How to Beat Motor Ball | Boss Fight Guide

This is a guide to beating the Boss Motor Ball in the game Final Fantasy 7 Remake (FF7R). This article explains Motor Ball's attack patterns, weaknesses, and tips and strategies for defeating them.

Motor Ball Boss Fight Guide

Motor Ball Abilities and Attack Patterns

As Motor Ball is fought during the Bike Minigame, there's no way to Assess it, and all its Abilities are unlabeled. As such, all these Ability names are unofficial.

All Phases

Starting in Phase 2

Best Characters for This Boss

Available Characters

Cloud

Recommended Characters

The other characters will be riding alongside you, but you'll be controlling Cloud and his sword for this fight. The controls are different from other battles, so recall your training battling Roche on the bike in Chapter 4 to win this fight.

Motor Ball Attack Phases

Phase 1

Phase 2

Tips & Strategies for Beating Motor Ball

★ Strategy Checklist ★ (Click to jump)
Knock out the wheels one by one Brake when it prepares an attack Don't get too far behind

Knock out the wheels one by one

In order to deal damage to Motor Ball, you'll first need to defeat each of its Wheels. The Wheels which still need to be knocked out are easily recognizable by their shining blue lights – once you've already knocked out a wheel, it will turn black. At this point, continuing to attack a broken Wheel will have no effect on Motor Ball, so head for the next Wheel right away.

After you've knocked out all three Wheels on one side, Motor Ball will be kind enough to flip itself around and allow you to attack other three Wheels, so there's no need to circle around to hit all six Wheels.

Once you've knocked out all six of its wheels, Motor Ball will automatically be Staggered, so save up your Unique Ability to hit him hard with Spinning Slash!

Stagger Bonus Not Counted for Trophy or Enemy Intel

Although Motor Ball's Stagger Attack Bonus will go as high as 500% near the end of the battle, you won't be able to receive the Staggering Feat trophy for getting the Attack Bonus up to 300%, or Battle Intel 12: The Stagger Effect Pt. 3 for getting the Attack Bonus up to 200% during the Motor Ball battle, so you can take it out without worrying about the numbers displayed.

How to Get Stagger Attack Bonus to 200%

Brake when it prepares an attack

Most of Motor Ball's killer moves are highly telegraphed. Although it doesn't show Ability names like typical enemies, once you've gotten used to its patterns, you'll be able to take down Motor Ball without too much damage.

• When he lifts his wheels in the air, brake before he slams them down to avoid it.
• When he starts charging his flame blast attack, brake before it launches to avoid it.
• When he starts shooting at you, press R1 to guard. This is the hardest attack to avoid taking damage from.
• When he moves ahead, hug the sides to avoid his electric bombs.

Don't get too far behind

If you fall too far behind Motor Ball to try to take a breather, you won't get one – Motor Ball will start throwing electric bombs back at you which are difficult to avoid and can cost you unnnecessary HP. Since you won't be able to attack Motor Ball easily from a distance, there's no reason to put yourself in this position, so try to stay close behind Motor Ball for the duration of the fight.

When behind, hug the sides

Cloud narrowly avoiding one of Motor Ball's electric bombs.

When you're hugging the sides of the road, it will make a scraping noise, but Cloud actually won't take any damage. This position will help you avoid damage when Motor Ball starts throwing its Electric Bombs.

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