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The Battle of Narshe - Enemies
With the scenarios over and the team reunited - and three members larger - in Narshe, the stage is set for a big battle against the Empire. This marks a turning point in Final Fantasy VI, and things will get a bit more difficult and intense from now on. Hopefully you enjoyed swapping between teams earlier in the game, 'cause you're about to do a lot more of it.
This section of the game begins with a bit of setup. Your entire team is arrayed in a long line at the bottom of the screen, and, moving one-by-one through them, you can equip each member of your battle party as you see fit. This is a good chance to outfit your buddies with the equipment bought in Sabin’s scenario, assuming they aren’t wearing it already. This is also a good time to swap items between characters to better optimize their capabilities - for example, Locke is probably the best choice for a Genji Glove, as he’s going to be straight-out attacking most of the time. his teammates, by contrast, have better options.
After saving and speaking to Banon, you’ll have to arrange three teams to defend against the forces of Kefka, which will proceed northward to battle you. The idea is the same as the Moogle battle at the beginning Final Fantasy VI, though there are far more soldiers headed your way this time - and you don’t have four people per team. There are two general ways to go about this:
- Create one strong team of four, one team of two, and one team of one. The strong team should have your heaviest hitters - likely Sabin, Edgar, Gau, and either Celes or Terra for healing support - while the team of two provides passable backup in case any troopers slip past the strong team. Leave the single man team out of the battle as much as possible, preferably right in front of Banon in case of emergencies.
- Create three moderately-strong teams, one with three people and two with two. In this case you’ll be juggling between the teams constantly. Give each team an all-hitter (Edgar, Sabin, and Cyan can all potentially fall into this category at this point in the game), a backup fighter, and a magic user for healing. The team of two can either contain two very strong characters who don’t need extra backup, or… simply stay out of the fight entirely.
- Four Corporals. The weakest of the lot. You can kill these guys with a single hit of Edgar’s Bio Blaster.
- A Fidor and a Corporal. The slightest bit harder since Edgar can’t typically defeat the Fidor in one hit.
- A Hunting Hound and two Corporals. Edgar again!
- A Heavy Armor and two Corporals. The toughest of the lot, as the Heavy Armor can Reflect magic attacks and is highly resistant to normal physical strikes. You’ll want to use either Sabin or Cyan to take out Heavy Armors, as their special attacks typically ignore defense.
Kefka
HP: 3,000
Immunity: Poison
Drop: Peace Ring
Finally, a real battle against this slimeball. Kefka uses the following attacks:
- Normal melee attacks
- Blizzard / Blizzara, Ice spells
- Thunder, the Lightning spell
- Drain, which absorbs HP from one target
- Poison, which damages and inflicts Poison
- Confuse, which can inflict Confusion
Kefka relies almost exclusively on magic, and will either batter you with elemental spells (and the occasional bout of Poison) or attempt to Confuse one of your characters. Blizzara is by far his most powerful attack, and if you’re unlucky enough to have it cast on a single party member... ouch.
All of Kefka's spells are painful and require regular healing, but if you brought Celes along she can use Runic every turn to render the vast majority of Kefka’s attacks utterly useless. If not, relegate one party member to healing while the remainder smack Kefka around. He’s not that hard, especially if you managed to survive all of those soldiers.
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