baby, i will keep this fire burning


seria-mau-genlicher
@seria-mau-genlicher

Gau 'sucks' in 1994 when you are 10 years old and doing a blind playthrough of Final Fantasy VI.

But it's 2023, and we have 30 years of experience playing around with Rages; we have YouTube and Giant Bomb and Discord and GameFAQs. We can look into Final Fantasy VI like an extradimensional being and dissect it down to the assembly code. We can use Gau, now. We have the technology.

Gau is good. Gau is great! Gau is OP. Sure, he has 253 rages, but you only need, like, five of them. Gau can cast Meteor, Holy, Shock, Firaga/Blizzaga/Thundaga for free. And if spells are too fancy for you, he can hit like a truck.

Gau cannot fail, Gau can only be failed. All hail Gau.


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in reply to @seria-mau-genlicher's post:

in the original version, gau + stray cat rage + safety bit relic + tempest sword is the easiest way to utterly obliterate the game. the tempest sword boosts his natural attack stat significantly, plus the cat scratch special multiplies damage values by like 4x. and then the tempest sword's wind slash special can proc on cat scratch which, despite being a wind elemental "magic" attack, still gets multiplied by the cat scratch. 9999 on whole groups hours before you can even touch the ragnarok esper. expectedly, they removed his ability to equip the safety bit in later releases, but he's still always in my teams for the reasons you mentioned.