As almost everyone has stated already, the gameplay and storyline should be kept separate. To ask why Auron is weak at the beginning of the game is like asking why the characters didn't wait for their turn to attack in the FMVs. Plus SE technically did give a nod to the hype around Auron by specializing him in taking down enemies with high defense.
If Auron was a legendary guardian who helped vanquish Sin....
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mizushinzui
Auron's Apprentice
I've got agree with everyone else and say that there are two reasons for his stats.
1) As everyone else has said about 1000 times if he wasn't brought down to be near to everyone else then the game would be easy with such an overpowered character. I mean if you look at his HP and attack level his already pretty powerful when you get him.
2) Again a few people have mentioned the fact that he died. This would probably put a damper on anyone's fighting skills, so It's kind of unsurprising that he has lost a lot of his strength. And I'm pretty sure that if anyone who had worked on the storyline for the game was asked, they would probably use this as the reason for Auron's lack of ability.
1) As everyone else has said about 1000 times if he wasn't brought down to be near to everyone else then the game would be easy with such an overpowered character. I mean if you look at his HP and attack level his already pretty powerful when you get him.
2) Again a few people have mentioned the fact that he died. This would probably put a damper on anyone's fighting skills, so It's kind of unsurprising that he has lost a lot of his strength. And I'm pretty sure that if anyone who had worked on the storyline for the game was asked, they would probably use this as the reason for Auron's lack of ability.
-___- Answering the first post, his stats were probably low because the makers did not want to give you some uber guardian so early in the game. He of course survived due to plot reasons. If you have played the game, you know that he
If they had made him a hidden character, then you claim could have been plausible.
died and is in fact an unsent, so he didnt really survive, but rather died and stayed back for some reason
He got weaker after being beaten down by Lady Yunalesca and lost some of his power...(it's possible).
But really game stats are not that significant, even Sephiroth stats would make him easy prey for a level 100 Cait Sith in Final Fantasy VII.
But really game stats are not that significant, even Sephiroth stats would make him easy prey for a level 100 Cait Sith in Final Fantasy VII.
Cardboard~Exodus
Some Random Twat
The Reason he isn't God from the begining is so that you don't utterly dominate the game until level so-and-so. Also, If you notice, the Sin Scales that took down trained warriors were around your level in the beginning at low-comparable levels, so you can infer that logic means shit in an RPG.
Vice Nebulosa
Dark Matter Turner
Well, a remarkable number of people have already pinned the basic question of the thread, so additional input is pretty unnecessary. However, some of the analogies posted in the process were classic. 
A bit analogous to the Chrono Trigger situation, actually, in which one wonders, upon acquiring Magus, where his 6666 HP went.
SaShman said:
Cardboard~Exodus said:
A bit analogous to the Chrono Trigger situation, actually, in which one wonders, upon acquiring Magus, where his 6666 HP went.
niesl2
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Auron's possible decrease in level/power didn't bother me much while playing, what bothered me more is that Auron, Jecht and Braska managed to complete the pilgrimage with just the three of them, while it takes Yuna 6 guardians to do the same job... Since Auron is also in your team we all know what skills he has and lacks. Braska is a summoner, so he probably has the same abilities and skills as Yuna. That leaves Jecht, who has to do everything the other 5 characters do in Yuna's pilgrimage crew. With or without game mechanics, this makes Jecht more worthy of the title 'Legendary Guardian' then Auron. ;-)
Apparent Amarant
Blue Mage
Because Phoenix downs don't resurrect the dead. When a character is down to 0 HP in battle they are only knocked out. Or at least that was my understanding of it.
Well if I remember correctly, phoenix down doesn't actually bring a person back to life. At least in the old ff's, when a party member is downed (hp=0) he's technically unconscious than actually dead. So phoenix downing a dead person wouldn't really do anything.
To answer the OP: Auron's pretty old, maybe age just got to him. But really, when you're playing a fantasy game which is inherently going to be unrealistic, letting something like this get to you is missing the entire point of the game.
Edit: Amarant beat me to it :/
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