The Lightning & Lieutenant Amodar fight is one of the first DLC for FF 13-2. I'm having trouble beating them. I've tried taking out Amodar first, Lightning first, and also turtling while they use their more powerful attacks.
Any proper strategies, paradigms, or monsters to use against them?
Best Answer
There are a number of strategies to use for them. I recommend maxing out all of your jobs and your three monsters having more then 2000 HP.
Monsters
COM
RAV
MED
Accessories
Noel was 3 Power Wristbands and for Serah I used Hypnocrown, Durable and Delicate Magician's Mark.
Paradigms
COM COM COM
CerberusRAV COM RAV*
Relentless AssaultRAV SAB RAV*
Smart BombRAV COM MED*
DiversitySAB SAB MED*
Safe SubversionMED MED MED
SalvationThe ones I've starred are the more critical ones I used. The all
COM
paradigm is nice to have if you cannot finish them before the stagger bar empties.The fight can be broken up into three parts one is when, Lightning is alone and you just need to get her hp down to about 3/4 which isnt very hard, and the second phase is when Amodar joins the battle (
COM
COM
) the two of them work more on party damage with Amodars grenade or him simply attacking all party members if close enough. Lighting dealing party damage withRuinga
. After about 2 mins in they change to eitherSAB
SYN
,SAB
MED
orCOM
RAV
. When Amodar is aSAB
he inflicts just about anything on the party member he attacks so I recommend going after him first, plus Lightning is easier to take out alone without his debuffs.At the start of phase two I recommend either
RAV
SAB
RAV
if you think you're good enough, orSAB
SAB
MED
to keep more HP. (Note my chocobo did die often so have many phoenix downs and potions, possibly if you desire remedys) you can only inflictDeprotect
andDeshell
on Lightning andImperil
andPoison
on Amodar however you really only needImperil
. Once you have that on Amodar, switch to eitherRAV
COM
RAV
orRAV
COM
MED
and stagger him. He does have a lot of HP but if you either get his HP to 999.99 or about 1/3 of the way empty change toCOM
COM
COM
and you should be okay. This also works on Lightning, however Amodar like to switch toSAB
and cast a lot of debuffs on your party.Now comes the third phase, either Lightning or Amodar are alone and they cast a few buffs on themselves which cannot be dispelled. I recommend switching to
RAV
SAB
RAV
and repeating the above on them, and then switch toRAV
COM
RAV
and try to stagger them. Before you can, they usually get off about 2 Feral Links but Lightnings is weaker and wont instantly kill your party members (except Noel). With this party I recommend having atleast 20Phoenix Downs
to revive your monster and Sarah or Noel if they die.