The Battle Arena

Basically, you pay 10 GP for one team member to participate in a series of random battles. But, you must face opponents with increasing difficultty, each victory with a possible turning of tables. After each victory, you spin slots to determine your ailment or if Lady Luck is with you, nothing or cure.Any ailments are carried over to the next battle. Also with each victory, you can choose to quite and take your BP (Battle Points) or continue. If you 'die' in the Arena, you lose all the BP from that series of battles.

In a nutshell, the worse of the ailment you get, the more Battle Points you get. But, if you get the same ailment twice that cannot be healed (i.e. Broken materia or commands) you not recieve the higher amount of BP. If you recieve nothing, all the time, you will recive next to no BP for you victories. So, getting your materia broken will earn you more BP, but it may run a risk of losing all the BP earned from that series of battles.

Try to equip the chosen character with his or her Ultimate weapon and armor that will drain magic or has some kind of abilitie that will be able to help you. The armor I suggest would be the Escort Guard or the Minerva Band. You will need the cahracters Ultimate Weapon for heavy damage and materia slots and their sometimes added bonuses (i.e. Vincent's Death Penalty). A must have Accessory is the Ribbon. It can prevent most of the Negative effects from enemies and the slots.
Materia slots should have strong magic and a summon or two. A must is the enemy skill materia with Big Guard, so you will not have to waste slots with Time and Barrier. Definitly have mastered Restore materia. Try to enter the arena with a mastered Counter Attack so if you get slow or half speed, you can still attack at a regular pace. Slash-all or Mega-all will let burn through the earlier rounds no problem. Having two mastered Contain materia will allow you to use a double combo of HP and MP absorb or Added Efffect. you can do this with and kind of summon or magic, but use the absorbs with MP draing attacks like KOTR and Comet, Ultima, and contain or MP absorb and Added Effect with Hades, Typhoon, or contain. Also, drop any All materia not linked to an attack materia, cuz cure-all wont do any good if there is only one player.

ALL MATERIA
All of you materia is disabled, but you HP will grow

COMMAND MATERIA
All of you Yellow/Command Materia is disabled.

INDEPENDENT MATERIA
All of you Independent/ Puple materia is disabled

SUPPORT MATERIA
All of you support/blue materia is disabled.

SUMMON MATERIA
All of you summon/red materia is disabled.

MAGIC MATERIA
All of you magic/green materia is disabled.

HEALABLE/BLOCKABLE
MINI
fighter is shrunk at beginning of next battle

FROG
Fighter is transfromed into a frog.

POISON
Fighter is poisoned.

SPEED
Fighter's speed is halved

ZERO MP
Fighter's MP is reduced to zero.

TIME X 30 DAMAGE
Fighter recieves damage equal to time in ATB bar x30;will not kill fighter.

NONHEALABLE
HP
Fighter's max HP is halved.

MP
Fighter's max MP is halved.

HP & MP
Fighter's max HP and MP is halved.

10 Levels down
Fighter's statistics are reduced equal to minus ten levels.

5 LEVELS DOWN
Fighter's statistics are reduced equal to minus five levels.

REGULAR BATTLES
Remedy-100    Enemy Lure materia-250
Right Arm-500    Pre-Emptive materia-1000
Regan Greens-2000    Speed Plus materia-4000
Stardust-8000    Champioship Belt-16000
Omnislash-32000     W-Summon materia-64000

SPECIAL BATTLES
Final Attack materia    Gambler
Masumune Blade    Combat Diary    Autograph