Gigantaur Help(Ch. 11)

Daze can buy you time at the start of the fight to get Haste, Enfire, and Bravery/Faith on your attackers. A good SEN can survive 10,000 Needles. If you get your base attack stats above 1,000 (easily doable with some upgrading), two fully buffed Commandos should be able to kill Gigantuar in less than 2 rounds after R:IC goes off.

I believe it's also possible to use single Attacks or Ruins to dance Sazh out of range of 10,000 Needles, allowing him to solo the kill.

t~

I suspect you'll need an actual healer (i.e. Hope or Vanille with Curasa) in there, so you may have to give up Haste unless you use Sprint Shoes, Fortisol, or develop Fang's SYN role all the way. Alternately, you might be able to rely on Renew to heal the damage taken early in the fight.

10,000 Needles ignores damage reduction from buffs and accessories, but the reduction from the Sentinel role will apply. A level 4 Sentinel takes only 56% damage. That drops to 46% with Entrench, 36% with Steelguard or Mediguard, 28% with SG/MG and Improved Ward from Snow's Paladin, and 20% with Improved Ward II from the Winged Saint (transformed Paladin). Given a base of 10,000 damage, those percentages are very easy to calculate; best case scenario, Snow can reduce the damage all the way down to 2000, allowing him to survive multiple hits (although you'll need to be ready to cure Pain, since that will prevent him from using -guard abilities).

Mediguard is almost certainly superior to Steelguard here; Steelguard's damage reduction improves with every hit taken, making it excellent against hordes of enemies or against attacks that consist of multiple damage instances. Neither of those applies here, so the healing from Mediguard is a superior benefit.

t~