Final Fantasy VII Boss Rush #08 Motor Ball

Eighth boss. Time to get to it.

This boss takes place after fleeing from Shin-Ra building and after a little mini game down the highway where you have to protect the truck from the oncoming Shin-Ra Soldiers. The damage taken during the mini game also carries over into the actual boss fight.

First thing to point out is this battle always starts as a back attack, there is no avoiding that. However, if all your party members are in the front row before the battle, they'll take minimal damage from the ram he does at the start of the fight. After that, arrange your attackers, in my case, Cloud/Jeremy and Red XIII/Kurisu to the front row.

Alright, with that out of the way, this boss reduces damage from Fire by half but like any machine, is weak to Thunder, which is where Elemental linked to Thunder comes in handy, which I have on Cloud/Jeremy's weapon.

The boss itself isn't too threatening, really. It has a couple of party damaging attacks but still, nothing to write home about. The major attack to look out for is its Rolling Fire which I believe hits around 200 per party member, however, it only busts this move out when low in HP, so you should be safe for the most part. As an example, it doesn't even get to use the Rolling Fire here. Challenging but nothing too threatening, if that makes sense.


Motor Ball HP: 2600

Below I will list the equipment of the characters.

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Cloud/Jeremy
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Weapon: Hardedge
Armor: Mythril Armlet
Accessory: Protect Vest

Materia
Hardedge: Elemental--Thunder, Steal, Enemy Skill
Mythril Armlet: N/A

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Aerith/Emmie
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Weapon: Mythril Rod
Armor: Mythril Armlet
Accessory: Talisman

Materia
Mythril Rod: Restore--All
Mythril Bangle: Blizzard--All


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Red XIII/Kurisu
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Weapon: Mythril Clip
Armor: Mythril Armlet
Accessory: N/A

Materia
Mythril Clip: Fire--All, Sense
Mythril Armlet: Bio

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[BohepansTheThird]

@RavenEffect6

Indeed.

And I remember him being not very fun when I did a No Materia Challenge, once. @_@ Phew. Unpleasant.

[RavenEffect6]

Kind of an interesting boss design, looks like it'd be threatening your first go through in the game.