Titan Extreme

Done. Won using only Terra and Celes against Titan EX


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lsZxRBe5Q04 (part 1)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nMlYUgk66mw (part 2)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B1Yjs0-kbX8 (part 3)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bs-4pML6KGs (part 4)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O5G8SsatZmA (part 5)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QzMmvjNR4Is (part 6)



It took me a lot of time(about 1:15:00), in order to not scrap the whole battle, following my stategy.

The battle:

Terra, Celes Lv 99
Equip: Atma, Paladin SH, Genji Helm, Genji armor;
Illumina, Force SH, Arcane veil, Gaia gear

Spells: everything, plus Golem and Palidor espers(worthless at the end)

Relics: True Knight, Black Belt;
Economizer, White cape

Stats: Too much hassle... check my video (anyway Celes has 129% MBlock)

Strategy: Basically Terra is an uber wild tank that always protect Celes, when she's near to die(almost always), and counters with ~9999 damage using Atma, this is the only way to attack in the tower, without going berserk and keep Terra ready to do something else;
Celes is frail, but it's impossible to hit her, due to 129% MBlock, and absorbs earth element, actually she's almost invincible and doesn't need of Terra, but plays the role of the bait for Titan's Mt. buster and attacks.

They protects each other(in a different way), in order to stand to the rage of Titan EX...
The balance of the battle is totally unstable: if i do ever a single mistake, i risk to lose with just one attack

That explains why i almost never act: i rely only on the counterattack, while keeping ATB bars always full, if i'd act, and Titan manages to act before me, it may kill the other ally, then i won't be able to revive her right in time to avoid Inter Infamous skill of Titan, that steals dead allies, and be doomed at the next landslide/Mt. buster.
I can act only right after the first barrage of attacks, the second one won't forgive me, because it ends often with landslide or Mt.buster, the only spell that allow me to risk is quick, because it blocks ATB and allows you to act, after the mess happened

Another advantage of counter attack is that i won't risk to trigger R.polarity, it switch current ally rows, and if he hits Terra with a single Mt. buster, then the strategy is broken.
Too bad that in this way Titan won't trigger next forms, too...
Since i don't want to spoil the fun to me/you, in the video i attack him suddenly with a manual command: despite it's against my strategy, the true purpose is to trigger the next forms, that made me do an approssimate evaluation on the HP of each form, they should be:

- about 100.000 on first form;
- about 100.000 on second form(still in the tower, but when starts to use quake);
- about 100.000 on third form(in the sky);
- about 500.000 on fourth form(inside the cave);
- about 500.000 on last form(after he gets angry and do the last attack)

The reason why my strategy is deadly is because Titan abuse of nomal attacks, but that is my source of power: Terra may manage to counter him about 8 times in a row.

If Terra dies, then Celes use life 2, and the tank returns, if Celes dies, then Terra use life 1, that will save mp and puts Celes immediately in near death status(and be ready to be a perfect bait again).

Earth attacks are useless against me, but the heal to celes may exploit her bait role, due to Terra won't be able to protect again, if she's not near death... so i use Titan's AI as a weapon to solve the problem: i use life 3 on Celes, that's useless because Titan will landslide immediately any char that has Life 3 on himself, but that will put again Celes on near death status

The plume warns you always with target, so it's not a problem, but starting from fourth form, you may risk to not be able to set float and heal at the same time, so i use quick to not risk: after all they have to do the work of 4 allies in 2(forget to use quick to attack, you'll be countered with a death landslide that targets the party).

The only thing that may ruin my strategy for real, is EarthFury, the final form exclusive attack, since it does 8400-9200 fixed damage to the party(undodgeable, no element). While testing, it never used it on me(using only counterattacks), to be fair i was planning to attack him manually once, in order to show that i could handle the last attack too, but i barely managed to survive when he did it the move suddenly, out of my previsions:
I was planning to swicth from tank stance to defensive stance, because Terra may easily go under the minimum value of HP required to survive, after some counter. The Titan anticipated me and luckily i survived taking minimum damage possible, while having 8800 HP.
I believed it was forced by the coming up of the last form, so one single unpredictable mistake, but i realized it was part of his normal attack routine only at the second Earthfury(less risky anyway... i had 9400 HP).

After that, i turtled my party with a perma-defensive stance, that made me waste a lot of time... kept them at 9999, Celes put on Clear too, that to make sure to avoid attacks, but the best reason to do it is that you dodge Mt. buster, since it's a physical attack(i bet that only 1/100 figure it out XD ), to keep clear on, it's required to use quick more often.

After all this mess, The Titan finally went down... what a relief.
Without counting attempts used for figure out which relics won't make you even start the battle, it took me less than 20 times to build up my strategy with 4 allies, and only 2 times to win with Terra and Celes.


That was a really nice battle!!!
Planned better than Emperor Dragon, if you ask me.

PS. to make trigger next forms, even after a counter, you should put a one-time check in the attack routine too, despite the waste of bytes, but it's worth the effort, if the battle results more fluent.