Final Fantasy VI All Enemies and Bosses

Yeeesh. First turn, he casts a level two spell. Then, he casts a level 3 spell. Then, he casts two level 3 spells. After that, it'll follow up with another double cast of two level 3 spells. On the fifth turn, it'll use a single level 3 spell, and, on his last turn before looping, MagiMaster can make use of Doom, Bio, or Mute. All of this is coupled with a spectacular 50 Magic Power, which means that if you don't absorb the attack or have the Reflect status, you'll likely die a painful death. If MagiMaster has the Reflect status, he will bounce a level 3 spell off of himself every turn; MagiMaster will never self-apply the status though, and there's no reason for you to cast it.

You may have noticed that every spell MagiMaster uses is reflectable; yes, that they are. However, the thing about MagiMaster is that not only is he the ultimate mage, he's also fiercely loyal to Kefka. Given this, it's only logical that MagiMaster would be able to cast the strongest spell in the game: Ultima, and he won't let you go before casting it. As soon as you kill the MagiMaster, he will cast Ultima. It will deal between 5400 to 6100 damage to all of your characters; unless you've overleveled (level 53 with Muscle Belt, 58 with Red Cap, 67 without any HP boosting equipment), that gonna kill you dead.

Let's go through a few potential situations now:

If you've followed the walkthrough, or know Life 3 at the very least, keep yourself draped in Wall Rings at all times, as this will essentially make you invincible. Do not attack MagiMaster; as soon as you do this, he will use WallChange and he start countering all your attacks with WallChange, making him that much harder to take down. He will also counter to his own spells reflected back at him. If you just keep still, he won't start using WallChange, not even under the torment of his own attacks. Cast Life 3 on all your characters, and just wait this one out. Eventually, when MagiMaster has killed himself, he'll cast Ultima: everybody dies and is subsequently revived. You're free to go.

Without Life 3, this one's a tricky pony. You can cast Rasp over and over and over again until his 50000 MP are all gone; he won't be able to cast Ultima as a result. You'll have to keep him alive this way. This is easily done by casting the Bserk spell on MagiMaster while casting Vanish or summoning Phantom to protect yourself. Now, Rasp away. It'll take a very long while. You can check his MP periodically with the Scan spell. When he has less than 80 MP, you can kill him. There you go.

Alternately, you could just damage the boss a lot and summon Palidor; the trick here is to kill MagiMaster with one or more characters in the air. Ultima won't hit them, so you win. If you want to do this, carefully keep track of his HP with Scan; for optimal damage output, you'll want to equip barrier-piercing weapons where possible (Atma Weapon on Terra/Celes/Edgar/Locke, Valiantknife on Locke, Fixed Dice or Dice on Setzer) to try and circumvent MagiMaster's crazy 250 Defense.

If you don't have Rasp... and you don't have Palidor either... eh... yeah. Last chance, honest. Equip a character (Terra, Celes, Edgar) with a Wall Ring, Genji Glove, Rune Edge/ Ragnarok/Illumina, and the Soul Sabre. The MP-critical weapon in the Right Hand, the MP draining weapon in the Left Hand. Now, cast Bserk on MagiMaster, vanish your party, and then cast Bserk and Haste on your magical weapon character. Every turn, he or she will attack and deal twelve to nineteen MP damage. If you're setting this up so you can go do something else in the meantime (I trust you have taken a liking to your sanity?), Bserk a Heal Rod character to make sure MagiMaster doesn't die from the physical blows. Go take in a museum or something. Honestly, this is going to take ages. Expand Full Strategy

Unless both Mog's team and Locke's team have been beaten down severely, there's no good reason to use the four-generic-Moogle party against the Marshal. Between the other two, the choice is up to you. As you cannot get a Game Over in this part of the game - a defeated party is sent back to a certain point with all characters at 1 HP - you can always fight Marshal with Locke until you have stolen a Mithril Knife. If you have trouble with the actual 'killing' part of the Marshal battle (Power-wise, not moral-wise), Mog has extremely dangerous attacks to offer, so you can use him for that.

If you picked Mog's team, the Dusk Requiem will make short work of the fight regardless. If you picked Locke's team or the third and inferior party, you will want to kill one Lobo and then focus your attack on the Marshal. As long as he's not alone, he won't use !Charge, an extremely strong physical attack that can kill weaker units in the Front Row. He will, on the other hand, use the Net attack to stop some of your party members. You can try to stall if Locke is hit if you want to. Expand Full Strategy

Master Pug is very mean. He'll start the battle off with a Battle attack, and after this the madness will begin. Every 15 seconds, Master Pug takes a step forward; after seven steps, he'll use !Cleaver on a random character and retreat halfway back, meaning that he'll have to take just four more steps after that to reach the !Cleaver position again. Every step is accompanied with the ever-frustrating WallChange attack. Master Pug casts spells of the type opposing his current weakness, not unlike Number 024 way back in the day. Each time he changes his weakness, he has a two in three chance of using a magical attack that will indicate what his new weakness is. This will give you a chance to load up on that weakness until it changes again.

Indicator Attack	New Weakness
Fire 3	Ice
Ice 3	Fire
Bolt 3	Wind
Bio	Pearl
W Wind	Lightning
Pearl	Poison
Quake	Water
Clean Sweep	Earth

One of the worst parts of this battle, though, is Master Pug's Step Mine counter to every damaging attack you perform. Depending on your actions and style of playing this game, this move can do a lot of damage.

The way to victory lies in the enemy's status ailment vulnerabilities. Cast Sleep on Master Pug, and pair it up with Slow as well. If you have enough people with control over the Rasp spell, you might try removing all his MP first; better safe than sorry, right? If you're done with that or simply don't want to bother, start attacking him with magical attacks. Physical attacks will wake him; stick to magical ones only. It's highly possible you may manage to kill him before he even wakes up once. If he does wake up, just cast Sleep again; Strago's Sour Mouth Lore also works (sets Poison too, by the way). Expand Full Strategy

Curley is the strongest of the three Dream Stooges, and also the most vital one to take down. He has a random shot at casting Pearl Wind every now and again, which heals the other Stooges and himself. Even worse, he will cast Life 2 on a fallen comrade when he notices they're down. He'll attack with the status-inducing spells when all three brothers are alive, and with the Fire-elemental offensive spells when a comrade has been slain (which is a useless bit of the AI script, as Curley will always immediately make sure this is never the case with Life 2). When he's hit four times by a Magic spell, he'll cast Rflect on himself and start bouncing Fire 2 and Fire 3 spells off himself. When all three Stooges are alive, he'll cast Delta Hit every 30 seconds; Delta Hit is an unblockable single-target attack that sets Petrify (doesn't work on targets immune to Petrify, obviously). He has a 33% chance of countering any of your attacks with a Fire 2 spell.

Larry is the weakest of the three Dream Stooges; his amount of HP is the lowest and his status vulnerabilities are horrible; as if Death wasn't enough, he's an almost exclusive spell caster susceptible to Mute and Muddle. He's the Ice-elemental of the three. Like Curley, he'll cast Delta Hit when all three Stooges are alive and 30 seconds have passed since the beginning of the battle/the last time Delta Hit appeared. He'll cast Rflect once he's been hit by Magic four times and start reflecting Ice 2 and Ice 3 spells off himself. Larry will normally just attack with Battle; he'll start using Ice 2 and Ice 3 spells when one Stooge is down. He'll counter 33% of the time with Ice 2. The interesting thing about Larry is that he may run away in the middle of a battle. When one of the Stooges is down and Larry has been hit by four Magic spells, he'll run away. After 30 seconds (if you haven't won the battle yet), he'll return; his HP will be back to maximum, but his MP won't have changed and any status ailments you might've set will still be there.

Moe is the middle child, and the only one without an elemental weakness. His bane is the Berserk status, and he has the Lightning-element. Like his brethren, he casts Delta Hit after 30 seconds, will cast Rflect on himself after four Magic spells, and start casting Bolt 2 and Bolt 3 on himself which bounce off; normally he uses support spells (Safe, Shell, Haste, and Cure 2), but he will start to cast offensive spells (Bolt 2 and Bolt 3) when one of the Stooges is down. He may counter any attack with a Bolt 2 spell. Moe is certainly the most boring of the three.

A note about Delta Hit: when the global battle timer reaches 30, the first Stooge to act will attack with Delta Hit. After that, the global timer is set to 0, so that neither of the other two Stooges can use it. In other words, every 30 seconds only one Delta Hit will appear, not three.

How to fight this battle? Set Mute on Larry (the Mute spell is obviously the most prominent way, but Strago's Sour Mouth is also a highly acceptable means of setting the same effect (not to mention that it'll also set Confuse); and Berserk on Moe (with the Bserk spell, possibly). Don't kill off Larry with a quick Doom spell just yet; our main priority is Curley. Cast a Sleep spell on him (once again, Sour Mouth works there) and pound him with magical attacks, preferably Ice-elemental attacks. When he's dead, abuse Larry's vulnerability to instant death attacks and dispose of him quickly. What you have left is a Berserked Moe who is no threat whatsoever.

So long as you know what you're doing, it's really an easy battle; barriers like Big Guard, Haste 2, Moon Song, Earth Wall, and Life Guard are nice, but really not necessary. You don't get any items for beating the Dream Stooges, but you will receive 6 Magic Points. Expand Full Strategy