Final Fantasy VII Remake has 4 Enemy Skill Locations. You must learn all Enemy Skills for the Master of Mimicry trophy. In order to learn Enemy Skills you must first obtain and equip the Enemy Skill Materia.
How to Get Enemy Skill Materia: It’s bought from Chadley after you complete Battle Intel Report #16 for him. The earliest opportunity is in Chapter 13, you can find him next to the Materia Shop in Sector 5 Slums. See the two images below for his location.
It is important you have the Enemy Skill Materia equipped or else it won’t work! Make sure you are actively controlling the character who has it equipped. Then the enemy just needs to hit you once with their skill and you will unlock it permanently under your abilities in the Command Menu (that’s how you can keep track which ones you got). You also get a green flash on the screen that says “Learned”. None of the Final Fantasy 7 Remake Enemy Skills are missable because you unlock Chapter Select after the story and can go back everywhere.
Enemy Skill Locations:
- Enemy Skill #1: Spirit Siphon – Learned from Phantom / Varghidpolis / Bomb (Chapter 14 – Missing Children Side Quest – You encounter Phantom enemy at the end of the quest, the screenshot below shows the quest’s starting point).
- Enemy Skill #2: Self-Destruct – Learned from Smogger (Chapter 14 / Objective: Intel Gathering / Area: Sector 5 Slums Area – Steel Mountain). A Smogger is found walking north-east of the Sector 5 Slums town in the Steel Mountain map section. Defeat it and it will always self-destruct after a few seconds. Just stand near its destroyed body.
- Enemy Skill #3: Algid Aura – Learned from Cerulean Drake (Chapter 15 / Objective: The Climb / Area: 55M Above Ground Level – Distillation Tower 2, 3F). Shortly after the start of Chapter 15 you will run into a group of Cerulean Drakes.
- Enemy Skill #4: Bad Breath – Learned from Malboro (Chapter 17 – Combat Simulator Mission “Three-Person Team vs. Monsters of Legend” – only available on HARD difficulty via Chapter Select – not obtainable on Normal / Easy / Classic). Play the Combat Simulator Mission against Malboro, which is exclusive to HARD difficulty. After the story you unlock Chapter Select and keep all of your equipment. Replay Chapter 17 via Chapter Select. A few minutes into the chapter (room after first enemy encounter), Chadley will automatically stop you and show you a new Combat Simulator that wasn’t available on the first playthrough of the Chapter. It’s the only 6-star challenge available and consists of 5 rounds, Malboro is in the 5th round. It will say “Bad Breath” on him before he uses this attack, make sure you actively control the character who has the Enemy Skill Materia equipped and being hit by it once should suffice to learn it.
Once you have all 4 enemy skills you’ll earn the Master of Mimicry trophy.
For all other Collectibles and anything needed for 100% completion, check out the Final Fantasy VII Remake Wiki & Strategy Guide.
Wait, why does the trophy say learn all enemy skills but the guide says i only need to learn 4?
There are only 4 enemy skills… that’s all there is in the game.
What about Apoptosis skill from Varghidpolis?
Its skill is self-destruct, same as Smogger (which is already on the list, see #2). You only need to learn it from 1 enemy. Some enemies use the same skill.
Only 4 enemy skills in the game (after story go to Main Menu > System > Play Log to see the tracker for it).
I did some digging, and it seems that some monster skills and the skill learnt names are different. Apoptosis = Self Destruct, Icy Aura = Algid Aura, Essence Drain = Spirit Siphon.
There is a psychic enemy that you meet on the way back through the area with the robot arms. It also has a learnable skill and its not on this list.
You mean Varghidpolis. Its skill is self-destruct, which is already on the list (#2 / Smogger). Some enemies use the same skill. Smogger is easier to find and reach for the purpose of learning the skill. No need to learn it from every enemy, only one.
I found another enemy skill called Apoptosis , from the enemy Varghidpolis. Is this skill not needed to get the trophy then or is it the same as the one from the Phantom enemy?
That’s not needed. When you go to System > Play Log it shows 4 enemy skills only.
It is the same as Self Destruct from the Smogger and will count as learning Self Destruct.
Enemy Skill #2: I keep trying S/L on Sector 5 Slums Area but still cant learn 🙁
Best place to learn it is in the collapsed tunnel between sector 5 and 6 during chapter 14. At least that is where I learned it.
You have to stand over the smogger when it dies
For the ”Algid Aura – Learned from Cerulean Drake” – Just noticed you can also get this in the later part of Chapter 11 once you’ve driven then 2nd train through the rubble. I got in en route to get Aerith’s 6th weapon (for me anyway).
Seems like the Varghidpolis never uses Apoptosis in the collapsed tunnel, despite the text saying “You can learn an enemy skill from this monster” or whatever it says. I believe you CAN learn this skill later in the game when you encounter the higher-level variants of the monster.
…and the guy saying the Varghidpolis’ special skill is self-destruct is wrong. You can see the enemy’s skillset by pressing R1 after using analyze.
Its Aptosis.
It counts under the “Self-Destruct” skill. There’s only 4 skills.
Aptosis is self destruct lol
If anyone has missed skill #1 Spirit Siphon from chapter 14 side quest it can also be obtained from a phantom enemy in the Shinra Tower combat simulator in chapter 16
Managed to beat Malboro and get hit by bad breath but didn’t learn it? Is there something specific you need to do to get it “learnt”? Really don’t want to keep missing it.
Worked for me 1st try. I had Enemy Skill Materia on Cloud, got hit by 1 Bad Breath and learned it.
For me self-destruct took a few times getting hit by it before I learned it. It’s not a 100% chance. Just make sure you are actively controlling the character that has the Enemy Skill Materia equipped. With Malboro that’s especially annoying as you need to replay all rounds, but he will use Bad Breath quite frequently so you get many tries in one go.
You need to use Assess on the enemy first to “see” that it has a learn-able skill. I had the same issue and was mad I needed to do the fight twice.
Thanks PowerPyx! Don’t know where I would be without you! A lot less trophies thats for sure!
Do we have to learn them all with the same character? Or can we learn them with different characters? The reason i ask is cloud has stolen one move and i think arieth has stolen one.
Personally, I learned them all with Cloud but it shouldn’t matter for the trophy. You can check under Pause Menu > System > Play Log if it registered (only available after story).
Once I beat Marlboro and get bad breath can I quit to chapter select and keep the skill or do I have to finish the chapter to keep it?
Like other materia leving up, experience earned, and play other logs, you will keep it immediately. The only things you need to complete the whole chapter for are the advancing of certain quests such as Tifa and Aerith’s chosen dresses, and the Resolve encounters. Everything else saves to your system file. Like, I wouldn’t try powering down your PS4 the moment you see it flash on the screen, but like after the battle, you’ll be fine to instantly Chapter Select if you want, and (as long as you actually acquired the Enemy Skill), you’ll bring it with you.
Am I correct in assuming you have to actually beat the game to learn some of these like “Bad Breath”? This kind of makes them worthless. Its not like I’m going to be playing through it again after I beat it.
I mean if you are going purely for story this is true. If you are going for completion you have to play through it on hard.
1. yes reading indeed helps when it reads ‘You need to play on HARD mode AFTER BEATING the game’
2. beating the game includes hard, if beating the game to you means playing a game on easy I don’t get why u are on a completionist trophy hunter page, since you OBVIOUSLY gotta do everything the game has to offer.
3. In the Original there were over 20skills where some of them came from the hardest bosses after multiple dozen of hours, surely useless for people that dont like to collect stuff, which is again really paradox for someone to comment on a completionist page
how many skills are there are there more then four or thats all