They truly made strife a one man army in rebirth. I love the sphere grid approach for upgrades too.

Cool combo i found:
Go into Punisher mode (very important to start with)
then Disorder which will transition you to Aerial (and adds more ATB)
Do Aerial combos or whatever
Finish with Aerial Braver (bonus damage)

If you have atleast 2 ATBs or refocused… you can spam disorder from Operator mode (which will also lunge at enemy which is a very good gap closer)

It’s so hard to form a team lol so many great options

You guys really do have the best FF content on YouTube.

Just wanna add: Please dont ignore Enemy Skill Materia - specifically Sonic Boom which is the skill you get from Chapter 2 which extremely early and is very useful. Its literally a free buff for the user - Bravery AND Faith, BOTH at the same time - the materia spell only gives one or the other, so again very useful.

I doubt I’ll be removing the enemy skill materia any time soon though.

Great video as always!!

In Remake I pretty much only played as Cloud, in Rebirth I'm switching it up a lot more, I feel they made the other characters a lot better

This combat system is trully great, i would say the best of all time along with nioh franchise

aha!! I kept wondering what was causing those green beams from my sword. I thought Aerith or someone was somehow augmenting my attacks with Aero lol, so it's that dodge roll!!

The combat in rebirth is so much more fun than remake. I got the platinum for remake but i was actually kind of hesitant about rebirth because i didn't like a lot of things about the combat from remake.... like no i-frames when dodging,  no way to negate damage when blocking etc.... but rebirth feels SO GOOD to play its amazing

also while in punisher mode, you can end the slashes anytime by pressing triange for a finishing move while switching back to operator mode. perfect parrying in punisher mode also gives you a different follow-up counter attack.

The hold square attack is actually in remake to

I honestly prefer the Punisher mode in remake more than Rebirth so far.

thank you for all the info and help so quickly after release :)

You've gotten counterfire wrong here what you showed in the video was a normal parry, I can see you attempted it and it happened to time out right and say immune but I promise that's not what couterfire is for. What it actually does is counter ranged attacks with a ranged attack of your own.

I honestly prefer using Tifa. Her faster attack style along with how easy it is to enhance her power with her faster ATB charge. Tifa's speed also allow for faster dodges & guards, making her great at closing gaps & prefect guards. Air combat with Tifa is excellent thanks to the synergy skills that launch her in the air & most of her moves can be done mid air. Divine Punishment with Aerith also extremely useful in boss fights.

Are we going to see a video discussing Synergy Abilities? Through the entire game they were completely useless due to unknown conditions that make using them impractical.
Fighting the Materia Guardian I use a Synergy Ability to knock the boss down and later the same situation comes up and the Synergy Ability cannot be used.

"Manipulating the gameplay environment" to land an aerial braver isn't actually that hard; even if an enemy is grounded, using the dodge->hold attack move to close the distance with an enemy will usually result in Cloud being slightly off the ground, enough for any ATB command initiated from there to count as aerial.

You want a cool but lazy way to play Cloud, works on every difficulty except Hard mode. Play on Classic settings then equip both purple types of auto attack materia. Also equip enemy skill materia. Under combat settings set the following in your shortcuts. Firebolt, Disorder, Sonic Boom & Plasma Discharge. Have First Strike materia equipped hopefully maxed out. Optional: If you have synergy materia put it on another team mate linked to Comet or Petrify. These three materia don't unlock till you make it to Gongaga, Cosmo Canyon & Nibel. With the auto unique ability the AI on Cloud will pull off perfect blocks/ parrys. The auto weapon ability will spam one of the shortcut attacks when you get full ATBs. It will also trigger the synergy attack for your other team mate.

Can you do this for all characters