Final Fantasy 6 Sabinless Route Notes

Final Fantasy 6 Sabinless Route Notes

You must know the speedrun of this game if you want to use this route as I will not go into detail on how to fight the bosses, do certain skips or seed manipulation. If you want to learn the speedrun use TheLCC's notes as they are very good and get into a lot of the finer details.

Use Seed 244(Seed Manipulation)


Battle Speed 6 Battle Message 1
Cursor Memory

Have Vicks and Wedge run from all battles.
Fight battles in the Narshe Cave until Terra learns Antidote(Level 6)

Buy 2 Sprint Shoes in South Figaro

Back row everyone
Terra-Sprint Shoes

Mt. Koltz
Levels
Edgar 10
Locke 9
Terra 8

TERRA NEEDS TO GAIN 2 LEVELS, LOCKE AND EDGAR NEED 1.

Grab Atlas Armlet and equip on Edgar then level characters on the way to Vargas.

Returners Hideout
Grab all treasures, possibly skip potion, antidote can be skipped to.

SAVE AT SAVE POINT IN RETURNERS HIDEOUT AFTER GETTING THE GENGI GLOVE AND DO RIVER MANIPULATION (2 resets, watch npc movement)

Before saving/during same menu

Equip Relics
Remove Sprint Shoes from Terra
Sabin-Sprint Shoes
Edgar-Genji Glove

Back Row Edgar, Front Row him at second save point on river.

Fight Pteradon encounter on the river with Edgar for level 11, Auto crossbow(have other characters run).

After Ultros1
Set Battle Speed to 1 when controlling Cyan and equip Sprint Shoes.

After second Kefka fight in the Imperial Base
Battle Speed back to 6
Remove Shadows equips and re-equip Imperial, Optimum on Sabin for Ninja Gear.
Front row sabin

Phantom Train
Get Earring on train(3rd train cart left entrance).

After or during Phoenix down on Train arrange and move items to sell to the top, leave an empty space for remedy.
Remove Imperial from shadow if he is still alive.

Replace Sabins Sprint Shoes with Earrings, arrange items, battle speed on Active, put it back on wait when you get
to the Veldt.

For Rizopas if you get a pre-emptive at the start of the battle do Double Retort Strat, if no pre-emptive do Pummel Retort Strat.

The Veldt
Sell stuff (Imperial, Dirk, Black Belt, Tent, Remedy, Antidote, Softs if any) and buy dried meat.
After Serpents Trench buy 1 Magus Hat, 11 echo Screens as many Smoke Bomb's as possible.(16 Echo Screens is safe but you dont really need more than 11 or 12)

If Cyan is still alive at the end of the scenario remove Sprint Shoes.

Locke Scenario
Sequence break/Clip through guard in South Figaro grab Earrings and money, name Celes, get the Hyper Wrist and Running shoes in the basement(secret entrance).

Get Thunder Rod in South Figaro Cave. If Cyan's Sprint Shoes were not removed take off Locke's before killing TunnelArmor.

Terra and Banon Scenario

After River equip relics
Terra-Sprint Shoes
Edgar-Running Shoes in place of Atlas Armlet
Front Row Banon

Kefka at Narshe
*Edgar Cyan Gau Sabin*

Sabin-2 earrings
Cyan-Atlas Armlet

After Kefka at Narshe

*Edgar Locke Cyan Sabin*
*Edgar needs to be out in top slot*

Optional elixir in the clock right after choosing party.
Get gear and money from shack in Narshe.

Equip
Edgar-Earrings in place of Running Shoes.
Optimum Locke. Equip Running Shoes.
*Note*
If you had to remove Locke's Sprint Shoes during his scenario, right after you select your party remove Edgar's Running Shoes
and equip Locke with Sprint and Running Shoes. Later when you get the Hero Ring finish the menu by equipping Edgar with Earrings and Hero Ring, then Optimum Locke.

Figaro Castle
Sell 2 Hyper Wrists, Peace Ring and Wall Ring.
Buy 14 Phoenix downs and 25 Revivifies, Flash and Drill.

Get Hero Ring from house north of Kohlingen.
Back Row Edgar, Front Row Locke(Risky but saves a menu before Dadaluma)
Edgar-Hero Ring
Grab a Chocobo from the forest north of the house.

Zozo
Get Fire Knuckle
Front Row locke at Dadaluma if not done.
Kill Dadaluma.

Grab Espers after the cutscene (not Kirin) and get Running Shoes from the left chest on the
way out.

*Celes Locke Edgar Sabin*

Back row Celes and Locke, Front row Sabin

Equip
Sabin-Gengi Glove, Atlas Armlet

Espers
Edgar-Stray
Locke-Siren

In Jidoor buy White Dress.

Opera
Ramuh on Locke after fighting rats.

On Vector Continent

Give Locke Siren

Relics
Celes-Running Shoes and Sprint Shoes
Locke-Sneak Ring in place of Sprint Shoes
Sabin-2 Earrings
Optimum Equips on Celes

Back Row Sabin

Go into Airship and buy up to 10 or 11 Smoke Bombs, 4 Warp Stones, heal at guy on left.

Magitek Factory
Grab Thunder Blade and head to Ifrit and Shiva.

After Ifrit and Shiva take Stray off Edgar and put Stray on Celes. Revive if needed and heal. Locke needs Siren on if not done yet.

Grab Break Blade on the way to Number 024.

After Number 024

Espers
Locke-Shoat
Edgar-Stray
Sabin top position.

Relics
Edgar-Running Shoes in place of Earring
Locke-Sprint Shoes in place of Sneak Ring

After Cranes and Terra Flashback Scene

*Terra Locke*
Unequip those not in party.

Espers
Terra-Maduin

Optimum Terra
Equip
Terra-Blizzard and Magus Hat
Locke-Headband

Relics
Terra-Running Shoes

Sealed Cave

Grab Tempest and Elixir in the cave.
Level Terra to 20
Terra only needs to be leveled to 19 if using Gengi Glove Glitch in the Banquet segment. Use revivifies on all fightable encounters in the Sealed Cave(Zombone/Ing).
Level 19 Terra makes IAF riskier and requires a different strategy for Ultros3.

After Airhip Crash

Buy 41 Smoke Bombs

Go to Vector with Terra and Locke.

*After timer starts in Vector*

Put Shiva on Terra and Phantom on Locke, equip Gengi Glove and Sprint Shoes on Terra. Make sure she has TWO Elemental Blades equipped(Thunderblade and Blizzard/Fire).
Make sure Terra also still has Magus Hat on.
Give Locke Sneak Ring in place of Sprint Shoes

Get Gale Hairpin and Back Guard.

Have Locke use Phantom in the Mtek Armor fight, Terra use Shiva on MTek Armor guy and Commandos.

After Last Commando

Arrange items for selling, use 1 tincture on Locke, and take Phantom off him.
Terra-Gale Hairpin and Sprint Shoes

Gengi Glove Glitch
Terra should have the Gengi Glove equipped so simply equip her relics last in the above menu but do not leave the relic
screen after doing so. Wait for the Banquet timer to run out and she will still have both weapons equipped along with
whatever relics you chose to equip.

BANQUET ANSERS
1:To our hometowns
2:Leave him in jail
3:That was inexcusable
4:Celes is one of us
5:Why'd you start the war
6:One more question please
7:Why do you want peace now
8:Lets talk about the espers
9:Yes the espers have gone to far
10:Why'd you start the war
11:Yes lets take a break

Bio with Locke and Shiva with Terra on Special Forces.

12:Yes
13:That your war is truly over
14:Yes

In Western Cafe of Vector
Locke-Charm Bangle in place of Sneak Ring
Put Maduin back on Terra
Use warp stone.

In Albrook grab warp stone on the ship dock in the barrel, wait on shopping until Thamasa.

In Thamasa

SELL
Tempest, Mithril Stuff 2 hyper wrists, jewel ring, metal knuckle, ashura, rune edge, break blade,atlas armlet, dragoon boots,
fire knuckle, bandanna, cards, tents

ITEM SELLING ORDER FROM THE TOP
Revivifies
Tents
MithrilKnife
MithrilBlade
Mithril Pike
Ashura
Tempest
Metal Knuckle
Fire Skeans
Atlas Armlet
Cards
Mithril Vest
Break Blade
Fire Knuckle
Bandanna
Rune Edge(somewhere in the list)

Buy 4 Ice Rods and 8 Thunder Rods(if possible grab 5 Ice Rods and skip the Ice Rod in Fire House). If you can still afford
a Fire Rod after buying 5 Ice Rods buy 1 and skip both rods in the Fire House.

In the fire house grab the Fire Rod and Ice Rod.

Terra Morph then Ice Rod on Flame Eater, sort items during death of Flame Eater.

Before Ultros3

Swap Strago and Terra's positions(Strago should be in bottom position from the top)

Level 19 and 20 are two different strategies. If Terra is 20 Strago needs to be on the bottom slot.
If she is 19 Terra needs to be in the bottom position and has to use Morph before throwing her second Thunder Rod.

Terra Level 20 Relics
Relics
Strago-Earring and Hero Ring
Terra-2 Earrings
Locke-Sprint Shoes and Sneak Ring

Terra Level 19 Relics
Strago-Earring and Running Shoes
Terra-Earring and Running Shoes
Locke-Sneak Ring and Sprint Shoes

After fight with Ultros
Terra-2 Earrings
Locke-Charm Bangle in place of Sneak Ring

Before Entering Airship after Thamasa Cutscene

Remove all Relics except Terra

Remove all equips except Terra

Give Terra Ramuh

Airship Battles

*Setzer Edgar Terra*

After first fight revive if needed and cure.

Back Row Setzer

Espers
Setzer-Unicorn
Edgar-Stray until he has at least 70% for Float then put on Phantom.

Optimum both guys

Heal after every fight if needed, heal MP when below 25, 25 MP needed for Ramuh.

AFTER 6 BATTLES

Remove Blizzard (and Thunder Blade if Gengi Glove glitch is on)

Relics
Terra-Running Shoes and Gale Hairpin
Edgar-Sprint Shoes and Charm Bangle
Setzer-Running Shoes and Back Guard

Either go for Phantomless Reverse Joker Doom or cast Phantom with Edgar then do Reverse Joker Doom on Ultros4.

Thunder Rod on IAF boss.

On Floating Continent

Revive and heal HP if needed.

Thunder Rod Ninjas or Joker doom, need 1 Thunder Rod if you want quick kill on Nerapa (and ideally 1 thunder rod for Kefka later).

Atma Weapon
During Joker Doom on Atma equip Blizzard Blade/Flame Sabre on Terra.(Thunder Blade if no Blizzard or Flame)

Escape off the Floating Continent

Espers
Celes-Stray(Switch to Shoat when Muddle is learned)
Sezter-Unicorn if not equipped already

Relics
Terra-2 Earrings
Celes-Earring and Running Shoes

Optimum Equips on Celes(no weapon unless you have Thunder Blade)

FOR NAUGHTY'S IF TERRA HAS NOT LEARNED BOLT2 DO ECHO SCREEN THEN JOKER DOOM, SHE SHOULD LEARN IT AFTER THE FIRST FIGHT.
JOKER DOOM ON NERAPA IF ONLY 1 THUNDER ROD LEFT.

World of Ruin

Optimum Celes, remove Weapon

Put on Shoat Esper.

Give Charm Bangle and Sprint Shoes.

Save and Reset for fish manipulation(must have done seed 244 manipulation and river manipulation)


*THE FISH MANIPULATION IS VERY PRECISE AND 1 MISTAKE WALKING OR GRABBING FISH WILL MESS IT UP*
*TALKING TO CID FROM THE LEFT DOES NOT YIELD A TEXT BOX BUT DOES RESET FISH PATTERNS*

Fish manipulation
After saving and resetting on the world map enter the house and run in, talk to Cid from the left.
Go to beach collect two fish from the middle, run back and talk to Cid 5 times from the left, then feed him fish from
the right.
Run back to beach and collect two fish, run right grab 1 quickly then other one in the middle. Run back and feed
Cid from the right.
Go back to beach grab both the fish and run back, feed from the right.
Back to beach head all the way to the right of the beach, fast fish should swim towards you, grab it then collect
the slow fish. Cid should now be healed.

Once on the continent grab Chocobo by Tzen and head to Nikeah

In Nikeah

Sell stuff need 23 000 GP or 28 000GP if you didn't get White Cape steal from Ultros3.(26 000 or 31 000 if you want 2 Bard's Hat's)

Czarina Ring, Mithril Shields, Thunder Blade, Blizzard, 2 Earrings, Mithril Rod, Boomerang

ITEM ORDER FROM TOP (roughly)
Blizzard
Czarina Ring
Mithril Shield x 2
Mithril Rod
Earrings x 2
Chocobo Brush
Thunder Blade
Boomerrang

*GP ENDING IN 0, 6, 8, OR 9*(If any character ends up being Level 16, then 8 is bad)
Sell 1 GP itmes to make it work

Tintinabar
Genji Glove
Memento Ring
Thiefknife
Drainer

BUY
Enhancer
1 or 2 Bard Hats
2 or 3 White Capes(Need 4 Total, although 3 can work)

Optimum Equip Celes after buying everything
Figaro Basement

Grab Gravity Rod

Optimum if not done already make sure Magus Hat is on.

Give Celes Running Shoes and Earrings.

Heal with Cure before fighting Tentacles.

Tentacle Fight

*Edgar Gravity Rod*
*Celes Fire Rod*
*Use Wait Trick on Edgar during Ice Rod, then drill top right Tentacle*
*Celes uses rest of Ice Rods*
*Heal Celes when needed with a Potion*
*Finish fight with Edgars Flash Tool if needed*

After Tentacles

Heal and Revive if needed

Relics
Edgar-Sprint Shoes and Charm Bangle
Celes-Back Guard and Gale Hairpin

If Edgar already learned Vanish then put on Stray. He should know Vanish by now if not put on Phantom. If you dont know Vanish already you will need to fight 1 or 2 encounters on the way to getting Mog to get Float above 80%.

In Kohlingen

Get Setzer

Grab Man Eater in the Tomb of Daryl.

Dullahan
Joker Doom on Dullahan

Vanish has to be learned here if you didnt learn it

Preparing for The End.

MAGIC NEEDS
Edgar-VANISH NEEDS TO BE LEARNED, FLOAT 80% OR ABOVE
SETZER-REMEDY 80% OR ABOVE SHOULD BE LEARNED(Will be learned if equipping Siren at IAF was skipped)
CELES-MUDDLE SHOULD BE LEARNED, BREAK SHOULD TO BE LEARNED AFTER KILLING GUARDIAN

Got to Narshe
Get Mog and Moogle Charm behind him.

Battle Speed on 1 and Warp out

Fly to Triangle Island and get engulfed(whole party)

Set Battle Speed to 6 and equip Mog With Sprint Shoes and Moogle Charm.
Remove Charm Bangle and Sprint Shoes from Edgar, and his equipment.

Get Gogo and Thunder Shield then Warp Stone out.(You can skip Thunder Shield but there will be almost no way to survive a bad Tier 2 Kefka without it)

KEFKAS TOWER

IF YOU ENCOUNTER  A LAND WORM AND HAVE BAD ATB WAIT TO SEE WHAT HE DOES. IF LAND WORM DOES LOAD STONE, POTION, ECHO
THEN JOKER DOOM.
IF YOU ENCOUNTER A GT. BEHEMOTH WITH SETZER, ECHO SCREEN THEN JOKER DOOM.

*Setzer* *Mog Edgar* *Celes Gogo*

Mog and Edgar

Get Force Shield and Force Armor.

After stepping on switch with Mog and Edgar swap to Celes and Gogo.

Optimum Gogo and give Gogo Force Shield then optimum Celes. Give Gogo Charm Bangle and Sprint Shoes and his battle commands then back row him.

Do Inferno Skip then head to the switches then staircase with Celes and Gogo, remove their equips, Charm Bangle and Sprint Shoes from Gogo then swap to Setzer.

Optimum Setzer and equip Force Shield, put on Sprint Shoes and Charm Bangle.

Push switches with Setzer then remove relics and equipment when done, swap to Mog and Edgar.

Push switches with Mog and Edgar, and swap to Celes and Gogo.

*BEFORE FIGHTING GUARDIAN MAKE SURE TO GIVE GOGO SLOT, MAGIC AND ITEM IN THE STATUS SCREEN IF NOT DONE ALREADY*

Optimum Celes and equip Enhancer, optimum Gogo and equip Force Shield, then put on Charm Bangle and Sprint Shoes.

Guardian
Echo Screen then Joker Doom on Guardian.

After the battle do Poltergheist Skip.

After Polter Skip step on switch and remove all equips and Sprint Shoes/Charm bangle from Gogo then swap to Setzer, Optimum him, equip Force Shield, Charm Bangle and Sprint Shoes. Equip White Cape and Running Shoes before fighting Doom.

Doom
Echo Screen then Joker Doom on Doom.

After Doom remove equipment and put on Sprint Shoes and Charm Bangle. Step on the switch and equip 1 White Cape then swap to Mog and Edgar.
Before fighting Goddess optimum Mog and equip Force Shield. Optimum Edgar and put on White Cape and Running Shoes, 2 White Capes on Mog.

Edgar needs to have learned Vanish by now and have Stray equipped with Float above 80% complete.

Goddess
Vanish then Dusk Requium on Goddess. Need Mog to use Snare.

Set Up Edgar

Optimum Edgar after the fight (Celes needs Enhancer) and and remove Thunder Shield and Force Armor. Remove Mog's equipment, keep White Cape and Running Shoes on Edgar, Equip Mog with Sprint Shoes and remove his other White Cape.

Use an Elixir on Edgar to heal MP if needed.

Swap to Gogo and Celes. Optimum Celes and Equip Force Shield and Enhancer, Optimum Gogo and remove Thunder Shield.
Give Celes True Knight and White Cape and Gogo White Cape and Running Shoes.
Give Celes Siren for a chance at surviving a bad Tier 2.

Use and Elixir or any MP healing items on Celes (She likely does not have much MP left at this point).

FINAL BATTLE

*Edgar Celes Setzer Gogo for the final fight*  (If that wasn't obvious)

Tier 1
BREAK RIGHT HAND

CAST FLOAT AFTER REVIVING EVERYONE AND USE AN ELIXIR ON CELES

THUNDER SHIELD ON EDGAR DURING QUAKE

Tier 2
REVERSE JOKER DOOM IMMEDIATELY AFTER SEEING WHAT KEFKA DOES (Hoping for Grav Bomb or single attack on Celes e.g Tek Laser on Celes).
SIREN ONLY IF A BAD ATTACK KILLS SOMEONE AND TRY TO RECOVER (Good Tier 2 wont need Siren).

UNEQUIP THUNDER SHIELD DURING TEN HITS AND EQUIP ON GOGO.

Tier 3
SWITCH TO CELES AND IF MERTON REMOVE FORCE SHIELD AND EQUIP ON GOGO.

NO MERTON
If Tier 2 was good do Reverse Joker Doom.
If Tier 2 was bad Mimic with Gogo.

Tier 4
GOGO MIMIC TO VICTORY

*Fallen One Skip*
Have Gogo Mimic then wait trick with the next character, after wait trick defend with all other characters then Mimic
ASAP with Gogo. Usually cant be done unless Gogo' battle cursor was put on Mimic during Tier 3.