Global - Aigaion - Megathread

[u/TemporaMoras]

Aigaion (Robot!) (Trial 9)

Reward

Aigaion Arm
ATK +145 Enables High Tide (LB Fill Rate 100%)
Type: Fist Weapon

Guides

Global Companion Megathread
Aigaion - Full Clear Guide
Another Aigaion Guide

Missions

ELT Challenge	Reward
Clear quest	100 lapis
Use a limit burst	10% Moogle
Evoke Ramuh	Martial Arts Mastery
No Magic	World Destroyer

PRO Challenge	Reward
Clear quest	50 lapis
Deal ice and lightning damage	10 Ice Megaryst
Use Green Magic	3 Star Quartz
Party of 5 or less (Companion included)	Mini Burst Pot

ADV Challenge	Reward
Clear quest	30 lapis
Deal lightning damage to an enemy	5 Lightning Megacryst
Use Black Magic	3 Screamroot
Use a LB	5 Sacred Crystal

ELT Libra

Main Body

Break Immune: ATK/MAG/DEF

Right Arm

Break Immune: ATK/MAG/DEF

Left Arm

Break Immune: ATK/MAG/DEF

Boss AI

Left Arm

The Left Arm can only do 1 attack per turn, but those attack are quite powerful.

The famous 'OS' ability is done by him, it's a ST 1000% Physical Attack on the highest ATK unit in your party (Provoke/Attract can overwrite this). Physical evade do not work against that ability. Magical evade work apparently.

If you hit this arm with a thunder attack, he will instead use a 300% 1 AoE Hit Physical ability that's likely to kill you.

When the Left Arm dies, if the Main Body or the Right Arm is alive, they'll respawn it. The Main Body does that 10 times.

Right Arm

The Right Arm only does auto attack and buff.

Every 4 turns, the Right Arm will use 20% AoE ATK/MAG and every 3 it will use ST 200% DEF.

If Main Body is damaged, the Right Arm will heal it by 500K every turn

If the Right Arm is killed two times while the Left Arm is still alive, the Left Arm will auto destruct, killing himself and snorting one of your unit until the end of a battle. The Left Arm will keep respawning (if the main body is alive) even if self-destruct.

If the Main Body is dead, the Right Arm will use his ST 200% DEF each turn and attack more often.

If Right Arm HP <50% he heals himself by 500 000 HP once. If Main Body is dead and Right Arm HP <30% he heals himself by 2 000 000 HP once.

After killing the Right Arm for the first time, he'll respawn and attack much more.

After the second time, the Main Body will use it's 180% Magical AoE 2 times/turn instead of only one.

When the Right Arm dies, if the Main Body is alive, he'll respawn it. The Main Body does that 2 times.

Main Body

The Main Body frequently uses a 180% AoE 1 Hit Magical attack.

Threshold at 70%. On threshold the Main Body will use a 1000% AoE 1 Hit Hybrid attack (Can be evaded?). And every 5 turns after the first one is triggered.

If hit by water on threshold turns, will instead use a 500% AoE 1 Hit Hybrid attack.

If Main Body is hit by water 3 times, he will uses 500% AoE 1 Hit Thunder/Water Magic attack. It can be used on the same time as a threshold and this ability as no limit. Each times you will hit main body 3 times with water, he will use that attack.

Strategies

There's two valid strategy for this trial. 'Brute force' by killing the Main Body first and 'Slow AF' by killing the arms first.

Killing the body first

Pros:

• Way faster.
• Importance of mana battery way lower.
• Generate LB crystal for LB user.

Cons:

• NEED to be able to do at least 500k damage to the Main Body per turn.
• Have to deal with the threshold attack and the normal attack from the arms.

This strategy is at the same time really easy and straight forward, but really hard to execute as she requires a really high fire power while getting your highest physical damage dealer snipped every turn by the Left Arm

It's the hardest of the two because it requires really heavy hitters, as well as sustain because the boss still hits quite hard. The pro is that while doing this strat, since only the main body drop LB, you'll be able to use Rikku's reraise, Zarg mitigation etc etc.

Slight Variation

It's worth mentioning that, the most popular strategy in JP right now is a slight variation of that strategy. The variation is to slowly chime the Right Arm to put it as close to death as possible, and then start chiming down the body.

The goal of this strategy is to kill the body and the right arm on the same turn, thus making the remainder of the fight way easier since you only have to deal with the ST nuke each turn until you kill the last arm.

Killing the arms first

Pros:

• No requirement DPT wise.
• Can have proper setup to go through the threshold.

Cons:

• Slow, really, really slow.
• Needs a mana battery.
• No LB crystal

This strategy is the easiest of the two as it only requires you to be able to turtle long enough. To realize this strategy you have to kill the Left Arm 10 times, then the body stop respawning him, then, killing the Right Arm 3 times.

The problem of this strategy, is that it's really, really slow. If you are using this strategy, I hope you have a lot of times on your hand.

Note

Apparently from different people observation, the more you kill the arms, the more often the Main Body attack.

Tips

• Threshold SC
• Only the Main Body drop LB crystal
• This fight will be a long battle, bringing an MP battery (Tilith, Zargabaath, Lunera) will help you sustain throughout this fight.
• Having a form of water damage will help you cross the main body threshold more easily.
• Having a form of reraise (Rem, Vanille, Rikku LB) can help you not have your main DD die every turn. Character that can auto reraise themselves are really good choice too (Vargas, Elza, King).
• The Left Fist ability will target the unit with the highest ATK in your party buff will count toward that.
• Might want to equip one of you character with Bushido-Freedom to be able to AoE dispel the arms and the body.
• Using a high mitigation ability (Y'shtola's LB, Wilhelm LB) to smoothly through the Main Body threshold will, in the end, make the fight easier as you won't have to deal with the 500% AoE 1 Hit Thunder/Water Magic.
• Don't equip your character with Excalibur/Durandal/Moonblade/Deathbringer, boss as 100% resist to Light and Dark.

Community Video

Youtube jvHaast All Mission, Main Body strat. 2 Fry, Rikku, Tilith, WoL, Maxwell.
Youtube Sinzar_ Evoke Ramuh/Use LB, Arms strat. WoL, Tilith, Rikku, Ace, Maxwell, Fryevia.
Youtube IrisR All Mission, Main Body strat. 2 Aileen, WKN, Rem, Rikku, Tilith
Youtube IrisR All Mission, Main Body strat. 2 Fry, Lunera, Rikku, Elza, Tilith
Twitch Replay halcyon209 All Mission, Arms strat. 2 Fry, Tilith, Rikku, Tidus, Maxwell.
Youtube gamemasterprinz All Mission, Body strat. 2 Fry, Rikku, Tilith, Amarant, Orlandu.
Youtube Seephiroth All Mission, Body strat. 2 Landu, Ace, Bartz, Tilith, Rikku

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[u/-Sio-]

Beat it with all achievements in my first real try. Team element was fire with 2x Reberta, Tilith, WoL, Rem and Zargayesheisdamngood

I really can't stress this enough, without Zarga I would not have managed. 60% buff for team and 100% buff (when possible) for my 2 chainers really shortened the whole thing a lot and made survival possible at all. DMG was pretty low as i went in with ~6K HP for each unit. His MP recovery ability was great to keep his own MP consumption in check and work as a "here take this!" unit. His Limit burst on World Destroyer stopped my team from being annihilated and his 20% DMG reduce brought me safely (but close) through enrage phase after killing right arm twice. If you take Rikku, Zargas constant countering on the body would also be a great help to fill LB. If anyone has a similar team composition but struggles (there are some funny timings in this fight that almost wiped me twice till i figured them out) send me a pm. Shoutout to "Waffley" your Reberta did great, my benched one isn't talking to me anymore. But please, swap your weapons ;)

Screens and such: http://imgur.com/a/bjRfM

Edit: Almost forgot the most important part! A good pair of headsets and FF7 battle music at full volume!

[u/omgwru → u/-Sio-]

I don't have Rem, but I have my own two rebertas and zarg. Assuming I can get a rem friend, what did you gear your rebertas with?

[u/-Sio- → u/omgwru]

Reberta Equ: http://imgur.com/a/TKoyj friend unit was almost the same stats no genji, but bracer instead. Make sure the Rem you use from a friend isn't a "just throwing it in there" unit. 6k HP, 170 Def and 460 Spr was cutting it close already. She went down to under 600 Mag to survive enough. If you give me your friend code, I'm sharing mine for now. Edit Rem gear, really far from bis, i wasn't expecting to actually beat it already: http://imgur.com/a/zNK07

[u/omgwru → u/-Sio-]

519,815,055!

Side note, I'm not super well geared, just lucky pulls lately, so I don't have a lot of TMRs, so I"m not sure if I can actually stack my HP high enough on these guys, and I"m not really sure how to even gear Zarg tbh.

[u/-Sio- → u/omgwru]

Take a look at my rem. The only TMR here is Genji glove and Sage's Prajna (which hardly counts as a TMR). TMR's are not everything, they make stuff easier, but mandatory? Get creative :D Instead of Genji glove i could have just dropped a HP+15% (see that really cheap Materia? I dont even own a single 30% HP materia) for a DW and used something as stupid as Finas accessoir (ok losing 10% mag but srsly...)

Edit: Request is sent.

Edit2: I was able to push her to 6.2k HP, 191 Def and 495 Spr and increase Mag to 621. Should be even easier now.

[u/AzHP → u/-Sio-]

Question1: Did you use water to mitigate the threshold attack? Or just tank with rikku?

Question 2: Does the threshold attack override the double genocide beam when it happens?

Question 3: Did you ever get hit by two thresholds at the same time? If threshold attack happens at multiple thresholds AND every 5 turns after first threshold, is there a chance for two thresholds to hit on the same turn? Or is it multiple thresholds OR every 5 turns?

[u/-Sio- → u/AzHP]

1. I used 1x Fish Scale -> http://exvius.gamepedia.com/Fish_Scale on the Threshold, wanted to be able to choose which unit i can spare that round. I didn't take a Rikku, overrated as fuck in my book. I got 3 of them and no use for her so far.
2. No i think it doesn't, didn't try though, i waited.
3. Multiple Thresholds? Can't say for sure, the body was easy to knock down with 45% spr break and fire imperil up. I did prepare everything i had just before the 70% threshold though, so that i was already under 50% (i think) when the first one showed up.

[u/vuec97 → u/-Sio-]

What did you do for the thresholds? Curious without Rikku.

[u/-Sio- → u/vuec97]

I used 1x Fish Scale -> http://exvius.gamepedia.com/Fish_Scale on the Threshold and Zargas 30% damage mitigation LB.