I finally did it =) I was getting worried when Armageddon killed off my Magus Sisters, the last aeons I had left, but then I started unloading attack reels and blitz ace and used entrust with Yuna and he finally went down. He had two attacks on my party, but just a swipe and an ethreal cannon, glad he didn't use Ultra Spark. I have the NA version, so he is a lot tougher then the versions with dark aeons, I copied this off a gamefaqs faq to see his stats

Name: Nemesis (aka Omega Gold, aka Subete Wo Koeshimono)
HP: 10000000 (Overkill: 99999)
AP: 50000 (Overkill: 50000)
Steal: Level 4 Key Sphere x1 (common), Warp Sphere x1 (rare)
Cost: 25000 gil
Drop: Warp Sphere x1 (common) x2 (Overkill)
Dark Matter x1 (rare) x2 (Overkill)

|----------|----------|----------|----------|----------|----------|
| Power | Defense | M. Power | M. Def. | Speed | Evade % |
|----------|----------|----------|----------|----------|----------|
| 255 | 150 | 255 | 150 | 200 | 0 |

|-----------|-----------|-----------|------------|------------|
| Fire | Thunder | Water | Ice | Holy |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|------------|------------|
| Absorb | Absorb | Absorb | Absorb | Absorb |


Still can't believe I managed to kill him without wasting an hour trying to hit Fenrir for agility spheres

well good for you!can you write the statistics of your characters if its not a problem?

All of them have 255 str and mdef, like 110 def. Yuna has 186 agility, Tidus and Wakka have like 120. All 9999 hp, yunas mp is 999 and Tidus and Wakka have near 800. Their armors all had
Auto Haste
Auto Shell
Auto Protect
Auto Phoenix
And I had to use all my Aeons to block his attacks. Their luck is mostly basic, but Yuna's went up like 10 =p

you had only 9999hp?!!!????

Hmm, I have the version with Dark Aeons, gawd they're really annoying I tell you.

My stats:

all stats 255, except for luck, which was around 40-50
all celestial weapons.

All armor had this set up:

- Ribbon
- Auto-Haste
- Auto-Phoenix
- Break HP Limit

my stats:
all 225 except some...i can't remember
tidus around 60000hp
auron around 40000hp
yuna:30000hp

and i had version with penance and dark aeons,he was really hard:

Break HP Limit isnt really useful, Auto Phoenix is. Even if I got it to 999999 the great Ultra Spark and Armageddon would kill me anyway

Nemesis is a pushover if you have decent stats. Heck, his strongest attacks do less then 1000 damage. I have at least 80,000 hp with every character. Or you can use the Aeon trick and just keep summoning them so they can take the damage instead of your characters. Its quite easy that way. Call it cheating or whatever, but thats how I did it my first time.

yeah, Nemesis is nothing compared to Penance, gaw Penance was such a paine in the a$$

I mean, really 10 million HP for Nemesis, but 12 million hp for Penance, plus some annoying attacks and even with Ribbon he still can curse you...meh yeah I really had some problems against him.

the road to the battle with Penance is difficult, forcing you to defeat all the Dark Aeons, which is a feat on its own. Don't even attempt the battle unless you are extremely leveled up, plus the battle could easily take over an hour.he has two arms that can regenerate!!nemesis is nothing compared to him.here,i found his stats:

HP: Body - 7,000,000 Arms - 600,000 each
AP: 100,000 (normal) 130,000 (overkill)
Items: Dark Matter x3, Master Sphere x3
Equip: Eternity
Steal: Elixir x6
Attacks: · Body · Obliteration » Deals 22,000+ damage plus Slow on all characters
· Right Arm · Calamity » Casts Poison, Blind, Silence, Curse, Full Break on 1 character.
· Mighty Guard » Casts Shell, Protect + Regen.
· Physical Attack » Deals 33,000+ damage on 1 character.
· Left Arm · Tetra-Graviton » Massive damage on all characters (74,000+ at 99,999) with status ailments
· Physical Attack » Deals 33,000+ damage on 1 character.
Elemental Immunities · Body » Absorbs all elements including Holy; Half damage against Ultima
· Arms » Absorbs all elements including Holy; Half damage against Ultima
Recommended Armor Abilities: Ribbon, Auto-Pheonix, Break HP Limit, Curseproof
Recommended Weapon Abilities: Break Damage Limit, Triple Overdrive, One MP Cost, Magic Booster, Counterattack

everything is soooo true....you havent truly faced a monster
till you fight penance..... im not saying nemesis wasnt hard, but
if youve played ffX-2 then penance is sota like angri-manyu, except
penance has a whole lot more hp...

tidus : all 255 , yuna,auron,and wakka : pretty dang close
but ur still right nemesis is no push over....

Subete Wo Koeshimono. (aka "The one who surpassed all")
That brings back memories.

I didn't have many maxed stats when fighting him, but I did have 99 999 HP with everyone, and constantly used Auto Life and Summons to shield myself.

First when I got the International version did I try to excell in most areas of my stats.
And there was also the added option to create a Ribbon in that game, which made it easier.


I hade FFX International, pretty much the same thing.
Penance and most of the Dark Aeons made Nemesis look like childs play.
Penance was by far the hardest boss I ever fought in a FF game. Dark Magus sister all at the same time were very dificult as well.

To defeat Penance, I used a brilliant strategy devised by a guy at gamefaqs.
It involved lowering my max HP to 9999, believe it or not. It worked perfectly.

WOW! Congratulation. You have beat the hardest boss in FFX.
However you don't need to have max stat of alot of HP. When I fight him, all of my character barely max stat. Their equipment have auto-pheonix (I think that was about it). All weapon have damage break.
When fighting Nemesis, I casted HASTE on everyone. Then just use QUICKHIT and about 15 mins later, Nemesis is dead.
You guys think too much, maxing stats and having Celestial Weapon just killed the challenge.

Why did the American version took out Penance and Dark Aeons? That was such a rip off

nobody said that beating nemesis is a problem he wasn't that hard anyway,penance is the real problem,not nemesis

It wasn't taken out. But it was added in the second version of FFX in Japan called International.
It had English voices and the option to chose between Japanese and English text. That's why I played it.
The European version is the same as International, ecept for the choice of text, and that it was running on 50 Htz (smaller screen, and a bit slower)
They gave them the International version because the game was delayed by several months for Europe.

The Dark Aeons, you can fight extremely weak versions of them before the final boss, even in your game.
But the ones appearing out on the field in International, most of them were stronger than Nemesis, and quite challenging and fun to fight.

Yeah I think that the faq misses some things,

although Nemesis is very strong and tough to beat, I think Dark Anima and Dark Magus Sisters can match up to his strength, I mean they where all annoying as hell.

But Penance was the worst, he truly was strong, ANNOYING and he took a long time to defeat, I mean he has 12 million hp...and alll his stats are maxed and Judgement is O_O plus the animation of that attack rocks ^^

In my version, Nemesis had almost maxed stats, thats what made him harder

Whoa!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Dude you should be able to get throu the game like nothing!!!!!!!!!!

it toke me 4 hours to beat Ject so you should have no problem to able to the last boss (Ject)


It is so easy for you I am so Jelous!!!!!!!!!

Don't want to brag or anything, but I took out Nemesis with no sweat, thanks to a team of Yuna, Rikku, Wakka, and Tidus, thankfully, all props go to Yuna for sacrifacing summons against it's over-powerful attacks, although Wakka seemed to be the only one who can take them.

I found them all hard as all crap lol my stats are all tip top but i equiped the rong abilities for a couple of people it really stuffed me up.