Tifa Lockhart (VII Rebirth party member)

Tifa Lockhart is a playable character in Final Fantasy VII Rebirth. She is a brawler who equips knuckles as her weapon. Her strengths in battle are her strong physical damage and agility, allowing her to swiftly combo her weapon abilities together and build ATB quickly. Tifa can both quickly build an enemy's stagger gauge, and is unique in her ability to increase bonus damage dealt during stagger.
Tifa is present in the party from the beginning of the game. She leads the party briefly during chapter 9, "The Planet Stirs", and is mandatory at multiple points in the story. Tifa is one of five date options for the Gold Saucer in both chapter 8, "All That Glitters", and chapter 12, "A Golden Key".
If Tifa is transformed into a toad, she becomes a black and white-colored toad with a black skirt on suspenders.
Tifa is largely unchanged from her Final Fantasy VII Remake gameplay, with only a few moves changed and new moves added. This in turn was based partly on her skillset from her original Final Fantasy VII appearance.
==Battle==
Tifa is a melee physical attacker who focuses on rapid damage-per-second toward a single target. She is very mobile, capable of rapid movement both on the ground and in the air, allowing her to deal with faster threats and outmaneuver slower ones. Beyond this, her unique ability to increase bonus damage dealt to an enemy during stagger, coupled with her ability to quickly stagger an enemy, allows her to burst down single targets quickly.
Tifa's unique ability revolves around her Unbridled Strength mechanic. Using Unbridled Strength builds her chi up to three levels, which increases the number of attacks in her basic combo, as well as giving her a new unique ability. Her basic unique ability is Whirling Uppercut, which goes up to Omnistrike at the second level of chi and Rise and Fall at the third level. Each of these deal heavy damage, fill Tifa's ATB quickly, and against staggered enemies, boost bonus damage. Holding the attack button causes Tifa to unleash an uppercut similar to Whirling Uppercut (which can be cancelled into a dodge roll to minimize ending lag). While airborne, both Whirling Uppercut and this attack cause her to slam on the ground.
Though Tifa's playstyle and moveset are similar to her Remake appearance, it changes in Rebirth in incorporating parry and deadly dodge into her core moveset (rather than relying on materia), and her airborne combat abilities. Her regular dodge is a slide, which slides into enemies, dealing some damage to those she hits, while avoiding attacks. Performing a dodge roll and immediately attacking as Tifa causes her to perform aerial roundhouse kicks that hit opponents in an area, allowing her to kite around an opponent and hit them, building her ATB while avoiding their attacks. Many of Tifa's abilities have also been given airborne equivalents, allowing her to challenge flying opponents with no issue.
Tifa's main weaknesses lie in her durability and magic attributes. These can be shored up with the correct equipment, or by including her in parties with other members who cover these roles. Additionally, Tifa's ability to build ATB quickly can make her respectable spellcaster if needed (especially when taking advantage of her ability to build stagger quickly), and her lower durability is compensated by her ability to outmaneuver opponents with ease. Although Tifa's melee range makes her more limited than most party members, her speed and agility make up for this in the majority of cases.
===Attributes===
Tifa's attributes are weighted toward her physical damage and speed. She has the highest maximum in the game, and second highest with Yuffie below only Red XII. She also has the second-highest below Cait Sith, giving her strong critical hit potential.
Her natural defensive stats are lower, as she has only the fifth highest HP, , and . Tifa has lower than other party members, and has the second-lowest MP pool after Barret.
===Equipment===
===Abilities===
Tifa learns various weapon abilities from the knuckles the player can find, earn, and buy, as well as abilities through her folios, and any materia she equips also yields her various skills. 
*Unbridled Strength augments Tifa's chi level and levels up her ability: Whirling Uppercut → Omnistrike → Rise and Fall.
*Divekick is Tifa's default ability, where she leaps onto an enemy, dealing damage. 
*Focused Strike is Tifa's stagger-building ability, which easily staggers a pressured foe.
*Overpower is Tifa's fastest ability, good for interrupting and pressuring enemies. Her follow-up basic attacks begin from partway through her combo. Using Overpower at a higher chi level changes her follow-up combo.
*Reverse Gale is a wind elemental attack that is good against flying fiends, dragging enemies towards her, and launching grounded enemies. When used while airborne, Tifa will perform a kick that grounds her.
*Chi Trap drops a persistent ball of energy onto an enemy that deals continuous magic damage, able to trap launched enemies. Multiple Chi Traps can be on the battlefield concurrently.
*Starshower has Tifa pummel enemies while largely immune herself. Using Starshower boosts the damage of her follow-up ability, telegraphed by a red glow. If the player does not have enough ATB to immediately follow up with another ability, they can still chain to her abilities, and Starshower also boosts limit break damage.
*Unfettered Fury is another magic ability that acts as an alternative to the Unbridled Strength system and adds non-elemental magic damage to her basic attacks and improves stagger damage. It will change her unique ability to Omniflurry at chi level 2, and Rage and Fall at chi level 3. The player can use Unfettered Fury to build stagger, and then switch to Unbridled Strength when the enemy staggers. It can also be used effectively against enemies who resist physical damage. Tifa's Unfettered Fury final combo string produces a mini Chi trap as well.
*True Strike is intended to be used against staggered foes, dealing damage while increasing the damage percentage. 
*Trinity Strike is classified as a weapon ability even if it is not learned from a weapon, but from the folio system at a high weapon level. It deals massive damage if it interrupts an enemy or the player can pull off the whole combo between attacks/during a stagger. Tifa will not flinch to small attacks during it, but strong attacks can interrupt her.
===Synergy===
Tifa can perform synergy abilities and synergy skills with her team mates. Tifa alone is a short-ranged fighter and struggles reaching airborne targets, but her synergy skills let party members propel her up.
Relentless Rush from FFVII Rebirth.jpg|Relentless Rush with Cloud.
Divine Punishment from FFVII Rebirth.png|Divine Punishment with Aerith.
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Category:Party member gameplay in Final Fantasy VII Rebirth