Why is Kimahri so useless?

[Nanaki_XIII]

ISN'T an all-around character? He's the eaiest character to round with and as already mentioned if you steal from brian and yenke you can get a nice amount of Lv.3 key spheres and traning him as a white mage faster than yuna will allow you to keep cure cura curaga reflect, protect, shell, possibly auto-life and holy you're null spells and of course pray, almost all his wepaons bear piercing making him good agaisnt armored fiends before Auron learns Armor break and his lancet makes him an early long ranger with waka and lulu(this group made sin's fin very easy)

[rubah]

You wouldn't have Cure or teh null spells with kimarhi as a white mage, because you'd enter in the middle of the white mage grid, around Protect, Reflect, and the like.

Most importantly though, Dispel.

If you have dispel, then evrae is *so* easy it's ridiculous.

[Cruise Control]

Well, when you train him as a white mage thief, he's better by way of having spells yuna does not :]

But if I'm not mistaken, the spells are much weaker.

[TheSpoonyBard]

Protect, Shell, Reflect and Dispel don't need power to be effective.

[rubah]

Kimarhi makes up for his sucky magic in MP. at least he's got plenty at the beginning

[Hambone]

he's a kitty.

[boys from the dwarf]

Just out of curiosity, but what is a Red Mage? I haven't played the older FF's (7 was the first for me)

a red mage is usually someone who can cast up to mid level white and black magic(sometimes high level.) and they also hold swords which makes them good but not great at nearly everything.

[Hambone]

Kimahri is awesome. But only if you let him go into the right person's grid like Wakka, then Auron, then Tidus.

[Ilyn]

Kimah is very useful. I am utterly confused by people who say it's a waste to train him at all. Just copy your favorite character, and voila! I'd go with the whm/thief, black mage, or wakka/auron setup, personally... all three have their advantages. At one point, Kimahri was dealing better damage than Lulu with his elemental spells - I got a +20% mag Halberd early on + MP boosting armor; it really, really helps.

[4evarisha]

He is useless because his sphere grid is weird and the others is not.

[IpwnUthisMuch|------|]

impecable logic 4evarisha...

i find him useless because his overdrives are very weak compared to other overdrives...

as well as this because of the sphere grid system all characters can do everything and his ability to do that slightly sooner isnt enough to overrule the fact that he is a ginormous talking blue cat with a broken horn and broken english...

[mega_tonberry]

I really want my Kimarhi to be a good character but I just don't find him usefull at all.

[4evarisha]

That's true because my Tidus and Lulu and Yuna has the strongest overdrive.

[Ashley Schovitz]

He's not useless if you let him take on 3 grids at once, to do that whenever you get a return sphere use it for kimahri and by the time that he fights Yenkse and Biran he'll know steal, use, Fira,Blaizzara,Thundara,Watera, Bio, Demi, Dark Attack, Silence Attack, Cheer, Flee, and Haste. You see the ultimate warrior.

[a nirvana fan]

Well I've always liked Kimahri personally..he's great.