final fantasy villains build

[Shinma the Lost]

So I started replaying a bunch of my old final fantasy games a d it got me thinking about how the builds for the villains would convert to pathfinder. So build a villain!
(I went with the villains from Dissidia just for a base list)
Garland
Emperor
Cloud of Darkness
Golbez
Exdeath
Kefka
sephiroth
Ultimicia
Kuja
Jecht

I started working on a treat base for Exdeath I am curious to see where this goes.

[Starbuck_II]

Shinma the Lost wrote:

So I started replaying a bunch of my old final fantasy games a d it got me thinking about how the builds for the villains would convert to pathfinder. So build a villain!

(I went with the villains from Dissidia just for a base list)
Garland
Emperor
Cloud of Darkness
Golbez
Exdeath
Kefka
sephiroth
Ultimicia
Kuja
Jecht

I started working on a treat base for Exdeath I am curious to see where this goes.

Garland is a magus or Eldritch Knight: he wears armor, casts spells, and fights with a martial weapon. He isn't that strong at first. The second fight he gets better.

Well, Golbez seems to be a Master Summoner (he mostly summons as an enemy but also casts spells). Although, he wears armor so mithral breastplate works if Summoner or Magus?

Seph: well in game, you never fight him until the end. You fight Jenova pretending to be him. Remember he was stuck in ice till he got Black Materia.

Kefka at first is just a magus (he was first magitek knight). Not that special. Then he becomes a god.
At first he uses a morning star. Second fight he uses good spells, but weak overall magic.

[Val'bryn]

Sephiroth is a level 12 Fighter. This is determined by checking his level during Cloud's flashback, where he is level 50. Given that this is out of 99, I divided 25, the listed max in Pathfinder Core, by 99, multiplied by 50, and determined him to be level 12.62, which you can round up if you want. Personally, I'm tempted to just give him the Advanced template in place of another level of fighter, to simulate his enhanced power due to the Jenova cells. I decided plain fighter because any magic he uses is due to him having his image used by Jenova, who would be stated up as either an Outsider or Aberration, thus having either natural spellcasting capability or Spell-Like Abilities.

Kefka is, at first, a 4th level Sorcerer. Yes, at the first "fight" at the Imperial Camp Kefka only uses a Morningstar, but given the fight isn't serious to him, he wasn't interested in battle, but in poisoning Doma. If a Sorcerer in Pathfinder is fighting a couple of interlopers who are obviously weaker than him, and are not really impeding his main plan, AND HE'S SURROUNDED BY SOLDIERS BEHOLDEN TO HIM, is the Sorcerer going to fight, or just make a token effort and let his minions handle it? At the final battle, if we're looking at him with a character class, he's a human Sorcerer, level 18. He's still human, but the energy from the Triad has warped him, shown with the Bloodline abilities of the sorcerer. I'ld give Aberrant, or a tainted Celestial personally. Might be interesting doing a Crossblood Sorcerer, Celestial and Abyssal or Infernal.

I'm going to disagree with Garland. He's a fighter, pure and simple, at the beginning. Best knight of Corneria and all that. He becomes Chaos because of a bargain, like they list as possible in Book of the Damned, the Transformation Ritual. Garland in FF IX may be a Fighter/Sorcerer, or Magus, I haven't played in a while, so don't recall.

Golbez is a Sorcerer, as I recall. He summons the Shadow Dragon, but that could just be either a spell, probably a combo of Mass Hold Person and Phantasmal Killer. If it is a summoned creature, Planar Binding or Summon Monster spells can conjure it. Arcane Armor Training can take care of the armor conundrum.

X-Death works as a Sorcerer as well, probably Magic Jared into the form he's usually seen in. His true form is a Treant, I'ld say. Level would be about 16.

Emperor, I don't know what level, but he's definitely a Wizard of some sort.

Ultimecia is definitely a Sorcerer.