What is your favorite Materia? Mine is Ultima. I just love that spell, it has always been the coolest looking Spell IMO, as I love the way when you cast it the camera swings around in different angles lol ^.^

Hmm, my favourite, which is, imo, the most useful one, is Enemy Skill. It's fun getting new skills by enemies to use against other poor enemies. Some actually get strong too. Not Chocobuckle however I just get that to fill up number cause I never run from a fight.

My favorite because of usefullness, would be Enemy Materia. Main reason: It has Big Guard and White Wind, two of the best skills in the game.

But if I pick my favorite animation wise, I'd have to go for Neo Bahamut, his looks are the greatest and the way he takes the enemy to him to attack them is just great.

My favorite is Enemy Skill. L4 Suicide and Goblin Punch are pretty useless, but Big Guard and White Wind are nifty. Not to forget Aqualung for those enemies who are weak against water. ^^

How about materia combos? :D Final Attack + Phoenix summon = ownage. Ahaha! (or quadra magic + KOTR, but I always find that KOTR makes the game a bit too easy..)

I still claim Choco/Mog to be the funniest summon spell when you cast it and this Fat Chocobo falls onto your enemy. "That's right, I'm gonna squash you to death! Ha ha ha ha ha ha!"

Ahem.

In terms of magic spells, Comet 2 looks awesome, but Ultima is the Ultimate attack spell (surprisingly.)

I really should've looked closer at materia combinations... Beyond Final Attack - Phoenix, and pairing stuff with All Materia, I wasn't really that interested.

everyone thinks that final attack-phoenix is one of the best combos in the game.. when in fact to me it was pretty useless. I die so sparingly and rarely that its not of much use. Sure i always had it equipt but i hardly ever die.

For me the best materia combo is Mime with Command Counter. The best enemy skill is White Wind. I think the command (yellow) and support (blue) materias are far more powerful and useful at the end of the game than summon (red) and magic (green). Wheras at the start the magic and summon materias are more powerful. The only magic materia i need to use at the end is demi, i dont use summons apart from having phoenix with final attack and using KOTR against ruby.. so in conclusion my favourite materia are

Mime
Command counter
4x cut
Enemy skill (white wind)

These 4 are my most used, im not really including the purple materia, altho hp plus would come in 5th if i did.

Originally posted by Sev
(or quadra magic + KOTR, but I always find that KOTR makes the game a bit too easy..)

You cant quadra magic-KOTR.. altho a useful one is Quadra Magic-master magic or master summon.. that way you can have 4x any magic or any summon (apart from KOTR)

Bahamut owns everyone...they should make Ultimate Weapon a summon...that woulda been great....

My favorite is... MASTER SUMMON MATERIA!!! Mwahahaha!!! It has all summons and you can use them UNLIMITED TIMES and it saves a lot of room.

Originally posted by Sev
My favorite is Enemy Skill. L4 Suicide and Goblin Punch are pretty useless, but Big Guard and White Wind are nifty. Not to forget Aqualung for those enemies who are weak against water. ^^

Actually... I found Goblin Punch very useful. It just does the same amount of damage as a physical attack... Which makes it a great alternative to a physical attack if your limit gauge is full and you don't want to waste your limit break (or consume MP to cast another spell)

Anyway, Counter Attack is very useful... Try 16 (the max) mastered counter-attacks in all 3 of your characters materia slots... Each time the enemy attacks, you will counter 16 times, dealing on average about 30,000 more damage then KOTR! Just use items to heal the entire time, and let the enemy detroy themselves... GREAT Ruby strategy by the way =)

Originally posted by AdemA


Actually... I found Goblin Punch very useful. It just does the same amount of damage as a physical attack... Which makes it a great alternative to a physical attack if your limit gauge is full and you don't want to waste your limit break (or consume MP to cast another spell)

Anyway, Counter Attack is very useful... Try 16 (the max) mastered counter-attacks in all 3 of your characters materia slots... Each time the enemy attacks, you will counter 16 times, dealing on average about 30,000 more damage then KOTR! Just use items to heal the entire time, and let the enemy detroy themselves... GREAT Ruby strategy by the way =)

Hey, that's a pretty good idea... I'm gonna try that later... the only problem is getting all of those 48 materia and mastering them...

i didnt like the enemy skill materia. i never do those enemy skill things in games. it gets annoying. after spending hours upon hours in ff3/6 getting gau's rages, i hate enemy skills.

my fave is probably "all" materia. i like casting a spell on all of the enemies or the allies. call me crazy, but i like it. :0)

Originally posted by LEELOO 5

my fave is probably "all" materia. i like casting a spell on all of the enemies or the allies. call me crazy, but i like it. :0)

If you like multi-targeting, then how can you not find the Mega-All superior??? lol XD...

Just equip the Mega-all ANYWHERE and now EVERYTHING is multi-targeted, including your regular attack!

Hey I didn't know that was a good Ruby strategy! normally He wipes the floor with me. Yeah I know that you can actually have two dead party membersand then wait until hesinks his claws into the sand but normally I die by the time he does that.

But anyway, back to the topic. Fav materia would be 4X-cut. Magic spells are redundant at the end of the game. using 4X-cut usually solves a lot of problem.lol:D

And AdemA, why not put command counter with 4X-cut and use that combo and fill it in weapon and armor? If I am not wrong, that would actually do 32 hits, way more then any other summon or attack:D

counterattack materia is the best. makes your battle so easy. cover-counterattack is one of the best combos in the game. nothing like defending a friend then counterattack the enemy.

Mine is, of course, Enemy Skills. FFVII was the first FF I ever played and so I wasn't soured by Gau's Rages or anything like that.

I think that the best materia...use wise...would have to be a combo...not just one...."Added Affect + Destruct".
Just for the possibility of causing straight up death!

Think mine would have to be Comet/Comet 2, cant explain why but it just *feels* powerful, the sound, the approach of a comet to your head (im sure that would sting a little), call me crazy but the idea sounds more powerful than getting splattered with green stuff from Ultima :p

Even though summon wise my faves are the Bahamuts as dragons are the shit :D

Originally posted by Zikan

And AdemA, why not put command counter with 4X-cut and use that combo and fill it in weapon and armor? If I am not wrong, that would actually do 32 hits, way more then any other summon or attack:D

O_o... Must.... try....

Originally posted by AdemA


Anyway, Counter Attack is very useful... Try 16 (the max) mastered counter-attacks in all 3 of your characters materia slots... Each time the enemy attacks, you will counter 16 times, dealing on average about 30,000 more damage then KOTR! Just use items to heal the entire time, and let the enemy detroy themselves... GREAT Ruby strategy by the way =)

that sounds like a really bad ruby strategy to me. Haven u actually tried it? are you sure it works? because Ruby has immensely powerful armor.. thats why emerald is so much more fun to play cuz u can freestyle her. When you try use physical attacks on Ruby they are very weak, Cloud with ultima weapon, full 9999 health, and 255strength will only inflict about 950 damage each hit when using omnislash against Ruby. Thats what my omnislash used to inflict on her. Meaning the counterattack strategy wouldnt be any good.. ill have to try it somehow because i believe it might be a good idea.. because theres so little in the way you can kill Ruby, the most effective being to use loads of KOTR which is very very boring and unfulfilling. Ive heard of bahumut3 strategies but i never went thru with one because its even more boring. But wouldnt counterattacking be 1.) very boring aswell and 2.) take AGES cuz of the weak hits?

my fave has got to be Shadow Flare, its so evil and dark and magnificent all at the same time, GNARLEY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Looking back, I'd have to say the one materia ability from FFVII I really miss most in the other games is Manipulate. Such a useful ability. It's too bad they haven't put it any of the other games.

I personally think that the best Materia is Deathblow equipped to Barret, purely because if the stupid animation he does where he spins his arm around faster than is physically possible and then missed half the time, quite funny linked to command counter in all slots :D

hm

Tell you what: I'll edit one of my PC saves, check it out and report back on it. Watch for me to edit my message.

Edit: I tried it and nothing happened. The monster kept attacking and Cloud did nothing.

My favorite Materia would be have to be Mega-All for the usefulness, and for the looks........I like Ultima......Summon-wise, Bahamut ZERO is my favorite. Until I linked it with Quadra Magic, it always did 9999, I really liked it.....not to useful against Ruby or Emerald though......

The much needed ALL materia. For those full party cures, regens, hastes, basically anything for your benefit. Otherwise...Neo Bahamut. :D

Vash-

its all about the double cut esp when you get 4X cut.....

i actually dont use a lot of magic now i think of it or summons.....i just loaded my old game and its pretty much just stat stuff its all a blur of purple and yellow!

My favorite Materia has to be the 2x cut as well. It has helped me alot.

my favorite materia would be neo bahumut, just cuz it kick ass lokking and reminds me of a dragon. my fav combo is added effect+contain in the weapon. When placed in a weapon, attacks may petrify, confuse, berserk, or paralyze an opponent how cool is that.and heres another combo Comet (Level 2)-Quadra Magic, Comet (Level 2)-HP Absorb, Comet (Level 2)-MP Absorb Comet level 2 hits opponents 4 times. Pack this with a Quadra magic and you have 16 merciless hits that absorb both HP and the MP that was lost in the casting.

i agree with the 4x cuts i totaly love it but we all have the need for magic in some small shae or form . and enemy skill is great. MOST summons are over rated

yeh they take forever!....im just sitting there all for a weak attack too or a lack of status affect (bloody hades!)

personal fave: FIRE3!!!!!
most useful: enemy skill (which is actually quite boring to fill up an master tho)

My favorite were always the Bahamut summons. It was a shame you couldn't level up your favorite summon monsters and use them throughout the game, like Ramuh (the old head lightning guy), he was only good for like disc one then you had to trash em. Shame.

My fave materia is easily add status...i remember i was so excited when i found out how it worked all those years ago. (plus it is useful)

Id have to say my fav. materia is final attack. Its awsom if you hook it up with life2 you cant die unless you run out of mp.:whatever:

My favorite Materia is the Black Materia. Or maybe KOR or Bahamut Zero.

Black Materia!!! i mean come on!!! it is used to destroy the world by bringing the comet!!! (untill the damn lifestream/white materia combo stopped it)
or i could be silly and say that the best materia is underwater materia.

favorite materia.... *thinks* well...

i don't know...


i mean.. there lots of cool materia.. knights of hte round, oden, chocomog, comet, demi, fire...


favorite though....

that's tough... :lol

i'd have to say life... it's alot more handy then carrying tons of pheonix downs.. htey can e expensive..

As far as physical looks go--that is, how the materia itself looks, black and white are a tie. Has anyone seen the black materia in the FFVII catalogue? It's pretty.

And for the white materia, well....

*cue Aeris theme music as it bounces*

Gorgeous materia, that.

o_O Eh, I better quit before I sound TOO much like Yuffie.

Ah, that's not such a bad thing. (sounding like Yuffie) I like the Black Materia best when it still looks like a pyramid.

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