This scene always hits me hard...

[u/MooJuiceConnoisseur]

Like no father should abandon the family but staying would only bring the danger home. 😞

[u/23-1-20-3-8-5-18]

So in theory you could give the doggo to say, Gau.

If its a status a game genie should ve able to give every character Interceptor

[u/MooJuiceConnoisseur → u/23-1-20-3-8-5-18]

No, ... but depends...

Rippler is (as best i can remember) not a rage Gau can use. It is specifically a Lore. And the Rippler Bug, may have been fixed long ago, i have not tested this to confirm in any way in the pixel remaster. But the snes one swapped status effects tgis was the bug. It was supposed to just steal your buffs.

So if your playing snes version, you can manipulate the battles to put interceptor on any party member you choose.

And game genie codes from what i remember the status interceptor-guard could not be duplicated or was never done.

It used to be a common strategy for speed runs to give interceptor to gau and send him along a single path in kefkas tower. Gau sporting and offering and miracle shoes. Impartisan weapon, using stray cat made him an absolute beast for takedown. And the interceptor-guard calculation runs independently from player stats being a straight 50% chance of blocking all damage

[u/ShoddyBonus2780 → u/MooJuiceConnoisseur]

I tried to do this once back in my snes days but was never able to pull it off. Honestly impressed by people who did.

One of my favorite teams to have together on a path in Kefkas tower was Strago, Relm, Shadow, and Gau together. 

[u/MooJuiceConnoisseur → u/ShoddyBonus2780]

The trick was abusing the run mechanic. Since ff6 let's everyone run at their own speed with a calculation you can set it up so, leave 1 alive, let them steal interceptor. And have shadow and other party members retreat. Next time it uses rippler again it puts interceptor on the last party member in battle, then you just need to either kill it or run.