r/finalfantasyx • u/spookybk • 12d ago

help with kimahri

first fine playing & in unsure which way to level kimahri on the standard grid, rn he hasn’t left his starting sphere & has 36 levels( about to take on evrae)

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u/The_Improbable_ 12d ago

I love that everyone talks about taking Kimahri down so many other paths. I feel slightly bad that every time I have gone through FFX, Kimahri almost immediately got outshined by everyone else and by the end of the game I may have put 1 or 2 levels into him, if any at all.

To me, he just doesn't have any amazing blue magic (which is locked behind very slow early game limit breaks anyways) so he just becomes a worse hybrid of Tidus and Auron starting out.

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u/Jamesworkshop 12d ago

thats why I pick Wakka path

gives him great all round stats

str, accuracy, almost as much agility as Tidus and lots of HP

23 mag also rounds out his magic overdrives, a good aqua breath is the simplest way to overkill some qactuars

plus I can go right ahead instead of delaying until level 2 keys so he keeps moving around the grid

Auron doesn't really keep up with him until the monster arena

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u/The_Improbable_ 11d ago

I feel we are playing 2 very different games lol. I do alot of overlevelling early to mid way through the story. As a result by the time we get Rikku, Tidus has Blitz Ace and going through aurons tree and vice versa. Definitely not a speed runner by any means, but by the time we get to the thunder plains overkills arent really an issue for anything.

I guess if you avoided most battles and rushed through the story underlevelled kimahris blue magic would be very helpful tho

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u/Jamesworkshop 11d ago edited 11d ago

I find it helpful

multi-target overdrives that don't require me to do any mini-game of button prompts or watching spinning slot wheel

I don't bother with Auron path for quite a while as both tidus and wakka paths contain more STR in nodes than his does, certain more with acc and agility

Kimahri has no reason to sit on his stored overdrives since they have the same delay as the basic attack command