Support Materia

Support Materia in Final Fantasy VII Remake are essential for enhancing your party's capabilities, offering passive buffs, utility, and crucial enhancements to other Materia. These Materia are often the key to overcoming difficult encounters by providing vital support, resource management, or amplifying offensive and defensive strategies.

Support Materia come in various forms, each with unique applications:

Elemental Materia: When linked with an offensive Magic Materia (e.g., Fire, Blizzard), it imbues your attacks with that element. This is invaluable for exploiting enemy weaknesses. It can also be linked to armor to grant resistance to that element.
Magnify Materia: This powerful Materia allows your linked spells to hit multiple targets. It's incredibly useful for both offensive AoE damage and for healing your entire party simultaneously.
Warding Materia: Grants resistance to status ailments. When linked to another Materia, it can also transfer those resistances to the linked Materia's effects.
HP Absorption Materia: Restores HP based on the damage dealt by the linked offensive Materia or weapon attack. Essential for sustain in challenging fights.
MP Absorption Materia: Restores MP based on the damage dealt by the linked offensive Materia or weapon attack. Crucial for MP management, especially on Hard Mode.
Synergy Materia: Increases the ATB gained by allies when you use an ability.
Pedometer Materia: Tracks your steps and can be transformed into AP Up Materia.
AP Up Materia: Doubles the AP gained by linked Materia. Invaluable for leveling up your Materia quickly.

Optimal combinations often involve linking Support Materia to Magic or Command Materia:

Elemental + Fire/Ice/Lightning: For exploiting enemy weaknesses.
Magnify + Healing/Resurrection: For party-wide healing and revival.
Magnify + Offensive Magic: For dealing sificant AoE damage.
HP Absorption + Offensive Magic/Weapon Ability: For self-sustain during combat.

Acquiring these Materia is key. Elemental Materia can be found in specific chapters or as rewards for completing side quests. Magnify is found during a puzzle in Chapter 9. Warding Materia can be found in Chapters 10 and 13. HP and MP Absorption are available from Chadley. AP Up is a transformation of the Pedometer Materia.

Mastering the use of Support Materia, particularly Elemental and Magnify, is a cornerstone of effective combat strategy in Final Fantasy VII Remake. Their ability to amplify your core abilities makes them indispensable tools for any player.