How do I do a blitz?

[Llednar Twem]

I've only ever used a blitz once and that's when I was fighting Vargas.
All I ever get is "Incorrect Blitz command input!".
How do I do the Blitz commands properly without navigating through the menu of the next person's turn?

[Giga Guess]

You have to be mindful of your input BEFORE you hit A. For example, Pummel, you hit LEFT, RIGHT, LEFT and then A. Take your time. If I recall correctly, it freezes time, so have as much time as you need to execute your Blitz properly.

[Llednar Twem]

So when the cursor is over Sabin, I put in the command and then press a?

[Tavrobel]

If I recall, you have to choose the Blitz command first (A), and then the input (Left Left Up Up Right Right Down Down Left), and then confirm (A). You can cancel at anytime using (B).

Bum Rush of course will be wrong if you put it in before you learn it.

[Llednar Twem]

There's an arrow that goes diagonally in one of my Blitzes, how do I do that arrow?

[Brockman5000]

just click LEFT and Up at the same time. I roll my fingers when doing the ones with diagonal arrows.

[Llednar Twem]

Waaah...
None of my commands work...

[Laddy]

You'll have to do it pretty quickly. Also, are you sure your doing it correctly? Check Sabin's Blitzes in Abilities.

[Xurts]

For diagonals you press the button before it twice. So if you want to perform AuraBolt press down, down, left. Select Blitz, input command, press A.

[,,,]

Trying to do an aurabolt/auracannon? Don't forget to yell "HADOKEN!!!!!!!!!!!" at the top of your lungs as you execute it. That's the most important part.

[Rengori]

Guys, he said in the first post that he's fighting Vargas, quit confusing the boy with all your Blitz's that aren't Pummel.

Yeah I got stuck with Blitz's too, you have to select Blitz, and then notice how you have to hit A/X again afterwards to make it work? That's when you put in the blitz (I don't remember how it goes, it tells you).

[Hazzard]

Yeah, I keep smurfing that up on the emulator, and that's why I quit it.

[Llednar Twem]

Yeah, but now I'm at the Magitek Research Facility where Celes gets kidnapped. The part after Cid finds out magicites are more powerful than just plainly draining power out of the espers and after the fight with Ifrit and Shiva where they give me their souls magicites.
I sill can't do a blitz.

[Hazzard]

How did you pull it off the first time then? By luck...?

[Crossblades]

Yeah, but now I'm at the Magitek Research Facility where Celes gets kidnapped. The part after Cid finds out magicites are more powerful than just plainly draining power out of the espers and after the fight with Ifrit and Shiva where they give me their souls magicites.
I sill can't do a blitz.

Look under Blitz in the abilities menu. It tells you how to pull the Blitz commands