Fire (VII Rebirth)

Fire is a magic spell in Final Fantasy VII Rebirth. It is granted by either or , and is the basic -elemental spell below and . Fire deals a small amount of fire-elemental damage, but has the lowest MP cost, and the shortest casting time. The spell when cast fires a flame projectile that homes in on the targeted enemy.
==Use==
Fire costs 4 MP to cast with a level 1 fire or fire and ice materia equipped. The spell is effective generally but is particularly strong against enemies that are weak to fire (particularly humanoids). Among its peers—, , and —Fire's strength is in being able to deal area-of-effect damage instantly.
Although Fire is outclassed by Fira, Fire's short cast time and low MP cost mean it remains useful. As party members' increases, the spell becomes stronger, meaning it can even be effective (albeit less ATB-efficient) against stronger enemies with a fire-elemental weakness. Though Fire is also outclassed by Firaga, Firaga requires two ATB charges to use.
Fire can be amplified with . The spell is cast automatically by party members who paired either fire or fire and ice materia with or . This is useful in battles against enemies with a fire weakness, as it can overwhelm them with damage. The and can increase a party member's sustainability when using the spell. can increase the spell's damage, and can make for a powerful combination when it hits all enemies at once. and are effectively redundant with the spell, and should be used with Fira and Firaga instead.
Using Fire with Aerith's Arcane Ward will cast it twice. Further using Yuffie with Doppelganger when in Arcane Ward can cast Fire four times, potentially overwhelming enemies.
If the party member casting Fire has unlocked their fire-elemental weapon ability (e.g. Heatwave for Aerith), Fire becomes Fire α, which will bestow a fire-elemental sphere to the spellcaster for the rest of the battle (unless the player changes the element with Blizzard α etc.) that will supplement small magical fire-elemental damage when defending against certain enemy attacks (perfect-blocking not needed) and when using ATB abilities. The attacks from the "fire sphere" do build stagger and can be critical hits.
Category:Magic in Final Fantasy VII Rebirth