Does materia stack?

[Kodi Sakari]

Say if I equipped Cloud with multiple Lightning materia, would Bolt do more damage?

[LilG]

Some materia effects do stack but stacking multiple elemental materia doesn't increase the damage. You need to pair the materia with the MP Turbo materia which increases its power but also the MP cost.
Stacking multiple Sneak attack works to increase the chance of attacking first for example. Or you can stack enemy away/lure materia to reduce/increase the encounter rate.

[martin_cross]

Actually to play pedant here, equipping two Bolt materia would increase the damage Bolt does, along with other magic spells, but only by a few damage points. Many materia have "equip effects" and Bolt has Magic+1 i believe.

[LilG]

I forgot to mention that but, yes it would add to the damage but only slightly, its wasting a slot in my opinion ,when you could just enhance the spellpower using mp turbo, equip armor to boost magic or farming magic sources.

[martin_cross]

Agreed.

[solidap]

Magic and Command materia don't stack and can only be buffed by one other Support materia at a time (by putting both materia in a linked item slot). So the only way to directly boost Bolt damage for example would be to pair it with MP Turbo materia or Quadra Magic which will allow you to cast it 4 times in a row at the cost of only 1

[Slime Rancher Llen]

Just to save your life in the long run...when / if you get FINAL ATTACK materia. Just pair that sucker with Phoenix. K thx bye.