Final Fantasy VI All Enemies and Bosses

This battle is quite simple. and will alert each other about the grave importance of avoiding attacking the shell at all costs. When they're done, you can move in for your very first boss battle.

The shell and the head are two separate entities. The shell will do nothing as long as you don't attack it, but every time you deal damage, it will counter with Mega Volt. Mega Volt won't be strong enough to actually kill a character at full HP, but it will be strong enough to do so in two hits.

The head will just attack physically and on occasion slow you down with !Slime. After every 10 seconds, it'll 'retreat in its shell', disappearing from the battlefield. He'll keep this up for 10 seconds, and he'll pop out again.

Your strategy? The main thing to avoid is selecting an attack on the head just when it retreats. It's because of this it's best to just go with one attack for each character in one period of 10 seconds. When you can move, make your generic Imperial soldiers attack with a Beam-class attack and the mysterious girl use Magitek Missile. Wait until the head has retreated and appeared again. Repeat. Whelk should be dead by now if you fought all the battles against the Narshe guards; if not, just go for another round.

Note: If you are beyond the shame of any man, you can go for the Tincture the shell provides. Since the shell only has 120 MP, he can only use six Mega Volt attacks. After this, it is helpless. If you whittle down its 50000 HP and make sure you kill both the shell and the head with one attack (use a calculator!), you'll get both the Tincture and a Potion, and it'll only have cost you over an hour and your dignity. Expand Full Strategy

Wow. There is just so little I can say about White Drgn here. He casts up to three Pearl spells every turn. When hit by a Magic spell, he has a 66% chance of countering with Dispel. And that's it. Heck, you've even seen a palette swap of the thing earlier.

White Drgn casts nothing but spells, and is vulnerable to Mute. That's all there is to it, just cast a Mute spell and you're done. You don't have to bother with Slow, Stop, and all that, just cast Mute and attack the thing with offensive spells. If you're getting low on MP, use Osmose. Try not to swallow anything sharp while playing, as that's the only situation I can imagine where a loss on your part is actually possible. If you brought either Locke or Shadow, equip a Thief Knife and go for White Drgn's steal items, as both are nice.

If you arrived here with a solo-Mog party (with the hopes of raiding chests), the strategy is only slightly different; since you don't want to take any chances, be sure you're equipped with a Wall Ring. If Mog doesn't know the Mute spell, equip Siren so Mog can summon her for the Hope Song attack. Now that White Drgn is at Mog's mercy, just attack until he's dead. Expand Full Strategy

Wrexsoul is obviously the main baddie here. The Ironically-named SoulSavers are the goons. At the start of the battle, Wrexsoul will cast Zinger and leave the battlefield to invade one of your characters. He won't re-appear for you to damage him until the character he invaded receives Wound, Petrify, or Zombie status. When he's out he'll just sit there for a while, attack with Battle or casting Bolt 3. When either one or two SoulSaver(s) has the Reflect status, he'll cast Bolt 3 on it, causing the spell to bounce off and hit your party. Like any proper boss, he'll counter Fight with a 33% shot at Battle.

The SoulSavers are the bane of this battle. Essentially immortal, they'll regenerate as soon as you kill them off. Normally they'll just sit there, slinging level 3 spells at you with a hilariously minimal effect. Whenever they hit 16 MP or less, they'll use !MagicDrain to drain you of your MP (and with a 50 Battle Power, their !MagicDrain is actually quite strong). They'll cast Rflect on themselves as soon as Wrexsoul is around, allowing him to cast Bolt 3 on them to damage you. On all other turns that Wrexsoul is around, they'll spend their time casting Cure spells on Wrexsoul for double-digit healing (in other words, a negligible amount).

Before the rise of normal, honest tactics, the usual method of winning this battle was casting X-Zone. The SoulSavers restore themselves over and over again, but when you successfully suck both SoulSavers into the parallel dimension with X-Zone, they can't do that and you'll just win the battle. The downside here is that you won't win the Pod Bracelet from Wrexsoul, as you won't have actually defeated him.

Normally, you'll just want to completely ignore the SoulSavers. Minerva wearers take no damage from them and anybody with an elemental shield should take very little damage all-round anyway (Thunder Shields are the best, as Bolt 3 is cast most often). First, throw up the usual barriers: Haste 2, Earth Wall, Big Guard, Moon Song, Life Guard, what have you. Now, just check each character For Wrexsoul by killing him/her and reviving him/her. Strago can commit easy suicide with Exploder (careful: Pep Up removes him from the battle; you don't want that). Shadow can throw Ninja Stars or Shuriken to do unblockable and non-elemental damage, while Setzer's Fixed Dice serve the same purpose. If you don't have these characters, just go ahead with spells and Fight attacks where you can; Flare and Break are great for killing party members (provided they hit). Flare has a superior Hit Rate, but with Break you've not technically killed a party member and can therefore bring him/her back without any HP loss by means of a Soft or Remedy Item or spell. If the targeted character doesn't have too much MBlock, Strago's Stone attack can probably take him/her out in one hit; remember that Stone does 7.5 times as much damage when the target shares the caster's level, which is a likely case.

Whenever Wrexsoul appears, act fast and furious! His Magic Defense is a stunning 220, which makes sure that if a magical attack isn't barrier-piercing, it'd have to be an Ice 3 spell coming from Morphed Terra to do a lot of damage. Breaking Ice Rods and/or Ice Shields counts as a barrier-piercing attack, so that's an option if your team lacks offensive power. Ideally, you'll want to stick to targetable attacks: Setzer's Fixed Dice, Shadow's Ninja Stars (Blizzard Swords hurt a lot), and Edgar's Drill are good ones. Barrier-piercing attacks can even be multi-targeted; Sun Flare, GrandTrain, and Gau's Tyranosaur-induced Meteo attacks work splendidly. A Flare spell is better than the Ice 3 spell if you have the choice. The pure magicians in your party should either cast Flare or Ice 3 or simply resort to attacking. If Strago hasn't learned GrandTrain (or Quasar) yet, Step Mine is his best option (dual Ice Rods are also an option here, if you don't mind unusual equipment set-ups). Celes's Runic really doesn't help that much, as the level 3 spells aren't a real threat, so just keep on attacking and healing with her. Sabin's only hope at leaving a mark is Bum Rush, with which you can only hope to hit Wrexsoul itself. With Umaro, just rage.

In the end, the Wrexsoul battle isn't really dangerous; it's just very annoying, especially if you have your characters geared towards Magic Block and are doing quite well in this respect. Your own characters can be surprisingly hard to take down when necessary. Expand Full Strategy