How Much Useless Could Cait Sith Be?

[Ironman]

cait sith is possibly one of the worst characters ever,not only is he a big stuffed animal with a cat thing on its head he is a shinra opreative who steals the key to the temple of the ancients when your at the goldebn saucer and gives it to the Turks, and his limit break is unpredictable because when he rolls the dice they could land on any given number from one to 6, so personnaly i dont like him.

 

[Daenerys]

I Appreciate the fact that Cait sith has got the potential to be one of the strongest characters in the game but i dislike using him. I prefer to play with characters who you don't have to rely on luck for, Which is the case with his limit breaks. Its also (among other reasons) why i don't like using Tifa either.

 

[reeve]

I Appreciate the fact that Cait sith has got the potential to be one of the strongest characters in the game but i dislike using him. I prefer to play with characters who you don't have to rely on luck for, Which is the case with his limit breaks. Its also (among other reasons) why i don't like using Tifa either.

what do you have against tifa? you dont need luck for her limit breaks just remotely decent timing.

cait sith is possibly one of the worst characters ever,not only is he a big stuffed animal with a cat thing on its head he is a shinra opreative who steals the key to the temple of the ancients when your at the goldebn saucer and gives it to the Turks, and his limit break is unpredictable because when he rolls the dice they could land on any given number from one to 6, so personnaly i dont like him.

THANK YOU!! finaley SOMEONE gets how much cait sith sucks!

 

[leftshoe]

cait sith is possibly one of the worst characters ever,not only is he a big stuffed animal with a cat thing on its head he is a shinra opreative who steals the key to the temple of the ancients when your at the goldebn saucer and gives it to the Turks, and his limit break is unpredictable because when he rolls the dice they could land on any given number from one to 6, so personnaly i dont like him.

Again, you are ignoring the fact that Cait Sith is statistically the third strongest playable character in the game, meaning that he would be preferable (along with Cloud and Cid) for structuring the ideal party.

As for his limit break, people seem to forget that as the game progresses, he throws more dice...meaning that, before too long, the possibility of him doing horrendously poor damage with his limit break is greatly reduced...it also wasn't that much of a possibility to begin with. Let's look at someone who has a truly bad limit break: Vincent. A limit-break that you can't shut off (without killing him), that is completely uncontrollable. Worse case scenario; You accidentally set his limit break loose on an enemy that absorbs the element of his limit break. This is what happened to me on my first FFVII game at the materia keeper. Simply said, Vincents limit breaks are horrid.

I encourage people to please look into the statistics of the characters before making less than substantive claims that one or the other is the worst. In fact, some of the worst characters (statistically) are the ones that people seem to fancy the most; Vincent, Tifa, and Barret. One interesting thing that I learned while looking into this was that, for a level 50 character, Sephiroth's stats were horrible...even with the Touph Ring equipped.

 

[Hayate]

I didn't use him personally, but if you knew what you were doing with him, he was a great addition to the team.

I just found him a useless filler for my team. That's just my opinion though.

 

[Warbsywoo]

Ah, the bad things that go with appearance. It's classic argument against Cait Sith.

Statistically, yes, he has the potential to become one of the strongest characters in the game, and in fact, can defeat a Weapon in one Limit.
It's just that his limits revolve around luck (in accordance to his background) that many people think that he sucks --- there's the chance you could kill your party.

 

[leftshoe]

there's the chance you could kill your party.

That's only if you were to use the slots limit, which I wouldn't recommend. Dice, on the other hand, is perfectly reliable...despite being based on luck.

 

[kezzamanezza]

i never used him, i dont know why. he just didnt appeal to me

 

[Howl]

I can't say that I have any favorited characters in FFVII. There are some that I can respect more easily than others on account of their story-lines, but, for the most part, there isn't one that I hold higher than the other. I find them all to be reasonably helpful and sufficient. I usually revolve my characters fairly throughout the game so that they all level up equally. So...I use Cait Sith just as much as any other character. ^__~

 

[F. F. Fan]

Who in the world used Cait Sith? I sure didn't. I couldn't stand the character and it annoyed me.

Ah, the bad things that go with appearance. It's classic argument against Cait Sith.

Lol... Guilty as charged. As far as appearances go and it kinda annoyed me. Actually, I thought it was the most ridiculous thing I had ever seen in a game thus far, but Quina completely blew that out of the water later on in IX.

 

[Warbsywoo]

...he is a shinra opreative who steals the key to the temple of the ancients when your at the goldebn saucer and gives it to the Turks...

I see your point with the other things but this is the one thing I think that could've saved Cait Sith's character, to be honest.
The double-crossing element that Cait Sith brings to the table in this game does much to create drama.

The game would've been much more boring without him.
I mean, think about it.

Lol... Guilty as charged. As far as appearances go and it kinda annoyed me. Actually, I thought it was the most ridiculous thing I had ever seen in a game thus far, but Quina completely blew that out of the water later on in IX.

Haha, yeah, Quina did blow the appearance thing out of the water. XD

 

[reeve]

Again, you are ignoring the fact that Cait Sith is statistically the third strongest playable character in the game, meaning that he would be preferable (along with Cloud and Cid) for structuring the ideal party.

As for his limit break, people seem to forget that as the game progresses, he throws more dice...meaning that, before too long, the possibility of him doing horrendously poor damage with his limit break is greatly reduced...it also wasn't that much of a possibility to begin with. Let's look at someone who has a truly bad limit break: Vincent. A limit-break that you can't shut off (without killing him), that is completely uncontrollable. Worse case scenario; You accidentally set his limit break loose on an enemy that absorbs the element of his limit break. This is what happened to me on my first FFVII game at the materia keeper. Simply said, Vincents limit breaks are horrid.

I encourage people to please look into the statistics of the characters before making less than substantive claims that one or the other is the worst. In fact, some of the worst characters (statistically) are the ones that people seem to fancy the most; Vincent, Tifa, and Barret. One interesting thing that I learned while looking into this was that, for a level 50 character, Sephiroth's stats were horrible...even with the Touph Ring equipped.

so your saying that a limit break like "Chaos" in which its "Satan Slam" attack is non-elemental and either causes instant death or seriously debilitates its foes because it hits all emamys in one stroke or alternately an attack thats like a super Slash-All? vincents chaos limit break OWNS cait sith!!!

 

[leftshoe]

so your saying that a limit break like "Chaos" in which its "Satan Slam" attack is non-elemental and either causes instant death or seriously debilitates its foes because it hits all emamys in one stroke or alternately an attack thats like a super Slash-All? vincents chaos limit break OWNS cait sith!!!

That's wonderful, if you're fighting a batch of Bandersnatches or something pathetic like that. If you're facing a single enemy (especially a strong one), it's still a pathetic limit break. Vincent in general was a terrible character, bad stats. None-the-less, he was the rebel goth kid's playable Sephiroth...so that's why he is the more popular than the statistically superior Cait Sith.

 

[Scarlet]

I just don't like Cait Sith. I'm not going to use a character that I do not like. I could care less if Cait Sith is a strong character.

Oh and getting instant kill slots, isn't that rare? He has Death to All and Instant Victory. Not to mention Death to all kills everyone. I'm sure that Instant Victory does not work on bosses either. If I wanted to kill 3-4 monsters at the same time all you do is use an All materia, and a magic materia, and just nuke the mobs of monsters you encounter.

Transform sucks as well. If Cait sith had 9999 HP and 999 MP it goes down to 3333 HP and 333MP. Have fun with that when a boss does more than 3000+ damage. Random Summon isn't great as well. You have a large range of summons from Choco/Mog to Knights of Round. Most of those summons are not worth using later on in the game anyways.

 

[leftshoe]

I just don't like Cait Sith. I'm not going to use a character that I do not like. I could care less if Cait Sith is a strong character.

Oh and getting instant kill slots, isn't that rare? He has Death to All and Instant Victory. Not to mention Death to all kills everyone. I'm sure that Instant Victory does not work on bosses either. If I wanted to kill 3-4 monsters at the same time all you do is use an All materia, and a magic materia, and just nuke the mobs of monsters you encounter.

Transform sucks as well. If Cait sith had 9999 HP and 999 MP it goes down to 3333 HP and 333MP. Have fun with that when a boss does more than 3000+ damage. Random Summon isn't great as well. You have a large range of summons from Choco/Mog to Knights of Round. Most of those summons are not worth using later on in the game anyways.

For the reasons you listed, that is why I suggest against using the "Slots" limit break (though, for the record, instant victory <i>does</i> work on bosses, from what I remember). Dice is a perfectly valid limit break all throughout the game. I had it doing anywhere from 7500-9999 on the final battle.

 

[L]

Meh, I only used him at Junon Harbor when Cid saves your asses. Other than that, I think I may have used him a couple of times, but not many.

 

[Scarlet]

For the reasons you listed, that is why I suggest against using the "Slots" limit break (though, for the record, instant victory <i>does</i> work on bosses, from what I remember). Dice is a perfectly valid limit break all throughout the game. I had it doing anywhere from 7500-9999 on the final battle.

Right, so your saying since Dice can cause 9,999. Well so can Yuffie's all creation. Cid's Highwind limit break can cause 5000-9999 damage per missle hit. Then what is the point of using Dice when you have characters with limit breaks that can do multiple damage.

I'm sure Instant Victory is a very rare combination to get anyways.

 

[L]

Reasons I don't like Cait Sith

• It's a frickin' prosthetic cat on a big duhard thing.
• He only plays a small role in the game.
• As previously mentioned, slots limit is uselss.
• He is the only character that HAS NO elaboration of history for itself.
• He looks retarded.

Also, Yuffie's doom of the living does much, much, much more damage than All Creation when Equipped with the conformer.

 

[Davey Gaga]

I use him quite frequently, because of the entire Scottish thing. It's a lame excuse, aye, but I've played it so often that I'm passed taking the important or most powerful characters in to battle Sephiroth.

 

[~Crazy Chocobo~]

I barely ever use him whenever I play the game. I just bought the game off eBay and got it yesterday, haven't got up to Cait Sith yet but when I played it several years ago I never used him simply because I dislike his character immensely. I don't think he is a very useful character overall. He hasn't got much of a role in the story and yep, I just don't like him.