Decided to test my limits with this. I flew back to the Chocobo Ranch to see if I could get take on the Alpha Zolem, and to also hopefully get that Alpha Enemy Skill. I went in with the build before without really thinking, and I wouldn't say I got destroyed, but I didn't win. Instead of stop, he used paralysis. And the poison was whittling me down faster than I could heal. So I went back to the ol' drawing board. Tried a few things on the monsters outside. Wanted to see if I could use Hp Absorb on Counter Attack, unfortunately can't, so I had to stick with the Black M-phone which really drained my damage output. I equipped the Gem Ring to negate his Paralysis, but I still had to deal with the Poison problem. I switched out Command Counter-Deathblow with Added Effect-Poison, donzo. He still did a lot of damage, and while having those extra materia's on to give me more money and exp are nice, I can do without them. I switched out Wizard Bracelet for the fancy new Crystal Bangle I just got to buff his defense some. Mag Def would take a bit of a hit, but it was worth the change. Since I was no longer immune to Time effects from Silver Refracter I threw on Time to help get an edge in and to help since Cait Sith is incredibly slow. After that, I started the fight. Transformed, used Haste on Cait Sith, and Slow on Alpha, used a quick x-potion to heal him, and then threw him into berserk! Since his damage was still really low, I had to compensate. And since basic attacks were by far his greatest asset, and would most likely keep him alive, I figured giving up control for more damage was a pretty good idea, and for the most part it was! Alpha would bite (headbutt?) me and Cait, and Cait would punch him right back. Unfortunately, I did not know that having him in berserk would prevent counter attack from going off, and that probably cut my damage a bit, but it wasn't enough to matter too much. It was a back and forth for most of the fight until Alpha started getting angry and stretched up. Then the real fight began. The only real advantage I had on my side was that Alpha's physical attacks didn't heal him anymore, but his new attacks gave me status effects, and his new stance increased his attack and defense. I think one of the status effects was blind, cause Cait started to miss quite often at this point. It was looking pretty grim to be honest. Cait wasn't hitting hard enough to heal back all the damage from Alpha's attacks. When Cait hit about 4k health, I pretty much lost hope, but Cait had other plans in mind. After taking a headbutt(bite?) that crit, he stood up top his mighty Fat Mog robot, ran right up to that giant snake, and crit him for about 2k, landing the final blow. In what could only be described as the greatest fight I've had the pleasure to enjoy to date in FF7, I came out victorious. I took that Elixer with pride. The fight was absolutely fantastic from start to end. Much thanks to Sega Chief, one of the best times I've had with this mod so far.
