Final Fantasy X Walkthrough

Final Battles and Epilogue

Remove your , spend every useful , charge the Overdrives you care about, equip your baddest weapons and armor, and use the final . If you captured ten of every fiend and beat the Omega Ruins without hiding behind , you are more than ready. A normal route party can finish too, but armor will make the real final battle much less unpleasant.

From the , head straight ahead until something falls on you. Well, not on you, but pretty darn close. Notice Tidus is just totally blown away by this. >.> What?

Touch the purple glyph on the fallen tower. You are now stuck playing until you die or finish the game. If you don’t have , expect to spend at least an hour on this. Have enough uninterrupted time before you start.

The Nucleus: Gems Galore

When you touch the big cylinder thing, you are teleported inside it. Run around looking for ten glowing crystals while trying not to hit the ice columns that pop out of the ground. Descending pyreflies mark where a crystal is about to appear. The crystals disappear if you do not reach them quickly enough, while touching an ice spike starts a forced battle. More spikes appear, and they move faster, as you collect more crystals.

In my run, the spikes seemed to work counterclockwise around the cylinder, but the rotating camera makes that more of an observation than a dependable route. Keep moving, look for the falling pyreflies, and do not panic if a crystal vanishes. Another will appear.

The ten rewards arrive in random order, but you receive all ten before the Nucleus sends you onward:

Crystal reward	Character or type	Abilities
	Tidus weapon
	Yuna weapon	, , , one empty slot
	Wakka weapon	, one empty slot
	Lulu weapon	, three empty slots
	Kimahri weapon	, , , one empty slot
	Auron weapon	, , one empty slot
	Rikku weapon	, Sensor
	item	Activates any attribute node already activated by an ally
	item	Activates any Skill node already activated by an ally
	item	Activates any Wht Magic node already activated by an ally

The ice-spike encounters can include familiar Inside Sin fiends, plus and . has a large HP pool but nothing especially clever. always opens by casting Haste before the party can act; it, and it will usually waste its next turn casting Haste again. There is no reason to work on captures here because nothing beyond the final can be saved.

After the tenth crystal, you are transported to Dream’s End. You regain control before the fight, so heal, spend those final three spheres if they help, equip , and walk toward Jecht.

Braska’s Final Aeon

Jecht transforms into , with two circling behind him.

Boss Fight: Braska’s Final Aeon

HP /	First form: 60,000 HP; the original North American PS2 database records no threshold. Second form: 120,000 HP; : 20,000 damage. Each begins with 5,000 HP and cannot be permanently defeated.
Steal	×1; rare ×1 from each form.
Weak / Absorbs	No elemental weakness or absorption; immune to , , , , and . Vulnerable to , , , , , , , and . The are vulnerable to .
Reward	0 AP; 0 Gil.
Drops	None; no equipment drop.
Strategy	Equip , cast , apply the Breaks, and focus most of your damage on Jecht. The two use to heal him for 1,500 HP, remove his negative statuses, and raise his gauge. reduces their turns without disabling either one. Tidus can twice across both forms to empty Jecht’s gauge; save those uses for dangerous second-form gauges, especially below 60,000 HP when replaces his normal . An can absorb it if both Talks are gone.

The are out of ordinary melee range, so Wakka, magic, items, and abilities that reach distant targets are the practical ways to stop them. I used Holy on the Left and Right and made them stop. This gives you a few turns without , but they always come back. Each returns with maximum HP equal to the total damage used to disable it on the previous cycle, so do not waste a 99,999-damage hit on one unless you plan to finish Jecht before it wakes up.

can Petrify one character, and a later physical hit can shatter that character out of the battle. His first-form hits one target twice and adds ; against an he uses instead. When his gauge gets close to full, either use Tidus’s command or be prepared to sacrifice an .

When his first 60,000 HP reaches zero, surprise!!! He pulls a sword out of his chest and gets 120,000 HP for the second form. His normal sword swipe now hits the entire party and delays their turns. Below half HP, a full gauge produces against everyone, which is the moment you were saving Talk for.

I find it gratifying to end this run with a single 99,999-damage Mug from Tidus. The second form then received more 99,999-damage hits, which did not leave much room for Jecht to explain his strategy.

Yuna’s Aeons

Boss Fight: Yuna’s Aeons

HP /	Each HP and combat statistics reflect how that developed in your game. Original PS2 thresholds are : 1,000; : 2,000; : 3,000; : 4,000; : 5,000; : 5,000; : 168; and each : 2,000 damage.
Steal	None.
Weak / Absorbs	Immune to every status except . absorbs Fire, absorbs Lightning, and absorbs Ice; the other possessed have no elemental affinity.
Reward	0 AP; 0 Gil from every battle.
Drops	None; no equipment drops.
Strategy	The party receives permanent , so ordinary KOs cannot cause a Game Over. Call the hardest you own first if you want to use the remaining against it, then work through the roster in any order. , Overdrives, , and strong physical attacks shorten the sequence. A weapon with Sensor reveals each personal goodbye message.

After a few cutscenes, Yuna has to summon every she owns. possesses each one, and you have to defeat it. Optional aeons only join the sequence if you acquired them, and an that has already been called, possessed, and defeated is gone. This is why starting with your most difficult one can help: you may still summon one of the others against it.

Do not worry about dying. You have permanent from here through the end of the game. If you have , you will probably find this rather easy. Yuna will cry between each battle, but you know she secretly likes hurting her . :) But I digress. (Frequently.)

My guys had finished the Arena and overkilled every before any of them got a hit. Your own may be much stronger or weaker, because their HP and statistics come from your save. Even if one wipes out the party, everyone gets back up. Take your time and say goodbye.

Yu Yevon

Boss Fight: Yu Yevon

HP /	99,999 HP; : 99,999 damage.
Steal	None.
Weak / Absorbs	No elemental weakness or absorption. Vulnerable to , , , , , , , , and ; Doom count: 3.
Reward	0 AP; 0 Gil.
Drops	None; no equipment drop.
Strategy	Permanent makes this a puzzle rather than a survival fight. Every damaging hit triggers for 9,999 HP. Cast on so bounces to the party, inflict so damages him, or use a to inflict a three-turn . and also reduce his healing. removes 75% of current HP from everyone on the field, including , so doing nothing can lower him until one final attack is enough.

Once all your are gone, you get to fight Yu. He’s tough. Well, no, he really isn’t, but that is what the final boss paragraph is supposed to say. You still cannot lose through ordinary damage because permanent remains active.

The original strategy used on him to reduce the amount restores, then or so each turn did more damage than he could heal. and are faster ways to abuse the same counter. If you have , just hit harder than 9,999. I got him with a single 99,999 . :D I used Auron, for maximum irony.

Epilogue

Once you defeat him, you will see the impact this has on everyone around the world. Oh never mind, just watch the cutscenes. If you do not know what something means, just think for a while. You will figure it out eventually.

Oh alright. One more thing. Watch the credits. All of them. ;) When you see the words “The End,” Stop. That is enough. ;) Unless you would like to listen to the music again.

Congratulations. Now it is time to play FFX-2. ;)