You know that Cosmic Monolith that blocks your path in that fiery place in EBF3? I died on that thing so many times. Well, yesterday, I finally killed the stupid thing. I made a strategy, something that's really rare for me. ._. Usually, the closest I get to strategy is using the enemy's elemental weaknesses. That's it. But that Cosmic Monolith wasn't gonna take that. I finally decided to try strategy. Well, I found something about it's attack patter. It uses that beam thing that nearly insta-kills everyone you have. I finally found out that defending is a useful thing to do. So I defended every third turn. Turned out pretty well. And the main thing that kept me from damaging it was that it dodged EVERYTHING. That's because it kept buffing it's evade. I never really thought much of buffs/debuffs, so I never dealt with buffs. Well, in that battle, I used Matt's dispel for the first time in the entire game.

So, I learned four things.
1. Strategies are useful.
2. Pay attention to attack patterns.
3. Defend is useful.
4. Dispel is useful.