Can You Beat Final Fantasy X Using Only Special Abilities?

Watch my other challenge runs here: • Challenge Runs
After almost 2 years, we are finally back in the Final Fantasy franchise with my first ever FFX run. This was a game I wanted to do in forever but finding something that hasn't been done before was pretty hard.
There will be another Final Fantasy challenge coming up the next few months so stay tuned for those. Of course there will also be more SMT/Persona runs and probably also some LAD runs once I played through the upcoming part casually!
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#ffx #finalfantasy #challengerun

[@codecree5155]

Tidus spinning like a lunatic while Yuna waved at the crowd just made my day

[@fluffyycactus2396]

10:49 that blitzball is the kid who wanted to be a blitzball when he grew up in Zanarkand, very inspiring he managed to fulfill his dreams

[@virtualbunksie5117]

Wish it had a thought bubble.

[@twosadcows4549]

Honestly BB is the only reason I play this one...

[@Cute___E]

That kid wasn't in Zanarkand, it was in Kilika, you talk to him after the village gets destroyed

[@SongokuJidai]

​@@Cute___E Makes sense he wants to be a Blitzball, Sin can't touch him once he does

[@iamthehobo]

I appreciate your aversion to grinding to solve all problems. Many challenge runs grind to overcome a hurdle and end up trivializing a chunk / the rest of the run.

[@Linkforlife199]

Ugh, I still have nightmares of the Seymour fight on Mt. Gagazet from my first ever playthrough of FFX, I remember having to resort to chessing him with Aeons to make sure i could survive Total Annhilation since only Auron could take the hit and survive (I was young and stubborn and didn't grind beforehand). This was a fun video to watch.

[@katyadade1041]

Yes! I poisoned him and was waiting till he died.

[@darkeneddragon19]

I love this challenge. It is essentially "I will try 'something'.......aaaaaand Rikku was petrified."

[@msammon]

Huge fan of your runs. Huge fan of FFX. Perfect for watching today after work!

[@photonflowers]

Damn, just finished watching your P4 runs and I click back on your channel to find a new video, perfect timing. Awesome stuff dude.

[@Nervarel]

Amazing video as usual. Great work. But I’d rather grind for 20 more hours before playing a voluntary game of Blitzball.

[@devinbuettgenbach2941]

Just means more blitzing for me

[@feircy]

I was once a heathen like you but going for all celestials and perfect stats meant I had to accpet our lord and savior blitzball and his son , Brother. 😂

[@valhalla8140]

You don't know how much this comment resonates with me. I'll grind till my fingers fall off before I play blitzball😅

[@xtreme3353]

​@@valhalla8140 I love blitzball

[@xtreme3353]

I love blitzball

[@TheMoogleKing93]

Neat video, deeper than I expected!

[@usainwult2414]

You got a new subscriber. Love these kind of videos, keep 'em coming chief!

[@_6HavoK9]

What a challenge! Great video, was a pleasure.

[@zeroluu]

Wow this hour went by so quick, great stuff!

[@monsterkev3051]

The mad lad. I clicked on this video mainly to see if you were gonna go through with the starting grind. I was fully expecting you to wait to start till after but props to you man.

[@quantitativediseasing9988]

I was quite impressed with that challenge. Two points to make though: 1. Best way to get early stamina tablets is to raid the chests in the Moonflow. Fight near the save sphere, use 4x speed, increased enemies, and Tidus' special flee ability after stealing from the box. You'd get a handful fairly quickly. 2. Best strategy for Seymour Natus is along the lines of the Seymour Natus strategy in NSGNSNCNENNENBB. One character, all wards, haste & shell, poison fang on Seymour, and he's gone in 25 turns with zero risk. Use Rikku, double HP if necessary, and heal with AB potions. Seymour only ever uses elemental magic in the fight. You have plenty of time to heal and switch armours if necessary. Switching armour is no problem because his attack pattern is set so you always know what element is about be used. With only one character buffed, Morti does nothing other than cast a weak spell before Seymour. For those who don't know the strategy, search KZbin for this video by John Anthony: *Seymour Natus - FFX NSGNSNCNENNENBB*

[@Fain255]

Dude you're a legend for doing this. Enjoyed every second of the video. Insta suscribed

[@subscrypt9218]

Great video! Please more FFX content. Love it

[@thexenocide6013]

ive always found the sand worms giving shadow gems fun. like how do you beat sand worms? use shadow gems! oh well how do you get them? steal them from sand worms!

[@noztk]

Haven't finished the video yet(at Garuda battle in Luca) But I feel like cheer should have been a priority to get the earliest to boost your defence

[@mindlessmeat4055]

This was a lot of fun. I haven't played this game since it was on the PS2.

[@ethanfynn3044]

One the best runs I've seen with this game Will you eventually try doing a run on ffxiii?

[@Breakbeat.]

Nothing feels better in FFX than winning that first blitzball match during a playthrough. :D

[@Panda_SMM]

it would have also been cool to see just how far in the game you could go with the post-game stuff as well like omega ruins/ arena/ dark aeons and such

[@robert23456789]

I think he would of been how to put this murdered badly

[@addictedtogaming4483]

Blitzball, my most favorite mini game ever. I loved Blitzball

[@tcrobot]

Next ffx challenge: can you beat the game only using Lancet. Maybe consider a "Game Over" counter? And a "Boss Kill First Try" counter.

[@Rivershield]

This game is so different from the ones released recently, it doesn't even look like the same franchise. The word "fantasy" really stands out to me in these older titles compared to the modern ones. I just finished playing IX and I absolutely loved it, although the graphics are very outdated, the art direction is just superb. I'm excited to move on to X, which is also excellent in that regard. I understand why Square Enix moved on from turn based battles but I don't understand why they don't do this type of art direction and story anymore. It was superior than anything that came later imo

[@newironside]

After the ps2, the creative people behind Final Fantasy for that Era left. Unfortunately, most of them didn't have super success at their more personal projects. Lost Odyssey, which is stuck on the 360, is probably the last game with the same design philosophy as FFX.

[@BeardedVeteran1776]

If someone doesn't love FFX, immediately remove them from your life. They are your enemy.

[@TerraEpon]

Huh, I did a much softer versions of this, what could be boiled down to 'ability sphere commands only', i.e. magic is allowed, as are skill abilities and of course special. I managed to get to Seymore Flux but just could eek out the damage before he killed me and kinda petered out (as I often do with challenge runs). Haven't watched this video, will be very interesting to see.

[@mariahtheriault9221]

Do NOT ever again mention how old this game is....cuz that mean I'M old now!

[@mootytootyfrooty]

when I played this when I was 11 or so I didn't know how the sphere grid worked, I just thought the levels meant I was getting stronger, I think I accidentally level 1'd the game until sin met the al bhed

[@DiegoG2004]

The challenge is hard until we get Rikku, and thus a discount version of the Item command, back

[@ivancouto1028]

This game is such a masterpiece man..

[@Eternalwarpuppy]

I was wondering how you would get enough damage to win the race against Sin. Shining gems in the Omega Ruins did not occur to me. GG.

[@arkane1235]

15:15 The Garuda has a *what now?* I played this game for years and I don’t know if I ever realized that.

[@g4manhere553]

I totally understand why not but it would have been funny if you had started doublecasting flare on a technicality. Or Quick Pockets to use items, as a handful of phoenix downs would have come in clutch… despite that being a special I didn’t even know existed until I checked the wiki to confirm what you had to work with.

[@theermac6024]

Honestly, while it may have made some of the early grind a bit longer, I feel like going for cheer with Tidus at the beggining, before going for the magic would've probably made later grind less necessary, as you would have a better bulk to survive stuff

[@isenokami7810]

Glad I’m not the only one who thinks the Aurochs aren’t actually all that terrible, though I do think Keepa’s alright too once you get him some experience (though Datto’s pretty crap). Jassu and Botta are pretty serviceable as defenders, as you said, and Letty as the midfielder is pretty good, actually.

[@jbz4788]

I usually replace Letty with Brother and he basically solos every blitzball game 😂 Everyone else just plays support for him

[@isenokami7810]

@@jbz4788 Tidus is usually my solo player, though with some pretty good top scorer rewards early on, I tend to at least try to build up my other forward. In my most recent run, I did both experience and acquire just how cracked Brother is, but by the time I got him, I was winding down blitzball as the Jupiter Sigil got closer. I do find it somewhat fun, but once you have that sigil, there’s no reason to play any more on that file.

[@MeowsyDancer]

very good

[@katyadade1041]

I really love how FFX encourages you to use status effects

[@nickellis6530]

Hmm, could you have not gotten cheer for tidus at the start to help buff wakka out on the tough first sin fight ?

[@TheNN]

I'll be honest, in the first fight against Seymour, I'm surprised that you didn't use ice elemental throwing items against Anima, as it's weak to ice.

[@tuff_lover]

I hate Kilika's easily missable Megaelixir.

[@brainiac0141]

Good rhing the rules ar eexplained at the start of the Video because i somehow misread the title as beating the game without special abilities

[@pixadragon46]

Can you do a run of the smt digital devil saga duology ?

[@holocaust_2.0]

Tidus "What's a lancet?"

[@steveozone4910]

Can't you get another special sphere from the Al Bhed home? Might have been handy to have another character learn use for items? Also you could heal through zmobie if you had eater armors, you could then throw the corresponding element at them.

[@RagnarAlvarrGaming]

Special spheres don't really have any use considering characters are only allowed to learn 'their' special abilities anyways but yeah if it wasn't for that, they'd have a use.

[@steveozone4910]

@@RagnarAlvarrGaming That makes sense. Otherwise you could have a second Use command.

[@TheMoogleKing93]

Could have jumped Kimahri and Tidus to Lulu's grid for stats?

[@jdogzerosilverblade299]

Ragnar Lothbrook reincarnated as a FF challenge runner.

[@keykanon_7814]

Before watching 'so this is gonna be 'can you get to Rikku using only special abilities then watch as she destroys the rest of the game?'' Aaand yep, that's pretty much how it went. Could have just thrown a Candle of Life at Yu Yevon and let Doom handle it way faster tho.

[@bachtranlequan1806]

Yeah I agree. Credit when credit is due tho, the idea was interesting. I genuinely interested in the Special only run. But then Rikku appeared and it hit me.... Still, if possible, I'd appreaciate if Ragna try this without Steal/Use (or maybe at least ban some portion of it? Like since Spare Change can deal 9999 dmg, u can ban dmg items for example). Otherwise, after getting Rikku u can NSG the game. Still this is not to disminish Ragna's idea. This is an interesting vid. Cheers.

[@sakura368]

i like how early game, wakka became *a wall*

[@TheTomtaru]

Walla

[@fluffsquad8658]

I wonder how many challenge runs are pretty much just "Rikku hours" Side question though, are the things Kimari can learn like a blue mage not classes as abilities? Or are they put under magic/skill?

[@TedBarton91]

You answered your own question 😂 blue mage = magic

[@tuff_lover]

Wait, you didn't try to learn Special abilities via Lancet, or am I forgetting something?

[@outlaw2747]

Only Kimahri can learn Enemy Skills from Lancet which is a Limit Break, which sadly he cannot use during this challenge.

[@DLMoridin]

Enjoy watching your runs though when saw this one was worried it was a "fake run" like ive seen a couple of. Basically its "can you do game only using X" and then modding the game slightly to allow doing it. to me if you have to change the game files to do a run its cheating or fake. I'm fine when exceptions like the game start on X not having special skills and then keeping to the rules when its avilable thou.

[@siroreo]

People die and Yuna dances 😂😂😂

[@tankizard]

So... every time I see the sphere grid, I see you're not using Wakka's Dark Attack, Sleep Attack, etc... I take it that's because you're counting them as Special Attacks??

[@jbz4788]

Hose are in the “skills” subcategory not special so would be off limits

[@drago1uk2000]

This is just Rikku only but with other members for buffs

[@chaosn4197]

If NSG Rikku Only is possible, so should this.

[@jossaman]

auron guard with counter attack?

[@bobafettjr85]

"I didn't want to grind for 4 hours so I just fought Garuda over and over for 4 hours hoping for good RNG." That's just the best logic.

[@Cat-lyn]

Focus Lancet OP

[@NemesisMKIII]

I was with you until you said they couldn't use abilities outside their own grid, that sucks the fun right out of it for me.

[@TheTolnoc]

In the Advanced Sphere Grid, everyone starts very close to Lancet, which can make Lulu and Yuna much easier to use early game, and maintain their MP late game.

[@tuff_lover]

How did Keepa missed that shot is beyond me.

[@outlaw2747]

He's contradictory to his name. He cannot keep anything away from the goal. I kick him off my team ASAP.

[@tuff_lover]

@@outlaw2747 Idk, mang, I just level him up.

[@outlaw2747]

@@tuff_lover I mean he probably does get better stuff later, but I found folks with awesome stats near the start.

[@tuff_lover]

@@outlaw2747 While I'm familiar with Scout mechanic, I generally don't hire new players, Aurochs represent. Letty rules.

[@outlaw2747]

@@tuff_lover Letty is an absolute keeper. Even though he is mostly a midfielder, I have actually gotten goals with him. Lol

[@jeffjeff-nu7jt]

Can you beat final fantasy X with only overdrive

[@Mary5436]

My Lancet does 1332 damage with kimahri and im max stats with all most all the celestial full Power in final fantasy 10

[@StopHim]

Isn’t this basically just a Rikku run?

[@Apice.]

That's the same thing I was wondering. Isn't this like, easier than a Rikku run also?

[@Nuuccii92]

Am I being dumb here? isn't Use one of the easiest ways to hit the damage limit? I haven't played in a while tbf

[@bleachgems8313]

You Could of granded off the al bead in Luca

[@BostonWells]

Top 4 for me FFX FFVii(including remake & rebirth) FFXiii FFXV Lost Odyssey 😂😂

[@pk5727]

Why can you use items like poison fangs, but not phoenix downs?

[@RagnarAlvarrGaming]

Poison Fangs (or other items used in this run) can only be used by the special ability 'Use' so they're allowed unlike Phoenix Downs, which are under Items and therefore not allowed

[@pk5727]

@@RagnarAlvarrGaming I see.

[@ketchup5949]

@@RagnarAlvarrGamingQuick Pockets exists and is a Special so it should be allowed

[@NLaos]

Can you play FFX with only using Lancet and Rikku it seems 😂

[@Apice.]

17:56 did you just fake a british "rolling R"?

[@BlueNEXUSGaming]

"Nobody uses other people's grids" *immediately violates this rule via sending Tidus to Yuna's Grid*

[@Therealpanda8]

Why dont you have tidus learn steal and use first then lancet

[@Therealpanda8]

Also it would cut the time in half 😊

[@user-po5xs8mn3h]

breath of fire 3 enemy skill only best,

[@BillDaBurgerEater]

Wow, u really forgot to activate cheer....how could you forget that on a special only run....

[@Marcas-pj9jl]

ff12 item only XD

[@makingstatements812]

If you can only use special abilities then you cant use items. Challenge lost before it even started.

[@Biggs253]

I dont want to grind anymore.....4 hrs of the same fight over and over again later.....

[@pk5727]

10:06 you could t give wakanda lancet!?

[@pippofranco879]

Wakanda hates lances

[@pk5727]

@@pippofranco879 autocorrect with the algorithm ….really has its moments.

[@Usurpationblitz]

If you want to change up your content a bit you could see if you could beat Final Fantasy Tactics with only using the in-game AI for all the units. You can use rules like, "No Math," if you like

[@gerryaime9472]

The answer is NO. If you keep adding exceptions to the rule any type of run can be done becauae you"ll just add an exception once you reach an obstacle.

[@KrezalSkog]

No, you can't, Tidus has not skills that deal damage and you start the game fighting with him. There, solved.

[@rowdyrobgaming8726]

Really stupid rules, three minutes in and I already hate the video

[@Mary5436]

And im a kid of ??? Years old your all most talking to as pro players 😂

[@Apice.]

Well, the game's 23 years old