Awesome Strategy for Killing Orphan's second form

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I was having a lot of trouble with Orphan's second form. I would always get it's health about halfway down and it would total overwhelm me with attacks to the point I couldn't keep up buffing and healing, even with MED/MED/MED.

I searched all over for strategies and pretty much tried them all, to no avail.

In my desperation I discovered a way to totally decimate him in 7 minutes with minimal effort and an average, or under-powered battle team.

My battle team was Vanille (controlled), Lightning, and Hope.

The only paradigms you need are MED/MED/MED, SAB/MED/SAB, and SYN/MED/SYN and it is almost necessary (unless you are incredibly lucky) that you equip Vanille with a Seraphs Crown (60% Death resistance), which you get by upgrading a Cherubs Crown. This will keep you from getting an automatic game-over when Orphan casts Progenial Wraith later in the fight.

Start the battle as MED/MED/MED to heal yourself up after Orphan's initial Merciless Attack. Immediately switch to SAB/MED/SAB and have Vanille spam Poison. It took anywhere between 1 to 3 full loads for it to hit for me. The MED should keep you out of danger for a couple rounds, and the second SAB increases the likely hood that your debuffs hit. If all characters get into the yellow during the Poison spam, go to MED/MED/MED and heal up.

After the first Poison hits, switch to SYN/MED/SYN and buff all the way up. Its a good idea to keep your HP up as close to max as possible by switching to MED/MED/MED whenever you start dropping.

By the time the first of your buffs start wearing off, you should be nearly done (with time aloud for healing) completely buffing, so just keep on SYN/MED/SYN and let them recast as they expire.

Keep an eye on Orphan's life gauge and switch back to SAB/MED/SAB and re-spam Poison until it hits after it wears off.

Repeat this until it dies! It took me 5 rounds of Poison to kill Orphan.

Fully buffed you can withstand all of Orphan's standard attacks with barely a scratch left on you. Just as long as you use MED/MED/MED to get back to full HP after it's Merciless attack, and keep your buffs up, you will be fine.

An added bonus with this method is you never have to stagger Orphan, so you won be subjected to the combination of Chains of Torment (which Poisons your battle team, amongst other things) followed by a Mercliless Attack (which kills you almost 100% of time when you are Poisoned) that it does as it comes out of the stagger.
 
Sorry but Orphan's second form is a bit of a joke, all you have to do is stagger him and beat the crap out of him. I did it in 90 seconds. Light, Vanille, Hope. Hero's Charge to get haste, Relentless assault to establish a chain, and tri disaster to get him staggered. When he was about two percent away from being staggered I switched to evened odds and vanille put all debuffs on him and staggered him. Back to tri disaster Lightning uses Army of One. Most people don't realize it but this attack boosts the stagger to 999.9% then you can switch to agression or RA to finish him off. I summoned Odin just for the dramatic effect.

Edit: It seems like you are talking about his first form. In his first form he fuses with Dysley and can use the Merciless Judgement, but the second form is rediciously (spelling?) easy.
 
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