Tidus's Overdrives
TIDUS :
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Tidus Overdrives are pretty easy to get, but you need to understand how to get them. First, when you use Tidus's Overdrive in a battle, you will see a little cursor moving from the right to the left. Your goal is to press the X Button when the cursor is at the center of the meter. It's pretty hard to get it on your first try, but it should be pretty easy to get after two or three times. Here's how to unlock Tidus's Overdrives.
OverDrive Description
SPRIRAL CUT » You start with it at the beginning of the game.
SLICE & DICE » You need to perform ten Overdrives successfully, meaning that you have pressed the X Button when the cursor is at the center of the meter. This Overdrive attacks random enemies you encounter six times.
ENERGY RAIN » You need to perform 25 successful Overdrives to acquire Energy Rain, it's a pretty massive attack that hurts all the enemies you fight against.
BLITZ ACE » You need to perform 80 successful Overdrives to acquire the Final Overdrive for Tidus. It's pretty long but it's worth it since it deals a good amount of damage on all the enemies you encounter. Blitz Ace attacks any fiend on the field nine times.
The followings are some strategies on how to make Tidus learn his Overdrives faster.
Thanks to iZealot, Tweed_86@hotmail.com for this strategy :
If you want to obtain Tidus's Overdrive faster, teach Entrust Ability to the other characters and let them share their Overdrive Gauge to Tidus. This way, you can learn most of his Overdrives in no time.
Thanks to TooSkillful4U@aol.com for this strategy :
If you put the Triple Overdrive ability on his weapon and let him finish off the enemies, it should take only 2 killed enemies or fiends, and put his Overdrive mode in Slayer, that works the best of any mode if you want to use your Overdrives a lot.
Yuna's Overdrives
YUNA :
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Grand Summon :
Yuna has only one Overdrive and it's Grand Summon. Grand Summon makes an Aeon appears with a full Overdrive gauge. Here's what is cool about Grand Summon. If your Aeon already have an Overdrive and you use your Grand Summon Overdrive to call it, you will have two Overdrives with that summon ! Pretty cool huh !? So in other words, when you use your Overdrive attack, your Aeon gauge will return to its previous condition.
Auron's Overdrives
AURON :
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The Overdrives for Auron are pretty hard to get. Once you have defeated Spherimorph at Lake Macalania, you will acquire a Jecht Sphere. From that point, nine others spheres will be scattered all around Spira and your job is to find them to make Auron learn new Overdrives.
When you have an Overdrive, you'll need to input a correct set of commands, look below for the list of all the correct input commands.
DRAGON FANG :
Dragon Fang attacks all enemies on the screen, it's a pretty good Overdrive to start with. Here's how you input the commands:
Down + Left + Up + Right + L1 + R1 + O + X
SHOOTING STAR :
To learn Shooting Star, you need to find one Jecht Sphere, so you learn it automatically after defeating Spherimorph. What is good about Shooting Star is that it eject any fiends from a fight, except bosses of course. Here's how you input the commands:
Triangle, O, Square, X, Left, Right, X
BANISHING BLADE :
Banishing Blade is a pretty powerful attack, it attacks one fiend and deals great damage on him _AND_ the attack does Power Break, Armor Break, Magic Break and Mental Break on the enemy. So yes, it's pretty powerful. You need to find three Jecht Spheres to learn Banishing Blade. Here's how you input the commands:
UP, L1, Down, R1, Right, Left, Triangle
TORNADO :
This is the hardest Overdrive to get, to learn it, you need to find all 10 Jecht Spheres. Tornado attacks all the fiends on the field so you will enjoy that Overdrive. Here's how you will need to input the commands:
X, Right, R1, Left, L1, Triangle
LOCATION OF THE JECHT SPHERES
- You can get one once you defeat Spherimorph at Lake Macalania.
- There is another one in Besaid, near the Temple.
- There is one at Luca, in the Stadium.
- There is another one in SS Liki, on the bridge, this is a ship you board at Besaid.
- There is one at the Mi'ihen Road, adjacent to where you found the Mars Crest.
- Another one at the Mushroom Rock.
- There is another one at the Moonflow.
- There is another one at the South of the Thunder Plains.
- There is one at Mt. Gagazet, on the mountain path.
- The last one is in Macalania Woods South, near the boy and his mother.
Wakka's Overdrives
WAKKA :
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Wakka's Overdrives revolves around a slot-machine style reel : Line up three of the same symbol and get a crazy attack. This, if for no other reason, is why you should play blitzball : Wakka's initial Overdrive is terrible, but his later ones are great. They are as follows:
ELEMENT REELS :
Adds an element to your attack. Getting three different colors results in a critical-hit with no elemental attribute. Two same and one different gets you an elemental attack against a single random enemy. All three of the same symbol results in an elemental attack against all enemies. This reel underpowered, in my opinion, because of its low overall damage output, especially compared to...
ATTACK REELS :
This one is the jackpot. Winnable in Blitzball tournaments, this Overdrive lets Wakka hit enemies 2 - 12 times depending on how you line up the reels. Three "2-hit" results in Wakka going crazy and doing 12 hits to random enemies.
STATUS REELS :
Winnable in Blitzball, this reel adds status effects to your attack. Potentially useful, but I'd rather stick with the Attack Reels.
AUROCH REELS :
Winnable in Blitzball, this reel is a combination of several other reels. The true beauty, however, comes when you line up 3 of the Besaid Aurochs logo - Wakka inflicts heavy damage on all your opponents.
Lulu's Overdrives
LULU :
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Lulu's Overdrive can get pretty strong by the end of the game but is pretty weak at the beginning. Her Overdrive is Fury, and when you select it in a battle, you will see a screen with a number. Spin the right analog stick clockwise to get the highest number possible. The number indicated is also the number of time you need to do full rotation of the stick in order to get the number go up by one.
Just to tell you, I've never been able to get a higher number than 8 !
Here is the list of spells she can cast in her Overdrive :
Fire Thunder
Water Blizzard
Fira Thundara
Watera Blizzara
Firaga Thundaga
Waterga Blizzaga
Bio Demi
Death Drain
Osmose Flare
Ultima
Rikku's Overdrives
RIKKU :
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Rikku's Overdrive is Mix. When you have it in a fight, you will need to select two items in order to make one. This is, without a shadow of a doubt, the most complex Overdrive in the game. For more information about Mixing, please look in the Mix List Section. Now, I will list the final 64 items you can achieve by Mixing.
Grenade Frag Grenade
Pineapple Potato Masher
Cluster Bomb Tallboy
Blaster Mine Hazardous Shell
Calamity Bomb Chaos Grenade
Heat Blaster Firestorm
Burning Soul Brimstone
Abaddon Flame Snow Flurry
Icefall Winter Storm
Black Ice Krysta
ThunderBolt Rolling Thunder
Lightning Bolt Electroshock
ThunderBlast Waterfall
Flash Flood Tidal Wave
Aqua Toxin Dark Rain
Nega Burst Black Hole
SuperNova Ultra Potion
Panacea Ultra Cure
Mega Phoenix Final Phoenix
Elixir Mega Elixir
Super Elixir Final Elixir
NulAll Mega NulAll
Hyper NulAll Ultra NulAll
Mighty NulAll Mighty G
Super Mighty G Hyper Mighty G
Vitality Mega Vitality
Hyper Vitality Mana
Mega Mana Hyper Mana
Freedom Freedom X
Quartet of 9 Trio of 9999
Hero Drink Miracle Drink
Hot Spurs Eccentric
Kimahri's Overdrives
KIMAHRI :
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Kimahri learns blue magic / enemy skills by using its Lancet Ability. There aren't much enemy skills to learn, but try to do Lancet numerous times on enemies, some fiends have more than one Lancet to learn. Look in the bestiary to find if you can learn any Enemy Skills from them.
Here's the list of all the enemy skills you can learn in the game :
Jump Fire Breath
Seed Cannon Self-Destruct
Thrust Kick Stone Breath
Aqua Breath Doom
White Wind Bad Breath
Mighty Guard Nova
