Using stop on staggered enemies freezes the stagger gauge as well, some people might not know

Quick Tip: In chapter 14, slot a first strike and put fire and magnify in a linked slot all on the same character. Fill out the rest with materia you want to level. Spam the 3 member coliseum fight. Cast nothing but firaga. The full runs will take about 30 seconds. Within a few hours you can easily hit 50 and max most materias. You can also sell the celeris that drop for a good bit of gil.

One thing I do sort of miss is the fact that maxing out materia doesnt give birth to a new one..

Magnify + Healing has been my default combo for most of hard mode.

For hard challengers I reccomend the ability materia Pray. A mastered pray on Aerith or Barret is like a full heal to the team. Chakra is also amazing

Deep sadness for those of us who never slotted steal lol.

You don't even mention where the materia can be obtained. Brilliant.

Prayer and Chakra are the best for heals in the long run because they free up your MP for more spells like Mag+Barrier or Mag+Time.

Honestly, Assess is my favourite, it gives you such a huge advantage against some of the tougher bosses with it not only giving you their weaknesses and resistances, but also sometimes how to pressure/stagger, other than that, Magnify, I like to put magnify on my healing and pretty much any buff materia

You can also put elemental in your armor slot, instead of in your weapon, to get resistance to the paired materia. Halved at level 1 resisted completely at level 2 and absorbed at level 3!

Dude I am new to FF7 and was so confused about materia yet you explained it so perfectly. I enjoy the game even more because of you. Thank you!!

AP boost is a must have. If you don't have it grinding certain materia takes forever. Also using magnify can give you an instant limit break in some fights with a fairly big group of enemies. Makes for some really quick fights and very minimal resources lost

magnify materia aka 'ALL' materia lol XD

Asses is really handy, for noobs like myself. Gives you some idea on how to defeat certain monsters/enemies.

I can't wait to see meteor, ultima, knights of the round, and of course I'm dying to see what the omnislash is going to look like. I'm hoping I can still use OP strategies from the original like Quad+meteor. As a hardcore fan of the original I was disappointed with some of the changes made to the remake but I'm still loving the game for the most part.

I find Warding materia useful as elemental. I dont really rely on elemental on weapon, more on armor for defense. Warding materia is the "Added Effect" materia of the original game but now it only works on armor. With Warding, you can prevent status like instant death, stop or slow, silence/sleep/berserk. The tonberries which are heavy on instant death is easier now to kill with warding subversion (death) materia combination. I wish they retain the "Added Effect" so I could inflict status on enemies with normal attacks :D

I'm surprised they didnt go back to "Shell" for the magic barrier.

Using magnify on cure is a waste when pray is so OP id recommend using it on barrier or time materia. Likely time materia tbh. Late game using it on fire is really useful also but not as useful as time.

You're right about elemental taking a long time to level up.

Time spells are a must in every FF game.

Some spoilers, do not click more information if you do not want spoilers. I use Magnify+Healing for the AoE Regen. I use warding+poison to reduce those damage. At the same time I use Bio on most bosses because most of them can be poisoned. If you do not have enough damage yet or want a faster way to kill a boss, poison Damage per Second is your friend. Have HP Up and MP Up materias as well for longer fights and sustain. That's pretty much what I have for Cloud. For Barette it's mostly support type like Provoke, HP Up, Healing, and Cleansing. For Tifa, I use the Accessory+Materias that quickly increases your ATB and Limit Break bar gains+Refocus Materia. (With Aerith ATB booster skill) 7-8 different attacks in 10 seconds. Summon bar appears or Limit Break available within a minute or two.

Pray materia is a must also in Hard Mode, helps a lot when fighting minions in order to save MP

Already got the game so I can say that the best one is the elemental link one where it empowers your weapon with the element that you have

I'd say chakra is the most important materia for hard mode as you can heal a significant amount of health and cure poison with it's use and it doesn't consume MP

Man, it would be great if they add some type of materia, for the next game, that gives you "super armor" when you don't want to be interrupted when you are executing a special move on an enemy.

I haven't seen anyone say it in the comments, but there are a LOT of comments, so... You say that leveling up the elemental materia lets you resist/nullify/absorb damage of that elemental type, but that's ONLY if you equip elemental on your ARMOR. Otherwise, love this.

In the original game, some of my favorite Materia that I couldn't live without are Added Cut and Contain. Excited to see how these two might be implemented in this remake.

Remake = Classic Materia Magnify = All materia First strike = pre-emptive strike materia (Reworked) Elemental = Elemental Materia Barrier = Barrier Time = Time How are these spoilers? They are just reworks or materia found in the later stages of the original? Hopefully Added Effect Materia, Enemy Skill Materia, and Final Attack Materia will show up. Can't wait till I get my copy. Good video though.

I'm sure that someone has already mentioned, but Elemental varies, depending on whether equipped to weapon or armor. I do miss the creation of new materia, upon mastering.

Locations of said materia?

A big point for elemental that you didn't mention and confused me for a while is that it matters where you have it equipped. It either adds the element to your weapon *OR* protects against the element by the listed effect, depending on whether you have it in your weapon or armour slot.

You didn’t mention the best material to get, AP boost, the material that speeds up material leveling by alot

I wonder if the materia combinations from the original will still work? Remember Knights of the round combined with quadra summon and mime? You cast Knights of the round like seven times in a row.

You forgot to mention the boost to stats that those materia gives like Barrier boosts defense and magic defense.

Keep in mind, elemental materia either adds weapon dmg, OR gives elemental protection depending on if slotted in armor or weapon, it doesn't give both effects at once

Don't know how relevant it is on this one just yet, but back in the day....Wind based Summon Materia + Elemental was basically a permanent damage boost. I can't remember the exact number, but I think only like 3% of the enemies in the game were resistant to Wind. First thing I did in this one was equip it to Wind instinctually, but I didn't like the way it looked, so I went Fashion Souls and slapped Fire on it. So glad they kept the spirit of Materia combinations alive. I remember the old Double Cast + Fire + MP Absorb + Boost trick. I used to do that with Meteor. The old Hades Summon Materia + Added Effect. There were so many more.

This is a 22 year old conversation brought back to life.

cant wait till we can use mime + counter in 10 years

Magnify is the best, oh how I wish you could get 2 of them in the game lol I like to couple it together with Time materia so I can give everyone Haste. Another good one you can use it with is Barrier so you can cast Manawall on every one at once.

Id recommend Pray also. I put it on my ranged attacker/healer and it makes basically all the boss fights easy.

Damn.. .. I miss the whole materia system.

Only used barrier twice in hard mode, the best one for hard mode that i used was prayer to save on mana. And when it comes to the blue materia, you can only get them once, no matter how many play throughs you do.

Elemental Materia sucks when you face a boss resistant to it though. Thats why i always equip Wind Materia haha its the least resistant one so far i think

Square Enix just confirmed we'll get to keep our material and stats going into the remake episode 2.

Anyone else pissed they turned Added Effect into Warding so its only for defense (aka basically a wasted slot)? Is it because status magic got consolidated into like 3 materia or because status magic is now 100% proc if the monster isn't immune?

I miss the days when Materia give birth to another same materia once maxed

I'll save you 7 minutes of your time. 1. Elemental Materia, up to 2 2. Magnify Materia, 1 only 3. Time Materia, many 4. First Strike Materia, many 5. Barrier Materia, many Bonus: Cure, Revive many It's a disappointing presentation and seems lazy. A list at the start and speaking more concisely and quickly would have done this 3 minutes, rather than dragging it out like you've done here.

I cant belive I never thought of linking heal on my aerith god damn I'm a moron

You Forgot Prayer... Although It Requires 2 ATB Bars It Heals Your Entire Team Without Using MP

Something I haven't seen anyone mention with the magnify materia and it's linked materia. The ara and aga spells have splash radius aga having a larger radius of course. So anything close to the target also takes a good chunk. This also applies to the branch off from magnify. So if there were 4 monsters clumped together and you cast Firaga, The initial burst hits hardest on main target but also does splash damage, magnify kicks in and it branches out to all nearby targets. The best part is you now have 3 Firaga stacked on each other all throwing out splash damage as well. I didn't realize it at first but noticed they always took more damage the closer they were clumped. Sure enough you can see all the crazy numbers go out.

Actually all the materia have their usefulness and it's always good to plan ahead before a boss fight equipping materia which can give you an advantage. For instance while fighting Reno I equipped a lightning materia paired with a maxed out elemental materia on my armor when he used the lightning balls it actually healed Cloud making the fight much more easier on hard mode. Also the provoke materia has its uses. You can only control one character at a time and often the character you control becomes the primary target of enemy attacks the other characters are largely ignored. You can change this with the provoke materia so by equipping it upon one of the characters the enemies instead will focus the majority of their attacks upon that character which comes in handy like using Barrett as a tank you rarely control him while Aerith a character you often control will be free to cast spells to damage or heal the other character.

Elemental materia is definitely the best.

funny! basically...all of the materia I used to set up and mastered back in 1997, when I first beat FF7 LOL ! Fantastic!good to know that I can basically use the same strategies and materia layout for this game. :)

AOE sleep is a godsend for a lot of hard mode group fights. Combined with Berzerk, you can make fights 1v1 against enemies that are easier to kill (but hit harder). Sleep is actually ultra useful in a lot of fights in general. Having problems with hell house's GOD HOUSE? Put it to sleep. It'll drop it's shield if it doesn't resist. Reno and Rude giving you trouble? Put one of them to sleep. If the enemy isn't straight immune to it, sleep is by far the best status you can do since it lasts a while, you can regen and get full atb before fighting again.

Magnify. Elemental. Steadfast Block. First Strike. Assess. These bad boys helped me platinum. Honourable mention to MP and HP ups and Poison for bosses on hard. (Looking at you hellhouse and Ghosthorseman dude)

Here is a list of the Total number of each "rare" materia you can get, both in normal AND har mode (FF7R pt1): 1. Luck up (2) 2. Element (2) 3. Magnify (1) 4. Magic Up (2) 5. HP Absorbtion (2) 6. Item Master (2) 7. Auto-Cure (1) 8. Synergy (1) 9. MP Absorbtion (1) 10. AP up (1) 11. Gil Up (1) 12. Exp Up (1) 13. Wind (3) 14. Assess (2) 15. ATB Boost (1) 16. Steal (1) 17. Enemy skill (1) 18. Parry (3) 19. First Strike (2) 20. ATB Stagger (3) 21. ARB Assist (1) 22. Provoke (1) 23. Steasfast (3) 24. Skill Master (3)

2:18 I see you fighting those two Cutters the difficult way. Just slot Aerith with: Lightning + Magnify, Magic Up x2, First Strike, Staff with highest M.Atk, Accessory that boost M.Atk 10%. Set L1 shortcut to have her magnify cast Thundaga, so you don't have to fiddle with the menu, saving precious time. If you get it high enough, she can 1 shot them at the beginning of the battle. You can also just fight them in easy mode, since it gives same amount of AP as normal. You can clear that battle in an average of 8 seconds if your Aerith is powerful. My quickest clear is 3 secs. It's the fastest way to level up Materias by farming those two Cutters. You can make an average of 90-120AP per minute (even tho, you kill them in 3-8secs, there's still animation/loading), and 2x faster on a materia if you use AP Up on one of them.

Paradise or pair o' dice? I use First Strike on Cloud so I can Triple Slash and kill the random encounters in like 5 seconds

Thank you for this video! im looking forward to see what other Materia combinations you will come up with!

Elemental materia, It absorbs damage if sloted into armor. It deals damage if sloted into weapon.

Late game i did Magnify + Time and used Prayer for healing

Barrier was useful during Abzu (Ch. !0: Rough Waters). I’m late to the game after pre-ordering Rebirth - not realizing I needed to play Remake first.

One thing that isn't too clear about Elemental..it is either or...it can add the element to your weapons only if set in your weapon and if you want to use it defensively it must be set to your armor. Luckily you get 2 but the 2nd one is only for beating all possible quests in one run.

Magnify plus heals/barriers, hp up, mp up. Usually is a must. Pray is also good, takes two atb at thesame time.

I was in the graveyard and got a Materia that said "resident: Instant death" and I was just sitting there thinking "Oh yeah I'm not beating this game"

Elemental materia only works toward halving elemental damage when it's linked on armor.and elemental effect on weapons when on a linked weapon slot..you have to choose offense or defense unless you use 2 different elemental materia on 1 character

Any chance of a quick video that tells you which part of the story and game you can get these in? No real story spoilers just "The Arena in Chapter X" Then your char running to pick it up. Then we can come back and rewatch during those parts to find it ourselves. Would really help.

So you telling me that I can use the world? Sold

To break the game= This is call the Zonol built. magic up x2 / heal/ Atb boost/ first strike / 2 elements recommend=fire and thunder / luck materia (optional) hp x 2(optional) or replace 1 hp up with revival mythril saber (get all magic damage up) / platinum earrings/ chain bangle. If your make is in the 400s you'll see that damage. My magic is 450-49x depending who I use. *PUT BARRIER with magnify on another chr* cast wall on your team. Pray could be a good aoe heal on a aerith or cloud. This can also be used with aerith and her mythril rod get all magic and material buffs

I have assess on always and when I use it and find out I need steal, I will restart the battle and flick on steal.

I like Fire, Ice, Elemental, and Poison

The magnify materia isn't really AOE it actually hits multiple targets, or your whole crew if you pair it with a beneficial spell. A great pairing would be either magnify+time casts haste on your party, then you can cast slow on all the enemies or magnify+barrier that'll give your party added magic and or physical defense depending on the level of barrier.

Do not forget HP up materia. Prayer is useful in hard mode because it conserves mana, and you cannot heal with magic on the boss in the haunted hard mode chapter

I reccomend combining time materia with magnify. Its like fastfowarding your battles .

Had fun watching my friend try and get the luck materia

Elemental Materia is my favorite, always has been, but I am really starting to like the auto-cure materia

There's SO much materia I need to level that getting some of them to tier three is positively daunting... I hope to god there's like an elixir pot leveling spot in endgame like there was in the original.

I love all your explanations of the materia. ITS SOOOO funny that the game doesn't even remotely describe them very well.

Enemy skill + HP absorb. So delightful.

My favorite materia is the power of friendship. That sh*t is overpowered in every JRPG.

at 2:39 I EQUIP IT WITH HEALING TOO IT IS SUPER USEFULL.

Would recommend using the buff and debuff extension accessories in hard mode too.

One more thing to add, in a way there is a sort of 3rd elemental materia. With the enemy skill Algid Aura which you can learn off the Cerulean Drake...it adds an icy shield that not only does a bit of ice damage to enemies that make contact, it also adds ice element to your weapon. Of course only useful against enemies weak to ice which are basically grounded monster type enemies. Also Magnify is without a doubt the best materia in the game along with AP Up as there are only one of each in the entire game. MP Absorb too, but a 0.1% absorption rate seems sort of lame. I guess in hard mode it could be useful but even then it can be debated...s shame because that required maxing out all the green materia which isn't that easy. MP absorb should have just been a materia that cuts all spells MP cost down by half or a quarter or something.

Also Pray / Chakra in hard mode is important, Incase you run out of mp to heal 👍

Mana ward/Mana Wall is required to beat Bahamet. Bahamet has a tough 9999 blast move.

I made the platine trophy ( ps4) and in didnt really use stop or Barrier lol. I thin there is more important materia like pv and chance. Also its Nice To have a bonus magic dmg but most of the time u will need to be immune to some element. Exemple if u fight shyva or ifrit.

They kinda missed the materia fun imo. Its ok but i miss complex ideas being op

ATB assist and Skill Master is great. Don’t sleep on them

Thank you so much for all your help and needs the materia I used in your video actually really help to me I'm bringing this on hard my like flying colors for now thank you so much and you have a lovely day and please be careful

The magic up on Aerith with her mimic ability attack spells and magnify met broken and save the accessory for that healing plus on pray

Enemy Skill + Beta = GG

i'm curious if you have a weapon with 4 linked slots (2 linked + 2 linked) and you set one pair with say Fire materia+Elemental and the other with Fire materia+HP absorb. Would it make the Flame damage you deal with weapon attacks, Absorb HP?... EDIT- Well tried it, and apparently no, it doesn't work, when 2 materias are linked, they are they own separate thing. Sad face...

I find the elemental materia is most effective on Tifa as she has the fastest hit speed. Also prefer to use the the magnify spell on the barrier materia as its upgraded version is super expensive to individual cast. Its very expensive and Prayer is much better for hard mode, it requires no mana. Chakra also is a very effective means for preserving mana on harder modes. Hands down the holy grail for groups a combination of HP absorb and the enemy skill materia, once you acquire Spirit Siphon the life return makes packs seem laughable even on hard mode.

Yo, so does the Time Materia work together with the Magnify Materia?

It would’ve been nice if you told us how to get these materia!

Im on Sephiroth rn and i didnt even know that u can switch the stages of elements

can you have random encounters and grind for XP in this game? can you also go back to all the areas youve previosly been to from the end of this episode? or do you have to do like a new game+ type situtation?

My favorite combination is deadly dodge linked with Hp regenerate

It helped, man. Thank you. ✌😁

Enemy skill is my go to on the original. The remake version sucks because the enemies to hit you with a attack is by random. On the original i can get all skills by using the manipulate materia to control the enemies to use their attack or benefit skills on the party. Maybe on the second part remake we will get the manipulate materia during the Gold Saucer scenario from Cait Sith.