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i don't know where to find elixirs for my battle with sephiroth
so i keep running out of  health and mp so i keep dying can you tell me how to get more elixirs?

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Well ideally, you kept all the elixirs you've found throughout the game. This is a good strategy in any roleplaying game, conserving your most powerful resources until you TRULY need them. But as you have probably noticed, the end game bosses as well as the Colliseum Cups can quickly deplete that supply.
There a few options you can turn to to gain more for your bout with Sephy. The easiest way is to make them through synthesis. You can look through this synthesis faq for all the recipes to make the items in the shop. The elixir is a level 1 recipe and uses common ingredients.

http://www.gamefaqs.com/console/ps2/file/516587/19539

You can also cross reference the ingredients needed with this enemy list which gives stats and drops for most of the monsters in the game.

http://www.gamefaqs.com/console/ps2/file/516587/19613

There are a few heartless that drop elixirs when defeated. But most never have more than a 5% drop rate or so, so this is not an ideal way to get them. It would probably be much more time efficient to accumulate a large supply of the ingredients needed to synthesize them, then make a bundle all at one time. Wash, rinse and repeat.

Either way you plan on acquiring them, you should save before the battle with Sephy and if you lose, reset the game. This way, all the hard work you put into getting your stock of elixirs is not lost while you learn how to avoid and counter his attacks to beat him. He is hard and can kick your ass quite easily, so resetting between each attempt will allow you to keep trying without large breaks while you try and make more elixirs.

If I remember correctly, you should be able to soft reset the game by pressing start, select and the shoulder buttons all at one time. This will save you a little time between attempts for your elixir restock cheating. Good luck.

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