How to Get Overdrives:

Tidus - Sword Skill:

1. Spiral Cut - single enemy damage
2. Charge & Assault - 6 attacks at random enemies
3. Energy Rain - damage all enemies
4. Ace of the Blitz - single enemy 8+1 attacks

- Activated by stopping the moving cursor in the white area at the center of the overdrive bar.
- New overdrives are learned after Tidus uses his overdrives a certain number of times.
- Which overdrive he uses does not matter, and failed overdrive activations still count as an overdrive usage.

10 times - learn Charge & Assault
20 more times - learn Energy Rain
50 more times - learn Ace of the Blitz

Yuna - Master Summon:
Summons any Aeon with filled overdrive gauge. After the Aeon uses its overdrive once, its overdrive gauge returns to the previous level of fullness.

Wakka - Slot:

1. Element Reel - elemental attack slots are turned
2. Attack Reel - consecutive attack slots are turned
3. Status Reel - status attack slots are turned
4. Oraka Reel - Bisaido Oraka special attack slots are turned

- Match more of the the same slots to activate a stronger overdrive attack.
- New Slot Reels are earned as prizes in Blitzball games.

Kimari - Enemy Skills:

1. Jump - damages single enemy
2. Flame - fire elemental damage to all enemies
3. Seed Canon - damages single enemy
4. Self Detonate - big damage to a single enemy & Kimari disappears from battle
5. Rotate Kick - damages single enemy
6. Stone Breath - all enemies receive stone status effect
7. Aqua Breath - all enemy receive water elemental damage
8. Death Sentence - death to an enemy after 5 turns
9. White Wind - all allies recover HP equivalent to half Kimari's current HP
10. Smelly Breath - random status abnormalities to all enemies
11. Mighty Guard - Ba magic + Protect + Shell to all allies
12. Sunshine - big damage to all enemies

- Kimari uses enemy skills learned from his Dragon Sword attack.

1. Jump - initial ability
2. Flame - learn from Weraha, Grendel, Duel Horn, Enke=Ronzo
3. Seed Canon - learn from Gratt, Balsam
4. Self Detonate - learn from Bom, Grenade Pyuroboros, Biran=Ronzo
5. Rotate Kick - learn from Metal Soldier Type 11, Biran=Ronzo
6. Stone Breath - learn from Bajirisk, Hedge Viper, Enko=Ronzo
7. Aqua Breath - learn from Kimaira, Kimaira Brain, Enke=Ronzo
8. Death Sentence - learn from Ghost, Raise, Biran=Ronzo
9. White Wind - learn from Dark Purin, Enke=Ronzo (after using White Wind)
10. Smelly Breath - learn from Marlboro, Marlboro Great
11. Mighty Guard - learn from Behemoth, King Behemoth, Biran=Ronzo (after using Mighty Guard)
12. Sunshine - learn from Omega

Lulu - Temptation:
- Activated by rotating the right stick clockwise as much as possible in the limited time to increase the number of magic attacks.
- Number of attacks are gained easily at first, but the more the number, the harder it is to increase.
- As Lulu's magic attack status gets stronger, the increasing of overdrive numbers gets easier.

Auron - Secret Legendary Teachings:

1. Tooth Dragon [down, left, up, right, L1, R1, X, O] - damages all enemies
2. Shooting Star [triangle, X, square, O, left, right, O] - damages a single enemy + blow away effect
3. Conquest [up, L1, down, R1, right, left, triangle] - damages a single enemy + 4 break effects
4. Gust Wind [O, right, R1, left, L1, triangle] - damages all enemies

- Activated by correctly pressing the command shown on the screen.
- New overdrives are learned by finding Braska, Jekt, and Auron's video spheres.
1 sphere - learn Shooting Star
3 spheres - learn Conquest
10 spheres - learn Gust Wind
- These Spheres will appear in previously visited locations after you gain access to the airship.

1. You get automatically after the Jekt sphere event
2. Bisaide Village, to the right of the temple entrance
3. Transport Ship Rikki, Steering Room
4. Ruka Stadium, B1 A, in front of the Ooraka Control Room
5. Mihen Road, Old Road South part, at the end of a dead end road
6. Kinoko Mushroom Rock Road, cliff, around a save sphere
7. Illusion Light River, South Shore, Shipaf riding dock
8. Thunder Plains, South part, around mid-point between the entrance and the Travel Company, near a thunder tower to the right
9. Makaraniya Forest, South part, around the save sphere right after entering from the Thunder Plains
10. Gagazett Mountain, on the road up the mountain (this one you can get before acquiring the airship)

Rikku - Combine:
Rikku combines 2 items to make a new item of greater power. Since the possiblities are almost endless, let everybody try it out for themselves.

Overdrive Types:
Shugyou - gauge increases when you receive damage from enemies
Toushi - gauge increases when damage inflicted upon enemies
Fundo - gauge increases when allies receive damage from enemies
Ji-ai - gauge increases when you heal an ally
Gaika - gauge increases when enemy defeated
Eiyu - gauge increases when an enemy with high HP is defeated
Shyouri - gauge increases when battle is won
Taichi - gauge increases when character joins the battle
Kutou - gauge increases when status becomes abnormal
Kyuuchi - gauge increases when abnormal status is inflicted
Sakuryaku - gauge increases when abnormal status is cast on enemies
Kiki - gauge increases when HP becomes critically low
Kokou - gauge increases when fighting alone
Karei - gauge increases when avoided enemy attack
Banjyaku - gauge increases after having blocked an enemy attack
Chijyoku - gauge increases when escaping from battle
Hi-ai - gauge increases when ally gets knocked out