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Almighty Shinra is a superboss in Final Fantasy X-2 International + Last Mission and HD Remaster versions. He is created as the result of Shinra absorbing the pyreflies of Omega Weapon. When defeated, he can be recruited into the party. The player must release him after completing his storyline to get the Last Resort Garment Grid.
Stats[]
Battle[]
Shinra immediately uses his strongest attack, Clione, which hits 10 times against random characters for major physical damage, and strikes with a physical attack before using Ultima. He uses a physical attack again and Full Break on a random character immediately after before following up with another physical attack. He finally casts Haste on himself, and his attack pattern repeats, but with some differences.
If he has less than 25% of max HP remaining, he will use Final Impact, a deadly multi-target attack that hits random characters 14 times, with each hit's base damage value equal to 12.5% of max HP and MP. Final Impact's damage is special and can only be nullified by the Miracle Drink from Alchemist Dressphere and Hero's Stash from the Last Resort Garment Grid. If his HP is below 50%, Shinra will use Fireworks, which hits all characters for heavy physical damage regardless of Defense. He uses Final Impact if he is already in Haste status.
Strategy[]
The battle is best attempted at level 99.
Everyone should be using the Mascot dressphere to survive Almighty Shinra's opening move. On the Garment Grid, the player should have Alchemist one slot over from Mascot so the girls can quickly spherechange. After Almighty Shinra has used Clione, a girl should use a Megalixir/Last Elixir to gain back the HP lost.
Shinra's next attack, Ultima, should not deal too much damage with high Magic Defense. Once he is about to cast Ultima, Rikku should start to change into the Alchemist dressphere, and if timed right, she will change after Ultima is cast so that she does not get KO'd by the attack.
Once changed, Rikku should mix a Dark Matter and a Potion to cast Miracle Drink on the party, making them invulnerable to Shinra's attacks. The party should then use Yuna's Moogle Beam and Paine's Cactling Gun combined with a physical attack from Rikku to deal about 75,000 damage per hit. Fireworks is also useful when cast near low HP.
An alternate strategy involves preventing Almighty Shinra from taking a single turn through the use of the Quick Attack move. The player needs to have a monster with high (>200) Luck and Agility and as close to 255 Strength as possible. This can be done easily when the girls' levels are between 90-99 and capturing a L-sized monster.
To raise Luck to the required level, the player should equip a pair of Rabite's Foot accessories, available from Oversoul Jumbo Cactuar as a common drop or as its rare drop. Alternatively, the Rabite's Foot can be obtained from the Cactuar Cup as well. To ensure Almighty Shinra doesn't get a turn, the monster should be equipped with the Mercurial Strike Garment Grid and then be fed a Sprint Shoes accessory and three Speed Bracers. It is important that these are fed and not equipped, as equipping them will provide the monster with a move other than Quick Attack. If the player has obtained the Key to Success accessory, it can be used to replace a Rabite's Foot accessory as it also provides +100% max HP and the Double All effect in addition to +100 Luck.
To ensure that only Quick Attack is used, the monster must unlearn all other main commands. It can then attack fast enough to defeat Almighty Shinra without allowing him to take a turn by keeping him staggered. Two suitable monsters for this strategy are the Heavy Sallet (Trap pod L in Bikanel after discovering the Cactuar Hollow) and Anything Eater (Trap pod L in Calm Lands after defeating it in the Ruin Depths), which should have their levels above 90. As noted above, three Speed Bracers should be consumed for Auto-Haste, along with either the consumption of a Ragnarok or the use of the Font of Power Garment Grid. Should the player use S-sized fiends, having either the Machina Ranger, Machina Hunter, or Machina Leader in the party is recommended, as they can spam physical attacks, including Impale, which can especially prove fatal to Shinra as it bypasses his defense.
The third strategy that doesn't involve keeping Shinra staggered is to use three Level 99, S-sized creatures with Break HP Limit, Break Damage Limit, and the Fireworks ability. Six or seven uses of Fireworks should be enough to defeat Almighty Shinra, although the challenge here involves keeping the creatures alive, preferably with high Defense to survive Clione, high Magic Defense to survive Ultima, and high Agility along with Auto-Haste and First Strike to get as many turns as possible to be able to defeat him before he uses the dreaded Final Impact move that spells certain death for characters and creatures fighting him one-on-one. As with virtually any other enemy in the game, Mushroom Cloud can use its Pernicious Powder to reduce Almighty Shinra's Strength and Magic by 83%, although this will not affect the damage of Final Impact due to it being based on fractional damage.
The fourth strategy involves equipping the Hurt ability to strong creatures with HP as close to 99,999 as possible. As its damage formula is based on the current HP and the max HP at the cost of 10 MP per use, Shinra can be beaten even before he can use Final Impact, although the player must feed the creatures 10 Petrifying Grenades, an item rarely looted from Assault Machina, Killer Machina, and Machina Striker in New Cave.
AI script[]
Turn 1
Use Clione
Turn 2
Use Normal Attack on random target
Turn 3
If (Has less than 1/4 of HP remaining)
Use Final Impact
Else
Use Ultima
Turn 4
Use Normal Attack on random target
Turn 5
If (Has less than 1/2 of HP remaining)
Use Fireworks
Else
Use Full Break on random target
Turn 6
If (Is in Haste status)
Use Final Impact
Else
Use Haste on self
Repeat from Turn 1
Quotes[]
Time for an experiment!
Almighty Shinra
Prepare to meet your doom!
Almighty Shinra
I've just been toying with you up to now!
Almighty Shinra
This should achieve the desired result.
Almighty Shinra
Other appearances[]
Final Fantasy Airborne Brigade[]
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