Super Mario RPG Walkthrough Part 77

Part 77: The beginning of the end...

Factory Final Boss

This is it, in this part, we face the great and almighty Smithy! Who will bask in the glory of the championship and save the world from certain destruction? We shall see! ;)

Boss: Smithy 1: The final battle is here! It is of course among the hardest fights in the entire game... But believe it or not, Smithy is not the real threat in this fight! It's the Shysters with their Sword Rain(it hits all your party members for a good amount of damage)! Basically avoid attacking the Machine-Made Shysters the entire fight and stall them out by healing/reviving until they run out of FP (which happens pretty fast because they're supposed to be temporary enemies... meaning not built for long-term battling.) Then the rest of the fight will be a piece of pie! The only threat after that point is Smithy's Meteor Swarm and Sledge (which he rarely uses) because they hit every party member. But after the Shysters run out of FP, you won't have as much stuff to deal with each turn. Basically by leaving the shysters alone, it prevents the maker from creating more Shysters since they're limited to being 2 on the field at a time.

Enjoy!