Tifa Lockhart Weapons and Abilities | Tifa Best Build | FF7 Remake｜Game8 (2024)

This is a character page for Tifa, containing her abilities, characteristics, and Limit Breaks, as well as her weapons, and recommended battle settings for Tifa in the game Final Fantasy 7 Remake (FF7R).

Tifa's Backstory and Profile

A loyal member of Avalanche─an underground organization opposed to Shinra─Tifa also runs Seventh Heaven, a popular bar in the Sector 7 slums. Although she bears a terrible grudge towards Shinra, she is not convinced that bombing mako reactors is the solution. As she struggled to reconcile her cause with her conscience, Tifa was reunited with her childhood friend, Cloud, for the first time in years...
Source: FINAL FANTASY VII REMAKE

Tifa's Characteristics

The Fighter of the Group

Tifa is the fighter of the group, a warrior who is characterized by her speedy physical attacks. Her attacks make less damage than those of Cloud, but they are fast, and they also come in rapid successions. She can fall under the standard Monk class of the traditional Final Fantasy series.

Build-up Combos are her Specialty

Effect	Tifa's attacks can build-up. Press the attack button repeatedly to stack up damage, making the most of her strikes and kicks to overwhelm the enemy.
Usage	Press ▢ continuously for successive strikes

Tifa's Strengths and Unique Ability

Whirling Uppercut

Whirling Uppercut
Effect	Tifa gathers her power and launches upwards with a punch, causing great damage through an uppercut.

Omnistrike

Omnistrike
Effect	Unleashes a powerful rushing charge using a shoulder tackle as base.

Rise and Fall

Rise and Fall
Effect	An attack where Tifa peppers the enemy with powerful kicks and a forceful palm as a finisher. It was her Limit Break move in the original FF7.

Tifa's Abilities

Unbridled Strength

Starshower

Overpower

Focused Strike

Divekick

Chi Trap

True Strike

Tifa's Limit Breaks

Somersault

Dolphin Flurry

List of Limit Breaks | Limit Break Guide

Tifa's Weapons

Tifa's Starting Weapon

Tifa's Other Weapons

List of Weapons Stats and Materia Slots

Tifa's Stats

Level 50 Stats

Character Ranking by Stat

How to Use Tifa

Execute Quick Combos

Tifa hits quick and hits hard with her combos. Most of her abilities work well with her basic attacks and other abilities like Overpower, Focused Strike, and Starshower.

Using Unbridled Strength or unlocking the Concentration weapon ability also helps in chaining combos as they both increases the damage of her basic attacks and unlocks unique abilities that can be used to link combos.

Dodges Attack Easily

Tifa moves the fastest among the four playable characters in the game. Tifa can easily avoid attacks just by moving, let alone dodging. You can also utilize dodging by using it to cancel the intervals or pauses between combos.

For best results, equip Parry Materia to Tifa to make her zoom around the battlefield with Parry. This ability makes her dodge attacks even faster while also blocking attacks that she fails to dodge.

Pressure Enemies with Overpower

As the description suggests, Overpower is best used after chaining basic attacks. Use this technique if you want to interrupt an enemy and quickly fill up its stagger gauge.

Maximize Damage Output With Starshower

Feathered Gloves' Starshower is the bread and butter of maximizing Tifa's damage output. Starshower increases the damage of the next ability used. You need to immediately use an ability right after Starshower for the damage increase, otherwise, the damage bonus will be cancelled.

The damage bonus works with Tifa's unique abilities, other weapon abilities, and even limit breaks! Try to use Starshower followed by Dolphin Flurry on a staggered enemy and you will almost feel the pain of the execution!

Elemental Chi Trap

Chi Trap is an ability from Mythril Claws that sets an orb of chi in place and deals continuous non-elemental magic damage to enemies caught in it. Since the orb is stationary, using it against slow-moving enemies or enemies that are easily interrupted maximizes its effect.

Its damage is also affected by the Elemental Materia equipped on Tifa's weapon. For example, if you linked Elemental + Ice materias on her weapon, Chi Trap will deal ice-elemental magic damage instead of being non-elemental.

Easily Increases Stagger Damage Multiplier

Tifa can also increase the damage bonus on staggered enemies pretty efficiently using her unique abilities and Purple Pain's True Strike. Use these abilities to increase the multiplier to more than twice its base damage bonus. You can even get the Staggering Feat easily with these attacks!

Tips for Increasing Stagger Damage Bonus Using Tifa

Cast Haste on Tifa and increase her speed by unlocking weapon abilities. While the enemy's stagger gauge is not yet full, increase her chi level by using Unbridled Strength until her unique ability becomes Rise and Fall then make sure her ATB Gauge is full. After the enemy is staggered, spam True Strike until her ATB Gauge is completely drained, use her Rise and Fall followed by Omnistrike, then use basic attacks while consuming each accumulated ATB bars with True Strikes.

Best Equipped With ATB Assist

Since Tifa has abilities that are effective when used twice in a row such as Unbridled Strength, Starshower, and True Strike, equipping ATB Assist Materia on her can easily help other members fill their ATB gauge.

Best Build for Tifa

Balanced Build

Notes

• Switch the Fire materia according to the enemy's weakness.
• Use Cog Bangle if Chain Bangle is unavailable then remove the Chakra materia.
• Use Champion Belt if Gotterdammerung is unavailable.

Physical Build

Notes

• Switch the Fire materia according to the enemy's weakness.
• Maximize the use of Haste.
• Use Cog Bangle if Chain Bangle is unavailable then remove the ATB Stagger materia.
• Use Transference Module if Gotterdammerung is unavailable.

Magic Build

Notes

• This build maximizes the damage output of Chi Trap, which is also your main damage dealing ability when using this setup.
• Switch the Fire materia according to the enemy's weakness.
• Use Cog Bangle if Chain Bangle is unavailable then remove the MP Up materia.
• Switch Circlet with Healing Carcanet if you need increased healing.

Best Build for Each Character

Recommended Battle Shortcuts for Tifa

Character Links

List of Characters