Aeris has awesome Limit Breaks

[Jinx]

Exactly. You hung around that area. As soon as I got Yuffie, I went on my way and then grinded out for a lil bit later on

Fighting in the forest where you get Yuffie is really not getting low exp kills though. Those little plant dudes give unreasonably high exp for that stage in the game, balanced by the fact they are smurfing hard if you're not prepared.

In the forest, yeah, but I'm talking about the general Ft. Condor area outside of the forest. It's essentially the same creatures you run into on the Midgar side, isn't it? IDK. My short term memory is really bad.

But let's look at it this way... If you were a n00b, knew -nothing- about the game nor had a walkthrough, would you still use Aeris in your main party? Or rather, did you in your first playthrough? I sure as hell didn't - and I played it way after 8 came out, bought it used and went through without a walkthrough. Then again, I'm an "O" masher like someone else said ... Unless it's a harder boss, then I just whip out one of my summons and get it over with.

It's a giant Native American bird thing who vomits all over you.