Sin
Walkthrough

Are you ready for the last chapter of the game?

Keep in mind that there are a ton of side quests and a lot of end game content that you can complete before you beat the game if you’d like. This is recommended if you want to get the full experience of Final Fantasy X so don’t rush to the end of the game too quickly! Use the following link to head back to the side quest:

The next few battles are against Sin itself. Sin has a very high amount of armor so you should make sure that Auron (or one of your other party members) has obtained the Armor Break ability. You can easily train up and level your party members by returning to the Zanarkand Ruins and battling fiends in that area.

Boss Battle against Sin’s Left Fin

Start off by selecting Sin on the “NavMap” aboard the Airship (Fahrenheit) and Cid will begin playing the Hymn of the Fayth. Travel back to the Cabin of the ship and ride the elevator up to get back to the exterior of the ship.

Boss Battle against Sin’s Left Fin

Note: The next two bosses (Left Fin and Right Fin of Sin) are the exact same fight that you have to complete twice in a row.

Boss Battle: Left Fin
Boss Battle against Sin’s Left Fin

HP: 65,000

This battle is very similar to the fight against Evrae on the exterior of the Airship. The Fin will attack less frequently if you use the Trigger Commands to have Cid pull the Airship further away from Sin.

The Airship starts far away from Sin so you will have to use the “Move In” command before you can initiate any attacks. Before you move the airship closer though you should use the time in between to charge up your characters using Tidus’ Cheer ability, Rikku’s Luck ability, etc. Remember that you can use these abilities up to five times and the effects will stack.

Use Hastega on your party early on but be aware that the Sin can use a move called Negation which will remove any positive status effects from your party members. You will have to recast them afterwards.

Sin has a fairly high armor stat so you may wish to use Auron’s Armor Break ability to help speed things up. But be aware that Negation will also remove the Armor Break negative status ailment from Sin. Just reapply it if it is removed.

If you see the message “Core Gathers Energy” immediately use the Trigger Commands to pull the Airship away from Sin. Sin will be using Gravija shortly which will hit for approximately 3/4 of each character’s total HP.

Boss Battle against Sin’s Left Fin

Steal:
Mega-Potion (common)
Supreme Gem (rare)

Drops:
HP Sphere (common)
HP Sphere (x2) (rare)

Boss Battle against Sin’s Left Fin
Boss Battle against Sin’s Left Fin
Boss Battle: Right Fin
Boss Battle against Sin’s Right Fin

This fight has the exact same battle mechanics as the previous fight.

Up close battle against Sin’s Right Fin

Steal:
X-Potion (common)
Shining Gem (rare)

Drops:
Lv. 3 Key Sphere (common)
Lv. 3 Key Sphere (x2) (rare)

Boss Battle: Sinspawn Genais
Boss Battle against Sinspawn Genais

HP: 20,000

Start this fight off by destroying Sinspawn Genais which is the creature sitting in front of Sin’s core. Genais will absorb any magic that you try to use directly on Sin. This Sinspawn starts outside of its shell, unlike Sinspawn Geneaux which you fought at Kilika temple.

Sinspawn Genais is weak to Fire-based magic attacks. It will also retreat back into its shell once it goes below 50% of its HP and will begin casting Cura on itself. It does not have much HP though (20,000) so hammer away at it with regular attacks until you bring it down.

You can cast Slow or use Silence Buster on Genais in order to prevent it from casting Cura (as often).

Final boss battle against Sin

Steal:
Star Curtain (common)
Shining Gem (rare)

Drops:
Return Sphere (common)
Return Sphere (x2) (rare)

Boss Battle against Sinspawn Genais

Sin (Core)

This fight is exactly the same as the Left Fin and Right Fin fights. The only difference is that you will no longer be able to dodge Gravija attacks by moving the ship around and it will counterattack your regular attacks with low-level magic spells.

Your party members may be hit by the Poison status effect. Have Rikku use an Al Bhed Potion, have Yuna use Esuna or have any of your team members use an Antidote or a Remedy to remove it.

Final boss battle against Sin

Steal:
Stamina Spring (x3) (common)
Stamina Spring (x4) (rare)

Drops:
MP Sphere (common)
MP Sphere (x2) (rare)

Final boss battle against Sin

Level up your characters through the Sphere Grid and grab any items that you may have run low on. In preparation for the next fight, equip each of your characters with any armor they have that contains the following abilities:

Stone Ward or Stoneproof
Confuse Ward or Confuseproof
Zombie Ward or Zombieproof

Alternatively you can customize your equipment and add on the Auto-Med ability which will have your characters automatically use a Remedy if they are inflicted with a status ailment.

Speaking with Rin on the Airship

You can use 20 Remedy to customize your equipment and add the Auto-Med ability and then of course you will want to keep a stock pile of Remedy on hand so that your characters can use them mid-battle. This is not a requirement but it can make the battle much easier.

Buying Remedy items from Rin on the Airship

Make your way back up to the elevator and outside the ship to speak to Yuna and then again. Yuna will hint that she knows that Tidus is part of the dream of the Fayth and that there is more to his story than he is revealing.

Sin will approach the Airship again one more time for one last showdown…

Boss Battle: Overdrive Sin (the Head)
Final battle against Overdrive Sin (the Head)

HP: 140,000

This is a timed battle. After approximately sixteen turns the fight will end as Sin will use its Overdrive ability, Giga-Graviton, which is an instant game over.

The charging bar above its head is an indicator of how close it is to using its Overdrive. Summoning an Aeon will not prevent death, which means you have to do 140,000 worth of damage before then.

Sin will start off too far away for you to hit it but it will slowly move closer (to within melee range) as the battle progresses. Use the first few turns to enhance your characters using Cheer, Luck, etc. and have Tidus cast Hastega on the party. Use either Lulu or Wakka in your party to do some damage even when Sin is at a distance.

You should have Auron use Armor Break once Sin gets close enough. Alternatively you can have Rikku use her Mix ability and have her Mix two items (such as two Power Spheres or two Ability Spheres creating a Frag Grenade) which can cause the same Armor Break status ailment.

Sin will begin attacking your party once it gets close enough to the ship so be prepared to deal the the Petrify, Confuse and Zombie status effects as they come. Good luck!

Overdrive Sin getting closer to the ship

Steal:
Ether (common)
Supreme Gem (rare)

Drops:
Lv. 3 Key Sphere

Final battle against Overdrive Sin (the Head)

The next portions of the game involve approaching Sin on foot after the team leaves the Airship.

Cinematic after the battle against Sin

Sin - Near Airship

The Airship will land and Tidus and company will move through the water towards Sin. Save your game at the Save Sphere and follow the rest of the team.

Exiting the Airship into the Sea of Sorrow

Note that at this point in the game you can still turn back around and look to complete some of the side quests rather than finishing the game. Going any further will head towards the final chapters of the game. This guide will provide ample warning before you reach the point of no return.

Sin - Sea of Sorrow

The mini-map for this area will contain some fog of war that makes it difficult to know which is the correct path.

Tidus entering the Sea of Sorrow

Use the grey looking water walkway to find your way through this location. Just follow the red arrow north as you work your way through the Sea and use the map below (as a generic guideline) to help you get through.

Tidus traveling through the Sea of Sorrow

There are treasure chests throughout the area which contain the following:

(1) Phantom Ring
(2) Special Sphere
(3) Elixir
(4) Wizard Lance
(5) Lv. 3 Key Sphere

Map of the Sea of Sorrow

Note that there are waterfalls along each of the pathways though so in many cases you will have to take the long way around in order to reach the treasure chests shown on the map. Because of this, you should make your way to treasure chest (1) first, followed by chest (2) at the top of the waterfall.

Save your game at the Save Sphere at the end of the Sea of Sorrows before you proceed on to the next area.

Tidus using a Save Sphere just before the battle against Seymour Omnis

The upcoming boss fight against Seymour Omnis is an entirely magic-based fight. You should take some time to equip each of your characters with any armor that they have that protects against magic. This includes:

Be advised that you may also want to remove any weapons that you might have equipped if they have the Firestrike, Lightningstrike, Waterstrike or Icestrike abilities. They could all potentially heal Seymour if used to attack him.

Tidus at the stairway leading inside Sin

Sin - Garden of Pain

Boss Battle: Seymour Omnis
Boss battle against Seymour Omnis

HP: 80,000

There are four floating discs behind Seymour Omnis that are called Mortiphasms. These disc will rotate throughout the battle and the colors which are closest to Seymour will determine the strength and the element of the spells he will cast.

The discs have four colors: orange/red for Fire, yellow/green for Lightning, blue for Water and purple for Ice.

Seymour will cast four spells every turn. If all four discs have a matching color he will cast the strongest versions of the spells (Firaga, Thundaga, Waterga or Blizzaga) and he will also absorb that element if a spell of that type is cast on him.

He will also be weak to the opposite element. If three discs match in color he will absorb that element as well, however he will no longer be weak to the opposite element. Two matching discs makes him immune to the element while a single disc will make him resistant to that element. You can use the Scan ability to verify his elemental strengths and weaknesses.

Seymour will begin glowing red after he has been attacked six times. He will also begin casting Dispel at this stage of the battle and will begin using Ultima against your party. He stops glowing red after he has cast Ultima.

Seymour’s Ultima isn’t nearly as powerful as the one accessible in the Sphere Grid, but it can still do some significant damage (around 4,000 HP to each party member). Make sure you heal up before he casts it and use the Shield command if you are having trouble surviving it. You can also use Lulu’s Focus spell or Yuna’s Shell spell to increase your resistance to it.

Boss battle against Seymour Omnis

This is one of the few fights against Seymour where you can make use of your Aeons. He will not banish them if you utilize them during the fight. You can also use Yuna’s Nul spells to reduce the amount of damage done.

Use Hastega on your party early on and use Armor Break and Mental Break. Just be aware that you may have to recast some of these spells if Seymour uses Dispel.

You can also attack the Mortiphasms to rotate them to reduce the likelihood of Seymour using his strongest attacks. Some of the Mortiphasms are in the back row so you will have to use either Wakka or Lulu to hit those ones.

Seymour Omnis glowing red

Steal:
Shining Gem (common)
Supreme Gem (rare)

Drops:
Lv. 3 Key Sphere (common)

The Destination of Hatred

You will receive the The Destination of Hatred Trophy after you have defeated Seymour Omnis.

The Destination of Hatred Trophy

Go back to the Sea of Sorrow before you move forward and save your game at the Save Sphere for a free HP and MP refill.

Tidus Inside Sin

The next portion of the game takes place “Inside Sin”.