05A: A Strategy for Change
Final Fantasy XIII Walkthrough and Guide
by CMBF 
05A: A Strategy for Change
Alpha Behemoth Battle
Just follow the path and kill the stuff that is in your way until you trigger a CS - and you have another heart warming conversation with Hope and then you use the lift to go up a level. Follow the light beacons along the path - though now that I think about it there is no alternate path anyway, so just follow the path :)
Eventually you will fight the large monster who was behind the blocks earlier by working your way around to where it is - after you kill it grab the 3 Antidotes out of the nearby Sphere, and then proceed on the path to trigger a CS in which a PSICOM patrol flies overhead. Lightning tells you that PSICOM has denied that we exist in order to support their public image - no surprise there!
Use the nearby lift to go up a level and then use the save point that is just off the lift on the path to save your game. Fight your way along the path and grab the Hawkeye from the next Treasure Sphere, and then work your way to the next big fight, a pair of puppies and a behemoth!
After you kill the Behemoth you get a CS in which Hope is pretty exhausted and they talk about the other members of our party. Lightning does not have much faith that they will have done very well, and then the conversation turns to Snow - who Hope clearly has not changed his feelings over. Lightning tells him about NORA - No Obligations, Rules, or Authority.
After the CS ends hit the convenient save point nearby and save your game and then take the nearby lift to the next level. We seem to have finally made it down to the ground - yay us! We get another CS in which Lightning gives us the 4-1-1 on this animal preserve slash training center, and then we get a mini-tutorial on Wildlife Auto-containment. Since we plan on killing pretty much everything we come across this is not really an important issue for us, but I can see how it matters if your plan is to run!
As you fight your way along killing off the mobs the barriers come down. Stop and grab the half-dozen antidotes from the Sphere and then continue on to the Great Crawler Massacre - you'll see what I mean :)
Next you enter an area where you are trapped with a Feral Behemoth - good fight - but unfortunately according to Lightning you have tripped the security alarm and can expect an inrush of PSICOM troops! Now you climb the purple-looking tree thingy and you are back on a walkway and headed for the Great Crawler Massacre Part II!
After the fight you hit another CS point and rest. A little more conversation to fill in the story line, and the subject returns to Snow. Lightning pulls the details behind your Snow-hate out of you - and Lightning seems a little surprised. We get a Battle Order change with Lightning back in the command seat, and then we climb down another purple-looking tree thingy to the ground and hit the save point!
This note works for chapter 5A and 5B and maybe 5C.
I have ran into so many saying rav rav will help with stagger this is not true. I will give rav rav the high and fast stagger, but a com rav is better the stagger slows so the damage goes up. Just remember to have your rav rav and a medic I use yin and yang that way I heal and still do damage. The rav rav is for after the stagger is triggered, yin and yang use when needed I would use slash and burn as main. This may not be the absolute tactic but you use these three you will get by eve when Hope is leader and Light watching your back. The three seem to help through Grappa Whitewoods and its monsters or at least to 5C. Silver Lobo and the leech you first met hate fire so why not libra both? So you can kick butt later?