Overdrive Modes
At the beginning of the game, all characters charge their overdrive gauges by taking damage from enemy attacks (Stoic Overdrive Mode). As certain conditions are met, these settings can be changed later in the game to allow your characters to fill them in various other ways instead.
To access these additional methods you’ll need to enter the limit break menu, press cancel, and then select the option “Set Mode” at the top of the screen, from here you can choose from the various options you’ve unlocked.
Each different overdrive option is unlocked in a different way, some require certain conditions to be filled or an in-game event to occur for example.
List of all Overdrive Modes
Below you’ll find our list of all the Overdrive Modes in Final Fantasy X, as well how the activate and how to acquire each of them.
Stoic
| Overdrive Mode: | Stoic |
|---|---|
| Description: | “Charges when character takes damage” |
| Charge Rate: | (damage received) * 30 / (maximum HP) |
| How to learn: | Default Overdrive Mode for each Character. |
Warrior
| Overdrive Mode: | Warrior |
|---|---|
| Description: | “Charges when character damages an enemy.” |
| Charge Rate: | (damage inflicted) x 10 / (estimated damage) * 3 [maximum 16] |
| How to learn: | Unlock the Warrior Overdrive mode by dealing damage to enemies, does not count overdrive or item damage inflicted by the character. |
| How many attacks required for each character to unlock: | Tidus – 150 Yuna – 200 Wakka – 160 Lulu – 300 Kimahri – 120 Auron – 100 Rikku – 140 |
Comrade
| Overdrive Mode: | Comrade |
|---|---|
| Description: | “Charges when allies take damage.” |
| Charge Rate: | (damage received) x 20 / (target max HP) |
| How to learn: | Unlocks after allies take a certain number of attacks from enemies. |
| How many attacks required for each character to unlock: | Tidus – 300 Yuna – 240 Wakka – 100 Lulu – 300 Kimahri – 100 Auron – 220 Rikku – 100 |
Healer
| Overdrive Mode: | Healer |
|---|---|
| Description: | “Charges when character heals allies.” |
| Charge Rate: | (healed amount) * 16 / (target’s max HP) |
| How to learn: | Unlocks after your character heals allies a certain number of times. Spells that heal multiple allies, like Pray, count per ally healed. |
| How many Heal effects required for each character to unlock: | Tidus – 80 Yuna – 60 Wakka – 100 Lulu – 170 Kimahri – 100 Auron – 200 Rikku – 70 |
Tactician
| Overdrive Mode: | Tactician |
|---|---|
| Description: | “Charges when status attack succeeds.” |
| Charge Rate: | 16% per status |
| How to learn: | Unlocks after your character inflicts a certain number of status effects on enemies. Use weapons with status effects built in like “Poisontouch”. |
| How many Status effects required for each character to unlock: | Tidus – 75 Yuna – 100 Wakka – 80 Lulu – 75 Kimahri – 60 Auron – 200 Rikku – 70 |
Victim
| Overdrive Mode: | Victim |
|---|---|
| Description: | “Charges when character hit with status attack.” |
| Charge Rate: | 16% per status |
| How to learn: | Unlocked after each character is inflicted with a certain number of negative status ailments. You can speed up learning this by fighting enemies that inflict multiple status effects each battle, for example Malboro’s. |
| How many Status effects required for each character to unlock: | Tidus – 100 Yuna – 80 Wakka – 100 Lulu – 110 Kimahri – 130 Auron – 120 Rikku – 90 |
Dancer
| Overdrive Mode: | Dancer |
|---|---|
| Description: | “Charges when character evades attack.” |
| Charge Rate: | 16% per evade |
| How to learn: | Unlocked after a character performs a certain number of evades. |
| How many evades required for each character to unlock: | Tidus – 250 Yuna – 200 Wakka – 200 Lulu – 300 Kimahri – 130 Auron – 200 Rikku – 200 |
Avenger
| Overdrive Mode: | Avenger |
|---|---|
| Description: | “Charges when an ally gets KO’d.” |
| Charge Rate: | 30% per KO |
| How to learn: | Unlocked for a character after allies have been KO’d a certain number of times. |
| How many KO’s required for each character to unlock: | Tidus – 100 Yuna – 80 Wakka – 100 Lulu – 150 Kimahri – 100 Auron – 120 Rikku – 90 |
Slayer
| Overdrive Mode: | Slayer |
|---|---|
| Description: | “Charges when character defeats an enemy.” |
| Charge Rate: | 20% per enemy defeated |
| How to learn: | Unlocked after defeating a certain number of enemies in battle. |
| How many KO’s required for each character to unlock: | Tidus – 100 Yuna – 110 Wakka – 90 Lulu – 130 Kimahri – 120 Auron – 80 Rikku – 100 |
Hero
| Overdrive Mode: | Hero |
|---|---|
| Description: | “Charges when character defeats a powerful enemy” |
| Charge Rate: | 20% per enemy defeated – with 10,000 hp or more. |
| How to learn: | Unlocked after defeating a certain number of enemies (with hp greater than 10,000) in battle. |
| How many KO’s required for each character to unlock: | Tidus – 50 Yuna – 50 Wakka – 50 Lulu – 70 Kimahri – 45 Auron – 40 Rikku – 50 |
Rook
| Overdrive Mode: | Rook |
|---|---|
| Description: | “Charges when character magically blocks attacks” |
| Charge Rate: | 10% per blocked attack |
| How to learn: | Block spells using magic abilities such as; NulBlaze, NulShock, NulTide, NulFrost, and Reflect. Armor with any of these abilities built in will make this much easier to acquire. |
| How many blocks required for each character to learn: | Tidus – 120 Yuna – 110 Wakka – 120 Lulu – 120 Kimahri – 120 Auron – 120 Rikku – 120 |
Victor
| Overdrive Mode: | Victor |
|---|---|
| Description: | “Charges when party wins a battle” |
| Charge Rate: | 20% per battle won. |
| How to learn: | Learn by winning battles. |
| How many battles won required for each character to learn: | Tidus – 120 Yuna – 150 Wakka – 160 Lulu – 200 Kimahri – 120 Auron – 200 Rikku – 140 |
Coward
| Overdrive Mode: | Coward |
|---|---|
| Description: | “Charges when character flees from battle” |
| Charge Rate: | 10% per flee |
| How to learn: | Learn by fleeing battles. Use the Flee ability. |
| How many battles successfully fled to learn: | Tidus – 600 Yuna – 900 Wakka – 400 Lulu – 980 Kimahri – 700 Auron – 1,000 Rikku – 450 |
Ally
| Overdrive Mode: | Ally |
|---|---|
| Description: | “Charges on characters turn” |
| Charge Rate: | 4% per turn |
| How to learn: | Learned naturally through story progression. |
| How many turns for each character to learn: | Tidus – 600 Yuna – 500 Wakka – 350 Lulu – 480 Kimahri – 300 Auron – 450 Rikku – 320 |
Sufferer
| Overdrive Mode: | Sufferer |
|---|---|
| Description: | “Charges while character is suffering from status ailment” |
| Charge Rate: | 16% per turn while suffering status ailment. |
| How to learn: | Learned from having a character inflicted with a negative status for a turn. Learn it quickly by inflicting negative status on your own party, abilities like Slowga work well, then skip the characters turns. |
| How many turns for each character to learn: | Tidus – 100 Yuna – 80 Wakka – 100 Lulu – 110 Kimahri – 130 Auron – 120 Rikku – 90 |
Daredevil
| Overdrive Mode: | Daredevil |
|---|---|
| Description: | “Charges while a character fights with low HP” |
| Charge Rate: | 16% per turn with low HP. |
| How to learn: | Learned while your character fights below 50% HP. Use the guard ability once a characters HP is low enough for them to accumulate turns safely at low HP. |
| How many turns for each character to learn: | Tidus – 170 Yuna – 90 Wakka – 140 Lulu – 150 Kimahri – 200 Auron – 260 Rikku – 110 |
Loner
| Overdrive Mode: | Loner |
|---|---|
| Description: | “Charges while character fights alone” |
| Charge Rate: | 16% per turn will alone. |
| How to learn: | Fight battles with only one character remaining. Attack your own party members to have them faint until only one remains, skip turns until the overdrive mode is then learned. Safest to complete against low level enemies. |
| How many turns for each character to learn: | Tidus – 60 Yuna – 180 Wakka – 110 Lulu – 45 Kimahri – 90 Auron – 35 Rikku – 170 |
