Final Fantasy V Shinryuu - Best Setup Ever! - HD
BEST DEFENSIVE SETUP EVER: To
Challenge the
Divine Dragon Lord Shinryuu!.
THE
RINGS:
First of as always equip every one with
Coral Ring to survive the initial
Tidal Wave.. and neutralize
Fire attacks.
THE HELMETS: (
Note: Is Very important to equip yourself with
Diamond Helms if you have equipped the Coral
Rings, due the fag that begin a
Water elemental nullifier, it also gives you the downside of make your party weak against
Thunder! so the Thunder
Spell sends by Shinryu will hit you for up to more of
3000 Hp damage!. Equip Diamond
Help to reduce the damage to a minimum of 800 of more Hp! since Diamond helms reduces
Lightning damage).
THE SHIELDS:
Aegis Shields on all members just is a brutal way to neutralize 1 of eat 3 attacks that Shinryuu can send to you. Aegis shield really offered a better protection and proves to be more useful than the restorative properties of equip Fire
Shield to absorb Fire. It can event be a way to bypass the initial Tidal Wave without the needed of equip the Coral Rings so make out your mind about it.
THE BONE MAILS: The
Bone Mails does
Miracles on this fight due their defensive and resistant properties, halves Ice
Damage and It nullifies most status effects who neutralized
Demon's Eye skill that Petrified your characters. This
Mighty armor also absorbs
Poison Breath to gives and extra healing factor. Also every turn Shinryuu strike you with the nasty "
Roulette" instant death Spell, it will restore you to Full HP due the fact that while you are wearing the Bone mails your party become in nature like "undead's" so death will cure you. Of course all this might comes with a cost. There is not way to revive a fallen Bone Mail Equipped character. If one get KO, you cant use items or
Life spells to revive the fallen member. And since you cant target a death character, you just cant revive your party members using the
Death Spell. You cant also use recovery items or curative spells to replenish your party Hp. But instead
Blue Magic Spell "
White Wind" can health your party.
Anyway Bone Mails defensive potential are just too awesome that is likely to be very rare that you get your characters KO, so there is not much problem about it.
THE KNIFES: Just equip yourself with
Main Gauche also know as "
Guardian" to reduce
gives you a 25% extra rate of evasion and believe me
... in
FF5 Evade really work! just like the Aegis Shields equipped on my party. And Well with this setup and summon
Golem..., Shinryuu cant nearly touch event a bone of you with his constant physical strikes.
THE
MIX SKILL:
Actually the most nasty attack Shinryuu could use besides Roulette is the
Maelstrom who reduces your health to a single 1 Hp digit. It can be countered by
Mixing Dragon Fang +
Maiden Kiss using the Mix/Combine command skill front
Chemist, to get resistant to near fatal attacks by changing your character type to "
Heavy". With this any Death or
Neat Fatal attack wont will affect you!. It works event against
Omega and his dreaded "Encircle" fatal attack!.
THE BATTLE: First off i cast
BIG GUARD on my party to halve physical and magic damage. Them haste my characters to surpass Shinryu speed (He is the Quicker monster in the game).
Next using a dual magic
Lenna to cast Carbunkle and Golem to get
Reflex and the
Earth Wall status.
Finally making Butzs (Equipped with the
Wizard Rod) to bounce a 4 X reflect spells dual cast combo of Fire 3 and Ice 3 on Shinryuu to surpass to get almost 6000 damage and a nice graphical action. He he , repeat the process again with 3 of my
Mimes and let Lenna
Dual Cast Leviathan and
Bahamut. Them again
Repeat a Reflex combo including
Bolt 3 along with a single
Flare, repeat the process with the Mimes and including some
Meteo casting just for the
Cool effect while Shinryuu keep missing his feeble attacks like Lvl 2 Old, his physicals, and replenish my health with insisting in cast Roulette and Poison Breath. A little more time to get Lenna does a final Dual Cast of Bahamut +
Odin let the
Gungnir deliver the final
Blow to end up the so called "
Super Boss" for good. He he hope you liked it. Shinryuu is my favourite
Boss fight on the game and always prefer to go against him in the magical side since he is just too weak against the
Physical strength of
Rapid Fire Dual
Weapon wielders.. event more if you equip the
Dragoon Lances or trash him with the
Chicken Knife or
Brave Blade or the
Critical hits of
Masamune or
Tempest.