You know, my materia skills my first time through were...pretty much non-existent, but I actually survived, probably because I put as many materia I could on each character having no idea what it meant besides the fact that it did something good.

THE JUNCTION SYSTEM ON THE OTHER HAND! now thats something I didn't even use! My first playthrough, I missed Quezacotl and Shiva, didn't know you could draw GF's so I missed Siren, and I basically had no idea what the system was for. I thought the game was comepletely ridiculous, then I got good...