An Idiot's Guide to Ultimate Belias - The Shouting Edition

Guide/Analysis

I hope you guys had some nice pulls, because it’s time for another Ultimate boss :D

Despite Belias’ odd case of target scores, he’s quite easy. Yet another multitarget battle though, what’s up with that these days?

Stat Overview

Boss	Belias (Ultimate)
HP	~235600
Elemental Weaknesses	None
Elemental Resists	None
Elemental Immunities	None
Elemental Absorptions	None
Break Immunities	None
Break Resistances	All
Status Vulnerabilities	Poison, Slow, Blind, Stun

Boss	Archaic Demon (Ultimate) x3
HP	~38200 each
Elemental Weaknesses	Holy
Elemental Resists	None
Elemental Immunities	None
Elemental Absorptions	None
Break Immunities	None
Break Resistances	All
Status Vulnerabilities	Poison, Slow, Blind, Stun

Target Score:

Exploit one Archaic Demon’s weakness to Holy.

Movepool:

Belias switches to his Weak phase at about 50%.

Belias [Normal]:

Attack: Deals one physical attack to one target/all targets. Not bad at all.
Aphony: Inflicts one target with Silence. Can be annoying if you’re using a mage team or if he uses it on your White Mage. Just S/L if it hits someone vital.
Seal: Inflicts one target with Petrification. This attack (obviously) has a crazy miss rate. Keep your fingers crossed for extra luck though!
Loss: Inflicts one target with Confusion. Kind of wastes Belias’ turn honestly. Shouldn’t be too annoying.
Titan: Deals heavy NAT magical earth damage to all targets. Keep mitigation up and you should be fine.
Lich: Deals damage to one target proportional to their current max HP. A rather weak gravity, honestly.

Belias [Weak]:

Has the same moves from above, but Attack no longer has an AoE form.
Cyclops: Deals very heavy NAT magical non-elemental damage to all targets. Belias’ strongest attack, which is kind of sad, since this attack, when compared to other U bosses’ “finale” attack, is pitiful. Also, is it just me, or are Belias’ attacks’ names as pitiful sounding as the battle itself? :v

Archaic Demon:

Attack: Deals one physical attack to one target. They also use this attack uncommonly as a counter to physical attacks. Moving on….
Unholy Darkness: Deals heavy NAT magical dark damage to one target. Really cool animation. Unfortunately, the damage is quite pitiful.
Gigaflare: Deals heavy NAT magical non-elemental damage to all targets. The only trouble that this attack will cause you is PTSD from Ultimate Bahamut SIN.
Lifebreak: Deals damage to one target proportional to the target’s current HP. Meh.

Analysis:

Don’t be alarmed at the fact that there’s only 1 target score, forcing you to lose no more than 2 medals to master the battle. Why, you ask? The primary reason: Belias hits like a chocobo feather. The main damage you’ll be taking is from the 4 enemies ganging up on you at the beginning of the battle. After killing the Archaic Demons, though, it becomes ridiculously easy. The only other thing you should be worried about is his petrification attack, which might RNG troll you.

Teambuilding

RW selection:

Basic RW selection.

SG=SS2>Hastega>Medicas

*Shout is out! Let it all out! Shout is out! Let it all out! Shout is out! Let it all out! *

Abilities:

First of all, attacks that Slow are wonderful here, making the enemy have EVEN LESS DPS. Poisoning attacks are wonderful as well, as it does ~3.2k tick damage to Belias. Then, outside of regular Mitigation, I recommend AoE attacks to kill the add quickly, and a HOLY elemental attack to slap an Archaic Demon with. This is required to master the battle!!!

RMs:

Once again, very standard. Remember to be careful of DEF/RES lowering RMs due to, well, it lowering your defenses or resistance :P

Due note that certain RMs can make the default attack to become Holy elemental, such as WoL’s RM2 and Selphie’s RM2, allowing you to forgo a Holy-elemental ability.

Remember to remove your "ability spring" RMs (Concentration, Moon's Grace etc.). They literally do nothing in battles with one level besides wasting a RM slot on your characters.

Recommended Team:

Pretty much any team is good here. It just depends on the abilities and relics you have. If you can defeat them easier (and complete the target scores), choose that team.

Just pick the team you’re most comfortable with and get a decent AoE ability to burst the adds with.

Basic Battle Strategies:

Really, really simple. Blast down the Archaic Demons as fast as you can (after meeting the Target Score, of course). After that, it just be easy game for most of you. Always remember you’ve got that S/L just in case Belias Petrifies one of your characters!

Good luck! がんばろう! :D

Final Thoughts:

An easy Ultimate boss right after a game-changing SSB is released. I wonder what DeNA is thinking…

Oh yeah, to lure us into thinking that life’s going to be easy…

U+ bosses are in 2 events, get ready.

I would like to thank u/fattybomchacha for all the information on Belias and the Archaic Demons' stats and movepool! Be sure to check kongbakpao's website for guides on all events! :D

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