How to Beat Bahamut Arisen at Full Power

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

Bahamut Arisen Guides
Boss Guide	Sanctuary Locations

Bahamut Arisen Weaknesses and Stats

Stats at Levle 70

HP	Easy	Normal	Hard
Full Might	92076	131537	?
Power ↓	75642	108059	?
Power ↓↓	63812	91160	?
Power ↓↓↓	58545	83635	?
How to Unlock
Reach the Cosmo Canyon Region

Note: Bahamut Arisen'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
None	None	None
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
None	None

How to Pressure Bahamut Arisen

How to Pressure

Use Synergy Skills and Synergy Abilities Destroy its wings when it uses Particle Charge

Scattered particles will attach themselves to you if touched and explode after a certain amount of time. Using syngergy skills or synergy abilities will pressure Bahamut Arisen, remove any attached particles, and eliminate any others floating around.

How to Pressure and Stagger Enemies

How to Beat Bahamut Arisen at Full Power

Bahamut Arisen Boss Fight Tips
Use Synergy Skills and Abilities to Apply Pressure Use Haste to Quickly Build Up Synergy Target the Wings When Its Using Particle Charge

Attack with Synergy Skills and Abilities

Using Synergy Skills and Abilities is the only way to pressure Bahamut Arisen when it's not using Particle Charge. Make sure that you're constantly hitting it with these attacks so that you can quickly stagger it.

Having someone like Tifa as your main attacker is ideal because she can quickly reach Bahamut Arisen with Soaring Flurry and counterattack with Slip and Slide whenever you're waiting for Synergy Abilities to recharge.

Use Haste on Your Party

By using Haste on your party members, you will be able to quickly build up ATB charges faster than normal. This translates into you using more abilities, which means that you can use more Synergy Abilities.

Make sure to always have Haste active so that you constantly put Bahamut Arisen under pressure, allowing you to deal massive damage once it's staggered.

Destroy Wings During Particle Charge

Whenever Bahamut Arisen uses Particle Charge, it will expose its Wings allowing you to target them. If you destroy both wings in time, Bahamut Arisen will get stunned and put under pressure for a while.

Destroying the wings will also prevent Particle Charge from going off, which in turn stops it from transforming into its Neodrive and Gigadrive Modes.

Bahamut Arisen Best Party and Builds

Recommended Party Setup

Recommended Party Setup
Tifa	【Main DPS】 ・Increases damage dealt when staggered ・Good synergy skills with Cloud Recommended Level: 37
Aerith	【Healer / Buffer】 ・Vital for keeping your party safe ・Weapon Skill increases Buff duration Recommended Level: 37
Cloud	【Pressure Support】 ・Weapon Skill gives Synergy Damage Up ・Build up stagger with Focus Thrust Recommended Level: 37

Tifa Has a Strong Range of Attacks

Tifa has good mobility options for her Synergy Skills when paired with Cloud, allowing her to constantly apply pressure on Bahamut Arisen. Once staggered, she can use Rise and Fall and Omnistrike to increase the damage Bahamut Arisen will take.

Aerith Will Keep Your Party Alive

Aerith will be the main healer and buffer in this party setup. This role is necessary in most fights to make sure that your team stays alive.

Also, make sure that you equip the Ceremonial Staff so that you get the Weapon Skill that increases the duration of the buffs she casts by 25%.

Cloud Helps Quickly Pressure and Stagger

Cloud's role on the team is to enable Synergy Skills with Tifa to quickly pressure Bahamut Arisen. Once it's been put in pressure, he can follow up with a Focus Thrust to quickly fill up the stagger meter.

Also, with the Rune Blade, he can equip a Weapon Skill that will boost the damage of his synergy skills and abilities by 10%.

Bahamut Arisen Best Materia to Use

Recommended Materia for Tifa

Weapon - Dragon Claws
Healing			Empowerment
Armor - Celestial Bangle
ATB Boost		Luck Up		HP Up
ATB Stagger		Chakra		Limit Siphon
Summon
Ramuh

Healing is used to heal party members in case of emergencies and Empowerment will get attack boosts up while Aerith is prioritising setting up defensive ones first.

ATB Boost and ATB Stagger help quickly build ATB charges so that Tifa can spam Synergy Abilities to pressure Bahamut Arisen. Also, once it's been staggered, Limit Siphon can be used on Aerith in case Tifa doesn't have her limit up yet.

For the other Materia slots, Chakra is always useful to heal herself without spending MP and Luck Up and HP Up are flexible Materia slots that you can replace with any other Materia of your choosing.

Finally, Ramuh is used because it has the highest attack boost out of all the available summons. If you don't have an INTERmission save file, you can replace this with any other attack-boosting Summon.

Recommended Materia for Aerith

Weapon - Ceremonial Staff
Revival	Time
Armor - Snailshell Bracelet
Auto-Cast	Healing
Empowerment	Fortification
Summon
Phoenix

Revival is always useful in case a party member goes down, and Auto-Cast plus Healing will automatically heal anyone whose HP is low.

Haste should be prioritized so that Tifa and Cloud can spam their Synergy Abilities with Fortification being next to reduce Bahamut Arisen's damage. Once those buffs have been set up, Aerith can use Empowerment to reapply the damage buffs that Tifa initially cast.

Finally, Phoenix is used because it gives the highest Magic boost out of all the Summons currently available.

Recommended Materia for Cloud

Weapon
Healing	Magic Efficiency
ATB Boost	Assess
Armor
ATB Stagger	Synergy Support
HP Up	HP Up
Summon
Leviathan

Healing and Magic Efficiency are used to heal party members in a pinch while ATB Boost, ATB Stagger, and Synergy Support will let Cloud quickly build up ATB charges so that he can spam his Synergy Abilities to pressure Bahamut Arisen.

For the flexible Materia slots, Assess is always useful so that you can check Bahamut Arisen's stats, and 2x HP Up makes Cloud stay alive longer in battle.

Finally, Leviathan is used so that you have a powerful Summon in your back pocket in case you need it. If you don't have it, you could always use any other Summon instead.

Bahamut Arisen Rewards and Details

Rewards

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

Basic Information and Details

Bahamut Arisen
Location	Chapter Unlocked
Combat Simulator	Chapter 10
Species	Movement
Unreadable	Flying
Details
A scarlet summon recreated in virtual reality. Through the grace of the red earth, this draconic king has evolved beyond knowable limits into a legendary god of destruction. Scattered particles will attach themselves to you if touched and explode after a certain amount of time. Using syngergy skills or synergy abilities will pressure Bahamut Arisen, remove any attached particles, and eliminate any others floating around.

Bahamut Arisen Location

Unlocked at the Combat Simulator Once You Reach Cosmo Canyon

Once you've reached the Cosmo Canyon region, you will be able to challenge Bahamut Arisen in the Combat Simulator.

Remember that you can also analyze Bahamut Arisen 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