Instant derailment.

The most underrated character in Final Fantasy 6, BY THE WAY, is something of an undertaking to consider, being that there are 14 of the mothersmurfers. Not to mention, the community of FF6 players isn't exactly vocal. It's hard to decide what the ratings are when there really aren't that many people who talk about this game.

It's easy to get obsessed with the latter-era Final Fantasies. They're flashy, big, and the secondary sex characteristics of the player characters are more obvious.

But when I meet a person who posts in a Final Fantasy 6 thread about underrated characters in the game with an answer of characters that are from later Final Fantasies, the first thing I think is this: This person has no imagination, no desire to know what the series is about, no child-like curiosity. In other words, Forsaken Lover, how boring.

Now, back.
On.
Topic.

My first choice is going to be Umaro. Because you don't actually get to select his actions, not to mention the total void of backstory, I feel many people overlook his "smurf everything and attack" philosophy. But it's just a great idea. A character devoted to pure rage. You won't ever get that in a latter-era Final Fantasy. The CD loading times wouldn't permit such immediate, ridiculously animated ACTION. Umaro is a character that believes in smurf you.

Second choice is definitely Gau. He can be very annoying, simply because most people assume that the more Rages he knows, the more powerful he is. But the idea behind the character is experimentation. You have to try out the various Rages to know what they do, and in fact, many of them are next to useless. Unfocused Life 3, anyone? (This is the Rhinox Rage, just fyi) Life 3 is a spell that is meant to be planned. If you don't know when he's going to cast it, and couple that with the fact that you don't know who he's going to cast it on, and you have a recipe for frustration. But Gau isn't all bad. His Stray Cat is one of the most powerful physical attacks in the whole game, and it's available the first time you visit the Veldt. If you are gifted with some patience and child-like curiosity, willingness to experiment...Gau is pretty uber.

Forsaken Lover. (snort giggle)