Toughest bosses in Final Fantasy HistoryFollow

The boss fight in FF9 on the Fat Chocobo's Paradise that floated around in the sky. Think it was Ozma, but he was the toughest thing you could face in that entire game.

Meteor for 9999 on everyone, killing you instantly regardless. Death spells. I have never been able to beat him. Took insane preparation and set abilities.

Omg you gotta be kidding, Yiazmat? Hard?? Maybe when you tried him without the right equipment... or something? I thought it was the most ridiculously easy secret boss ever. Auto-gambit win, sure I died the first few tries, then got my gambits sorted out and I literally did nothing, went to friends, came back and it was dead ; ; /sadpanda....

Hardest boss? Prolly AV or Pandemonium Warden, old school ^^

I beat Yiazmat the 2nd month after the game release, before all the guides came out. He'll always be my toughest boss and I don't remember getting any rewards but a "Thank You" from a bunch of chipmunk looking moogles.

Fafnir / Nidhogg?

Edited, Aug 28th 2013 2:30pm by Hairspray

I second Wiegraf. Between him & Gafgarion they made a lot of ppl quit the game when they saved the game after the first part.

You rolled him out of the 1/64 chance dice roll. Them's the breaks!

Ruby WEAPON.

Enuo.

I had an easier time with Ruby than I did with Emerald, oddly enough.

If you went to fight Omega Weapon in 8 unprepared, you were in for a treat (and some pain) less you used Selphie's "The End" which is just cheap. :P

I agree that Yunalesca at the appropriate level was hard. My boyfriend also said to me he won with the exact strategy that I won with: everyone was dead except Rikku and he just spammed potions to win. lol

I don't think AV was hard just because he was designed to be unbeatable it seems. PW was challenging when I did him from a WHM perspective. You needed a lot of things in that fight prior to people realizing BLU was pretty good on it. One of the strategies we employed actually had everyone change job when he got to the last phase. lol BRDs, CORs, and a bunch of melee with meditate. '

I think Twin was pretty hard to learn. Requires near flawless execution.

The international version of X had some REALLY nasty fights.

FF12 had some interesting bosses if you didn't out level them or use cheap tactics I think. 2nd Gilgamesh was a bit challenging, Zalera, Cúchulainn due to all the nasty statuses, Zodiark due to Darkja randomly killing people, etc. All a matter of preparation with the right gambits.

I had out leveled Ozma by the time I fought him but if I hadn't, he would have probably been one of the hardest fights.

I think everything pre-FFVIII was just difficult on your first encounter, but designed to doable after certain amount of grinding.

Even Omega and Shinryu from FFV could be completed once you had the key jobs leveled.

However omega weapon from FFVIII is not duable if you don't understand the correct strategy (don't get me wrong, it isn't difficult once you know what to do) but it was the first monster that required a strategy even with the best gear/stats available.

After that the progression has scaled both in complexity and time requirements, now is not just about knowing the strategy but also reaching the necessary gear/stats to execute it.

Although difficulty should also take resources into account, in the 80's it was game magazines, then came the internet, and now you just watch a video in Youtube and know exactly what to do.

With all that in mind, I think the hardest boss in FF history has been Asura from FFIV.

She is a summon that you can obtain for your party, but her specialty is healing magic, she does 2 things during the fight, auto-attack and heal herself, IIRC you reach there around lvl 35 and your party would have to be at least twice that level to out-damage her heals.

Your only real option is to know the strategy which involves a spell called "Barrier" which basically grants a reflect effect, you have to cast it on her so her healing magic cures your party instead of herself, the problem with that is that Barrier is the first installment of that kind of spell in the final fantasy franchise (at least in Western hemisphere), and your healer does not have it by the time you reach that point in the story.

She is an optional boss so most people just ignored her and kept going with the story, your only shot at the fight is keep leveling and pay attention to your spells, once your white mage learned "Barrier" the tool tip would be your only clue to take her down. And in fact it is very valuable knowledge as "Barrier" becomes a key spell for other fights in the game.