Honestly, I would focus on Limit Breaks. Specifically Omnislash. That thing, when paired with Fury, will dish out pain. Obviously make sure you have proper healing/buff/debuff materia though. But for early game, just worry about staying alive. "All" is your friend. Best thing I can suggest is just try different combos and have fun.

Some combos that come to mind:

-Elemental + Any magic materia ( to gain that element in your regular attack. Good for mobs with elemental weakness.)

-Added Effect + Destruct or Odin (has the chance of causing instant death)

-Manipulate + Enemy skill: not a combination per se, but is a good team to build up your E. Skill lists. This Blue Magic can do some very powerful stuff. Also works to have 3 on one character in order to learn it on 3x materia while only getting hit once.

Man, there is just too much to list here. Just have fun and try things out. ��

I never heard of a single person reaching the end, but failing to beat Sephiroth.

It's seriously kept easy and any basic setup will do.

I would recommend watching some stuff from 4-8 Productions on youtube. He has great videos explaining some really busted material combinations.

Games like X and XII. Being able to switch members in the field, even mid-battle, is really nice.

Definitely 10
mostly cos i'm really indecisive and always feel like i'm missing out not using certain characters

X being able to have everyone with you. These games are trying to tell the stories of these characters, and yet you need to pick two at a time to go with one unchanging main character? Boo.

I actually liked IV the most, 5 slots so you can experience more people which also lended itself to more people present at important moments, and it had the whole front line / back line thing and felt easier to balance out with 5 people.

Gau takes a lot more work to build than anyone else. Umaro is kinda limited in what he can do. Gogo can be kinda awkward to use. But they're all still good and can complete anything.

The rest is just personal choice and about as easy to use as anyone else.

FFVI is one of the easiest Final Fantasy games. You can do pretty much whatever you want, and with a tiny bit of effort you can make your characters break the game.

Use whoever you like IMO.

Probably doesn't sound very helpful, but the game is legit easy. Just have fun with it.

If you plan to grind stuff, I am partial to Tidus, Wakka and Rikku, because some battles will be undewater and those 3 are the only ones that can battle there.

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Otherwise, Yuna is always great because some of the summons are great.

Wakka, Tidus, Rikku. Wakka and Tidus are capable of dealing the most damage with their overdrives (+break damage limit), and Rikku’s Mix is the most efficient way to buff.

Until you get to postgame superbosses you'll be using everyone Except Kimarhi pretty equally. Everyone has their particular type of foe theyre good against and the game is good ahout throwing all types of enemies at you throughout the game.

Now once you reach post game "time to max stats" it'll boil down to who has the best Overdrives since otherwise you'll be spamming the same 2 or 3 abilities. Also shout out for Rikku Wakka and Tidus for being the only units who can fight underwater.

Tifa + Starshower ability destroys everything, same with Cloud + Firebolt, also consider adding Str Up, and Elemental to Cloud and Tifa. And if all else fails go to options and system and change the difficulty.

I had the opposite problem found the game didn't offer much of a challenge except for the Odin summon which despite completing every sidequest and was past lvl 60 could not beat after 30 or 40 tries.

Get multiple copies of the same meteria (specificly stuff like fire, ice, lightning, wind, and healing)

Pair these multiple copies with blue materia like hp and mp absorb. That way, whenever you attack using magic, you both heal your character and refund some mp at the same time. You can also use a magnify materia at the same time so you can take out large groups quickly. Use first strike and atb boost materia to speed this up.

Healing materia paired with magnify and magic focus materia at the same time is more effective than prayer materia, it heals more and only costs one atb bar rather than prayer materials two. Aerith can use soul drain to regain the mp she loses using healing materia (the only downside since prayer doesn't cost mp). Putting a healing carcanet on Barret with the prayer materia is a decent alternative.

Master elemental blue materia as soon as possible and always use assess on new enemies, while it's useful in the weapon slot it's even better on armor, several enemies in the game become nearly unable to damage you at all, if you max out elemental it will even heal you, lots of enemies do elemental attacks, these attacks can be viewed after using assess so you can plan accordingly.

Once you obtain Yuffie and Aerith has the skill atb ward, you can do the best strategy in the game. Equip yuffie with the speed Demon key chain (you get it for beating Roche at Junon with all your soldiers still alive), then while in battle use a time materia to apply haste to Yuffie and have Aerith place an atb ward down underneath Yuffie. When Yuffie uses brumal form with this setup and standing on the ward, it won't consume any atb, you can use it infinitely so long as Haste is active and while she uses it on the ward it will also charge your allies atb Guage, you can instantly use skills that would normally cost two atb charges repeatedly.

To give you another tip (albeit, pretty specific), don't sleep on Cloud's counterfire synergy ability, it basically automatically perfect parrys any ranged projectile attack, though you do have to somewhat time it. You can generally tell which enemy attacks are counterfire-able if Cloud gets hit by that attack while in Punisher mode and he doesn't retaliate. I say this because for some reason there are some exceptions, like you can't counterfire Odin's ranged spear attacks, but then you can counterfire a Jabberwock's stomp attack. Elemental spells are counterfire-able as well, so if you see an enemy casting Fire/Blizzard/Thunder/Wind at you, you'll know what do.

If you’re doing side content fully you’ll be overleveled on normal difficulty in my experience.

Also prayer materia and first strike materia. Same as remake.

I got through the entire game and most of hard mode without ever using attack magic, synergy skills or punisher mode. So that shouldn’t really be your restriction. I find synergy skills garbage. There’s no time stop so very difficult to implement. You can ignore them, I only used them at the very end of hard mode to boost the relationship with cloud.

Also the enemy skill materia in this game is really good. Sonic boom and plasma discharge you should use all the time with melee attackers.

You’re gonna want to make each character a different class so to speak. Aerith for me is the person that buffs everyone else whether that’s with using magnify+barrier or magnify+haste or magnify+anything really.

Cid is great, but Barret and Yuffie are simply even better thanks to having the two best ultimate weapons, their best limit breaks (18 and 15 hits respectively) being level 3 and thus faster to charge up, and being long-range characters on top of all that.

EDIT: Basically the FFVII tier list, mechanics-wise, is:

• God Tier: Barret, Yuffie
• Top Tier: Cid, Cloud
• Mid Tier: Red XIII
• Low Tier: Tifa*, Vincent
• Shit Tier: Cait Sith**
• (N/A Tier: Aerith)

* You can maybe argue Tifa in mid-tier simply because she is very strong for the first 2/3 of the game (and God Tier if you're talking speedruns). But once everyone else gets their ultimate weapons and catches up to her in dealing 9999 every hit, she falls off fast and hard, as her ultimate weapon is the worst in the game and her limit break is only 7 hits and a level 4, at that.

** Yes, I know Cait Sith can break the game if you learn to manipulate slots. Most players don't though, and truth be told it's kinda tedious to do it and takes all the fun away from it.

Why isn’t Vincent here?

Cloud, Vivi, Auron.

I used Vincent and Red simply because they’re more badass

I use Cloud, Cait and Vincent but i usually change Cait with Yuffie

Your account is new so I recommend joining the discord and asking for help there, there’s a lot to cover. https://discord.gg/qyqd42cH

But overall, you should focus on clearing easy content first for gems which you can use on the current banners. Those units have battle roads which can freely give you exp up to level 140.

There’s also a temple banner for 30k gems and the temple units are very useful for general PvE as well as temple mode which you can get to later.

Once you have levelled up some more you want to focus on blossom doors which will give you materials for talent blossoms. You can get a free Estark from the beginner missions and his blossom is one of the best ones for PvE.

farm the final fantasy units, they wont come back

4 fighter or 1 white mage

Fighter, Thief, Red Mage, White Mage

Fighter, black belt, black mage, white mage.

My current playthrough on my phone is thief thief thief thief.

2 Black Belts, a red mage and a white mage. The 2 punch boys keep things cheap and while being glass cannons the two mages can keep them hearty and healthy.

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I see your pretty boys and raise you mine with a minor adjustment. For some reason, Vincents Holiday Garm gear is dangerous 😂

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sent the boys to the beach a while ago

i miss the pre memoria menu :((

Is the Aerith chocobo suit a good costume ?

I like how Cloud is looking up in this costume!

Damn Lucia looks really hawt in that outfit 😍 Tifa too I need to start farming more costumes for the ladies of the game 🤓