Odin (Final Fantasy V boss)

Odin is an optional boss in Final Fantasy V. The player must fight it to obtain the summon Odin. The player must defeat it within one minute or they will lose the battle automatically. Odin is found in the basement of Castle of Bal in the merged world. The basement is accessible from the nearby Jachol Cave entered from the world map.

Strategy
When approaching the orb housing Odin, it will start a conversation: Player chooses Yes Player chooses Yes
 * Odin: "Came here trying to best me, eh? A pity I don't have time to fight the likes of you. I could spare you... say, one minute. Still wanna rumble?"
 * Odin: "Pretty confident, huh? One minute, and not a second more, got it?
 * Odin: "It's your funeral..."

When Odin is defeated, it will say: "All right, that's far enough!" Odin is then obtained as a summon.

Usually when fighting this battle the player does not have enough time to remove all of Odin's health, causing a game over. A working strategy can be to have Time Mage and Mime class abilities and cast Meteor and use Mimic to copy Meteor for a good amount of damage while only consuming a single cast's worth of MP.

A very easy strategy is to simply petrify Odin with the Break spell or a Mystic Knight's Spellblade command.

In the European version, Return can be used to reset the timer to give unlimited chances to steal the rare Protect Ring. In the North American version, the spell does not affect the timer due to a bug.

Odin absorbs Holy-elemental damage so the party shouldn't use the Excalibur, Holy Lance or the spell Holy.