Nabaat (boss)

Jihl Nabaat is a downloadable content "monster" from Final Fantasy XIII-2. Since her death by Barthandelus, Jihl Nabaat has been among the various lost souls bound to battle in the Coliseum until the Day of Reckoning in the trial known as A Study in Elegant Death.

Strategy
Jihl starts the battle summoning reinforcements. Save for the Behemoth enemy, the reinforcements are not a real threat in terms of damage and mostly focus in being an annoyance, such as inflicting Poison or the Azure Behemoth who focused in launching the party members to the air individually. Given that Jihl destroys her own summons for a moderately powerful Sacrifice Pawn, a well prepared party should just focus all its efforts in attacking Jihl. She has a high stagger point but mediocre chain resistance, so it can be raised up with the Paradigms like Tri-Disaster or Relentless Assault. The player should be warned however that Jihl casts buff like Protect and Shell on herself and her allies and Sacrifice Pawn can inflict debuffs, which can make this task more difficult. Jihl's special attack Sadistic Surge is strong enough to easily kill whoever it hits, fortunately this attack only hits one target, so said target can be revived easily. Normally Jihl uses this attack after Sacrifice Pawn, and re-summons allies after Sadistic Surge. Given this pattern that player can change paradigms with a Sentinel or a Synergist to reduce damage, however it is not mandatory to do so.

Though on a side note should one defeat all the monsters before Jihl uses Sacrifice Pawn, she will inflict heavy damage to her self since there is no one to sacrifice.

Trivia

 * Nabaat was never known to be a l'Cie, and therefore it is unclear how she learned to use magic. It is possible she is using the Sanctum's AMP-technology to create artificial magic.