An interesting setup fer me when I wanted to beat VII on a friend's file: first off, he was on Disc 3 and had NO cure magic. So I had Yuffie learn Cue-2. After that, I basically stuck her with many summons (weak ones too, no KotR for this man) to boost her magic. Second, Cloud has as many HP Pluses as it took to get him to 9999 HP. He also had SlashAll, and I think that was it. Vincent also had many HP Pluses, as well as Ultima and Phoenix. I was level 55 and not one of my guys died vs. Safer-Sephy. ^_^