Top 7 Ridiculously Powerful Items In Final Fantasy
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Items are a pretty important part of any Final Fantasy game, but some are more important than others. For today's video, we wanted to run through some of the most powerful, and this relates to potential damage, but also potential defensive applications - enjoy!
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I’ll admit it: I am a bit of an itemizer. I would always buy a metric ton of items like potions, elixirs and go out of my way to find every item possible in any given area. The problem was I ended up having a massive inventory and I would hardly use said items because I was paranoid about the fact that I might need it later and not have it. And if said items were powerful I was even more reluctant to use them.
Fighting Sephiroth
"Idk, I may need these elixirs later"
Real
I am the same way. I sell nothing, and I will max out potions, etc because what if I need them in big boss battle?!
I’m guilty of this in every game
@@samprizeman4509 Same, but Final Fantasy was the one who made me this way
Healing Water, Teleport Sphere and Chocobo Wing from FFX all come to mind. Healing Water is ridiculously easy to come by at endgame for being a party full heal, and they customize into Alchemy. Teleport Spheres are incredibly versatile and powerful both in their application on the Sphere Grid as well as in customizing the coveted Evade & Counter ability. And Chocobo Wings are party-wide Haste without any of the turn delay Hastega usually gives and also customize for Auto-Haste.
Though not as valuable, I’d like to add Return Spheres to that list. They’re not as good as Teleport Spheres, only letting you warp to a previously activated node, but that kind of movement around the grid is still insanely valuable (plus they can still warp you around if you find a sphere that lets you activate an ability node from across the map). More importantly, they often show up as top score prizes In Blitzball, meaning you can start hoarding them almost as soon as you leave Luca.
If they were easier to get, I'd say Tetra Elemental could count as well, since its the only way to get all 4 Nul spells in one action outside of overdrives. At least would have been much more useful earlier anyway
@@ThundagaT2 Them being a rare steal from rare enemies and Seymour makes them such a pain to get
Just started Zodiac Age a few weeks ago. I don’t remember
what I thought of 12 the first time I played it on the ps2, but this version of it is actually my favorite Final Fantasy game, until 15. Huge fan of 6/7/9
Try the mod "struggle for freedom" it enhances the combat increases diffculty. Only way i replay now.
@@keenmachine80 I’m on the Switch, can’t do mods as far as I’m aware.
I’ll be honest though, the game feels like it will be much better with mods. I wish they could fix the gambit system to have a more robust if/then system.
The one I always take advantage of is the Holy War in VIII, TS Bombs and Dazers in VII.
What about the spoon knife in FF4? There was only 1, you couldn't equip it and Edge could throw it once for 9999 damage similar to the Shuriken in FF3.
You could just dupe Excaliburs for the same effect.
@@bobjones4469 True but it still fits the description in this video.
*Party wipes
*Game over
*Forgot to save
*99 Megalixers on hand
I'd quit playing the game at that point.
If you get wiped with 99 Megalixier in your inventory, that means the monster is doing too much damage and is much faster than your players or incapacitate your character with status effect.
That's me. Thanks for calling me out. I am 100% a hoarder. Elixirs, Megalixirs, Hero Drinks, yup. XV helped me start to break that habit, but it's still tough.
Me using Dark Matter in FFX-2 like it's nothing because I know I can farm them through Creature Creator
I think this is why I look at some of the lists calling certain bosses hard and I'm just sitting there saying "They were pretty easy, what?" 😂 I have no qualms with using items. Even as a kid I realized how much time I could save by just using the potions instead of returning to a recovery point/pokemon center. So, I just blitz most of the time.
A honourable 8th entry for me, was 13’s Elixir, I always cheesed Long Gui with it for the trophy
While the video focuses a lot on items and their effect on end game, there are also many that are ridiculously powerful in the EARLY game. Grenades in FF7 are relatively cheap vendor items that dealt a lot of damage for the relative player character power; so much so that Grenade spamming is/was a legitimate speedrun strategy. Similarly, Knots of Rust in FF12 are easy to obtain, while still being able to out-damage most other early game combat options. And of course, we can't ignore the absolute cheese that is the one and only Phoenix Down.
U forgot ff7s 🐉 scales 😅
There is an Item in FF XI that is extremely difficult to get: the Regain Feather. It’s like a mega-elixir, for those who never played XI. It gives you 100% HP/MP and full TP to perform WeaponSkills. To obtain, you have to climb a torturous mountain in no time. To put it simple: it’s impossible to do it without 3rd party programs. In fact, many speculate that the only reason this item exists is for SquareEnix to catch those using non-approved software. Clever and brilliant.
There's also Primeval Brew
@@Justuas That brew was probably the most powerful item in FF history.
I always had a weird habit of hoarding my items and never using them. Even to the point of my own detriment. Rather than consume an item I would just brute force my way through most situations 😅
Same. I have played every ff game on release (except 11) and have never used an elixir. As a kid playing ff and dq I just hoarded every good item. Now, it's just a matter or principle.
I burned through a bunch of Elixirs when I played Final Fantasy IX fore the first time and it made my life a lot easier.
IMO I think Phoenix Down's should have made the list as an honorable mention due to the fact that they could be obtained from any item shop, could bring back K.O. characters, one-shot undead enemies/do massive damage and depending on the game potentially one-shot undead bosses as well.
How come cloud didn’t use one on Aries then to bring that hunty back to life
Proving Grounds and Glassway def felt way easier than previous seasons, but new Lake of Shadows is pain. 😅
@12:30 - PINK PUFFS = original english translation.
And on the old versions superfamicom and SNES there are no alarms/sirens.
Fancy that FFIII was mentioned. I beat the DS version with (by their canon names) Luneth as a Ninja, Arc as a Magus, Refia as a Devout and Ingus as a Black Belt. Luneth, Arc and (on the first turn) Refia took on the Right Tentacle of the final boss, Luneth throwing Shurikens, Arc casting Flare, and Refia starting off casting Holy before healing and buffing. Took that one out in no time, then move on the Left Tentacle, then the boss herself. IIRC (this was about 5 years ago), it took 30-60 minutes.
Ff12 was hard for me because I had to sell stuff to get powerful weapons. I had to let my hoarding go...it may work like only 50 percent of the time. 😅
I actually saved one of every drop but still kinda hoarded a ton of stuff in that way
Ah the Holy War, i'm currently playing FF VIII this last months i can't even play the game without having them now...
I could have sworn you were going to say "...had the potential to deal 9999 damage upon a single yeet" for the shuriken, and I lost it imagining that.
This channel always delivers top quality content.
The brew you get in FFXI in the abyssea zones should have made the list. Great content as always.
Thank you! Someone else remembers the brew
Via Infinito should have been done with no saving possible in between. Driving players insane with biggest challenge in the series.
In WOFF I didnt get Platinum at the end because i released a Sylph before transforming it since i had Serafie and didn't think it mattered. But then you can't get another Prismarium for Sylphs
I would maybe add Ring of the Lucii from XV. I know it's slightly different in that it's not a consumable, and it's function is more tied to story (though not enough in my opinion), but man what an item it was. Insta-wipes mobs, even the Adamantoise. And it's not limited use.
Just got around to watching - thanks for the shout-out! Great video as always.
This might sound weird but I've never actually used items in a FF game unless it was required (such as items required to make bosses even take damage). I just don't like using items lol
The Primeval Brew from FFXI should have made it on this list. It simply boosts all of your stats up to godlike levels. It boosts HP and MP to 9999 in a game where you might have a couple thousand of either. +1000 attack and accuracy, +100 to all main stats, etc. The catch is that as a temp item it's only available in certain areas and in Escha using it prevents a kill from counting for a quest (but you still get the item drops). The other catch is that it's very very expensive to buy one. Well, the Abyssea one has had its price reduced a fair bit, but that's old content endgame players are already godlike for so eh.
Another FFXI temp item with a very special power it the Revitalizer. This simply sets all recast timers to 0. Including the extremely powerful SP skills that have an hour recast time (it used to be 2 hours!). For certain very tricky battles your strategy depends on these skills, so players who want to fight multiple Tumult Curators for instance either need to wait an hour between fights or head to Abyssea to get a Revitalizer. Abyssea in particular because there's a certain cactuar monster who always drops one to everyone in the party that kills it. You'll sometimes see multiple parties team up temporarily just to kill this thing since it only spawns every 10-15 minutes. There are other ways to get these, but that's the most common and accessible.
You forgot the best part of using a brew. It also grants regen, refresh and regain.
All of which are also huge values 300~ HP and MP tick (roughly 3 seconds between ticks) and also regain being a buff the refills your TP meter which is for special moves and extremely powerful attacks. So you basically can spam your strongest attacks with insane stat bonuses. Brews allow you to solo any boss that has the brew available in that area. In fact using a brew locks you out of the completion of end game bosses for ultimate weapons if you use it during those boss fights.
I forget what it's called, but the armor you can find in the plains that works on Mog in FF6 that makes all damage reduce to 1 was stupidly OP, I loved it. Think it was called like Snow Suit, Behemeth Suit, something like that.
Snow Muffler; it, itself, doesn't reduce physical damage to 1, but it does have absurdly high def/mdef with good evasion stats. The Behemoth Suit was used at the Colosseum as a bet for it. Gau and Mog both can equip it, with Umaro joining wearing it. It absorbs ice and halves fire.
Behemoth Suit was the best armor for Relm and Strago, giving +6 base stats and the most def/mdef for their armor type. Obtained from the WoR Veldt Cave and, consequently, from the same 'boss' on the Veldt.
I'm currently using FFVI PR as Italian immersion, so this is all fresh in memory.
@@wcjerky interesting, I just remember putting muffler on Mog and solo running the final dungeon, as all attacks just did 1 to him.
I tried every trade in the arena and even figured out a way to kill and monster you're not supposed to kill. There's an 8x9999 pet turn loadout on Terra that does an additional 8x9999 when you receive a physical attack.
Took a while because you have to avoid the rng on the gust that kicks you out of the fight, but you don't get anything cool for beating.
Thought that character that hung out outside the arena joined your party if you pull out off for some reason
Loved seeing FF4's sirens in this list!
Op items.. they got to talk about FFVIII 100x Hero from Laguna card.. Ermmm.. Holy War! What the what.. did I skip them coz difficulty to obtain or did I just not know about them.
Thank you, each of your vids carry me back to beautiful memories of FF ❣️
The Hero item (potion). Made the user invincible for a minute. It could only be obtained by using the Tomberry GF special skill to transform the Laguna card. You got 99 of them. That is the strategy I used to beat Ultimecia. Once only Squall was standing with no magic left. I’d be down at 1hp, take one hero to resist her attacks for a minute, slash. For, 35 to 45 minutes. Yeah… I beat her on the first try at least. 😅
Card Mod isnt from Tonberry, its from Quetzacoatl.
Items like the Megalixir I never use even against the final boss. I am too scared to use items that can’t be bought from a shop or easily farmed.
I recently finish playing every mainline FF game (with the exception of 13) and beating every Superboss therein (just gotta finish up Trial 100). So I’ve done a lot of grinding for a lot of high-level equipment and items.
Grinding Pink Tails in FF4 is BY FAR the worst grind I’ve ever had to do for anything in a FF game. Thank goodness for Sirens.
God hearing the Balamb town tune at the end just makes me want to hop back onto FFVIII!
Primeval Brew from FFXI is the first thing that came to mind and really should be on this list.
I am not sure if this counts as items, but Bravely Default series alchemy items were utterly busted, basically being able to do anything if you had the correct 2 items. Boss is invulnerable to your rabid dark knight's attacks? No, they aren't they are now weak to dark! Teammates are suffering from yes? Well thankfully, alchemy channels the power of the strongest word in the English language: NO! Do you want to T pose in sheer stat advantage? Rhetorical question, of course you want to debuff all of their stats, and buff your!
I think the only thing it didn't do was dunk-tastic damage, but given just how utterly versatile it is, it almost scares me how many questions can be answered with just saying 'alchemy, lul!'
Also small note to FF tactics A2 Ranger, and their reverse item skill. Ever wanna see an elixir instantly kill someone? Well, reverse it's effects, and drop that 999 (hp cap) on their face. Stab their eye with a golden needle, and watch them turn to stone for once. Or attempt an instant death spell with reverse phoenix down, only costing you a small handful of gil! ;3
FF8 card game can allow players the opportunity for infinite Holy Wars through the CC Club quest.
I remember playing Chrono trigger back in the day - was at the black omen and I would get into fights with the lizardmen to double charm mega-elixirs over and over till I had max.. Funny thing is I ended up over leveling and they basically became inventory space.
rat tail from the flan princess only having a 1/64 chance in dropping? What version you playing on? That's waaaaay lower in the original.
With enough time and triple triad and card mod, holy wars were an infinite resource
Exactly!
Shout to Phoenix Down as well, capable of bringing the dead back to life, as well as felling some of the most dangerous undead characters in the franchise with a single use.
Probably pointed out but you can get an infinite number of Gilgamesh cards from the card club in disc 4.
15:20 - the opponent kinda reminds me of Xenogears.
That's what I said too. I paused the video immediately. "Fei, are you in there?"
Turns out it's actually even called XG and is indeed a crossover from Xenogears.
@nolongeraperson omg that's daaamn news to me!
Square needs a new Xenogears sequel, minus the "gratuitous exposition" part.
I can't believe you wasted all those consumables just to make this video! Just imagine all the superbosses that you could run into after beating these superbosses.
it's fun to think that you didn't even need holy war as an item to get the same effect, rinoas ability "invincible moon" does the exact same and is actually the main reason why you can finish ff8 without junctions
I remember saving all the normal elixirs on FF7 for the magic pots at the end that demanded an elixir cuz they gived big amounts of exp and think other stuff.
Are there any FF items that keep the Taxman away?
Death Penalty
Oh shit you shout out my boy fuzz! hell yeah, his ff12 guides are so helpful
I'm very surprised I did not see Primiveal Brew from FFXI didn't make the list
the Magitek Booster from FF15 negates all MP costs for a bit
sounds ok on the surface, but it's an absolute beast when combined with the Ring of the Lucii
I got a funny story regarding Megalixirs. I'm an item hoarder. The kind of guy that stocks up on powerful items and saves them for powerful bosses. Often times, I feel like a lot of story bosses just aren't strong enough to merit a use of these items. I often end up with an OVERSTOCK of Megalixirs by the time I reach the final boss and never use them. One day, I said "No more! In the next Final Fantasy I play, I'm gonna let myself have fun and pop these the moment I need them!" The next Final Fantasy I played was IX. Needless to say, I learned my lesson and I'll never use a rare item ever again.
Nice! Ive never seen a list of consumables like this. Great idea for the video :D
i swear i would install FF8 right now just to play Triple Triad if I didnt have to do all the rule changing stuff first! maybe i should just play with the rules...
Triple Triad: Literally the one publicly accepted thing that FF8 gave us all.
@@tigerwarrior1787 best Final Fantasy soundtrack hands down
@@meandurphy9366 i do like it! 7 still has my personal fav soundtrack :)
The proper way to play Triple Triad in FFVIII is save scumming. Save often, reset the game if some bastard tries to change to random. It's the only way to stay sane.
@@the_exegete You assume I am sane.
Ah yes the Megalixir or Dust collector as I like to call it. An item so useful that i’ve never used it an game ever. Not even in Kingdom hearts. They just sit there forever waiting for that 1 super valuable moment that never comes.
I played just about every main entry Final Fantasy game, some multiple times. And I swear, up until today I thought they were called MegaElixirs.
Video: No weapons, Only items that are consumable in battle.
Me: I use throw...
Video starts at 2:15
Good to know why the shurikens were so expensive lol
Mop is the most powerful and you can’t convince me otherwise
thats a weapon, it doesnt count
Dude....Mop is just evolution of the almighty Stick. It's just stick with a cleaning attachment. You know....when you want to beat a man but leave no evidence.
@@brandbordel yeah I left the comment before the video started 😅
Chicken Knife is stronger!
I love your videos but I’m always one to go back and watch specific parts or show friends a specific part of the video, its not a huge deal but it can be tedious trying to find the starting point for the specific part I want to see. Could you start putting segments in the video to break up the different items/parts? This would be soooo nice for any of us who like to go back or reference any of your videos down the line, just a suggestion, thanks for all the lovely FF vids! (: 💜
15:09 I suddenly want to play Xenogears again..
10 Holy Wars for my Gilgamesh card? An ruin my 100% complete collection of Triple Triad cards? Never!
You can get more from the Card Club...
@@BaronSengir1008 nope, the GF and Character cards are one of a kind, the game keeps the record of the card but you lose it forever
@@Forever_Zero That is actually incorrect...
"The Gilgamesh card refines into 10 Holy Wars with Quezacotl's Card Mod ability. This is one of the best items in the game, as Holy War renders the party invincible to all damage for a time, the same as Rinoa's Invincible Moon Limit Break with the difference that the player can precisely choose the time of generating the effect rather than the outcome being semi-random. With the chance of instant invincibility in the party's pocket, taking on superbosses and the final battles will be easy. Since the player completed the Card Club quest, the club members will also appear aboard the Ragnarok in the endgame, from whom the player can win all Level 8-10 cards they do not currently hold in their deck, even the cards they had modified before. This allows the player to modify the Gilgamesh card into Holy Wars, and then win it back and potentially modify it again, if desired, for an inexhaustible supply of Holy Wars."
@@BaronSengir1008 well, take a look at that, I had no idea you could do that, thanks for the info, I'll give it a try someday
The first time I played FF8, I didn’t have a good grasp of the game mechanics. Hence, I fought Ultimecia at lvl 99. It took like two and a half hours and dozens of holy wars, but somehow I survived it. Woulda gotten wiped in two rounds without them.
Phoenix down in Crisis Core was a must on my hard playrhru
No game-breaking Heal staff from FF1? That staff is better than the Masamune...
That's a good point, that Heal staff is really the best item in 1. In the original version, MP was so low that you wound up using items to heal because if you had a MP user you really had to conserve the MP for when you REALLY needed it. Even though Masamune was technically the most powerful weapon based on raw score, it could still be out damaged in two cases. One was fighting an undead enemy with the undead killing sword, I think it was called Sun. The other is that the Black Belts could get enough lucky hits to out damage Masamune.
@@jamesrussell8256 Black Belts actually match damage with a Masamune Fighter at level 21. Afterwards, they OUTDAMAGE them. Sick shit.
I always like to pick many hidden items, i was ITEMIZER too.
I would say the most overpowered consumable in ff12 is Gil as Gil toss does huge damage that is typeless
I can't remember who it was, but some folks have broken down the RNG in FF12 ZA. They did some incredible work that must have taken an extremely long time.
So glad Holy War made it in. I save it and the hero from Seifer PURELY for Omega Weapon
I don't know if this was a glitch or not, but on one time fighting Omega Weapon in FF8 i had a Holy War item last the whole fight. I did gameshark the game for infinite items (after beating the game legitly). Though the first time i did the gameshark thing i forgot to save on the way to Ifrit and walked into a forest. Well, 2 level 100 T-Rexaurs attacked me and party wiped me with their instakill 'BiteBite' atttack. That surprise attack also happened in the training center on the way to Granaldo. But the forest attack forced me to restart the whole game due to not saving.
Dunno about other games, but FF7's W-item item duplication exploit really made items busted.
Final Fantasy IV "Easy Type" (FFII for SNES) left in the PinkPuffs but dummied out the Siren item.
That's just mean.
Me: (hoards all of the attainable items in game in max qty)
Also Me during a Mega Boss fight : I'm losing, but now is not the right time to use any of my items.
That ain't no damn "Flan Princess"
It's a PinkPuff.
I've legit gotten the Pink Tail 3 times on the SNES version. Hundreds of hours. I could have done something with my life.
ASTERISK : Excalibur, Masamune, Murasame, the epic weapon type is powerful when thrown
(AND lost upon use so consummable)
Holy wars are always in my inventory when taking on ultimecia, makes an insane final boss not so stressful
W-Item w/ Glitch
You forgot the legendary BLOOD SWORD from Final Fantasy 2: Dawn of Souls gba. That sword is so OP that I can Solo probably all the bosses in the Final Fantasy universe.
Stardust in FF7
Its funny but in every ff game or rpg for that matter, I don't like using items, just have x99 on everything were possible lol
2:15
Pretty sure when they made the Holy War item they were just listening to Limmy before saying "Wah. Pyur wah!" and thought war is how you write water.
Non-equipable non-keyitems.
Mega Elixers and Dark Matters can turn the tides of battle depending on the title.
I like to find every important elixir… but then being too scared to use a single one lol
There was also the Elixor in Dirge of Cerberus it was a mix between a Elixir and a Phoenix Down and the Limit Breaker too was a pretty strong item in this game
Me: "I should use a potion..."
Also me: cUrAgA
Can you do a video on ultimate summons?
Its the same for me as well like most players 😂, save up tons of potions and elixirs and never use them in any big quest or boss fight
You guys left out the Primeval Brew.
*sigh* why must I always be the one to remind people XI still exists :P
It's one of the most powerful items ever as it basically granted you God Mode for I wanna say 30s but I can't recall the exact duration, only that it was ridiculously expensive at 200k Ichor or whatever the Abyssea currency was.
XIV also had a similar item (Over-aspected Crystal I think) though not quite as ludicrous in 1.23 that had to be crafted and was literally the only way to survive Megaflare in the hard mode fight vs Nael Deus Darnus.
If you didn't have it you simply died. But it also made you super powerful. In ARR it got changed to simply be a 1-time revive item.
Before watching the video... If megalixer isn't on this list... And there it is. The very last item on the list. Always goes into the "just in case there's an emergency" stash... and there's almost never an emergency big enough to use it... It's so strong that the OG LPer HCBailey has banned it from his runs of Final Fantasy games.
It’s always interesting when a game does throw that kind of emergency your way, though.
My best recent example is actually from a non-FF game, namely Tales of Xillia. That has Omega Elixirs, which are Megalixirs except they revive too. Again, the kinda thing where you don’t expect to ever be in a position to need them. Then I fought this superboss at a temple, and…I needed basically my entire stock.
Items so powerful they just became trophies in most gamer's inventories 😅😅😅
15:05 The Xenogears is in this game??
They Can Put It In A Final Fantasy Game, But Not Remaster The PS1 Classic Xenogears. 😂
a lot of squaresoft creatures make an appearance in World of Final Fantasy, Einhander is in here as well
@@vino.vvveeee Then They Must Know Xenogears Die Hard Have Been Waiting For A Remaster For Years. It Seems Like They Just Don't Want To. Bummer.
No primeval brew?
The Invincible from FF9
5:00 this looks familiar...
Wish you guys well in Final Fantasy. ❤
You missed Primeval Brew item from XI
I have never, ever, used a megalixir in any FF game.
I appreciate the inclusion of WoFF!
Unpopular opinion : granades of ffvii are super op when you first get them
Right Arms in speedruns too
I Use The 8 Inch Cannon.
🐉 scales better 😅
What was the first game that was shown? Halo?
I'm a simple man. I see FF8 thumbnail in a new video, I click.
The entire list could just be Rikku
or just grab a lvl 30 vivi with reflect and do that sweet 9999 damage without trying