Strength

Strength , usually abbreviated as Str, STR, also known as Power and Vigor, is a recurring stat that determines physical damage. It is often associated with Attack Power. It is paramount to jobs that deal physical damage, and most important to those who do physical damage in melee combat. Strength is compared against the opponent's Defense to determine the amount of damage done.
In early games, Vigor cannot be modified by equipment. Instead, a separate statistic known as Attack Power provided by the equipment is used to determine how powerful the equipment is. A character's Vigor and his/her weapon's Attack Power are usually combined to determine the character's true attack power. Many special physical abilities have set Battle Powers, and cannot be augmented by weapons, only by a character's Vigor stat.
== Appearances ==
=== Final Fantasy ===
Strength is one of the five base stats and one of the two factors that affect the character's damage (the other being the weapon equipped).
A character's base damage is equal to STR/2, rounding down. However, it has a minimum of one, even when STR is one, which causes black mages and black wizards to have a base DMG of STR/2+1.
=== Final Fantasy II ===
Strength increases a character's regular attack damage (the damage dealt by the "Attack" option) and accuracy with physical attacks. In earlier versions, Strength may decrease from frequently using White Magic.
Each point of Strength directly boosts Accuracy by one percent. The Attack stat is based on Strength, however it varies depending on multiple factors; for example, a Right-Handed character with 15 Strength and two Blood Swords equipped will have 4 Attack, the same character with level 3 Unarmed and no shield will have 23 Attack, and the same character with a left-hand Ice Bow will have 59 Attack.
=== Final Fantasy III ===
Strength (along with weapon's attack rating) determines how much damage a character will deal when physically attacking.
=== Final Fantasy IV ===
Strength determines how much damage a character will deal when physically attacking.
==== Final Fantasy IV -Interlude- ====
Strength determines how much damage a character will deal when physically attacking.
==== Final Fantasy IV: The After Years ====
Strength determines how much damage a character will deal when physically attacking.
=== Final Fantasy V ===
The character's Strength is determined by the job currently assigned. Monks and Gladiators are the strongest jobs, while the Summoner is the weakest. The Monk's Barehanded ability gives another job same attack power as with a Monk when unarmed. The Knight's Two-Handed ability increases attack power, but only while the character's Shield slot is left empty, and only certain weapons are compatible. The Bard's Sinewy Etude song boosts the party's Strength while he or she is singing.
=== Final Fantasy VI ===
Also known as Vigor. The higher Strength is, the greater the physical damage the character deals to the enemy is. This stat is independent and its value merges with the weapon's Attack Power value. Although the numerical maximum of the stat is 255 raising Strength above 128 is pointless, as 128 is the point the damage maxes out and damage can only be boosted further by equipping a stronger weapon.
Each character has a static Strength stat that can only be increased by leveling up with an Esper that gives a bonus to Strength on level up. Of the main playable characters, Sabin has the highest base strength, while Relm has the lowest.
=== Final Fantasy VII ===
The character's Strength stat added to the equipped weapon's attack power is used to determine damage caused by a physical attack.
The formula for base damage from a physical attack is as follows, where Att = Str + Weapon Power:
:\mbox{Base Damage} = \mbox{Att} + \frac{(\mbox{Att} + \mbox{Lv})}{32} * \frac{\mbox{Att} * \mbox{Lv}}{32}
Strength can be upgraded with the Power Source item (morphed from Heavy Tank and Unknown). Equipment can also boost the user's Strength, especially the accessory Champion Belt.
The characters each have their unique stat growth when leveling up. Even though each stat growth via level up is randomized, the game is programmed in such manner the character can never stray too far from the intended average.
List of characters' possible minimum and maximum Strength upon Level 99 with no Power Sources:
Character	Minimum Strength	Maximum Strength
Cloud 	98 	100
Tifa 	89 	96
Aeris 	71 	78
Barret 	94 	100
Red XIII 	84 	91
Cid 	85 	92
Yuffie 	82 	89
Vincent 	74 	81
Cait Sith	78 	85
===Final Fantasy VII Remake===
Strength is a characters' value that determines their attack power alongside their weapon. It is boosted by leveling up or by equipped accessories.
List of characters' possible minimum and maximum base Strength:
Character	Minimum Strength	Maximum Strength
Cloud 	14 	107
Barret 	14 	91
Tifa 	21 	100
Aerith 	29 	75
==== Crisis Core -Final Fantasy VII- ====
Strength determines the power of Zack's physical attacks. It can be boosted via accessories and leveling up, but the main form of stat boost is through materia. Materia's stats can be boosted via Materia Fusion. Using Hero Drinks in the fusion adds +1 to Strength in the resulting Materia.
Zack's base Strength stat is a fixed number and depends on his level. After level 75 the Strength growth halts and grows only a little bit.
The below values are from Crisis Core -Final Fantasy VII- FAQ/Walkthrough by Absolute Steve
Level	Strength	Level	Strength
6 	19 	53 	55
7 	20 	54 	55
8 	21 	55 	56
9 	22 	56 	57
10 	23 	57 	57
11 	25 	58 	57
12 	26 	59 	58
13 	27 	60 	58
14 	27 	61 	58
15 	28 	62 	59
16 	29 	63 	59
17 	30 	64 	59
18 	30 	65 	59
19 	31 	66 	61
20 	32 	67 	61
21 	33 	68 	61
22 	35 	69 	61
23 	35 	70 	62
24 	36 	71 	62
25 	37 	72 	62
26 	38 	73 	62
27 	38 	74 	62
28 	39 	75 	63
29 	40 	76 	63
30 	40 	77 	64
31 	41 	78 	64
32 	42 	79 	64
33 	43 	80 	64
34 	44 	81 	64
35 	45 	82 	64
36 	45 	83 	64
37 	46 	84 	64
38 	46 	85 	64
39 	47 	86 	64
40 	47 	87 	64
41 	48 	88 	65
42 	48 	89 	65
43 	49 	90 	65
44 	50 	91 	65
45 	51 	92 	62
46 	51 	93 	65
47 	52 	94 	65
48 	52 	95 	65
49 	52 	96 	65
50 	53 	97 	65
51 	54 	98 	65
52 	54 	99 	66
=== Final Fantasy VIII ===
Strength stat determines the power of physical attacks and physical Limit Breaks. The characters base stats are low, but Rinoa, surprisingly, has the highest natural Strength of the main six playable characters. Strength can be permanently boosted with Str Up items, leveling up, upgrading weapons, and devouring high level T-Rexaurs. Ifrit and Cactuar also have a Str Bonus. However, the main method of raising Strength is via junctioning.
Guardian Forces with Str-J ability allow its user to junction spells to the character's Strength stat, and GFs also learn Str+% abilities to boost it further. The best spells to junction to Strength are Ultima, Meteor, Aura, and Triple.
=== Final Fantasy IX ===
Strength determines the power of physical attacks, such as Steiner's Sword Arts and Freya's Jump, as well as the characters' normal physical attacks.
Formula for Strength:
:\mbox{StrBase} + \frac{\mbox{Level} * 3}{10} + \frac{\mbox{StrBonus}}{32}
The StrBase values differ from character to character, but never change. The StrBonus is the only way the player can affect the Strength growth and every level the bonus goes up by a rate that's worked out from the character's current stat increases. For example, if the character has equipment that gives extra Strength, then StrBonus will go up by that amount every time they level up. In addition the StrBonus will go up by 3 per level. (See Final Fantasy IX Max Stats FAQ by KADFC).
Steiner's Power Break ability lowers a target's Strength and can be used repeatedly. Eiko's Might spell increases the target's Strength.
=== Final Fantasy X ===
Strength determines the power of regular attacks, Skills, and some Overdrives. The characters gain Strength by activating Strength nodes on the Sphere Grid. Auron gets the best Strength from his path on the grid, but eventually, every character is able to traverse any path. The player can use Strength Spheres to attain higher stats; the spheres can be obtained by fighting Juggernaut in the Monster Arena.
The Strength+??% abilities on a character's weapon do not increase their Strength stat itself, but directly increase the physical damage dealt by the character.
Tidus's Cheer ability raises the Strength stat by 1 point each cast to the maximum of 5 points.
The aeons have separate stats that increase in conjunction with Yuna (Final Fantasy X party member)'s, but the player can also boost them manually, and the stats gradually increase when the player fights battles (any battles count). Of all the aeons, Sandy of the Magus Sisters has the highest Strength, whereas Shiva has the lowest.
Although "Strength-based" and "physical" attacks are not the same thing, they go hand-in-hand more often than not.
==== Final Fantasy X-2 ====
Strength determines the power of physical attacks. Each dressphere has its own stats and the stats grow naturally when the girls level up. Accessories can boost the stat even further. Dark Knight has the best Strength of all normal jobs, and Songstress the lowest.
All physical attacks follows the following formula:
:\mbox{FinalValue} = \frac{(\mbox{Level} + \mbox{Strength}) * \mbox{Level} * \mbox{Strength}}{1024} + \mbox{Strength}http://www.gamefaqs.com/ps2/562386-final-fantasy-x-2/faqs/31807
The color for the Strength gauge in the menu is orange.
==== Final Fantasy X-2: Last Mission ====
=== Final Fantasy XI ===
Strength is stat that is compared with an enemy's vitality to determine the base damage of a character's attacks. It is associated with the element of Fire, and thus many fire-based items add STR to a character's stats.
This stat is very important to almost all physical damage dealing jobs, as it plays a crucial role in weapon skills and physical Blue Magic. Strength also has a direct impact on a character's Attack and Ranged Attack. For every 2 points STR increase a character has, his/her Attack and Ranged Attack value is raised by 1 point. However, when using a two-handed weapon, for every 4 points of STR, the characters attack value is raised by about 3 (.75 per one point of STR).
=== Final Fantasy XII ===
Strength boosts the power of barehanded attacks and all weapons except maces (magic power), measures and guns (uses the weapons attack stat only). Each character has their own Strength growth, with Vaan and Basch having the best natural Strength growth and Penelo the worst.
Formula for a character's Strength stat:
:Base + (Level x Modifier)/128Final Fantasy XII Game Mechanics FAQ by maltzsan
* Base = Base value. Different character has different values.
* Level = The current level of the character
List of characters' base (BA) and modifier (MO) values:
Character	Base	Modifier
Vaan 	23 	70
Balthier 	24 	67
Fran 	22 	64
Basch 	25 	68
Ashe 	21 	68
Penelo 	20 	65
Reks 	23 	66
Larsa 	20 	65
Vossler 	70 	20
Reddas 	24 	67
The Espers also have their own Strength stats.
Esper 	Base	Modifier
Belias 	45 	75
Mateus 	50 	75
Adrammelech	48 	75
Zalera 	50 	75
Cúchulainn 	51 	75
Shemhazai 	51 	75
Hashmal 	52 	75
Zeromus 	53 	75
Exodus 	53 	75
Famfrit 	54 	76
Chaos 	54 	76
Ultima 	60 	77
Zodiark 	60 	78
Strength is boosted via equipment, with the Heavy Armor having the best boosts. Strength is capped at 99 so any overflow is wasted.
==== Final Fantasy XII: Revenant Wings ====
Strength determines the power of physical attacks. It can be boosted via appropriate equipment and by leveling up.
=== Final Fantasy XIII ===
Strength is gained via the Crystarium system. Fang has the best natural Strength stat, but characters can also boost their Strength via weapons and accessories. Unlike in most other games, the Strength stat is no longer capped at 99 or 255, and instead rises to the thousands for characters with maxed out Crystarium and weapons. Physical attacks are slightly superior to magic attacks when it comes to dealing damage: a Commando with equal Magic and Strength stats would still deal slightly more damage with physical hits than with casting Ruin.
The battle results screen displays the battle's target time. The characters' physical or magic attack stat, whichever is higher, is one of the factors that affects the target time; the stronger the party, the less allotted time they get.
Equipping Fang on maxed out Crystarium with four maxed out Kaiser Knuckles and maxed out Kain's Lance from upgraded Dragoon Lance gives her tremendous 4,167 points in Strength.
==== Final Fantasy XIII-2 ====
Strength is once again gained via the Crystarium system. Noel Kreiss has better Strength growth than Serah Farron and both can raise it by equipping various weapons and accessories. As for the recruitable monsters, they can raise their Strength not only via the Crystarium, but the infusion as well. Strength is not capped to either 99 or 255.
Strength is not considered in the star rating on the battle results screen as monsters have set "Enemy Points" which are taken into account when determining the target time.
==== Lightning Returns: Final Fantasy XIII ====
Strength is a stat which determines the attack power of physical attacks, which can be modified by what weapons and accessories are equipped. Lightning starts with 200 Strength, with a minimum value of 5. It, along with Magic, has a hard cap of 5,000 points, but the New Game+ key item 'Proof of Overcoming Limits' raises this to 9,999 points, at the expense of determining/posting battle ratings.
=== Final Fantasy XIV ===
Strength increases attack power for all disciplines except those who use Dexterity as their primary attribute (physical ranged DPS and / ). It is the primary attribute of all other melee DPS disciplines and tanks.
Strength-based disciplines:
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=== Final Fantasy XV ===
Strength, along with Attack, affects the damage done with physical weapons. This damage can be modified by equipping weapons and accessories, along with purchasing Strength Level from the Ascension Grid.
=== Final Fantasy Type-0 ===
=== Final Fantasy Crystal Chronicles ===
==== Final Fantasy Crystal Chronicles: Ring of Fates ====
==== Final Fantasy Crystal Chronicles: Echoes of Time ====
==== Final Fantasy Crystal Chronicles: The Crystal Bearers ====
Attack, represented by the fire element, is one of Layle's five stats, which, like the other four, can be increased by equipping accessories. Attack determines how much damage Layle can cause enemies.
=== Final Fantasy: The 4 Heroes of Light ===
The character's Strength depends on the job they are equipping and grows the character levels up. Strength determines the strength of physical attacks. The Fighter's attack power is equal to their Strength stat when fighting unarmed. The Dark Fencer has the highest strength growth of all the jobs.
When in animal form the characters' Strength is reduced to 70% of their normal, unless they equip the Beastmaster job, which doubles their power in animal form.
=== Final Fantasy Tactics ===
Physical Attack is the number next to the sword icon on the middle panel of the status screen. A unit can have a PA no less than 1 and no greater than 99. However, the Bravery stat is also used to determine the power of physical attacks.
=== Final Fantasy Tactics Advance ===
The stat is called Weapon Attack.
==== Final Fantasy Tactics A2: Grimoire of the Rift ====
=== Final Fantasy Adventure ===
Power is the attack power of Sumo, which makes it easier to defeat enemies. Power maxes out at 99 and even if Sumo is under the maximum level and still continues to increase Power, it will never increase beyond 99.
=== The Final Fantasy Legend ===
Strength is shorten to Str. The higher the number, the greater the character's strength will be. The screen only displays a maximum of 99 strength, however, they may have up to 255 strength.
=== Final Fantasy Legend II ===
Strength is abbreviated to Str. The higher the value, the more damage will inflict on enemies. The majority of the weapons use the Str stat, but some uses the Mana or Agl stat for its damage formula. This stat impacts damage dealt with heavy swords, axes, whips, and other strength-based weaponry.
Humans and mutants can randomly gain Str after a battle in which they use certain strength-based weapons, although this growth is rare with mutants. Str growth caps at 99, however, it can go over 99 by equipping armor such as the Giant equipment.
=== Final Fantasy Dimensions ===
=== Theatrhythm Final Fantasy ===
==== Theatrhythm Final Fantasy Curtain Call ====
==Citations==
Category:Recurring stats