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The Shadow Bahamut fights in the Realm of the Dragon King are pushovers, but the actual Bahamut fight is as challenging as its predecessors in the original series.(It should also be noted that though Sol is a Recurring Boss, he loses some of these qualities - particularly the immunity to Breaks - in his other appearances, and is significantly easier to deal with as a result.) Again, all of this can be solved - switch to non-elemental or dark weapons find some equipment for your tank that increases their Magic Defense - but it was still startling to suddenly encounter a single-player boss who was, for all intents and purposes, tailor-made to defeat the multiplayer meta. Finally, Sol is immune to DEF and SPR Break spells, preventing you from brute-forcing your way through. You can't use stat buffs, because Sol casts Dispelga if you try. Sol also attacks primarily with magic spells, which means that your physical tanks - which are more prevalent than magic tanks - provide less value. Sol has 200% defense against Light attacks, resulting in said TG Cids doing Scratch Damage at best. The undisputed king of that meta was, at the time, Final Fantasy Tactics's Thunder God Cid (AKA Orlandeau) wielding an Excalibur and casting Divine Ruination for a focused Holy-elemental barrage, often aided by a friend's Orlandeau or one's own Agrias (who has the same attack). By the time his boss fight was first released, the FFBE Meta Game had settled around "chaining": having multiple characters use multi-hit attacks with the same animations (if not necessarily the same names) so that the multi-hits would land simultaneously and amplify each other's damage. Sol isn't really that hard of a boss once you figure out what his deal is, but walking into him unprepared can be a real shock.The second time you fight him, the game challenges you to beat him in six turns. On top of that, the first time you fight him is after a challenging boss fight with Dark Fina in the same level, so you have to fight him partially exhausted. The fight takes forever, even if you can manage to keep his defense broken.
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Veritas of the Earth buffs his defense, debuffs your offense, and hits pretty hard on top of that.And finally, his first appearance is the only major boss battle in the game where you're not given an option to have a friend's character carry you through the battle if you're not strong enough. and if you gave your tank the Golem esper (as its stat buffs are ideal for tanking), they'll be particularly vulnerable to his attacks.
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On top of that, he has many air-element attacks (which are very difficult to defend against unless you've opened the right chests).