The Final Fantasy Tactics Autobattle Tournament thread

The AI is also terrifyingly good with Math Skill. It can mess up a lot of things, but it is excellent at picking the calculations.

Just never, ever trust it to pick the right spell.

Doh. I just realized: Cure 4 isn't calculable, is it? It's there specifically in case the Excalibur gets broken.

My guess would be that no, it's not calculable. I don't think any of the lvl4 magics are.

My money is on DeeMer for the next round. Tiamats are cool, but Math Skill All is terrifying when you have a powerhouse unit with no status defense. Yuko's the ultimate unkillable build, but between dual knight swords, calculated flares and thrown chaos blades she's not going to last long (especially if the AI picks confusion song for math skill).

Yes. That's why she was slowcasting it, and that's why I knew what she was casting. I did think it was an odd choice, but like I mentioned in the previous video, I didn't do a lot of screening on this tournament.

Other spells you can't calculate: level 2 buffs (e.g. Protect 2), level 4 elementals (e.g. Fire 4), Quick (apparently FFT's designers understood what FFTA's didn't), Meteor, the drains (Life Drain, Spell Absorb). It's a pretty easy list to remember, and everything else is calculable.

OK, I'll take Aeonus. As long as that Tiamat gets a steady diet of Elixirs and Remedies, I think he's got a chance. I'm relying on Math All pulling out a lot of Doubt Faith/Pray Faiths.

Believe it's 122/215 vs. a 40/70 Faith target. Not that it matters, she only has 54 MP (Zodiac costs 99).

The unkillable unit versus bull-headed offense!

Yeah, it's gonna come down to what that ninja does with math skill; I think we saw in previous rounds that the AI doesn't like to Throw knight swords anywhere near as much as it likes to mess with Faith. I think his knight's pretty even with the Tiamat in a straight-up fight. Hamedo won't work, but Counter will, and the two probably take a comparable number of hits to kill each other (just guessing there though). But if Koromaru spends his turns as a frog or mauling Yuko....

And DeeMer's got a big advantage that his ninja can heal and revive from anywhere on the map; we'll see whether dropping Throw Item will screw me or not.

I would think that with "Protect X" AI you'll be all right there and he'll stay close enough to hand the Tiamat items, but I don't really have the experience with it to know for sure.

A more modest overhaul:

List of changes

Abilities

• Opal: Stigma Magic added to her Punch Arts
• Opal: Blade Grasp Swapped out for Abandon
• Glen: Equip Armor swapped out for Magic Defend UP

Equipment

• Opal: Grand Helmet swapped out for Ribbon
• Glen: Reflect Mail swapped out for Rubber Clothes
• Glen: Angel Ring swapped out for Feather Mantle

Fair enough. It's probably against Draw Out that those extra spaces would be the difference between victory and a double KO.


Torgo: BMG says yes, Blade Grasp will activate against Battle Skill.

If I've done my calculations right, then this statement is true. The number of hits is one*.

Tiamat is terrifying.

*"One" hit for the Knight contingent on both swords landing.

Well then, this may be a very short fight. Or at least decided quickly, and then drag out for 15 minutes anyway.

Note that Tiamats have 0% Class Evasion, and can't equip accessories, shields, or set weapon guard.

Yes, in that it can activate to stop Battle Skill. It basically adds a 70% chance to stop it in front of whatever the normal chance is.

What's the point of putting Abandon on a unit with only 10% physical class evasion as far as I can tell?

If my understanding is correct Defender confers one heck of an evasion bonus and is compatible with Abandon.

But without the Weapon Guard ability, it doesn't add anything. And since Weapon Guard is a reaction ability like Abandon, they can't be used concurrently.

I don't understand why you put your chemist at 70 faith when your team still has no magic.

DeeMer's got it here. You'd be better off with a Chaos Blade and a different reaction ability or a shield and a different support ability. You could change Abandon to Weapon Guard, but I think either of the other two options I listed would suit you better.

I feel honor-bound to help you after the way you helped me last tournament!

Blast Gun is based off faith and not MA. It allows him to severely damage Math Skill users. Since Blast Gun is a gun I believe it hit's at 100% regardless of MA evasion.

A Stone Gun and 40 Faith would be a nice alternative, but I think the shitty terrain of Riovanes Rooftop might prevent you from removing Petrify with Stigma Magic.

Magical guns use Faith in their damage calculations. (And not MA which I didn't realize until after the teams had been finalized. )

Actually, I crunched the numbers on this and even with both participants at 70 Faith the Blast gun still doesn't consistently do a lot of damage.

Riovanes Rooftop is, thankfully, only the battleground for round one. I don't think the terrain has ever mattered as much as it does in this next match.

Well, back to the drawing board then!
I might just swap her back to Concentrate. Gaffes in equipment choice aside, I was honestly super pleased with her performance.

I might try a Stone Gun. If I give Glen an accessory that prevents petrify, does he start the round ailment-free?

Just tested this. No. You still start out petrified.

WOW. When I said the battle might be fast, I did not expect that. I had not even looked at those Tiamat abilities, but apparently they're unavoidable (if they hit your square), and deal MA * [(MA + 12) / 2] damage.


I noticed you had the faith values on DeeMer's team switched. I don't believe this actually affected anything. Those Raises that missed are symmetric with caster and target faith, and everything else was irrelevant (innocent/doubt) or avoided (Fire 3).

That's weird. I thought that was supposed to work (but I never tried it myself).

Hmmm... Have we found this tournament's Cersei? (At least until they're up against a team with Calcable status effects.)

Wow char limit

Tiamat, ladies and gentlemen.

Bad but not unreasonable luck on those raises at near 50% success rate. This terrain is also tailor-made for the Tiamat: assuming a one-hit kill, it goes from 100% to kill with one square at the same height to around 50% to kill with five squares at the same height. Big difference. MP switch/a unit with tons of HP would help a lot there.

Still: yikes.