(Spoilers) Question about boss of game

[gamorade]

Spoiler: Orphan

has a lot of health and I come close to dying a lot against him when he hits his 4000 hit attack. My party is Lightening, Fang, and Hope each having around 5k health, can I have a battle strategy please?
** Does he cast Doom?

[Che]

Switch to SEN/SEN/SEN if you have it for the attack, or at least one SEN if you can. Then heal up with MED/MED/MED, or MED/MED/COM or some variant right afterwards.

Then RAV/RAV/RAV to stagger and COM/COM/COM to do damage.

[Andromeda]

It is also the only near the end of the game boss that you can juggle. So it is best to take advantage of that juggling when you're fighting him. If you are hurting on HP just make sure at least one person is a Ravager or Commando so that he remains juggled while Staggered.

Since it is a timed fight you are best if you play totally offensive against him. Since it seems like you are pretty low on the Crystarium with only 5k HP at that point. You'll be in for scrapping by on the seconds with doom nearly killing you even playing totally offensive against the guy. Just make sure to juggle as much as you can so that he can't get attacks off, even if you have to attack early in before you'll full. It is better than allowing a big attack to go off and force you to heal.

[Tiffany]

I was going to say that the HP seems a bit low too, if you find you're stuck going back to grind a bit in Orphan's Cradle (or even going back to either Eden or Gran Pulse) would really benefit you.

[finalblackmage]

I beat him by poisoning him and then focusing on healing while his HP went down. When it went away I'd get him poisoned and focus on healing again.

[Foxdie]

i 5 starrd him with something like this
Snow,Vanille,Hope
SEN/SAB/SYN
COM/RAV/MED
RAV/RAV/MED
COM/RAV/RAV
SEN/MED/MED

tip forget about your fav characters and get 1s with the classes u need

@ the start i waited until i was all buffd an he was debuffd switchd 2 COM/RAV/MED for 1 turn and then switched 2 RAV/RAV/MED until staggerd and did COM/RAV/RAV

[gamorade]

I have to say I just ended up staggering him over and over and ended up beating both forms (2nd is much easier) I beat him with 5k health Thanks very much for the help guys, it was definately useful because I used all of the guides you guys gave me and combined them and won!