DarkFlameWolf
11-17-2005, 08:00 PM
Well, the criteria for the most useful, is which characters in each FF game that you have played have been the most useful throughout the entire game? The one you used the most often and relied upon the most for almost every battle? And this doesn't necessarily have to be the lead character (which the game forces you to use for the majority of most Final Fantasies). To start off, here are my picks:
Final Fantasy 6 Most Useful Character - Gogo
You cannot beat this guy. He can combine up to three different (or is four?) skills from three of your favorite characters and be like an all-powerful God. I usually set him to Magic, Blitz, and alternate between Lore and Tools. Gogo can practically do anything and is important to have in any end-game team you create. Given, he isn't readily available for the first half of the game, but given that many of the other characters were either forced on you for certain periods of time or the majority of them were not that useful. So the first chance I get to snatch Gogo (right after acquiring the second airship), I do it. And he is in my party thereafter.
Final Fantasy 7 Most Useful Character - Cid
Again, you get him fairly late in disc 1, but you can have him the rest of the game thereafter. His first few limit breaks are not that good, but once you acquire his level 3 and level 4 limit breaks, he finally starts to break out on his own. His multiple damaging Dragon Jump, Big Brawl and Highwind limit breaks really pile on the cumulative damage. Furthermore, he is the only other person besides Cloud to have a triple growing weapon. Unfortunately, it only has two slots, but hey, two is better than none when it comes to triple growth! Finally, his attack power and speed are quite above most other characters and put him at the forefront of most battles.
Final Fantasy 8 Most Useful Character - Quistis
Hell, before you even get to the Fire Cavern to face off with Ifrit, you can be at level 100 with both Squall and Quistis at the start of the game. Simply play the card game until you get a Gesper card. Learn Card and then the Card Mod ability with Quarzecotl and mod it into a black hole which teaches Quistis the Degenerator ability. This skill along makes his the most powerful character in the game. It works on EVERY enemy killing the most powerful in one blow. It even works on most bosses! (save for the weapons and some game-ending ones) Start training on some T-rexes and before you know it, they'll be giving out loads of EXP and you'll be at level 100 before you know it! Degenerator alone makes her worthwhile to take along with any fight. When the going gets tough, simply opt out of the fight by killing the enemy with one blow! Her other Blue Magic skills are nice, but its this one-skill trick alone which will quickly level up your team with little to no effort on your part.
Final Fantasy 9 Most Useful Character - Freya
Although her Jump ability is probably one of the more useful skills she has, her techs will make her all the more valuable. Her Reis Wind ability can still be useful even until the end of the game and be just as good as Regen and it only takes a few MP points and only one turn to affect the entire team. White Draw is also worth the price of admission and is helpful if you tend to rely on mages and magic a lot. Dragon Crest rounds out her arsenal if you do the time to build it up, it can do 9999 unblockable damage to any enemy. Finally, she has quite a few good support abilities including: MP Attack, Long Reach, High Jump, Counter, and Eye 4 Eye. Tacked on with her special Jump ability when in Trance where she stays in the air the entire time avoiding all attacks and damage while dealing judgement from above. The only other character that could come close to Freya's usefulness is Quina. And that's if you get Auto-life, Limit Glove, Angel's Snack, Night, Frog Drop, White Wind, Mustard Bomb and Lv5 Death.
Final Fantasy 10 Most Useful Character - Yuna
Sadly, I played this once a long time ago when it first came out. The only thing I remember was that I used Yuna almost constantly. By the end of the game, she was like a God. She could cast white magic AND black magic and had all the skills of both Auron and Tidus PLUS her spells did roughly 80,000 damage each hit. She was awesome. Sadly I don't remember more of this game to comment more on how useful she is. But given the grid system, anyone can be just as useful so....
So what are your most useful characters?
Final Fantasy 6 Most Useful Character - Gogo
You cannot beat this guy. He can combine up to three different (or is four?) skills from three of your favorite characters and be like an all-powerful God. I usually set him to Magic, Blitz, and alternate between Lore and Tools. Gogo can practically do anything and is important to have in any end-game team you create. Given, he isn't readily available for the first half of the game, but given that many of the other characters were either forced on you for certain periods of time or the majority of them were not that useful. So the first chance I get to snatch Gogo (right after acquiring the second airship), I do it. And he is in my party thereafter.
Final Fantasy 7 Most Useful Character - Cid
Again, you get him fairly late in disc 1, but you can have him the rest of the game thereafter. His first few limit breaks are not that good, but once you acquire his level 3 and level 4 limit breaks, he finally starts to break out on his own. His multiple damaging Dragon Jump, Big Brawl and Highwind limit breaks really pile on the cumulative damage. Furthermore, he is the only other person besides Cloud to have a triple growing weapon. Unfortunately, it only has two slots, but hey, two is better than none when it comes to triple growth! Finally, his attack power and speed are quite above most other characters and put him at the forefront of most battles.
Final Fantasy 8 Most Useful Character - Quistis
Hell, before you even get to the Fire Cavern to face off with Ifrit, you can be at level 100 with both Squall and Quistis at the start of the game. Simply play the card game until you get a Gesper card. Learn Card and then the Card Mod ability with Quarzecotl and mod it into a black hole which teaches Quistis the Degenerator ability. This skill along makes his the most powerful character in the game. It works on EVERY enemy killing the most powerful in one blow. It even works on most bosses! (save for the weapons and some game-ending ones) Start training on some T-rexes and before you know it, they'll be giving out loads of EXP and you'll be at level 100 before you know it! Degenerator alone makes her worthwhile to take along with any fight. When the going gets tough, simply opt out of the fight by killing the enemy with one blow! Her other Blue Magic skills are nice, but its this one-skill trick alone which will quickly level up your team with little to no effort on your part.
Final Fantasy 9 Most Useful Character - Freya
Although her Jump ability is probably one of the more useful skills she has, her techs will make her all the more valuable. Her Reis Wind ability can still be useful even until the end of the game and be just as good as Regen and it only takes a few MP points and only one turn to affect the entire team. White Draw is also worth the price of admission and is helpful if you tend to rely on mages and magic a lot. Dragon Crest rounds out her arsenal if you do the time to build it up, it can do 9999 unblockable damage to any enemy. Finally, she has quite a few good support abilities including: MP Attack, Long Reach, High Jump, Counter, and Eye 4 Eye. Tacked on with her special Jump ability when in Trance where she stays in the air the entire time avoiding all attacks and damage while dealing judgement from above. The only other character that could come close to Freya's usefulness is Quina. And that's if you get Auto-life, Limit Glove, Angel's Snack, Night, Frog Drop, White Wind, Mustard Bomb and Lv5 Death.
Final Fantasy 10 Most Useful Character - Yuna
Sadly, I played this once a long time ago when it first came out. The only thing I remember was that I used Yuna almost constantly. By the end of the game, she was like a God. She could cast white magic AND black magic and had all the skills of both Auron and Tidus PLUS her spells did roughly 80,000 damage each hit. She was awesome. Sadly I don't remember more of this game to comment more on how useful she is. But given the grid system, anyone can be just as useful so....
So what are your most useful characters?