Jet Bahamut

Jet Bahamut is the final boss of Final Fantasy XIII-2. It is the transformed state of Caius Ballad after his defeat on the beach of Valhalla. He is supported by Amber Bahamut and Garnet Bahamut.

Battle
As long as either Amber Bahamut or Garnet Bahamut are alive, Jet Bahamut cannot be targeted, nor does he perform any attack whatsoever except for Changing Skies, which buffs the two Bahamuts with Bravery for Garnet, Faith for Amber and Haste for both. Only when the two of them are dead does Jet Bahamut attack and become available to be attacked as well. One can tell when Jet Bahamut approaches and retreats as he uses Attitude Shift, therefore time is of the essence to inflict the greatest amount of damage before Attitude Shift is used again (this lasts around two minutes). When both Garnet and Amber are destroyed Jet Bahamut opens with Break Curse, an attack that deals low damage but inflicts several status effects, like Poison, Slow and others at random, before Attitude Shift. Approximately 15 seconds before Attitude Shift is used again, Jet Bahamut uses Judgment Blade, summoning a large version of Caius's sword dealing moderate damage to the party.

Jet Bahamut can use Dark Flames, which bombards the area with fireballs; the damage is negligible as the fireballs are small and spread across the area, therefore the ones who suffer the most are large Paradigm Pack monsters, and even then the damage is low. When weakened below half its HP, Jet Bahamut can use attacks like Dying Sun, which deals massive damage well around the 3,000 points. Also, he can begin a countdown, announced by Count 3, Count 2, and Count 1, before casting Gigaflare. Gigaflare can be potentially dangerous as it deals massive damage and sends Jet Bahamut leaping into high into the air, which renders most attacks useless thus the chain gauge is reduced during this time. Gigaflare knocks the party into the ground, taking time to reassume the attack or healing.

When further weakened, Jet Bahamut can begin the countdown even with Garnet and/or Amber are alive. This is especially dangerous because if either of them are alive, they will team up with Jet Bahamut for a more powerful Teraflare. If both Garnet Bahamut and Amber Bahamut are alive when the countdown runs out, they will execute their most powerful attack, Exaflare, which deals incredible damage and is capable of wiping out the entire party.

Strategy
Suggested paradigms:
 * RAV/RAV/RAV
 * COM/COM/COM
 * MED/MED/MED
 * SAB/SAB/MED
 * SYN/SYN/MED
 * SEN/SEN/MED

One should start by casting Deshell on Garnet Bahamut, then switch to Tri-disaster and begin casting Blizzard. (Blizzard has the second fastest cast animation, the first would be Thunder, which Garnet and Amber are resistant to.) Once Garnet Bahamut is staggered the party should shift to Cerberus and kill Garnet Bahamut. Shifting focus to Amber Bahamut, the player should start by switching to SAB/SAB/MED and start casting Deprotect, then switch to Tri-disaster and get the stagger bar to around 200%, and switch to Cerberus to kill it. Once Amber Bahamut is killed the party can focus on the Jet Bahamut.

Switching to MED/MED/MED the party can prepare for the debuffs and start casting Esuna. After this the player should switch to SAB/SAB/MED to get Deshell on Jet Bahamut, and then switch to RAV/RAV/RAV and start casting Thunder. The goal is to get the stagger bar around 800%, then switch over to COM/COM/COM. When the stagger bar gets low use a special from the COM monster. The only things to worry about at this point are Jet Bahamut's Dying Sun and Judgment Blade attacks; if Jet Bahamut uses Judgment Blade the party has about 15 seconds before he uses Attitude Shift. If this happens the player will most likely not be getting the 5 star ranking. If Jet Bahamut uses Dying Sun, he has around 30% of his health remaining.

Etymology
The Japanese names of the three Winged Chaos Bahamuts are translated as Bahamut Volo, Bahamut Passio, and Bahamut Ratio. Volo is the Latin word for "fly" or '"will'", while Passio and Ratio are the Latin words for "passion" and "reason," respectively.

Trivia

 * The three variations of Megaflare that Jet Bahamut uses are references to the three variations of Megaflare used by various incarnations of Bahamut in the Compilation of Final Fantasy VII. Neo Bahamut uses Giga Flare, Bahamut ZERO uses Tera Flare, and in Crisis Core -Final Fantasy VII-, Bahamut Fury uses Exa Flare.

Related Enemies

 * Chaos Bahamut
 * Amber Bahamut
 * Garnet Bahamut
 * Ebon Seed