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Joker is a boss in the Sand and Circuses side quest of Final Fantasy 7 Rebirth (FF7 Rebirth). Learn how to beat Joker in Hard Mode and normal difficulties, its weaknesses and resistances, and a list of its moves and attack patterns in this guide!
List of Contents
Easy | Normal | Hard | |
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HP | 17226 | 24609 | ? |
Weaknesses | Lesser Resistances | Greater Resistances |
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Wind
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Sleep
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None |
Absorbed Elements | Immunities | |
None |
Proportional Damage Stone
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Weakness / Effective | Resistance |
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None | None |
Evade Soul Sucker Ability. Drop its HP to 30% to Keep Pressured.
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The Joker can be pressured by simply waiting for then dodging its Soul Sucker ability. It will activate Anima Howl when it's pressured which can act as an indicator for the perfect time to build stagger, so watch out for it.
In addition, once you can lower its HP down to about 30%, the Joker will remain pressured until defeat.
How to Pressure and Stagger Enemies
Joker Boss Fight Tips |
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The Joker is weak to wind element attacks, so it is recommended to equip Wind Materia to gain Aero Spell.
You can also complement the spell with Elemental Materia to infuse your equipment with the wind element or Swiftcast Materia to be able to cast Aero faster.
The Joker can be pressured by dodging its Soul Sucker ability. The success of this will be indicated by the Joker's activation of its Anima Howl ability. Watch out for the ability and get ready to stagger it with abilities such as Focused Thrust or Aero Spell when the time comes.
Always stay within melee distance so that it triggers the close-distance version of the Soul Sucker ability, which is easier to dodge.
The Joker will also remain pressured once its HP is lowered to around 30%.
Destiny Result | Effect |
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Hearts | Replenishes enemy health |
Diamonds | Spawns enemy shield |
Clubs | Deals damage through a spike from the ground |
Spades | Deals damage through a homing fireball |
Joker | Lowers player HP to 1 |
The Joker has the Destiny ability, which draws a random card, providing different results depending on the drawn card. 3 out of 5 of these results deal a lot of damage, even potentially incapacitating Cloud on a single hit.
During the fight, maintain a near-full HP at all times. And always have an extra ATB ready for either healing items or a Cure spell in case you are unable to dodge the Destiny result.
The Subversion Materia can help in this fight as its Breach or Dispel spells can remove the shield spawned by the Diamonds result of the Destiny ability.
How to Get the Subversion Materia
Joker Rewards | |||||||||||
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Easy/Normal | Hard Mode | ||||||||||
・479 EXP ・4 AP |
TBD
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Items Dropped | Rare Items Dropped | ||||||||||
・Zinc Ore | ・Amethyst | ||||||||||
Stealable Items | Morphable Items | ||||||||||
・Zinc Ore | ・Amethyst |
Joker | |
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Location | Chapter Unlocked |
Corel Region | Chapter 12 |
Species | Movement |
Biological | Grounded |
Details | |
Gus's cursed ace-in-the-hole: an evil jester that has bathed itself in the blood of its enemies. It feeds on the souls of its opponents while drawing cards that foretell the future. Evading Soul Sucker will force it to extract energy from itself and enter a pressured state. Once its HP drops low enough and it goes berserk, it will remain pressured. |
You can encounter Joker during the Sand and Circuses side quest in the Corel Region. Joker will appear in round 5 of the solo battles, which you will fight one-on-one with Cloud.
You can also encounter 2 Jokers during the Can't Stop, Won't Stop side quest at the Golden Saucer in Chapter 12. The Jokers will appear in 4th wave of the Musclehead Colosseum minigame.
Can't Stop, Won't Stop Walkthrough
Boss Fight Guide and List of All Bosses
All Major Story Bosses | |
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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 |
Grasslands | |
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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 |
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