Supreme titans can insta-kill; that is their random special effect. The answer is lots of Luck (75+ base, and buff from there) and Magic (I guess that is the one) resistance to make this a very rare event. Plus two characters who can Raise Dead followed by Shared Life and/or Power Cure.
Titans are the ultimate monsters in the game, arguably. If an ordinary one's ordinary attack is doing enough damage to kill characters in one hit, then you need to level up more before fighting them. My people were level 85 before I went to Paradise Valley, and had finished all the Oracle's story-line quests except the last one. I'd had an expert in Dark magic since level 50; going for master wasn't crucial. If it had been, I might have tried dodging past the titans in the Paradise Valley village to get to the house I wanted, instead of destroying them.
Titans ordinarily do electric damage but sometimes cast a spell for magic damage, so high resistance is needed to both. And enough health to survive the hits when resistance unluckily fails: the grunt (basic) titan's normal attack is pretty consistent, up to 100 damage a time, but its spell is highly variable, to a maximum of nearly 200. (I got those numbers from my usual website cribsheet)
I enjoyed playing the default party (PACS) with all combat turn-based (real-time movement allowed both for charging in close and for running away!). My archer (better protected than my wizard) became my flying pilot but I usually landed to fight (except against sea serpents and against dragons, when I wanted to get into point-blank fire blast/shrapmetal range, or melee). I didn't bother with exploiting the airborne dodge-up/down-in-turn-based loophole, yet destroyed every monster everywhere, titans included, so it can be done.
Post edited September 07, 2022 by RSimpkinuk57