Quote Originally Posted by Edeline View Post
As someone said, learn his cards and number sides. Then form a deck for his weak sides, and bait his good sides. I still hate Swift, even after getting all his cards. Win rate is always nearly 50% I think, no strategy because of Chaos. Even with a 3star deck he can wreck you because of that lovely Shiva card that you can only defend against 1 side, and flipped by all others.
Also this is what you're looking for:

http://forum.square-enix.com/ffxiv/t...ft-hate-thread
Thanks for the thread link, glad to see I'm not alone here.

I beat him the first time with my 2 star deck but now that he's the only NPC left for me to farm a drop from other than Imperial (500~ wins and tens of thousands of MGP later and no Gaius yet), I can't seem to beat him with any reasonable reliability and he's proving to be the worst. I'll adjust my deck to the weak top/right strategy and give it a try, thanks for the suggestions.