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UACO: "Ultimate Attack Command Only"
SAMBS: "Solo Attacker, Maximum Battle Speed"

UACO Rules:
1) Attack Command Only
2) No Limit Breaks (Angelo Rush is allowed)
3) No Ability Junction (ability menu completely empty)
4) No Chocobo World
5) No Card Game/No Card Mod
6) No Shopping
7) Initial Equipment
8) No Hotels/Squall's bedroom/Esthar hilling spot
9) All Bosses defeated (except Omega Weapon)
10) Level 7 Squall
11) No Learning Ability (using items to make your Guardian Force learn abilities)
12) No Stat Power Ups

SAMBS Rules:
13) Solo Attacker: Only 1 character is alive from the beginning to the end of every battle (Boss and random battles). If 2 or 3 characters are mandatorily alive at the beginning of a battle, the main attacker has to kill them quickly.
14) Maximum Battle Speed: In the configs the battle speed has to be set on "Fast" for every Boss battle, but not for random battles. It's better to do it for every battle though.
15 Bonus) Higher Enemy Level: Fight with the 3 most leveled characters in the party to increase the enemies' level.

Part 28: Catoblepas

Catoblepas is very easy to defeat, whatever its level. Here it is lv48 with 34000 HPs. Its attacks are claws, Deadly Horn, Thundaga, Thunder Summon, and Meteor as a final attack.

Since Catoblepas can easily be blind, every physical attack misses. Then my main attacker absorbs Thunder elemental attacks to be completely safe until Meteor. Catoblepas's Meteor is special, it is extremely powerful! Some meteors can deal more than 600 HPs. So my main attacker must have more than 6000 HPs to be sure to survive.

I attacked with Squall, the only way he could have more than 6000 HPs is by associating 100 Ultimas with HP stat. The next best spell to associate with Str is Meteor, but I associated it with EL-D because I kept my self-cure associations. So the next best spell for Str is Triple. Squall didn't need a high speed, so Booster replaced Triple on Spd.

After I recorded this battle, I checked Catoblepas's elemental weaknesses and I found that it was x2 sensitive to Earth element. As a consequence, this battle would have been twice faster if I associated Quake with EL-A instead of Tornado. The self-cures would have been the same. Moreover, I didn't self-cure at all during this battle. So I could have associated Meteor with Str. So...yeah, this battle could have been 2 minutes long instead of 5.

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