the last battle sux soooooooooooo bad!!!! i hate the last battle. it takes me an HOUR to beat all of those ultimecia bosses and it sux.

how long did it take you guys?

uh, it took me about 30 min, but that was a while ago,

yea i was pretty fast - 25 to 30 mintues at my longest.

i didnt find ne of her forms hard at all... the only think that pissed me off was hells judgement - but that was unpreventable.

i dunno, i was expecting a harder battle than it was - to me at least

=-O Wow, that is long... Well, I took about 20-25 minutes since Ultimecia didn't last quite long... :\

just under half an hour

easy fights though

just lengthy

About 15 minutes, no joke. Squall at like 85, Zell at 80, and Irvine at i think 78, give or take 2 on all of em. I used Eden once when I could, and otherwise cast triple and used meteor and aura. Squall had auto haste, and their speed were about 80 or so, then it was just Limit break heaven. I had 100 AP ammo, so I did about 8000-9999 a hit. Now that could of just been that fast cuz of my speed, but my guys were doin a decent amount of damage w/ each hit.

all my characters were at their max. i found it quite easy to level up on the heaven and hell islands. But yeah but be4 i battled Ultimecia i accidently saved over it with my friends sucky file

While the final battle of this game sure did last a long time for me (about 45 min) I found the fight with Griever before Ultimecia to be harder. It's been a few years since I beat this game, so I'm not entirely sure what made Griever harder, think it has something to do with his final "I'm dying so now I hurt you big time" move, can't remember what it's called though.

Anyway fighting Ultimecia I don't remember my levels but most of my tactics involved casting tripple with meteor/ultima a lot until I ran out of those.

half an hour for me i just had irvine and selphie using recover and revive if neccessary and sqaull doing renzokokun

go and get all your abilities back and you'll fly through it :)

It only took me like 15 minutes with everyone at level 100, I plowed through all her different forms...

MY fastest time in the final battles was around 20 mins, I had Squall at LV100 and everyone else around 85-92.

hmm. . i had every charector at level 100 and all there best weapons... and it took me about 20 min .. maybe 25 pushin it..

hmm. . i had every charector at level 100 and all there best weapons... and it took me about 20 min .. maybe 25 pushin it..
how did you beat each of her forms? I used Irvine's Pulse Ammo, and tapped so fast that I beat the last form in like a minute doing 9999 a hit...I had a lot of ammo...for the other forms I used Squall's Lionheart...

It's been a few years since I beat this game, so I'm not entirely sure what made Griever harder, think it has something to do with his final "I'm dying so now I hurt you big time" move, can't remember what it's called though.

It's called Shockwave Pulsar, and if you had Griever has a GF, this would be his move but you can get Quistis to learn it by using a dark matter! And using it against Ultimecia is a brilliant tactic!

It took me less than 15 mins to beat Ultimecia ..

how about a Squall with 255 Str, a Lion Heart and 2 Holy Wars ... (I had 100)
Rinoa works well too with Wishing Star ..
When I was getting my GF's to higher lvl's I did a lot of renzokukens, I got the Lion Heart limit break 1 time ..
I beated Omega Weapon, got the Lion Heart Limit Break only 1 time ..
Then I went to Ultimecia (I was in the neighbourhood anyway) and i did Lion Heart 4 times .. which was pretty engouh to kill her and her many forms ..
What I'm trying to say is you'll get to use Lion Heart's Limit Break more than in every other fight, it should therefore be pretty easy ..
Triple Aura followed by Holy War can do this, or get your party a low Hp and then Holy War them, that's a lot better, you don't need Aura then, but you can't see when the Holy War effects will take off ...

how to get 255 Str to max dmge ?
junction 100 Aura, get Str+60%, Devour T-Rexaurs ..

getting 255 Atk power isn't that hard you know

10 minutes alot of refined holy wars and holy war trials and about five renzokukens. I'm glad though I prepared well and succeeded without a hitch. Not often I do that.

Was easy. Took a while,10 mins, longest i've ever took on a last boss,though but i had lv 100 characters and 100 megaelixers so i had no prob.

Nope, I died once against Ultimecia, and then defeated her evey time, ever since.

Refine Bahamut card to 100 Megalixirs, and attack Ultimecia v.1, an then Aura everone for Griever, and watch out for Shockwave Pulsar, Ultimecia v.2 w/ Griever is easy, it only steals really crappy magic like "scan" and "fire", just limit break it, and then Ulimiecia v.3 is not too bad, just Megalixir Apocalypse and Hells something or other (reduces HP to 1).

how did you beat each of her forms? I used Irvine's Pulse Ammo, and tapped so fast that I beat the last form in like a minute doing 9999 a hit...I had a lot of ammo...for the other forms I used Squall's Lionheart...


the first 2 forms were a push over, even without the 3 that i wanted to use the whole time..... so when i got to the harder part... i had one person drawing, one person healing, and squall with aura and using his limit till i did lion heart on her alst for ... by luck ... buti would do ... apocolype?(sp) on her .. lol.. use her own magic agenst here.. muahahaahah

I still cannot beat the one with Griever and Ultemicia mixed, the 3rd form.

900th post WOOOOO!!!

Just find yourself some Hero Drinks or Holy Wars and throw a bunch of Megalixirs and Elixirs and junction stuff to raise HP and strength and magic and such. Sheesh.

first form-3 min.
second form-5 min.
third form-7 min.
fourth form-10 min
25 total shorter every time after that and if i got a lionheart over real fast.

To those of you who don't know how to get Holy wars refine the gilgamesh card(I think that's right) You can win that from the CC club on Ragnarok.

Or refine the Laguna Card for 100 Heros. This just turns one of your chars invulnerable. You can make this into 1 Holy War using Alexander's med lvl up, but it's far more cost effective to do the 100 Heros.

It took me about 15-20 minutes to beat her.

Or refine the Laguna Card for 100 Heros. This just turns one of your chars invulnerable. You can make this into 1 Holy War using Alexander's med lvl up, but it's far more cost effective to do the 100 Heros.
Actually it's FAAAAAR more effective to Refine the Gilgamesh to 10 Holy Wars, and on the Ragnarok Disc 4, win it back, refine it, win it back ..
That's way easier .. but soooo overkill
since I needed 10 or so for Omega Weapon but just 2 to defeat Ultimecia
just Aura or get low HP (even better) and Holy War, then Lion Heart a few times ...
Ultimecia blew 3 times some Magic away, I don't think that's a lot .. It was over quickly ..

About 20 minutes. It was a pretty sad battle. Makes me wish for a new Turn Based "Phantasy Star"

It depends on your strategy, if you use limit breaks it will be very fast cuz lionheart and wishing star can kill any of the forms with one hit. but if u use GFs it will take longer cuz of the time to summon them and they do less damage.

It took me about half an hour but i am sooooo mad at that game. During Ultimecia's last stage my game got screwed up and the text boxes turned all black so i couldn't see anything said during/after the final battle.

Most of what Ultimecia said in the last battle had to do with time and the past, but it's really irrelavent so you don't have to know what she says. But if you do someone can type it cuz I frgot most of what she said.

I can't kill the one with the Helixes.

Actually it's FAAAAAR more effective to Refine the Gilgamesh to 10 Holy Wars, and on the Ragnarok Disc 4, win it back, refine it, win it back ..
That's way easier .. but soooo overkill
since I needed 10 or so for Omega Weapon but just 2 to defeat Ultimecia
just Aura or get low HP (even better) and Holy War, then Lion Heart a few times ...
Ultimecia blew 3 times some Magic away, I don't think that's a lot .. It was over quickly ..

Actually, when I said that, I was referring to the med lvl up not the Gilgamesh card. To make 1 Holy War from 100 Heros is a bit of a waste

My way? I would let my three weaker characters kamikaze ultimicia and limit break her. Griever is a bit harder because he's the one who either blows your magic stock or draws from it then i cast meltdown(in fact, i cast meltdown on all of ultimicia's forms)
Then i simply use limit breaks until ultimicia's true form.

It may sound crazy, but i actually let Ultimicia use Hell's Judgement on me. I cast meltdown on her and use Holy War... Then i get ready to rumble...

Most of what Ultimecia said in the last battle had to do with time and the past, but it's really irrelavent so you don't have to know what she says. But if you do someone can type it cuz I frgot most of what she said.

hmm wasnt it sumfin like ''time no matter how fast it travels never let it pass u by well i think theres more but im to lazy to go kick her ugly ass lol

I made the mistake of attacking the upper, or was it lower half of the true form and she just healed the other fully. So that pissed me off. Took me about 30 minutes to beat all of them. Never even used meltdown or holy wars.

took me 10-15 mins. to beat her. she's an easy boss.

It took me about 10 mins i found the normal griever the hardest

i had to fight her twice. the first time, i got to her last form, and she was talking, and my little sister came in and froze the game. so, i had to fight her again. i refined the bahamut card and got 100 megalixers.(is that right?i think so.) she's not that hard, but i love her boss battle music.(totally irrelevent)

It took me forever. The final boss was the hardest of any Final Fantay.

umm...not really. even though i love 8 and i love ultimecia, she wasn't that hard. i would say that Yu-yevon was harder than her, and he's easy.

It depends on your strategy, if you use limit breaks it will be very fast cuz lionheart and wishing star can kill any of the forms with one hit. but if u use GFs it will take longer cuz of the time to summon them and they do less damage.I'm pretty sure True Ultimecia has more HP than a Renzokuken+Lion Heart can take in one go, and Wishing Star definitely can't kill any of her forms in one go.

The battle takes 15 minutes for me at the most, since I use the Angel Wing + Meteor Limit for Rinoa; take off all of her status/offensive magic except Meteor and give her a 255 Mag Stat. Each blow by Meteor will do around 8,500. Times that by 10 (the amount of hits Meteor does), add an invincible (Hero) Rinoa with Auto-Haste, and you've got yourself possibly the easiest final boss fight in FF history.

\\ take off all of her status/offensive magic except Meteor and give her a 255 Mag Stat. Each blow by Meteor will do around 8,500. Times that by 10 (the amount of hits Meteor does), add an invincible (Hero) Rinoa with Auto-Haste, and you've got yourself possibly the easiest final boss fight in FF history.
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a even faster way to do this is junction bahamut to rinoa and equip her with expendx3(or something like that)then cast triple on her so then you attack 30 times instead of ten for meteor(and all at the cost of 1 meteor!!!!)

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a even faster way to do this is junction bahamut to rinoa and equip her with expendx3(or something like that)then cast triple on her so then you attack 30 times instead of ten for meteor(and all at the cost of 1 meteor!!!!)Angel Wing raises Rinoa's Mag stat by roughly 5 times (even when it's at 255) and doesn't use up the spells that are cast during this status, so even though you'd be doing more hits, they wouldn't be as strong and you'd be losing your Meteor spells along they way. Not a bad idea, though.

umm...not really. even though i love 8 and i love ultimecia, she wasn't that hard. i would say that Yu-yevon was harder than her, and he's easy.

You what? Yu-Yevon, the guy who you can just csat doom on? The guy who you can't die against?

Come on! Ultimecia was a hard boss, but there are others much harder.

using rinoas angel wing isnt a smart move...

she does random magic,so your not gonna hit meteor all the time...if yuo get rid of all ur magicc except for meteor then if griever steals her only magic then wut magic will she have to use?...even with her magic boost,she'll only be doing 9999 damage per meteor in 10 hits in 1 turn...if you use triple,meltdown,expend3x youll be doing 30 hits of around 8500 dmg each(with mag at 255)in 1 turn,for the price of 1 meteor(which shuldnt be a problem)
so damage wise itll look like this
angel wing-99990 dmg in 1 turn
triple,meteor-around 255000 in 1 turn

so which stragedy do you think will be better to use?

(now that i think about wuldnt this be a good strat against omega weapon too)
(btw i personaly think necronof ff9 was the hardest)

I'm sticking with Angel Wing. There's an FAQ about it on GFAQs that might explain a few things for you, if you wanna check that out.

Angel wing is pretty useful. But i used her invincible moon angel wing more often.

Lion herat with squall and then had zell using all the magics to protect me aura meltdown heros.

Also instead of getting a hundred heros you can refine gilgamesh get 10 holy wars these are much better as it is on all 3 chars and lasts a long time.

Angel wing is pretty useful. But i used her invincible moon angel wing more often.Her Combine limits are useful when you come across Invincible Moon and Wishing Star, but pretty unreliable as it's random. Wishing Star is probably the best looking attack in the game, however.

I am telling you, Lionheart sorts pretty much all of them out. If your Squall has a strnegth stat of 150 and above Lionheart should do 9000+ each stroke. You can beat Ultimecia 1 in about 2 Renzokukens alone, without a special attack. Greiver is pretty hard, as he does shockwave pulsar before/close to its death, but if you have Squall and Irvine, just use their limits. Ultimecia+Greiver is pretty easy to be honest, it doesnt attack much, Renzokuken and any other limits should sort it out, and Ultimecia 2; when she is Lionhearted, (or taken enough damage), she says something, after this, just attack her repeatedly till she finishes.

If she chooses Quistis, I always found Gatling Gun useful, as it does 9999 damage. Rinoa, obviously this has already been discussed, Sephies pretty crap, although she can sometimes cast Ultima 3x and Zells is prety useful, but My Final Heaven is surprisingly crap.

Sephies pretty crap, although she can sometimes cast Ultima 3x and Zells is prety useful, but My Final Heaven is surprisingly crap.If you know your shit, you'd have built up Selphie's Magic stat for her Slots, so using the Expend3x1+Meteor strat that's come up in this topic with Selphie could be her position. Zell's Duel finishers suck, yes, but Armageddon Fist (Booya+Punch Rush over and over) at 12 seconds and with 255 Str can easily rival Lion Heart's power.

I wasnt really interested in building up anything of Selphies - so I just kept it with Squall, Irvine and Rinoa.

Her Combine limits are useful when you come across Invincible Moon and Wishing Star, but pretty unreliable as it's random. Wishing Star is probably the best looking attack in the game, however.


It is unreliable but as her cannon and strike do 9999 you cant really lose.

Wishing star is the best looking attck in the game imho.

It used to be eden but it got boring.

Well, owing to the fact that during Edens summoning, you could make tea, and a drink, have a small nap, then eat your tea, and still have time to boost it to 250.

I took about 20 minutes.It was not a tough battle..

um, to rapture, you don't eat tea, you drink it.

i think he was being sarcastic(i think thats the word)

well yes he may have been being sacastic but in some countries such as nz we call our dinner tea (or dinner)

um, to rapture, you don't eat tea, you drink it.You've never heard the evening meal referred to as 'tea'?

Well in Canada if you say its tea time, that means your going to get your ass kicked. No one ever has tea time in Canada. Its so british.

Well we have tea time in england in which you can either drink tea or eat tea (but u mainly eat tea if ur posh in uk)

but eden does take the piss to finish. granted u can get to 250 and still have time as Rapture said so to the loo i have fed my cat in the time it has taken eden to summon.

hahahahahahahaha, wow, how'd we get to talking about tea? (sarcasm)

no, i've never heard of a evening meal called tea.

Well it is old fasioned but it exists

Message from your mod: Enough about tea!!!! :D

I can't get enough tea.

Lol ok but tea rules dude didnt you know that?

yes, it does. i love tea. ok, enough about tea. now, anyone else want to say something about the final battle?

Well the final battle was easy but i never saw the sense of those two helixes wat did they do?

They absorb magic and increase Ultimecia's power.

oh is that wat they do. i neva attcked em and i usually killed her as soon as her she got them both on thats y i neva knew.

thanks for clearing that up.

yeah, they seemed kinda useless to me. you can kill her easily without destroying those things.

I think they may also play a part in the final form's special attack Great Attractor (I only just remembered the name of that.) Lemme check, yeah here (http://coreyff8.tripod.com/id4.html) it is. If you wait around long enough, she'll use this special attack. I've seen it before --- it's pretty sweet to watch.

what's it do?

I guess your basic sort of special attack --- takes off around 4,000 - 5,000 damage or so if I remember correctly. Of course, I suppose that's affected by level and stats and such, but I really don't know the full specifics. I guess more than anything it's possibly the most visually spectacular attack in the game.

um...you prabaly can't describe it over the iternet, but...what does it look like. and if you can't describe it, can you post a link of where i could maybe see it?

yeah that battle is long but i like it. First time I played 8 it took me forever and I died a bunch of times, when I beat her I felt good. Now i replay the game I take her down with ease first try. heh but good final battle in my opinion.

I have Final Fantasy VIII since It came out, I've replayed it alot of times, When I've got in the mood I would stay weeks playing it, but just now, after last week starting it again, just now I've got to Ultimecia(dont ask y... :P), And wow, I had squall, Irvine and Rinoa, with 9999 hp, and squal with lionheart and 255str, Irvine and Rinoa weren't that strong, but they where pretty strong. I was confident, but when I went to fight her I didnt know that the party was picked at random, so It was pretty annoyng, I got beat easly...
Then I got a Party that suited better(Not the best, but it was better than nothing) My technique was to use aura on squall and use limit break, and i thought It would be ok... Well, I knew Ultimecia had many forms... But when I've got to what I thought it was the last one(Ultimecia+grieven)... ive defeated It with alot of damage... And I thought "YES, IVE BEATED THE GAME".... But then... the true last form appeard... she did that attack that puts hp to 1, so I've used squalls limit break, and my luck, He done Leonheart... I though, this should beat her... but it did not, I managed to do another limit break, with no special attack :(, and she used a strong attack and killed me).... I SPENT A HOUR AND A HALF ON THIS FIGHT, it was 5 minutes ago.... I'm still shaking....
I've got to get a better strategy...

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i've read some of your strategies here, and after writting this I've went to try again. I wasnt aware of the existence of such items like holy wars, so i've done somethings i've read in this thread, like refining bahamuts card in to 100 megaelixirs and gilamesh's card into 10 holy wars, and i did a defencive estrategy:
1st: Only squall attacked
2nd: Rinoa and Irvine didnt do anything, exept use megaelixirs, give auras to squall, and use holy wars
3rd: Used auras only in times I knew I was safe
4rd: always after using 1 aura, Rinoa and/or Irvine used megaelixir and right after that holy war....

And This was my strategy... It looks like it took long but not really, because squall's str was at max...

AND I'VE FINALLY BEATED THE GAME!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

ultimecia was extremely annoying, she got my utter nerves,her last form kept cheating!!! DAMN YOU ULTIMECIA!!!! ILL HAVE MY REVENGE!!!

My friend lended me the game a couple of years ago. All I basically did was attack cure and use limiit breaks. I would usually win, but sometimes I got the occasional loose. I just loved watching the movie. Which I have forgotten now and I'm trying to beat the game now that I have it.

used to make it in 10 min now i CAN'T BEAT IT AT ALL!!!!!!!!!

I have Final Fantasy VIII since It came out, I've replayed it alot of times, When I've got in the mood I would stay weeks playing it, but just now, after last week starting it again, just now I've got to Ultimecia(dont ask y... :P), And wow, I had squall, Irvine and Rinoa, with 9999 hp, and squal with lionheart and 255str, Irvine and Rinoa weren't that strong, but they where pretty strong. I was confident, but when I went to fight her I didnt know that the party was picked at random, so It was pretty annoyng, I got beat easly...
Then I got a Party that suited better(Not the best, but it was better than nothing) My technique was to use aura on squall and use limit break, and i thought It would be ok... Well, I knew Ultimecia had many forms... But when I've got to what I thought it was the last one(Ultimecia+grieven)... ive defeated It with alot of damage... And I thought "YES, IVE BEATED THE GAME".... But then... the true last form appeard... she did that attack that puts hp to 1, so I've used squalls limit break, and my luck, He done Leonheart... I though, this should beat her... but it did not, I managed to do another limit break, with no special attack :(, and she used a strong attack and killed me).... I SPENT A HOUR AND A HALF ON THIS FIGHT, it was 5 minutes ago.... I'm still shaking....
I've got to get a better strategy...

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i've read some of your strategies here, and after writting this I've went to try again. I wasnt aware of the existence of such items like holy wars, so i've done somethings i've read in this thread, like refining bahamuts card in to 100 megaelixirs and gilamesh's card into 10 holy wars, and i did a defencive estrategy:
1st: Only squall attacked
2nd: Rinoa and Irvine didnt do anything, exept use megaelixirs, give auras to squall, and use holy wars
3rd: Used auras only in times I knew I was safe
4rd: always after using 1 aura, Rinoa and/or Irvine used megaelixir and right after that holy war....

And This was my strategy... It looks like it took long but not really, because squall's str was at max...

AND I'VE FINALLY BEATED THE GAME!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
you do know that even though the party is picked at random, you can let the people you don't want die and then the other people will come in, don't you?

Latest time i've played it:took me 20 mins squall zell Irvine all max level the rest rounded off in there 70's, irvine and squall limit and attack zell aura and heal.(assuming thats my party) i've played the final battle roughly 13 times yet i've done Lionheart twice the entire game o_0

it took me about 30 mins to defeat all the forms of ultimicia, i didnt use any holy wars only megalixers so thats probably y i took so long, i had a hard time with the second form because when it dies it attacks me and kills my char which i hated. the last form was so easy a couple of lion hearts kill the final form

She doesn't choose randomly: she choses the other party, not what you brought to her room. I came to reallize it when Zell, Rinoa and Quistis stood against her with the only one command attack... It took her 2 minutes to kill them.
Second time I made Junctions for Rinoa and left her in the 'other' party, and since she has the Recover command and she had 8207 HP, she made it 'till Zell, Quistis and Selfie got lost in the timeline.
Then I beat the first form with the Squall (78), Irvine (42) and Rinoa (41) trio, and I used a Cerberus summon. After that it was a piece of cake.
The second form killed most of my GFs... But I had no problem with that too, the only sore thing was Irvine's death. I tried to cast Full-Life on him, but he disappeared too soon.
Well, the last form would have been the easiest, even though I haven't unlocked the 'Item' and 'Limit Break' commands: with speedy characters you can easily defend yourself against her Hell's Judgement, the 2 Recovers don't take that much time. My problem was that she didn't want to die...
Sqall's strenght was 233 and he had the Flame saber, he made damages araund 4500-5500.
Then Ultimecia stole Berserk... -> damage went down to 3000
Then Ultimecia stole Ultima... -> Squall's HP was just about 6000, instead of 9999...
But I kept beating her sorcer ass.
She cast Apocalypse a few times too, but with Shell it didn't do too much damage and Recover did it's job.
Then Haste disappeared, and Rinoa couldn't cast Recover on both of them. I recovered Squall, because he had Magic, and he could cast Full-Life on his girlfriend. Just before that, Ultimecia stole my Full-Lifes...
With Life I could revive Rinoa with just 500 HP, and I had no chance to cast Shell or CureX3 (Cura and Curaga were stolen too), and Rinoa didn't go that far that she could've Recover herself, so...
After an our she finally made everyone lost in time, except for Squall.
He had 2000 HP.
She cast Hell's Judgement.
1 HP.
Tripled Cure.
Ultima.

Game Over

So she may be an easy boss when your levels are above 90, but I don't think she's that easy!
Sephiroth was easier. OK, I used Knights of the Round :P

I'll try it again tomorrow...

no, it is random. i've fought her three times. the first time, she picked the other party. the second time, she made a mix of the two parties, and the third time, she picked the party that i walked in with.

It took me 5 months maybe more.....lol....then I leveled up so much and she was sooo easy I hit 9999.

Took me about 25-30 minutes I think. Didn't really count. The battles were F**king annoying. Just when you think that you're done, another form comes up.

Around half an hour... =)

near enough half an hour to forty minutes