What's your strategy for Ruby and Emerald?

[Free_Lancer05]

my stradegy is dont fight them.....haha jk jk

[Rocky]

idk, a lot of these strategies here suck, because when I wanted to beat Ruby/Emerald, it was mainly for so I could get the Desert Rose which allowed me to get the Golden Chocobo without having the heartache/frustration of breeding/racing chocobos for like 20 hours. Getting lucky 7's I'd say is a legitimate strategy since you can force it to happen whenever if you know what youre doing, but using the Mime/KotR shit is just too easy and defeats the purpose for even beating Emerald, since I wanted to beat them to get that stuff lol.

Anywho, for Emerald I'm pretty sure I just molliwhopped him with 4x Cut on all three characters. It starts off a bit slow since you'll be targetting his laser beam thingies on his bigass shoulders but after awhile it picks up. I didn't bother equipping the underwater materia, nor did I bother limiting my materia choices for his materia damage attack. (in fact he never even used it on me lol) but I DID have final attack -> Phoenix on, just in case. I think I beat him with about 5-7 minutes left on the clock, not bad (and I could have done it a lot faster if I didn't use Vincent and let him Chaos but I'm an idiot -_-)

Ruby is even more failsafe than Emerald once you have the bounties of Emerald's stuff. I had W-Summon with Bamamut ZERO, and then I had Mime linked to HP Absorb. I also equipped a Ribbon on Cloud so I wouldn't get hit with all the nasty status effects. I started off using the 2x Bahamut ZERO summon and in return got more then 9999HP back each time, not a bad deal. Once I got damaged enough from his tenticles, I Omnislashed -> Mimed it from then on, which got me about 15k hp back each use. From then on I was pretty much invincible and beat him after a long drawn-out fight. gg no re.