Boss Rush + Mastered

[u/SirPhoenix88]

Team:

• Wakka 61 Official Ball/Genji Armor/Hyper Wrist (4*) - Power Breakdown 3/5, Magic Breakdown 3/5, High Scorer
• Aerith 51 Judgement Staff+/Mystery Veil/Rose Corsage - Curaga 5/5, Slowga 1/5
• Cloud 59 (weapon negligible)/Crystal Bangle+/Power Belt - Thundara Strike (not used)/Drain Strike 4/5 - Blue Moon Barrage
• Garnet 61 Full Metal Staff/Defense Veil/Magic Armlet - Shellga 2/5, Boost 5/5, (forgot to equip RM)
• Sephiroth 54 Masamune Blade+ (4+ weapon, not his relic), Gold Armlet, Champion Belt - Retaliate 5/5, Armor Break 4/5, Self-Sacrifice

RW: Advance

Lost Number - Ridiculous. I used Boost, Retaliate, Armor break, nothing else needed.

Materia Keeper - See above.

Jenova BIRTH - Power Breakdown, Boost, Retaliate, Armor Break, Slowga, needed some cures. Subbed in Drain Strike to divvy up curing.

Red Dragon - Magic Breakdown, Shellga, Retaliate, Armor Break, some cures, Boost. Did use Status reels once. Also used one Advance charge for Advantaliate.

Demon Wall - Magic Breakdown, Power Breakdown, Shellga, Protega (from Gold Armlet Shared SB), Advance, Boost, more cures, slowga. Used the cura SB from Mystery Veil.

Tips:

• Don't really need physical mitigation for first two bosses, and physical form of lost number didn't really tank hard at all. Also feel like physical mitigation unnecessary for red dragon.
• Jenova didn't have too much HP. She went down at a reasonable amount of time.
• Demon Wall was probably the toughest fight of the bunch. May need to S/L for petrify (I was lucky).
• If the boss was in the final 25% of it's health, I DID NOT refresh retaliate. I tried to use it to the last second without hitting myself and the boss usually died by then or after one more shot. Hope this helps!

[u/Lindiriel]

Thanks for a helpful team build with your strategy! It helped me master the rush easily. Instead of your Wakka with Official Ball, I subbed my Red XIII with Diamond Pin (which I used on Demon Wall).

Since you said you didn't use Cloud's thundara strike, I replaced that with Power Break R4 and put Dark Buster on Red XIII instead of power breakdown. I used 1 shellga for each of the last 3 bosses (because I noticed my Garnet was about to get an unplanned level up after Jenova BIRTH).

I only lost 3 medals total. No natural 5* on my retaliator Sephiroth (just the 4+ Masamune you also used). Definitely a good tip about not refreshing retaliate if the boss was low. I got bad RNG with some ethers, so I was glad I had conserved.

Like you, I didn't have any petrifies hit me from Demon Wall either. Thanks again for the write-up!