Machina of Destruction

Overview

• Difficulty: 9★
• Reference: Announcement
• Release Date: 7/20/17, 2608 days ago.

Battle Info

• ADV
• PRO
• ELT

Machina of Destruction - ADV

Difficulty	Energy	Battle	Gil	Unit XP	Rank XP	Clear Reward
42	10	1	205	2800	300	Phoenix Down
Mission
Complete the quest						30
Deal lightning damage to an enemy						Lightning Megacryst (5)
Use black magic						Screamroot (3)
Use a limit burst						Sacred Crystal (5)
Boss
Aigaion, Left Arm, Right Arm

Machina of Destruction - PRO

Difficulty	Energy	Battle	Gil	Unit XP	Rank XP	Clear Reward
72	10	1	475	4500	450	Elixir
Mission
Complete the quest						50
Deal ice and lightning damage to an enemy						Ice Megacryst (10)
Use green magic						Star Quartz (3)
Party of 5 or less (Companion included)						Mini Burst Pot (3)
Boss
Aigaion, Left Arm, Right Arm

Machina of Destruction - ELT

Difficulty	Energy	Battle	Gil	Unit XP	Rank XP	Clear Reward
110	10	1	3410	220000	1700	Aigaion Arm
Mission
Complete the quest						100
Use a limit burst						5-star Trust Moogle
Evoke Ramuh						Martial Arts Mastery
No magic						World Destroyer
Boss
Aigaion, Left Arm, Right Arm

Boss Guide (ELT)

Aigaion No. 589
Race	Machina
Level	99
HP	10,000,000
MP	100,000
ATK	500
DEF	150
MAG	400
SPR	150

Element Resistance
-	-	+50%	-	+50%	-	+100%	+100%
Status Ailment Resistance
null	null	null	null	null	null	null	null
Other Resistance
Immune to Gravity and Death. Immune to ATK/DEF/MAG break. Vulnerable to SPR break.

Abilities

• Pew, pew! Zing!: Summon Left Arm.
• Pew, pew! Zap!: Summon Right Arm.
• Genocide Beam: Magic damage (1.8x) to all enemies.
• The light is concentrating: Remove all status effects from caster and use World Destroyer next turn.
• World Destroyer: Magic attack with hybrid damage.
  See the mechanics page. Hybrid damage* (10x) to all enemies.
• World Destroyer: Magic attack with hybrid damage.
  See the mechanics page. Hybrid damage* (5x) to all enemies.
• Electromagnetic Burst: Lightning and water magic damage (5x) to all enemies.

Conditional attacks

• If Left Arm dies: Pew, pew! Zing!.
• If Right Arm dies: Pew, pew! Zap!.
• 70% HP threshold (Max 1/battle): The light is concentrating. Next turn: World Destroyer, end turn.
• Every 5 turns and below 70% HP threshold: {{#tip-info:Turn count for World Destroyer is tracked based on the start of the battle, not the turn he drops below 70%.}} The light is concentrating. Next turn: World Destroyer, end turn.
• If attacked with water (physical or magic) while charging World Destroyer: Use weaker World Destroyer.
• If attacked with water (physical or magic) on other turn: Genocide Beam.
• If attacked with water (physical or magic) for 3 turns total: Electromagnetic Burst.

Regular attacks

• Up to 5 attacks per turn before Right Arm is dead.
• Up to 8 attacks per turn after Right Arm is dead.
• Normal attack.
• Genocide Beam (Max 1/turn).
• Additional attack after a summoned Right Arm (not the original) is dead: Genocide Beam (Max 1/turn).

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Left Arm No. 591
Race	Machina
Level	99
HP	4,000,000
MP	60,000
ATK	800
DEF	150
MAG	400
SPR	150

Element Resistance
-	+50%	-50%	-	+50%	-	+100%	+100%
Status Ailment Resistance
null	null	null	null	null	null	null	null
Other Resistance
Immune to Gravity and Death. Immune to ATK/DEF/MAG Break. Vulnerable to SPR Break.

Abilities

• Arm Burst: Magic attack with physical damage.
  See the mechanics page. Physical damage* (10x) to one enemy.
• Its left arm has exploded: Magic attack with physical damage.
  See the mechanics page. Physical damage* (3x) to all enemies.
• Shrug: Remove one enemy from the fight and fixed damage (4000000) to caster.

Conditional attacks

• If attacked with lightning (physical or magic): Its left arm has exploded.
• If summoned Right Arm (not the original) is dead: Shrug. Repeat.

Regular attacks

• 1 attack per turn.
• Arm Burst.

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Right Arm No. 590
Race	Machina
Level	99
HP	4,000,000
MP	60,000
ATK	800
DEF	150
MAG	400
SPR	150

Element Resistance
-	+50%	+50%	-	-50%	-	+100%	+100%
Status Ailment Resistance
null	null	null	null	null	null	null	null
Other Resistance
Immune to Gravity and Death. Immune to ATK/DEF/MAG Break. Vulnerable to SPR Break.

Abilities

• Pew, pew! Zing!: Summon Left Arm.
• Cure Beam: Restore HP (500,000) to one ally.
• Cure Beam: Restore HP (2,000,000) to one ally.
• Curaga Beam: Restore HP (500,000) to all allies.
• Reflect All: Reflect all spells for 3 turns to all allies.
• Upper Voltage: Increase ATK/MAG (20%) for 3 turns to all allies.
• Metal Coat: Increase DEF (200%) for 3 turns to one ally.

Conditional attacks

• If Aigaion is dead and Left Arm dies: Pew, pew! Zing!.
• 50% HP threshold (Max 1/arm/battle): Curaga Beam.
• 30% HP threshold and Aigaion is dead (Max 1/battle): Cure Beam (Hi).
• If Aigaion is below 99% HP threshold: Cure Beam (Lo).
• If Aigaion is dead: Upper Voltage, Metal Coat. Repeat.
• Every 4 turns: Upper Voltage.
• Every 3 turns: Metal Coat.

Regular attacks

• Up to 2 attacks per turn before Aigaion is dead.
• Up to 8 attacks per turn after Aigaion is dead.
• Reflect All (Max 1/turn).
• Normal attack.

Monster Summary

Left Arm

Left Arm has a very simple and limited skillset. Its entire job is to deal a killing blow to the highest ATK unit of your party once per turn. Provoke abilities will still work however. This ability is a magic attack with physical damage, so it can only be evaded with magic evasion. Plan for your party to raise/reraise every turn.

If you hit it with lightning attack (physical or magic), it'll retaliate with an AoE explosion. The damage is high enough to wipe out your party. Avoid this at all cost.

If a summoned Right Arm is killed, Left Arm will snort one of your unit out of battle permanently, and then it will kill itself. It'll keep snorting every time it's summoned back, until all of its lives are used up. This condition will not trigger if Right Arm has not been killed & summoned at least once.

Attacking Left Arm will not yield any LB gauge.

Left Arm can only be summoned 9 times. Killing it 10 times will remove Left Arm permanently from battle.

Right Arm

Right Arm is Aigaion's healer and support. It heals Aigaion for 500,000 HP per turn. If you want to kill Aigaion first, you will need to deal more than that per turn.

It has no damaging ability aside from normal attack. You can check the full list of its abilities above. Bring dispel abilities to remove buffs.

Under normal circumstances it'll use 2 actions per turn, unless Aigaion is dead, then it'll use 8 actions per turn. It is also capable of summoning Left Arm if Aigaion and Left Arm died. Take note of this when you are using the brute force method.

Attacking Right Arm will not yield any LB gauge.

Right Arm can only be summoned 2 times. Killing it 3 times will remove Right Arm permanently from battle.

Aigaion

The main body, the summoner. Aigaion will keep summoning its arms whenever you kill them, up to the summon limit. Killing Aigaion first is the fastest way to win the battle, but it's also the most difficult.

As far as damage goes, Aigaion will do one AoE magic damage, Genocide Beam, followed by normal attacks per turn. It can use 5 actions per turn if the original Right Arm is alive, or 8 actions per turn after Right Arm is killed once. Genocide Beam will deal decent damage, and normally one beam is not enough to wreck your party, but after the second Right Arm dies, it will start using 2 Genocide Beams until it dies. Make sure your party SPR and mitigation is high enough to handle 2 beams every turn, or you will lose the battle.

Once it hits 70% HP threshold, it'll charge up, and then use its most damaging ability, World Destroyer, the turn after. It'll repeat this cycle every 5 turns once you hit that threshold. Note that the turn count is based on the start of battle and not when he drops below 70%. This means he can prepare for a second World Destroyer right after the first. World Destroyer damage is massive, but can be mitigated several ways:

• Deal water damage (physical or magic) to reduce the damage by half.
• Use defensive buffs: DEF/SPR buffs, damage mitigation, guard.
• Use AoE reraise.

Using AoE reraise is the easiest method, and can be easily achieved with Rikku's or Yan's LB. Be careful when using water attacks on Aigaion, however. If you deal water damage more than 3 times, it'll use Electromagnetic Burst. This ability is separate from World Destroyer and they can be used on the same turn. Avoid that at all cost and don't use water attacks on a normal turn.

Strategy

• See testimonials and discussions.

Two ways to defeat Aigaion:

• Slow & Steady: Kill Left Arm 10 times, kill Right Arm 3 times, and then kill Aigaion.
• Brute Force: Kill Aigaion, kill Right Arm, and then kill Left Arm.

Slow & Steady

• Kill Left Arm 10 times.
• Kill Right Arm 3 times.
• Kill Aigaion.

This method can take up to 4 hours depending on your setup, but it's still recommended over the brute force method. The best way for you to go through this is to setup your party and abilities in a way that repeat function can be used until you finish the arms phase. But if you want to do it manually, you will have more freedom on picking your units.

The key component of this method is MP sustainability. Since the fight will go on forever, you will need to go through the entire fight without any MP issue, and item can't be counted on since it's limited. There are 3 options: Lunera, Bran, and Ace (awakened ability). Lunera and Bran will need a SPR build to increase the MP refreshed. Ace is a solid choice since he can still deal respectable damage. Since Zargabaath MP sustain is single target, it cannot be used with repeat command.

To protect yourself against Left Arm, you can choose to use a revive, auto-revive, or self-revive unit. Since a unit cannot act after being revived, you will need someone with highest ATK or 100% passive provoke unit to be the sacrifice. The latter is currently not possible. Auto-revive is a better option combined with tank like Warrior of Light, who can use 100% provoke during their turn. Self-revive can also be used, saving you 1 unit slot, but they come with heavy requirements:

• They need to have the highest ATK.
• You will still take damage after reviving, so King low HP revive can be dangerous.
• Note: Revived unit will not receive bard's ongoing song buff.

Revive: Rikku, Y'shtola, or any healer. Using magic spells will disqualify you from no magic mission.
Auto-revive: Rem (80% HP),Vanille+2 (80% HP), Meliadoul (80%), Grim Lord Sakura (80%)
Self-revive: Elza (90% HP), Vargas (80% HP), Maxwell (80% HP), King (50% HP).

Using Rem is not only the safest, but also the least work required to make this work.

Finally, Right Arm has 2 annoying buff that you might want dispelled, AoE ATK/MAG+20% buff (used every 4 turns) and ST DEF+200% buff (used every 3 turns). Their damage don't really ramp up until second half of phase 2. However they will still do a lot of normal attacks, so depending on your setup you might want a dispeller on first phase.

Example party:

• Tilith: There isn't many choice for a strong no-magic healer, but if you don't care about the mission you can replace her with any healer.
• Rikku: Support.
• Lunera: Infinite MP sustain and buff.
• Maxwell: Highest ATK. Self-revive every turn.
• 2 Damage: Anyone will work, the stronger the better, as long as their ATK is weaker than Maxwell. Mage or hybrid will allow you to go wild with their MAG.

Phase 1

Attacks from Aigaion/Left Arm/Right Arm:

• 1 Arm Burst.
• 1 Genocide Beam.
• Up to 5 normal attacks.

Setup the party with the following abilities:

• Tilith: Full heal with Radiant Light.
• Rikku: Dispel with Bushido - Freedom.
• Lunera: Buff with Elven Song.
• Maxwell: Self-revive with Sacred Song.
• 2 Damage: Damage.

Press REPEAT until Left Arm is killed 10 times. This does not mean you can macro repeat and just ignore the game. Be aware of the battle situation at all time.

Phase 2

Attacks from Aigaion/Right Arm:

• 1 Genocide Beam.
  • 2 Genocide Beams once two Right Arms are killed.
• Up to 5 normal attacks.
  • Up to 8 normal attacks once one Right Arm is killed.
  • Up to 7 normal attacks once two Right Arms are killed.

The first two rounds are less dangerous than the previous phase. Once the right arm is killed once, the number of normal attacks will increase, but nothing else changes. The same pattern used to kill the left arm can be repeated for the first two rounds of the Right Arm.

Killing the Right Arm twice will cause Aigaion to start using 2 Genocide Beams every turn until it dies. You will want Rikku to use damage mitigation and keep a SPR buff up. Keep in mind that the Right Arm still performs an AoE buff every 4 turns. Guard it if needed. Kill the last Right Arm, and move on to the last phase.

Phase 3

Attacks from Aigaion:

• 1 World Destroyer during 70% HP threshold and then every 5 turns.
  • Will immediately end turn after using World Destroyer.
• 2 Genocide Beams.
• Up to 6 normal attacks.

Aigaion will start dropping LB crystals now. Assuming you can use Rikku's LB every 3 turns, keep it up every time you have one. When it's charging World Destroyer, attack it with water. Rikku has a water attack. Don't do this more than 3 times. If you can't kill it before it's charging fourth World Destroyer, just brace for impact and reraise or mitigate properly. World Destroyer will repeat every 5 turns using global turn counts, and does not start after 70% HP threshold, so the second World Destroyer might come early.

About Electromagnetic Burst: If you decide to bring along Tidus and Rikku (or a mage with Barthundara/Barthundaga), you can mitigate most of the damage caused by Electromagnetic Burst. Because Blitz Mania offers 100% Water Resistance and Hyper NulAll boosts Lightning Resistance by 40%, you can survive both Genocide beams and Electromagnetic Burst if your team is set up correctly (I'd advise minimum of 200 SPR and DEF) and enough buffs are laid out (Preferably Get Pumped and Warrior of Light's Light is With Us). This can allow you to chain water damage and guarantee the weaker World Destroyer. However, you will probably not survive if World Destroyer and Electromagnetic Burst happen on the same turn, so keep track of the next Electromagnetic Burst and have Rikku's LB at the ready.

Brute Force

So what makes this method harder than the slow method? Essentially you will have to handle Aigaion's World Destroyer, Right Arm's buff, and Left Arm's killing blow, while still damaging Aigaion with heavy damage, enough to bypass its healing.

This is when reraise cheese strategy is popularized. If you are capable of reraising your whole party every turn, with 1~2 Rikku, you don't really need to worry about death. Though you can still do this strategy even without reraise cheese, as long as your setup and damage is top notch.

Right Arm will rage once Aigaion is dead, so you can make the fight easier by killing them both at the same time, or leaving the Right Arm to a very low health before killing Aigaion. Killing Aigaion first will make Right Arm heal for 2M HP.

Once you kill Aigaion, kill Right Arm, and then kill Left Arm.

Notable Units

Written as of the trial's release date. Will be outdated due to power creep.

Unit	Notes
Olive	Demolition Specialist gives +50% killer vs. Machines Mortar Beacon is recast every time she gets raised Generally speaking super high ATK Warning: Consider the enemy's counterattacks against lightning element before attacking with Olive's TMR
Tilith	Non-magic healing for mission AoE full heal AoE full revive Mana battery
Ashe	Non-magic healing for mission SPR debuff Magic damage
Rem	Auto-revive Can take advantage of weapon passives for elemental DPS (in a pinch) Non-magic healing for mission (in a pinch)
Rikku	AoE auto-revive Remember that LB crystals do not drop from the arms Requires many event-specific items and TMRs to boost LB fill rate Drive Boost offers built-in LB gauge fill rate Water damage Casting Mix every 3 turns can be encumbering
Lunera	Mana battery Wind-based magic damage Non-magic healing for mission
Zargabaath	Mana battery Mitigation and stats buff
Zyrus	Self mana battery Water-based magic damage
Ace	Mana battery (need enhancement) Magic damage (with major imperil if enhanced)
Fryevia	Ice hybrid damage Excellent damage with high MAG Won't be targeted by Left Arm if ATK is low enough
Aileen	Machine Killer Earth-based damage Refreshing Tool can be useful in a pinch Can achieve high ATK without an Excalibur, but requires many TMRs Piledriver only chains well with itself forcing reliance on a Friend Aileen
Vargas	Self auto-revive Can reach high ATK with a great sword Fire-based damage
Elza	Self auto-revive Can reach high ATK with a spear (especially if enhanced) SPR debuff (especially if enhanced) Avoid using dark damage
Maxwell	Self auto-revive AoE dispel Avoid using light damage Can only equip spears making gearing difficult Useful for magic-based teams
King	Self auto-revive (50% HP) Warning: only 50% HP makes him vulnerable to be KO'd immediately afterwards Can reach high ATK by dual wielding guns Limited gear options make survival uncertain, consider Bartz instead
Vanille	Auto-revive (30% HP) Warning: only 30% HP makes the revived unit vulnerable to be KO'd immediately afterwards Unless you awaken the ability twice, at which point it restores to 80%, but that's expensive for a niche situation like this.
Luka	Non-magic healing for mission AoE heal DEF & SPR party buff Enhancements are recommended
Bran	Non-magic healing for mission Mana Battery
Ling	Entrust can help queue Rikku's LB, especially coupled with Bartz or King Non-magic AoE revival High Tide synergizes well with Entrust Expensive Mana Battery (except self) 45% SPR debuff Chakra for self HP/MP restoration Equipping Bushido - Freedom on her can take pressure off Rikku
Bartz	Entrust can help queue Rikku's LB, especially coupled with Ling Tailwind and his high LB crystal drop rate synergize well with Entrust Live Giver can be used with reraise to help with MP management Can equip weapons like Twin Lance (FFV) and Second Knife for additional auto-attacks Versatile equipment and abilities can help free up other supports 30% physical counter, making counter equip and materia useful
Yan	Able to cast AoE reraise and powerful elemental resistances with LB Eternal Blossoms for 30% damage reduction to party Flaming Ashes for AoE full revive Chi - Golden Pearl Tenacity to increase the party's LB fill rate 100% lack of High Tide-based passives makes her LB more expensive to fill Power of Chi allows Chi skills to be dualcasted (eg. healing and MP recovery)

Videos

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Machina of Destruction - PRO

Username	Description	Units	Link
claudius415	All Missions | No TMR	Ashe, Ashe, Amelia, Amelia, Warrior of Light	YouTube
Elegantique	4 Missions Guide	Ashe, Noctis, Rikku, Tilith, Vargas, Friend: Orlandeau	YouTube

Machina of Destruction - ELT

Username	Description	Units	Link
faybo0507	10 min Fast Kill	Elza, Rikku, Fryevia, Tilith, Tilith, Friend: Fryevia	YouTube
Sionar	All Missions, Body First	Tilith, Rikku, Delita, Maxwell, Fryevia, Friend: Fryevia	YouTube
claudius415	All Missions | Body First	Tilith, Rikku, Ashe, Maxwell, Fryevia(837MAG), Friend: Fryevia(862MAG)	YouTube
FFBEVids	Use a LB, Summon Ramuh, Arms First	Tilith, Rikku, Y'shtola, Luneth, Orlandeau, Friend: Orlandeau	YouTube
claudius415	All Missions | F2P TMRs & Units only | Slow & Steady Arms First	Tilith, Rikku, Ashe, Maxwell, Warrior of Light, Friend: Fryevia(906MAG)	YouTube
Elegantique	4 Missions Guide (Left -> Right -> Body)	Maxwell, Noctis, Rikku, Tilith, Warrior of Light, Friend: Fryevia	YouTube
HHJsyndrome	All Missions | Only Attacker Emperor | Left , Right, Body	Emperor, Zargabaath,Rikku, Tilith, Warrior of Light, Friend: Rem	YouTube
DX3mis	All Missions - Brute Force 25min	Maxwell, Tilith, Rikku, Rikku, Fryevia, Friend: Fryevia	YouTube
Mitch3ll	All Missions | Rapid Brute Force | Body First	Tilith, Rikku,Delita, Maxwell, Fryevia, Friend: Fryevia	YouTube
ffbeMYcommunity	NoTilith No MachineKiller | Brute Force | Body First	Luka, Rikku,Ling, King, Fryevia, Friend: Fryevia	YouTube
Coolbeatlim	All Missions | Body First | Step By Step Strategy Guide	Tilith, Rikku,Orlandeau, Ashe, 2B, Friend: 2B	YouTube
Cyanide0k	Body First | Brute Force | Fast All Missions (Except Esper)	Elza, Tilith, Rikku, Soleil, Fryevia, Friend: Fryevia	YouTube
Sephiroth FFBE	All Missions | Body First | Brute Force | No Machine Kiler	Rikku, Warrior of Light, Fryevia, Ashe, Maxwell, Friend: Fryevia	YouTube
jimmymsz	All Missions | Body First | Brute Force | No A2, No 2B, No Fryevia | ~20 minutes	Wilhelm, Onion Knight, Tilith, Ace, Rikku, Friend: Onion Knight	YouTube
GLDrakox	All Missions | Body First | Brute Force | A2	Warrior of Light, Tilith, Vanille, Rikku, A2, Friend: A2	YouTube
Socremus	All Missions | Low Method | No Base 5*	Warrior of Light, Tilith, Bran, Meliadoul, Rikku Friend: A2	YouTube
Lordfab	F2p + 2B Fixed Dice | Strategy in French	Orran, Shantotto, Shantotto, Lightning, Soleil Friend: 2B	YouTube
Ernie	Two man	Explorer Aileen, Lotus Mage Fina	YouTube
ffbeMYcommunity	Dragonlord burns Aigaion like a BOSS	Nyx x2, Warrior of Light, Meliadoul, Rikku, Friend:Dragonlord	YouTube
RanDall	7* Olive one shot | One Mission	Olive, Ace, Maritime Strategist Nichol,Rinoa, Barbariccia	YouTube
xero806	7* olive OTKO	Lexa, Lexa, Blossom Sage Sakura, Seven Friend: Olive	YouTube
Jason Gaming	All Missions	2x Ashe, Rikku, Mystea,Meliadoul Friend: 7* Olive	YouTube
Mr. Eiko	First turn OTK	Shantotto, Lexa, Pure Summoner Rydia, CG Lid, CG Nichol, Friend: Rinoa 7*	YouTube
Naisya	Perfect solo kill	Zargabaath	YouTube
David Aka Aztek	AMC + Guide (5 man Budget)	Garnet, WoL, Deuce, Rikku, Emperor	YouTube
Flip_Method	All Missions	Medius, Medius, Medius, Medius, Medius, Medius	YouTube