Slot (Final Fantasy VIII)

Selphie's Limit Break is Slots that selects a spell and the amount of times it will be cast using a process based on Selphie's level, Crisis Level and a random factor. Targets are selected at random. Slots do not use up stocked magic. If an undesirable spell is chosen, the player can "do over", and the process is repeated to select another spell. The player can do over infinitely, but the battle will continue even if the player has set the ATB Mode to "Wait" in the config menu.

As it is random whether the player ends up with good spell combinations or not, they can equip the Defend command to Selphie when fighting strong enemies that use only physical attacks, such as T-Rexaur and Wendigo. While in HP Critical they can put up the Defend command making Selphie immune to physical damage. The effect won't wear off until the next command is chosen, so on her next turn, Selphie is free to shuffle through the Slots for as long as is needed.

Mechanics
To calculate the Slots Level:
 * $$Slots Level = Level / 10 + Crisis Level + [0..4] - 1$$

While the player can influence the Slots Level via Selphie's level and her Crisis Level, the next step, Slots Mod, is random.


 * $$SpellSet Value = Slots Mod * 12 + Slots Level$$

The game has a list that determines which SpellSet is used depending on the SpellSet's value.

E.g., SpellSet# = 35 would get Set 14

After the set is selected, the game picks a spell from the set, which is what Selphie is able to cast. The numbers are maximum amount of casts; the actual amount of casts is anything between one and the maximum.

Spells in each Set:

Unique spells
While most abilities are standard spells the player can cast normally, there are four spells which are unique to Slots. These spells can only be cast once per Slots usage.

Further diving into the game code reveals two other spells specific to Selphie, Percent (a reduce-HP-to-1 move similar to Matra Magic), and Catastrophe (major damage to all enemies). These two spells were removed from Selphie's spell list in the final build of Final Fantasy VIII, but can be found via third-party data exploitation programs, although they just use Fire's spell animation.

Final Fantasy Airborne Brigade
Selphie uses her exclusive Slots Limit Break spells from Final Fantasy VIII.