Oh, you want help? I see. Well, I suppose that I'll start off by
telling you all the ways he can beat your party. He's got a physical
attack that hits one person for about 150 points, a counterattack that
hits one character for about 100 points, and a meaner counterattack
that hits all characters for about 150 points. Lastly, when low on HP,
he will halve all your characters' HP values called Press. Also, he
uses Elemental Shift, but we'll get into that later.
Not that bad, really. So where does the difficulty come in? Well, Auron
hits him for about 350 points, and everybody else who attacks hits for
around 100. A Grenade from Rikku does around 350 points, and lastly, a
Black Magic attack by Lulu hits him for 1200 to 1400 points.
Slow down, though! If you rush into battle, chances are Lulu will
instead restore 850 of his HP! You only have a 25% chance of hurting
him, and you have to do so plenty of times before you win!
"I give up." I'm not finished, yet! You can easily determine which
spell Lulu needs to use. Spherimorph chooses an element. He will only
use that element spell. But he usually doesn't use magic. He only
counters with it. So what you do is have a character (Auron is best)
hit Spherimorph and watch which spell he counters with. Lulu then must
use the OPPOSITE element spell to hurt him. For example, if Auron hits
Spherimorph, and is countered by a Water spell, Lulu should use
Thundara. Spherimorph always starts as Fire elemental, so have Lulu
start by using Blizzara.
Be warned, while Spherimorph only hits the character that physically
attacks him, if magically attacked by a wrong element, Spherimorph will
hit ALL characters. Luckily, if you hit him with the right element, he
will NOT counterattack.
Not so fast! You can't just use Blizzara for the rest of the battle.
Let's go back to his Element Shift move. When he does this, he switches
from his current element to a new one. He will do this each time he is
hit by one Lulu spell. Then, the spell you just used won't hurt him
anymore. Fear not! Just have Auron attack again, and be countered
again, and Lulu now knows that she can use the OPPOSITE of THAT spell
he just countered with. With this method, he should die rather quickly.
For best speed, use Haste on Lulu (and Yuna if you need to use Cure
often), and just demolish this...thing.
Watch out for Press. It halves everybody's HP. Don't worry, though - it
can't kill you, and Spherimorph should be about ready to fall in a
couple rounds. If you use Power Break, however, he'll only take off 25%
(credit Split Infinity).
"That's too complicated. I am NOT reading that." Well, okay. Since he
starts with Fire element, call Ifrit. Each time Ifrit attacks him, a
Fire spell will restore his HP. You can just Attack for the rest of the
battle (don't use Meteor Strike) and win. When his HP gets low,
Spherimorph will continually halve Ifrit's HP with Press. You should
STILL be able to win, though. Be warned that this can take a long time
- as long as 20 to 30 minutes - as you must watch Spherimorph attack
Ifrit about 50 times! Only use this method if you are DESPERATE!
