
Artificial	Grounded
Details
An artificial monstrosity created by Shinra's R&D Division as part of horrific experiments meant to combine man and beast. It was being held in the underwarter reactor's research facility, but managed to escape. Inflicting enough damage by exploting its elemental weakness will pressure it.

Hell Rider II (Hell Rider 2) Location and Side Quest

Encountered During the Beneath Still Waters Side Quest

You can encounter Hell Rider II during the Beneath Still Waters side quest. Hell Rider II will appear at the very beginning of the quest and you will have to defeat it again after chasing it to the mountain in Junon.

Beneath Still Waters Walkthrough

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