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).
List of Contents
- Tifa's Backstory and Profile
- Tifa's Characteristics
- Tifa's Strengths and Unique Ability
- Whirling Uppercut
- Omnistrike
- Rise and Fall
- Tifa's Abilities
- Tifa's Limit Breaks
- Tifa's Weapons
- Tifa's Starting Weapon
- Tifa's Other Weapons
- Tifa's Stats
- How to Use Tifa
- Best Build for Tifa
- Recommended Battle Shortcuts for Tifa
- Character Links
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
Name | Tifa Lockheart |
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Age | 20 |
Height | 167 cm (5'4") |
Birthday | May 3rd |
Blood Type | B |
Voice Actor | English: Britt BaronJapanese: Ayumi Ito |
Weapons | Gloves |
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. |
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Usage | Press ▢ continuously for successive strikes |
Tifa's Strengths and Unique Ability
Whirling Uppercut
Whirling Uppercut | |
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Effect | Tifa gathers her power and launches upwards with a punch, causing great damage through an uppercut. |
Omnistrike
Omnistrike | |
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Effect | Unleashes a powerful rushing charge using a shoulder tackle as base. |
Rise and Fall
Rise and Fall | |
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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
Effect | How to Learn | ||||
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Strengthen basic attacks and unique abilities. | Learned from the start. | ||||
Power | Stagger Rate | ATB Gain | |||
- | - | 0 |
Starshower
Effect | How to Learn | ||||
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Unleash a flurry of powerful strikes. Increases strength of command executed. | Equip Feathered Gloves. Reach 100% Proficiency to learn permanently. | ||||
Power | Stagger Rate | ATB Gain | |||
580 | 6 | 0 |
Overpower
Effect | How to Learn | ||||
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Used in conjunction with basic attacks to effectively pressure enemies. | Equip Metal Knuckles. Reach 100% Proficiency to learn permanently. | ||||
Power | Stagger Rate | ATB Gain | |||
252 | 4 | 0 |
Focused Strike
Effect | How to Learn | ||||
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Evade, then unleash a charging attack. Moderately increases stagger. | Equip Sonic Strikers. Reach 100% Proficiency to learn permanently. | ||||
Power | Stagger Rate | ATB Gain | |||
72 | 3 | 700 |
Divekick
Effect | How to Learn | ||||
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Consume all ATB charges to unleash a concentrated burst of energy. Significantly increases stagger. | Equip Leather Gloves. Reach 100% Proficiency to learn permanently. | ||||
Power | Stagger Rate | ATB Gain | |||
378 | 1 | 0 |
Chi Trap
Effect | How to Learn | ||||
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Create an orb of materialized chi that deals damage on contact. | Equip Mythril Claws. Reach 100% Proficiency to learn permanently. | ||||
Power | Stagger Rate | ATB Gain | |||
300 | 10 | 0 |
True Strike
Effect | How to Learn | ||||
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Deliver a tremendous blow at close range. Increased stagger damage bonus. | Equip Purple Pain. Reach 100% Proficiency to learn permanently. | ||||
Power | Stagger Rate | ATB Gain | |||
333 | 1 | 0 |
Tifa's Limit Breaks
Somersault
Effect | How to Learn | ||||
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Launch an enemy high into the air with a Zangan-style swift kick. | Learned from the start. | ||||
Power | Stagger Rate | ATB Gain | |||
1700 | 4 | 0 |
Dolphin Flurry
Effect | How to Learn | ||||
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Unleash an unrelenting stream of acrobatic attacks. Significantly increases stagger. | Clear Party Member vs. Wild Animals in Corneo Colosseum. | ||||
Power | Stagger Rate | ATB Gain | |||
2960 | 50 | 0 |
List of Limit Breaks | Limit Break Guide
Tifa's Weapons
Tifa's Starting Weapon
Weapon | ATK | MATK | DEF | MDEF | Slots |
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Leather Gloves | 32 | 22 | 0 | 0 | ○-○ |
Tifa's Other Weapons
Weapon | ATK | MATK | DEF | MDEF | Slots |
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Metal Knuckles | 54 | 12 | 0 | 0 | ○-○ |
Sonic Strikers | 32 | 21 | 0 | 0 | ○-○○-○ |
Feathered Gloves | 50 | 33 | 0 | 0 | ○○○ |
Mythril Claws | 28 | 55 | 0 | 0 | ○-○○ |
Purple Pain | 51 | 41 | 0 | 0 | ○-○○○ |
List of Weapons Stats and Materia Slots
Tifa's Stats
Level 50 Stats
Stat | Value |
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HP | 4338 |
MP | 64 |
Strength | 100 |
Magic | 91 |
Vitality | 57 |
Spirit | 57 |
Luck | 72 |
Speed | 65 |
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
Equipment | Stats (Fully Upgraded) / Effect |
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Feathered Gloves |
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Chain Bangle |
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Gotterdammerung | Enter battle with a full limit break gauge. Limit break gauge gradually fills during battle. |
Feathered Gloves | |
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Fire + Elemental | |
HP Up | HP Up |
First Strike | Steadfast Block |
Chain Bangle | |
Chakra | ATB Assist |
Healing | Revival |
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
Equipment | Stats (Fully Upgraded) / Effect |
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Metal Knuckles |
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Chain Bangle |
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Gotterdammerung | Enter battle with a full limit break gauge. Limit break gauge gradually fills during battle. |
Metal Knuckles | |
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Fire + Elemental | |
HP Up | HP Up |
First Strike | Deadly Dodge |
Chain Bangle | |
Parry | ATB Stagger |
Time | Chakra |
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
Equipment | Stats (Fully Upgraded) / Effect |
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Mythril Claws |
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Chain Bangle |
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Circlet | Increases max MP by 10% Increases magic power by 5% |
Mythril Claws | |
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Fire + Elemental | |
Magic Up | Magic Up |
First Strike | Steadfast Block |
Chain Bangle | |
Healing + Magnify | |
Revival | MP Up |
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
Button | Setup |
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▢ | Unbridled Strength |
△ | Starshower |
◯ | Focused Strike |
X | True Strike |
Character Links
Main Characters | |||
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Cloud | Aerith | Barret | Tifa |
Best Build for Each Character | |||
Character Ranking by Stat | |||
AVALANCHE | |||
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Rude | Heidegger | Roche | Tseng |
Scarlet | Palmer | Reeve | Rufus |
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Madam M | Sam | Kyrie | Zack |
Vincent | Jenova | - | - |
INTERmission DLC | |||
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Billy Bob | Polk | Nero | Weiss |
Melfi | - | - | - |
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