Adamantoise (Best one)

[Kaiden]

I'm not one to start threads but someone should do this for cactuars too
Here is a good link for info Cactuar - The Final Fantasy Wiki has more Final Fantasy information than Cid could research

Ill give out a for it

[Xithor]

Btw the just a side not but are you guys getting five star ratings when you take down the Adamantoise? I think it really helps and I know a very useful strategy to take them down that I picked up from a youtube video and it's money. I take em down in like 5 minutes and the fastest 2 and a half minutes. Here's how I do it:

My party is Fang (leader) , Lightning, and Hope.

My paradigm deck:
SAB-MED-SYN [Evened Odds] - active paradigm
SAB-MED-MED [Perserverance]
RAV-RAV-RAV [Tri-Disaster]
COM-COM-RAV [Aggression]
SEN-MED-MED [Combat Clinic]

So starting in Evened Odds is how I begin, with Hope buffing the party and Lightning ready to heal. I'm controlling Fang for several reasons, choose your actions for yourself and cast Deprotect, Deshell, and Imperial on one of the legs. Once all of them land make sure you're healed by switching to Perserverance or Combat Clinic and then switch to Tri-Disaster to stagger the leg. Once it's staggered immediately switch to Aggression and use Fang's Highwind, take the legs entire health away. Back to Evened Odds for the next leg. If you ever are in health trouble or Hope has cast all the buffs he can switch to Perserverance so he can help out Lightning healing since he is much better. Do the same thing to the next leg and once you do Highwind the big beast will collapse.

Now back to Evened Odds and inflict Deprotect, Deshell, and Imperial once again. After those are in place switch right to Tri-Disaster and drive his chain guage up. I stay here til I get him close to 999% after I stagger him to inflict the most damage then switch to Aggression so I have two commandos in Fang and Lightning for the most damage. Wail away on him while he's down, if he starts to get up I use Highwind again which sometimes finishes him off. Pretty much it depends on how fast I can get the debuffs to land whether or not I only have to take him down once to kill him or not. Wait as long as you can for Highwind though because it completely reduces his chain gauge back to 0. If he lived through it repeat the process switching to Perseverance or Combat Clinic if you get in trouble. This should take him down in 5 minutes or so if he gets up and 2 and a half if you only need to take him down once.

Equipping General's Belt's (reduce physical damage) and Gaian Ring's(reduce Earth damage) helps me out too. Each of my characters have one that is mastered equipped. Fang has the Genji Glove to help her inflict a lot of damage as well as the two catalogs I have on Light and Hope.

Here's the link to the strategy: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BG17X3rXQjw