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Ultimate WEAPON is a boss battle in Final Fantasy VII that you first encounter in Mideel during the storyline in Mideel. It is also involved in the side quest for Cloud’s Ultima Weapon.

Initial Stats

No Damage: Earth, Water, Gravity

Attacks: Ultima Beam, Quake2, Shadow Flare, Claw, Thunderball, Escape

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

Drop: Ultima Weapon (last battle)

Steal: Curse Ring (Mideel encounter), Circlet (any sky encounter), Reflect Ring (any ground encounter)

Storyline Encounter

Strategy

The spell to watch out for is Ultima Beam, it can cause significant damage to your party and if you don't want to waste valuable time reviving dead characters, try and keep on top of it by immediately curing. Other than that, its other attacks deal moderate damage which you should be used to by now. Eventually Ultima Weapon will fly away leaving you to live and fight him another day.

Optional Encounters

When you're ready to fight Ultimate WEAPON again, you'll need to find it first. It could be flying around any number of areas. While its moving, hitting him with the airship a couple times will make it stop. Once it's stopped, you can engage it by approaching it again. You can find Ultimate WEAPON in any of the following places:

• Gongaga Village (ground encounter)

• Fort Condor (ground encounter)

• Midgar (ground encounter)

• Northern Crater (ground encounter)

• Junon (sky encounter)

• Mideel (sky encounter)

• Mt. Nibel (sky encounter)

• North Corel (sky encounter)

• Cosmo Canyon (sky encounter)

Each time you engage and fight Ultimate WEAPON, it will flee and go to another location. It's HP doesn't recover between battles, and it will head to Cosmo Canyon when its HP falls to 20,000. (Note that its HP at Cosmo Canyon will always be 20,000, even if you reduced it lower.) It shouldn't have to be said, but save your game and recover your HP between battles.

Strategy

For each encounter, employ the same strategy as you did in Mideel (as outlined above). When you head into the Cosmo Canyon battle, equip the Enemy Skill Materia. When Ultimate WEAPON finally dies, it will use Shadow Flare as a counterattack. When it is defeated, it will fall and leave an impact crater which allows you access to the Ancient Forest. You will win Cloud's ultimate weapon for defeating this WEAPON.

See Also: Bosses (FFVII) or Side Quest WEAPONs

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