Used the Adamantoise bounty to grind out lv 100-120, its a good grind for this but I tell you Gladiolus turns into such a crybaby during this fight. The whole game he's riding you azz to man up and get over it etc... then in this fight, all he does is say we're going to get our azzes kicked and should run. It would have been kinda funny if it wasn't so damn annoying hearing it for six hours straight ><
It wasn't necessary to get 120 as everything can be completed at lv 99, it just a completionist thing :)