Dude. It's piss easy with Cloud. I think you should wait until after owning Ultimate weapon, and you get the secret forest open up to you. You can get Death materia there (initially slash-all). Level it up in the Crater, and own shit with one hit.
Quote (clowncrook @ 1 Jun 2011 04:52)
well i made my own setup for fighting emerald weapon...and it was working very well..turns out i accidentally gave red 2 materias so i get lucky sevens =)...currently fighting, waiting for this never ending attack to finish
killed that one...time for ruby weapon

Man, I forgot what it's like to have a whole party at your disposal when fighting the weapons. For the last three times or so that I completed this game I did the solo character challenge, which is hella fun and really challenging when it comes to Emerald and Ruby
This post was edited by Moonflow on Jun 4 2011 01:15pm