Final Fantasy XIII - Adamantoise (No Summons)

Pretty simple walkthrough on how to kill an Adamantoise in Final Fantasy XIII without using the cheap summon/death method. This is one of the most efficient ways to get gil since they drop platinum ingots and trapzeohedrons.

The main thing you are going to need are Genji Gloves on Fang, and have her Commando role leveled to 5 but it helps tremendously if you have all of your base jobs leveled to 5, in this walkthrough howevver, Fangs Sentinel role is only role level 4.

To get this to work you will need 2 good ravagers on your team, I use Hope and Vanille because the main roles you will need are the ones they already specialize in.

You are going to setup your paradigms as follows,

Relentless Assault Com/Rav/Rav
Combat Clinic - Sent/Med/Med
Esponionage - Sab/Sab/Syn

You are going to start out and wait for the first stomp with combat clinic as your starting paradigm. Once he stomps your team should heal you almost immediately, that is when you switch to Relentless assault and attack the first leg. I use Ruin to attack the leg with Fang because it decreases the chance of getting stepped on which is pretty much an instant death. When you see the Adamantoise raise its leg to use stomp switch to combat clinic and wait until it does. Your party should heal you almost immediately and you can switch back to Relentless Assault. Repeat this process until the leg is staggered and get its stagger gauge to around 500% then use Highwind. It will immediately knock out the leg. Repeat this process for the second leg and the adamantoise will fall.

Once it is on the ground switch to Espionage and throw on Debuffs. The only 4 that matter are Imperil, Slow, Deshell and Deprotect. While you are doing this hope will hopefully have given you a few good buffs. When all four buffs are on switch to Relentless assault and go at it. If it starts to get up before you kill it immediately use a Highwind to take out as much damage as possible before its standing.

If it gets back up you just have to repeat this process and it should be dead in no time. This works on Adamantortoises as well, which have less hp but the same drops.

Obviously there is an easier way that relies more on luck than skill by summoning Vanille's Eidolon and then spamming death, but then you have to worry about running around the field getting the 3 tp back so I find it much easier to just go around and kill them the hard way because it is much more efficient.

And yes, I know it can be done in 2 minutes or less, and that is the average time I do kill them, I was playing it very safe in this video since it is a demonstration. Plus the fact I didn't bother to take the time to optimize my equipment for the fight put me back on time a bit.