Tifa Best Builds and Weapons | FF7 Rebirth｜Game8 (2024)

Tifa Lockhart is a playable character in Final Fantasy 7 Rebirth (FF7 Rebirth). See the best builds for Tifa, list of weapons, their voice actors, and more about this character's background in this guide!

Tifa Best Builds

Tifa Endgame Build

This is a versatile Tifa endgame build designed for spamming weapon abilities and self-sustaining Tifa's HP when playing her as an active character. The build is also designed for non-active use when players only use Tifa when enemies are staggered.

Speed Up allows Tifa to build up ATB charges faster; this synergizes with the Plasma Discharge ability from the Enemy Skill materia paired with HP Absorption, allowing Tifa to siphon health from enemies hit by the discharge whenever she fills an ATB gauge.

The Karmic Cowl along with the HP Up, Chakra, and Spirit Up materia are used to add a bit of survivability for Tifa.

Steadfast Block, Precision Defense Focus, Auto-Unique Ability, and Auto-Weapon Ability materia are for situations where Tifa is a non-active character.

Best Team Synergies

Additional Build Notes

• You can swap Assess with any magic element (Fire, Ice, Lightning, and Wind) materia to help out with exploiting enemy weaknesses.
• The Plasma Discharge enemy skill is a reward from the combat simulator; Biological Intel: Blinded by Light.

Tifa Late Game Build

After getting the Crystal Gloves in Chapter 11, you'll be able to deal magic damage with your basic attacks while also adding more stagger with each hit using Unfettered Fury. This makes the Magic Attack stat slightly as important as Tifa's Attack stat.

By following this build, you'll have a high amount of both Attack and Magic Attack stats while also improving Tifa's ability to stagger enemies.

Having the Opening ATB Bonus weapon skill and the First Strike materia equipped allows Tifa to use Unfettered Fury twice earlier. After setting up, you can cast Sonic Boom (Enemy Skill) for damage boosts and Haste so you can keep using the abilities you need.

Stagger Enemy with Unfettered Fury Before Switching to Unbridled Strength

While Unfettered Fury is active, Tifa's unique abilities will deal increased stagger damage but will increase the damage multiplier of staggered enemies less.

You can keep Unfettered Fury on while staggering the enemy then quickly change to Unbridled Strength upon filling the Stagger gauge.

Best Team Synergies

Additional Build Notes

• Try to use Starshower first before using a Limit Break.
• Use Mind Blast (Enemy Skill) for a quick and easy fill on the enemies' Stagger gauges. Take note that this ability can only be used once per battle!

Tifa Mid Game Build

We'll switch to a physical build at mid game with Kaiser Knuckles and enhance it with several Complete Materia. Replacing the Sylph Gloves means sacrificing the ATB charge rate weapon skill in exchange for higher physical attack and an extra materia slot.

Instead of spells, your source of elemental damage will be the Enemy Skill materia and the abilities from Tifa's Folio. The default ability from this materia is a 3-in-1 mix of Aero, Bravery, and Faith, all for just one ATB charge.

Be sure to complete the necessary Combat Simulator battles from Chadley to obtain more Enemy Skills!

Best Team Synergies

Additional Build Notes

• Enemy Skill's Plasma Discharge is a good ability on Tifa against enemies weak to Lightning as she can trigger the electric blast more frequently.

Tifa Early Game Build

This is a balanced build for Tifa during the early game where she can play as a physical stacker and a spellcaster. Options are limited in the first chapters so Tifa can't specialize in physical damage yet.

Fire and Ice Materia will cover you for the majority of the journey as most enemies along the way are weak to either Fire or Ice attacks. The Reverse Gale ability from Sylph Gloves will take care of enemies weak to wind attacks.

Tifa will gain ATB charges fast as the active character, allowing you to reach max chi level with two uses of Unbridled Strength early before spamming other abilities.

Make the ATB gauge fill up even faster with the ATB Charge Rate Up weapon skill along with the Aureate Pinion accessory.

Best Team Synergies

Additional Build Notes

• Lightning Materia can be replaced with Luck Up or Item Master upon reaching Gabe's Ranch in Junon.
• You can also replace Lightning Materia with Healing if Chakra's recovery isn't enough.

How to Use Tifa and Combat Guide

Tifa Controls

Button / Action	Description
Attack	Basic melee attack
Hold Uppercut	Heavy melee attack
Unique Ability	Changes based on current chi level. Increases Stagger damage multiplier.Lv1 - Whirling Uppercut Lv2 - Omnistrike Lv3 - Rise and Fall
Evade	Quickly dodges to the specified direction. Can be chained with combos.
Commands Menu	Access the Commands Menu for Abilities, Spells, Items, and Synergy
Block	Blocks incoming attacks to reduce damage. Perfect blocks completely negate damage.
Hold Synergy Skills	Opens the menu for available Synergy Skills

Tifa Battle Tips

Increase Chi Level to Extend Combos

Unbridled Strength is Tifa's most important skill as it increases her chi level (up to Lv.3). Each level extends her basic attack combos, making it even easier to gain ATB charges, as well as increases their damage.

Her unique ability also increases with her chi level: from Whirling Uppercut, to Omnistrike, then Rise and Fall. Using her unique ability expends one chi level.

Dodge with Focused Strike

Focused Strike is a handy Ability that can both increase Stagger and dodge enemy attacks at the same time. This can also be chained with combos making it a good alternative to the normal dodge.

Once you've memorized the enemies' attack patterns, you can practically spam Focused Strike as perfectly dodging with this ability gives a huge ATB boost.

Unique Ability Increases Stagger Damage Bonus

Try to reach max chi level as early as possible so when an enemy gets Staggered, you can use Tifa's unique abilities to increase the Stagger damage bonus. Your party can then use their strongest attacks to maximize damage before the enemy recovers.

Reach Airborne Enemies with Synergy Skills

Tifa can reach airborne enemies by using the Soaring Flurry and Heavenly Ascent Synergy Skills and perform aerial combos. Dodging while in midair keeps Tifa elevated and allows her to extend her combo.

Tifa Best Combos

Names given to the above combos are for descriptive purposes. The list above is subject to updates.

Tifa Best Folio Skill Cores

Tifa Weapon Locations and Stats

Leather Gloves

Sylph Gloves

Kaiser Knuckles

Dragon Claws

Tiger Fangs

Crystal Gloves

Járngreipr

All Weapons and How to Get Them

Tifa Manuscript Locations

Way of the Fist Locations

List of All Manuscripts Guide

Tifa Character Profile and Background

Profile and Voice Actor

Tifa	Voice Actors
	EN: Britt Baron JP: Ayumi Ito
	Weapon
	Gloves
	Chapter Unlocked
	Chapter 2A New Journey Begins
Official Introduction
Though a loyal member of Avalanche─an underground organization that opposes Shinra─Tifa nevertheless questions the group's extremist tactics, struggling to reconcile her cause with her conscience. This internal conflict reaches a fever pitch when her group's actions effectively lead to the fall of the Sector 7 plate. Racked with guilt, she leaves Midgar in search of a new path to tread.

Cloud's Childhood Friend

Tifa was Cloud's childhood friend back when they were still in Nibelheim. As shown in the first chapter's flashback, the two were reunited when Cloud was sent to survey the Mako Reactor in Mt. Nibel together with Sephiroth.

Tifa Abilities

Tifa Limit Breaks

Tifa Synergy Skills

Tifa Synergy Abilities

Tifa's Role in FF7 Rebirth

Acts as the Team's Fighter

Tifa specializes in close combat using Zangan-style martial arts, making her the fighter of the team. Her powerful strikes and quick reflexes easily overwhelm her targets and cripple them before delivering even deadlier blows.

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