Lordless Castle Interior/New Trial of the Goddess

Abilities

 * Alluring Embrace: Restore 15% HP to caster
 * Great Dance: Magic damage (30x) as MP drain (30%) to all enemies
 * Evil Purifying Light: Light magic damage (7x) to all enemies
 * Right Hand of Love: Physical damage (2x) to one enemy. Decrease DEF/SPR (50%) for 3 turns to one enemy.
 * Left Hand of Abundance: Physical damage (2x) to one enemy. Decrease ATK/MAG (50%) for 3 turns to one enemy.
 * Charm of the Goddess: Inflict charm (100%) for 3 turns to one enemy

Attack Pattern

 * On turn 1:
 * Great Dance
 * Continues with the attack pattern for that turn
 * 80%/50%/30% HP thresholds:
 * Evil Purifying Light
 * Continues with the attack pattern for that turn
 * Every 3 turns: Alluring Embrace
 * Every 10 turns: Charm of the Goddess
 * Regular attacks when >50% HP:
 * Turn 1, 3, 5, etc
 * Left Hand of Abundance
 * Remaining attacks are Left Hand of Abundance (15%) or normal attacks (85%)
 * Turn 2, 4, 6, etc
 * Evil Purifying Light
 * Right Hand of Love
 * Remaining attacks are Right Hand of Love (15%) or normal attacks (85%)
 * Regular attacks when <50% HP:
 * Right Hand of Love
 * Left Hand of Abundance
 * Evil Purifying Light
 * Remaining attacks are normal attacks

Tips

 * See testimonials and discussions.
 * Lakshmi will set all units' MP to 0 after her first turn. To recover from that you can use MP recovering items, such as Greater Scroll of Recovery, in conjunction with MP batteries to sustain your run.
 * Lakshmi heals 15 million HP every 3 turns, therefore you have to outdamage her. Make use of chainers, imperils, elemental attacks, and Man-Eater/Man-Eater+ (including from Diabolos).
 * Lakshmi can be blinded, can serve useful if you did not bring in a full evade provoke tank. Utilize the TMR Rikku's Pouch with Chaos Grenade if you have it.
 * Suggested roles:
 * Light-resistant magic tank (preferably with 100% resistance)
 * Provoke tank (preferably with 100% evasion)
 * ATK/MAG breaker. Although this is not necessary if you use 100% light-resistant magic tank and 100% evasion provoke tank, later on Lakshmi will charm your provoke tank, disabling his evasion.
 * Charm is used every 10 turns (10, 20,...), so you can ignore all of these by having more damage.
 * You can dispel charm with dualcast-Dispel trick or damaging dispel like Fingersnap.
 * Mercenary Ramza is immune to Charm when ability awakened.
 * Chow's Improved Focus or Lakshmi's Charming Protection can be used to make your party immune to charm.
 * If you brought Heavenly Technician Lid to break ATK you can also use her Rubber Hammer to cure charm.
 * Risky way: If you use a 100% evasion provoke tank, you can ignore gearing for HP and instead focus on reraising him, so that when he is killed after being charmed, he will then be auto-revived. Moogle Plushie and other forms of passive provoke, along with DEF buff and ATK break, can be used to reduce incoming damage due to lost of provoke.
 * DEF buffer (see above) and other buffers as needed.
 * Damage dealers.