Can anyone know of an effective way to defeat Cactuar? Af first Cactuar with its silly looking appearance would be easy to defeat but although I put a good fight, I ultimately had my butt handed to me by this overgrown cactus creature. A wise teacher once said to never underestimate your opponent and that is a lesson that I intend to apply whenever I play JRPG games with cute looking enemies. So I am asking anyone here if they know of anyway to defeat Cactuar so that I get him as my GF?
Can anyone help me beat the GF Cactuar?
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Basically just pound him with limit breaks. Cast Aura to benefit you greatly, and cast water-based attacks at him combined with the Triple spell (make sure the character it's equipped with has a high MAG), or use Leviathan but it might take you longer if you use him and I'm sure you're trying to avoid the 1000 Needles. Meltdown also works as well.
Meltdown + limit break spamming = victory.
Cactaur king is always a bastard, though. I always at least lose one character to him. D :
find those gay worm things and draw a ton of Tornado magic for Squall if you're a high enough level to draw tornado. Tornado is like, the best magic you can get for attack junction, and is really just all around good to put on any stat.
But ya, FFVIII revolves around the use of the draw system and refining shit. It's really the key to beating the game, more than anything else.
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Meltdown, aura and Leviathan are all good to use, obviously make sure you have a high strength stat because he has an awful lot of HP and when the bugger starts hesitating just try to bash him as much you can or the git will escape.
10,000 needles will kill anyone of your characters straight away so just make sure you have life/full life handy
If you don't already have Lionheart, I suggest going getting the materials for it so you have the chance of using the lionheart limit
10,000 needles will kill anyone of your characters straight away so just make sure you have life/full life handy
If you don't already have Lionheart, I suggest going getting the materials for it so you have the chance of using the lionheart limit
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Just have high strength with squall and high health for the rest so they can heal him.
Like bambi said, Meltdown, Aura and Lionheart will kill anybody in the game, Cactuar King is no exception.
I'll assume that your party consists of Squall, Zell and Selphie. Zell should have high strength, so junction water to elemental attack, so if you don't need to heal or buff up squall just attack Cactaur. Have selphie junction Leviathon so that she can attack with him if you want to.
Don't bother with full-life, as 10,000 needles will kill you regardless. Just keep attacking, I actually found Cactaur pretty easy.
Like bambi said, Meltdown, Aura and Lionheart will kill anybody in the game, Cactuar King is no exception.
I'll assume that your party consists of Squall, Zell and Selphie. Zell should have high strength, so junction water to elemental attack, so if you don't need to heal or buff up squall just attack Cactaur. Have selphie junction Leviathon so that she can attack with him if you want to.
Don't bother with full-life, as 10,000 needles will kill you regardless. Just keep attacking, I actually found Cactaur pretty easy.
Well, if it has not been mentioned above...If you have Leviathan, use him. Cactuar is weak against water type magic.
Ah, if you have Aura stones, use them as well. Other than that...have high defense and strength and hack away!! Use Malestorm too.
Ah, if you have Aura stones, use them as well. Other than that...have high defense and strength and hack away!! Use Malestorm too.
I beat Cactuar by having one of my characters, usually Selphie, as pure support.
Have her cast triple, and then cast haste, aura, and protect. Use her [or your support character] to heal when necessary.
Cactuar's the kind of character that you really need to dedicate a support character for. That should help, though.
Have her cast triple, and then cast haste, aura, and protect. Use her [or your support character] to heal when necessary.
Cactuar's the kind of character that you really need to dedicate a support character for. That should help, though.
Honestly, I wouldn't waste my time on Protect because he can still kill you with the 10,000 needle ability. I say concentrate on reviving, haste, aura, and the like.
You don't really need to use Aura, that much I remember - big help sure but I don't remember using Aura and Meltdown much until later bosses. Summon Leviathan whenever you can, try to use some other spells if need be - make sure you have items to revive your summons too if they faint. Would offer more advice, but yeah, been a while since I fought him. If you're lucky, he won't use 10,000 needles too often.
Trying to remember - would Diablos help?
Trying to remember - would Diablos help?
Is there anyway I can get more Aura because I have three stones and I don't feel too much like using them. I heard that you can also get Aura from Fury Fragments but I want to use Selphie's "The End" ability as well. Does that work on Cactuar?
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Don't worry about using the Aura stones. Refine them into Aura because you can draw as many Aura spells as you like from the Islands closest to heaven and hell.
Also Selphie's 'The End' works on anything, it's just that the odds of getting it are very slim, it's best not to rely on it.
Just beat him with Zell and use Leviathan with Squall and use your other character to heal if you don't feel like using Aura/Lionheart.
And no, Diablos wouldn't help as Cactaur is a boss
Also Selphie's 'The End' works on anything, it's just that the odds of getting it are very slim, it's best not to rely on it.
Just beat him with Zell and use Leviathan with Squall and use your other character to heal if you don't feel like using Aura/Lionheart.
And no, Diablos wouldn't help as Cactaur is a boss
He's not hard, just keep 1 character on standby with a phoenix down on hand 
Recover would help to if you have it.
Make use of his 10k needle atack. When he uses it, use a phoenix down on the character and keep him low health. Keep reseting his command menu until you have the limit break available. That way you can spare using aura stones.
Recover would help to if you have it.
Make use of his 10k needle atack. When he uses it, use a phoenix down on the character and keep him low health. Keep reseting his command menu until you have the limit break available. That way you can spare using aura stones.