Final Fantasy XIII

Class: A
HP: 15,840,000

This is the most difficult Mission by far but the strategy for defeating Vercingetorix is all about reactions and timing. Your actions need to be reactive to the stage of the fight and what Vercingetorix is doing and your party will be fine, but this is a fairly challenging battle, and its recommended that your party members be fully leveled through their Crystariums. Consider doing some farming if they are not.

Vercingetorix has the following abilities and attacks (in addition to its normal physical attack):

• Impenetrable Aura: It will become invulnerable to all attacks for a brief period and it will recover 1% of its HP 8 times for a total of 8%. This will also remove and debuffs on it and reset its Chain Gauge.
• Putrescence: Deals damage and dispels two status effects.
• Wind Shear: Deals non-elemental damage to all targets either nine, fifteen, twenty-one or twenty-seven attacks (more as the battle progresses).
• Wicked Whirl: Deals non-elemental damage through fourteen attacks with a strong finisher dealing an incredibly high amount of damage.

More on how to deal with these attacks is in the strategy section below.

Preparation

Include Fang, Lightning and Vanille in your party with Vanille as your party leader. Make sure Vanille has her Belladonna Wand equipped (or the upgraded version of it).

• Cerberus (all Commandos)
• Tri-disaster (all Ravagers)
• Infiltration (all Saboteurs)
• Rapid Growth (all Synergists)
• Salvation (all Medics)
• Tortoise (all Sentinels)

Equip your party members with accessories that will help them reduce the amount of damage they take including Royal Armlets and Imperial Armlets. Make sure that their weapons and accessories are as upgraded as possible.

Strategy

This is a good time to not be stingy with the Aegisol and Fortisol. Because Vercingetorix’s Putrescence ability removed positive status effects, you’re going to be in a constant battle to try to keep them active, but all buffs are helpful!

The two most important things to keep in mind for this fight are:

1. Switch to Tortoise whenever you see Vercingetorix using Wicked Whirl as this will KO your party members otherwise (and may KO a party member or two anyway!)
2. Vercingetorix is weak to the Poison status effect so keep it active at all times.

Poison depletes 1% of the targets HP every 3 seconds which, when you look at Vercingetorix’s HP, ends up being a ton of damage. In fact, this will be the primary means of dealing damage to Vercingetorix, over and above anything that your Ravagers or Commandos can do, so the goal is to get this status effect active and reapplied after it falls off and then just survive. This is made much easier as well if you give Fang an opportunity to get Slow active as a debuff while you are in the Infiltration paradigm.

Use a Librascope at the start of the battle and then manually select “Abilities” to have Vanille cast Poison as quickly as possible. It won’t take long before Vercingetorix will use “Impenetrable Aura”, and it's at this point that you should quickly heal up your party members using Salvation and then swap to Rapid Growth to reapply positive status effects. Remember, these are going to be constantly falling off throughout the battle because of its Putrescence attack.

Play this fight defensively as Vercingetorix will be doing more and more damage as the battle progresses.

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