Star Number

1

MP Cost

5

Enemies learned from

Touch Me , Toxic Frog, Christopher

Location

Gongaga Area Forests, Temple of Ancients, Northern Cave

Game's Description

Causes [Sleepel/Frog] on one enemy

Frog Song seems to be a relatively useless Enemy Skill. It causes Frog and Sleepel on a single opponent. Unfortunately, this doesn't work on most bosses or stronger enemies and most opponents can be taken down easily with just normal attacks. You can learn it from the Touch Me frogs in the Gongaga forests, or the Toxic Frogs that you fight when opening certain treasure chests in the Temple of the Ancients. One other way to learn it is from Christopher (he's on the same path as the Magic Pots) in the Northern Cave.

Star Number

2

MP Cost

10

Enemies learned from

Mu, Trickplay

Location

Grasslands Area, Forgotten City/ Icicle Area

Game's Description

Causes [Critical/Small] with levels in multiples of 4

Magic Hammer can be learned by manipulating the Razor Weeds found on the light grassy areas near Wutai. Magic Hammer absorbs 100 MP from a single opponent, not every opponent as the game's description states. This is the only such mistake I know of in regard to the game's descriptions for the Enemy Skills. (Agent0042's Update Note: Apparently this is a PC / Playstation difference. In the Playstation version, it absorbs MP, but in the PC version, it only drains it.) This skill is essential for beating some bosses at lower levels, including Godo, Yuffie's father in the Wutai Pagoda. (Okay, so actually Godo is the only enemy in the game I found this skill to be particularly useful against.)

Star Number

3

MP Cost

3

Enemies learned from

Razor Weed

Location

Wutai Area

Game's Description

Drains 100 MP out of one enemy

This skill can be learned from either the Mu in the Grasslands Area near the Chocobo Ranch or from the Trickplay opponent that appears in the path connecting the Ancient City to the World Map and also on the grassy areas of the Icicle Area. Both of these opponents look like odd squirrel-creatures. Neither can be manipulated, so you'll have to wait until it casts this skill. It only affects characters that are at Level 4, but even if it misses, you'll still learn the skill. This is a reasonably useful skill that casts Mini and puts opponents in critical, but only those whose levels are a multiple of 4. I don't really use this one much, but you'll need to get it if you want to learn Chocobuckle.

Star Number

4

MP Cost

34

Enemies learned from

Zemzelett, Wind Wing

Location

Junon Area, Whirlwind Maze

Game's Description

Restores HPand status to the party

If Big Guard isn't the best Enemy Skill in the game, then White Wind definitely is. White Wind is a healing spell that heals all allies for the current HP of the caster (regardless of MBarrier) and also heals status ailments. So if Yuffie cast White Wind with 2000 as her current HP, all allies would be healed by 2000 HP. So you should always wait for the turn of the character that has the highest HP before casting it, barring MP concerns. Although you can encounter the Zemzelett in the Junon Area, you have to manipulate it in order to learn White Wind, so you have to wait until you get Cait Sith in order to learn this skill. Drive the Buggy into Costa Del Sol then hitch the Cargo Ship to Junon. Exit Junon (take the helitaxi directly out of there) and then run around until you encounter a Zemzelett. Make sure you have your Enemy Skill materia equipped and then manipulate the Zemzelett and cast White Wind. Also, be certain to return later in the game when you have more Enemy Skill materia to learn it then too. You can also learn this skill from the Wind Wing that you encounter if you get thrown back by Sephiroth's barrier, but since you can't manipulate it, you'll have to confuse it and it casts it only very rarely when it's confused. My advice: don't bother, just learn it from Zemzelett.

Star Number

5

MP Cost

56

Enemies learned from

Beach Plug

Location

Gongaga/Corel Area Shoreline

Game's Description

Casts [Barrier/MBarrier/Haste] to the party

Big Guard is quite possibly the best Enemy Skill in the game. Casting this skill gives all your characters Haste status and also puts up Barrier and MBarrier. With just one cast, you speed up every character and half the damage they take. Learn Big Guard by manipulating one of the Beach Plugs on the Gongaga/Corel Area shoreline.

Star Number

6

MP Cost

50

Enemies learned from

Pollensalta

Location

Northern Cave

Game's Description

Revives, restores HP and status to one ally

You can learn this one from the Pollensalta on the right path inside the Northern Cave. She's usually accompanied by a couple of Parasites and looks like one of the magic-casting ladies you usually see paired with two frogs. Just manipulate her to learn this. This is a fairly nice skill that completely heals a character or brings them back to life and also cures all status ailments. It could be used as a replacement for Life2. Oh, and I seem to remember using this on a Magic Pot once and it working just like an Elixir, but I could never duplicate it, so maybe that doesn't work. If anyone can verify the truth or falseness of this, let me know.

Star Number

7

MP Cost

19

Enemies learned from

Dark Dragon

Location

Northern Cave

Game's Description

Raises Defense and Magic Def. of one ally

Manipulate the Dragon in the Northern Cave to learn this. You can find the Dragon most places in the Northern Cave until the fork on in the road. This skill supposedly raises your characters' defense and magic defense, but I haven't really noticed any difference when using it and don't find it very helpful. I don't know if casting it multiple times has an added effect. Note that the Blue Dragon in the Northern Cave sometimes casts this on himself, but you can't learn it from him, since you can't manipulate him.

Star Number

8

MP Cost

3

Enemies learned from

Adamantaimai

Location

Wutai Shoreline

Game's Description

Makes one ally immune to death

Death Force protects a single character against instant death attacks. To learn it, manipulate one of the Adamantaimai (a large turtle creature) on the Wutai Shoreline and cast it the characters with the Enemy Skill materia you want to learn it for. Death Force doesn't seem to protect against Roulette or Death Sentence and it is possible that there are other instant death attacks it may not defend.