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Diamond WEAPON is a boss battle in Final Fantasy VII encountered along the coastline outside Midgar.

Stats

Weakness: Lightning

No Damage: Gravity

Half Damage: Fire

Attacks: Diamond Fire, Diamond Flash, Foot Stamp

Protected Against: Death, Sleep, Poison, Confusion, Silence, Frog, Small, Slowly Stone, Petrify, Death Sentence, Manipulate, Berserk, Stop, Paralyze

Steal: Rising Sun

Strategy

Diamond Weapon has a mammoth HP (but far from the highest in the game, as you'll eventually see) and the fact that he is immune to physical attacks for most of the battle can be troublesome. So make sure you can restore MP because without it, you're in trouble. Now is a good time to break out the strong summons, Bolt 3, and Cure 3 + All materia. The summons are espeically advantageous to the battle and will easily bring his 50,000 HP down a notch or two. One effective and simple strategy is assigning a task to each characters. For example, have one character as the healer (and item user), one character casting summons and spells, and the other only using heavy hitting spells (it's also good to equip Enemy Skills to do this character). When Diamond Weapon is vulnerable to physical attacks (as he charges up his big spell - Diamond Flash) put Cloud and the Double Cut materia to great use in place of casting a spell. Following this simple advice you should manage to stick through the battle and after doing 50,000 HP worth of damags, sit back and watch.

See Also: Bosses (FFVII)

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