LogFAQs > #979885258

The Saw in Final Fantasy Legend is mostly useless except at the very end of the game. The way it was supposed to work is if the user's strength is higher than the target's defense, it's an instant kill. But they got the check backwards, so it only works against enemies with a higher defense than the user's strength. That means it's totally useless against most normal enemies, though it can be used to one-hit kill the final boss, the Creator, and the normally undefeatable form of Su-Zaku before obtaining ERASE99 (this is pointless, however, as you get nothing for winning, and it will continue to attack you randomly until the actual story encounter).