I just got to the Vargas fight and after actually reading the manual and seeing that you gotta do Suplex instead of Pummel, the XY⬇⬆ input doesn't seem to be working. Did the input change in the patch?

If it didn't, maybe Sabin came in too low level because I had the Moogle charm equipped after I got it in Narshe and haven't been leveling up?

EDIT: Oh it did change, I completely forgot the game tells you how to do Blitz after you do some damage to Vargas because I've always just hit him with the Blitz immediately since I've been playing this game for over three decades.