FF7 Rebirth

How to Beat Odin at Full Power

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

Odin Guides
Boss Guide Sanctuary Locations

Odin Weaknesses and Stats

Stats at Level 70

FF7 Rebirth - Odin
HP Easy Normal Hard
Full Might 79228 113183 ?
Power ↓ 65087 92981 ?
Power ↓↓ 54908 78440 ?
Power ↓↓↓ 50376 71965 ?
How to Unlock
Reach the Nibel Region

Note: Odin'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
Deprotect Icon Deprotect
Deshell Icon Deshell
Debrave Icon Debrave
Defaith Icon Defaith
Fixed Damage Icon Fixed Damage
Poison Icon Poison
Absorbed Elements Immunities
None
Proportional Damage Icon Proportional Damage
Berserk Icon Berserk
Slow Icon Slow
Silence Icon Silence
Sleep Icon Sleep
Stop Icon Stop
Stone Icon Stone
Petrify Icon Petrify
Morphable Items Icon Morphable Items

Changes When Staggered

Weakness / Effective Resistance
None
Direct Attack Icon Direct Attack
Ranged Attack Icon Ranged Attack
Magic Icon Magic

How to Pressure Odin

How to Pressure

Checkmark Wait Until Odin Uses Sleipnir's Furor

Landing ATB commands, evading attacks, or inflicting detrimental status effects will put Odin on the backfoot, both thrilling and pressuring him. Conversely, taking too many of his attacks will leave him disheartened, leading him to sound Gjallarhorn's Warning and unleash Zantetsuken.

How to Pressure and Stagger Enemies

How to Beat Odin at Full Power

Odin Boss Fight Tips





Prioritize Dodging Attacks

Dodging Odin's attacks should be your main priority during the fight since getting hit, including blocking, will cause him to use Zantetsuken and instantly KO your party. Take the fight slowly and only attack when you're sure it's safe to do so.

Use a Ranged Character

FF7 Rebirth - Ranged Characters

Since you want to prioritize dodging Odin's attacks, having a ranged character as your main attacker is ideal. This makes it easier for you to dodge its attacks without having too long for an opening to attack.

The ideal choice for this role is Yuffie since she's faster than Barret and Aerith, making it much easier for her to evade compared to the other two.

Use ATB Commands and Status Effects

FF7 Rebirth - Enervation

To prevent Odin from using Zantetsuken, you also need to target him with Commands such as Abilities and Spells, as well as Negative Status Effects like Deprotect, Deshell, and Poison. Make sure to spam these moves so that Odin doesn't wipe your party.

Do note that it's not recommended to use Debrave and Defaith because you want to prioritize dodging his attacks, ignoring the weakened damage you would have taken.

Cast Haste on Your Main Attacker

FF7 Rebirth - Use Haste Materia

Haste will greatly increase the rate your main attacker's ATB gauge will recharge, allowing them to use more abilities and spells on Odin. This helps guarantee that Odin won't use Zantetsuken, as long as you keep evading his attacks and hitting him in return.

Watch Out for Gjallarhorn's Warning

FF7 Rebirth - Gjallarhorn

Watch out for when Odin uses Gjallarhorn's Warning as this means he's about to use Zantetsuken. If you see him use this move, make sure to not get hit and deal as much damage as possible to prevent Odin from using Zantetsuken.

Do note that dealing damage is the only way to stop him from wiping your party as dodging around will still cause Odin to get bored and use Zantetsuken.

Sleipnir's Furor is the Opposite of Gjallarhorn's Warning

FF7 Rebirth - Sleipnir

Inversely, if you see Odin use Sleipnir's Furor, this means that you're doing a good job of dodging his attacks and dealing enough damage to keep Odin entertained. He will also get pressured in this state, allowing you to go for a quick stagger.

Bring Multiple Methods of Revival

How to Revive Party Members
1. Equip Everyone With Revival Earrings
2. Equip the Phoenix Materia for Reraise
3. Use Weapons with the Reprieve Weapon Skill
4. Equip Everyone With a Revival Materia

Odin's Zantetsuken will deal 9999 damage to your party if you're not careful. It's advised to bring multiple forms of revival in case Odin uses this move so that you will be able to revive your fallen party members.

Do note that accessories like Safety Bit and Karmic Cowl do not work since Zantetsuken does damage and is not an Instant Death effect.

Equip Revival Earrings

FF7 Rebirth - Revival Earrings

Revival Earrings will automatically give the character Auto-Life at the start of the fight, automatically reviving them if they go down.

Do note however that this is only a one-time use, and the earrings will break after they revive a character.

Equip the Phoenix Materia

FF7 Rebirth - Phoenix Materia

Phoenix is the best summon for this fight because it'll allow you to use Reraise on your party members, automatically reviving them if they go down.

Make sure that you have scanned all of Phoenix's Sanctuaries to enhance its Materia to 4-Star, unlocking the ability for it to use Reraise.

Phoenix Sanctuary Locations

Use the Reprieve Weapon Skill

FF7 Rebirth - Reprieve

Characters with Weapons That Have Reprieve
Cloud Buster Sword / Umbral Blade
Aerith Ceremonial Staff / Gambanteinn

Cloud and Aerith have weapons that can equip the Reprieve Weapon Skill. This will revive them back to 1 HP when they go down in battle.

If they're revived after Odin uses Zantetsuken, they're still susceptible to getting KO'd by a follow-up attack. Make sure that you immediately dodge and heal up before Odin defeats your party.

All Weapons and How to Get Them

Equip Revival Materia

FF7 Rebirth - Revival

For cases where a party member doesn't get automatically resurrected, you will need to have someone else cast Raise or Arise on them. Make sure that all your party members have one equipped in case of emergencies.

How to Get the Revival Materia

Use Limit Break During Temporal Imprisonment

Temporal Imprisonment is an ability that stops your controlled character from moving. If you have a Limit Break on your controlled character while Odin is casting Temporal Imprisonment, use it as it will protect your controlled character from being frozen.

Odin Best Party and Builds

Recommended Party Setup

Recommended Party Setup
FF7 Rebirth - Yuffie Yuffie 【Main DPS】
・Can attack safely at range
・Fast enough to dodge Odin's attacks
Recommended Level: 42
FF7 Rebirth - Aerith Aerith 【Support】
・Has multiple useful Weapon Skills
・Stays away from Odin's attacks
Recommended Level: 42
FF7 Rebirth - Tifa Tifa 【Secondary DPS】
・Used to increase stagger damage
・Stockpiles ATB Charges
Recommended Level: 42

Control Yuffie for Most of the Fight

Yuffie will be your main attacker during this battle because she can attack Odin from afar and swiftly evade his attacks. This is important because you need to minimize the number of hits Odin will do on your party, otherwise, it will use Zantetsuken.

Aerith Has Multiple Weapon Skills That Benefits Her Role

With the Ceremonial Staff equipped, Aerith becomes a very effective Support for the team thanks to Altruistic Buff Up and Reprieve. This allows her to increase the duration of positive status effects by 25% and she'll automatically revive at 1 HP when she goes down.

Tifa Increases the Damage Odin Takes While Staggered

Tifa will be your secondary carry that will do massive damage once Odin is staggered. Make sure that she has enough ATB Charges for Unbridled Strength, so that she can use Omnistrike and Rise and Fall.

Odin Best Materia to Use

Recommended Materia for Yuffie

Weapon:
Bird of Prey
Armor:
Garm Bangle





Summon:

Enervation and Poison linked to Magic Focus are used to target the negative status effects that can affect Odin. Alternatively, you could use any other Materia with offensive spells instead.

As for the Materias, HP Up, MP Up, and Assess are always useful to boost Yuffie's MP and to check Odin's status, while ATB Boost helps her quickly gain ATB charges so she can use more ATB commands.

Also, as with the other two builds, Revival is mandatory in case a party member doesn't have an auto-revive buff active to resurrect them when they go down.

Finally, Bahamut Arisen is used to give a balanced boost to her Attack and Magic.

Recommended Materia for Aerith

Weapon:
Ceremonial Staff
Armor:
Varvados Bracelet




Summon:

Time is the most important materia on this setup because it's needed to boost Yuffie's ATB Charge rate. Once that buff is active, she can then use Empowerment to boost her damage output or Comet to deal damage to Odin.

While Healing and Fortification aren't necessary since you'll be dodging attacks, it'll still be useful to have in case you do get hit.

Also, as with the other two builds, Revival is mandatory in case a party member doesn't have an auto-revive buff active to resurrect them when they go down.

Finally and most importantly, Phoenix is used because it can cast Reraise party, automatically reviving them when they go down.

Recommended Materia for Tifa

Weapon:
Kaiser Knuckles
Armor:
Celestial Bangle







Summon:

Auto-Unique Ability is used so that Tifa will automatically use Unbridled Strength, allowing her to use Omnistrike and Ride and Fall immediately once Odin is staggered.

ATB Stagger and Boost are used so that Tifa can spam her abilities once Odin is staggered while Healing and Chakra are used in case Tifa or other party members take too much damage.

For the flexible options, HP, Luck, and Strength Up are used to give Tifa generally useful stat buffs, but you can replace these with any other Materia of your choosing.

Also, as with the other two builds, Revival is mandatory in case a party member doesn't have an auto-revive buff active to resurrect them when they go down.

Finally, Kujata is used because it gives her the highest Attack boost out of all the summons available until you get Odin's.

Odin Rewards and Details

Rewards

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

Basic Information and Details

Odin
Location Chapter Unlocked
Combat Simulator Chapter 11
Species Movement
Unreadable Grounded
Details
A noble summon recreated in virtual reality. This knight claims war and death as his domain, and atop his faithful steed Sleipnir, he rides into battle and rends his foes asunder.
Landing ATB commands, evading attacks, or inflicting detrimental status effects will put Odin on the backfoot, both thrilling and pressuring him. Conversely, taking too many of his attacks will leave him disheartened, leading him to sound Gjallarhorn's Warning and unleash Zantetsuken.

Odin Location

Unlocked at the Combat Simulator Once You Reach Nibel

FF7 Rebirth - Combat Simulator

Once you've reached the Nibel region in Chapter 11, you will be able to challenge Odin in the Combat Simulator.

Remember that you can also analyze Odin's 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

FF7 Rebirth - List of All Bosses

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

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