FFVII - Materia Combinations 

where were u 20 years ago when I needed you

Dude I swear I thought I was a genius when I combined “final attack” with “ Phoenix” when I was a kid. Sooo glad you included it.

I'll try to equip Aerith with Final Attack + Revive BEFORE she encounters Sephiroth.

Materia is the coolest game mechanic of all time.

Infinite pages of maxed materia, and you're still stoked about getting a steal trigger in. You're a true professional, have a like.

This, my friends, is a man that is passionate about what he likes and does. Final Fantasy 7 is my favorite game ever, and I respect you for the attention that you give to your videos, content and followers.

Not sure how much value there is in putting this comment on a nearly-six-year-old video, but maybe folks are running nostalgia playthroughs because of the remake, so here ya go: - Time+Added Effect also inflicts Stop to those vulnerable to it; - Barrett's Ungarmax does better than Omnislash with the Counter-Mime combo if you load Missing Score with high-exp mastered Materia (no overflow needed) - that's 18 hits of 9999, and it's more consistent than Cloud doing 9999 damage with each slash. Not to mention, the animation is much faster; - I'm sure people already know, but Mega All + Master Command makes a good combo, and they don't even need to be paired. You can pair Master Command with a suitable Support Materia to your taste. I use it for Morph-All on Barrett (or Yuffie) to Morph whole enemy parties in one shot; - Odin + Sneak Attack + Preemptive gives you an FF8 Zantetsuken-style summon; - When grinding North Cave, I find it convenient to have Hades + Added Effect on a 4x Cut user. It's mostly for the darn Tonberry King - you get the Stop effect, safe from Everybody's Grudge, and the animation of the 4 swings is much faster than if it was active; - If you're on a non-grind or low-grind playthrough, using Demi + Quadra Magic + W-Magic on Emerald (and IIRC works for Ruby, too) is more efficient than opening with Knights of Round, especially if you only have 1 or 2 levels on KOR. You can deal eight shots of 9999 damage with Demi (and the animation is a billion times faster so you won't have to waste a Materia slot for Underwater) then you can move to Knights when Demi 3 is dealing under 5 or 6k, depending on your threshold preference;

Man i'm just getting into FF7, i'm eleven hours in and i FINALLY know what to do with the all materia, this game is way cooler than i thought

And yet 10 year old me beat the game mostly just spamming Attack with every character.

damn.....20 years later, I still learned something.

God, I miss the materia system.. Probably the best "system" to ever be used in any ff game...

This is my first video I've watched of yours and i automatically subscribed when i saw all of your mastered counter attack materias. I respect your dedication, you have earned a fan!

I've been waiting years, literally years, for a video like this! Well done :3

So many years thinking a lot of Materias were simply useless or stupid... That and all your grinding, you totally deserve that like!

You can also use Elemental pairing to heal yourself. ex: If you absorb fire damage, you can put the fire elemental combination to your weapon and attack yourself with a basic attack to heal.

I never knew you could add "Added effect + summon materia" . Essentially, I could use "added effect + Hades" to become immune to most ailments if I put it in an armor slot. Liked and Subbed!

This was extremely educational, I have finally gotten around to playing ff7 and I'm loving it so far, after this I'm replaying ff15 and then going back around to my favorite ff9

Those combinations were....CRAZY!!! Just downloaded FF7 to my PS3 and I'm looking forward to trying some combos oft own now. Haven't played it since I was a kid.

Wow I did not expect this video to be so funny, the beginning especially got me to really laugh a few times like with the description of Safer Sephiroth and the "All" counter. Also mad props for actually grinding out all this materia instead of just testing with hacks, you're insane.

22 years on and I still love the game as much as I did when I was 7

Jesus. I played this game three times and remained oblivious of the potential of materia combinations oO

ahhhhhh.....all of your videos make me so happy. your so devoted to this game I love it, keep it up man

This is my favorite video game, and you have taught me things after 20+ years. Thank you and thumbs up!

I just picked this game up again recently. I was playing it the same way I always did up until leaving Midgar when I decided to see how far guides had come. Now, after everything I've learned, I wonder how I ever beat the game as a kid. In my very first playthrough I beat the game without KotR. I never even knew a Gold Chocobo existed. I didnt have most of the characters ultimate limit breaks or even weapons. Hell, I didnt even use Ultima magic because I thought the materia was bugged (you have to level it once to even use it). Now when I look at everything the FFVII community has discovered I cant help but be in awe at the dedication to such a classic title. I know this video is close to a decade old at this point but thanks for making it anyway, it taught me a couple new tricks. Hope you're doing well.

Picked it up again after 20 years and it’s still the best game I’ve ever played, but I’ve apparently been playing it wrong, this video will help us out greatly!!

Bro, I can't tell you how much I enjoy these videos. I'm hoping to support you some day

I found your channel after getting FF7 on the Switch. Amazing video and I hope you get a lot of attention

I've played this game through over 10 times and I didn't know half the stuff you mentioned in this video - I'd never even heard of some of the materia you had Awesome video, would love to see more FF7 content

Damn this guy put lotta work into this

counter+deathblow, cover, and 2 counter attacks on Cloud. my favorite combo. all mastered of course.

Note on the Elemental Materia, you can also use Summons with elements (yellow text under their name) Usually it isn't that handy, but Chocobo/Mog on a weapon is the best way to do Wind damage for a lot of the game. (Flying enemies tend to be weak to wind)

I've wanted a video like this for over a decade. Thanks!

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Congratulations the algorithm has chosen you!!

Holy shit, nearly 20 years and I'm still finding new things about ff7--THIS is the core element of a work of care and love; it keeps giving.

All these years later and this was still enjoyable to watch. The Omnislash counter was nuts... time to fire up FFVII again and 1-shot Ruby/Emerald. :D

Ok so I've watched most of your ff7 videos and they have been such a huge help so thank you very much you're amazing. 😀

Mad props to this guy. Like others have said, one of my favorite games that I've played probably a dozen times over 20 years and still learned something new from your craziness. Well done, sir.

You sound like my older cousin and RPG enthusiast 20 years ago talking to me when I was stuck on disc 2. It's good to see stuff like this.

Good video bro, appreciate the dedication required to test this shizzle. FF7 is a MAJESTIC, yet somewhat unpolished, MASTERPIECE.

This deserves as many likes as possible. Super amazing stuff.

Congratulations and thank you. Can't wait for the PS4 FFVII remake release. :)

Incredible preparation for this. Thanks. Liked and subscribed. Keep up the good word, mate!

i have mastered all materia so i simply had to subscribe, because you mastered every materia multiple times simply for the knowledge and i respect that to no end! F'N fantastic job and thank you for the time and effort you put in. Cheers Mate!

I've mastered this game forwards and backwards and you've got some interesting ideas. But here's one you didn't mention that I think is completely broken: Mastered Command + HP Absorb || Mastered Command + MP Absorb || Double Cut (4x Cut) + Long Range This materia combo will allow you to 4x Cut from max range without losing damage as well as heal you for 4k and restore 400 MP to you after every 4x Cut. This is so broken that I am almost certain Square probably didn't mean for Mastered Command to work this way. I love it though. I can literally defeat every boss in the game simply by 4x Cutting. Emerald and Ruby included. Hope someone enjoys this combo. It's a blast......if you don't mind the game being to stupid easy to beat LOL. Happy Fantasies!

Knights of the Round, and a couple mimic materia. Activate spell then go read a book. Come back to victory.

Well done. I really enjoyed this. I've been playing since the game release and I wasn't until I was a bit older to only scratch the surface of materia and now I find this *mind blown*.

I used to have a complete list of combos for ff7 it was large and i never could get all enemy skills till i watched your videos great job amd keep up the good work i even saved your ideas for future refrence

Thanks alot for this video! I wrote down every single combination in my notepad, and now the game will be much easier!

This channel and dark pixel gaming are the final fantasy gamings vids youtube needs.

Just ran into ur channel for the first time, appreciate the hard work.

Watching this brings back memories and is getting me psyched for the remake later this year!

I'm 53 seconds in, and I already want to thank you for the effort you put into this video. Just re-purchased FF7 on the switch so this video is just the ticket. Legend.

Epic video, just started playing FF7 again since it's the first release. gonna show Ruby and Emerald who the boss is now. Keep up the FF7 vids.

This video is very informative and hilarious. Perfect combination! Will subscribe and I look forward to more videos!!

My mind is blown with this. I feel like I was playing FFVII wrong this whole time. Excellent video and I am now tempted to download FFVII again on either my phone, PS Vita or PS4.

Awesome video! On behalf of every person who watched this, thank you for investing all those hours to make it happen

Nice tutorial. :D Here come _some_ fixes and details, hoping this could help. *All* _"All next to any other magic Materia"_ All does nothing with Comet, Contain, FullCure, Shield, Ultima, Exit Materias and Resist from Heal. _"All the enemies on the field"_ It's the same thing with the allies. In a side attack battle, All effect only applies to one group / side. Although they seem to be on the allies, you actually can kill 1 or 2 Pyramids and damage Reno at the same time with for example All + Ice, and 1 or 2 Waterpolos and Bottomswell with for example Matra Magic. _"If it's mastered you can do it up to five times"_ Notice that you can combine more than 1 All to add more uses, like with Final attack, Quadra Magic, Mega all and summons. You can cast the spell deactivating the all effect pressing R1/Page down before selecting a target (and the remaining All uses won't decrease). _"Lowers the attack of the combined Materia down to one third of its original damage"_ The damage dealt but also the probability of inflicting a status are 2/3 of the original values. *Elemental* On the armor, lvl 1 Elemental will half the damage & accuracy from the combined element, lvl 2 will nullify the damage and lvl 3 and 4 will Absorb it. If an attack is nullified, it also can't inflict any status. If an attack is absorbed, it also heals the statuses it tried to inflict and inflicts the statuses it tried to heal. The main elements are Fire, Ice, Lightning, Earth, Poison, Restorative, Gravity, Wind, Water, Holy. You can combine the Hidden element using Elemental + a non elemental non blue Materia, ie: Elemental (lvl 3) + Steal on the armor will absorb the Ultima Weapon's ray. The element of a Materia isn't necessarily the element of its spells. Ie: Choco/Mog's Death Blow and Fat Chocobo are non elemental attacks but Elemental + Choco/Mog = Wind. Typoon's Disintegration is a Fire + Ice + Lightning + Earth attack but Elemental + Typoon = ... Wind too. Kujata's Tetra disaster is a Fire + Ice + Lightning attack but Elemental + Kujata = Hidden. The element is written in yellow in the Materia menu, except for Hidden (lol). You can check the combinations in the Status menu pressing Circle/OK. *Added Effect* _"If you put Poison and Added Effect in your armor then you're protected against poison"_ Notice that being immune to the Poison status makes you to nullify the Poison element. This makes the Poison Ring to work pretty like a 6000 Gils Star pendant. _"With Added Effect and Time Materia you can slow an enemy"_ Or Stop. _"If you put Time into Added Effect Materia in your armor it protects against Slow and Paralysis"_ It protects against Haste (bug), Slow and Stop but not Paralysis. _"If you pair Contain Materia with Added Effect you can cause Petrify, Confusion, Berserk and Paralysis"_ That's Petrify, Confusion and Stop. Not Berserk, and Paralysis is definitely another status. :p _"Choco/Mog you can cause Paralysis"_ It's Stop here too. _"Hades you can cause Poison, Confusion, Sleep, Silence, Mini or Toad"_ Note that Hades' Cauldron also has Slow and Paralysis, though Hades + Added Effect hasn't. If you're immune to Death then you're also immune to Death penalty. Whereas if you're immune to Petrify, you're NOT immune to Slow-numb. And Slow-numb still can inflict Petrify... then you can't remove Petrify cause you're immune. You can check the combinations in the Status menu pressing Circle/OK twice. Added Effect on the weapon has 19 % chances per hit per target (if you didn't just miss the targets) to inflict the combined statuses (all at the same time). The only exception is that the Flash command has 100 % chances to inflict any status (if you didn't just miss the targets, again). Added Effect on the armor always has 100 % chances to protect against the statuses. *MP Turbo* The best part with MP Turbo is that no spell can cost more than 255 MP. For example, KotR combined to a mastered MP Turbo costs 250 + 50 % = 375 MP, capped to 255 MP. So you pay 5 extra MP only whereas that attack is still increased by 50 %. MP Turbo also increases the probability to inflict statuses, which is funny with Poison, Choco/Mog, Odin,... *Combo with several copies of a Magic (or Summon) Materia* Effects only apply on LEARNED spells, not necessarily all the spells of the Materia. Ie: Fire (mastered) + All ; Fire (lvl 2) + MP Absorb => Fire and Fire2 can be cast on all and absorb MP but Fire3 can just be cast on all. *Automatic actions* _"It's only good for 8 Counter-Attacks"_ This is true also for Sneak Attack, Magic Counter, Counter and Final Attack. Actually each character can have 8 automatic actions at the total, not for each type). Ie: 8 Counter Attacks and Final Attack + Phoenix => when you die, you just DIE. The 9th automatic action is ignored. Final Attack + Phoenix and 8 Counter Attacks => it actually does the same cause Counter Attacks have the priority over Sneak Attack, Counter, Magic Counter and Final Attack. They come first then the 9th automatic action is ignored. 7 Counter Attacks and Final Attack + Phoenix => this time you're doing it right. If you survive you attack 7 times and if you die you cast Phoenix. *Counter + Mime* _"KotR with 7 copies of Magic Counter, 6 copies of Mime, HPMP"_ It's of course 1 Magic Counter for KotR and 6 Counter for Mimes. But this combo would cast KotR 6 times (779.922 damage), not 7. Assuming you didn't cast KotR yet and it's lvl 5, when you're hit, what would happen is: - Magic Counter + KotR => casts KotR then the remaining summon power (max uses) = 4 - Counter + Mime => casts a FREE KotR (uses no MP and no summon power) - Counter + Mime => casts KotR then remaining summon power = 3 - Counter + Mime => casts KotR then remaining summon power = 2 - Counter + Mime => casts KotR then remaining summon power = 1 - Counter + Mime => casts KotR then remaining summon power = 0 - Counter + Mime => fails cause the summon can't be cast anymore (you will be able to cast KotR with the next free mime, manually or with Counter, in another turn if you do nothing else) You could fix this by simply adding a Master Summon, which gives unlimited power to the character's summons. Or if you don't have a Master Summon yet, by removing KotR from this character. You cast KotR first with another character (manually or not). Then the Mime Materia won't be able to decrease the summon power of the character as he carries no KotR himself. And with the freed slot you can add a 7th Counter + Mime. If the ally casts KotR twice with W-Summon, then the counter would be 14 KotR. Each "turn" (basically), the 1st Mime of each character is free. The others (ie the Counter Mimes after the 1st) are nerfed. When I say "free": free of MP, summon power, All power, Quadra Magic power, Gils (with Coin), and it also keeps the effects All, Quadra Magic, MP Turbo, HP Absorb, MP Absorb, Added Cut, Steal As Well. The non free mimes will cost MP, Gils, and lose HP Absorb, MP Absorb, Added Cut, Steal As Well effects. All, Quadra Magic and MP Turbo can be lost or added: they now depend on if the character who's miming possesses these combinations himself (and not out of power). When Mime drops the Quadra effect, it's replaced by the All effect. xD Both free and non free mimes will never consume any item (with Item, W-Item, Throw) and always empty the Limit gauge when miming a Limit. Here are some advanced combinations. *Recovery* (looks like a bug but not a bug) Weapon = Ice + Elemental, Odin + Added Effect Armor = Ice + Elemental (lvl 3-4) or Aurora rod => So you can attack yourself to heal, as Ice is absorbed, with having 19 % chance to inflict Death, which would be replaced by Recovery due to the absorption. Ice and Water can be absorbed in the mid/early game but you should replace them as your Elemental reaches lvl 3. *Double Sneak* (more like a bug) Sneak Attack + Steal lvl 2, Steal lvl 1 => You actually sneak with Mug AND Steal. The same works with Counter instead of Sneak Attack or Throw instead of Steal. Other example: Counter + Throw lvl 1, Counter + Steal lvl 2-3, Master Command. => This will counter with Throw, Coin, Mug and Steal. With only 2 Counter. *ATB killer* (definitely a bug) Added Effect + Hades or Seal, Added Effect + Contain or Choco/Mog or Time => Dealing Stop and Sleep *simultaneously* freezes the target indefinitely. xD If the target is immune to Stop or Sleep, you still can deal with the others statuses from Hades and Contain. And just to not leaving you without giving some of my own: *Odin & Chocobo Lure* => Because each enemy has 91% chances to instant die, 99% with MP Turbo, and Chocobos are immune to Death so they don't counter and flee. It can work with Destruct but the success chances would be too low, or with Remove, but it needs 10000 AP. Odin does the job just fine. You can also add a Sneak attack to Odin to capture the Chocobo ASAP. *2 Magic Pots in only 1 turn* Master Command + Added Cut, W-Item => After any command, the character will attack the target. As the Magic Pots require an Elixir and often spawn by 2, you only have to give an Elixir to them. What happens is Elixir on Magic Pot A, Added Cut on it, Elixir on Magic Pot B, Added Cut on it. The Added Cut + Master Command also applies to some other commands, which is nice with 2x Cut, 4x Cut, Slash-all and Flash. That's all folks! Have fun

cool video and serious props on leveling up your materia so much. That is crazy.

Well damn, liked this video so much that you sir just earned a new subscriber. Good job!

Who’s here on 2019?.... cant wait till 3 2020

I cant believe how many new things Ive learned about such an old game.

This was incredible. Congratulations for all your work and thanks a lot. I'll sure use them wisely 😉

Hahahah, oh man, great video. Learned a lot. My favorite thing tho, is we customize our window in ff7 the exact same way! Made me love it all the more!

you deserve the views, likes, and subscribes for the effort you put to this video...

It's 2018 and I'm still learning something about this game!!!

Great video man, I heard from DANSG08 you knew your FFVII and boy he weren't wrong. Keep up the good work

Love the video.. keep coming back to it, super entertaining and a wealth of knowledge. THANK YOU.. only wish youtube was around when i was 15

Enjoy your vids, keep it up dude. I came for final fantasy 7 vids, but will check out the others as well.

Um....I need to go back and play this game, I wasn't even aware you could stack some of those combinations, that is just insane!

Thank you so much

Thanks for keeping ff7 alive and rekindling my interest, I might have to go and do another 100% run, should go a lot smoother now that internet has thoroughly spread about

This game is insane!!!! One of the many reason why this is the best FF

Stumbled upon this channel and all I can say is I have no Questions all ill do is Subscribe!! Massive thanks for the video!! I realize that even though i've finnished the game, I have missed so many secrets and technics!! Really Appreciate your video

So refreshing to hear all the knowledge but many many years to late to implement. Great video 😁

Bro, nine years ago and it's so useful this video, I really thank you

mad respect to your knowledge of this game.

I never like videos.. but... this one deserves a big thumbs up. Bravo bro brrraaavvooo

Ran across this video and given that 7 dropped for xb1, thought I’d take a look. Love the video 👌🏻 thanks for the content. Keep it coming please :)

Your hard work is much appreciated.

My buddy was playing recently and paired Added Effect and Odin in Tifa’s armor and gave her the Curse Ring. So she gets the massive stat boost of the Curse Ring but is immune to the Instant Death countdown that comes with it.

Who needs materia combinations when you have Nailbat

The grind is real! Props.

This was an awesome video! Well done!

i just got back to ff7. Seeing these video got me up whoopen some WEAPON ass. thank you for making them.

Beat Emrald Weapon today thanks to your lucky 7s strategy! Thanks dude

Man, watching this video makes me want to start a new game for the thousandth time, never gets old.

Damn dude. It's been a long time since I learned something new about this game. I had no idea you could even DO some of that stuff.

Cool info....thanks!!! I've played this game literally 15 times probably. I want to play again now to do the 8x omnislash one. I've done the massive farming before MANY MANY times...lol....so I can do it again.... Ugh

final attack and Phoenix combo is my favorite

Playing this for the first time as a 34 year old, cant believe i have always skipped this one (judged a book by its cover) and i am loving it. This guide is super helpful 10 years after you posted it so thank you!

Incoming “Xbox one” and “Nintendo switch” followers. Good video man.

Well you saved me 9999 hours of grinding to know that. Thanks !

bro you are bomb dude i just downloaded for xbox1 so much nostalgia , but besides that was gonna do the same thing you did sit and play for hours on in experimenting on materia and what did i find your vid, this is awesome and i am gonna try some of these thanks

I had no patience to figure every combination out. Thanks for sharing. Actually still have this game. Haven't been playing but maybe I should after I watch your whole video..

That music.....so much nostalgia.

"... And Sephiroth." You get a like just for that haha.

I’m struggling at the final boss and I’m just learning about materia combinations!! 😢 thanks!! Excellent video!

FF7 is my favorite game in life, for how hard it hit me and how adventurous and unknown it was. I had played US FF2 and FF3 but had no idea where 7 would take it. I didn't have internet or Nintendo Power or anything, just my love of the series so far and a buddy who would play while i took a nap and we only played that game for days and days. I am revisiting and looking f'en everything up these days and I was blown away by your coverage of the revived Aeris. These videos are blowing my mind. I didn't know summon worked with some of the blue materia like it does, i didn't know counter-attack+mime worked like it does. I am fully inspired to play a pre-educated play through of FF7 now. OMF TY, the nostalgia is beyond measure.

Thank you so much for doing this!