What is your ultimate Final Fantasy VI team?

From the Perfect world to the World of Ruined, and explain why you Pick this team.

I generally take Terra and Celes because they both have fantastic magic abilities and can wield all the best weapons in the game. Those are the two main constants, but other than that the most common two are Locke, because Steal is one of my favourite abilities and the game, and Edgar, because Tools are great justice.

I bring in the ladies for the same reason as Man said--they have awesome magic power, particularly Terra and neither does badly with a sword. I tend to love Edgar's tools ability. I also really like Cyan as a character even though I think his skill sucks. It's a pretty balanced party actually.

Mog
It's just fun to play as a Moogle. He's got DDR skillz to boot.

Shadow
He can throw stuff. Plus he's a ninja with a counterattacking dog. One time a friend of mine threw a Healing Rod at a low-HP Cayenne and killed him. Funny.

Celes
It's good to have someone fluent with magic. Runic is pretty handy once in a while.

Edgar
His Tools command is handy, especially those non-elemental attacks.

I dont really have a usual party, but a lot of the time i end up using:

Sabin: for his blitzes, mostly bum rush
Edgar: That chainsaw of his works wonders
Gogo: cuz he takes everyone elses moves ^_^

and the last one usually varies between Celes, Setzer or Cyan

Terra, Gogo, Setzer, and Edgar.

Terra jacks **** up with her esper form, Setzer has his slots, Edgar does crazy stuff with tools and Gogo just does whatever they do, so it's awesome.

Sabin: His blitz kills!
Terra: In her esper form she is unstoppable!
Edgar: His tools are freat and he is a good fighter!
Cyan: His sword techs are a fierce force of nature!

Celes and Terra, because they're both very powerful mages, and imo magic is one of the most important abilities in and FF game.
Edgar because he's fairly strong and he always ends up equipped with a lance/spear/whatever you wanna call it, and Dragoons are my all time favourite class. and Sabin because he's extremely strong, and his latter Blitzes are hard to pull off, and I like a challenge

Best Offense: Terra, Sabin, Shadow, Mog.
Best Magic Users: Terra, Celes, Setzer, Edgar.
Best Skills Team: Shadow, Sabin, Gau, Edgar.

In general I had Terra in my party 99% of the time because I thought she was very strong. Below her was Sabin because at that age I had a crush on him (lol) and I thought his moves were awesome. Followed by Mog - he's adorable and his dances are powerful. And finally, Relm - she's a bit weak but her paintings are rather powerful.

Celes - Shes good at magic and weapons which is very useful
Locke - he just smacks them dead XD
Terra - same as Celes
Mog - because i need a filler character and he's awesome XD

The huge degree of variety in FFVI's team set-up is quite easily one of the best qualites of the game, and definately makes it one of the tactically strongest in the series.

My personal line up?

Relm - for control and high magic stats
Shadow - super powerful special attacks
Celes - attacking and healing
Locke - Good strenght and stealing ability.

Though, as a general rule, I liked to chop and change my characters out constantly to keep them equally leveled, just to satisfy the completist in my, but those few were my top favourites when it came to serious, stategic battles.

I have the tendancy to throw in Mog from time to time because he's got the Moogle charm that elimiinates those annoying encounters, he's got that awesome Snow Muffler which makes in near invulnerable and he's just so darn cute. <3

The characters which I used throughout of FFVI consisted of:

Sabin: Did large amounts of damage with his blitzs attacks, also saved my life many times in tight situation.

Cyan: Awesome Sword techs, they also saved my life many times.

Celes: I recall her being able to absorb magic damage or something like that? it's been too long to remember but the unique ability to her was very useful, she was an excellent asset to the team.

Shadow: Although throughout most of the game you never really 'got' him in your party untill the end he proved most useful throughout all the times you got him. His throwing techniques did large amounts of damage and thus allowing you to defeat your enemy with ease.

When he Shows Up Shadow
Sabin cause of the Blitz
Terra
and Locke