FF6 - Ultros 1 race guide

[Dreamboum]

FINAL FANTASY VI - Ultros 1 race guide

I've made this guide to bring more people into racing FFVI or just having a taste of what running this game would be like, it will cover until Ultros 1 who is approximatively ~45mn long. It's fun, not that hard and it will maybe give you the desire to do a full game run afterwards

You cannot use this for a full game run since I'm skipping items that you don't need for Ultros 1 but are absolutely necessary for a any%.

This guide was made thanks to Essentia, MisterMV and gnuvince's notes. You can follow them on Twitch !

Gnuvince
MisterMV
Essentia

1. Narshe

• Terra : back row

Config :

• Battle speed 6
• Message Speed 1
• Cursor Memory

First Battle

• Terra : bio blast
• Vicks and Wedge : run away

Note : Terra needs experience to get level 6 before leaving Narshe so Locke can benefit from Terra's level (Terra's Level + 2 levels), so she is using Bio Blast to let them get full ATB to make them flee after the end of the attack and the end of the battle. It happens that they won't escape no matter what though.

Second battle

- Avoid the second battle. Instead of going at the middle, avoid it by taking one step right, up, then left.

Third battle

• Vicks and Wedge : Fire beam left guard and right lobo
• Terra : bio blast the right guard
• Vicks and Wedge : run away

Note : Vicks needs to kill the right guard so they would be able to escape, and the lobo acts as a boss so they cannot escape unless he dies.

Fourth battle

• Vicks and Wedge : Fire beam on Vomammoths
• Terra : bio blast
• Vicks and Wedge : run away

Note : Same thing for Vommamoths, they act as a boss so Vicks and Wedge cannot escape if they're alive.

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2. In the mine

Fight any enemies along the way :

• Terra : Use fire on everything
• Vicks and Wedge : run away

Note : This is actually a little tricky since the fire animation is faster than bio blast, don't forget that they need a full ATB to escape.

Boss : Whelk (1600 HP)

The goal is to launch 2 Tek Missiles before going back to his shell, but this is only possible if Terra has more than a 50% charged ATB at the beginning, if it's not the case, do not try to launch a second Tek missile.






In order :

• Terra : Tek Missile
• Vicks and Wedge : Bolt Beam
• Terra : Tek Missile
  (Only if Terra had more than a 50% charged ATB at the beginning of the battle, otherwise, do not try it and wait until the next phase of the boss)
• Whelk goes into his shell, wait until he says "Gruuuuu..." a second time to hit the head.
• Terra : Tek Missile

• Rename Terra "T"

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3. Cave Pursuit

• If Terra still isn't level 6, get it here by using Fire in every battle before the next event.
• Rename Locke "L"

Boss : Marshall battle (420 HP)
Here is an easy skip but you need to be fast in order to get it. With this, you can avoid all the battles and get directly to the boss.

• You need to get Locke out of the way to let Mog walk, Locke down and then take a step to the right.
• Switch characters and take the same path as the video (you can find other paths for the skip if you want), when the enemy is walking to the same height as you, go immediately to the right, wait for the last enemy to come up, and when he's walking near your position, just get past him and fight Marshall. Just use attack with everyone to get rid of him

• Leave Narshe, run away from all the battles and enter Figaro

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4. Figaro

• Go to the throne room, meet Edgar and rename it to "E"
• Go to the west wing of the castle and talk to the matron
• Rename Sabin into "S", then go back to the throne room
• When in control of Edgar, talk to both guards then Kefka
• With Terra, go to the east wing and then talk to Locke

• When in control of Edgar, DO NOT talk to Kefka, talk directly to the guard up.

Magitek Armor

• Edgar : Auto Crossbow x2
• Locke : Steal
• Terra : Defend

Note : DO NOT cast fire on anybody until Mt.Koltz or it will trigger a very long cutscene.

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5. Cave of South Figaro

• With the chocobo, go to the cave to the east

From there, your characters need to level up like this :

• Terra : level 8 (if you've done everything right, she only needs 2 levels)
• Locke : level 9 (+1 level)
• Edgar : level 10 (+2 level)

This way, Sabin will be level 11 (average +2) and Banon will be level 6 (average - 3), it's important because there is no way Banon could survive the Lete river without getting some levels.

• Beat enemies that comes in your travel with auto-crossbow but don't stay there to grind, you'll get more experience at Mt.Koltz.

After that, go to South Figaro

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6. South Figaro

• Buy 1 sprints shoes
• Equip the relic to Terra
• Edgar and Locke back row
• Buy a chocobo and ride it to Mt.Koltz

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7. Mt.Koltz

• Escape all battles until you get the Atlas Armlet in the secret passage

• Equip the relic to Edgar
• Level up as you go further in Mt.Koltz (Remember, Edgar lv10, Locke lv9 and Terra lv8).
• Auto-crossbow should kill them all in one hit with Atlas Armlet (except Tuskers, you also need to use Fire on them).
• On the next savepoint, use a sleeping bag on Terra if she's short on MP (don't forget to cure before using a sleeping bag)

• Cure before Vargas if needed

Boss : Vargas

Against Ipoohs :

• Edgar : Auto-crossbow
• Locke : Steal
• Terra : Fire on both

Against Vargas :

• Edgar : Auto-crossbow
• Locke : Fight
• Terra : Fire

• When with Sabin : use Pummel with Blitz (Left Right Left and confirm)

Note : If you've done things right, Sabin should now be level 11

• Runaway from all battles, leave Mt.Koltz and get to the Returner's Hideout

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8. Returner's Hideout

• Talk to Banon
• After Terra wakes up, you need to talk to Locke, Sabin and Edgar.
• Then, talk to Banon outside the hideout and say "NO" three times, if you don't, it will trigger a long cutscene.

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9. Lethe River

Note : In the Lethe River, you can have between 2 and 8 battles, run from every battles.

• Get Sabin and Banon into back row
• Heal if needed

ULTROS 1 (3 000 HP)

• Banon : Health in the first turn, then defend during all the battle (if you need to cure, use Terra instead)
• Sabin : Use aurabolt with Blitz (Down Left Left and confirm) five times
• Edgar : Use auto-crossbow five times
• Terra : Defend and deal the last hit with fire after Sabin and Edgar dealt all of their attacks (if you use Fire before, it will trigger a dialogue that will cost you sometime).

Aaaaaand it's over for the guide ! If you have questions or suggestions about my guide, you can send me an e-mail at : Dreamboum[at]gmail.com or a PM on Twitch.

[Hoffax91]

Nice !

[Disenchantment]

i never knew you could skip that battle at the beginning

[EviLGnome]

good guide, another fun race is up to kefka at narshe (about 1:40:00 into the run) gives you a couple more bosses and some RNG elements (Veldt) to make the run interesting.

there are a few differences that I would use even for a race of this
1. Unequip mog's equipment in the marshall battle in the beginning of the game for a good weapon for edgar
2. use genji glove on Edgar for the ultros fight with the mithril spear from marshall and the mithril sword, and just use attack on ultros rather than autoxbow, this allows you to do 4 attacks with edgar, and 4 aurabolts before needing to use fire. There is also the chance edgar will crit, which would save even more time

[Elbod]

I was actually practicing FF6, I love the format of your guide, is so clean and clear, please keep going! ^^

[RCFstupca]

It's a good guide, but do not heal Locke before Vargas. It isn't nessary to and if he is at critical damage he has a chance to do a desperation attack, but that's getting into more advanced strats. For anyone that was wondering, you put battle speed to 6 because it only effects the enemys wait bar.