Final Fantasy XIII: The Proudclad Boss Fight

Well what about the mega attacks where he shoots the crud out of you? I don’t know what to do! I die even before I’ve made an inch dent in his HP bar! It’s not making me happy.

Easiest way to do this,
(i had all characters three main classes at lvl4 at least)
Sazh, Lightning and Hope.
at the start buff the shit out of your party with two syns sazh and hope and heal with lightning, when fully buffed hit him hard with Relentless assault, haste will make this alot easier and faster,
just as stagger is about to stop switch too Double medic and syn heal until Retaliatory Strike is over, If you wanna play it safe, only attack during defensive air, otherwise it might be hard to stagger and keep your health full.
ALWAYS KEEP HEALTH ABOVE HALF.
and you should be able to do it, with atleast three stars. With this set up fight took me 6 minutes.

He is poopy head.

I just tried a novel approach to this fight: I never staggered him. Rather than try to run up huge chains, I figured that since the gigantic damage comes after staggering him… just don’t stagger him. So I spent most of the fight (Light, Sasz, Vanille) in COM/COM/MED and just slowly chipped away at his health. When my buffs ran out, I swapped out to MED/SYN/MED and rebuffed, then went back to COM/COM/MED.

It took a little while, but less time than you’d think, and because I didn’t have any Ravagers in the group, the damage was being applied fairly regularly by Light and Sasz, and the chain accumulated really slowly. When I got him down to about 150k HP, I busted out the COM/RAV/RAV and let him have it. Staggered him and killed him without once getting the Retaliatory Strike. It was only a three-star win, but there simply didn’t appear to be any other way for me to beat him, because no matter when I switched into MED/SYN/MED during the Stagger, he’d wipe the floor with my party. Doing it this way, it was an easy, easy fight.

I just beat him first try in around 3 minutes, 5-star battle.

Best team for me was Lightning/Hope/Fang. Used Rav/Syn/Com until all buffed (Hope is Lv. 4 Syn, learned haste by now for me, which was huge), then switched to Rav/Rav/Com until he was at about 145% stagger bar. Switched then to Med/Rav/Com so I could control healing with Lightning while Hope and Fang finished staggering him. Once we were all healed and he was staggered, switched to Com/Med/Com and kicked the crap out of him (Like Drew said, two Coms is better than Ravs because he has resistances to elemental damage). When he went into uber-killing mode, switched to Med/Med/Sen, which kept my characters’ health bars in the green for the duration of the attack. Rinse and repeat, I killed him just as his stagger bar was about to run out the second time.

Beat Him in 4:54 (*****)
Party: Hope (leader), Snow, Sazh
Hope Snow Sazh
HP: 3910 6520 5375
St: 572 1154 747
Mag1153 541 696
Vidofnir* Power Circle* Polaris Sp. lv. 25
Goddess’s Fav lv1 Rainbow Ank* tetradic crown lv1
royal armlet* Warrior Wrist. lv1 rainbow ank. lv1
Tetrad Crownlv1 sp. sash lv1 royal armlet*

Started with SYN/COM/SYN once buffed switched to RAV/RAV/RAV. Right before staggering I would switch to MED/COM/RAV and replenish my HP. Then back to RAV/RAV/RAV for the stagger. Then I went COM/COM/COM (yes this involves teaching Hope Commando but just to attack). Would attacked until stagger was low then switched to MED/SEN/SYN. waited out the massive retaliation. Repeated. When after the second stagger my health was low so I summoned Alexander who quickly had Proudclad staggered and defeated. Didn’t even get to go Gestalt

(personal note: I prefer the sentinel over the extra medic because he takes on little damage allow my to have to heal only two characters during the retaliation without sacrficing power throughout the battle)

Don’t try this. The tactic doesn’t work. The gun spam the proudclad uses can’t be healed against in such a manner. You will have to have a Sentinel in your team in order to do this boss.

Contrary to what everyone has here. I used
Lightning, Vanille, and Snow.

Paradigms: Tri-Disaster | Combat Clinic | Cerberus | Relentless Assault | Tireless Charge

I started out on Tri-Disaster and did as much damage as I could, getting his stagger bar almost full but not all the way.
Then I switched to Combat Clinic and healed, until all his staggger bar had went away.
Then I switched to Relentless Assault and started hammering him. Then switched over to Tri-Disaster and staggered him.
Before his stagger bar went away I switched to combat clinic and healed.
Continue to do that until he is done attacking you relentlessly.
When you can, switch over to combat clinic or tri-disaster and continue to attack him. Then heal. And repeat.

P.S. It’s good if you don’t stagger him too many times.
It takes a longer time to beat him without him being staggered but he doesn’t attack you relentlessly if you don’t stagger him.

In addid

Took me 9:51 with somewhat underleveled characters & Drew’s strategy.

When I did this fight, I used Light, Fang, and Hope. I buffed up with Protection (MED/SEN/SYN I believe) using Haste, Bravery, Protect, Faith, and Veil. Then I switched to Tireless Charge (COM/COM/MED) and just attacked over and over, until it was time to rebuff. Hope this helps

2:28. yeah im awesome. rick james bitcch

i found that he didnt use any of his super attacks if i didnt stagger him so i got him to 120% stagger with rav rav med, (snow,lightning,hope) and then switched to com com med for the rest of the battle and i never hit red or under halfway health – but snow has 5500 hp at this time because diamond and mithril bangle but even without that im sure you would beat him, this guy is an easy battle compared to barthandelus 2.

Just beat it in 2.18 with fang, lightning and hope..

PS, if you use this strategy, he should be down to 1/8 HP in the 1st round (considering you have bravery and faith on everyone)