How to Earn Tidus and Auron’s Overdrives in Final Fantasy X

The girls in Final Fantasy X have it easy! Yuna’s overdrive never changes, Lulu gains a new overdrive with a new spell and Rikku just throws items together. All the men have some legwork to do! Here’s how to get them swinging at full power.

Instructions

Difficulty: Moderately Easy

Tidus

1. Use Tidus’ overdrive when you get it! For this impetuous young scamp, his overdrive evolves the more you use it. It doesn’t matter which overdrive you use, so long as you do it successfully (press X when the swinging cursor hits the sweet spot in the center.) His Spiral Cut is initially available, and is the easiest to pull off.
2. Use Tidus’ overdrive 10 times to earn his Slice and Dice attack. This mad dash strikes 6 times at random enemies.
3. Throw 30 overdrives to earn his Energy Rain attack! This one throws a shower of magic nastiness at all the enemies you’re fighting!
4. Pull off 80 overdrives and you’ll see Tidus get his ultimate attack, the Blitz Ace! Not only does he slash an enemy 8 times, he jumps into the air and his favorite girl (determined by your actions, not necessarily Yuna) throws him the ball for a Jecht shot! It looks awesome, but the cursor moves awfully fast, making it really hard to pull off.

Auron

5. Obtain new overdrives for Auron by keeping an eye out for spheres containing memories of his first journey with Jecht and Braska. You begin with the Dragon Fang attack, then get the Shooting Star attack when you fight the Spherimorph in Macalania Woods. From here on, you’ll find spheres along the route they originally took.
6. Return to Besaid and check out the area to the right of the temple entrance.
7. Get aboard the S.S. Liki at Besaid and look on the floor in the bridge.
8. Fly to Luca Stadium and look in Basement A.
9. Run back along the Mi’hen oldroad. Look near the end.
10. Come back for Part 2!