After each battle you get EXP points (which help your character's level increase) and AP points (which are like experience points for your materia, the more points your materia have the stronger they are and the more capabilities they have).īe careful because some weapons do not permit materia growth, although most do. Materia grows by being equipped to someone who is in a battle, whether they use the materia or not.
Leveling all materia of a type can gain you the master materia which has the abilities of all materia of that type. Once a materia reaches its max level, you gain a new unleveled copy of that materia. The equipment the materia is attached to can affect the amount of AP gained.
Fight monsters using the characters with that materia equipped.įrom winning fights, you gain AP which will level the equipped materia.Equip the materia to the slots in your characters' current equipment.