Purple Pain

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グランドグラブ (Gurando Gurabu?, lit. Grand Glove)

> Leather gloves made from the hide of a ferocious beast.
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**Purple Pain** is a weapon for Tifa in *Final Fantasy VII Remake*. They provide the ability True Strike, which launchs a close range strike that increases stagger bonus damage.

Purple Pain provides Tifa with great durability boosts, including increases to her HP. It also provides boosts to her critical hit rate, which makes it one of her best weapons for dealing physical damage.

## Obtained

The weapon can be acquired during "Acquiring the Keycard" in Chapter 16, "The Belly of the Beast", while controlling Tifa. After climbing a set of platforms to reach a ledge, before using the ladder to a higher level, instead use the handlebars to cross the gap to one platform, then cross a second set of handlebars to reach the purple treasure chest, where the Purple Pain is found.

## Stats

 Usable by
 File:Attack Power from FFVII Remake icon.png Attack Power | 51
 File:Magic Attack from FFVII Remake icon.png Magic Attack | 41

## Use

Purple Pain provides Tifa the highest HP increase, making it best for durability. It also greatly increases her critical hit rate, which can improve her physical damage output to make it more on par with or above File:Tifa knuckle from FFVII Remake icon.png Feathered Gloves and File:Tifa knuckle from FFVII Remake icon.png Metal Knuckles in spite of a lower File:Attack Power from FFVII Remake icon.png Attack Power. The weapon provides a +10% boost to Tifa's Unbridled Strength martial attacks, a 70% chance to begin the battle with an advanced chi level without needing to use Unbridled Strength, and a boost to her limit break damage, both 5% when she is critical, and 5% normally. Another great ability for her durability is Reprieve, at Weapon Level 6, which allows her to survive otherwise fatal attacks at 1 HP.

Purple Pain provides a decent File:Magic Attack from FFVII Remake icon.png Magic Attack boost, which is higher than some weapons, but lower than File:Tifa knuckle from FFVII Remake icon.png Mythril Claws or File:Tifa knuckle from FFVII Remake icon.png Sonic Strikers. Its main flaw in this regard is, though it provides an abundance of materia slots, only one pair of these slots is linked before Weapon Level 6. Instead, Tifa should equip File:Complete Materia from FFVII Remake.png Complete Materia with this weapon to further takes advantage of its provided attributes. For instance, if Tifa equips File:Complete Materia from FFVII Remake.png HP Up Materia with Purple Pain, it can further increase her HP pool and put her more on par with Cloud or Barret. If given several File:Complete Materia from FFVII Remake.png Luck Up Materia, Tifa can increase her critical hit rate even further, allowing her to deal immense damage.

The best use for Purple Pain is to increase Tifa's durability, mitigating one of her key weaknesses (a low HP pool), as well as the critical hit rate improvement. Tifa's agility means that she survives based on avoiding damage, but improving her durability can be extremely helpful against bosses that are harder to dodge or deal high amounts of burst damage. In cases where durability is desired for Tifa, Purple Pain is her best option, and when relying on critical hits to deal immense damage, Purple Pain can be an excellent choice for her. However, Feathered Gloves or Metal Knuckles do not rely on a critical hit rate, and can be more broadly useful.

## Gallery

Purple Pain artwork for Final Fantasy VII Remake.pngConcept art