Weakest Character

[qwertysaur]

I neglect Vincent and Barret in every playthrough. I try to use them but then I forget and go back to Nanaki Cid Tifa and Yuffie. I don't count Aeris as not being used because she is an amazing healer despite you only have her for half the game. Nanai is a doggy, Yuffie is a Klepto and Tifa beats everyone up. Watching her pick up Safer Sephiroth and slamming him into the ground never gets old

Cait Sith I used on my first playthrough because he was cool, but he is a spy and for that he never sees battle >:/

[Roogle]

I rarely used Cait Sith for the same reasons as mentioned in the opening post.

I liked Reeve as a character a lot and I thought it was a shame that his presentation with Cait Sith was portrayed as silly because he was actually a very serious player in the story being the inside mole to Shinra Corporation for half of the game. I would have liked it if they handled that somewhat differently.

[Kyros]

Cait Sith sucked. Ive probably used him for less than an hr total out of my 209580 playthroughs. Also when he 'sacrificed' himself to get the black materia it wasnt climactic in any way whatsoever. Throw the doll into the temple and everybody's fine...DUH THATS THE EASY DECISION TO MAKE.

[Roogle]

Cait Sith sucked. Ive probably used him for less than an hr total out of my 209580 playthroughs. Also when he 'sacrificed' himself to get the black materia it wasnt climactic in any way whatsoever. Throw the doll into the temple and everybody's fine...DUH THATS THE EASY DECISION TO MAKE.

Yes, I agree about the situation in the Temple of the Ancients. I felt like the scene was meant to be sad even though we, as players, knew that Cait Sith was just a robot being controlled by someone remotely, and that there was nothing really lost. The fact that Cait Sith came back immediately afterward like nothing had even happened really ruined what could have been a dramatic scene.

[Raistlin]

I've heard some people consider it as a foreshadow for Aerith's death. Me, I just like to think of it as intentionally obnoxious irony and just be amused by it.

[Miriel]

What's with the Yuffie hate? I thought she was cute. I'd go around stealing materia too if I lived in that world.

I used Cait Sith and Vincent the least. I don't really know why, I just liked the other characters more.

[Rantz]

I've never minded Yuffie either. She was funny!

[Roogle]

Yuffie was a good character from a gameplay standpoint because she has the ability to attack from a long range and she possesses a multiple hit Limit Break, "Doom of the Living", which puts her one up ahead of some other characters.

I felt like they made too much comic relief of her story since it is rather tragic that she feels the need to resort to stealing Materia to help her country regain its former glory that she remembers as a child. I heard she has a more serious role as a supporting character in Dirge of Cerberus: Final Fantasy VII.

[LunarWeaver]

I was never big on Cait Sith because of his limit break. I liked Yuffie until she crashed my PC game. Now she can $#^@ herself with an icepick.

[Mercen-X]

Pretty much used everybody. My main party late in the game would consist of the heavy multihitters though: Tifa with seven Breaks and Cid with his Highwind. Combined with Cloud's Omnislash, there was very little competition from enemies... or the other characters.
If they had included a HP Damage Cap break, I probably would have used the other characters more often. But, Barret & Vincent's 7 attacks only have a couple of hits and I think I remember Yuffie and Nanaki's as being just one group hit. When you can just combine a magic spell with all, why would this limit break be useful?

[ANGRYWOLF]

in case I need them later on...

I didn't like Cait Sith's limit break and I didn't like yuffie's personality but I leveled them up and used them from time to time anyway.

Technically aeris was probably the weakest physically but most healers in games are the weakest physically anyway.

[BG-57]

Jumping on the bandwagon here, I never cared for Cait Sith's Slots, although Dice was useful, especially leveled up. I just don't like randomness as part of an attack strategy, I much prefer predictability.

Also purely from an visual standpoint the Moogle part was awful. Should have just stuck to a cute little cat puppet and left it at that.

[Rye]

Rarely used Cait Sith or Red XIII, though I liked Red as a character. I think my team was usually Cloud, Tifa and Sailor Suit Barret.

[Karifean]

Seems like I'm one of the very few who didn't think much of Tifa in battle. I always measure characters' power by the strength of their Limit Breaks, and Barret's Ungarmax and Yuffie's Doom of the Living are just great (Tifa can only do 7 hits), especially if you use Hero Drinks to power them up. And, of course, Cloud and Cid are always in my party, also thanks to Apocalypse and Flayer.

I think I hardly used Cait Sith, Red XIII and Vincent, because by the time I got them, I had already 6 of the 7 limit breaks for Cloud, Barret and Yuffie - and those three got REALLY nice limit breaks on the third level. Cid is an exception here; though he's the last character you get, I still try to get all his LBs as fast as possible (by the time I learned them all, I already got the Highwind item).

[Kyros]

I'm pretty sure Barret had the worst overall stats in the entire game plus he sucked so I never used him either except when the game made me. I also don't use Aeris in any playthroughs b/c shes bad imo. She has a few good limits but overall at least 1/2 of them are a waste, and I rarely had to use them since cure + all easily replaced healing wind or w/e her lv1 was called. After that she didnt get anything useful till lv3 if I remember correctly.

If/when I play the game again I might make myself use Yuffie since I've always wanted to but never could make myself put her in the party over Cid and Tifa.