Defeating Emerald and Ruby Weapon

There are many guides out there to defeating both weapons, but I believe the two you see here are the most rewarding ways to beat them. The most valuable thing you get from both the weapons is the 50,000 AP when you defeat them. This is by far the best way to level up your materia as no other creature in the game comes even close to giving you that much AP.

With these guides you do not need to level up KOTR or master Mime twice (which takes forever), and you don't need to spend any time leveling up your party beforehand, which I've found can get very tedious as well.

By attaching the double and triple growth weapons to your characters, you can get an enourmous amount of AP for your materia, which is a huge benefit. So why waste those valuable materia slots on mastered KOTR or Mimes? This is the only chance of the game to gain this much AP, so you may as well take advantage of it. I hope this can be of help to you, defeating both weapons is the most difficult challenge of the game. Good luck.