FFX - How do you defeat Neslug?

[Michael Miller]

The Neslug is the giant snail-like fiend that the head of the monster arena
creates through both finising Area Conquests and Species Conquest.

Rikku, Auron, and Yuna are all damage broken, with Rikku dealing about 65k
damage each hit. My Aeons all do 99999 attacks.

When you pound the crap out of the slug, it goes into it's shell, at which
point it heals itself after each characters turn for SIX FIGURES worth of
HP.

In one instance, it healed itself for 250,000 HP.

When it's is in it's shell, it's is immune to all physical attacks, meaning
things like Armor Break won't work, and you can't deal any damage through
normal attacks.

When it's turn comes up, it casts curaga on itself.

Once it's fully healed, it will come back out.

I've looped through that a zillion time's, and it won't die.

Anybody have any ideas on how to stop it from healing itself so much?

Note: I tried casting reflect, and only the Curaga's get reflected (which
doesn't make a big difference in it's health anyways)

You have to defeat it to get the final battle arena monster, so it's
driving me crazy.

[Corey Simonator]

<The Neslug is the giant snail-like fiend that the head of the monster arena
creates through both finising Area Conquests and Species Conquest.

Rikku, Auron, and Yuna are all damage broken, with Rikku dealing about 65k
damage each hit. My Aeons all do 99999 attacks.

When you pound the crap out of the slug, it goes into it's shell, at which
point it heals itself after each characters turn for SIX FIGURES worth of
HP.

In one instance, it healed itself for 250,000 HP.

When it's is in it's shell, it's is immune to all physical attacks, meaning
things like Armor Break won't work, and you can't deal any damage through
normal attacks.

When it's turn comes up, it casts curaga on itself.

Once it's fully healed, it will come back out.

I've looped through that a zillion time's, and it won't die.

Anybody have any ideas on how to stop it from healing itself so much?

Note: I tried casting reflect, and only the Curaga's get reflected (which
doesn't make a big difference in it's health anyways)

You have to defeat it to get the final battle arena monster, so it's
driving me crazy.>

You need knock the shell off of it using Wakka's attack reels overdrive. If you
don't have that overdrive you win it playing blitzball. You'll need a weapon
for Wakka with break damage limit. His world champion ultimate weapon would be
the best choice but one that you make will do. Check out gamefaqs.com for any
additional info you'll need.

[RDEGROOT]

I managed to destroy the shell with anima with his pain attacks. Are you
sure you kept hitting him after he healed? I believe it always gets
destroyed after a certain amount of damage has been done with the shell
down.

Post by Corey Simonator
<The Neslug is the giant snail-like fiend that the head of the monster arena
creates through both finising Area Conquests and Species Conquest.
Rikku, Auron, and Yuna are all damage broken, with Rikku dealing about 65k
damage each hit. My Aeons all do 99999 attacks.
When you pound the crap out of the slug, it goes into it's shell, at which
point it heals itself after each characters turn for SIX FIGURES worth of
HP.
In one instance, it healed itself for 250,000 HP.
When it's is in it's shell, it's is immune to all physical attacks, meaning
things like Armor Break won't work, and you can't deal any damage through
normal attacks.
When it's turn comes up, it casts curaga on itself.
Once it's fully healed, it will come back out.
I've looped through that a zillion time's, and it won't die.
Anybody have any ideas on how to stop it from healing itself so much?
Note: I tried casting reflect, and only the Curaga's get reflected (which
doesn't make a big difference in it's health anyways)
You have to defeat it to get the final battle arena monster, so it's
driving me crazy.>
You need knock the shell off of it using Wakka's attack reels overdrive. If you
don't have that overdrive you win it playing blitzball. You'll need a weapon
for Wakka with break damage limit. His world champion ultimate weapon would be
the best choice but one that you make will do. Check out gamefaqs.com for any
additional info you'll need.

[DJ Saltynuts]

Post by Michael Miller
The Neslug is the giant snail-like fiend that the head of the monster arena
creates through both finising Area Conquests and Species Conquest.
Rikku, Auron, and Yuna are all damage broken, with Rikku dealing about 65k
damage each hit. My Aeons all do 99999 attacks.
When you pound the crap out of the slug, it goes into it's shell, at which
point it heals itself after each characters turn for SIX FIGURES worth of
HP.
In one instance, it healed itself for 250,000 HP.
When it's is in it's shell, it's is immune to all physical attacks, meaning
things like Armor Break won't work, and you can't deal any damage through
normal attacks.
When it's turn comes up, it casts curaga on itself.
Once it's fully healed, it will come back out.
I've looped through that a zillion time's, and it won't die.
Anybody have any ideas on how to stop it from healing itself so much?
Note: I tried casting reflect, and only the Curaga's get reflected (which
doesn't make a big difference in it's health anyways)
You have to defeat it to get the final battle arena monster, so it's
driving me crazy.

Have all ur charactors overdrive gauges full, hit it with normal
attacks untill it dissapears into it's shell, then use Wakka's attack
reels, if he's taking of 99,999 the shell will be destriyed by the
twelve hits, if not use Entrust and fill his overdrive gauge again, do
this untill the shell is destroyed. now he is just a sad old slug and
will die in a few hits.

laters

Dj

[El Ramen Junkie Tropico]

Post by Michael Miller
The Neslug is the giant snail-like fiend that the head of the monster arena
creates through both finising Area Conquests and Species Conquest.
Rikku, Auron, and Yuna are all damage broken, with Rikku dealing about 65k
damage each hit. My Aeons all do 99999 attacks.
When you pound the crap out of the slug, it goes into it's shell, at which
point it heals itself after each characters turn for SIX FIGURES worth of
HP.
In one instance, it healed itself for 250,000 HP.
When it's is in it's shell, it's is immune to all physical attacks, meaning
things like Armor Break won't work, and you can't deal any damage through
normal attacks.
When it's turn comes up, it casts curaga on itself.
Once it's fully healed, it will come back out.
I've looped through that a zillion time's, and it won't die.
Anybody have any ideas on how to stop it from healing itself so much?
Note: I tried casting reflect, and only the Curaga's get reflected (which
doesn't make a big difference in it's health anyways)
You have to defeat it to get the final battle arena monster, so it's
driving me crazy.

Similar to what other people have said. I forget the numbers exactly, but
get it's HP to like 2 million or less, just before it goes into the half
with it's shell. Then use Wakka's Attack Reels. a Perfect Reel will do
like 2 million damage at 99,999 a hit and kill it.

--
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[Eyeglazer]

Post by Michael Miller
The Neslug is the giant snail-like fiend that the head of the monster arena
creates through both finising Area Conquests and Species Conquest.
You have to defeat it to get the final battle arena monster, so it's
driving me crazy.

The simplest way to kill it is to use Wakka's Attack Reel just before it
drops into its shell. This should destroy the shell before he has a
chance to even use it.

If you can't do that, anything that can hit for 99999 damage should do
find once he's in the shell. If he's immune to physical, use doublecast
flare or Anima's Pain. If you don't have attack reel, but do have blitz
ace, use that just before he hides to get as much damage in as possible.

You'll need enough strength to hit for max damage and enough agi to do
it faster than he regens.

The shell breaks when he drops below a certain level of hp. I think it's
a million or so. As long as you can do more damage than he regens,
eventually it *will* break. If you can't do that much damage that
quickly, get more stength and agility (or magic and agility, if you're
using flare or ultima) until you can.

--

Eyeglazer, Lord of Boredom.

Abandon hope, and ye abolish fear.

[Jonathan McArthur]

"Stilgar, do we have wormsign?"
"Usul, we have wormsign the likes of which even Michael Miller has never
seen!"

Post by Michael Miller
You have to defeat it to get the final battle arena monster, so it's
driving me crazy.

Do you have Anima? Use her special attack, whatever it's called, when
Neslug is in its shell.