Complete Enemy Skill Guide FF7 

Matra Magic 0:54 L4 Suicide 1:18 Chocobuckle 1:48 Beta 2:54 Flame Thrower 4:00 Laser 4:25 12:12 Aqualung 4:59 Big Guard 5:35 White Wind 5:55 Frog Song 6:26 Death Sentence 6:51 ???? 7:22 Trine 7:54 Death Force 8:22 Magic Hammer 8:46 Magic Breath 9:05 Bad Breath 9:37 Goblin Punch 10:03 Shadow Flare 10:25 Dragon Force 12:10 L5 Death 12:33 Pandora's Box 13:02 Roulette 14:55 Angel Whisper 15:20

I can confirm for anyone wondering that using an elixer on dragon zombie is a guaranteed way to get Pandora's box. He uses it as a final attack when he dies and since an elixer causes death towards, it triggers guaranteed.

A few comments: - Your character does not need to have a 4 multipier level to learn L4 Suicide (same goes for L5 Suicide). - The chocobo that appears with two levikrons is always level 16. - Zolom will only kick out characters that attack it, so have your learner solely on cure duty and they'll be fine.

The Harpy from which you can learn Aqualung remains available after you lost your buggy, but with a twist. You can still meet one in the surrounding area... with a Chocobo Lure. That's right, one of the chocobo encounters around Gold Saucer has a Harpy in it.

2:54 if you have won the Shinra HQ mayor’s mini game by guessing the word on the first try you will be rewarded the elemental materia, equipping this with fire materia will nullify beta damage to the character you assigned it to. Helping you learn this enemy skill.

The Enemy Skill materia is the most underrated materia. Big Guard and White Wind are so freaking powerful. Big Guard casts wall+haste buy for a costly 35 MP. White Wind fills the parties HP to the casters current HP. So if your HP is 3645 of a total 8442 everyone will get 3645 as well cure any negative status effects. Great spell.

Enemy Skill, and Blue Mages in the series are my sentimental favorite. Something appealing about learning monster skills.

If you keep releasing FFVII content, I’ll keep watching.

L4 Suicide and L5 Death do not have to "land" on a character whose level is a multiple of 4/5. I'm positive I've learned it before when the attack misses. All that has to happen is the attack being "thrown" at the character, like all of the other skills.

As someone playing FFVII again on Switch, this video is excellent

Enemy skill is THE BEST materia.... I'm obsessed with getting them all! Bio is second favourite

The thing about Pandoras Box. It is true that you only get the one chance. But the trick to make the Zombie Dragon use it is to kill it immediately as fast as you can. Also, L4 Suicide can also be found in the area outside Bone Village. Best way I found to get Chocobuckle is in the Mideel area. The Chocobos levels there are always a multiple of 4.

Rather than looking endlessly with Sense for the right Chocobo.......The Chocobo that appears with 2 levrikons. This Chocobo is ALWAYS LEVEL 16

I'm very grateful to you for posting these videos. They're high quality FF7 videos that just straight up needed to be posted and you did it well!

Great timing. I was just on FF7 lol. You and 4-8 Productions are my favorite FF7 channels! Looking forward to watching you make videos for the remake!

Pandora's Box on the Zombie Dragon is a death attack similar to that of Ultimate Weapon's shadow flare.

Run away exactly 2222 times and NO MORE. Then when your party has maxed out HP later, you can cast chocobuckle on yourselves to INSTANTLY ENGAGE ALL LUCKY 7S MODE WHENEVER YOU WANT @_@

Awesome video! No frills, no bullshit, straight to the point. Good job! 👍🏾

Best materia in the game imo. One slot, maximum versatility, and the skills you can get are usually way op for the level you get them.

Actually feel good getting Pandora's Box back in the day when I first played this game. Only cast once per game is crazy!

Big Guard and White Wind/Regen are pretty much all you need to make it through most fights. Solid video. Thank you, Laneface

Chocobuckle used to be insanely OP in the Japanese original version. It was fights ran away from TIMES your level. The level multiplier was removed from all subsequent releases.

I think dragon zombie does indeed only cast Pandora's Box as a final attack. But, you're right, once, per game, when you FIRST KILL one, it'll cast it. I'm fairly sure because I remember killing one of these only once in a run, all the way down to Jenova Synthesis, and it pretty much finished the fight with Pandora's Box too.

you know so much about FF7, fair play my man, you are the don

These videos are definitely very helpful for ff7 and there so good, next time I play ff7 I’m definitely gonna collect what I have missed out in my last play through. Also I like the music in the background of your videos they are very good music.

Feeding the dragon zombie an elixir totally worked for me. He immediately cast Pandora’s box and I was able to learn it. Thanks for all your help!

This was really great, I can remember going crazy trying to get all the enemy skills 🤔

You will still learn L4 Suicide even if player misses. There is a cue when the character learns it... He or she spins around instead of the usual reaction when got hit or missed.

Easiest way to get Beta is to equip whoever has the enemy skill materia with a fire ring, Beta wont do any damage and you'll still learn the skill.

This is great! Playing ffvii for the second time currently so this will come in handy 😁

I remember first playing FF7 and getting Pandora’s Box down the path to Jenova and I didn’t know it was a one safe file thing

Great guide man been following this for 5 years

Great video, but here are some corrections/tips: 1) If an enemy skill is used on you and it misses, you still learn it. Accordingly, there is no need to worry about what level your characters are at to learn L4 Suicide and L5 death. Your video implies that if you level your whole team to 99, then you made these skills unable to be acquired, but thankfully that’s not the case. 2) For Magic Hammer, you don’t need to complete the Wutai mission first. Simply stay in the green grass area immediately where the tiny bronco lands without going toward Wutai, and you’ll fight the razorweeds that have it. 3) Death force can be used on the crater enemy that casts roulette to ensure that he doesn’t accidentally kill himself before you learn the skill. 4) Pandora’s box is the final attack for the first dragon zombie you encounter. You will 100% have it cast on you if you use an elixir on him, so that technique is perfectly effective. 5) Though you correctly noted that Pandora’s box and Trine are the only truly missable skills to have on all 4 materia, you might mention that the Battle Arena at Gold Saucer has Stilva, which you can manipulate to cast trine on you. However, crucially, enemy skills CANNOT be learned in the battle arena. Items you get from morphing opponents count, but enemy skills for some reason are unable to be learned. Trine is indeed annoying to get on all 4 materia, as the only way to do this is to delay ascending the Pagoda in Wutai until you have all 4 materia, meaning purposefully waiting to get Yuffie’s 4th level limit break and Leviathan materia. 6) Chocobos around the chocobo farm that spawn with the configuration you showed always are at level 16.

Thank you for this video!I got all of the skills very easily!

This video definitely deserves a subscription alone!

Great vid! You can walk at the border of the corel desert before you get the buggy to get aqualung early or after the buggy disappears

Also of note, the only way to master all 4 enemy skill materias is to not do the Yuffie sidequests til after you get the Highwind. Godo is the only one left with Trine after you've gotten the first 3 pieces and most people do the Yuffie sidequest right away, preventing Trine from ever being learned on the 4th piece. Purely for completion purposes as there is zero benefit to having more than 3 enemy skill materias.

I love this channel. Please keep it up! This is also my favorite game of all time. I have an ff7 tattoo and so does my twin brother. Could you perhaps do an early game steal guide? Hardedge, Atomic scissors etc. Any ideas for changing up your play throughs? I love experiencing the game in a whole new way. Restricting materia choices, weapons, characters Or just any particular "builds" besides "becoming overpowered as quickly as possible" - as fun as that is I've done it so many times. Anyways I'll pretty much watch anything ff7 related so thanks for the content

Quality content! Thanks for upload.

Such a great video. It was very helpful. Thanks

Choco buckle can be used to trigger 7777 easily, just escape 22, 122, 222, 322 etc times and use it on a character with 999hp using MP swap materia, then just use potion or hi potion and heal to 7777. Easiest set up in my opinion. Unless you are willing to run away 2222 times then you can use it directly on a 9999 hp character to trigger it immediately.

You can get all the "kill" skills even if you're not the right lvl, like L4 suicide and L5 death. You don't need to be a lvl divisible by that lvl. You even showed that when you learned L5 death with cloud. He didn't die but still learned the skill. Also if you can't Death force on the unit with enemy skill you can learn death roulette with worrying about dying. It also works for the other 2 death skills.

Pandora’s Box is a final attack, so just kill the Dragon Zombie before he runs out of MP and he’ll always cast Pandora’s Box the first time you fight him. You have to have all four E. Skills equipped and none of them connected.

@2:10 the level of the chocobo is tied to what enemies it appears with. So if you know that you don't need to use sense. Still this is awesome content, thank you.

This channel is so dope

So I've been playing around with the dragon zombies apparently if you use white wind on them in does 9999 and the fight is over I did get Pandora's box on 3 enemy skill materia and I'm cool with that thanks a bunch for the upload helped a lot

Using the Elixir on the Dragon Zombie actually worked and I got the Pandora’s Box for all of my Enemy Skill Materia.

Aqualung can be learned before the buggy. East of gold saucer is an area where you can find Harpys, on the meadow where the chcocobo tracks are 🤙

12:25 interesting that Manipulate in this version (PS1?) didn’t have Magic Breath enemy skill available; in my iPhone version of FF7, the Dark Dragon has three skills available within one battle, and Magic Breath is the third. 👍🏻 great video!

These are so relaxing.

Fun fact: You can, in fact, return to the Gaea Cliffs if you choose to snowboard, walk through the glacier and back up the cliffs. There is even a special bit of dialogue if you go to the very top and try to enter the crater while the barrier is active. You then run all the way back to the Glacier and can exit via that icy roller coaster room and walk back up to Icicle Inn. I have only done this on disc 2, after getting the Highwind. I don't know if it can be done on disc 3.

Also you can find a harpy if you equip a chocobo lure and walk around on the chocobo footprints by the gold saucer

All the completionists out there thank you sir

You can use the Fire Ring to easily survive Beta.

You can get magic hammer before yuffie side quest using green patch of land beside the shore area the tiny bronco Lands at, and harpy (aqualung) is still accessible after loosing the buggy by fighting one grouped with a chocobo at the tracks near gold saucer.

Actually, L4 Suicide CAN be learned even though your level isn't divisible by 4 as it hits you but fails. I did and it worked.

Learning all this for the remake!

This video filled me with nostalgia 😊

Regarding White Wind it can also be learnt from the Wind Wings at Whirlwind Maze. The caveat being that you have to cast Confuse on them as they cannot be manipulated. Naturally, even when the spell hits you are relying on luck because even if they do use the skill chances are it'll use it on itself (if it doesn't attack itself first) so you would have to repeat the process. Edit: You're correct in that the Jersey's will never use ??? after being attacked but that's because of a bug. They only use the ???? in their magic immune, default position of left arm lowered, right arm raised. Attacking them with magic in their physical immune, right arm lowered, left arm raised position was supposed to make them flip their arms again but due to a bug it doesn't work that way and they _NEVER_ use the skill when they are immune to physical attacks. That said Behemoths also use ???? but obviously you don't encounter them until Sector 8.

here's a trick I learned a while back: with 9999 health, and the chocobuckle skill, run away exactly 2222 times, then attack the character with 9999 life with chocobuckle, giving them 7777 health, making every attack do 7777 damage to the enemy. very handy if you wanna kill some tough enemies, because remember, with 100 hits, that's 777700 damage, so if you have the lucky 7 and kotr combined with hp absorb (all of these maxed out btw), then have counter with mime, again, maxed out, you can use kotr on ruby weapon and go have some lunch, return and he is dead since he counters with utima and that will create a cycle where you attack, making ruby attack, making you attack, refilling your life, making ruby attack and so on.

This was extremely helpful

2:54 - I always grind within Mithril Cave to learn Beta before reaching Juno. Stealing Ethers from those Dragon like creatures makes it really easy to reach necessary L3 Limit Breaks for Cloud (Meteorain) and Aeris (Planet Protector) It's a bit of a pain in the ass but it pays off, since you will only need to grind that much again within the final dungeon (in order to get the Master Materia set)

Tried to use an elixir on dragon zombie and boom pandora's box, thanks so much!!!

I really appreciate the video, and with that the choice of music, but personally I think the music should be just a tad quieter whenever you're not speaking.

Not sure if this works on newer versions of the game but if you are hunting enemy skills exclusively putting all the materia that need to absorb that skill on the same character means they will all learn it, however if you equip a materia that already has it none will gain the skill.

I read that apparently Pandora's Box is an attack the dragon zombie will use as its Final Attack, so by giving it an elixir you are basically ensuring they will have enough MP to cast it... it seems.

1:37 that greenish-blue UI you have in many of your clips is so pretty. I wonder what the RGB values are, I'd love to use it.

You don't need to be a level divisible by 4 in order to get L4 Suicide. The attack will "miss", but you'll still learn it. Also, fun fact: The Japanese version of Chocobuckle was FAR more useful. Basically the formula for determining damage was how many times you run away from battle times your current level. Needless to say, it wouldn't take all that long to reach the max of 9999, which made it one of the best spells in the game. For whatever reason they nerfed the crap out of it for Western releases, and now it's essentially useless (unless you're completely insane and/or have way too much time on your hands).

I played so many times this game and never full one of this materia but ill gonna fix it thx

Thank you very much! :)

so helpful. thank you.

The enemies that appear with the Chocobo will tell you what the level is. I believe that it has to be two of the same enemies. Also, you can actually get Beta easily, but you need to have Elemental Materia from the Mayor of Midgar. Unfortunately, you have to guess his password correctly the first guess, or he won't actually give you the Elemental Materia. Also of note the Midgar Zolom will kick out the party member who has done the most damage to him at the point he ejects a party member. If you have the Elemental Materia, pairing it with Fire will halve, negate, or absorb Fire damage to the character. The easiest way I found is to use Aerith, put her in the back row and give her a Tranquilizer. It will make any physical damage negligible and will make Beta way less or a threat. Then, throwing Beta back will do more damage

You can get roulette very early in the game, in the area outside Corel, with those Jokers. They have the same appearance as death dealers but dark color

Gracias excelente guía

good video man

Chocobuckle does NOT require L4 suicide and a susceptible chocobo, but it does make it much easier. You just really have to feed it a mimett (or sylkis I believe) green, and get it to within 1/32 of its HP with a single attack, without killing it. I did it on a lvl 13 chocobo using ???? enemy skill and moving materia around/drinking potions to make my character have 129 points missing from full HP. Also, Midgar Zolom can miss with Beta, and you'll still learn it. Might take some tries, but if you for some reason don't have fire+elemental on armor, it can be done as soon as you get there. Another way is to go back and pick up the fire ring from the cave next to Mythril Mine as soon as you get the buggy. You automatically take it back with you when being "stowaway" from Costa Del Sol. Yeah, Shinra isn't much for logistics and manifests....

great guide

It's programed into the game. The first one casts it upon death if it has enough magic to do so.

This game has been out for a Bazzillion years and I still learn stuff about it.

Even if the enemy misses attacking via E. Skill, it can still be learned. One sign is that the party member spins around.

Very helpful 😀

You can actually get Magic Hammer right after you get Death Force on that same Wutai area at the green area, rather than waiting after Yufie's quest.

whoa... i had no idea thats what manipulate did, i thought it just kept them from attacking you by facing the other way lol

out of these, the most useful I've found so far is Beta and Big Guard

I'll be honest - I've only gotten the full set once, for the Steam achievement for all mastered materia. Other than that, I don't really see the need for ALL of them, so I generally just get the ones I like and the ones that are easy to find - White Wind, Trine, Beta, Flamethrower, Aqualung, Shadow Flare, and so on.

Just wanted to point out something. You don't actually need to be at a level divisible by four to learn L4 suicide. Found that out by accident when I was level 17. The attack doesn't have to hit you for you to learn it, which helps if you want to grind early on.

I dont remember is dragon zombie casts pandora box before dying, but if you use flash instakill you can recover all hp and mp to undeads enemies

I always get Beta as soon as it's available. It kills anything for a long time and is great for grinding limit breaks early on

2:38 Sir, you underestimate the mundane stuff I do with my free time. I will one day make Chocobuckle an absolute world-ender!

I remember long ago that I manipulated a Dragon Zombie once and could only do it once which was before it casted Pandora's Box. I was surprised at this because I learned it could also cast Shadow Flare at the time. Of course after I got it to cast both in the battle mentioned then killed it. No other DZs could be manipulated which I found strange. Might have something to do with the PB coding as well.

15:16 Tifa: "Yay! I learned it!" Also Tifa: >dies

Thank you for not having an annoying voice.

re. dragon zombie - yeah i think it is (pandora's box) his final attack. it also happened to me

Instead of fleeing 9,999 times with chocobuckle, flee 2,222 times. Then cast it on a character with 9,999 HP and now when they're fully healed and you cast chocobuckle on them to put them into the all lucky 7s status and deal almost half a million damage.

Actually, you might not need a character to have a level divisible by 4 to get the L4 Suicide ES, I just got it and I have Cloud equipped with the ES Materia, and he's Lvl 17.

Chocobuckle took so long. It'd always run right before I threw the greens so I ended up wasting them lol.

The last enemy skill is from an enemy pronounced poy-en-seta. It is a flower I believe. I think it is a spanish flower because the two ll's in the word are pronounced as a y like in spanish. The more you know!

Old times are the best times Bruvs. 👁 ͜👁

I am not sure if this is a bug. On the PS4 version level 16 Chocobo do not spawn around the Chocobo Farm (using 3 times speed, 0 spawns in 50 encounters). I had to wait until I got Highwind to be able to land at Mideel, here its a 100% spawn of level 36.

Nice bgm