What Materia should you master for Weapon fights?

[SenMithrarin85]

Knights of the Round and Mime I know about. As well as mastered HP Plus and MP Plus. What else besides Phoenix and Final Attack? Thanks in advance

[don3112]

W-Summon, HP+MP, Mime. Knights of the round that that materia for counter magic and attack.

You can kill every weapon with this setup. Just equip 1 guy with w-Summon and KotR and let the other partymember mime this. If you want to be really safe equip the materia that does something if you got attacked by melee or spellcast (forgot the name sorry) and link it with mime's. Also Regena is extremlly useful.

Sidenote: Regena heals the more HP you have. Even if you get above 9999 HP regena still scales with it. So if you equip like 8 HP plus it heals a ton of life.

I did the same and did every weapon at first try. Make sure you have the underwater materia for smaragd because KofR animation takes forevery with all that mime. If you have any other questions you can add me if you want ;)

GL

[Zork Nemesis]

You don't -need- to master them, but there are some minimums. Knights of the Round for example you should have at least at level 2 for W-Summon. Mime has no functionallity difference when not mastered (though mastering equals more), same for HP-Absorb. Final Attack and Phoenix should be at least level 2 for safety. Counter should be as high as possible, though ultimately it's optional. The first time I beat Emerald I didn't even know about it. HP-Plus helps to have high as well. You should also pack Hades for Ruby and having an Enemy Skill with Big Guard is also a plus since it's haste on the whole party.

Remember the trick for Emerald: Aire-Tam Storm does 1,111 damage equal to the number of Materia you have equipped. You actually want as little materia as possible. Have KotR-HP Absorb, W-Summon, Final Attack-Phoenix and Mime-Counter on the same person. Have a second person equipped with Mime-Counter if you can (not necessary, but helps), and the third person should have two HP Plus to put them at 9,999 HP; enough so that Aire Tam Storm can potentially leave them in Lucky 7's.

[SenMithrarin85]

Thanks, man!

[Fenomenom]

I thought I should mention life2 pairs better with final attack.

[Koolkit]

Originally posted by Niv-Mizzet:

I thought I should mention life2 pairs better with final attack.

Actually it doesn't pair better for the Weapon fights. Life 2 only affects one party member, not the entire party. So if everyone goes down at once... only one person will get revived, instead of all 3.

[Zork Nemesis]

Originally posted by Koolkit™:

Originally posted by Niv-Mizzet:

I thought I should mention life2 pairs better with final attack.

Actually it doesn't pair better for the Weapon fights. Life 2 only affects one party member, not the entire party. So if everyone goes down at once... only one person will get revived, instead of all 3.

Having Revive with Final Attack is preferred over Phoenix for fighting Ruby. Ruby is invincible as long as two or more are alive so having Phoenix trigger would waste time. For Emerald Phoenix is preferred, but Phoenix ruins the strategy for fighting Ruby.

[Koolkit]

Originally posted by <eVa>Zork Nemesis:

Originally posted by Koolkit™:

Actually it doesn't pair better for the Weapon fights. Life 2 only affects one party member, not the entire party. So if everyone goes down at once... only one person will get revived, instead of all 3.

Having Revive with Final Attack is preferred over Phoenix for fighting Ruby. Ruby is invincible as long as two or more are alive so having Phoenix trigger would waste time. For Emerald Phoenix is preferred, but Phoenix ruins the strategy for fighting Ruby.

Ah, you're right. I completely forgot about Ruby, haha.

[F_DeePee]

You can beat Emerald easily even without KOTR, by just using physical attacks. Not only is it faster, it is also much more satisfying IMO. Try it. Ruby is a bit tougher - I've yet to defeat it without KOTR.