Well, for starters, to Zenny: that no-native Shout/Wall setup was a bust. I'll have to try it later at some point with different characters, but without sources of reliable stun or Haste, it becomes a complete S/L fest. Though part of the problem was just not having enough offense. I'll leave this to Monday, since I don't care about Fire/Earth even when it gives doubled Greens. Maybe Shout will end up being the better option for a RW, though, honestly, Mog and Squall felt like the weak links: AoE breaks actually -aren't- useful on Rufus, Dark Nation has no offense to speak of. I might've been better off with a Support and Haste on Mog rather than Multibreak. Will tinker with setups later, though.
This said, to blow off steam, I took a Ramza/offense Yuna/Lightning/Gilgamesh/Vanille team to obliterate Ultimate Rufus and full-medaled. I took a SSII RW, blew over half of -Rufus'- health before he fired off his first Mako Cannon. And that was that. Dealing over 10k damage to Dark Nation with Alexander was also cathartic.
Then, there's Ultimate+ Hojo. For it, I went slightly more gimmicky: Lightning with the usual, healer Yuna, Celes with Blizzaja/Dispel for medal conditions and Reno's Telescopic Baton for non-complete failure damage from Indomitable Blade, Ramza and Drawtaliate Gilgamesh. And holy -crap-, did Gilgy and Celes trivialize the hell out of him. Uber Runic completely shuts down Hojo's magical status game, which he -loves- to spam in the first half of the fight. Gilgamesh shuts down the rest of the offense until Hojo's at death's door. For over half the fight, the only thing that even deals damage is Rampage, and that's just sad. When he dropped Blind Gas, Lightning had three full SB bars and Gilgamesh had two, so all that was left was to shove a few SSBs down his throat. Full medals ahoy.
