Slash-All (Final Fantasy VII)

Slash-All is a Command Materia in Final Fantasy VII equipped to provide abilities that damage all enemies with one attack. These abilities are Slash-All, which causes a physical attack against every member of enemy party, and Flash, which attempts an Instant Death attack against the enemy party. Both attacks are long-range.

Obtained
Slash-All is found in the Ancient Forest which can be reached by using a Gold Chocobo, or after Ultimate Weapon is defeated.

As it can only be obtained once, the only way to have multiple Slash-All Materia is to master it. This requires a large 150000, meaning that it is best to equip weapons and armor with Double or Triple AP.

Use
The Slash-All Materia replaces the Attack command with either Slash-All at level 1, or Flash at level 2 after receiving 130000. Both of these abilities are very effective, as they can take advantage of a character's physical damage to clear a wave of enemies quickly.

Though Slash-All comes with no stat changes, the basic Slash-All ability should nonetheless be given to characters with a high Strength to deal the most damage. Characters with high strength are Cloud, Barret, Tifa, and Cid. Barret can also take advantage of the high amount of AP that the Materia has for his ultimate weapon, Missing Score, in addition to dealing strong physical damage with his Strength stat.

The chance for Flash to hit an enemy is equal to the equipped weapon's Attack% halved. This means it should be given to characters with weapons that have a high Attack% accuracy.

The player may not wish to use Slash-All over Flash. To still use Slash-All, the Mega All Materia can be equipped as an alternative, or a second Slash-All Materia can be equipped. If both a leveled and an un-leveled Slash-All Materia are equipped at the same time, the one found latest in the equipment will decide which ability will be available. Left is the lowest priority, right is the highest, and all armor slots being a higher-priority than weapon slots.