Sephiroth (Final Fantasy VII boss)

Sephiroth is a boss in Final Fantasy VII, and technically the final boss of the game (Safer∙Sephiroth‎ is the real final challenge). After defeating Safer∙Sephiroth‎, Cloud Strife falls into the Lifestream and fights a metaphysical Sephiroth inside the spiritual realm.

Battle
This boss battle is cinematic, as evidenced by how all his stats are 0. Cloud instantly gains the Limit Break Omnislash even if he has not learned it. The Change command to change row is greyed out, Sephiroth starts with an empty ATB gauge, and Cloud's first physical attack will deal double damage, as if the battle was a preemptive attack.

If Cloud does not use Omnislash, Sephiroth will attack Cloud, to which Cloud will instantly counter and win the battle. Cloud is not equipped with a Counterattack Materia in the battle, but counters because Sephiroth's AI script commands him to. This is evident because if Sephiroth is made to miss (not possible in a normal game), Cloud will still counterattack. If cheat devices, such as Gameshark or Action Replay, are used to keep the player's Materia, one can use Sense on him to find out that Sephiroth has 1 Hit Point. Regardless of this, any attack, so long as it does not miss, even using the Steal command, will defeat Sephiroth.

Sephiroth has only one attack in his disposal, which deals all of Clouds health leaving 1 of Cloud's current HP. It is classified as a magical attack, and thus will never critical.

If Cloud enters the battle with 7,777 HP, the attacking spree phase of the All Lucky 7s status will not activate.

While it is impossible to get Game Over in this battle, it is possible to hang the game in an infinite loop via a cheating device. If one is to set something else than a weapon as Cloud's weapon (a Protect Ring, for example), Cloud's regular attacks will miss. When Sephiroth slashes Cloud and he counterattacks, he will miss, and Sephiroth will keep on attacking Cloud, but his every attack deals less and less damage until he is doing 0 HP damage every hit.

AI Script
AI: Setup {
 * Turn off Death Handling for Sephiroth

} AI: Main {
 * Choose Cloud
 * Use  on Target
 * Set Cloud as Self
 * Choose Sephiroth
 * Use Attack Command on Target

} AI: Counter - General {
 * Choose Self
 * Use  on Target
 * Remove Self
 * RunCmd 0x22/0x0F

} AI: Counter - Death {
 * Choose Self
 * Use  on Target
 * RunCmd 0x22/0x0F

} AI: Counter - 13 {
 * [2110] = [2110] OR 0x08

}

Merchandise
A cold cast statue of the final show-down of Cloud vs. Sephiroth made by Kotobukiya limited to 1000 pieces total is considered a very rare collectible.

Trivia

 * Cloud has a different, more detailed battle model in the fight that is only used in this one battle. His face is more detailed and he has studs sticking out of his shoulder pauldron.
 * When the battle starts the camera will show close-ups of Cloud's and Sephiroth's faces in a sequence. This scene is recreated in Dissidia Final Fantasy at the end of Cloud's Destiny Odyssey where he fights Sephiroth.
 * The music in this battle is "Those Chosen by the Planet", minus the vocals.
 * In Crisis Core -Final Fantasy VII-, a Sephiroth fangirl in Midgar mentions that she'd "Love to see him stripped to the waist", a reference to his appearance during this scripted battle.

Related Enemies

 * Bizarro∙Sephiroth‎
 * Safer∙Sephiroth‎