Final Fantasy VII/Finale

Jenova's ultimate form consists of three parts:

• Jenova-SYNTHESISA (the body)
• Jenova-SYNTHESISB (the right tentacle)
• Jenova-SYNTHESISC (the left tentacle)

The tentacles slap the characters, and can be revived by the main body.

The fight itself shouldn't be too hard if you use a sensible guarding strategy with Big Guard, and use whatever you have in your arsenal. Big spells, summons and really heavy-hitting enemy skills are all that's needed. The only big point is that near the end of the battle, Jenova starts counting down from 5. If the countdown reaches zero, Jenova casts Ultima and dies. If you survive the blast, you still win, but get no experience or AP from the fight, and this is the last fight where you can get those.

This is, as the name indicates, a little bit of a strange fight. The game attempts to give you some hints on how to proceed, but they're of very little practical use. The body consists of not five, but seven of parts:

• A: The chest.
• B: The head.
• C: Left and right cores.
• D: Left and right magics.
• E: Left and right magics.

If you have multiple parties in the fray, you can switch the fighters whenever you destroy a body part. Apparently the idea is to blow away the outer layers and then attack the core parts. The core remains invulnerable until other parts are destroyed. Use whatever you have, just note that some elements get absorbed by some parts. This goes especially with fire attacks.

There are some annoying counterattacks, like reviving Bizzarro Energy, Stigma (poison) and Aurora Fence. You can't use Sense on the boss, so none of the stats are official. These are in case none of your characters are level 99 and you didn't use Knights of Round on Jenova-SYNTHESIS. Basically, add a couple of thousand to each part for each maxed-out character.

All in all, this is a rather challenging fight. In a pinch, you may even have to use Knights of Round twice.

A lot of the stats are very debatable as you can't Sense this boss. Safer Sephiroth's stats scale based on how well you did earlier. He has over 200,000 HP, even more if you have characters on level 99 or had to kill the Bizarro Sephiroth's parts multiple times. Some sources also say Safer Sephiroth has 680 MP. Even so, the fight is still relatively easy.

Safer Sephiroth has following attacks up its sleeves:

• Wall: Magic and physical barrier.
• Shadow Flare: Capable of killing your entire party.
• Pale Horse: Many status effects.
• Break: A nasty Earth attack.
• Heartless Angel: An attack that reduces HP to 1 and gives status effects.
• Supernova: A summon with long animation, that reduces 90% of your current health and gives status effects.

Ribbons or White Capes will be a big benefit during this fight. You'll want to use big summons and your most powerful spells. Phoenix materia is definitely recommended; it causes some damage and revives some undoubtedly fallen party members. Keep Wall casted at all times to cut damage in half. Two casts of Knights of Round should be all it takes to defeat this boss.

Cloud's final confrontation with the dark antagonist himself, a sword duel against a featureless background (it's all black and the only things you see are Cloud and Sephiroth facing each other).

This fight is for show only - you can't lose. You can only use the Omnislash limit break. If you don't have it yet, you at least you get to see what it looks like. Even if you don't pick the limit break, Cloud will automatically counter-attack with it if Sephiroth tries to attack.