Kimahri

[Beovgal]

How to upgrades him? All of his sphere grids collide with the other characters sphere grid.

[Casurin]

What do you mean with "collide"?
Kimahri is specifically set up in the middle in a way you can basically freely chose how to develop him.
You will find that many people go towards Rikkus path to learn steal and decent speed, then follow Wakka for the attack and abilities.

[Beovgal]

Two characters can follow the same sphere grid? I didn't know this. Thanks.

[Casurin]

Originally posted by Beovgal:

Two characters can follow the same sphere grid? I didn't know this. Thanks.

each person can unlock EVERYTHING on the grid. Later you get special spheres that do things like "teleport to another character" (friend-sphere) or "unlock an ability another character has already unlocked anywhere on the grid" (skill-sphere).

For the main-part of the story (last boss then finish-screen) just following the path for each character is enough to beat them (i personally would say take all branches on the paths as well). But for the optional challanges you will need to travel quite a bit more on the board, for the super-bosses you need like half the board with each charater of your party.
But don't worry - those things are late-game optional content and by them getting levels will not be a problem (and you likely will have learned more here in the forum).

Oh and also:
The guide-section has quite a few helpful entries.

[davidsmithpsn]

Kimiri if you go down Lulu's path can be very powerful. There is a youtube video on it. it only works on the mid part of the game, around the magical forest to right around when everyone is midway through another party members grid but it makes nothing out of some really powerful fights. I either do nothing with him or down rikku's.

[methos]

a charcacter can learn all of his techs and all the techs of the others

[Yuna]

due to kimaris wepon skilling him as a mage is better than skilling him in other combats but you can learn everything with everyone and it make you chars pretty good espically with gear and or weps that BDL (break damage limits)

[Hinnyuu]

Originally posted by Abel Nightroad:

due to kimaris wepon skilling him as a mage is better than skilling him in other combats

I'm not sure what you mean by this. Does "his weapon" refer to his Celestial Weapon, the Spirit Lance? How does this benefit him being "a mage", exactly, considering it's a weapon that ignores enemy defense but not magic defense, and has exactly zero mods on it that benefit spellcasting, but does have a mod on it that benefits attacking (Evade & Counter).

Of all the reasons to make Kimahri a caster, weapon selection seems to be one of the worst arguments.

I like to send Kimahri to wait in front of Use/Steal until it's unlockable, and then go down Lulu's path (Expert Sphere Grid). The reasoning being he is useful most of all for stealing all the Lv.3 Key Spheres you'll ever need in his solo fight, and having a second caster for Double Cast -> Gravity/Ultima is useful during capturing in Omega/Sin. For postgame superboss content, he's pretty much strictly worse than other choices (but so is Lulu, and spellcasting in general).

As many people have already pointed out, though, the nature of the Sphere Grid means you can make anyone do anything, and they will have identical stats once you max them out. The only really relevant differences between characters are their Celestial Weapons and Overdrives. With the same stats, everyone will be doing the same damage.

[gamester512]

Not to mention the new version of the sphere grid means you can make anyone into anything right of the bat. Want to make Yuna into an offensive caster rather than a healer (and Yuna actually can make for an unbelievably scary "Black Mage"!)? Go for it. Want to essentially turn Tidus into Auron? Yep. Turn Lulu into a melee powerhouse and/or tank who can one-shot enemies with her moogle doll? It's absolutely an option. That's something I really like about the sphere grid, the ability to turn anyone into anything and have them fill any role you want.

[Hinnyuu]

You're absolutely right, but just to clarify: the expert sphere grid isn't a "new" sphere grid per se, as it was present on the PS2 as well; and also, you can still make everyone into anything even on the regular sphere grid, it's just harder to do so right from the start of the game. At endgame, it really just basically doesn't matter what grid you are on.

[Ares__Morningstar]

So many of the "problems" people are having with this game can be solved by simply playing the game and reading the tutorials. Really makes me wonder how half of them were even able to start the game up.

[Sephiroth]

as long as you at least get use and steal it doesnt matter what else you do. getting flee and haste is a good idea too

[Nasty_Bdfp]

If you want another idea, what I did personaly was, after getting Steal and use early, continue a little on the thief's path, then switch to the 2nd half of Yuna's sphere grid. So now I have a Ronso that steal and has full life/regen/dispel/ Holy (soon). Lancet also means he can use those expensive spells and get back his mp easily.

I like making Kimhari a bulky fast white mage, with some utility. I think it works pretty well too.