Guide to Island Closest to Hell hints and tips for Final Fantasy VIII

Guide to Island Closest to Hell

OK, this is for people that want to learn a level experience a battle, leveling up to 100 quickly, but there are a few things that are highly recommended to assist you. Here is a checklist...

_ GF Doomtrain (If you do not have Doomtrain yet, then Quistis with Degenerator and a lot of Aura spells.)

_ Squall's Lionheart Weapon

_ Selphie's Strange Vision Weapon

_ GF Cerberus with Auto-Haste

_ GF's Pandemona & Tonberry both with Iniative

_ 100 Firaga, 100 Thundaga, 100 Death, 100 Confuse and 100 Sleep spells on Squall

_ 100 Firaga, 100 Thundaga and 100 Sleep spells on Selphie and you other character

Now build Squall with 100 Firaga and 100 Thundaga elemental defense. 100 Death status attack and 100 Confuse and 100 Sleep status defense. Give Squall both Auto-Haste and Initiative.

Build your other two characters with 100 Firaga and 100 Thundaga elemental defense. 100 Sleep status attack. Give Selphie the second inititive and GF Doomtrain.

Now knowing the island.

You will encounter one of 6 monsters. They are Grendels, Blue Dragons, T-Rexaurs, Hexadragons, Malboros (rare) and Ruby Dragons (rare).

Now to combat them...

Grendels are most common for me. They only have one real special attack which is lightning based, so you will be defended against it. Just use regular attacks. They are easily affected by you two teammates sleep spell and you have a 50/50 chance of killing them with you death attack.

Blue Dragons are the same, they are affected greatly by the sleep and death attacks.

T-Rexuar is taken out with the lowest resistance to you death. I have never had a T-Rexuar get a hit on me with death. He always goes down with Squall's first attack.

Hexadragon is another story, they are not affected by your sleep or death. Cast Doomtrain to hit them with meltdown, unless you want to waste a spell on them. But Doomtrain will heal them, but after the meltdown it's nothing that cannot be erased with two regular attacks. All of Hexadragons magic attacks, except "Breath" are fire based so they will pose no threat and even breath is not that devastating if you have high Vitality. Ruby Dragons are affected by your sleep, but not death. Make sure to have high vitality (at least 100+) to go up against it's "Fire Breath". Use Doomtrain to put them to sleep and melt them down. Then my recommendation is to follow it up with your quickest and strongest GF's, such as Shiva, Quezacotl...GF's that do not have an insanly long FMV sequence (ie Eden) and do not use Ifrit on him.

Malboro...these things are a pain...my recommendation do not fight them, if you need to for weapons upgrading...use mug and get the hell out of there. Malboro will start off almost every time with "Bad Breath" It will cast Berserk, Confuse, Sleep, Silence, Poison and Death on you. This is why you have 100 Confuse and Sleep junctioned to defense, you will be able to stay awake to escape and you will not run the risk attacking your teammates if the escape does not take right away, remember you do have haste on Squall...

That's it, majority of these will give a level up a battle and if you have 3000 HP, then most everything except the Ruby Dragon and Malboro are no danger. And after every encounter, SAVE, because you never know when that Ruby Dragon or Malboro will get the drop on you and wipe you out...

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