OMG! I remember doing the exact same thing! LOL that is hilarious. We Cloud fans are truly birds of a feather~
I did mean actual materia and I think counter attack sounds pretty good. Personally, I think he'd take a shine to the 4x-Cut materia or enemy skill/mime. Because even though Cloud is totally untrained with that big ol' sword of his, he's got a natural skill, and I can see him using mime to pull out the stops and use the enemy's attacks against them. That is what we call skill, folks.
Birds of a feather?
And I actually had enemy skill first, but I changed it to counter attack. I never got 4x-Cut and I got mime the other day but not sure what it does...