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Talk to Ultimecia and say your greetings then say your prayers.......
Surprise, your party is randomly selected. Dont panic, its nothing bad. Dont evenly distribute your GF cause that wont work either. Just outfit your best 3 characters. When Ultimecia unfortunately selects a "weak" character just use that character to support the "good" characters and let the "weak" character die. Once the "weak" character dies, it will be replaced with another character almost immediately. Keep supporting your "good" characters and let the "weak" ones die until you have the 3 characters you wanted. Use this tactic to get your desired party at the first form Ultimecia takes or the first fight since shes not too hard to defend, but dont kill her yet before you get your desired party.

Before you get rid of her, summon Cerberus and cast Shell and Protect on your party then quickly end her with Aura driven limit from Squall. When shes done for, she will summon Griever.

Now things get really hard. Make sure everyone is able to revive a dead character. Triple cast your strongest spell, and cast Aura like crazy and pound Griever with your Limit Breaks. Keep your Protect and Shell status in check and recast them when they wore out. Upon death, Griever will cast Shockwave Pulsar that will eat up your HP for more than 6000 HP, so try to keep your HP up by triple-casting Curuga.

The third form can erase your party's HP for 2000-3000 at a time. Your best action to take would be triple casting Curuga and continue Aura driven limits, and hope you can kill it.

The final form has the most powerful attack of all: Hell's Judgement. This deathly blast will send every character's energy plummeting to a miserable 1 HP. Barely alive, triple cast Curuga. Again, your only hope is Triple casting powerful spells and Aura driven limits. When you see Ultimecia "Draw Apocalypse" on itself, thats your clue to do two things, get your HP to the max and Shell yourself cause 7000 HP of hurt is coming your way. Draw the Apocalypse Spell and Triple cast it to teach Ultimecia a world of hurt. After a long, agonizing, painful battle, hopefully victory was yours.......

Here are more tips in defeating Ultemicia....

Tip by Don
1. Use the magic Meltdown once on Ultimecia in every phase of the battle. This will definitely add more damage to her on every magic you'll use.
2. Junction your party members with Mag+60 or higher. For me, magic does more damage than physical attack.
3. When this is done, cast Triple Magic, Meteor on her. I was able to damage her 10000Hp on one Meteor alone. Hopefully, you'll be able to damage her 30000Hp after your turn.
4. If you only have a few Meteors with in your inventory, you can junction the Expend2-1 ability from Bahamut and Cereberus. Only 1 magic will be used on Double.
5. I use megalixirs to completely recover all my members Hp and Status. No need for Triple casting Curagas and Ensunas. You can have 100 megalixirs by using the Quezacotl's CardMod ability on Bahamut's card.