How to beat Penance - Final Fantasy X HD Remaster

PLEASE READ THE DESCRIPTION BELOW In this video you will see a safe method to defeat Penance. You need to have 3 characters (3 among Tidus, Kimahri, Wakka and Auron is best since they can counterattack) matching the following criteria : They must possess their unlocked Celestial Weapons. They must have specific armor featuring : ➤ Auto-Haste : added through the use of 80 Chocobo Wings you can get by bribing Macheas in Omega ruins with 180 000 to 450 000 Gils. ➤ Auto-Protect : added through the use of 70 Light Curtains. You can get 40 of those by overkilling Fafnir in the Monster Arena. ➤ Auto-Potion : added through the use of 4 Stamina Tablets. You can get around 20 of those is to bribe Defenders in the Cavern of the Stolen Fayth with 120 000 to 300 000 Gils depending on how much you give. ➤ Defense +20% : added through the use of 4 Blessed Gems. You can get 6 of these by overkilling Cactuar King in the Monster Arena. The 4 empty slots armors that will host these auto-abilities are purchasable at the entrace of Macalania Woods after you entered Sin for the first time. Regarding stats, your three characters must have 9999 HPs, 255 Strength, 255 Luck or 255 Accuracy, 170 Agility and 255 Defense. Having 255 Luck is a better than 255 Accuracy since it allows your characters to always critically hit Penance for 99999 damage even if your characters' HPs are low, and despite Protect, although very long to grind for. They must know the "Dispel" white magic They must know the "Cheer" ability They must know the "Use" ability Lastly, they must know the "Quick Hit" skill Now, as concerns items, you must own 99 X-Potions (you can get around 60 of these by bribing Valah in the Cavern of the Stolen Fayth with 87 000 to 217 500 Gils). Ensure you have no Potions or Hi-Potions by selling them, since we want X-Potions to be used by the "Auto-Potion" auto-ability. Get one or two Three Stars (you can get some by bribing Behemoth Kings in Sin with 675 000 to 1 687 500 Gils). You need to know how to count to 5, too. Regarding the strategy, Penance features 2 phases, a scene where Penance's lower half drops will indicate you made it to the second phase. Penance has 12 000 000 HPs and both arms have 600 000 HPs, meaning they're killed with 6 attacks (this is primordial). Penance only casts Obliteration in the first phase, which is instantly healed by Auto-Potion, and Immolation in the second phase. What you want to do first is go all out and Quick Hit both arms 5 times and kill them RIGHT before their turn, as this will ensure Penance always have at most 1 arm up at a time. Doing this will prevent it from using its most powerful attack : Judgement Day, which will wipe you instantly. Keeping count of how many times you hit the arms is the key. You can only kill one arm and hit the other one 5 times before Penance and the remaining arm attack for the first time, so you'll have to hope for some good RNG, regarding what the arm does, like Slowga which is negated by "Auto-Haste" auto-ability. If you survived this first hit, the fight is pretty much won... if you know how to count to 5, that is. Have your characters cast "Cheer" 5 times and "Use" a Three Stars once. These buffs stays the whole fight as long as your characters survive, and they will. After that, you're all set. Act following this priority until phase 2 : Skill : "Quick Hit" : Finish off a weakened arm right before its turn. This is the absolute priority ➤ Skill : "Quick Hit" : Hit a new arm 5 times after "Regeneration" ➤ Skill : "Quick Hit" : Hit Penance. After losing 3 000 000 HPs, Penance will enter phase 2. The strategy is the same, except that Penance now hits 1 target with Immolation, that inflicts Armor Break and Mental Break statuses, so you have to make sure you Dispel its target. All you have to do now is act following this priority : Skill : "Quick Hit" : Finish off a weakened arm right before its turn. This is the absolute priority ➤ White magic : "Dispel" : on the character that was hit by Penance's Immolation ➤ Skill : "Quick Hit" : Hit a new arm 5 times after "Regeneration" ➤ Skill : "Quick Hit" : Hit Penance.