7 Most Powerful Attacks In The History of Final Fantasy [Commenter Edition] 

Boss: No blade or magic can hurt me! Yuna: I cast GUN! Boss: NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!

FFXII, cool! Quickenings.... Aw man. In TZA, you can have a character equipped with the accessory that reversed effects of items, with the Zeromus summon, and Bubble effect. Bubble increases max HP, Zeromus comes out, throw an Elixir at him, he's at 1hp. His ultimate attack does damage based on the difference of his Current and Max HP. I had Ashe in my pocket with a quarter -million damage nuke whenever I needed it.

I'm seeing rightful mentions of Squall's Lionheart, so I'll instead throw in Wakka's Attack Reels. With a fully upgraded World Champion you can get 12 x 99.999 DMG, which isn't nothing.

Wakka’s Attack Reels and Anima’s Oblivion overdrive should be here.

Shock in FFIX seemed oddly powerful when you first encountered it. I'd hold my breath every time Beatrix loaded it up.

I didn't know Locke could be that OP. No wonder Celes fell for him.

Didn't see Death from Final Fantasy XIII. Nowadays, with the right setup, Death is limited to 999'999 damage per hit (that's already incredible), but in the Japanese 1.0 version, it was possible to do more than that. In Jap1.0 of 13, Daze (who doubles the damage inflicted) made possible to outpassed the damage limit of 999'999. The game is not capable of showing numbers with 7 numbers, so it was limited to 999'998, but the real damage inflicted was 1'999'998 (in one attack).

Breaking the game with Trigger Happy on the original FFX-2 was my end goal for that game. It was deadly

everybody gangster until they get stabbed by tonberry

“The end” selphie

Loving John Oeth's renditions in the background

There's a slight workaround to the Catnip nerf that I always use. Rikku's regular (therefore the only attack she'll use under Berserk) Thief attack deals 2 hits of damage. Keep her HP in the yellow (which is easy to maintain, it is a fragile Thief after all), and she'll polish off superbosses' HP in minutes.

Say what you like about FFX-2, the Job System was pretty good, and the Gunner was some psycho Magical Girl with a Guns going all drive-by on fiends.

Love that Angermax was actually mentioned. Barret with his ultimate weapon goes pretty insane with that limit break. And if you do factor in the overflow glitch, that technically would make it the most damaging skill in all of Final Fantasy by raw numbers alone. More so considering that you can potentially overflow so much that it goes PAST the integer limit a SECOND time back into the regular 9999 damage per hit. Sure that means getting 8 fully maxed out Knights of the Round, but that's insane to think about.

I use Rinoa's Meteor Wing on almost every playthrough when i'm not spamming Phantasm. I'm a crusader of Meltdown so...

John Oeths Final Fantasy guitar playlist is gorgeous to go along with this fantastic video

I never used the Locke build, but did something similar on Terra. If you use Terra's Morph sparingly against bosses, you could double her damage output, and I generally tweaked her stats so that she didn't really need Morph very much anyway, it was just to push the damage over the edge against the highest defenses, and that's when I didn't have a guide to completely break the game in half.

Zell’s Duel not being in this list is a tragedy.

Aww no mention of some of the truly insane stuff in XI? Granted they nerfed some of these, but back in the day Scholar and Dark Knight were capable of truly devaating damage - even killing Absolute Virtue outright. SCH had a set of "Helix" spells, which did elemental damage over time. They also had an ability that when used, halved the duration but doubled the damage and that's where it got silly; multiple scholars in an Alliance could stack this command, so as long as they all chained it quickly enough you would still get off a single tick of damage as it kept doubling, potentially killing even AV outright as I said (hence why it got nerfed) And then again pre-nerf the haste cap was originally at around 93%, achievable only by Dark Knights using the Apocalypse Relic Weapon with the right buffs and gear. I believe this allowed them to swing roughly 5 times per second, it may have been even more than that. Here's the thing though - DRK would also combo this with their super, Blood Weapon to offset their Souleater ability which sacrificed 10% of their max life every hit to deal that much more damage (roughly). And Apocalypse being Relic, it had the ability to occasionally deal double or triple damage on swing. Again, this got nerfed because it too was used to cheese AV (or sometimes people would use the Kraken Club, a very rare weapon that could hit up to 8 times per swing) I haven't logged on in some time but the power creep has actually gotten even more insane lol with level 4 skill chains being possible, Blue Mages can use HNM (super bosses) attacks now while under the Unbridled Learning ability it's kinda wild. And lastly I think an honorary mention should go to the Hades + Added Effect and Phoenix + Final Attack materia combos in FF7, pretty degenerate stuff.

In FF12: TZA, the strongest spell in the game, Ardor, does fire elemental damage. Some enemies are weak to fire (ie. Hellwyrm). On top of this, some enemies are susceptible to the Oil status, which increases fire damage taken x3. On top of *that* there are some equipment in the game which increase elemental damage done. in this case, the Fire Staff. Combine all of this with the fact that you can have 3 active party members (plus a guest, in some cases), each who can be assigned 2 classes. There is also a spell called Reflect, which reflects all instances of a spell from the target. With all this, you have the potential to do hundreds of thousands of damage every few seconds if you have 3 black/red mages each with Ardor, the reflect status, and the proper gear. You can even use some items, or reserve party members with different classes to buff your main party further and deal even more damage. The potential for dealing high damage is there, but it's only really possible or needed in a very small section of fights in the game.

IIRC, Yuffie's second third-level Limit break was 15 hits as opposed to Barrett's 18, but Yuffie's final weapon was an Ultima weapon that scaled her damage based on her HP. So at max HP, it was 15 9999 attacks. That's about the best I got there. :)

Thank you for covering Rinoa's 'Meteor Wing'. It doesn't get the respect it rightfully does. Magic at 255. Haste at 255. Auto-Haste. Meteor. I have defeated Omega, Ultima, and Ultimecia with just Rinoa before.

I managed to clear Brute Justice during an A8S full Blue Mage raid in FF14 with a Final Sting combo. It was my penultimate raid before acquiring my Morbol mount.

Final Fantasy X-2 also has another attack called Finale. It's unlocked with the The End garment grid, and always deals 99999 HP of damage as long as you NEVER fled from any battle.

Kinda surprised Fang's Highwind wasn't here. Gotta be up there in terms of largest single hit attacks

While i agree the FF8 Meter Wing was the "strongest" on paper, we cant forget about Selphie's Slots limit break. There was a fraction of a percent chance that it would cast "The End", an ability that didnt just kill the enemy, but straight out ended the fight. If i recall on the PlayStation one version of the game the only 2 things in the entire game that it didnt outright kill was Ultimacia (just ended the phase she was on) and Omega weapon (The only one actualy immune). Since the ability didnt deal "damage" as much as just ended the fight i would have to say it was the strongest ability ever.

FF15 Prompto - Gravity Sphere: When setup purely for magic damage this move deals VERY juicy damage, way more than gladios AoE and only costs 2 bars, if you haven’t made prompto a pure magic attacker and tried this move do it!!!

I'm still over here using Costly Punch on everything like 20 years later.

My personal choices: Lightning’s Army of One Cloud’s Infinity end Noctis’s Armiger Clive’s Bahumet blast, Zanketsen

Angermax Omnislash Meteor Supernova Lionheart Wishing Star Ultima Blitz Ace Oblivion Also to note, it's not just outright damage that makes an attack powerful. Bad Breath is an attack that strikes fear into EVERY Final Fantasy player Terra Break from Omega Weapon in FF8 too

In FF8, Zell's limit is much more powerful than angel wings, getting ultima weapon on its knees in one turn kind of powerful i it was a lucky one, i had 16 seconds and perfect knowledge of every move, so yeah...)

Seeing Yuna in the thumbnail is an instant watch for me

Cid's level 4 limit Highwind also hits 18 times, and does more base damage, at 11/16 normal damage per hit. Barret's actually better if you build around the Missing Score itself, rather than around Angermax as a limit break, with the overflow glitch being able to one-shot any enemy except Ruby Weapon and Safer Sephiroth.

I believe the lost actions in FFXIV can do more damage than a Blue Mage. Specifically, lost focus used 16 times for 240% more potency on the next weapon skill and then use lost fair trade to throw the heaviest lost action for max damage. For the highest possible damage, the most damage boosting essence would be necessary with party members boosting your damage through other lost actions as well. Also, the player using lost fair trademust have 10 stacks of ray of valor for an addition 30% bonus damage. What this translates to in terms of numbers, I have no idea, but it's worth testing to find out.

Meteor Wing is a classic

Angermax: 18 hits Lionheart: 22 hits and doubles to triples your effective per hit damage to say nothing that it's set up by renzokuken. And those thinking while reading that it's random, I say so what? The video says nothing about consistency etc. it just says powerful attacks. On another note ARMAGEDDON FIST!!!!!!

I think a second Ultima Weapon (sword) could be stolen from one of the last enemies in the pillar before fighting Kefka in the final boss fight of the game, allowing for a slightly improved version of the Locke-build, but only for that battle.

On the japanese version of Final Fantasy X if you have Auron and you : - Equip him with the Masamune - Buff him with Cheer five times - Manage to have him get the Berserk status from a fiend - Have 1 HP out of 99.999 - Land a critical hit You would theoretically get 7.559.034 damages, which is nearly five time Anima's overdrive. Unfortunately, you can't break the 99.999 damage cap without cheating

Selphie's "The End" is NOT a death affliction. You can be completely immune to death status and/or have "boss" immunity to instant death and it still hit.

Oops I did not know they already mentioned Armageddon Fist in the original video. The Title is really misleading. They really should not mention the same game again if they want to use "Most Powerful Attacks". Maybe "7 More Powerful Attacks" instead? FF8 Zell's Armageddon Fist strategy (just alternating Punch Rush, Booya or Heel Drop only) would deal A LOT more than Meteor Wing. Since MW can only hit the enemy 10x the max damage would only 99,990. With AF you have 12 seconds and a quick hand can enter a command in .1 seconds. With max strength you can deal at least 5,000 normal damage or 9,999 critical. You could deal 600,000 at least before factoring in critical hits. Also you don't lose control of Zell for the rest of battle. Nothing in the game comes close to just spamming Zell's beginning moves!

This is first time I heard about Rinoa's meteor wing. Where I have been? I love how broken FF8 is.

The five hour summon go brrr.

I always enjoyed Stardust Ray.

FF5 is basically the same as FF6. The only difference is all four party members can perform this in FF5. So one round. 4 members. 32 attacks. While the max FF6 can do is 8 from one member due to only one offering in the game. U set up all for characters as follows: Job: freelance. Mastered: ninja. Spell blade. Ranger. Set up. Freelance gets free dual weld when ninja is mastered for free. Freelance can equip two abilities. Spell sword and rapid shot. U use spell sword to cast flare. Then rapid shot to attack 4 times. And since ur dual welding that means 8 times. And flare sword basically inflicts 9999 damage. So 8x9999 and x4 characters. U can easily down the final boss in one or two full rounds.

The most powerful in FFVII is knights of the round when you combine it with 2x summon and give the other 2 chars mime. That kills everything very quickly.

I see FF12 being praised, I click like. ...even if the Quickenings were a bit weird. lmao

I knew I wasn't crazy for using Angermax in 7. Even before RU-vid, I always considered it to be stronger than his "best" limit. Granted, I didn't know exactly how Missing Score worked back then, but I had it doing close to max damage with every shot anyway. And while I didn't know about the quadra magic glitch, I did know about the mime trick for double limits. That worked really well for me back in the day.

Meteor Wings is by the best and fastest way to beat Omega Weapon. While Zell's Limit Break could potentially do more damage per turn, Meteor Wings is AFK auto-win and has much less animations, Omega will get 1-2 turns tops. Since she does not require any input commands, a hasted Rinoa is actually much faster than a normal hasted character.

One of the biggest steps in my journey was that once I knew enough about people, I started to get to know me. My intuition. My ‘sixth sense’. I have been (unsurprisingly) involved with more than a few narcissists. I knew that I grew when I stopped watching videos trying to understand them (narcissism videos) and started watching videos to try to understand me (INFJ) videos.

Anima can inflict 16 x 99999. I think it's the most powerful attack in FF so far

The constant "As bosses HP continue to increase" argument from devs for increasing damage from players is always annoying to me. You could just NOT up the boss HP and keep player damage reasonable for normal players and let the niche glass cannon players do their thing.

Please let #1 somehow just be “using a gun.”

It occurs to me that, by the numbers, the Final Fantasy Brave Exvius crew may be, by far, the most outlandishly powerful heroes in the FF universe. Owing to the "Chain"-ing damage system, damage regularly caps in the billions (if I'm not mistaken). Even if we restrict the discussion to "single attacks" (one character, without any cooperation), many of the attacks and limit bursts in the game's later years are "Tag-Team" in type, made to "Chain" with themselves and deliver astronomical damage totals. Even by plotline, those kids're dimensional globe-trotters. They summon heroes from the mainline Final Fantasy universes into their world. It isn't unreasonable to think of that crew as an unreasonable outlier. At least if we're looking at numbers alone.

You totally forgot Mobius Final Fantasy and the insane numbers you can get there. The last supreme cards were totally busted on global and Vox could deal 5 times 9.999.999 AOE damage

Fun fact donled duck is the strongest mage in the final fantasy universe casting ZettaFlare in KH3. it is a spell only the gods can cast and he was outright fadeing from reality as a result

Final Fantasy's V Dual Wield-Spellblade-Rapid Fire was absurd, too.

As strong as meteor wing is, how about Zell's Armageddon fist?

Wasn't in the list, and I don't think it's actually strong enough to make it, but it is a fun thing to do: FF9, elemental null + auto reflect on all members + double-black-aga on all party members. I'm sure there are stronger moves in the game, but are they as fun?

Donald in KH III be like: hah, cute. ZETTA FLAAAAARE

Seeing Armiger Unleashed made me want to play FFXV again

Donald casting zeta flare nukes most magicians of the series

I believe that the combination of using dual wield kraken clubs + soul eater + DRK 2hr ability in FFXI on the Lv75 era is also worth mentioning

it doesn't' really qualify, but it's handy in some situations: "Grand Train". it's in FF6, one of the "Blue magic" spells that Strago can learn. it can only be learned from "Hidon", the boss of a strange cave, which is unlocked by visiting Strago's hometown when he and Relm are in the active party. it doesn't do all that much damage, but it always hits EVERY enemy, and it IGNORES MAGIC DEFENCE! this is particularly handy in that underground dungeon you can only reach when revisiting the borrowing castle, that Edgar and Sabin come from.

Master Scroll? Is that the new translation of the Offering relic? Ive played ff6 over a dozen times and never heard of that item

i haven't played the X remansters but damn, the thought of reaching the bottom of via infinito without catnip + trigger happy stresses me out lol

Idea: Most powerful/devastating Enemy attacks

Edens attack in FFXIV, Shadowbringers expansion. It literally shoots you though space into another galaxy, blowing it up.

I wouldn't mind a ffx-2 system for ffx-3 at all

The most powerful attack was all those flashes during the Anger max section of the video

The real power behind Meteor Wing was giving Rinoa 255 speed and Haste beforehand. She would get to use it 6 or 7x for each omega weapon turn. Of course don't forget to give yourself a hero drink first as well, otherwise you're a sitting duck when omega does get a turn.

Doomsday from FFIX is underrated as a powerful move. It does damage & healing. Plus, it can be spammed.

You forget that you can get two ultima weapons. Meaning with the same build or doing the build on Setzer with two fixed die, you could essentially 8-hit 9999. Haste also made it much, much stronger.

Omnislash with cloud loaded with mime+counter

I platted FFXV (royal) and this is the first I've heard of armiger unleashed. Maybe I just have poor reading comprehension

I'm not gonna argue it's 'the best' or anything, but, with the right Junction Setup, and a fast index finger, Irvine's Quick Shot can be hella Broken, dealing 100,000+ Damage. Also, 'The End' isn't a Death spell, as foes with Death Immunity still succumb to it. 😉

Ffx-2 Trigger happy combined with catnip accessory has to be number one. Ridiculous damage output. FF12 reverse magic has to be second. That was also ridiculously overpowered

FFVI Relics Offering(Master Scroll), Gengi Glove, Weapons Atma Weapon(Ultima weapon)x2, Attack. 1 attack can deal 79992 and Kefka's health is only 62,000 It Does not have to be just Locke, I did this with Terra on the SNES when I was a kid

The flashing on Angermax is pretty intense. No way you'd get away with that nowadays 😅

In FFX, Kimahri's supernova learned ability is the single most powerfull attack in the whole game at max stats, which would deal over 4 million hp to an enemy without the DMG cap of 99.999 points.

I am a big fan of those videos

Add Quick magic to the dual wieldgin if FFVI to do the 40k attack 3x in a row! The Meteor strategy in FFVIII would be a great deal better than my strategy of keeping Squall near death the entire game 😅

What, no Quick Hit from FFX? With a proper set up, sure Quick Hit only gives you 1 hit at lower strength, but.... pump enough strength and combine it with stuff like Haste, and you can pound an enemy to death before it can even move, since Quick Hit makes your next turn come sooner than it otherwise would, and with enough speed and Haste, you can take several turns to the enemy's one turn.

Even better than Locke's set up in FFVI is Wind God Gau. Gau with 128 magic, merit award/offering using Tempest blade(for casting Wind Slash) casting Quick(for 2x turn in a row) then using Catscratch rage(4x damage) equals potential 80k multi target damage in one turn.

Angermax is actually tied with the Highwind limit break as the THIRD strongest attack in FF7. the #1 being Lucky 7s, and #2 being a W-summoned Knights of the round. with a few more things also higher if you mess around with miming and countering. weird that you included lucky 7s in the footage lol.

Zells limit in 8 100pct should be on here

Valiant Knife wasn't the only good weapon that paired well with Master's scroll and Genji glave and could be used by more than just Locke... As early as you reclaim Celes in the world of ruin, Celes, Terra, Locke, or Edgar could pair the blood sword with ultima weapon to ensure you get the most damage out of ultima in junction with the genji glove

He said TWO THOUSAND instead of two HUNDRED thousand. Lol.

Actually the most broken item/materia arrangement is on ff8 for the gf setting of Eden. Though other dmg accumulation can sum up to hundreds of thousand, only Eden attack that could actually break the limit of 1 hit 9999 dmg to 130-190k (depend on how fast you clik the square button). I mean the only grudging thing in the game is limiting the dmg of your char right?.

Never knew of Meteor Wing. Probably because I'm sorry to say, I know it wouldn't qualify for the video, but spamming Degenerator pretty much trumps that in terms of breaking the game.

A neat follow episode qould be the theoretical highest 1 action damage in each FF game

4:11 even if it IS considered cheating, there are a number of techniques to emulate turbo on a normal controller.

El ataque más poderoso de toda la saga de Final Fantasy es "The End" de Selphie en FFVIII. Ni si quiera marca una cifra de daño, simplemente mata a cualquier enemigo, incluido jefazos.

Final Sting isn't even close to hitting the highest numbers in FFXIV when accounting for stacking buffs. Bozja and Zadnor's gimmicks let white mages turbo buff their Afflatus Misery into millions of damage under certain conditions. Sfia hit a 9.7m damage Rapture in this video, and that was without rolling an additional multiplicative +30% damage up from one of the actions. ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-T-HhUCXqRhI.html

The most OP is Rinoa's Limit Break: "THE END"

ah angel wing meteor rinoa so good that they made it one of her attacks in dissidia opera omnia

I remember seeing Eden break 9999 and thinking it was a glitch

If Legacy of the Lucii from ff15 isn't here then I Riot. That ability was game breakingly good

The quickenings in FF12 can be a massive crutch, allowing you to beat bosses you really shouldn't have been able to fight yet. Thus I ended up very underleveled by the mid point of the game, and unable to beat even most normal enemies without quickenings.

Before even watching I guess Beat Rush, Omnislash, and Attack Reels might make an appearance. Let's watch and see.

I’d like to see a video covering the more tradition “most powerful” spells like Holy, Flare and Ultima… see that’s all I can think of, but I know there’s more so I’m hoping you’ll finish my list