Final Fantasy Brave Exvius

Creelo your k delita is OP as hell. However, i still lack the damage to push it down. I'm stuck in a cycle between 41% and 38% because of its self cure move. It can't kill me, but i can't kill him either lol.

Not doing another attempt so thanks everyone for the help.

Those are all great options but wouldnt push me over the edge. I lack my own I Nichol to make use of soleil, ace does very well, but the ace i tried originally kept getting drained to 0 mp

At the expense of hundreds of NRG, I have a tested (killed him 4 out of 4 times this way) strategy that is pretty much as safe as you're going to get on this boss. Anyone who hasn't cleared yet can try this as a last ditch. Forgoes 5-man objective which is worthless anyway. It's a little bit heavy on character requirements and pretty light on TMs (anyone who can clear this fight will probably have them from TM mog events and lots of Firion/Charlotte banners). This fight isn't really made for people who don't have some equipment/materias though, unfortunately.

DD: Any good chainer. Agrias/Dark Veritas/Orlandu, Tidus, A2, 2B, etc.; this will also be your friend unit. Both your unit and your friend need a form of MP drain, be it a natural skill (Orlandu's Nightsword for example) or from Odin (Lance).

Tank: Warrior of Light. Will need his breaks.

Healer: Tilith is ideal as she can buff elemental resistance, recover party MP, and heal without costing you 3 summon tickets. Luka also works but she is not as versatile, and will need to be enhanced. If you don't care about the tickets just bring whoever, obviously with Ayaka being the best.

Support: Soleil (at least 1 offense and 1 defense dance enhanced, I suggest SPR dance) and Rikku (you don't need her TM for this; she will need to equip Lakshmi with Assuring Protection unlocked and, if you have one, a Second Knife or a spare Dual Wield materia)

Set everyone up with as much fire resistance as possible. I used a couple of Equip L Shield and Equip H Armor materias to give Flame Mail to Soleil and a Dragon Shield to my healer. It's worth dropping the an HP materia for it. I had everyone with at least 50%, some with significantly more than that. Equip Ifrit to your squishiest unit (probably Soleil); you need to keep Odin on your DD if they don't have innate MP drain capability. Otherwise I loaded everyone who wasn't my DD up with as much HP and SPR as I could muster; pretty much everything except Mechanical Heart and Mog Rise being easy enough to obtain/free materia. Now for a general outline of what you'll be doing.

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Turn 1: This is all about surviving his initial onslaught, this will effectively be the most dangerous part in the entire fight if you do this right. Start off with double MP drain from your DDs; they're probably DW units so you're gonna drain MP 4 times which'll greatly dampen his magic power. Synthesis on Rikku, +100% SPR dance on Soleil, ATK/MAG break with WoL, and whatever is best for your healer (Tilith can do break resist/defend; Ayaka can toss up Reraise on your squishies; Luka can put up Regenerate which will probably last the whole fight depending on your luck with Esper orbs).

Now there'll be two paths you can take from here, depending on whether you're doing the Esper summon challenge (A) or not (B):

Turn 2 A: If you had deaths, have Soleil use the next couple turns to Phoenix Down, otherwise she can autoattack for orbs. Have your DDs finish off the boss's HP with their MP absorbs. WoL can toss on "Light is with us!". Have Rikku toss up Hyper NullAll to ease your healer's life until we get into our full Esper orb rotation. Speaking of healers, odds are your team is a bit roughed up right now, so toss out some heals.

Turn 2 B: Like in the Esper orb path, have Soleil focus on raising your dead if necessary, otherwise continue her dance string by applying your 120% offense dance. DDs finish the boss's MP. WoL is still going to put up AoE cover and Rikku will still use Hyper NullAll. Your healer will also go ahead and patch things up.

Turn 3 A: This is the start of your Esper farm loop. Once all of your dead are back up, Soleil will be autoattacking every turn (unless your healer can't MP battery, then you'll be using her to toss out ether, chocolate, and elixirs). Your DDs will also go ahead and autoattack so that you don't push the boss through too many thresholds before you have both Espers summoned. WoL's third turn can be used for a number of things depending on your personal necessities: if your WoL is strong/has Mechanical Heart, he can probably autoattack for an extra chance at an orb. If he's a bit on the weaker side defensively (mine was not anything special at all, so this probably isn't the case), you may want to use Defend. You can also toss up Brave Presence to bait single target spells, giving him a chance to counter with Warrior's Pride and get back some MP, which he will burn through fast. Rikku will be your main orb generator here: Thunder Rod deals little damage, but hits many times, giving you lots of chances at orbs. You'll be repeating this general rotation until you've summoned both Titan and Lakshmi, hopefully before the boss reaches 59% HP:

4, 7, 10, etc.
DDs: Auto
WoL: Arms Eraser
Soleil: Auto/Ether
Rikku: Synthesis if your WoL needs mitigation/Lightning Rod
Healer: Autoattack/MP Recovery/heal WoL

5, 8, 11, etc.
DDs: Auto
WoL: Light is with us!
Soleil: Auto/Ether
Rikku: Hyper NullAll if your WoL needs mitigation/Lightning Rod
Healer: Autoattack/MP Recovery/heal WoL

6, 9, 12, etc.
DDs: Auto
WoL: Auto/Defend/Brave Presence
Soleil: Auto/Ether
Rikku: Lightning Rod
Healer: Autoattack/MP Recovery/heal WoL




Finishing it off: This will be the same for both paths. The general goal is to get the boss as close to 60% as you can without going over while simultaneously applying all of your buffs, imperils, and having a healthy level of MP. List of things you'll want before making the push:

-Imperils if applicable; Blitz Ace, Divine Ruination, etc.
-Arms Eraser
-Light is with us!
-Hyper NullAll
-Assuring Protection (this will be applied by Rikku on her third turn, right after Hyper NullAll, effectively taking the place of Lightning Rod)
-All four of Soleil's 120% buffs. SPR is particularly important to dampen any possible Soul Siphons

Once all of that is applied (at most it takes three turns), you can push him below 60%. I personally did this using Bahamut's Megaflare on my healer to cap off a chain from my DDs to shave off a turn or two, but it isn't necessary (as you'll see in the video, where I am a big dumb and don't do this, which in retrospect cost my Tidus an early death). By now you will be immune to Confusion, WoL will be eating the Wailing Strike and few autoattacks, his MP should still be so low that a majority of his dark magic will be dealing l i t t l e d a m a g e, and any rogue post-Soul Siphon Hailfires will deal much less damage thanks to your stacked fire resistance from gear and Hyper NullAll. Your team should be able to sustain up to two turns of Soul Siphon; if you're lucky, he might not even use it twice. But if you get hit by the RNG stick, pop MP drains to bring him back down to manageable levels and continue chaining. A set of decent to well equipped DDs should down him in 3-4 turns of chaining; obviously some units will have an easier time with this (Tidus and Orlandu/Agrias are stronger, in particular, due to the boss's innate elemental resistances favoring them; A2 is good all the time she's a cheater and probably hacks) but ymmv.

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Hopefully, after all of that, he's dead and you're still alive. It can get chaotic if he gets too many turns under 40%; Eternal Torment and Soul Siphon on the same turn followed by enough Hailfires will wipe you unless you have a lot more fire resistance than I did, and there's not a lot you can do about that besides pray (and if you're a dirty cheesy individual, you could reset the turn by closing the app if you see too many Hailfires coming down, I guess...).

Good luck, it's a doozie of a fight. I'd post all of this on reddit but there's already like 20 guides on there so whatever.

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Video example. This isn't exactly what you should be doing, but instead it's a showcase of how little you need to do this and general tactics. Obviously Ayaka is not mandatory here, and Agrias would work as a DD (however she will kill more slowly than Tidus), therefor you do not need any 5* bases.
A few things in this video that you shouldn't do:

-Don't start the fight like I did. I did this to show the Esper orb rotation without breaking my kill-him-quick rotation later on. You will want to start with MP drains to avoid unnecessary damage.

-Don't use Megaflare to "cap" Blitz Ace, that was really dumb.

-Don't let him survive at 1% and kill an innocent sports star.

I'll set mine. He's at 345 SPR unbuffed and 330 MP. I think he lost maybe 100 MP. As long as he has 10MP, he'll give at least 45.

Thanks riki, your Ace is OP as hell too. Still in a bit of a cycle with Eternal Torment, but things are looking good, at 30% right now and slowly pushing it down.

Edit: Finally downed that awful trial with riki's Ace. Thanks everyone for the help with all the different strategies i attempted lol. Still no I Nichol though...