This is a very helpful video!! You did what many others didn’t do, broke it down thoroughly and describe your materia setup. My weapon level is 8 on every character, and was able to obtain Genji Gloves by beating classified enemies in hard mode. Was able to max out all my materia too. Gilgamesh and Virtual Sephiroth gave me huge problems. Gilgamesh is so random and Sephiroth shadowy chains quickly, killing my runs. Pin your setup for the others to see.
@@Primizzle happy to hear the vid is helpful. Ive also pinned the build. Yeah Gilgamesh is pretty random, but i find the way this vid did it is quite consistent. As for Seph, need Cloud to start Thundaga asap.
@@phrz-RNG can be unforgiving. Have to see which attack Gilgamesh does first. I’ve been seeing other vids using Hermes Shoes than Speed Demon keychain to get haste from the start on Yuffie
@@Primizzle Indeed RNG is a prob. Wish you goodluck for your run. Yeah I saw some builds using Hermes Shoes, but if not mistaken that is used so that Cloud could cast Faith instead of Haste to deal more damage. Speedrunners seems to use this method.
@emptymelodies3316 woah thank you. Appreciate the support :) Hopefully the vid is able to help our fellow gamers that is still stuck with the challenge.
Thank you so much PHRZ This video is the only one that helped me win the challenge. Your explanation was precise and clear. Even the way you showed how to change the starting character from Aerith to Yuffie, and then Cloud, all of them were effective and made a difference. When Sephiroth fell into the trap, it was such an amazing feeling!
@@accountt you're welcome :) congratulations on clearing this hard challenge, I'm very happy for you! Yeah that feeling bullying Sephiroth is pretty awesome! If you like to watch, i've recently uploaded story mode final battle fight. This time both Sephiroth and his mommy gets bullied 😁
Update: I finally beat this!! Took me 3:36. I went with the Hermes Shoes on Yuffie so she can be hasted right away. I put Magnify+Healing on Cloud. Put Magnify+Fire on Aerith. Didn’t use Auto-Wep ability but kept Auto-Unique on Aerith, so important. And put vitality up x 2 and spirit up x 2, ATB Assist and Time on Yuffie so she can be re-hasted. I didn’t use Ice on Yuffie, a Ward Blizzaga and Thundaga can kill Phoenix just enough quickly. Started with Yuffie > Aerith > Cloud. The rest of the rounds are fine. Gilgamesh started with Daemon Wave so I Brumal Form it and ATB Ward under her and got the combo going. For Sephiroth, got Yuffie to Brumal Form his attacks and got the ATB Ward on her, got Cloud starting the combo, he didn’t get to Shadowy Chain anybody! He did change his affinity to fire tho
@@phrz- I was at Level 8 1/2 with each character. Didn’t use any HP Absorbs, but I had Elemental+Fire on each. I equiped Crescent Sickle on Yuffie with Opening ATB, Shuriken Mastery, and ATB Charge Rate Up. At times I had to use ATB Boost with her to stay near 2 ATB during the haste
I just beat this challenge awhile ago and my stress level was through the roof. Haha! It took me months but I finally finished it. I'm never doing this again. 😅
I got this challenge done a few days ago and the strat I used is pretty similar except I had Barret in instead of Cloud just for survivability bc I didn’t know how to avoid Virtual Sephiroth’s Shadowy Chains. All I had to do was precision block it
Yeah because Barret doesnt come close at all and can dodge any bs from sephiroth. But using cloud makes it faster though. On my first kill I got 2 members killed but its very easy to recover as long as you can dodge chains via normal or pause because sephiroth does weak melee anyway and that can be regened.
@@jendlti Yea, my take with Barret instead of Cloud was done with the in game timer being around 9 minutes and 30 seconds. I didn’t know if there’s other ways to dodge Virtual Sephirtoh’s Shadowy Chains (besides relying on Precision Defense Materia).
@Jet-1576 yeah using Barret is a good choice as well as you mentioned for survivability. I'd go with Cloud because of his magic damage output. Also, interupting Seph Shadowy Chains with Cloud yelling BAM! Is pretty funny ngl.
@@phrz- Sephiroth: I will show you desp- Cloud: BAM By the way, I forgot to mention I had Elemental linked with Fire on everyone’s armor in my take so everyone can get a free heal from fire based attacks
@@Jet-1576 i actually used elemental fire on armor when i first try this challenge. But then swapped to HP Absorption since we are spamming them -aga spells. Both work just fine, upto preferences :)
@@phrz- He was always very agro on Yuffie. She would either die from taking too many hits or shadowy chained. I came to the conclusion that I would need to perfect block some of his attacks. I was never able to get off even one magic spell. So frustrating. I took a break from this challenge to work on the solo battles.
@@jazzy_bella thats odd. Is your party order same like this vid? Seps opening attack would have been on the 1st point character, his following attack would be on yuffie since we have swapped. By the time he attack yuffie, cloud should have 2 atb already.
@@phrz- after taking a break from this challenge, I finally did it! I think swapping character order helped and I put swift cast on Cloud instead of Aerith so I was able to stun lock him quickly. Thank you!
Why the ATB bar of your yuffie didn't go down when using brumal form?, when I attempted to do this her ATB bar depleted after a couple of brumal forms 😢
@@SublimeKaoZ combination of quite some things. Yuffie had Speed demon keychain accessory, speed up materia, ATB charge rate up weapon passive and also having Haste magic on. Were you using these?
@@MattPawlowski-n8w didnt do one for 7th seal. Dont recall it being too hard, for me i had more trouble for hellions. You can try the hellions build, it could probably work.
@@johny21t damn. Probably rng, another commenter said Seph always attack yuffie instead. Keep trying, you'll get it. Positives is that you reached Sephs round a number of times. Progress.
Ohhhhhhh, so THAT's how Aerith doesn't take an HOUR to build a millimetre of ATB... I appreciate and applaud the ingenuity, but now I hate this battle even more. Well, along some other of the 'chAlLENge baTTLeS'. It's like the game punishes you if you want to play it straight, and rewards literal button-mashing and having Yuffie senselessly spazzing around. It's a total immersion-killer for me. But oh well, it's called 'knowing and exploiting the game mechanics', the platinum trophy is a 'take it or leave' type of deal, so instead of whinging and whining, I instead thank you for the nicely edited, detailed guide that might finally enable me to beat this POS fight without getting steamrolled by Gilgamesh everytime. If the game cheeses me, I can as well cheese it back. You know, it all wouldn't be so infuriating if you were allowed to practice the individual fights. Like, go straight to Gilgamesh, with the fight ending after you beat him or he you, so you still have to survive all five fights back to back to get the trophy and the reward. That way, you could truly try out things without wasting time and concentration on the previous fights. Just one bit of constructive critcism ... it might be wise to mute the character voices anytime you use such a spammy approach for a video -- to be honest, I don't know how you didn't get crazy from the Yuffie noises xD
@givmi_more_w9251 yeah considered to mute her, but some may not be bothered by her. So i leave the decision to the audience :) Appreciate the comment tho.
Did u have mp absorption linked to lightning and fire for both cloud and aerith? I saw in the video, each time magic comea out, mp got restored. Hp got restored too. So there HP absorption as well.
@@lee_vi_3947 ic, ideally the atb gained for cloud and aerith by yuffie is very fast that when they finish casting their current magic, another set of magic will be casted without them moving out of the ward.
Gilgamesh or Sephiroth always wipe my ass in every run, I don't know how to beat them cause I tried every build and strategy possible 😓.. I am not that good at positioning and timing I guess, this challenge is so frustrating!!
@@mmoportal.official reaching gilgamesh or sephiroth is a great achievement by itself. Yeah the challenge is pretty frustrating, you gotta retry it a number of times. I just take breaks when im burned out from it. Goodluck 😁
@@phrz-After 12h of pure anxiety I managed to beat Sephiroth, the start seems to be extremely important, I did exactly what you did without wasting a second and I beat him 🥳🥳🥳
@@gregorybledsoe7990 hi there! Were you using the same party order like the vid? Theres a commenter that said they were able to clear it once they changed the order.
This doesn't work for me, Phoenix is unvulnerable prior to casting rebirth flame (whatever it's called). I have to skip hp absorption and use Elemental + fire on the armour on cloud and Aerith aswell
I know mate, it’s just 50/50 chance if the A.i is slower then you are Played it twice this morning and first try , got sephiroth down to inch of life then he went ape sh*t on me, 2nd try, he shadow chained me straight away, so that was game over, hope chadley ain’t in part 3 lol
Been at it since Tuesday lol, maybe should of maxed out material and got the genji gloves , but none of that matters for stage 5 I don’t think, cheers again
Aerith
Plumose Rod - Cetran Armlet - Genji Gloves - Phoenix -
Swiftcast-Fire&Ice, Magic Focus-Fire, Skill Master, Magic Up
MP Absorption-Fire, HP Absorption-Fire, Auto-Unique Ability-Enemy Skill, First Strike-ATB Boost
Enduring Ward, Ward Shift Mastery, Max HP +200, Enhance Magic Guard
Yuffie
Fuma Shuriken - Hades Armlet - Speed Demon Keychain - Gilgamesh -
Healing-Ice, Auto Cast-Auto Cast, First Strike-ATB Boost
Elemental-Fire, Vitality Up-Vitality Up, Spirit Up-Spirit Up, Speed Up
Attack Power +20, Magic Attack Power +20, ATB Charge Rate Up, Ice Damage Up
Cloud
Rune Blade - Cetran Bracer - Chocoking's Cape - Odin -
Magnify-Lightning, Magnify-Time, Strength Up, ATK-MATK
MP Absorption-Lightning, HP Absorption-Lightning, Magic Focus-Lightning, ATB Assist-Auto Weapon Ability
ATB Charge Rate Up, Magic Attack Power +20, Full-Power Magic, Enemy Parts Damage Up
This is a very helpful video!! You did what many others didn’t do, broke it down thoroughly and describe your materia setup. My weapon level is 8 on every character, and was able to obtain Genji Gloves by beating classified enemies in hard mode. Was able to max out all my materia too. Gilgamesh and Virtual Sephiroth gave me huge problems. Gilgamesh is so random and Sephiroth shadowy chains quickly, killing my runs. Pin your setup for the others to see.
@@Primizzle happy to hear the vid is helpful. Ive also pinned the build. Yeah Gilgamesh is pretty random, but i find the way this vid did it is quite consistent. As for Seph, need Cloud to start Thundaga asap.
@@phrz-RNG can be unforgiving. Have to see which attack Gilgamesh does first. I’ve been seeing other vids using Hermes Shoes than Speed Demon keychain to get haste from the start on Yuffie
Please do bonds of friendship been stuck on it for months
@@Primizzle Indeed RNG is a prob. Wish you goodluck for your run. Yeah I saw some builds using Hermes Shoes, but if not mistaken that is used so that Cloud could cast Faith instead of Haste to deal more damage. Speedrunners seems to use this method.
This has to be the best guide out there for this. Clean & clear edits with instructions. W video but also W thumbnail.
@emptymelodies3316 woah thank you. Appreciate the support :) Hopefully the vid is able to help our fellow gamers that is still stuck with the challenge.
Thank you so much PHRZ
This video is the only one that helped me win the challenge. Your explanation was precise and clear. Even the way you showed how to change the starting character from Aerith to Yuffie, and then Cloud, all of them were effective and made a difference. When Sephiroth fell into the trap, it was such an amazing feeling!
@@accountt you're welcome :) congratulations on clearing this hard challenge, I'm very happy for you! Yeah that feeling bullying Sephiroth is pretty awesome! If you like to watch, i've recently uploaded story mode final battle fight. This time both Sephiroth and his mommy gets bullied 😁
Because of your vid, I have finally done it! Thank you sir. Take my sub!
@@jacobpeterson1060 congratulations! Super happy to hear that. And thanks for subbing 😄
All your videos have been a godsend my friend, thank you
@@danhayes9383 ur welcome, thanks for choosing to watch these guides ❤️
Look from a glance I was like “Really a bs gimmick like this” then you try the challenges…and boy does your tune change quick lol.
Thank you soo much!!!
@@m3_gongaga welcome! nice YT name you got there 😆
@phrz- Thanks!
Update: I finally beat this!! Took me 3:36. I went with the Hermes Shoes on Yuffie so she can be hasted right away. I put Magnify+Healing on Cloud. Put Magnify+Fire on Aerith. Didn’t use Auto-Wep ability but kept Auto-Unique on Aerith, so important. And put vitality up x 2 and spirit up x 2, ATB Assist and Time on Yuffie so she can be re-hasted. I didn’t use Ice on Yuffie, a Ward Blizzaga and Thundaga can kill Phoenix just enough quickly. Started with Yuffie > Aerith > Cloud. The rest of the rounds are fine. Gilgamesh started with Daemon Wave so I Brumal Form it and ATB Ward under her and got the combo going. For Sephiroth, got Yuffie to Brumal Form his attacks and got the ATB Ward on her, got Cloud starting the combo, he didn’t get to Shadowy Chain anybody! He did change his affinity to fire tho
@@Primizzle nice ! Congrats on the clear. What weapon level were you at ?
@@phrz- I was at Level 8 1/2 with each character. Didn’t use any HP Absorbs, but I had Elemental+Fire on each. I equiped Crescent Sickle on Yuffie with Opening ATB, Shuriken Mastery, and ATB Charge Rate Up. At times I had to use ATB Boost with her to stay near 2 ATB during the haste
@@Primizzle good strategy. I always get nervous when yuffie dont have full ATB 😅
I just beat this challenge awhile ago and my stress level was through the roof. Haha! It took me months but I finally finished it. I'm never doing this again. 😅
@shanesimon1676 congratz, definitely not an easy challenge. Have you finished those legendary ones?
@phrz- no I haven't, I'll get to it eventually but I need a break from the challenges right now. Lol! I got the gotterdammerung so I'm good!
I got this challenge done a few days ago and the strat I used is pretty similar except I had Barret in instead of Cloud just for survivability bc I didn’t know how to avoid Virtual Sephiroth’s Shadowy Chains. All I had to do was precision block it
Yeah because Barret doesnt come close at all and can dodge any bs from sephiroth. But using cloud makes it faster though. On my first kill I got 2 members killed but its very easy to recover as long as you can dodge chains via normal or pause because sephiroth does weak melee anyway and that can be regened.
@@jendlti Yea, my take with Barret instead of Cloud was done with the in game timer being around 9 minutes and 30 seconds. I didn’t know if there’s other ways to dodge Virtual Sephirtoh’s Shadowy Chains (besides relying on Precision Defense Materia).
@Jet-1576 yeah using Barret is a good choice as well as you mentioned for survivability. I'd go with Cloud because of his magic damage output. Also, interupting Seph Shadowy Chains with Cloud yelling BAM! Is pretty funny ngl.
@@phrz- Sephiroth: I will show you desp-
Cloud: BAM
By the way, I forgot to mention I had Elemental linked with Fire on everyone’s armor in my take so everyone can get a free heal from fire based attacks
@@Jet-1576 i actually used elemental fire on armor when i first try this challenge. But then swapped to HP Absorption since we are spamming them -aga spells. Both work just fine, upto preferences :)
Your vids are the best 👌👌 cant wait for your jonds of friendship and to be a hero challenges!
🫶 bonds and hero will be up soon. But will be very difficult to follow because too much RNG.
Saving this to try. Lost a couple times now.
@@slithered This is one of the hardest challenge in game, even with this guide you may need to retry a number of times to clear it. Good luck !
@ thanks a lot! I’ll update when I try. 💪🏽
@@phrz-you’re the best man! I was stuck for five days because I didn’t throw the shuriken at Sephiroth and he kept shadowy chaining me.
@@slithered you cleared it? Congrats!
@ yes! After 4 days, finally.
I've been trying the brumal form strategy but always die in Sephiroth fight.
@@jazzy_bella he shadowy chained yuffie? Everytime? 🤔
@@phrz- He was always very agro on Yuffie. She would either die from taking too many hits or shadowy chained. I came to the conclusion that I would need to perfect block some of his attacks. I was never able to get off even one magic spell. So frustrating. I took a break from this challenge to work on the solo battles.
@@jazzy_bella thats odd. Is your party order same like this vid? Seps opening attack would have been on the 1st point character, his following attack would be on yuffie since we have swapped. By the time he attack yuffie, cloud should have 2 atb already.
@@phrz- after taking a break from this challenge, I finally did it! I think swapping character order helped and I put swift cast on Cloud instead of Aerith so I was able to stun lock him quickly. Thank you!
@@jazzy_bella great to hear that! Congratz :)
You are the man❤
@@JH-tu6xq 🫶
Why the ATB bar of your yuffie didn't go down when using brumal form?,
when I attempted to do this her ATB bar depleted after a couple of brumal forms 😢
@@SublimeKaoZ combination of quite some things. Yuffie had Speed demon keychain accessory, speed up materia, ATB charge rate up weapon passive and also having Haste magic on. Were you using these?
@phrz- thank you, thank you!
Will try this
@@SublimeKaoZ sure no problem. In case you missed it, the build im using for this challenge is in the PIN comment.
What about seventh seal?
@@MattPawlowski-n8w didnt do one for 7th seal. Dont recall it being too hard, for me i had more trouble for hellions. You can try the hellions build, it could probably work.
In the stupid Sephiropth fight I can’t ever get the ATB ward off in time he hits me every time I try and get it
@@johny21t were you using shortcut commands for ATB Ward or navigate thru the menu to get it?
@@phrz- the menu not the shortcut
@@johny21t try using shortcut it might make a difference
@@phrz- tried it still got killed
@@johny21t damn. Probably rng, another commenter said Seph always attack yuffie instead. Keep trying, you'll get it. Positives is that you reached Sephs round a number of times. Progress.
Ohhhhhhh, so THAT's how Aerith doesn't take an HOUR to build a millimetre of ATB...
I appreciate and applaud the ingenuity, but now I hate this battle even more. Well, along some other of the 'chAlLENge baTTLeS'.
It's like the game punishes you if you want to play it straight, and rewards literal button-mashing and having Yuffie senselessly spazzing around. It's a total immersion-killer for me.
But oh well, it's called 'knowing and exploiting the game mechanics', the platinum trophy is a 'take it or leave' type of deal, so instead of whinging and whining, I instead thank you for the nicely edited, detailed guide that might finally enable me to beat this POS fight without getting steamrolled by Gilgamesh everytime. If the game cheeses me, I can as well cheese it back.
You know, it all wouldn't be so infuriating if you were allowed to practice the individual fights. Like, go straight to Gilgamesh, with the fight ending after you beat him or he you, so you still have to survive all five fights back to back to get the trophy and the reward. That way, you could truly try out things without wasting time and concentration on the previous fights.
Just one bit of constructive critcism ... it might be wise to mute the character voices anytime you use such a spammy approach for a video -- to be honest, I don't know how you didn't get crazy from the Yuffie noises xD
@givmi_more_w9251 yeah considered to mute her, but some may not be bothered by her. So i leave the decision to the audience :) Appreciate the comment tho.
Finally fucking did it. Had to max out swiftcast.
By the time I pressure bahamut and titan cloud has no MP left and cloud and aerith are dying really easily, like im dying way more to the first round.
Did u have mp absorption linked to lightning and fire for both cloud and aerith? I saw in the video, each time magic comea out, mp got restored. Hp got restored too. So there HP absorption as well.
Yea i did, but clouds AI keeps doing it out the ward so im losing more mp than im gaining
@@lee_vi_3947 ic, ideally the atb gained for cloud and aerith by yuffie is very fast that when they finish casting their current magic, another set of magic will be casted without them moving out of the ward.
Make sure your MP Absorption and HP Absorption are linked to their elements, and are maxed
So proud of myself for doing this without the brumal spam finally.
Gilgamesh or Sephiroth always wipe my ass in every run, I don't know how to beat them cause I tried every build and strategy possible 😓.. I am not that good at positioning and timing I guess, this challenge is so frustrating!!
@@mmoportal.official reaching gilgamesh or sephiroth is a great achievement by itself. Yeah the challenge is pretty frustrating, you gotta retry it a number of times. I just take breaks when im burned out from it. Goodluck 😁
@@phrz-Thank you, I'll try again soon with your build.
@@phrz-After 12h of pure anxiety I managed to beat Sephiroth, the start seems to be extremely important, I did exactly what you did without wasting a second and I beat him 🥳🥳🥳
@@mmoportal.official woohoooo congratulations 🥳🎉 happy for ya!
Make it to sephiroth and he murders me everytime tried for a month to beat him just gave up
@@gregorybledsoe7990 hi there! Were you using the same party order like the vid? Theres a commenter that said they were able to clear it once they changed the order.
Want NUDE mode TIFA,AERITH & YUFFIE!!!!Million thanks.Pls.Thanks😍😍😍🤗
And I want nude Cloud and Barret! *drool*
This doesn't work for me, Phoenix is unvulnerable prior to casting rebirth flame (whatever it's called). I have to skip hp absorption and use Elemental + fire on the armour on cloud and Aerith aswell
@@Mukation elemental + fire on armor is ok as well. I choose hp absorption because wanted it to work for all rounds.
@@phrz- i think i'm simply not quick enough haha
Waste of 10mins, for 10th time today, I think sephiroth has been nerfed, his too quick , might have to throw in the towel on this one,
@@bradleyscorey6976 just take a break and comeback later. I tried many times before im able to reach seph everytime.
I know mate, it’s just 50/50 chance if the A.i is slower then you are
Played it twice this morning and first try , got sephiroth down to inch of life then he went ape sh*t on me,
2nd try, he shadow chained me straight away, so that was game over, hope chadley ain’t in part 3 lol
Finally done it , now can focus on rest of the chapters l, cheers for the guide
@@bradleyscorey6976 welp that didnt take long :) congratz on the clear
Been at it since Tuesday lol, maybe should of maxed out material and got the genji gloves , but none of that matters for stage 5 I don’t think, cheers again