What's the Dumbest Weapon in Final Fantasy VIII

[Dat Matt]

Final Fantasy VIII is known for many things, and it has the strangest pool of character weapons for the main characters out of all the Final Fantasy Games. Which one of these weapons are conventionally the dumbest weapon? Here's my case for each:

Squall (Gunblade) - Gun = Fine, Sword = No problem. Together you have a unbalanced melee weapon with an awkward grip.

Rinoa (Blaster Edge) - Is it a shuriken, is it a boomerang. What happens if it gets lodged in the enemy or doesn't come back to Riona. Girl u'd be ded.

Zell (Gloves) - More traditional weapon, sure. But do you really want to go and punch a t-rex or a dragon in the face?

Quistis (Whip) - Another traditional weapon, but considering the futuristic theme of this game what's the chances you'll come up against a robot or something that the whip doesn't affect?

Selphie (Nunchaku) - They are nunchucks.

Irvine (Shotgun) - Hired sharpshooter hired for sniping. Uses short range weapons.

Laguna (Machine Gun) - Legit usable weapon. Don't vote for this.

Kiros (Katar) - It's kind of like a sword, but not. What does Kiros do if he doesn't need something dead with these equipped. Like to scratch his nose. Can't do it.

Ward (Harpoon) - Throw harpoon, run to get harpoon. Throw Harpoon again. Why? Just Why?

[Jinx]

good god so many of them, really tough poll

but the gunblade


(this is a good poll, matt))

[Vermachtnis]

The Harpoon, it's just so very silly.

[Shauna]

Screw your rules!

[Madame Adequate]

WRONG

HARPOON IS AWESOME

[Dat Matt]

Screw your rules!

You should go ban yourself.

[Shorty]

The gunblade is awesome.

Rinoa's boomerang always seemed a little dopey to me. Quistis' whip is also stupid.

[Ayen]

As much as I like her I have to go with the Blaster Edges. I can understand almost every single weapon the main character use except that one. Plus it never did that much damage anyway.

[Colonel Angus]

Screw your rules!

You should go ban yourself.

If only she was on staff.

But really, people. If you aren't picking the harpoon then I don't know what to say about you. HE HAS TO RUN AFTER IT TO RETRIEVE IT! "Excuse me, Mr. Monster, but may I get that harpoon I just lunged @ you?"

[Ayen]

Screw your rules!

You should go ban yourself.

If only she was on staff.

But really, people. If you aren't picking the harpoon then I don't know what to say about you.

*Jedi mind trick* You want to say "You're a wonderful person" and give me flowers and chocolate candy to show your love.

[Mirage]

For robots, you clearly just put thunder on the whip.
Irvine using shotguns when he is a sniper is dumb, but the weapons are fine and it makes way more sense to use a shotgun in close combat than a sniper rifle. In his defence, he uses a proper sniper rifle when he's actually being a sniper who breaks down under pressure.

In either case, harpoon is the dumbest weapon, closely followed by the discos thrower.

[Madame Adequate]

Maybe Irvine is competent with more than one firearm

e; Irvine's breakdown is dumb, but it's dumb because you probably want to send a hardened, experienced veteran to assassinate the most powerful and dangerous person in the world, not a kid. But this is a world where mercenary outfits take the place of conventional K-12 education.

e2; A properly used whip would be a really dangerous weapon, they're just really hard to use properly. If you're using some space alien magic FF bulltrout like Quistis then it makes sense it'd be fairly powerful. This holds true for every weapon except Zell's fists, but Zell is second only to Sabin for sheer goddamn badassery so what the smurf do he care?

[Mirage]

but shotguns are so incredibly difficult to use!

[Spooniest]

Blaster Edge gets my vote for dumbery, just because of the sheer physics nightmare its design and operation entail.

I...I can't even begin to describe how many ways Rinoa's weapon is wrong.

[Bubba]

Throw harpoon, run to get harpoon. Throw Harpoon again. Why? Just Why?

Exactly.