Walkthrough:Final Fantasy X/Apoqliphoth/Part 52

This is it, guys. The final challenge. Everything has been leading up to this. This is my final, fantastic battle guide. After this, consider yourself a master of Final Fantasy X. Because when you've got the ball, you've got to score!

Penance

HP: 12,000,000 (99,999)
AP: 60,000 (65,000)
Gil: 0
Vulnerabilities:

None

Difficulty: Insane

Twelve million HP. This thing dwarfs even Nemesis. It's the most powerful enemy in the entire game, and can turn your team into confetti within seconds. Let's rock.
Don't even think about elements here; it absorbs everything that isn't non-elemental, as you'd expect. It also has two arms with 500,000 HP that can attack independently.

Calamity inflicts Curse and Full Break to one character.
Tera-Graviton causes magical damage (well, 75% of your maximum HP which can be reduced with Shell) and Ribbon-blocked status ailments.

It can also use Mighty Guard, which gives him, amongst other things, Regen, which you should dispel immediately to avoid having him regenerate ~100,000 HP a turn.
You can farm the arms (heh) for Dark Matter and Master Spheres -- kill them off, then flee, then re-battle. Rinse and repeat if you still don't have a playset of Ribbon. God knows how you got this far without them, but hey ha.
This thing has two phases: Phase 2 begins after it loses 3,000,000 HP.

Phase 1:
Start with a Three Stars; you need to have 0 MP Cost for this fight, as it goes on for a long time and he can wipe a character's entire MP stock with one attack later on in the battle.
Your first order of business is to kill the arms. They take 6 (quick) hits each, and render Penance unable to use anything other than Obliteration, which deals around 7000 damage to your party and inflicts Slow (or doesn't because we have Auto-Haste).
Have Rikku Mix Ultra NulAll, followed by Hyper Mighty G. This will reduce your damage from Obliteration even further and slightly increase your Quick Hit damage. Keep the arms at bay and re-mix whatever you lost due to any character KOs (you shouldn't, if you keep on top of healing). After 31 hits of 99,999 damage, the Tree of Life-looking bottom bit explodes and drops off, revealing...a kind of wiggly tail thing?

Phase 2:
Whatever you do, do not let him have a turn while both arms are active. There's a secret counter that, like Dark Bahamut, stores attacks towards a devastating move. This time it's the game's second most powerful attack (next to Sin's planet-carving instant Game Over Giga-Graviton), Judgement Day. It will always deal 99,999 damage, as well as a slightly irrelevant 999 MP removal. This is because Judgement Day's damage calculation is worked out at around eight million, which is then capped by the damage limit. Just...don't get hit by it. Amusingly, it doesn't remove Auto-Life, but the arms will likely beat you to death in the aftermath.
Like before, spam Quick Hit and keep the arms at bay. This time however, Penance has a new move.

Immolation targets only one character instead of your entire party, but it removes your MP stock and inflicts Armour Break and Mental Break. It's probably less annoying than Obliteration because it hits only one character.

Spam those Quick Hits and stop for nothing except healing and the occasional Mix to buff your party. It'll take nearly an hour, but Penance will fall.

Equipment
Slots	4	Steal: Elixir x1, Megalixir x2
Empty Slots	3	Drops: Master Sphere x3, Master Sphere x3
Weapons
Abilities	Break Damage Limit
Armour
Abilities	Ribbon

And that's it. We've just defeated the ultimate boss of Final Fantasy X. Unless you want to play Blitzball, there's not much else to do. Seriously, this is the end.

...good lord, it's the end.

Together, we've gone from Dream Zanarkand across all of Spira, taken down Sin, destroyed the Church of Yevon and had some top banter along the way.

I've thoroughly enjoyed writing this and I hope you've enjoyed reading it. I hope the next time you see one of my walkthroughs, you'll think "Well damn, I'm gonna read this guy's guide; he got me through Final Fantasy X and his sense of humour is on point."

You'd better be thinking that semicolon.

Peace out, guys. I'll see you later.

~ Alex

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