Defeating Minerva - Final Fantasy VII: Crisis Core

Epic battle between Zack Fair and Minerva, the hardest boss in the Final Fantasy series so far with 10 Million HP. She is fairly easy to defeat if you come well prepared and well equipped. Just make sure to block her Ultima and you'll win.

Minerva is the goddess of the planet. In Mission 9-6-6, she can be fought
against. Since she has 10 million HP and has devastating attacks, be sure to
prepare yourself well.

To start off, you should have good equipment. A Protect Ring will be very
useful to have since it grants Auto-Barrier and Auto-Magic Barrier. It's best
to also have 255 Vitality and 255 Spirit, to reduce the amount of damage most
of Minerva's attacks do. Genji Shield is normally even better than Protect Ring
since it also absorbs all elemental attacks and blocks all bad status effects,
but since Minerva doesn't use any elemental attacks or any bad status effects,
you can consider it to be equal to a Protect Ring.

You'll also need Genji Glove (which breaks the damage limit up to 99999, and
also grants 100% Critical Hits), and Genji Armor (which breaks the HP limit to
99999 and also grants Auto-Endurance and Auto-Regen). These two are just as
essential as the Protect Ring/Genji Shield.

The fourth and last accessory should probably be the Genji Helm, simply
because it grants 0 MP/AP consumption (and also Auto-Libra), which will save
you a lot of trouble when Minerva drains away your MP and AP. An alternative
for the Genji Helm is the Ziedrich, which boosts your Str, Vit, Mag and Spr
with +100. Use this only if you don't already have max stats, which you should
have gotten through the use of materia fusion.

Which brings me to materia fusion. You should fuse materia to boost your stats,
and keep in the back of your head that your stats should be at max, or at the
very least have 65000+ HP. Minerva's Ultima cannot exceed 64583 damage if you
have 255 Spirit, Magic Barrier, and if you also Block.

In short, equip the following accessories:

- Genji Shield OR Protect Ring
- Genji Armor
- Genji Glove
- Genji Helm OR Ziedrich

As for Materia, you'll definitely want to be able to heal yourself, so have
a Curaga Materia equipped. If you have Genji Helm equipped you don't need
to worry about MP and AP, but if you don't, you should also have a healthy
stock of Elixirs.

Equip the Costly Punch Materia, as this is the key attack for winning the
battle. Costly Punch has a very high attack power (38 base), plus it does
more damage the higher your current HP is (unless you go over your own Max HP
by 1.11, then it does 0 damage). It also ignores the enemy's Vitality.
Therefore, Costly Punch can easily inflict 99999 damage versus Minerva. It's
not the quickest attack, but it's still quick enough to be of extremely good
use.

Also equip a Steal or Mug Materia. You can steal 99 Phoenix Downs from Minerva,
something that'll do you good in this battle. This way you can maintain the
ReRaise status throughout the whole battle, should anything go wrong. You'll
need many Phoenix Downs, since Minerva's strongest attack, Judgement Arrow,
negates all status effects (except Invincibility), so it also negates ReRaise.
Then again, 99 should be enough, don't you think? Have ReRaise when you enter
the battle.

Also, if you have some time to prepare, get an SP Master Materia and save up on
a LOT of SP before going into the battle. If your SP Master Materia is mastered
you will take a full 100% reduction of all damage as long as you have SP. Since
your SP gets drained VERY FAST, be sure to have over 10 million SP to at least
last a decent while. You can get this much SP by doing the Gil trick by selling
the 99 Phoenix Downs from Minerva, getting killed, buy/convert Dualcast Materia
and .. profit!

One last note: It may also be useful to increase your Luck stat to 155+. If you
do this, some of Minerva's attacks cannot do double damage to you anymore. This
isn't essential, but it can certainly help. Materia Fusion can help you
accomplish this.

So once again, in short, here are the best Materia to equip:

- Costly Punch
- Curaga
- Steal OR Mug
- SP Master

With the proper preparation, half the battle is already fought. If you've got
max stats and the above equipment, the battle isn't all that hard. It'll be
long, but not extremely hard. Let's go over to the battle specifics.

Note: Hard Mode gives Minerva 20 million HP instead of 10 million.

Credits go to Absolute Steve for his Crisis Core FAQ http://www.gamefaqs.com/portable/psp/file/925138/50842

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[UndercoverKadaj]

where do you get all that stuff? o.o

[aiden1340]

@SuperDarkguy1 No you don't.

[aiden1340]

@jax9715 Divine Slayer. Not Genji Armour like Super Dark Guy said.

[jlclvs2game]

The first time I did this it felt very underwhelming.

[isael0327]

O.O

[SuperDarkguy1]

@jax9715 genji armor

[jax9715]

and 1 question. what do u get 4 defeating her?????

[jax9715]

daaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaamn lol

[DragonX7777]

Im gonna be using sp master and barrier to over power Minerva and kill her.

[lokomokoy]

i thought if you complete the all genji item they absorb the elemental attacks?