I remember being in primary school like year 5 or 6, playing this game. Never got past the final fight on disk 3, completely misunderstood the junctioning system, and fought exclusively with GF attacks. I remember leveling all my characters up to 100 and still having regular battles be near impossible. 15 odd years later picking it up again and playing the way it's meant to be played (exploiting the junctioning system to the point of being almost too OP lol) and I'm having the time of my life!
Why split up GF ifrit siren carbuncle and leviathan? Together u have str bonus mag bonus vit bonus and spr bonus, then put cactuar on someone else, now 2 party members have all 4 stat boosts whe they level up, when someone goes up a level u SWITCH the stat boosts they have to whoever is leveling up next, rinse and repeat
So i have not seen your channel before and was just looking to see how to encounter the cactuar king... how on earth are you lvl 11? Im so confused hahha, i barely do any fighting and im currently lvl 36 and im at the point where i should be going to the white seed ship.
He keeps his level low but Carding enemies. Quetzalcoatl has an ability you can learn called Card. If you weaken an enemy and use Card, it turns the enemy into a Triple Triad card. Kind of like catching Pokémon. You still gain AP but not experience points. As for how his stats are so high, this game is all about Junctions. You can see he has some high tier spells junctioned with huge quantities. Drawing off monsters, refining items into spells or refining cards into items and refining those into spells. You can be an absolute beast in this game at a very low level.
@@stevehiggins1263 Yeah it's one of the things I really love about this game. All these systems in place both inside and outside of battle that work with each other. The card game being used as an optional method of boosting stats and getting weapons as one example. It keeps things fresh and interesting. Good job completing all the achievements!
Doomtrain if you have him is good to use agenst jumbo catruar just cuz of the status casts then just rensokunon him to death just wach out for 10,000 needles
when i fought it, it did 10,000 needles lol. but that was the only attack cuz i used lionheart limit break and went to town on it. by the way i had to restart my game from the beginning which sucks cuz i was in Ultimecia's castle
You have to go into Status > Squall, and A several times to bring up his limit break. The indicator can be set to Auto, which it sounds like you did at some point, or manual. Manual makes it so that you have to hit R1 at the right time to fire the revolver on the gunblade for ~ +30% damage.
3:44 Like I Said That "10000 Needles" Attack He Does Is A CounterAttack. He Never Really Uses It On His Own. That's Just Like When I Defeated JINX In Super Mario RPG With The Consecutive 100 Super Jumps! He Didn't Get ONE TURN In! I Did My First FF8 Stream Today For 2+ Hours It Went Very Well. Got All The Way To The Dollet COMM Tower. There's A NEAT LITTLE TRICK You Can Do With Odin When You Battle Him, IF You Do: If You KILL HIM And The TIMER REACHES 0:00(You Mus Use Something That Has An Ongoing Animation Like Squall's Limit Breaks Or Zell's Duels), You Can Get INFINITE Luck-J Scrolls As Well As STOCK Triple, Provided You Draw AND Mug Him. The Game Counts As You LOSING But You STILL Get The Battle Spoils And Stuff, And The Game Returns You To The World Map Outside Centra Ruins. A GREAT WAY Of Farming Luck-J Scrolls.
mmmm Pretty nice GF distribution, but im gonna have to disagree on 1 thing, Why give diablos (who has Hit-J) to Squall, who already has 255% acc ?? The rest of GFs just make sure to give each party member Status and elemental attack and the rest can be learned through items i think.
Good point, I think its dumb to split up the 4 GF with the str mag vit and spr boosts, keep those on 1 guy, cactuar on another (who comes equipped with those 4 stat boosts) and just alternate every time you level up so that each time someone levels up they have all 4 stat boosts on to maximize everyone's stat
Why would you junction your GFs so that any of your characters didn’t at least have all five basic junctions at this stage in the game? For that matter, why would you give both Squall and Selphie Hit-J? IMO better set-ups at this stage are: [1] Quezacotl, Brothers, Doomtrain, Tonberry [2] Shiva, Siren, Diablos, Pandemona, Alexander [3] Ifrit, Carbuncle, Leviathan, Cerberus And just stick Cactuar wherever, really. Generally on whoever’s going to level next if you’re letting yourself gain any experience, or if not, on whoever benefits the most from criticals (generally Zell or Irvine). You can use the Stat Guard from the Shumi Village quests on one of the GFs from setup [2], and that way everyone has ST-Def-Jx4, ST-Atk-J, the five basic junctions, and Spd-J and Hit-J on setups [2] and [3]. You’ve got Spd-J Scroll from Lunatic Pandora by now, and access to Strength Love and Power Wrist if you want Spd-J, Str+20%, and Str+40% on setup [1], which I recommend for Squall. If you don’t mind modding the Selphie card, you can get Elem Guard for Elem-Defx4 on setup [3], though that’s not as critical as most of the rest of this stuff IMO.
I remember being in primary school like year 5 or 6, playing this game. Never got past the final fight on disk 3, completely misunderstood the junctioning system, and fought exclusively with GF attacks. I remember leveling all my characters up to 100 and still having regular battles be near impossible. 15 odd years later picking it up again and playing the way it's meant to be played (exploiting the junctioning system to the point of being almost too OP lol) and I'm having the time of my life!
Hannes du Toit same man, sorceress Adel kicked my but.
I know that feel. It's especially hard for those whose English isn't even native language.
Same except I never could defeat ultemicia
Renzo on Cactuar is so satisfying...that big final slash straight down the middle
Oh hell ya
Kamikaze ejects the party member for the rest of the battle, can't use Phoenix Down for that
@ahmedzeid5888 was going to say that, once you use kamikaze that character goes out for pretzels
Was going to say this.
Once you use kamikaze that character goes out for pretzels
This reminded me of the jumbo cactuar exploit in FFXIII with Sahz
who should I put bahamut and eden on
Your strongest charachter, Squall for example
Bahamut squall, eden rinoa or any other char without hit-j 255%
Why split up GF ifrit siren carbuncle and leviathan? Together u have str bonus mag bonus vit bonus and spr bonus, then put cactuar on someone else, now 2 party members have all 4 stat boosts whe they level up, when someone goes up a level u SWITCH the stat boosts they have to whoever is leveling up next, rinse and repeat
Why doesn't Cactuar get to keep his dapper moustache??
Dude, no doubt, like wtf, at least he has it in the jumbo cactaur card
Yeah, it’s weird in this game. You defeat JUMBO Cactuar and Tonberry KING, but what gets summoned is a normal cactuar and tonberry. A tad lame…
You can leave mug on and still use the renzokuken on him...
Are you ever leveling up? Waiting until after Omega?
So i have not seen your channel before and was just looking to see how to encounter the cactuar king... how on earth are you lvl 11? Im so confused hahha, i barely do any fighting and im currently lvl 36 and im at the point where i should be going to the white seed ship.
I want to know how his HP is so high? I have 8 GFS maxed out on abilities and my highest HP character is only at 5200...and I am level 40
He keeps his level low but Carding enemies. Quetzalcoatl has an ability you can learn called Card. If you weaken an enemy and use Card, it turns the enemy into a Triple Triad card. Kind of like catching Pokémon. You still gain AP but not experience points. As for how his stats are so high, this game is all about Junctions. You can see he has some high tier spells junctioned with huge quantities. Drawing off monsters, refining items into spells or refining cards into items and refining those into spells. You can be an absolute beast in this game at a very low level.
@LobsterFusion that's cool, so many different ways to play lol, I finished all of the achievements now thankfully.
@@stevehiggins1263 Yeah it's one of the things I really love about this game. All these systems in place both inside and outside of battle that work with each other. The card game being used as an optional method of boosting stats and getting weapons as one example. It keeps things fresh and interesting.
Good job completing all the achievements!
Why Hit-junction on Squall? He always hits anyways.
Gfs have it iirc.
@@pst5345 The GFs have it, but he has also junctioned Magic to that.
You are growing in knowledge, make sure you go destroy bahamut with the renzo itself
That's a lot of damage 😂 are you selling flex tape fuzz?
Doomtrain if you have him is good to use agenst jumbo catruar just cuz of the status casts then just rensokunon him to death just wach out for 10,000 needles
when i fought it, it did 10,000 needles lol. but that was the only attack cuz i used lionheart limit break and went to town on it. by the way i had to restart my game from the beginning which sucks cuz i was in Ultimecia's castle
Ouch!
I must be playing this game wrong as I'm on disc 4 and not once has that trigger option come up on my screen
You have to go into Status > Squall, and A several times to bring up his limit break. The indicator can be set to Auto, which it sounds like you did at some point, or manual. Manual makes it so that you have to hit R1 at the right time to fire the revolver on the gunblade for ~ +30% damage.
3:44
Like I Said That "10000 Needles" Attack He Does Is A CounterAttack. He Never Really Uses It On His Own. That's Just Like When I Defeated JINX In Super Mario RPG With The Consecutive 100 Super Jumps! He Didn't Get ONE TURN In! I Did My First FF8 Stream Today For 2+ Hours It Went Very Well. Got All The Way To The Dollet COMM Tower. There's A NEAT LITTLE TRICK You Can Do With Odin When You Battle Him, IF You Do: If You KILL HIM And The TIMER REACHES 0:00(You Mus Use Something That Has An Ongoing Animation Like Squall's Limit Breaks Or Zell's Duels), You Can Get INFINITE Luck-J Scrolls As Well As STOCK Triple, Provided You Draw AND Mug Him. The Game Counts As You LOSING But You STILL Get The Battle Spoils And Stuff, And The Game Returns You To The World Map Outside Centra Ruins. A GREAT WAY Of Farming Luck-J Scrolls.
Well done 😎👍
Water and water and water water
Stfu with water
Doomtrain /Meltdown +renzo,quick shot and duel= everyone dies
mmmm Pretty nice GF distribution, but im gonna have to disagree on 1 thing, Why give diablos (who has Hit-J) to Squall, who already has 255% acc ?? The rest of GFs just make sure to give each party member Status and elemental attack and the rest can be learned through items i think.
Good point, I think its dumb to split up the 4 GF with the str mag vit and spr boosts, keep those on 1 guy, cactuar on another (who comes equipped with those 4 stat boosts) and just alternate every time you level up so that each time someone levels up they have all 4 stat boosts on to maximize everyone's stat
99999?
10k damage its in the name lol!
Why would you junction your GFs so that any of your characters didn’t at least have all five basic junctions at this stage in the game?
For that matter, why would you give both Squall and Selphie Hit-J?
IMO better set-ups at this stage are:
[1] Quezacotl, Brothers, Doomtrain, Tonberry
[2] Shiva, Siren, Diablos, Pandemona, Alexander
[3] Ifrit, Carbuncle, Leviathan, Cerberus
And just stick Cactuar wherever, really. Generally on whoever’s going to level next if you’re letting yourself gain any experience, or if not, on whoever benefits the most from criticals (generally Zell or Irvine). You can use the Stat Guard from the Shumi Village quests on one of the GFs from setup [2], and that way everyone has ST-Def-Jx4, ST-Atk-J, the five basic junctions, and Spd-J and Hit-J on setups [2] and [3]. You’ve got Spd-J Scroll from Lunatic Pandora by now, and access to Strength Love and Power Wrist if you want Spd-J, Str+20%, and Str+40% on setup [1], which I recommend for Squall. If you don’t mind modding the Selphie card, you can get Elem Guard for Elem-Defx4 on setup [3], though that’s not as critical as most of the rest of this stuff IMO.
Jumbo used 10,000 needles all the time rng was not my freind.
Lol. You aren't even good at this game. You aren't even halfway breaking this game
Lol, turn based games don't require being good