Ultimecia in Final Fantasy VIII? Bloody hell, usually only takes about tento fifteen minutes to beat all four bosses usually. MANDATORY requirements are;
- Have Squall, Zell and Irvine as your main party members
- Everyone at Lv.100
- All ultimate weapons and limit breaks (Lionheart is pretty much crucial for winning)
- Have everyone's battle windows set up for Attack, Magic, Draw and Item - having the Guardian Force command enabled is utterly pointless
- Junction everyone to have high HP, luck and status defences
Ultimecia and Griever are pretty easy, though Griever's Shockwave Pulsar can sting a bit so it helps a lot to have some Heros/Holy Wars stocked. Griever/Ultimecia Junctioned is a bit tougher but ultimately pretty easy so long as you keep attacking - it's Final Ultimecia that's the bitch. Megalixers and Holy Wars willhave to be at the fucking ready here, keep casting Aura on Squall and use Renzokuken and Lionheart at every opportunity, cast Aura on Irvine and Zell too (use Irvine's Fast Ammo - with high ATK stats he can deal up to 20,000HP damage in one limit break). Frankly, I've always found it to be easy because I spent ages stocking up on items - my save files has 100 of nearly everything.
Anyway, UPDATE!
I'm 51 hours into Final Fantasy VII now, and errr.... I think I might be jesus. I beat Emerald Weapon with very little trouble with most of my characters (except Cloud) just over level 70and with very little materia equipped. To top that off, I forgot to equip the Underwater materia so I had to finish him off within the 20 minute time limit... managed it in just over 15 minutes. Follow that up with defeating Ruby Weapon almost directly afterwards exceptionally quickly (literally within about ten minutes, tops) and you have one of my biggest WTF moments. Finished the Ancient Forest quest (thank fuck), mastered two out of four Enemy Skill materia, got my rewards for beating Emerald and Ruby from the old man in Kalm, finished the chocobo races and won the S class winner's bundle, enough GP to buy the EXP Plus materia and - for the first time ever - I got the Sneak Attack materia too. Fought the Special Battle in the Battle Arena a few more times so I've obtained Dio's Autograph and Dio's Combat Diary too, though I think there's one more item to get from there.
So basically... all I have to do now is hunt down three more Enemy Skills (both remaining materia need Chocobuckle, one needs Aqualung and the other needs Shadow Flare), level up my characters to lv.99, max out all of my materia until I have eight full sets of Master Materia (so far, I only have one set and an extra Master Magic - so I need 6 full sets plus one Master Command and one Master Summon) and then, well... beat Jenova Syntesis, Bizarro Sephiroth and Safer Sephiroth at the Planet's Core and then I'm finished.
I'm surprised I've done this so fucking quickly