Near death attacks!

How do you execute them? because they never work for me.

As the name suggests, you have to be near death. The character much be kneeling due to low health, and the fight command with then randomly execute a Desperation Attack. It rarely happens.

I believe it is a 1/32 chance, or something similar.

I think I've only ever seen 3 throughout the several play throughs I've done :p

I don't think I've ever seen one. Seriously.

I always get Edgar and Sabin on low hp so there kneeling but they never do it but if it is a 1/32 chance then that explains it, I seen Locke do his near death attack on my first play through, he was about level 10 or 11 and when i used it he did well ova 3000 damage.

I've played at least eight or ten times, and I believe I've only seen one, which was Celes'.

They must have really low HP and it happens at random

If the HP of the character in question is less than an eighth of their max HP, there is a 1 in 16 chance that using the Fight command will bring about a "Desperation attack" instead. Neither Gau nor Umaro has a Desperation attack.

yea, they're quite rare and I wouldn't ever depend on them, but they look cool.

Don't you have to wait for a while in battle first?

Its pretty random and barely ever happens. I only ever seen Lockes......Twice.
And Im not sure wether this is a near death attack but sometimes Umaro will pick up one of your party members and throw them at the enemy. It usually deals a fair bit of damage.

ive only seen terras and edgars. ots a shame there so rare becuase they are great moves.

I've seen Locke's, Shadow's, and I believe Terra's.

And Umaro's picking someone up and hurling them at a monster is a result of the Rage Ring.

I saw the moogle rush of Mog one time, but that´s all.