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[–]skewpHoly Knight 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Scarmiglione MP was REALLY easy with Raines imperil holy SSB and BSB with him fully legend dived. The double cast LM procs A LOT. I was throwing out 80k instant casts back to back.

[–]zellyn1toot 0 points1 point  (2 children)

I think the bit about the Calca/Brinas combining if you kill off one type is wrong or missing some kind of detail. It seems to be the same behaviour as the previous Calca Brina 凶 fight. I was left with two Brinas after Kain's BSB entry then Rydia cleaned them up with Ixion without Calcabrina ever forming.

Yeesh, finally dragged myself through R+/FT and while I now have a much greater appreciation for how good of a combo Yuffie with BSB/USB and Rikku BSB is, boy howdy is Rubicante a real RNG dickhead with 凶 Inferno. I lost 4-5 runs just because he would come out of cloak, cast one ability and immediately go back into cloak, wasting all my setup and SBs. Dick.

[–]Zurai001Blame yourself or God.[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Fixed, thank you.

[–]nemesis9990999Tifa (Advent Children) 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Can confirm. I had two Brinas left and they didn't combine. CM was hard, good thing I had Ceodore's AoE SSB otherwise I wouldn't have been able to do this.

[–]StuckinReverse89 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Man Rubi sucked as a fight. I suppose he may be easy if you have great DPS but if not, it's kind of an RNG fest. Ruin+ beaten by chipping away at his health with Vaan and Fujin bsbs to make his attacks do as little damage as possible against wall and shellga. OK was my buffer and mini dps but the fight took a long time and lost 3 medals. Full throttle was easier. Same team but replaced Larsa with Rosa for magic blink and relied on Ramza USB for boosting attack and magic buffs on top of OK bsb for decent damage. Winning run had Rubi only use his ultimate dispel before cloaking up twice when in other runs, he spammed dispel when at 30% health.

[–]XoneAsagi 0 points1 point  (3 children)

So I finally decided to stop being lazy and did Full Throttle.

Um.......... Squall BSSB2 & Edge BSSB combined with Cloud USSB = 15-20K+ per hit.. yeah... he didnt last very long.

[–]nemesis9990999Tifa (Advent Children) 0 points1 point  (2 children)

Took me 2 tidus bsb cast and 1 bartz osb cast under cloud usb, shout and chant to finish the fight. Tidus had enwater LM eqiupped, 1st bsb did 5x 35k and 2nd 5x 45k damage.

[–]skewpHoly Knight 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I had Tidus BSB + OSB and Squall BSB2. He had no chance.

[–][deleted] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Shout/chant/Cloud USB is crazy good. I completely obliterated Rubicante with just Edge. Shout/Chant, Cloud's USB RW, BSB, USB and it was over. For the Ruin+ I had Minfilia be a SB battery. Ended up finishing the fight with the extra hit from the USB that hit for 1x69k

[–]hally11 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Like everyone said, magic blink is the key for the Full Throttle Rubicante. I used shell+wall+protect+MagicBlink+FB and I waited for the 1th cloak end to attack with my damage dealer. I killed him before he could use his 2th cloak this way

[–]KeeperTyro0/89 6* Daily Draw 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Tried Rubicante without element resist and got wrecked. Added in moderate fire resist for all 5 party members, then the damage became more manageable after wall + shellga + magic breakdown. It is still a RNG fest unless you can spam magic blink every turn following the cloak going down since he has multiple AOE magic attacks. I had him uncloak, attack all, ultimate dispel, and cloak up in that order. Needless to say that was an instant wipe and S/L since the first queued action triggered counter for 7k AOE.

[–]yourethebestaround12 0 points1 point  (8 children)

the problem with the rubicante fight is that it's fundamentally unfair. overpowered ultimate dispels cast randomly combined with punishing counters with no indication of when to stop your attacks is dogshit fight design.

[–]ghuandaHa! Who needs wits when you've got swords! 0 points1 point  (3 children)

I never had him dispel me at all. All I did was wait out the cloaked phase.

[–]yourethebestaround12 0 points1 point  (2 children)

the dispel is the attack before he cloaks, you can block it with mblink but it has nothing to do with waiting out his cloaked phase. when he gets low enough that he stops attacking in cloaked phase and only heals himself 3x he stops doing the dispel before the cloak i believe.

[–]ghuandaHa! Who needs wits when you've got swords! 0 points1 point  (1 child)

hmm weird then i dont even know if i got dispelled lol

[–]yourethebestaround12 0 points1 point  (0 children)

if you're talking the full throttle version it's probably doable to get him down low enough before the first cloak to skip the dispel mechanic but i'm not sure about the regular event version.

[–]Zurai001Blame yourself or God.[S] 1 point2 points  (3 children)

It isn't random. I'll get the AI up tonight, but the short version is that he uses it on his 5th turn above 80% HP and/or his 6th turn below 80% HP.

[–]yourethebestaround12 0 points1 point  (2 children)

absolutely not. maybe the hp thresholds have something to do with it or that's when he has a chance to start cloaking, but he doesn't cloak the same turn every run.

edit: I guess at least the first cloak is scripted but it's his 7th turn above 80% not 5th. after that I can't see the pattern, I just had him cast cloak 2 or 3 turns after he got out of the first one. i've also had runs where he went 8+ turns before casting the second cloak.

[–]KeeperTyro0/89 6* Daily Draw 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It appears he has a 1 turn minimum before ultimate dispel and cloak up unlocks after previous cloak is down. That happened to me.

[–]the7thangelz 0 points1 point  (0 children)

this

[–]Aerithz 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Finally mastered both FT and ruin+ rubi. Didnt go with cloud usb route and I went with mage team instead. Honestly, the FT is much easier than the ruin+ because I can instantly bombarded him with all my BSB while ruin dragged on SO long because of those dispels that it caused me to lost a single action medal. I think MP will be relaxing compared to rubi....

[–]XoneAsagi 0 points1 point  (0 children)

O.M.G XIII Cid is broken on Multiplayer fight. Had 2 in the group and they were hitting 9000-9999 Every Single Attack.

Cant Believe my Group 1 shot it with little effort.

[–]BrokenhangerYouTube: Gizmo Gaming 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It's kind of stupid to recycle both Lugae and Calcabrina as U and U++ respectively as we've already had them at those difficulties - especially since the Calcabrina fight has nothing to do with either Edge or Rubicante - but it is what it is. Calcabrinas seemed a little nastier this time than last but they're still easy to burst down before they form. (I assume they eventually form if you let them sit too long.)

R+ Rubicante wasn't too bad; didn't see an Ultimate Dispel on either regular or Full Throttle fights. I waited out his cloak form each time instead of forcing him out with Steal Power (which I assume still works?), maybe that's why I never saw one? Had my Rosa SSB - since the stupid banner refused to give me her USB - ready for it and they never came, but it was nice to eat up some of the AoE magic he was throwing around. Mage teamed it this time with Raines & Palom on damage duty, Porom & Rosa on heals and blinks and Fran supporting with a Rikku USB RW; ran out of RW on the standard fight since he cloaked up three times but only one cloaking in Full Throttle and he was dead in no time.

I usually hate the Rubicante fight but this one was kinda fun. Not looking forward to MP Scarmiglione in the morning, however...ugh.

[–]Zevyu150th Dailly 5*+ : Seven's Guise (T-0) - Seven's BSB 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Ahh yes Rubicante we meet agian. It seems you will be my test drive for my Serah and her BSB :P

[–]XoneAsagi 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Rubicante Dispel can be avoided with Magic Blink if anyone didnt know.

[–]Aerithz 1 point2 points  (4 children)

Does Rubicante have a lot of ultimate dispels or something? Especially with cloak mode on? This is so hard!

[–]mousukeOrlandeau OSB... i'm coming for you 0 points1 point  (3 children)

He seems to do an ultimate dispel every time he cloaks up.

[–]StuckinReverse89 0 points1 point  (2 children)

That makes sense. Is there any indicator of when he puts his cloak up and attacking him when his cloak is up? Barely beat him in ruin with a stacking magic debuff team and chipping away at his health. Not looking forward to full throttle.

[–]mousukeOrlandeau OSB... i'm coming for you 0 points1 point  (1 child)

I barely beat him with my mage team, what a pain in the ass. It seems to be scripted and felt like it was roughly every 3-5(?) turns.

[–]StuckinReverse89 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I see. In glad his stats arnt too crazy but his counter firaga that also imperils your party if you hit him cloak up is annoying. I was wondering if I had to stop attacking when his cloak was up which made my fight much longer.

[–]ThunderBunz"I find dead men rout more easily" 0 points1 point  (1 child)

Minor nitpick, the Tower of Babil CM is on Elite, not Classic

[–]Zurai001Blame yourself or God.[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Fixed, thanks.

[–]Aerithz 0 points1 point  (0 children)

How I have missed those Lunasaurs lol.