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Cloud( duh!)
Tifa( her limit breaks are pretty cool) or Cid (his limits are good)
Red( hes just cool) or Yuffie( i like her cause shes strong and in the back row)


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To be forgotten is worse than death.
-Freya FF9

I usallly use all power like Cloud, Vincent, and either RedXIII or Cid. and by the way how do you put your avatar on in this forum

This post has been edited by Omnislash on 22nd April 2005 14:38

I use the followin team combination:

Cloud - Basically for damage and healing.

Yuffie - I brought her into my party to train for the pagoda and then I never took her out again.

Vincent - I use him for damage and his good summons.


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OK, I have to start by saying I have played through this game at least 30 times.
After the first runthrough I never touched Aries again, but everyone else IMO is very well balanced. Well actually let me reword that, everyone but Vincent.
I just personaly think his limit breaks suck. which IMO was the biggest letdown,
becuase i think his character is so cool, ( patiantly waiting for DOC )
That being said i would have to go with a nice balance of physical, IE Yuffie,
Cid, and Berret. And I usuallu use red xiii, tiffa or cait sith for magic /tanks.
I close to never have any magic or summons on Cloud, so he stays w/ Doublecut,
a handfull of counter attacks, a few hp materias, and something like final attack with Phoenix for good measure. I use command materias more then anything w/ my mele, and hp/ magic for my mages. Oh yeah and i dont have any opinion on who carries what summon, most all of the later ones own.( that materia setup is out the window after the master materias ) The partys I tend to stick with the most are Cloud, Yuffie, and Red xiii/Cid.

This post has been edited by Esco_Son on 23rd April 2005 01:41

Used it to be Cloud, Tifa, Barret.

Now I've changed it to Cloud, Tifa, Aeris in the first part, and Cloud, Tifa, and Vincent in the last (because they make a swell team and because they have potent connections to Sephiroth).

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Eternal Sleep, Track 1-1: The Blue Planet

Disc 1
Usually Cloud, Tifa, and Aeris, unless I'm trying to get a specific date.

Disc 2

Cloud, Tifa, and Red XIII

Disc 3

Cloud, Tifa, and Cid or Yuffie


Cloud of course is alwasy there and well, HES GOOD! He has quite the nice attack power, and not so bad with magic, he is always my healer actually. Most would say thats bad, buts its worked REALLY well for me.

Tifa is ALWAYS with my party just because, later on in the game, after you raise her stats a bit, her Limits are quite impressive with power, though it probablyl helps I always get the Yeah!and Hits, NEVER miss. She usually though has my enemy skill and steal and stuff.

Aeris...GREAT HEALER!! And with a certain limit break, the other characters can use theirs more frequently, which really pleased me..the only thing that didn't is that I could never teach her the last limit....

Red XIII...hm...he is just one of my favorite...and I like his limit breaks!!!

Cid, wow...um..physical damage rocks, and his final limit break is one of the best in the game in my opinion, especially in the ending battle. When it comes to Yuffie...I just find her useful with manipulation, which helps get those last few limit breaks you might not have had by then. Besides that...her limits are awesome aswell.

Barret is AWESOME and all, but not one of my favs. Vincent used to be one of my favorites, but his limits ANNOY me..since if on occasion the rest of your party dies, you can't do shit about it when your transformed. And..er..Cait Sith...uh..enough said.

cloud, tifa, and vincent i use them as soon as i get them and theve always been the best

I use:

-Cloud (becuase he's the best in the game)
-Cid (he's Cid...come on)
-Vincent (he's a vampire)

Next time though, I'd use Nanaki instead of Vincent.

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Currently Playing: Guitar Hero, Shadow of the Colossus

My preferred team:

Cloud: melees and covers (really helps omnislash come back)
Vincent: summon/magic
Tifa: haste/barrier/restore etc.

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Stop acting as if you were sad. There's no need to act as though you're angry either. Because, Cloud. You are... (... a puppet...)

right now im using cloud vincent and barret but i think im gonna take out vincent because i dont like his limits ill stick in cid so my ideal party is cloud barret and cid but tifa switches in sometimes for a bit of a achange

Quote (Squall Leonhart @ 15th May 2005 20:31)

Right now I'm using Cloud, Vincent, and Barret, but I think I'm gonna take out Vincent because I don't like his limits: I'll stick in Cid. So, my ideal party is Cloud, Barret, and Cid, but Tifa switches in sometimes for a bit of a change.

Seconded on the Vincent thing. The only real difference between the characters that has enough of an impact in battle to warrant switching them out is...

- Their equipment
- Their limits

Vincent's limits are great for regular encounters, but fail utterly during long, hard fights where you have to plan things out.

My ideal party is Cloud, Barret, and Yuffie because their limits can hit multiple times, meaning they easily exceed 9999 damage. Other characters can do this, but both Barret and Yuffie can be stuck in the back row and still do as much damage as they normally would. That's a VERY important bonus right there for using them.

So...

Cloud: Excellent limits, and a mandatory party member for most of the game.
Aeris: Fishfood. 'Nuff said.
Tifa: Multi-hit limits, but some can miss if the roll isn't timed right. Quite a bummer, really.
Barret: Multi-hit limits, long-range attacks (back row!) What more needs to be said?
Red XIII: Pretty useful limits, though he's not a back-row character and his limits don't do as much damage as some of the others. Shame.
Cid: Multi-hit limits but short range attacks. So-so.
Cait Sith: ROFL
Yuffie: Same as Barret. Really useful.
Vincent: Though he has long range attacks, his limits are utterly useless in serious battles. Shame. Could've been great...

This post has been edited by Silverlance on 16th May 2005 01:41

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On Disc 3, the party members I usually use are:

Cloud: He's mandatory. I place him on the back row with Long Range materia equipped

Barret: He damages well from the back row.

Yuffie: She also is a back row fighter with good limit breaks. or
Vincent: Another back row fighter but with less useful limit breaks during boss fights.

I sometimes use others as well, though I go through the game with these members most of the time.

Disc 1
Cloud (obviously)
Aeris (Limit Breaks)
Tifa

Possible spoilers: highlight to view

(Her Unfeasibly large... amounts of damage)

Everywhere Else
Cloud
Vincent
Whoever needs levelling up.

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I have 2 main line-ups;

General;
_Tifa

___Cloud

_Barret

Here, Tifa is the White Mage, unthough thats abit off, since she still deals excellent physical damage, with Long Range. Barret Black Mage, and Cloud general badass, covering, countering, deathblow+addedcut, tons of HP and Sprint Shoes, he just keeps hitting.

Physical;
___Cid

_Tifa

___Cloud

A slight change and we get lots more physical damage, Cid takes Cloud's role, getting the most HP, cover, counter, deathblow+addedcut, Cloud gets abit of black magic but stays an effective physical hitter, and Tifa stays her badass self.

As for stealing and status ailments and morphing etc, I usually go for Cait, Cloud, and Vincent/Yuffie.

This post has been edited by BASSsic on 17th May 2005 17:22

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I like to alternate through all characters ('cept Cait Sith) through the game - Keeping them at about the same levels - untill disk three when I focus on Cloud, Cid and either Yuffie or Vincent.
I pick Cid 'cos of his limit break, his all powerful stats and the sight of him sometimes riding a Chocobo I like Yuffie or Vincent because of their half decent magic stats and their weapons - although Vincent needs flash (Which looks awesome with him!! ) equipped for some time before his weapon becomes any better. And when Yuffie's around, I keep her on limit level Three 'cos I think the Breaks there are better, especially the multi-hit one.

This post has been edited by *Rik* on 19th May 2005 14:58

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"The future just ain't what it used to be..."

I go through them all, but to think about the teams I think work well (or at least I like)...

Disc 1
Cloud (front row)
Aeris (back row, long range)
Tifa or Barret (Tifa front or Barret back)

Disc 2
Cloud (front)
Vincent or Yuffie (back)
Nanaki (front)

Disc 3
Cloud (front)
Yuffie (back, changed sometimes with Barret or Vincent)
Cid (front, but he'll get changed quite a bit with anyone else)

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I disagree completely about Vincents limits. I found them EXTREMELY useful in boss fights. Not so much the Hell masker as Chaos and the second one that ups your HP serious amounts. I can never remember its name.
Vincents Limits are part of the reason I keep him ON my all time team. Long range, + his limits for the win. Overall his limits have saved me on numerous occasions. Especially against some northern crater bosses and Rapps.

Btw- Longrange materia is your friend.


I usually have massive amounts of empty materia slots just RIPE for filling anyhow.

This post has been edited by MogMaster on 21st May 2005 04:29

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If you've been mod-o-fied,
It's an illusion, and you're in-between.
Don't you be tarot-fied,
It's just alot of nothing, so what can it mean?
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In general I play with everybody so they can all get to a high level. Personally I don't like using Cait Sith he just seems to be a waste of time. Vincent's Berserk limit breaks just don't seem to effective enough to me to keep him around and Barret I think is just an idiot and Red limit breaks are just as good. with that for the most part I would pick

1st disk
Clould, Tifa, and Aeris for the first disk. (I don't know if it was a glitch but I observed after training for a while I Aeris was dishing out higher attacks then Tifa in Midgar even though they had about the same level. I personally liked this.)

2nd and 3rd Disk
Cloud, Tifa, and Cid and Yuffie. Tifa when you can get all her Combos is just as destructive as Cid. Yuffie's limit breaks are very wide open. She has slash attacks and energy attacks so she very useful.

Wepons

I always use Tifa and Cid with Cloud for this one since they can do the most damage even if the Knights of the Round combination with Mime is a good idea I prefere the old fashion assault of continuous attacks.

in the begging, Cloud Aeris and Barret, after wards Cloud Cid Barret

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My team most of the time is Cloud (Becuase I have to use him), Vincent (cause he's my favourite) and Aeris (becuase she's good at healing powers)

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My main party is
Cloud - duh :-P - effective fighter and mage tho
Barret - back row, catastrope, and of course, gun arm - i'd SO have one of those if i could
Cid - limit break (highwind as air support is so cool) good damage

BUT! in the sunken gelinka, barret takes a back seat and yuffie comes in so that i can get some of those sweet sweet sources

vincent - hate the limits - beserking is not cool

Cait Sith - first play, i used him alot, but only cuz he amused me, but i hate his limit just as much as i hate tifa's limits

Tifa - strong limit breaks, but i hate em

red - good ultimate limit, not as effective a fighter, and for some odd reason, he really annoys me

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Cloud,
Vincent,
Red XIII.

Because they all have awesome Lvl 4 Limit breaks.

You can't be serious. Red XIII is one of only two characters without a multi-hitting or multi-turn fourth limit. If you're using strong limits to determine a character's "power" then not using Cid or Barret is foolishness. Red XIII's more suited to magic.

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OK. Vincent and Cloud do. Red is mainly for magic and summoning.
I haven't played on VII for ages but all i can remember is that those are my party.

Cloud was always in my party unless there was a point in a game where I couldn't use him. He also always the the Enemy Skill materia equipped in case I ran into an enemy whose skill I could use. He was also give some black magic, too.

Tifa was my healer after...well...after THAT event happens. Before that, she was kind of my mixed bag, shooting off both white and black magic. She usually stayed in my party when I wanted her to. She usually had the Steal command also.

Barret was my strong guy for the first disc. I usually didn't give him any materia to keep his HP the highest possible. I know, materia is good, but I never really loaded my characters with a lot of it. His the pow

Aerith was my summoner for the first disc. But then again, after I got out of Midgar I never really used her THAT much. Just didn't care for her.

Red XIII was one of the rotating characters in the third spot of my party. He'd be equipped with Sense (because you know..he was a dog..and he could sniff and stuff...yeah) and be a lot like Cloud in the magic department, but with some healing materia.

Yuffie was my support person, and one of my other physical attackers...but I didn't use her much. She had some white magic on her, and I kept the Throw ability on, too.

Cait Sith was the status inflicter in my party.....but yeah, I never really used him, though I think I'm going to start a new game and use him more. I kind of liked his limits a little bit.

Vincent was another rotater for the third spot. He became my summoner after...you know...and he was one of my strongest characters. I LOVED his limits, too. He'd use black magic.

Cid was the other person for the third spot. He became my second 'Barret' but stronger than him. Along with Vincent, he had one of the strongest attacks and I loved his limits.

This post has been edited by TheJadedGamer on 18th June 2005 20:59

my most recent play thru the game (which i'm just now finishing up -- working on mastering kotr a second time for the third round of master materias), i've played thru trying to amass the most ap i can. e.g., even since tiny bronco, everyone in my party has been using rune armlets. thus, my "dream team" is cloud, yuffie, and cid: apocalypse, rising sun (the strongest 2x ap collecting weapon), and javelin (the best ap collecting weapon). it';s kind of a bonus for me, too. yuffie and cid are two of my favourite characters (out of cid, cloud, yuffie, and red, probably in that order), and they have probably the best limit breaks outside of omnislash (doom of the living and highwind). not to mention yuffie has unparalleled utility in stat-maxing.

Disc One

Cloud, Barret, Aeris

After Disc One

Cloud, Barret, Cid (Scimitar for Triple Materia Growth)

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Ultimately a man must travel his chosen path alone.

Primarily I've been using:

Cloud
Cid
Yuffie, Tifa, Vincent, Barrett

I won't use Cait Sith out of principle, although his 2nd limit has the propensity of making/breaking battles. He's just an obnoxious SOB. I keep Cloud and Cid for triple materia growth, which is fairly marginal at best (2 triple slots vs. the Oritsuru's 8 normal slots - you get more growth/weapon out of the 2nd, even if its distributed over more materia), but his lvl 4 limit is sweetness incarnate. Yuffie tends to be my favored 3rd member because of her long range and great lvl 4 limit (and the Conformer!). Tifa has great physical damage, and if you get all hits/Yeah!s you're lookin at one dead dead enemy. Vincent is alright - Im on the fence about his limits, but he kills 'em cooler than even Cloud can. Barrett is nice an average all around. Good damage dealer, can usually fit in the back row, and his Max Ray is super-sweet.

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Oh sure, I don't have to get kicked in the junk to activate it, but I like it anyway. -- Thief commenting on the difference between Throw and Blue Magic.

Quote (Dylero @ 2nd April 2005 10:45)

Cloud, Barret and Red XIII
you wanna know what a bliss is 4xcut with cloud with his ultimate weapon 4x9999damage to a boss and multiple enemy's in random fights but it's hard to lvl-up Double-cut

A little off subject first: Have you tried linking 4x-cut to the added cut materia? It makes 2x-cut into 3x-cut, and 4x-cut into 5x-cut
My party is usually:
Disk 1
Cloud
Red XIII
Tifa

Then i get Yuffie:
Cloud
Red XIII
Yuffie

Then after i get Cid it stays as:
Cloud
Cid
Yuffie
for the rest of the game. I like these 3 because they have the best limits IMO (Yuffies 3-2 instead of her lvl 4, cos her lvl 4 sucks ) And also because they have the best weapons for AP, Scimitar, Apocalypse and Rising Sun.

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I would use Aeris but, sadly, she dies.

This post has been edited by G3rmaholic on 26th June 2005 07:42

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-~"Let's Mosey!!"~-

My team consists of Cloud, Aeris, and Yuffie in disk 1.

In Disk 2 i usually Cloud, Yuffie, and Tifa.

Then in Disk 3 i use Cloud, Cid, and Vincent because to me they are the strongest when used right.

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