Final Fantasy X Walkthrough

Lake Macalania

The Last Chance to Turn Around

Go into this section with a set of fully charged . They are not literally the only way to beat the final guy in this section, but they make both major fights much easier. Go back to the forest if you want to either charge their Overdrives or finish the Jecht Sphere backtrack before advancing west of the agency. Once the Al Bhed attack begins, you are committed to the route through Bikanel.

Pick up on the ground to the left of Rin’s Travel Agency. If you’ve picked up all sixteen so far, you’re now an Al Bhed Hydeja. Pop into the agency, restock and , and save your game.

Talk to Clasko by the chocobo and encourage him to become a “Chocobo Breeder.” This affects where he appears later: take the S.S. Liki between Besaid and Kilika after reaching the Calm Lands and he will give you a . You cannot open the nearby chest yet, but you will be able to circle back after the next boss.

Area Enemies & : Lake Macalania

Fiend	Best response	to learn
	Tidus or Fire	—
	Fire; physical attacks are heavily reduced	—
	Auron or Kimahri’s Piercing weapon; Fire also works	—
	Wakka or Fire	—

Equip Wakka with something that does not deal the wrong elemental damage. A ball is ideal. Head west, follow the red arrow after the scene, and make sure Wakka is ready when the party catches up with Yuna.

Crawler and Negator

Boss Fight: Crawler and Negator

HP /	: 16,000 HP; : 4,000 damage. : 1,000 HP; : 1,000 damage.
Steal	: ×1; rare ×2. : ×1; rare ×2.
Weak / Absorbs	Both are weak to Lightning and take half damage from Fire, Ice, Water, and Holy. is vulnerable to Slow and Delay; is also vulnerable to the four Breaks.
Reward	: 4,400 AP; 6,600 with ; 7,000 Gil. : 220 AP; 330 with ; 300 Gil each time it is defeated.
Drops	: ×1; ×2 with , or a rare ×2; ×4 with . It has a 127/128 equipment drop with 2–4 slots and elemental strikes, Alchemy, Piercing, or elemental Wards. drops a or rare , with quantities doubled by ; its equipment drop rate is about 15%.
Strategy	disables Wht Magic, Blk Magic, and Summon, so have Wakka destroy it. Slow and Delay , Haste Lulu, and unload with while the three-turn countdown runs. Four damaging magic hits make restore ; if is present when the countdown ends, it cancels . Rotate everyone in for AP and finish with a charged once is safely below 4,000 HP.

The little floating is out of reach for ordinary melee attacks. You better have Wakka in the battle! While it remains, settles for Gatling Gun and cannot use . That sounds good, but it also seals your magic and . Which is bad. Have Wakka knock it down, then bring in Tidus, Lulu, and Yuna. Haste Lulu, Slow , use when useful, and cast for major damage.

Once is gone, counts down three turns and uses on the fourth. It also counters attacks with Assault. This sounds bad because it is bad, but every fourth damaging magic hit makes summon another . The countdown continues, then cancels the beam for you.

So to be clear: if is imminent, do not kill off the new until it has interrupted the attack!

Steal one or more from , and be sure to swap everyone in so they can share the massive AP. When is below 4,000 HP, Grand Summon and finish with . A 4,000-damage finishing blow raises the AP to 6,600 and doubles the common drop.

The Road to Macalania Temple

After the cutscenes, open the chest to the right of the temple approach for a . You can head south before entering the temple to collect the along the narrow Crevasse path and the 4,000 Gil from the chest that Clasko’s chocobo blocked. You do not have Yuna right now, so I really hope Rikku has been stealing (or that you’ve been stocking up at stores). If you leave the Key Sphere for later, the escape route passes it again.

At the bottom of the temple road, use the scouting prompt on the Al Bhed woman if you want to inspect a level 7 blitzer. Talk to her normally for 400 Gil. Follow the long road into Macalania Temple.

Talk to Tromell immediately inside to receive a with . Use the on the right, then loot the hall: the western nook holds 5,000 Gil, and the southern nook east of the entrance holds two .

Move toward the center for the next scene, then enter the room on the right. Open the chest in back for two and talk to the nun in yellow for two . Did you see the cat? Did you step on it? Return to the hall and enter the room on the left. Its chest contains three ; the seated monks give you an and an , and the remaining monk has some insight into life.

appears in the hall if you need to shop. Equip strong physical weapons and whatever elemental protection you have, save again, and head upstairs. The first two members in your configured party join Yuna at the start of the battle; I chose Tidus and Kimahri.

Seymour: First Phase

Boss Fight: Seymour and two Guado Guardians

HP /	: 6,000 HP; : 1,400 damage. Each : 2,000 HP; : 2,000 damage.
Steal	: ×1; rare ×1. Each Guardian: ×1; rare ×1. Stealing the stops that Guardian’s counter.
Weak / Absorbs	No elemental weaknesses or absorptions. is vulnerable to Slow, , , Poison at 40%, and at 50%; he nullifies Gravity and is immune to Delay. The Guardians have broad status vulnerabilities, including Darkness, Poison, , Eject, and a small chance of Death.
Reward	reward is held for the final phase. Each Guardian awards 290 AP; 435 with ; and 300 Gil.
Drops	Each Guardian drops an ×1; ×2 with , plus a 127/128 equipment drop with 1–3 slots and basic Strength, Magic, HP, MP, Magic Def, Sensor, or Piercing abilities. drops nothing until the final phase.
Strategy	Use Talk once each with Tidus, Yuna, and Wakka for temporary Strength or Magic Defense boosts. Steal from both Guardians, then remove them with , Overdrives, or focused attacks. Use Yuna’s Nul spells against fixed Ice → Lightning → Water → Fire cycle, apply and Slow, remove his opening Shell with , and push him below 3,000 HP.

opens by casting Shell on himself, while the two Guardians cast Protect and cover him from physical attacks. Sub in Tidus, Yuna, and Wakka long enough to use their Talk : Tidus gains 10 Strength, while Yuna and Wakka each gain 10 Magic Defense for this battle.

Have Rikku steal from both Guardians before attacking them. This does more than collect two ; it empties the item they use to heal themselves after every hit. Kimahri’s charged can dispose of both dorks immediately. Otherwise, Overdrives work, and Bio or other status pressure keeps them busy. The Guardians have Protect, so magic works better than physical attacks unless you remove it.

Once is exposed, use Auron’s and Tidus’s Slow. will not work. casts , , , and in that order, which makes Yuna’s Nul spells almost embarrassingly effective. When he drops below 3,000 HP, he calls .

Anima

Boss Fight: Anima

HP /	18,000 HP; : 1,400 damage.
Steal	×3; rare ×1.
Weak / Absorbs	No elemental weaknesses or absorptions. is immune to the Breaks, Delay, Poison, Slow, Sleep, Darkness, Silence, and instant-death effects.
Reward	2,500 AP; 3,750 with ; 3,000 Gil.
Drops	×1; ×2 with . Equipment drop rate: 127/128 with 2–4 slots; weapons may carry , Silencetouch, , or Piercing, while armor may carry the matching status Ward abilities.
Strategy	Summon the new , . Pain’s instant-death effect cannot remove an , and can cast on herself to heal. Attack while uses Boost, use Shield when is imminent, and finish below 1,400 HP with for the .

will kill one of your characters outright. Pray it isn’t Yuna! Tidus tells Yuna to call the new , so do exactly that. The game labels her ???? for now, but she is . is immune to Delay, while is immune to Pain’s instant-death effect and can heal herself by casting on herself.

When Boosts, attack her; Boost makes the next hit hurt her more. When her gauge is full, use Shield to survive . Build gauge and cast when is near the range. If falls, bring in another charged or revive the party members Pain removed. Have Rikku steal the before committing to an if you can do so safely.

Seymour: Final Phase

Boss Fight: Seymour, final phase

HP /	6,000 HP; : 1,400 damage. His HP is fully restored after .
Steal	×1; rare ×1. His inventory is available again in this phase.
Weak / Absorbs	No elemental weaknesses or absorptions. is vulnerable to Slow, , , Poison at 40%, and at 50%; he nullifies Gravity and is immune to Delay.
Reward	2,000 AP; 3,000 with ; 5,000 Gil.
Drops	×1; ×2 with , or a rare ×1; ×2 with . Equipment drop rate: 127/128 with 2–4 slots and Silencetouch, Piercing, or .
Strategy	Reapply and Slow, then follow Multi-Blizzara → Multi-Thundara → Multi-Watera → Multi-Fira loop with Yuna’s matching Nul spells. Heal between turns, steal again, and use any surviving charged to finish him above the 1,400-damage threshold.

When falls, comes back at full HP and his magic is stronger. Steal another (or an if Rikku is feeling lucky), then reapply and Slow. His pattern remains Ice, Thunder, Water, Fire, but he now casts each spell on two targets. Watch the turn order and let Yuna’s Nul magic stop it.

You can also call the appropriate . If is about to cast and then , can survive the Ice spell and heal from the Lightning spell; gets an even easier opening from . :D Finish with an of at least 1,400 damage if you want two (or two from the rare drop branch).

After you’re called traitors, name your new and save. Head through the door on the left. Now you really have to do that dang Cloister of Trials.

Macalania Cloister of Trials

The ice floor breaks, and you must rebuild the bridge. Then you have to break part of it again for the treasure and rebuild it again to leave. The temple considers this character building.

Get the before leaving

Use the Macalania Cloister solution to rebuild the bridge, reveal the , and collect the . That treasure activates Macalania’s seal at Baaj and is required for . Later versions put Dark in front of a return visit, so do it now. STOP. READ THIS. DON’T STEP ON THE GLYPH AGAIN. Once the bridge is restored, cross it without touching the shining reset tile at the top.

When you leave the Cloister, you are offered a chance to save. I suggest you take it, but that’s up to you.

Neverending Battles

chase you down the temple road. In theory, you can get into an infinite number of battles here. It’s marginally good for leveling up, but not much else. Kill the Guardian first so it cannot support the local fiends; Fire works well against nearly everything else. Rikku can steal Musk from , which is useful for customizing .

Turbo controller or timed Raspberry Pi helper

If you have a controller with a turbo button you can leave pressed, you can just park Tidus, Rikku, and Wakka here to get some low-effort . The Raspberry Pi helper ffx_fighting_guado_justpressX.py can now do the same thing for a chosen number of hours, then press Start to pause the game when the timer finishes. An unattended loop can still lose a battle, fill sphere inventories, cap , or spend hours accomplishing nothing useful. Test the party first, save, and see the Automation page for the setup and command.

If you skipped the beside the temple entrance or the in the Crevasse, pick them up on the way down. Recharge the if you spent their Overdrives on . At the Crevasse , heal, save, and check whether Yuna knows . It makes the upcoming boss much less troublesome. Two charged make the fast strategy especially simple; I chose and . Trust me. It’s easier this way.

Wendigo

Boss Fight: Wendigo and two Guado Guardians

HP /	: 18,000 HP; : 1,432 damage. Each : 1,200 HP; : 1,432 damage.
Steal	: ×1; rare ×1. Each Guardian: ×1; rare ×1. Stealing from a Guardian disables its and .
Weak / Absorbs	No elemental weaknesses or absorptions. is immune to Slow but vulnerable to , Darkness, Sleep, Delay, Provoke, Threaten, and Doom. The Guardians can be Petrified or instantly killed, but resist many disabling statuses.
Reward	: 2,000 AP; 3,000 with ; 3,000 Gil. Each Guardian: 290 AP; 580 with ; 480 Gil.
Drops	: ×1; ×2 with , or a rare ×2; ×4 with . It has a 50% equipment drop with 1–2 slots and , Piercing, , or HP +10%. Each Guardian drops an ×1; ×2 with and has about a 3% equipment drop.
Strategy	Steal from both Guardians, then kill or Petrify them quickly. If defeated normally, one casts Protect on and the other casts Shell; remove Berserk with or Provoke, remove the defensive buffs with or , and reapply afterward. Inflict Darkness, use Delay attacks, and stop physical attacks when raises its hands below half HP. A charged can clear the Guardians, then another can finish .

Have Tidus cast Haste on Yuna, then summon a charged and use its to remove both Guardians. Dismiss it afterward so everyone can take a turn for AP. One Guardian casts Protect on as it dies, and the other casts Shell. Have Yuna both, remove Berserk with , reapply , and call your second charged when you are ready to finish. That’s the easy way. Don’t have charged ? There’s always the hard way…

Start with Wakka, Tidus, and Rikku. Haste the party, but do not waste turns trying Slow on enemies that are immune. Steal from both Guardians so they cannot , then use , , or concentrated attacks to take them out. Once their final Protect and Shell land, bring in Yuna for and . You can also use Provoke to remove Berserk, and removes the defensive buffs.

Use and Darkness to make physical attacks manageable, and Tidus’s Delay attacks to reduce how often it gets to swing. Below half HP, raises its hands and counters physical damage; stop punching it and use Fire magic until the hands come down. Sleep also works if you want Lulu to handle the damage without waking it. Swap everyone in, steal an if you’re lucky, and use an for the 1,432-damage .

Under the Ice

When you wake up, save and talk to everyone, making sure you speak to Rikku before saving Yuna for last. After the scene, open the chest behind Kimahri for a . A semi-hidden chest beside Auron contains Avenger, a Tidus sword with .

Talk to everyone again and speak to Auron last. After the cutscenes, you wake up dazed and confused at the oasis on Bikanel.