What's your strategy for Ruby and Emerald?

[Zidane77]

My strategy for Ruby Weapon is what i used 2 weeks ago when i killed him for the second time:
Of course kill 2 of the 3 before the battle and then use Phoenix, have Cid,Barret and Cloud in the party and have a mastered Phoenix linked with mastered Final Attack on Cloud.
Have KOTR and mime on everyone.
Enemy skills that are very useful are Big Guard and White Wind.
Also at least one mastered 4x-Cut and Barret's Missing Score armed with alot of mastered materia (Comet,Ultima etc.),which powers him up and his limit break.

The first time i killed him i used everyone limit breaks alot with hero drinks and it worked in the end but i think it's better to just spam KOTR with W-Summon (while heavily guarded) and Counter materia linked with KOTR and have Cid the healer.
What's absolutely neccessary is to have the armors Ziedrich or Mystile (Mystile works best for me), also summons Phoenix and KOTR are key for success.


Emerald Weapon is laughably easy compared to Ruby but spam Omnislash with Cloud, have lightning linked with elemental.
Use the same supportive actions as above and he goes down pretty easily.