ive killed all the other dark aeons, but nothing will work on shiva she just kills me with in minuets. Not even Yojimbo's Zamato will work! What do i do?

If you've beaten all of the other Dark Aeons, Dark Shiva should be a walk in the park. Sounds to me like you beat the others with Zanmato, in which case you should be dragged into the street and shot.

Level up, and be sure to max speed and use Auto-Haste.

it should be cause the only ones i killed with Zanmato is the Mangus Sisters
All my Charaters have Auto-haste but they dont have Break Health limit so she kills me.

What items do i need to get it?

Break HP Limit? 30 Wings to Discovery. But then you shouldn’t need Break HP Limit in the first place. You just need to block with an Aeon each time she uses Diamond dust.

I would suggest Maxing strength, defense and speed. All the other stats don’t need to be enormously high to beat her. Then, customize armor with Auto Haste, Auto Phoenix, and then whatever you want in the other two slots. Just hammer away at her with physical attacks. If she kills one of your characters, they will automatically be revived, so theoretically she will only be able to kill you if she hits you with diamond dust (all her other attacks only hit one character at a time), or you run out of phoenix downs. When you see that her Overdrive gauge is full, summon an aeon to take the hit. Then just go back to attacking her. Repeat the process until she is dead.

Really, as far as Dark Aeons go, she isn’t that hard.

Holy/Ultima.

For a quick kill a perfect 12-hit Attack Reels + Oblivion should be enough to take her down easily as long as you've got the Strength to back it up.

Attack her intil she dies.

Really...i wouldn't have known that Dualface.

Anyway, just use the ability Aim a bit. Make sure you can attack with around 99999 (cause if you managed to beat Dark Bahamut without Zanmato then you should easily attack with heaps of damage) and Wakka's Attack Reels help too.

I would also like to point out that it's harder to hit Dark Anima than it is Dark Shiva, so one must wonder how you managed to beat that guy and can't beat Shiva...and you beat the rest with 9999 HP??

Actually instead of expending so much effort, try not enhancing your Aeons at all. Almost all Aeons will die after a strong Magic attack.

That's why you teach them Curaga/protect/shell...

Dark Shiva is extremely quick due to her low rank actions. She is probably harder than Dark Anima if you do not have Auto-Haste.

Oblivion + Attack Reels + Blitz Ace should be more than enough to defeat her if you have moderate Strength. Use First Strike for Yuna, Wakka and Tidus and you should be fine.

There is no two ways about it..... just use Zanmato

I seem to remember here people complain that is was easier to kill Dark Shiva normally than it was to Zanmato her�

Besides, what the hell is the point in instantly killing an optional boss? Maybe if you were desperate to fight Penance, but then if you can�t beat Dark Shiva penance will own you anyway�

Well guess what clever clogs, you just use Zanmato on Penance aswell.

...I just lost faith in all mankind.

Well I spose I do have that effect on people.
What do you mean?

What is the point in using Zanmato on a CHALLENGE boss?! What exactly does it prove? It’s not as if you get anything out of killing him anyway….

Sorry BIG GUY, but I aint faced Penance yet, so er, meh as people say around here

I thought Zanmato did 99999 against Penance...

I dont think so, I watched one of my mates do it and that didnt happen

To defeat dark shiva the first thing you must do is to equip yuna with a rod who will have the first strike ability to do this customise one of yunas rods you will need about to 3 or 4 teleport or return spheres i dont remember well then as always cast zanmato if i does not work with the first time try the same method more it will work for sure

What are you chatting about newbie?

just forget it

OK. You dont get any plainer than that

What are you on about with teleport spheres? And we know that Zanmato works, half the thread talks about it :P

hehehe, i cheated to beat her and dark anima, ive got a dvd with FFX cheats.
got bored after i had played it in 300 hours.

You've played 300 hours and you still had trouble beating people

Yeah, what did you do for that length of time, level up in Besaid?

You...don't...level up in FFX...

Someones having a seizure over here.
And nice remark Kie

ive killed all the other dark aeons, but nothing will work on shiva she just kills me with in minuets. Not even Yojimbo's Zamato will work! What do i do?
When i defeated shiva, i used Yojimbo's Zanmato. And that works.
Are you sure, that zanmato don't work?

How bout this hit. Equip everyone with ice eater or some shit

I only ever took down Dark Ifrit and Dark Valefor when
I went through it, when I do it next, I is gonna take down all of them plus all the Monster Arena creations. I never fully nailed it last time.

seriously u cant get past zanmato its either zanmato or this auto life bullshit auto haste , serious what are use trippiin on about none of my characters are over 5000 hp and im upto brasskas final aeon i swear i dont no how i did it and u guys are worrying bout this other shit zanmato all the way

Taken from gamefaqs.com:

HP: 1100000
AP: 20000 (overkill: 30000)
Stats: Strength: 173 Defense: 163 Magic: 244 Magic Defense: 255
Agility: 255 Luck: 73 Evasion: 0 Accuracy: 250
Elemental Immunities: absorbs ice, immune to lightning and water, half
damage to fire

Drops: Normal : 1(2) Dark Matter
Rare : 1(2) Master Sphere

Equipment (Drops 3-4 slots with 1-2 abilitites)
Weapon : Break Damage Limit
Icestrike

Armor: Ice Eater
Ribbon
Break HP Limit

Location : Entrance to Macalania Temple.

Tactics : Max agility is a must otherwise she will kill you before you have a
chance to attack. Use Aim several times to be able to hit her. Beware her
Heavenly Strike which is instant kill even with ribbon armor, rely on Auto
Phoenix. Use Aeons to block her overdrive as usual. Other than that she is not
so hard.

So you need to max out your agility to compete with Shiva first, if you want to be able to attack her.

There is no two ways about it..... just use Zanmato
i would have to agree, grand summon yojimbo and pay him 1/3 of ur gil or 150000 which ever is lower and he should use it, he always did on mine, and i never used him outside dark aeon battles so his compatability couldnt go down,

Sounds good but youve got to remember for every action each one of your characters have, shi9va has two, she is the queen of speed on this game, so i wouldnt recomend fighting her unless you have someone with 255 speed.

as well as auto haste helps lol

i'm sure Zanmato does kill Penance. (spelling?)
ive seen a video of it, probably on you tube or something.

I think yojimbo may not but i never got him so i dont know, i also think he cant use it on "himself" or the dark version, could some1 verfiy?