Final Fantasy 7 Rebirth - 7 Deadly Materia & Skill Combos | Best Abilities Combat Tips (FF7 Rebirth)

[@PoisonClan73]

The best game I have ever played, hands down.

[@raymondlyle3859]

The igneous saber is too broken, it’s easily cloud best weapon. Combine it with sonic boom and you melt enemies. I use darkside, plasma and braver and doing 4000 plus damage per braver hit. You can put plasma with hp absorption to negate darkside health affect.

[@sanguinetales]

Enemy Skill with HP absorb

[@matthouston15]

​@@sanguinetalesno you put it on a lightning materia then any lightning damage give you hp

[@raymondlyle3859]

@@sanguinetales i mentioned that and also disorder with the build I mention is a cheat code. You have infinite atb and can spam 2000 damage. Igneous saber can keep sonic boom on for a long time too and haste.

[@Akunza]

Are you Captain Guile sir?

[@bukojoetheslapsoils8273]

Rune Blade's Sonic Boom + Spell Blade is easily stronger. Giant ATB charges for two characters and Plasma Discharge gets stronger too because of high Magic Attack. With a Deshell on the enemy, I easily do 6k to 9999 damage on enemies without spending ATB. It requires either Yuffie or Aerith in the party tho. Power Cleave on Igneous and Deprotect is strong too but not as potent and has less reach but still very powerful too.

[@Lorronzo]

For Aerith, I equip 'First Strike' and the 'Chocoking Cape' for 2 full ATB charges at the start of the battle. I then pair 'elemental' with a maxed elemental spell to hit everything at once with a tier 3 attack at the start of the battle. It's great 😂

[@ccastroxx]

That’s OP

[@zest01]

You can use atb boost and equip a more useful accessory.

[@pampamtamtam4001]

That sounds amazing, instant nuke haha. I like getting Aerith the early ATB so I can immediately have Radiant Ward. I can't play her without that ability anymore, it makes her so much more fun.

[@dannyCoolSwag]

I have no idea what you just said 😂??

[@PatchFaceDisaster]

Yuffie + Doppelgänger + Synergy + Comet = a lot of bad times for fiends and enemies alike.

[@jasonkral605]

I was doing this and accidentally targeted Yuffi with a ward from Aerith to double cast. The amount of explosions on the screen was intense.

[@Tiddleyjordan]

Synergy materia??

[@ashm4938]

@@Tiddleyjordan Synergy linked with a spell materia on a character you arent using will automatically cast level 1 version of that spell at no cost of MP or ATB when you use abilities with a played character, it is broken, especially with quake or comet

[@whitejesus983]

Yuffie the real main character, Dopple and element ninjitsu are crazy alone

[@chrisparkhurst5158]

Doppelganger, elemental ninjutsu, plasma discharge, sonic boom, and darkside pumps up Yuffie to one of the most leathal characters in the game

[@1884ja]

Great materia link video best one I seen so far. Thanks as always.

[@jacksbanegaming]

Am I the o ly one who thinks Cloud and Zack wearing the buster sword in different directions is a really nice detail?

[@rosecullen4429]

Yes. You are the only one. There is nobody else. You will rise above them all, because you were the one who noticed. Nomura would like to honor you with a banquet.

[@supersaiyanzero386]

Uh​@@rosecullen4429

[@ValAllenSamonte]

what's not mentioned here: limit siphon and aerith's fury band loop: infinite limit breaks

[@smokeboy604]

Synergy+Petrify. When you use ATB, the character with Synergy+Petrify will use Quake and inflict the enemies with petrify. Do enough damage and watch them turn to stone!

[@sidneyshaw9205]

I have synergy equipped on assign but I never see her use it. What am I doing wrong ?

[@smokeboy604]

@@sidneyshaw9205 make sure your materia slots are linked

[@Ikimasho_official]

It procs when you use Abilities, not spells. So if I use Braver with Cloud, and Cait Sith has synergy with Petrification linked, they'll use Quake

[@qutiephoebe2154]

​@@smokeboy604will it use quake quakara or quakaga?

[@NhemLee]

​@@qutiephoebe2154 from what I've seen in the comments its level 1

[@riadylim1233]

For self destruct just use anti death accessories and if not wrong it'll deal about 3/4 max HP

[@Ikimasho_official]

Yuffie with Quake Materia, Synergy, and Aerith's Arcane Ward. If set up correctly you can have Yuffie Quadruple cast Quake or any other Spell for free 99

[@johnpickens7626]

Gambler with a single type of buffed magic materia is very useful for solo sections of the game, particularly the Dyne fight as Barrett can't easily get ATB fast enough to pop off back to back firagas but with gambling you basically have a good chance of using fira or better if that's the only magic you have equipped. You can use Reraise and ATB boost with gamble as those skills won't proc unless ATB boost is on cooldown. it takes a bit of practice to remember to always use your ATB boost so you don't accidentally gamble that skill, but it's worth it and it's also a solid way to reliably cast prayer for 1 ATB bar. so if you want to do a team of purple materia fighters you can add prayer and gamble and make healing really cheap

[@CloakedDeception]

Synergy + Comet on Aerith while she’s a party member is pure chaos

[@Cullenium]

I did this combination too. It’s amazing

[@luuna7626]

can someone explain how synergy works? like so then when i cast comet, someone else will also cast comet?

[@CloakedDeception]

@@luuna7626 Not exactly. Say you have Aerith with Synergy + Comet in your party. As long as she’s not the character you’re controlling, she will cast Comet (almost) every time your controlled character uses an ATB skill that hits an enemy. Spells from Enemy Skill materia included as long as they do damage. Healing/support spells will not activate it though.

[@kane99560]

got to the end of the video and thought how is this not there lol...This combo is broken especially on Aerith that takes forever to build ATB and even better it doesnt cost her MP

[@masterofpuppets5568]

I never even thought of this combo, now i must try it, thanks.

[@TheRedfieldWay]

Comet + magnify really covers the battlefield lemmy tell you

[@Sirin2099]

I use Comet + Synergy on a support character. Free comet spam without wasting ATB or MP.

[@MK-fm3ln]

I personally don’t use Aerith much but having comet and synergy on her in the six person simulator challenges helped me a lot

[@jopabr24]

Just a heads-up to add to the Enemy Skill + HP Absorb -- when Plasma Discharge procs, it heals you for every single enemy it hits. So if you wade into a group of enemies and let that burst go off, that "small amount of healing" stacks wildly.

[@Elvinromero03]

I use aerith and yuffie cast arcane ward on yuffie then use doppelganger with yuffie and use elemental spells. A quick 4 spells in succession

[@biohead66]

nice, it's the only way to use quadra magic in rebirth

[@JohnJhon李中松]

I was just looking for thesen it's soo many options that i feel overwhelmed and underutilize some characters

[@justsomeone3703]

If you give Aerith the Limit Siphon Materia, the Enhanced Expeditionary Medal and any other character a Götterdämmerung, you can pretty much just spam limits the entire fight as Aerith's third limit completely fills the limit gauge of every other ally (this works without Götterdämmerung too, but it's definitely gonna take much longer)

[@rolluzagiant]

OK I'm gonna drop this here so far I can't see anyone who has covered it, synergy + comet awsome no mp use

[@darkinsanity98473]

Yeah I just started doing this yesterday. I wish it didn't have such a long cast time though.

[@TheRedfieldWay]

Yep, especially with arcane ward, it's almost non stop comet spam

[@LAaronB10]

@@darkinsanity98473If you cast radiant ward, then at least Aerith will likely be invulnerable during the cast time.

[@MrLightlike78]

ayo, when i first paired em I was like "no f****** way this works...HOLY!" good on square for allowing fun :)

[@goferinzero]

Could you combo this with Yuffie and her doppelganger ability?

[@PhilMihaly]

About enemy skill, mind blast is NUTS. Late game, i had cloud setup with chocokings cape and first strike materia, so i always had 2 atb off the start. You can literally walk into a group of enemies, and mind blast to instantly stagger every enemy, or at least do 75% . It does as much stagger as Cloud's lvl 2 ascension limit break, except its an aoe blast that you can do right off the start of battle. The devs knew it was OP, so they only let you use it once per battle. The hard part is doing the VR battle to get it. You face a mindflayer and two weaker enemies, but you HAVE to kill the mindflayer first or else you fail the challenge. Probably took me 5 or 6 retrys, putting the weaker enemies to sleep, and constantly shuffing between characters so they didnt wake them up. But the reward is worth it. Honorable mention to rancid breath. Only costs 1atb and inflicts a bunch of random status ailments on enemies in an aoe, and the damage is really good too. Its like 5 spells worth of status ailments, for zero MP one atb cost. And its an aoe, so youre potentially getting 10-15 atb bars of value from a single atb if you hit a few enemies.

[@JaceWD]

yaa been doing those mission and was wondering why mindblast one is soo much more difficult to beat than the others...

[@MrLightlike78]

@@JaceWD took me awhile to get that - I had to pare my party down to just tifa and cloud..trying to manage peels for 3 members was just a bit too much XD

[@JaceWD]

@@MrLightlike78yea its bullsh. partymembers automatically kill off those little dudes. fight is completely rigged.

[@unholyrevenger72]

Weird when i cast sleep on enemies my party members basically ignore the sleeping enemies unless it's the last enemy.

[@DarkVenimage]

use Barret + 2 toads..easier this way

[@chrishance7604]

I was so disappointed when i didnt get beta from the midgar zolum that spell was so fun in og

[@Bortsch_]

I defeated him about four times before I discovered that's not how Enemy Skills work in this game. If you were lucky enough to acquire Beta early on, you were unstoppable!

[@jok3rsolinap547]

How can you tell if the ability does physical or magical damage? Like sonic boom and and plasma discharge?

[@ValAllenSamonte]

when you assess an enemy, you can toggle to show its move set. beside each move you will see a staff or sword icons, which indicates magical or physical respectively. another obvious reason is: if there's a flashy magic involved, it is probably a magic attack.

[@yyrael]

@@ValAllenSamonteI think they're asking about abilities the party members use, not the enemies.

[@KeithJawahir]

I love seeing a newer generation of players having so much fun with the materia system, and getting so many ideas from it. Is there a more perfect RPG combat system?

[@ltlifecash5879]

Chapter 9, what’s your current cloud build ?

[@bezerk-z3697]

Definitely 1st strike. 💥

[@nothingextra7965]

plasma discharge +hp absorb, raise, heal, + some materia for lvl up.

[@travisleonhart3371]

Elemental with enemy skill and hp absorb and strength up with the igneous saber doing a ridiculous amount of damage I’m actually capping when enemies are staggered most my other slots are random other things trying to upgrade materia

[@TehGriffzor]

The last combo with Yuffie doesn’t work. That was immediately my thought too, but when I tried to use the ability it was blacked out. You have to use refocus, so unless the changed it with the recent patch it will t work. Also, don’t forget you can use multiple slots for same elemental materia with different support. Petrify with Synergy as well as a second Petrify with MP absorb is absolutely awesome for mobs that turn to stone easily. So while your lead uses weapon abilities, petrify is used automatically with whoever has it equipped, and you get MP back at the same time. Aerith is a great character to have it on seeing as how her Mag Atk is insane. And like I said you can do it with other elements so if you have the upgraded versions of the spells you get free casting

[@Spardanian]

I tried the ability with the compass just yesterday and it totally works

[@TehGriffzor]

Maybe they patched it in the recent update. But it didn’t work before

[@nathanieljack395]

The ability description says that you can only use it during United Refocus. Don't know if this was always the case.

[@mohammedibrahim42]

Thank you buddy for making this awesome video and hints God bless you and bless your family 😊

[@DarkVentus358]

I wish they would let elemental materia stack so I can have a buster sword with all 4 elements on it. It would be more fun to me then using the plasma discharge/ sonic boom meta combo

[@joshuacarroll4805]

I was so disappointed when I realized you could only do one on your weapon. I think you can have another in the armor as well as your weapon, though, so that’s something.

[@DarkVentus358]

@@joshuacarroll4805 yeah. But I was hoping for an elemental god build. I get why you can double up on armor. Literally can't take any elemental damage, but 23% of all elements would break the game that hard

[@joshuacarroll4805]

@@DarkVentus358 I know. I was hoping for the same.

[@MasterLittica]

@@DarkVentus358 Honestly they limited the Materia way too much, they also could have had Chadley act as a Mini-Huge Materia and have him able to fuse multiple Mastered Materia Together. Hell there are even ways to make it not so unbalanced, All Magic added to a weapon? only one is usable at a time with a switching mechanic like Yuffies Ninjutsu. Basically if I want to take the admittedly long, LONG amount of time needed to set up an untouchable element/status effect party, then make it long and tedius by all means... but let me at least bloody do it

[@confounded_feline]

​@MasterLittica yeah I was thinking about improvements last night. I'm happy in many ways how they've improved the system over the OG and remake in some ways. I like your idea. I was also thinking about flexibility you could add in part 3 if we were allowed to link 3 materia under conditions. Pair that idea with the development of complementary or supplementary materia that work well to modify or enhance your base linked pairing. They could go about how to earn or craft those materia in different ways but I think it could be a great addition. Just need to be careful it's not busted out the gate. End game or ng+ yeah go wild. I'd like to see more innovation in the system.

[@thora8624]

I put the compass on Yuffie and when i got the 3 atb bars it still would not let me use storms fury. I was pretty irritated by this and didnt really understand why not, but now that im seeing you recommend it im wondering what was going on with my game that made me unable to do it??

[@JohnGathercole-ru4eb]

Does magic focus materia work on darkside materia?

[@DOC_951]

Yuffie with dopple active, arcane ward, and comet + synergy on aerith. Have yuffie cast quaga. Instant win.

[@supersaiyanzero386]

I've only been doing level 1 limit breaks except on Cloud tifa and barret. Im 92 hours in still need like 30 things done lol

[@fenrir_Lokison9]

Hi. I have a question about dual element materias and elemental materia. Let us suppose you have fire and ice materia linked to a elemental materia on you weapon slot. Then, you fight an enemy that is weak to fire, but has resistance or absorbs ice. What would happen then? I mean, which applies then? The enemy weakness or the enemy resistance.

[@candyhandsjf7288]

The weakness. It will work to your advantage.

[@Tmo_201]

​@@candyhandsjf7288 I assume you saw somebody else share that info but you're wrong. It switches about every 5 seconds. Didn't see it work differently yet. No matter which enemy.

[@candyhandsjf7288]

@@Tmo_201 you assumed incorrectly. I watched it attentively in-game. It never switches. It's easiest to detect on Kujata since he swaps elements frequently.

[@Tmo_201]

@@candyhandsjf7288 I tested it i didn't assume it. Tried it on the orcs with fire and blizzard and you will see its switches after a set period of time. They're weak to fire so If it works like you say it shoudn't switch and you can easily see when it does since fire is the only really obvious buff you can keep track of. Also tested it on the blue blob enemy from phoenix that one is resistent to blizzard but even than it still switched to blizzard. I can add a vid if you dont believe me.

[@candyhandsjf7288]

@@Tmo_201 I also tested it and didn't assume it. If it worked how you say, then Kujata would get healed every 5s or so lol Also I said "you assumed incorrectly" because you said that you assume that I got my info from someone else

[@Darisuke]

Not sure if this works with Self-Destruct, but if you have Reprieve as a wpn ability, this may allow you to do it for free with no downside cuz your brought back after.

[@ValAllenSamonte]

someone says you must have guard against death (warding + subversion / safety bit / karmic cowl) for this to work.

[@Darisuke]

@@ValAllenSamonte Oh ok.

[@Soyboythoughts]

I got all the skills on my enemy skill materia and put it on Yufie and it doesn't work anymore?

[@supersaiyanzero386]

Nice nice.

[@risk6aby]

ive honestly been loving the game there could be some fixs to enhance game play but they did good im not disappointed the first remake was a little too easy.

[@joshuacarroll4805]

Omg, fix climbing.

[@lashonwatford2403]

questions why don't u just use HP An Mp switch on red to use reaper

[@Spardanian]

I think the reaper ability works with low health percentage, not just having low max health

[@lashonwatford2403]

@@Spardanian oooh I see

[@axnamini]

Why is the game so damn blurry on performance mode? And the graphics mode feels so choppy and it’s just not it. There’s literally no real difference between the performance sharp and smooth modes either. Is there any way to fix this?

[@nickfox3326]

Uhhggg…. This skill 3:30 yeah I ended up using it without thinking and you know what happened. Muscle memory of you will

[@os_wand]

3:51 definitely not a good example of damage output for self destruction 😂

[@kadajshin]

No morph materia? No manipulate materi Just asking

[@DuelistOfGGs]

Morph is in the game, but no idea on combos for it

[@fufu5068]

Morph+Magnify? haven't tried though

[@unholyrevenger72]

Morph is just super hard to use because your party members will kill things that low on health. The only real effective strat i've found is to equip the toad ring on 2 party members to nerf their damage output. Morphing enemies just isn't all that useful unlike in the OG game.

[@ValAllenSamonte]

tbh: im happy i didn't do the sidequests to get these OP combinations. manage to beat the game in normal mode, fought sephiroth last battle for at least 10 times. plasma + hp absorb? what's that?

[@ValAllenSamonte]

will definitely do chapter selection in hard mode now

[@ryanindi96]

you blast onto story?@@ValAllenSamonte

[@ValAllenSamonte]

@@ryanindi96 yeeep lol

[@TheErtybgh]

Corsairs compass is virtually useless. It's a pain to activate and lasts like 15 seconds

[@timogul]

Cait Sith going full DVA.

[@WheeledHamster]

That compass is trash, the 3 ATB gauge will be lost before you can even fill all 3 of it. Just use Refocus with Red XIII.

[@TheErtybgh]

Elementsl materia on your armor is far better than on the weapon

[@imatakeyobiscuitlaugh1695]

You didn't say how to put materia in your armor.

[@anthonygoff5240]

Its the same as putting materia on your weapon. Just slot it on the ring instead of the weapon.

[@TacoGrande007]

Madonna got nothin on Tifa. Tifa is the real Materia girl.

[@OmegaUberDeathbot]

Best materia combos? Easy. - Final Attack + phoenix - Quadra Magic + K.O.T.R. - Reflect (On self and enemy), then hit them with flare or ultima. ….what?

[@ValAllenSamonte]

nah mate. 6 pairs of counter + mime.

[@OmegaUberDeathbot]

@@ValAllenSamonte No. mod in Sepheroth and kill the other two party members.

[@fistsunited6139]

Mime with 8 counters with Infinite omnislashes

[@kane99560]

the good old days 😄

[@OmegaUberDeathbot]

@@kane99560 back in the back when’s.

[@Brololski]

Elemantal Armor heals you??? Whrere the hell was that explained?

[@Pureshadow]

in the tool tip and probably every final fantasy game over 20 years old.

[@candyhandsjf7288]

Yeah just read the ranks for the materia. Rank 1 is 50% dmg reduction for the element Rank 2 is 100% dmg reduction Rank 3 (max) is absorbing the dmg

[@joshuacarroll4805]

Yep. Just takes a long time to master them for the absorption.

[@jacksbanegaming]

I usually end up putting ap up on it even though it's support materia just to level it up faster

[@Mememememe2024]

Is there a reason all of this nice people who do videos about materia speak soooooo fast? 😢

[@tkn7390]

SELF destruct is useless.......

[@chasegaetze4507]

The game does have terrible explainations of things that's for sure.

[@bukojoetheslapsoils8273]

My brother said the same thing, until I showed him that most things are described in the game if you use your eyes to read.

[@NrdDy]

@@bukojoetheslapsoils8273Literally this. People simply don’t read or don’t read thoroughly. All of the information is right there

[@Supercat_Broski]

They should have made this game a multi player games with 4 players , then if ppl leave it goes back you controlling all characters.

[@PsykoticStang]

Anyone else thinks it's stupid that they limit how many you get of certain materias in the game? Like Magnify, the Fire and Ice, the Lightning and Wind seeing you can only get 1 of those materias each. I understand limiting some but just 1 only I believe is stupid. It's the same thing that pissed me off in Remake limiting the amount of certain materias to just 1

[@fjallrav21]

2 magnify

[@PsykoticStang]

​yea I saw that but still limits it

[@justindza]

Quite certain there are 3 magnify materias.