Bottomswell

Template:Sideicon Template:FFVII Enemies The Bottomswell is a boss in Final Fantasy VII. A little girl called Priscilla is attacked by Bottomswell while playing with her dolphin in the lower section of Junon. After the boss's defeat, Cloud must perform CPR to bring Priscilla back to life.

Battle

Similar to Reno, Bottomswell can imprison characters using Waterball trapping them inside a Waterpolo. Unlike Pyramid, the player must select the actual Waterpolo orb and not the character for be freed by casting a spell on that character. When group-casting spells with All Materia, the spell will target both the Bottomswell and the Waterpolo. The bubbles keep draining the victim's HP as long as they are trapped inside.

Bottomswell has three forms through it will dynamically cycle, and these are difficult to distinguish from each other. His Bodyblow attack only uses on the character who has the highest current HP and it can use Tail Attack and Moonstrike to each party members instead to one character in same turn. Bottomswell uses a Big Wave attack to inflict mediocre damage on the entire party.

Bottomswell is considered to be a long range opponent. Once Bottomswell is defeated it will cast Big Wave as a final attack.

Strategy

Unless the party has a Long Range Materia (one of which is conveniently located in the Mythril Mines prior to Junon) only Barret and Yuffie can attack Bottomswell physically, so the other party members must use magic or Limit Breaks to attack. If players can defeat Midgar Zolom prior to exploring the Mythril Mines, its powerful Beta attack inflicts 1,000 or more damage and can thus defeat Bottomswell in three hits.

On lower levels, the player can easily win simply by poisoning Bottomswell. This is because Bottomswell only uses the deadly Waterball after losing a certain amount of its HP.

AI Script

AI: Setup {

Turn off Death Handling for Bottomswell

TempVar:HitsTilNextStage = 6

Bottomswell's Range = 16

} AI: Main {

TempVar:AttackAll = 0

If (Bottomswell's IdleAnim == 1st Form) Then

{

If (Count == 0 or 1 or 2) Then

{

Choose Random Opponent

Use Tail Attack on Target

Count = Count + 1

} Else {

1/3 Chance:

{

TempVar:AttackAll = 1

TempVar:ChosenAtt = Tail Attack

}

2/3 Chance:

{

Choose Random Opponent with Highest HP

Use <Bodyblow> (Low Hit% Version) on Target

}

Count = 0

}

} Else If (Bottomswell's IdleAnim == 2nd Form) Then {

If (Count == 0) Then {

TempVar:AttackAll = 1

TempVar:ChosenAtt = Moonstrike

Count = 1

} Else If (Count == 1) Then {

Choose Random Opponent with Highest HP

Use <Bodyblow> (High Hit% Version) on Target

Count = 2

} Else If (Count == 2) Then {

Choose Random Opponent

Use Moonstrike on Target

Count = 3

} Else {

If (Stage < 1) Then

{

Choose Self

Use <Fury Blast> on Target

Bottomswell's IdleAnim = 1st Form

Count = 0

TempVar:HitsTilNextStage = 6

} Else {

Choose Random Opponent

Use Moonstrike on Target

1/2 Chance: Count = 0

1/2 Chance: Count = 1

}

}

} Else {

If (Count == 0) Then {

TempVar:Group = Opponents (incl. Dead) with neither Death nor

Imprisoned Status

If (TempVar:Group has more than one Opponent) Then

{

TempVar:PoloTarget = Choose Random Opponent in TempVar:Group

} Else {

TempVar:PoloTarget = [2040]

}

If (TempVar:PoloTarget != [2040]) Then

{

Choose TempVar:PoloTarget

Use <Waterball> on Target

Remove Death Status from Waterpolo

Activate Waterpolo

Waterpolo's HP = Waterpolo's Max HP

Waterpolo's Physical Immunity = On

}

Count = 1

} Else If (Count == 1 or 2) Then {

Count = Count + 1

} Else If (Count == 3) Then {

If (Stage < 2) Then

{

Choose Self

Use <Chill> on Target

Bottomswell's IdleAnim = 1st Form

Count = 0

TempVar:HitsTilNextStage = 6

} Else {

Choose All Opponents

Use Big Wave on Target

Count = 4

}

} Else {

If ((At Least One Opponent has Imprisoned Status)

& (At Least One Opponent has Death Status)) Then

{

Count = 1

} Else {

Count = 0

}

}

}

If (TempVar:AttackAll == 1) Then

{

If (2nd Opponent doesn't have Death Status) Then

{

Choose 2nd Opponent

Use TempVar:ChosenAtt on Target

}

If (1st Opponent doesn't have Death Status) Then

{

Choose 1st Opponent

Use TempVar:ChosenAtt on Target

}

If (3rd Opponent doesn't have Death Status) Then

{

Choose 3rd Opponent

Use TempVar:ChosenAtt on Target

}

}

} AI: Counter - General {

If (Bottomswell's HP <= 50% of Bottomswell's Max HP) Then

{

Stage = 2

TempVar:HitsTilNextStage = 0

} Else If (Bottomswell's HP <= 75% of Bottomswell's Max HP) Then {

Stage = 1

TempVar:HitsTilNextStage = 0

} Else {

Stage = 0

}

If (Bottomswell's IdleAnim == 1st Form) Then

{

Bottomswell's HurtAnim = 1

If (TempVar:HitsTilNextStage == 0) Then

{

Choose Self

Use <Fury Blast> on Target

Bottomswell's IdleAnim = 2nd Form

Count = 0

TempVar:HitsTilNextStage = 6

If (Stage == 2) Then

{

Choose Self

Use <Fury Blast> on Target

Bottomswell's IdleAnim = 3rd Form

Count = 0

TempVar:HitsTilNextStage = 3

}

} Else {

TempVar:HitsTilNextStage = TempVar:HitsTilNextStage - 1

}

} Else If (Bottomswell's IdleAnim == 2nd Form) Then {

Bottomswell's HurtAnim = 7

If (TempVar:HitsTilNextStage == 0) Then

{

Choose Self

Use <Fury Blast> on Target

Bottomswell's IdleAnim = 3rd Form

Count = 0

TempVar:HitsTilNextStage = 3

} Else {

TempVar:HitsTilNextStage = TempVar:HitsTilNextStage - 1

}

} Else {

Bottomswell's HurtAnim = 13

}

} AI: Counter - Death {

Choose All Opponents

Use Big Wave on Target

If (At Least One Target is Imprisoned) Then

{

Choose All Targets with Imprisoned Status

Remove Imprisoned Status from Target

}

Choose Self

Use <Vanish> on Target

Remove Waterpolos

}

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Related Enemies

• Waterpolo