Final Fantasy VI Walkthrough

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1.18: Reunited: Defend that Esper!

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Enemies: HeavyArmor, Fidor, Trooper, Bounty Man, Rider, Kefka

Reality split the Returners into factions, but due to the power of Friendship and Plot Device, they all found their way to Narshe to reunite, bigger and badder than before! Lo and behold, it was just in time to thwart the execution of evil plans! As Locke learned in South Figaro, a detachment from the Empire led by Kefka is planning to finish the job Terra started - obtain the mysterious Esper located in Narshe. For no particular reason at all, it was moved to the snowy hills behind Narshe, so it is here that the seven of you will have to make a stand. Obviously, Narshe guards will not be helping you whatsoever.

Preparation: You have an abundance of equipment and seven characters to equip it on. I'll give a brief overview on how to treat the seven characters now that the good relics seem surprisingly small in number:

Terra - Back Row

/

Edgar - Back Row

Shield

Heavy Shield
Helmet

Green Beret

Locke - Front Row
/
Dirk

Air Lancet/ Dirk

Guardian

Green Beret

Celes - Back Row
Sword

Regal Cutlass
Shield

Heavy Shield
Helmet

Magus Hat/ Helmet

Green Beret

Sabin - Back Row

Helmet

Green Beret

Cyan - Back Row

Shield

Heavy Shield
Helmet

Green Beret
Armor

Iron Armor

Gau - Front Row

Helmet

Green Beret
Armor

Kung Fu Suit
Relic

Earrings

I'll leave most of the relics up to you. I'd really advise one pair of Relic

Earrings on Gau, as he'll be doing monster multi-target magical damage. If you have Fire Dance, equip one more pair of Relic

Earrings on Sabin as well. are great for those you want to attack first: Either Locke (for Stealing before killing) or Gau (for killing ASAP). is nice for those you'll be doing physical with (Locke, Cyan; not Edgar), and the is only worth it on Locke.

The teams! The monster hitters at this point of the game are Edgar and Gau. Edgar's , that one Tool you kept ignoring, will now hit the weak spot of a lot of enemies here and will take them down in one hit. You can complement him with a weaker character, so I would suggest Terra; her spells are starting to become really poor when talking damage output, and Edgar will like the spells.

Gau rules this part of the game even more than he rules most parts. He will be doing superior multi-target damage when using ' Fireball or 's Wind Slash, and is by far the best choice for both 'boss battles' you'll be battling. Gau should be the core of your superior team, and should be complemented by the other two characters that have things to offer besides damage: Locke (for Steal) and Celes (for Runic).

This leaves us with Sabin and Cyan. If Sabin knows Fire Dance, this team will more than make up for its lack of

Cure spells; if not, this is easily the weakest team out of the three. Both Cyan and Sabin will have sufficient single-target damage without the ability to heal beyond s, so they'll require your maintenance.

As soon as you are done with equipping everybody, talk to Banon to make your teams. My personal choice, as I've explained, is the following:

Edgar, Terra
Locke, Celes, Gau
Cyan, Sabin

When you're done, Kefka will appear with a frighteningly large amount of enemy soldiers at his disposal. They will line up and start walking to you. This is very much like defending Terra from the 's minions; if the soldiers reach Banon, it's Game Over. Your job is to serve and protect. Block all three pathways to him with your three teams and have out-battle control over the one with Sabin and Cyan (as you'll be needing to feed them s outside of battle). When you run into a green soldier, you'll either fight a pack of four s (75% of the time) or two Troopers and a (25%). The brown soldiers, meanwhile, put you up against a and Trooper (75%) or two Troopers and a HeavyArmor (25%). When you get to the end, you will fight a (the last brown soldier) and finally Kefka.

The battle strategy here is simple. If you have a strong multi-target character (Gau, possibly Sabin, Edgar against Troopers), let them do their killing. Strong single-target characters (Locke with Relic

Genji Glove, Sabin, Cyan) should pick apart single enemies. Weak offensive characters (Locke without Relic

Genji Glove, Terra, Celes) can support the general party by Stealing and Curing.

Troopers fall to Tools

Bio Blaster and are generally weak units. Avoid the Attack command against them as their strong point is !Swing, which they'll only use to as a counter to Attack.

s, like their palette swaps, Escape when alone. In a Trooper x2, Bounty Man monster formation, you can take out the Troopers and ignore the dogs if you like.

dogs are heavily armored brutes that will probably survive single attacks if they're not really strong ones. They only get stronger when alone (they will start using !Pounce every time as opposed to only 33 % of the possible times), so weaken them/kill them first before you finish of the rest.

HeavyArmor are opponents you still recognize from Locke's scenario, where they were used as more-or-less unbeatable monster you had to run around. Here, you'll have to defeat them, which is considerably easier given the fact you have more than one character to work with. When Celes is in your party, the Imperial tank will recognize her and fear her magic, prompting him to use Magitek Barrier, which sets Protect and Reflect. You shouldn't be using anyway, so that won't be a concern. Don't start using or , though.

After the two waves of 'normal' enemies are over, there are but two opponents remaining: Rider and Kefka. Rider is surfing around Kefka so you'll need to take him out first.

If a team is entirely killed, the characters will find themselves with 1 HP on the spot where the Save Point used to reside. This means that you can engage a battle, get yourself killed, and engage again. This also means you can Steal from what is supposed to be a single encounter time after time. Rider has a common , a piece of armor everybody can equip that is superior to everything so far but the . There's also a rare . Kefka features the same rare and common s, a superior version to the insanely expensive . I'd advise you to steal three Armor

Mithril Vests (you'll take one Armor

Ninja Gear along) and as many Ethers as you want. Ethers are very rare, very useful, and you're not going to get unlimited amounts of them until near the end of the game, and even then it's a huge stretch to try to obtain them. I've dubbed it the OnionRider trick, so make me proud and mention it wherever you go! You see, because like an onion, the beast has layers, and you peel several Armor

Mithril Vests off of him? OnionRider!

Rider Boss Monster	Type	Level	HP	MP	Gil	EXP
	Humanoid	14	1300	170	1290	400
	Strength	Magic Atk.	Evasion	Defense	Mag. Def.	Mag. Evade
	48	10	0	120	150	0
	Stolen Items			Dropped Items
	Common: Elixir Rare: Mithril Vest			Common: Remedy
	Status Immunities			Elemental Immunities
				None
	Elemental Absorb			Elemental Weakness
	None
	Lores			Command Immunities
	None			None
	Metamorph Package
	Gold Lance, Gold Shield, Gold Helmet, Gold Armor 64/256 Success Rate
	Strategy
	Rider is a durable fellow who has an extremely strong physical attack in !SilverPike, which he also uses to counter a successful Steal attempt. Every fourth attack, he has a 1/3 chance of using Virite, a multi-target Poison-elemental attack with low accuracy that also sets the Poison status. Gau can take him out in a single hit with Rhodox's Snare and the Break spell from Dark Wind and/or Commander. If you have nothing along those lines, Areneid's !Numb and Primordite's !Numblade will stop him in his actions. If you lack Gau (shame on you), Cyan's Slash works great if used first, and any combination of your strongest attacks should suffice. He can also counter any Attack with R.Polarity on that character. Expand Full Strategy

Now, this is finally the confrontation with Kefka. He enslaved Terra's mind, set fire to castle Figaro, and destroyed Cyan's life. It's time to give him some payback for all that he's done.

Kefka Boss Monster	Type	Level	HP	MP	Gil	EXP
	Humanoid	18	3000	3000	0	0
	Strength	Magic Atk.	Evasion	Defense	Mag. Def.	Mag. Evade
	25	9	30	55	160	30
	Stolen Items			Dropped Items
	Common: Elixir Rare: Ether			Common: Peace Ring
	Status Immunities			Elemental Immunities
				None
	Elemental Absorb			Elemental Weakness
	None			None
	Lores			Command Immunities
	None			Control, Scan
	Strategy
	Kefka is vulnerable to Stop, so have Gau use the Araneid and/or Primordite Rages for best results. Always have Runic in place, as he knows some very powerful spells that can one-hit KO your characters when focused in a single-target blast, regardless of row. Have your other character(s) give it their best shot. Terra's Fire cannot be used with Runic in place so she should focus on her other powers; she can cast Magic when Celes isn't on Runic stand-by or simply wield the Rune Edge to some very nice result. Locke should Attack, Edgar should unload his Autocrossbow, Sabin relies on good old Aurabolt, Cyan can use Dispatch or his fourth Bushido, Quadra Slam, if he has access to it, and that's about it. The battle is slightly anti-climactic when you consider the implications of it, but you'll pull through. Expand Full Strategy

When Kefka is defeated, he'll manage to escape, leaving behind an utterly useless, albeit new, .

And that was that. Terra leaves behind the equipment she had on her, thoughtfully.

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