Demon Gate Hard Mode Guide

Demon Gate is the boss of Chapter 13: Where Angels Fear to Tread in Final Fantasy 7 Rebirth (FF7 Rebirth). Read on to learn how to beat Demon Gate on Normal and Hard Mode, its weaknesses and resistances, a list of its moves and attack patterns, as well as tips and rewards for beating it.

Demon Gate Weaknesses and Stats

Stats

	Easy	Normal	Hard
HP	23744	33920	54631

Weakness and Resistances

Weaknesses	Lesser Resistances	Greater Resistances
-	Fixed Damage	-
Absorbed Elements	Immunities
-	Proportional Damage Slow Poison Silence Sleep Stop Stone Petrify Morphable Items

Changes When Staggered

Weakness / Effective	Resistance
-	Fire Ice Lightning Wind Direct Attack Physical Magic

How to Pressure Demon Gate

Deal Enough Damage to Stop Encroach Use the Element Opposite of Arcane Eruption

Deal Enough Damage to Stop Encroach

During the fight, Demon Gate will use Encroach to decrease the size of the battlefield and make it harder to dodge attacks. Using powerful abilities will stop it from making the arena smaller and pressure it

Use the Element Opposite of Arcane Eruption

Element/Colour and Weakness
Fire / Red Weakness: Ice	Ice / White Weakness: Fire
Lightning / Purple Weakness: Wind	Wind / Green Weakness: Lightning

Whenever Demon Gate uses Arcane Eruption, it will become weak to the opposite element of the spell that it's casting. Watch its hands to check for what element it's using so that you know what spells or abilities it's weak to.

How to Pressure and Stagger Enemies

Demon Gate Best Party and Builds

Normal Mode Builds

Recommended Party Setup

Recommended Party Setup
Cloud	【Main Attacker】 ・Can be the active character as most of the attacks can easily be dodged, blocked, or countered. ・Use powerful abilities like Braver or Focused Thrust to damage and stagger the boss quickly Recommended Level: 49
Yuffie	【Damage / Support】 ・Can be a substitute for Cloud when he's low on health ・Can quickly charge ATB, allowing to cast more abilities or spells during the battle Recommended Level: 49
Aerith	【Spellcaster】 ・Use powerful spells on the boss with Elemental Materia ・Can place a Arcane Ward to double-cast a spell Recommended Level: 49

Best Materia to Use

Materia	How to Use
Fire and Ice	・Gives the ability to cast Fire and Ice spells ・Can save an extra slot for stat-increasing Materia
Lightning and Wind	・Gives the ability to cast Lightning and Wind spells ・Can save an extra slot for stat-increasing Materia
Healing	・Gives the ability to cast healing spells to heal your party
HP Up	・Equip to increase HP
Time	・Apply Haste on your party to increase their overall speed
Item Master	・Increase the effect of items like Potions

Hard Mode Builds

Notice from Game8	These Hard Mode builds use equipment that are at least Weapon Level 8. If you don't have enough Materia slots or the right Weapon Skills to complete a character setup, consider using a different weapon or collect all of the character's Manuscripts first.

Best Build for Tifa

Tifa Main DPS
		Weapon		Armor
		Dragon Claws		Valkyrian Bangle
		Accessory		Summon Materia
		Enhanced Expeditionary Medal		Odin
Weapon Materia			Armor Materia
HP Up MP Up Strength Up Speed Up Steadfast Block Precision Defense Focus			Revival First Strike Skill Master ATB Assist Limit Siphon Prayer
Weapon Skills
Enhanced Techniques			Weapon Ability Damage +5%
Attack Power +20			Attack Power +20

Tifa will be the Main DPS for this fight since she can deal a lot of single-target damage with her abilities. She also does a ton of damage once Demon Gate's staggered thanks to her Unique Ability and True Strike combo.

Aside from that, she can also spam her Level 3 Limit Break thanks to the Enhanced Expeditionary Medal and Limit Siphon combination. Remember to Siphon away the other party member's Limit Gauges so that she can quickly beat this boss.

Best Build for Yuffie

Yuffie Magic DPS
		Weapon		Armor
		Crescent Sickle		Cetran Armlet
		Accessory		Summon Materia
		Genji Gloves		Gilgamesh
Weapon Materia			Armor Materia
HP Up MP Up Magic Up Steadfast Block Precision Defense Focus First Strike			MP Absorption and Fire and Ice MP Absorption and Lightning and Wind Magnify and Healing Swiftcast and Revival
Weapon Skills
Precision Defense ATB			Synergy Damage Up
ATB Charge Rate Up			Opening ATB Bonus

Yuffie's main purpose for this fight is to stop Demon Gate from using Arcane Eruption with her elemental spells and abilities.

Save her ATB Charges so that she can use -ga level spells as soon as it uses Arcane Eruption, and always have Doppelganger active so that she casts it on both Demon Gates.

Best Build for Aerith

Aerith Support
		Weapon		Armor
		Ceremonial Staff		Cetran Bracer
		Accessory		Summon Materia
		Ribbon		Phoenix
Weapon Materia			Armor Materia
HP Up MP Up Steadfast Block Precision Defense Focus			Magnify and Healing Magic Efficiency and Revival Magnify and Barrier Cleansing Prayer
Weapon Skills
Altruistic Buff Up			Altruistic Buff Up
Max MP +3			Reprieve

You can replace Aerith's accessory with a Gotterdammerung if you have one.

Aerith's a great support for this boss since her double Altruistic Buff Up Weapon Skills allows her Manaward buff to last for a lot longer than normal. She also has a high base Magic Defense to better tank Demon Gate's Magic attacks.

Her Level 3 Limit Break is also great for supporting Tifa since it allows her to use back-to-back Meteor Strikes with Limit Siphon. Make sure that you don't Siphon her Limit Gauge once her Limit's at Level 3 so that you can maximize the damage you deal to the boss.

How to Beat Demon Gate

Demon Gate Boss Fight Tips
Cast Manaward to Reduce Damage Taken Another Demon Gate Will Spawn at 60% HP Use Synergy Skills to Counter Attacks Equip a Cleansing Materia to Remove Petrification Stop Arcane Eruption With Attacks of the Opposite Element

Cast Manaward to Reduce Damage Taken

Most of Demon Gate's attacks deal Magic damage, so you'll want to make sure that you have Manaward active as often as you can. This is especially important when the arena size shrinks and it becomes more difficult to dodge attacks.

Use Synergy Skills to Counter Attacks

Certain Synergy Skills, like Cloud's Counterfire or Yuffie's Ninja Bazooka, allow you to block or dodge an attack and launch a counter in return. Remember to use these when Demon Gate uses certain moves, like Petrifeye, to avoid getting damaged and retaliate quickly.

All Synergy Skills and How to Use

Equip a Cleansing Materia to Remove Petrification

In case you don't have an accessory that negates Petrification, you'll want to have a Cleansing Materia equipped to cast Esuna or Resist and negate Petrification. This way you only need to worry about Petrifeye's damage instead of the negative status effect that it inflicts.

Another Demon Gate Will Spawn at 60% HP

Another Demon Gate will appear on the opposite side of the first one once its HP reaches around 60%. Note that they don't share the same HP, and you need to defeat both of them to defeat this boss.

Stop Arcane Eruption With Attacks of the Opposite Element

Aside from pressuring Demon Gate, you'll want to use the element opposite of Arcane Eruption to stop the attack from going off. This is because Arcane Eruption will cover the entire arena, making it impossible to dodge the attack.

Demon Gate Rewards and Details

Rewards

Basic Information and Details

Demon Gate
Location	Chapter Unlocked
Near Murals	Chapter 13
Species	Movement
Unreadable	Grounded
Details
The final guardian of the world-destroying black materia. It mercilessly crushes the hopes of any intruder misfortunate enough to have reached its domain, delivering unto them an eternal slumber Draws the walls inward to narrow the field of battle. Inflicting enough damage while it gathers strength to move will both interrupt and pressure it. It unleashes elementally aspected attacks from its enormous hands, but striking it with an opposing element will interrupt its assault.

FF7 Rebirth Related Guides

Boss Fight Guide and List of All Bosses

Story Bosses

Optional Bosses