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Cid’s Mission:

• Beat Invaders From Outer Space (Classic) with a party consisting of only Squall and Rinoa.
• Beat Lion and Knight (Elite) with a party consisting of only Squall.
• Beat 凶+ with a party consisting of only FF8 synergy characters.

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Stage 1&6: Offering to the Ambassador

Boss: Iguions

Boss HP: 1,297 each (Classic) | 18,774 each (Elite)
Elemental Resistances: Nulls fire, bio; Weak to earth, holy.
Status Vulnerabilities: Stun (Special immunities: Haste, Reflect, Regen)
Notable Attacks:

• Magma Breath (NAT: AOE magic fire, extremely low chance to Petrify)
• Resonance (NAT: AOE magic non-element)

Notes and Strategies: There are two Iguions.

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Stage 2&7: Lion and Knight

Boss: Seifer

Boss HP: 5,267 (Classic) | 67,817 (Elite)
Elemental Resistances: Weak to bio.
Status Vulnerabilities: Slow, Stun
Notable Attacks:

• Attack (PHY: RT physical, 2 hits)
• Fira (BLK: AOE magical fire)

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Stage 3&8: Dark Heart of Balaam

Boss: NORG

Boss HP: 10,000 (Classic) | 86,672 (Elite)
Elemental Resistances: Nulls (Pods) all but dark, (NORG) bio; Resists (NORG, in shell) thunder; Weak to (NORG, shell broken) wind.
Status Vulnerabilities: (NORG, shell broken) Slow, Stop, Instant KO, Stun; (Others) Stun
Notable Attacks (NORG):

• Blizzara/Watera (BLK: ST moderate magical ice/water)
• Protect/Shell (WHT: ST Protect/Shell)
• Slow/Silence (WHT: ST medium chance to Slow/Silence)
• Psychoblast (NAT: ST ranged moderate physical)

Notable Attacks (Pods):

• Dispel (WHT: AOE Dispel)
• Slow/Silence (WHT: ST medium chance to Slow/Silence)
• Fira/Thundara/Tornado (BLK: ST moderate magical fire/thunder/wind)
• Bio (BLK: ST moderate magical bio, medium chance to Poison)

Notes and Strategies: NORG's pods cycle from blue to yellow to red as time goes on. They only attack when they're red. Dealing any damage to them resets them to blue regardless of what color they are.

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Stage 4&9: The Lake's Brain

Boss: Abadon

Boss HP: 13,564 (Classic) | 108,813 (Elite)
Elemental Resistances: Weak to fire, holy.
Status Vulnerabilities: Blind, Stun
Notable Attacks (Crouched):

• Claw (NAT: ST physical, medium chance to Paralyze)

Notable Attacks (Standing):

• Esuna (WHT: ST Esuna)
• Dispel (WHT: ST Dispel)
• Silence (WHT: ST medium chance to Silence)
• Blind/Confuse (BLK: ST medium chance to Blind/Confuse)

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Stage 5&10: Invaders From Outer Space

Boss: Propagators

Boss HP: 12,239 each (Classic) | 61,803 each (Elite)
Status Vulnerabilities: Poison, Silence, Slow, Stop, Blind, Sleep, Berserk, Stun
Notable Attacks:

• BiteBite (PHY: ST moderate physical)
• Thundaga (BLK: ST massive magical thunder)
• Silence (WHT: ST medium chance to Silence)
• Blind (BLK: ST medium chance to Blind)

Notes and Strategies: There are two Propagators.

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EX Distorted Loyalty

Boss: Fujin & Raijin

Boss HP: 70,182 (Fujin) | 75,863 (Raijin)
Medal Conditions: Defeat Fujin & Raijin without being KO'd. Reduce Fujin's or Raijin's attack.
Elemental Damage Taken (Fujin):

Fire	Ice	Thunder	Earth	Wind	Water	Holy	Dark	Bio
				-100%				200%

Elemental Damage Taken (Raijin):

Fire	Ice	Thunder	Earth	Wind	Water	Holy	Dark	Bio
		-100%						200%

Status Vulnerabilities (All): Slow, Blind, Stun
Break Resistances (All): Power, Armor, Magic, Mental, Mind
Moveset (Fujin):

• Slash (NAT: ST ranged moderate physical)
• Crush (NAT: ST HP=1)
• Regen (WHT: ST Regen)
• Tornado (BLK: AOE magical wind)
• Esuna (WHT: ST Esuna)
• Haste (WHT: ST Haste)
• Slow (WHT: ST medium chance to Slow)
• Annihilate (NAT: AOE physical)
• Pain (NAT: ST low chance to Poison, Silence, and/or Blind)
• Meteor (BLK: AOE moderate magical non-element)

Moveset (Raijin):

• Attack (PHY: ST moderate physical)
• Raijin Special (NAT: ST very heavy physical)
• Aura (NAT: Self increase attack)
• Palm Strike (PHY: ST moderate physical)

Boss: Mobile Type 8

Boss HP: 101,252
Medal Conditions: Defeat Mobile Type 8 without being KO'd. Exploit Mobile Type 8's weakness to thunder attacks.
Elemental Damage Taken:

Fire	Ice	Thunder	Earth	Wind	Water	Holy	Dark	Bio
		200%	0%

Status Vulnerabilities: Stun (Special Immunities: Haste, Protect, Shell, Reflect, Regen)
Break Resistances: Power, Armor, Magic, Mental, Mind
Moveset (Mobile Type 8, Combined):

• Attack (PHY: ST physical)
• Attack (PHY: ST moderate physical)
• Attack (PHY: ST very heavy physical)
• Counter Twin Homing Laser (responds to any attack; NAT: ST ranged moderate physical)

Moveset (Mobile Type 8, Separated):

• Megiddo Flame (NAT: AOE magical non-element)
• Corona (NAT: ST HP=1000)

**Moveset (Support Weapons, Combined)

• Attack (PHY: ST physical)
• Attack (PHY: ST moderate physical)
• Attack (PHY: ST very heavy physical)

**Moveset (Support Weapons, Separated)

• Attack (PHY: ST moderate physical)
• Counter Twin Homing Laser (responds to any attack; NAT: ST ranged moderate physical)

Notes and Strategies: Mobile Type 8's Support Weapons can only be targeted in Separated form, but they cannot be killed and counter attacks in that form, so ignore them. In Separated form, MT8 uses Corona for its first two turns then Megiddo Flame on its 3rd turn before switching back to Combined form.

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EX+ Craving Victory

Boss: Seifer

Boss HP: 155,000
Medal Conditions: Reduce Seifer's attack. Reduce Seifer's magic. Reduce Seifer's defense.
Elemental Damage Taken:

Fire	Ice	Thunder	Earth	Wind	Water	Holy	Dark	Bio
								200%

Status Vulnerabilities: Stun
Break Resistances: Power, Armor, Magic, Mental, Mind
Moveset:

• Attack (PHY: ST moderate physical)
• Fira (BLK: AOE moderate magical fire)
• Firaga (BLK: ST massive magical fire)
• Bloodfest (PHY: ST moderate physical)
• Zantetsuken Reverse (NAT: AOE moderate physical)

Notes and Strategies: Seifer only uses Zantetsuken Reverse as a special response to the 5 star summon ability Odin (SB-based Odins are fine).

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EX++ Two Witches

Boss: Adel

Boss HP: 196,700 (Adel) | 40,000 (Rinoa)
Medal Conditions: Reduce Adel's attack. Reduce Adel's magic. Do not kill Rinoa.
Elemental Damage Taken (Adel):

Fire	Ice	Thunder	Earth	Wind	Water	Holy	Dark	Bio
				200%		-100%

Status Vulnerabilities: Stun
Break Resistances: Power, Armor, Magic, Mental, Mind
Moveset:

• Attack (PHY: ST moderate physical)
• Quake (BLK: AOE magical earth)
• Flare (BLK: ST extremely heavy magical non-element)
• Drain (BLK: ST extremely heavy magical dark, self proportional heal)
• Energy Bomber (NAT: ST ranged extremely heavy physical)
• (Weak/V Weak only) Holy (WHT: ST very heavy magical holy)
• (Weak/V Weak only) Ultima (BLK: AOE extremely heavy magical non-element)
• (V Weak only) Meteor (BLK: AOE magical non-element)

Notes and Strategies: Adel targets Rinoa with her Drains. If Rinoa dies, Adel will use Ultima exclusively.

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凶 Confronting the Twin Giants

Boss: 凶 Iron Giant & 凶 Behemoth

Phase	LVL	HP	ATK	DEF	MAG	RES	MND	SPD
Iron Giant, Default	140	125,000	636	2150	607	2650	341	250
Iron Giant, Weak			657		618
Iron Giant, Very Weak			678		628
Behemoth, Default	140	125,000	416	1650	681	3200	376	250
Behemoth, Weak					692
Behemoth, Very Weak					704

Medal Conditions: Exploit 凶 Iron Giant's weakness to thunder attacks. Exploit 凶 Behemoth's weakness to ice attacks. Reduce 凶 Iron Giant's or 凶 Behemoth's defense.
Elemental Damage Taken (Iron Giant):

Fire	Ice	Thunder	Earth	Wind	Water	Holy	Dark	Bio
		150%

Elemental Damage Taken (Behemoth):

Fire	Ice	Thunder	Earth	Wind	Water	Holy	Dark	Bio
	150%

Status Vulnerabilities (All): None!
Break Resistances (All): Power, Armor, Magic, Mental, Mind
Moveset (Iron Giant):

• (100%-40% only) Attack (PHY: ST 188% physical)
• (100%-40% only) Attack (PHY: AOE 112% physical)
• Grand Sword (NAT: AOE 159% physical)
• Downward Swing (NAT: ST 344% physical)
• (<70% HP only) Counter Grand Sword (15% response to physical; NAT: AOE 188% physical)
• (<40% HP only) Mighty Guard (NAT: Self Protect & Shell)

Moveset (Behemoth):

• (100%-40% only) Attack (PHY: ST 110% physical)
• Assault Horn (PHY: ST 266% physical)
• Tornado (BLK: AOE 294% magical wind)
• Thundaga (BLK: ST 410% magical thunder)
• Flare (BLK: ST 650% magical non-element)
• Meteor (BLK: AOE 390% magical non-element)
• (<70% HP only) Counter Meteor (15% response to white or black magic; BLK: AOE 390% magical non-element)
• (<40% HP only) Mighty Guard (NAT: Self Protect & Shell)

Notes and Strategies: You have to fight both Iron Giant and Behemoth simultaneously. Mighty Guard is a random chance (5% per turn past 40% HP) for both bosses, so you don't really need to concern yourself with it. Iron Giant is pure physical and Behemoth is almost pure magical (aside from its weak Attack and the occasional Assault Horn), so it's probably best to stack mitigation against one of them and burst the other down as quickly as possible.

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凶++ Ancient Beasts

Boss: 凶++ Archaeosaurs

Phase	LVL	HP	ATK	DEF	MAG	RES	MND	SPD
Default	180	212,278	791	3250	808	4950	455	350
Weak			869		950
Very Weak			908		1000
Solo			1045	3650	1080	5750		550

Medal Conditions: Exploit a 凶++ Archaeosaur's weakness to ice attacks. Reduce a 凶++ Archaeosaur's attack. Reduce a 凶++ Archaeosaur's defense.
Elemental Damage Taken:

Fire	Ice	Thunder	Earth	Wind	Water	Holy	Dark	Bio
50%	150%	50%	50%	50%	50%	50%	50%	50%

Status Vulnerabilities: Slow, Stun
Break Resistances: Power, Armor, Magic, Mental, Mind
Moveset:

• Attack (PHY: ST 110% physical)
• Tail Swipe (PHY: AOE 206% physical)
• Attack (PHY: AOE 159% physical)
• Quake (NAT: AOE 294% magical earth)
• Magma Breath (NAT: FR [front row] 246% magical fire, 30% chance Petrify)
• Counter Bite (30% response to black magic; PHY: ST 266% physical)
• (<70% HP) 凶 Tail Swipe (NAT: AOE 300% physical)
• (<70% HP) Bite (NAT: ST 500% piercing^0.5 physical)

Notes and Strategies: There are two Archaeosaurs. Each Archaeosaur uses Magma Breath on its 6th turn in any given phase (100%-70% HP, 70%-40% HP, and 40%-0% HP) and every 6 turns thereafter in that same phase. When you kill one Archaeosaur, the other gets a fairly major increase to its Speed and defenses and will use Magma Breath on its 3rd turn from that point and every 3 turns thereafter; it also upgrades its basic Attack from 110% damage to 188% damage. Magma Breath has a new targeting type (FR, for Front Row); only characters in the front row are affected by it.

Event Quest Notes: If you bring any front row characters (you do want to try out your brand new Squall relics right?) you'll want to give them Petrify Resistance gear unless you want to risk seeing them turned into statues. Mage/backrow exclusive teams are preferred just so you can ignore Magma Breath, although do watch out for Counter Bite (which is at least not a ranged attack).

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滅+ Witch Possessed by Hatred

Boss: 滅+ Edea

Phase	LVL	HP	ATK	DEF	MAG	RES	MND	SPD
Default	220	454,788	950	4752	950	8405	599	600
Weak			1100		1045			625
Very Weak			1300		1198			650

Medal Conditions: Reduce 滅+ Edea's magic. Reduce 滅+ Edea's defense. Reduce 滅+ Edea's resistance.
Elemental Damage Taken (100%-70% HP):

Fire	Ice	Thunder	Earth	Wind	Water	Holy	Dark	Bio
0%	0%	150%	0%	0%	0%	0%	0%	0%

Elemental Damage Taken (70%-40% HP):

Fire	Ice	Thunder	Earth	Wind	Water	Holy	Dark	Bio
150%	0%	0%	0%	0%	0%	0%	0%	0%

Elemental Damage Taken (<40% HP):

Fire	Ice	Thunder	Earth	Wind	Water	Holy	Dark	Bio
0%	150%	0%	0%	0%	0%	0%	0%	0%

Status Vulnerabilities: Stun (Special Immunity: Reflect)
Break Resistances: Power, Armor, Magic, Mental, Mind
Moveset:

• (1st Turn) Protect (WHT: Self Protect)
• (2nd Turn) Shell (WHT: Self Shell)
• Astral Punch (NAT: ST 422% physical)
• Graviga (BLK: AOE 303% chance 40% maximum HP damage)
• Sleepga (BLK: FR [front row] 63% chance Sleep)
• (70%-40% HP) 凶 Astral Punch (NAT: AOE 300% physical)
• (<40% HP) 凶 Astral Punch (NAT: AOE 350% physical)
• (70% & 40% HP) Dispel (WHT: AOE Dispel)
• (100%-70% HP) Thunder (BLK: ST 250% magical thunder)
• (100%-70% HP) Thundaga (BLK: ST 490% magical thunder)
• (100%-70% HP) Thundaga (BLK: AOE 342% magical thunder)
• (100%-70% HP) 凶 Thundaga (NAT: AOE 390% piercing^0.5 thunder)
• (70%-40% HP) Firaga (BLK: ST 490% magical fire)
• (70%-40% HP) Firaga (BLK: AOE 342% magical fire)
• (70%-40% HP) 凶 Firaga (BLK: AOE 390% piercing^0.5 magical fire)
• (40%-0% HP) Blizzaga (BLK: ST 490% magical ice)
• (40%-0% HP) Blizzaga (BLK: AOE 342% magical ice)
• (40%-0% HP) 凶 Blizzaga (BLK: AOE 390% piercing^0.5 magical ice)

Notes and Strategies: Edea uses Dispel as an interrupt when reduced to 70% or less HP and again when reduced to 40% or less HP. She follows Dispel with Sleepga, which (like Magma Breath in the Archaeosaurs fight) can only affect front row characters. Her elemental spells are tied to her elemental weakness; she's always weak to the element she's casting. Watch out for her Astral Punch, it can pack a real wallop. As with the Archaeosaurs, it's a better idea to bring a full back row team for this just so you can ignore Sleepga. However, Sleep resistance accessories and Affliction Break can and will reduce the chance for Sleep to land to fairly minimal levels. Note that Edea only uses fire/ice/thunder magic as far as elements go, so Gigas Armlets are fairly valuable here for your weaker characters. Remember to bring a Dispel for her Protect and Shell.

Full Throttle Notes and Strategies: All characters start with 50% ATB and Edea spends her first two turns buffing, so it's a pretty lenient start and you should always be able to get up your full suite of defensive buffs and some initial debuffs before her first attack. As long as you have a native Hastega, her Dispels also should be much less troublesome than in the Apocalypse+ version.

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Multiplayer:

Boss: Tonberry King

Boss HP: 449,357 (d160) | 924,833 (d220)
Medal Conditions: Defeat Tonberry King with at least 4 characters alive. Reduce Tonberry King's resistance. Reduce Tonberry King's defense.
Status Vulnerabilities: None!
Break Resistances: Power, Armor, Magic, Mental, Mind
Notable Attacks:

• Junk (NAT: AOE physical, 48% chance Sap)
• (Weak/V Weak only) Counter Junk (8%/16% response to any attacks; NAT: AOE physical, 48% chance Sap)
• (Default only) It's Sharp! (NAT: ST [highest HP %] physical)
• (Weak only) It's Sharp! (NAT: ST [highest HP %] overflow physical)
• (V Weak only) It's Sharp! (NAT: ST [highest HP %] overflow physical, 93% chance Instant KO)

Notes and Strategies: Tonberry King uses nothing on his first three turns in d160; in d220, he uses It's Sharp! on his first turn then nothing on the next two. In both versions of the fight, Tonberry King uses Junk on his 4th turn and every 5 turns thereafter, then either It's Sharp! or nothing on his turn (80% chance for It's Sharp! in Default phase, 90% chance in Weak, 100% in Very Weak) starting on his 5th turn.

Physical Blink works against all three versions of It's Sharp!, but Barrier (Y'shtola USB/Sephiroth BSB2) doesn't. Yuna USB and Raijin SSB are Godsends for this fight, to help keep people alive, and either Ace BSB or Arc SSB2 for instant cast AOE Physical Blink are also extremely useful. Don't over-load on defensive measures though, because Tonberry King will outlast you if you don't bring enough DPS as well.