How to Beat Rufus in Final Fantasy VII Rebirth! (Boss Guide)

In this video we are going to focus on how to defeat the boss in the game Final Fantasy VII Rebirth: Rufus (The President of the Shinra Company).
This boss in Gold Saucer (corel) will be a good test of your skills, using your new abilities and more. However this is probably the most annoying boss..
Plus lets progress towards the Trophy / Achievement: Hearts Out, Dukes Up (Complete Chapter 12)

Final Fantasy VII Rebirth is an action role-playing game developed and published by Square Enix. It is a sequel to Final Fantasy VII Remake (2020) and the second in a planned trilogy of games remaking the 1997 PlayStation game Final Fantasy VII.

Like its predecessor, the gameplay combines real-time action with strategic and role-playing elements. Set immediately after Remake's events, players control mercenary Cloud Strife and a party of characters principally comprising the eco-terrorist group AVALANCHE, who embark on a journey across the Planet to prevent the megacorporation Shinra from exploiting its life essence, the Lifestream, as an energy source, and defeat former elite SOLDIER Sephiroth, who seeks to unite with the Planet to achieve greater power.

0:00 Tutorial & Counter
5:52 Unedited Battle

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[TimelessWorldOfGaming]

I can imagine this is the point at which a lot of people permanently set down the game and went to YouTube to watch the rest of the cutscenes in the game. I really don't know what they were thinking with this guy, once he started parrying everything, I genuinely had no idea what to do since cloud can really only melee attack to get an atb bar. They need to re-evalate how they design boss battles and whether or not they want them to be challenging and encourage players to try again, or just annoying and encourage players to set down their game.

[luvstagrind]

I just did this fight this morning. It was the most BS fight I had to cheese in order to beat him and his dog made it more annoying. Screw this boss fight

[bigsap]

First time I fought Rufus this biznatch pissed me off so bad. At least 50 retry’s. Just did it perfect blocking and using braver on him to instantly stagger and then putting darkstar to sleep to pressure him and wham beat him first try second run in less than 10 minutes.

[nuadacube]

Just got done playing this fight. I almost broke my controller with how difficult this fight was. I remember having a rough time in Remake against Rufus but my God they took it to a whole new level in Rebirth.

[fpl_az]

Got him down last night. One of the most stressful and annoying encounters I can remember on any game I’ve played. No disrespect to this guide and really appreciate the time spent making it, it just wasn’t hugely helpful for me.

Here’s how I did it (normal):

1. Hold square at the previous cut scene to be able to heal and replenish mana. Make sure you’ve got the item enhancer materials on if you have it (the one that lets you use without ATB and the boosted effect one).
2. Don’t block at all. Just roll and keep firing shots at him with the Igenous blade. He’ll be immune to most of them but any small attacks that land will boost your ATB bar. Whenever you get a pressure on him (which honestly happened to me more by fluke than design) hit him with focused strike
3. Keep haste up at all times as a priority. Spam potions whenever you’re at about 1/3 of your max life
4. Save limit break for when his annoying dog comes out as I found it literally impossible to fight both of them. A limit break on the dog and then spamming attack will stagger and then you can finish off quite quickly
5. By constantly rolling away from him you won’t get hit by the majority of his attacks so just keep doing that and make sure your life doesn’t drop too low and it’s doable

This was all on normal. Awful, awful design for this fight. Shame

[kat_cobain]

I just wanna say, thank you so much! I had PROBLEMS with Rufus and just couldn't beat him once his dog entered the battle. Watched another tutorial and they told me to use Disorder, didn't work. Listened to you and used Focused Thrust, and beat him once I did! Also LB on the dog is waay too important, easily take his (and Rufus's) damage down that way.

[Cassmatic]

Managed to pull through this after so many deaths & many many words the English language couldn’t even comprehend yet equivalent to that of Homer and Le Grille. Great walkthrough & excellent advice, just wish I saw this sooner😂😂

[xcSPEARS]

pure cancer aids ebola boss that actually made me miss minigame bullshit

[bayulife]

I'm not that good of a player but here are my tips:

Dodge Guns Akimbo everytime, get close to him afterwards and abuse that attack button or Focused Thrust. It's the only window I had and I maximized every second of it.

Stay focused and consistent until Darkstar appeared.

Put your focus on the dog, Limit Break him, all you can do to finish him ASAP. Mega Potion and sometimes if necessary X-Potion is more convenient than magic since they both are annoyingly fast and you might not have enough time before they cancelled your action.

Once Darkstar's out it's the same stuff all over again for Rufus.

[humzachudhary]

I just spammed regen and elixir and dodged a lot 😂Then I saved my summoning and limit break until after his dog came cause thats when the battle would get really annoying.

[devinantonovich]

This advice helped me beat him after 3 tries. Key is to lock onto him first thing. Run around and blast him with ranged attacks like you did then when he goes into air use triple slash. Rinse and repeat and cura as needed. Finally dispose of darkstar asap when he joins the fight. Use limits on darkstar.

[jaxsonfanta]

This fight ALMOST:…

Almost….

Made me put the game up and never play it again.

[Naho_]

In hard mode, i took both of them out with the infinity end strike. Rufus didn't get to go into his 3rd phase.

[tudam]

Finally just beat this boss after like 20 attempts. Used up all of my mega potions and x potions which I’m not too happy about but it feels good to beat him.

[deadspot]

This fight doesn't make any sense at all. Just play it on easy.

[Timmah]

Braver will instant-stagger him if it lands during his reload. HOWEVER, his reload window is so small, unless you activate it the nano-second the "Reload" pops up, Cloud's animation is so long that Braver will land after his reload and Rufus will counter instead. It is absolutely ridiculous. This fight is NOT GOOD. This fight is not DIFFICULT. It is complete BS and Square needs to know it. It's not even fun...

[GattoriSancho]

You dont even need to kill the dog
When he reloads fuck him up
Cast stop when you stagger him
When he brings his dog summon bahamut save your limits for when he is staggered.

[BobVahn]

theres lots of missions that can make people quit playing in ff7 rebirth. Its not even hard mode yet.

[adarion]

I hated him in remake, and that fight in rebirth is even worse, I din't know what to expect in the third game, but it's probably going to be awful as usual