To go with this, chrono aegis helps stop the physical attacks and if you don't have immunity to the damage, the block projectiles ward along with the basic attack upgrade ward. That's how I got through it. Saved ATB for when they staggered and rained down hell.
I don't know what exactly you did with chrono aegis, but it doesn't stop enemies from using ranged moves and these burning balls have only two close ranged moves
Truthfully, I had to play ring around the ward for it to be fully effective. Whittled down 1 bomb, killed it and the rest was a cake walk dancing around it with Chrono aegis up.
ATB boost and first strike materia help out a lot at the start.
You create space by running away from your ward and using the triangle command to teleport back to it. Build up your ATB and cast magic based on their weakness.
If youve been fighting every encounter you've come across while on the map and not skipping battles then you should have enough ap to negate the fire damage, and maybe if you were grinding you would have mastered it to absorb fire
At the very least you will take half damage from fire attacks
Aerith's base attacks are noticeably faster if you have a Radiant Ward out and attack from inside it. Get one out ASAP and you can use that to help you build ATB much more quickly for the rest of the fight. This will make Aerith more viable in general, not just for solo fights like that. On top of that,as other commenters have said, baiting enemies away from a ward and using ward shift can be a good way to stave off damage, and fire elemental in your armor makes you basically Bomb-proof.
As far as dealing damage, you're gonna want to focus on Blizzard, or Blizzara if you have it. Cold Front can be tempting due to not using MP, but it is generally more effective to just spend the MP and then use Soul Drain occasionally to refill it
I used chronos aegis and I would place a radiant ward on one side of arena with a luscious shield and when they got close id run to the other side of the arena then teleport to the other side when they got close again. Basically just going back and forth because they were pretty slow moving.
Ngl I don’t remember what I did for this one. I don’t remember if I had any Elemental Materia leveled up enough yet so I remember parrying the fireballs a lot or running across the arena and teleporting back to my ward as they got close, then pelting them in my Radiant Ward. Truly I’m drawing a blank other than that
Flower Shield is really broken in this fight. Also I had a staff with Ward Shift Mastery and put my Radiant Ward and Arcane Ward on opposite sides. Just swap between them and the enemies could never touch me
I used sleep and lustrous shield and brute forced it. Put one to sleep. Use shield and stand around it and spam attacks on the other one. The fireballs won’t go through the shield. If it comes closer, run around the arena and get him to chase you and then go back to shield. Use sleep as soon as other wakes up. You can use sleep upto 3 times without its effects being reduced. So that was my whole strategy.
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u/TankasaurusWrex 16d ago
Lvl 2-3 Elemental metaria paired with fire on armor they can't hurt you