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#22: Julius (Dream Drop Distance)

"What?" (Riku fight.)
"Who are you?" (Sora fight)

Hardest Disney fight in the series (ok, TECHNICALLY every boss except Yuffie, Leon, Tifa, Cloud, Seph, Setzer, Vivi, and Seifer are Disney bosses cause Disney owns everything in this series, but you know what I mean...)
Hardest fight that earns you Ultima Weapon.
Second hardest Dream Drop Distance fight... yes.

Julius had a couple interesting things here.

First off I think with few very obvious exceptions he is the most aggressive fight in the series, and I feel he probably has the longest attack range in the series, as you fight him in a huge arena, and he can pounce on you the entire way away from a roof....

Because of that he is also probably the dumbest fighter in the series. I think his AI is just set on constant slaughter. You can double stack balloon (not Balloonra, not balloonga, just balloon is enough) around you and he will elbow drop into them from
Howver far away causing himself massive massive damage. Repeat for 4 months minutes. Win.

I think he has the most HP in the series, as the way health bars work he should be right around 2,600 hp If I wrong on that feel free to correct me.

Finally, he's pretty much just physical. He punches you and elbow drops you, and pics up and squeezes you. That's mostly it. He only has 2 special moves, the aforementioned grab where he causes poison (not a huge deal) and confusion.... (that one sucks) and his only dangerous move. His lightning storm. A pure magic attack, that afterward coats his physical attacks in Thunder, powering them up to crazy extents. Feel free to just dodge during that if you want, it isn't permanent.

He hits hard, he hits fast, he hits from everywhere. So dodge like there is no tomorrow. This is a secret boss, you should certainly have Riku's Dark Dodge by now (if you don't, what are you even doing in post game?) and with Sora your normal dodge is plenty. When he hits you cure. You can bring a Drop-Me-Not if you feel like being safe.

As for how you damage him, I mean, balloon family just shatters him to pieces. If you don't want to use those, attacks and counters might be your best bet, (he hits you constantly so you can always counter). You can be special if you want and bring things like Meteor etc, but it honestly makes no sense. If you are gonna attack him with magic just bring balloon. So either man up to him straight up physical for physical, or make him taste water balloon after water balloon of death.

And to the obvious question that arose when you saw this was a Super Boss instead of the final storyline. I completely stand by this. Julius I'm sure is harder on level one crit (but honestly, maybe not, level don't determine your abilities this game, and once more, leaf bracer second chance cura, and a bunch of balloons you can still have at level one) but for when they are designed to be fought, the standard boss is harder. And there is no cheap way to beat him like balloon sadly. Though I wish there was...