Beatrix Without Gameshark possible?

[TheSpoonyBard]

That's really interesting, thanks for taking the time to do that. Makes me wonder if you did the same for flashback Sephiroth.

I did. Sephiroth is 1st for everything except for HP (only Aerith and Vincent have lower) and MP (4th out of 10).

That being said, I rarely noticed stat differences in FFVIII, except I recall Zell being very poor at drawing magic. Junctioning and the myriad ways to permenantly boost stats allowed the player to easily smooth over such differences.

Zell is joint 7th with Quistis and Irvine for Magic. Only Ward's is lower.

I was much more aware of the differences between character abilities in FFIX, parly due to the rigid class distinctions. For example I could reasonably guess Steiner and Vivi are at opposite extremes of physical and magical stats.

Steiner has 120 HP, 24 MP, 24 Str and 12 Mag.
Vivi has 60 HP, 48 MP, 12 Str and 24 Mag.
They're exact mirror images at Lv1. But the relationship disappears as they level up.