Final Fantasy VIII - Adel

Note: This is not a challenge fight, it is a display fight, which is why I purposly toned down my junctions with weak magic. Quistis is LV100, Irvine is LV13, and Squall is LV7.

If there's one fight that people get stuck on in the game, this is the fight. It's non-optional too. Right at the beginning of Disc 4, you can fight Adel. She (yes it's a woman, hence sorceress) is argubley the hardest storyline boss in the game. She has powerful moves, has a good amount of HP, and to top it off, she has Rinoa hostage. This means you can't do multi-hit attacks, Limits, or GFs. Using them risks killing Rinoa if she takes too much damage. I'm not sure how much HP Rinoa can have usually, but with my current mixed matched party she had 9000 HP.

To make the fight last longer, I equipped a weaker str junction as usual. Adel is LV40 in this fight, because enemies levels are determined by the average of your current parties level. So 100, 7, and 13 average to 40. It's unbalanced but it gives Adel better stats to make it more interesting. After all, an average or new player to this game wouldn't know this most likely.

Anyway, cast Regen on Rinoa so she has a better chance of surviving. You can Cure her from time to time too, especially if you accidentally damage her. Speaking of which, I took a risk by using Renzokuken. I had my damage toned down, so it wouldn't kill her anyway. So I just figured if Fatal Circle or Blasting Zone comes out, I can just Curaga her after. That's why I casted Protect on her too. Adel's worst move is Ultima. And it does hurt to get hit by it, don't underestimate it. I'd make sure at least one person is in Shell status before Ultima comes out. But yea, people that don't understand the Junction System usually get stuck on this fight. GF spamming only gets you this far in the game.

If you're curious about the storyline at this part, you find out Edea transferred her powers as a sorceress to Rinoa, making Rinoa a sorceress. You find out Ultimecia, a sorceress from the future, possesses sorceresses from the past. So they come up with a plan to kill Ultimecia. They figure out Ultimecia wants to compress time, but she can't go far back into the past enough to do it, so Ellone sends Rinoa's conciousness into the past while she's possessed by Ultimecia, which in return sends Ultimecia farther into the past to achive time compression. Of course, they figure this is the only way to get to her. So after Ellone uses her powers, you get a little crazy scene of time compression, which basically is like some crazy acid drug trip. That's about it. Oh, and Adel is an evil sorceress, she basically wants control of the world. Not as even as Ultimecia, who wants to compress and "destroy" time, but still evil nonetheless.

Only three more fights to record. Ultima Weapon, Omega Weapon, and final boss. All of those fights will be everyone at LV100.

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[KrimHyu]

Adel = female body builder notice her lack of breasts.

[Brevelan09]

...I just love the story of this game!!! :D

[TheSutrea]

when i was watching this i was going the fuck is kevin

[BodySlamReviews]

I would love to have this fight in the next Kingdom Hearts!!

[TheNemisisx]

@TheLobosJordan Agree with you 100%, they should have changed the story around where Adel sent her consiounsce from her imprisoment and possessed Edea to begin her hunt for Ellone once more then she used Rinoa so she could free herself after that she can use Ellone to compress time, it would have been much better that way imo

[TheNemisisx]

Why, why couldnt they give Adel such a bigger role in the story, yeah we hear about what she did back when Laguna was in the Galbadian army 17 years ago but i would have liked to see her have a bigger role or at least make a prequel to FFVIII where we play as Laguna and expand on the story 17 years ago that way we see more of Adel

[hackerp49]

2:37 Gotta love the camera angle in this game.

[jondog338]

the end part where they're falling always gets a "the fuck?..." out of me.

[LonewolfCrystal]

that's a big magic bitch...

[Vanitas767]

@TheLobosJordan so fucking true O_O

[TheLobosJordan]

Adel should have been the main antagonist. Ultimecia sucks ass compared to Adel

[averagejp]

i guess you could say, adel's........... rolling in the deep. YEEEEEEEEEEEEAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHH­HHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!