Archeodemon (Final Fantasy V)

The Archeodemon is a boss exclusive to Final Fantasy V Advance.

Strategy
Archeodemon uses Drain Touch and Flare, both of which should be healed promptly. Like its cousin, it will charge up and cast Mega Flare on the party, which can deal major damage; however, unlike Twintania, it does not become vulnerable to Odin during this period. Once its HP is reduced to 15,000, it will charge up for Giga Flare, which deals even greater damage; once he gets below this threshold, the party must attempt to kill it as quickly as possible.

Archeodemon has one other nasty trick up its sleeve: if attacked physically, it will cast Death upon itself, and due to being undead, it will heal itself completely. In addition, Phoenix Downs and the Raise spell will fail on it, and it absorbs all elemental magic (including Holy). Thus, the party should focus on dualcasting its most powerful non-elemental spells, namely Flare, Meteor and Bahamut and even then, Archeodemon is deadly, as he can counter with either Curse or ???? which given his enormous HP, is likely to kill one character. The party should not use Osmose or Osmose Blade, as Archeodemon is undead and will drain MP from the caster. Of the above mentioned spells, Meteor is the most recommended, as the damage dealt by the four-hit combo will accumulate quickly due to his negligible Magic Defense.

The fastest way to defeat Archeodemon, is to equip as many as possible Bone Mails on the characters, then cast Reflect on Archeodemon, so the party can attack with their most powerful physical techniques and Archeodemon will reflect Death on the party, but while wearing the Bone Mail it will not hurt.

To defeat it without much trouble, the party can use the Blue Magic Magic Hammer, which will halve its MP with each use (though it will only deal 9999 MP damage for the first few uses). Once its MP is down to 0, Archeodemon is virtually helpless, as it cannot heal itself with Death nor use Mega/Giga Flare. After that, the battle is nearly impossible to lose.

Another way to defeat it without any trouble, is to have someone with the Time Magic Mute cast it, and Archeodemon will be unable to use his Flare (Ability) or Death (Ability) so you can just Rapid Fire Archeodemon to death this is much quicker then using Magic Hammer to drain his MP to 0

Related Enemies

 * Twintania

Archeodemone (Final Fantasy V)