what FF had the best battle system??

[Bolivar]

Well there's a lot of things going on in the question. Game difficulty, character development system, the battles themselves.

And I don't really have an answer. VII-X and XII all stand out for me and I want to name each one for different reasons. VII had the best speed and presentation of the battles. VIII's junction system is one of the deepest character development systems in the series. FFIX simply did everything Final Fantasy stands for perfect, borrowing FFT's weapon-item system. FFX and XII have both been discussed by others.

ALL OF THEM!

[Hot Shot]

It's definately X. I love the way you can switch players in battle, it allows you to create greater tactics.

[Shin Gouken]

Well there's a lot of things going on in the question. Game difficulty, character development system, the battles themselves.

And I don't really have an answer. VII-X and XII all stand out for me and I want to name each one for different reasons. VII had the best speed and presentation of the battles. VIII's junction system is one of the deepest character development systems in the series. FFIX simply did everything Final Fantasy stands for perfect, borrowing FFT's weapon-item system. FFX and XII have both been discussed by others.

ALL OF THEM!

Junction system was horrible.

FFIX is just far too slow.

[Suikojowy]

Final Fantasy X's has been my favourite

[Xanthia]

Mmm battle systems seem to be improving as the series develops. Each battle system is great though, I was addicted throughout...

However, as mentioned previously in this thread X had a good one. From then onwards I found it was slowly improving. I like the system in XIII, but if I'm truthful I sometimes feel like I'm cheating as I only get to command one character... But the ability to switch 'positions' is pretty nifty.

It's speedy and sexy. <3

[Greatermaximus]

They're all kinda the same. It's not like DnD where you can whisper and communicate. You're in the middle of intense battles so you're improvising will be limited unless you can still pause the game while the 'scan spell' effect implements.

If you don't want to compare it to other games then the universal answer is each one stands on its own.