Tifa Combat Guide: Tifa Lockhart

Learn Tifa Lockhart's best abilities, spells, weapons, and combos in Final Fantasy VII Rebirth. Master her close-range combat and unleash devastating Limit Breaks.

Tifa Lockhart is a close-range combatant in Final Fantasy VII Rebirth, excelling in physical attacks augmented by her magic skills. Her basic attacks build 'chi' levels, which unlock more powerful Triangle (heavy) attacks: Whirling Uppercut (chi level one), Omnistrike (chi level two), and Rise and Fall (chi level three). The Unbridled Strength ability is key to increasing her chi level and enabling these combos.

Tifa's Abilities:

• Unbridled Strength: Strengthens basic attacks and increases combo count, allowing progression through chi levels.
• Focused Strike: An evade followed by a charging attack that moderately increases stagger. Can be used airborne.
• Divekick: A powerful aerial kick.
• Reverse Gale: A wind-aspected attack that launches enemies into the air or pulls them towards Tifa. Useful for grouping enemies and hitting airborne foes.
• Overpower: Enhances other attacks to pressure enemies more effectively. Can be used airborne.
• Starshower: A flurry of strikes that increases the strength of the next command.
• Chi Trap: Creates a damaging chi orb that deals damage over time on contact.
• Unfettered Fury: Imbues unbridled attacks with non-elemental magic, increasing stagger.
• True Strike: A close-range blow with a high stagger damage bonus.

Recommended Combos and Strategies:

• Unbridled Strength & Starshower Combo: Maintain Unbridled Strength to reach chi level three for Rise and Fall. Using Starshower before Rise and Fall, especially on staggered enemies, maximizes damage. Equipping ATB Stagger materia enhances this combo's effectiveness on the stagger meter.
• Reverse Gale Utility: Use Reverse Gale to group smaller enemies for easier elimination or to pull flying enemies back to the ground.

Tifa's Weapons and Abilities:

Weapon	Ability	Chapter	Location
Leather Gloves	Divekick	2	Initial Equip
Sylph Gloves	Reverse Gale	3	Mythril Quarry - 1st Tier: Northern Quarry - Storage. In a chest in the southeastern corner of the chamber.
Kaiser Knuckles	Overpower	5	Shinra-8 Ship. In a chest during the section where you control Cloud and Tifa.
Dragon Claws	Starshower	8	Corel - Dustbowl. Achieve 42,000 points in the Desert Rush minigame.
Tiger Fangs	Chi Trap	10	In Output Regulation - B1 inside of the Gongaga Reactor.
Crystal Gloves	Unfettered Fury	11	Building G-02 in Garm Pass.
Járngreipr	True Strike	13	In the Corridor of Currents.

Tifa's Limit Breaks:

• Somersault: Knocks an enemy into the air and follows with a powerful kick.
• Dolphin Flurry (2 Limit Bars): A rapid chain of acrobatic attacks.
• Meteor Strike (3 Limit Bars): An attack with the power of a falling star that increases stagger.

Tifa's Synergy Skills:

• Leaping Strikes: Launches towards the enemy; animation varies by partner.
• Soaring Flurry (with Cloud, Red XIII): A jumping attack that can hit faraway enemies.
• Power Cleave (with Cloud): Cloud unleashes a powerful attack, saving ATB.
• Slip and Slide (with Aerith, Cloud, Yuffie, Cait Sith): A timed dodge and counterstrike.