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#1 jstrife
Member since 2008 • 720 Posts
There are some characters in the series of Final Fantasy that we could do without. Who is the best at doing nothing? Which character deserves the award of "character that should never have existed"?
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#3 DrAwesomeMD
Member since 2007 • 17547 Posts
Edward, Yuffie, and Penelo.
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#4 Fantasy_Gamer
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Not dispensable, but for purposes of battles, Edward (a.k.a. Gilbert), the "spoony bard" of FFV is most worthless character I can remember at the top of my head.
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#5 cloudstrife145
Member since 2006 • 1051 Posts

Penelo. :P

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#6 johngebreadman
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probably penelo
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#7 FF-Is-Awsome
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Kimari never found a reason to use him in X and Edward is useless.
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#8 KnightsofRound
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I think Kimahri is probably the most useless character because he barely has ANY involvement with the story, he doesn't even have his own path on the sphere grid. So he basically becomes worthless and a crappier version of one of the other characters, and thus you have absolutely no incentive to use him whatsoever.
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#9 Ebi_Furya
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Edward was definitely the least useful. He played a bigger part once he was out of the party than when he was in it!

I actually liked Kimari. He was a blank slate that you could take anywhere on the sphere grid and make him how you like him. Did he play a huge part in the story? Not really. He did play his part, but it wasn't as major of a part as everyone else.

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#10 SymonDezyn
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I hate to say it but ya, Kimahri. As much as I liked his character, as far as battles were concerned he was the weakest link. I only used him when i absolutely had to.
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#11 DJ-Lafleur
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Penelo, if she didn't exist in FFXII, the story would have been the same thing (except the part when you must rescue her at the beginning of course...). game-play wise, she is another chaarcter you can use, so she is really only pointless to the story.

Edward, for anyone that has played IV, you already know the reasons. Though story-wise, he did save Cecil and co. from the elf guy at the magnetic cave. Edward is completely worthless game-play wise (though I hear he will be better in FFIV DS)

And yeah, I never bothered much with Kimahri. Tidus, Auron, and wakka were better physical fighters than him, and Yuna and Lulu far excel him at magic. Rikku wasn't much better, but at least she had a somewhat good overdrive, Kimarhi's overdrives weren't particurly amazing or great from what I remember.

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#12 NWA_31
Member since 2006 • 11922 Posts
Gameplay-wise, I found pretty much all the bards/dancers useless.
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#13 vornwrath
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Edward. One time I spent probably 4 opr 5 hours just leveling him so that he wouldn't die every other turn. It turns out that you can gain 10 levels or more on him and he still does crap for damage
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Edward. One time I spent probably 4 opr 5 hours just leveling him so that he wouldn't die every other turn. It turns out that you can gain 10 levels or more on him and he still does crap for damagevornwrath

:lol: SO TRUE!!! And not to mention, he still easily dies even if he has already gained more HP. :P

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#15 DJ-Lafleur
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[QUOTE="vornwrath"]Edward. One time I spent probably 4 opr 5 hours just leveling him so that he wouldn't die every other turn. It turns out that you can gain 10 levels or more on him and he still does crap for damageFantasy_Gamer

:lol: SO TRUE!!! And not to mention, he still easily dies even if he has already gained more HP. :P

Yeah, and his item split ability is pretty much useless. Woohoo! we all recover 5 HP. :roll:

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#16 Yuna_17
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I thought that Kimahri was pretty useless, I mean if you look at the sphere grids in FFX the place where he started really had no 'set' path (Yuna was set a healer course, Lulu had Black Magic, Auron had strength, Rikku had stealth.) He was just some character that I rarely used, he had nothing in particular that was special I thought.
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#17 vornwrath
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[QUOTE="vornwrath"]Edward. One time I spent probably 4 opr 5 hours just leveling him so that he wouldn't die every other turn. It turns out that you can gain 10 levels or more on him and he still does crap for damageFantasy_Gamer

:lol: SO TRUE!!! And not to mention, he still easily dies even if he has already gained more HP. :P

Yeah. I know. Traveling with Edward is like sticking your hand on a burning skillet. It is still doing damage to you long after the pain stops
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#18 vornwrath
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[QUOTE="Fantasy_Gamer"]

[QUOTE="vornwrath"]Edward. One time I spent probably 4 opr 5 hours just leveling him so that he wouldn't die every other turn. It turns out that you can gain 10 levels or more on him and he still does crap for damageDJ-Lafleur

:lol: SO TRUE!!! And not to mention, he still easily dies even if he has already gained more HP. :P

Yeah, and his item split ability is pretty much useless. Woohoo! we all recover 5 HP. :roll:

Mofo plays a harp. A HARP! Who the hell carries a harp into battle. "Hey Leonidas! The Persains are here! Grab my harp! Tonight we ride!" I thought about using the analogy that it is like bringing a knife to a gun fight, but even someone that stupid is smarter than Edward. Atleast a knife can actually do damage. What are you going to do with a harp. "Let me soothe your anger by playing you a beautiful song. There is no need to fight" or "RAWR! I lash you to death with my deadly...harp...strings...."
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#19 DJ-Lafleur
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[QUOTE="DJ-Lafleur"][QUOTE="Fantasy_Gamer"]

[QUOTE="vornwrath"]Edward. One time I spent probably 4 opr 5 hours just leveling him so that he wouldn't die every other turn. It turns out that you can gain 10 levels or more on him and he still does crap for damagevornwrath

:lol: SO TRUE!!! And not to mention, he still easily dies even if he has already gained more HP. :P

Yeah, and his item split ability is pretty much useless. Woohoo! we all recover 5 HP. :roll:

Mofo plays a harp. A HARP! Who the hell carries a harp into battle. "Hey Leonidas! The Persains are here! Grab my harp! Tonight we ride!" I thought about using the analogy that it is like bringing a knife to a gun fight, but even someone that stupid is smarter than Edward. Atleast a knife can actually do damage. What are you going to do with a harp. "Let me soothe your anger by playing you a beautiful song. There is no need to fight" or "RAWR! I lash you to death with my deadly...harp...strings...."

I guess if he hit the enemy over the head hard enough with his harp, he could knock them unconcious. :?

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#20 NWA_31
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You guys obviously don't fully understand the Way of the Bard. It's all in the music. If you can manage to play terrible songs AND combine it with aweful singing, no enemy will be able to stay awake long enough to hurt you.
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#21 EmperorZeruel
Member since 2007 • 4207 Posts
cait sith, i throught he just did not realy fit inwith the game. seeing a fat moogle run around.
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#22 hsedai
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why so many Penelo haters around here? I think she is perky and perky means alot in the game when Balthier thinks he is prettier than Fran. Look at his rings!! Penelo doesn't try to be pretty with a mini skirty or somefink. She is just a bit gymnastic and is very good at saying "oh grow up" every hour or so to Vaan. She has her special purpose. I am ready to thumb wrestle any other Penelo haters.
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#23 cloudstrife145
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his limit break is actually powerful is lucky. :P

oh and he's in a cat figure, just riding a fat moogle. :D

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#24 Shogulix
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Penelo hands down and for all those kimahri haters; i dont understand, ive used him every time i played and hes way better then lame-o wakka, oom lulu, rikku the weak and his ultimate weapon is like the second easiest to get which is handy if your lazy.

Give Kimahri a chance!! hes not worthless

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#25 SymonDezyn
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Kimahri wasn't TOTALLY useless, but Lulu was by far WAYYYYY better... i had her spells and magic levelled up so high she was doing almost as much (sometimes MORE) damage than Auron.. who was my strongest.

I will agree with you that, while i liked Rikku's character, she was a tad useless, except with mech enemies, then she rocked the casbah... and also i had her steal some neat-o items from bosses ^__^Â