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IMO Tidus, Yuna, and Rikku make for the best 'normal' party.

Have Tidus do Tidus-y things. He doesn't really matter beyond being a beatstick. Haste and stuff like quick hit and cheer can be useful but he's there for muscle.

Have Yuna pick up some Black Magic from Lulu. At least -a rank. Why? Yuna's magic is actually very solid and her healing magic and the support spells she learns will ensure most enemies simply just can't get anywheres. After all, what's a powerful elemental to do when you can cast all four null spells and then hit them with the relevant anti, heal, and so-forth? Not to mention summoning. Yojimbo can flat-out render any fight 'moot' but you either need to have a butt-ton of cash or be willing to cheat for it to make it 'viable'.

Rikku rounds it out with her stealing and mixing. Taking apart Machina is nice but not really the big deal. Mastering her mix overdrive lets you bring the enemy into a massive world of pain, hurt, and painful hurting. If you can reliably pull off her trio of 9999 you can render most fights moot. Best done with the remake cheats but still entirely possible with 'normal' stuff. She'll be slow at the start sadly but once you get past that mixes are just too powerful.

But this is FFX we're talking about. IIRC people beat it without leveling up once on a regular basis and it's not hard outside of, like, two, maybe three, bosses and the bonus content.

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