Basicly was he nerfed down in strength.i beat him once on Crital mode and im not doing that again :mellow:

It would be nice if some changes were made to make it more fair and challenging, but I doubt it. 

As far as I know the only thing they did was make it so you can escape from his whip attack

Edited October 22, 201411 yr by TheKingdomkid

I've heard (and this has actually worked for me) that the difficulty of the fight scales with the amount of abilities you have equipped. The less abilities the easier the fight. Maybe that's what happened?

So they may have taken steps to making the boss actually good?

YX was a fair enough boss fight. There was only one real workable strategy (spamming Thunder Surge) but it still required dexterity and timing (and a teensy bit of luck) to pull through. I wouldn't mind if it was unchanged, although it could be fun to allow different strategies.

As far as I know the only thing they did was make it so you can escape from his whip attack

You could always do that.

You could always do that.

not in the original if you got caught in the whip attack it's basically instant death, now in 2.5 (idk if it was in the original Final Mix) you can dodge out of the whip attack before he brings you all the way up to him

not in the original if you got caught in the whip attack it's basically instant death, now in 2.5 (idk if it was in the original Final Mix) you can dodge out of the whip attack before he brings you all the way up to him

It was in the original final mix. I'm guessing they added it in Final Mix seeing how MF was/is a really hard boss.