Quote Originally Posted by Ultima Shadow
1) nope in the elite, yes in the others.
2) Brotherhood. Since it's auto equiped.
3)Nope, I can guarantee it's not.
4)zorander answered that. And just use some Aeons if you need.

Black Mage FF1, I don't think it's fun to just use Attack + item. Yea, it's way harder... but I don't think it's very enjoyable. I've beaten FFVII with solo character, no materia + only first weapon and armour. What made this challange hell was not the hardness but the lack of options in battle. Atleast you had some use of change, defend + fury and sadness stats... but out of those only defend does exist in FFX. I think just using attack and item whould be incredibly boring.
The no overdrive one would be dumb to do but the other two you can use overdrives which probably makes them more enjoyable to do. BTW I dont think any of these challenges would be fun to do. Just long and boring.