STAGGER QUEEN! | Tifa FF7 Rebirth Combat Guide
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- Опубліковано 2 жов 2024
- In this informative UA-cam video, CalebHart42 breaks down essential tactics and strategies for effectively playing Tifa Lockhart in the highly anticipated game, Final Fantasy VII Rebirth. With a focus on her unique abilities, combos, items and techniques, this combat guide aims to empower players to maximize Tifa's potential and dominate battles with finesse.
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What character should i do next?
Hell yes, hermano
Do Barrett next!
Y come tu chile verde
Nanaki
On my road to plat Cait Sith always felt weird to me so let's go with him lol.
Aerith! I'm curious to see what you come up with. 😁💜 Keep up the good work dood!
Cait Sith dood, thanks Clabe
Important Tifa tech:
With max stacked Unfettered if you hold square to uppercut then immediately press square again it cancels the uppercut and does a quick attack that charges a shit ton of atb. You can also chain them together infinitely. One of her strongest tools imo. Wish the game told you about it
Dang I didn't know editing your comment removes hearts. Makes sense though
You can do this with max unbridled too. With unfettered I like to do full combo into square cancel into finisher. The whole combo fills her ATB from empty.
@2052brad Didn't know it worked with unbridled too, nice
What does this look like? Cause when I do it, she uppercuts then does like a ground and pound punch and goes back to the ground, is this the one?
@@alexferrier5732 that’s when you use unbridled strength, yeah
Just a small thing I think you said a bit wrong: Overpower isn't supposed to do more stagger damage, it's supposed to drive enemy to "pressured" state more easily, after which you do stagger damage wit skills like Focused Strike.
Still, pretty useless skill IMO, so that part was right anyways 😅
Depends on what enemy your using it on. Certain enemies like Odin and Gilgamesh that get pursued by ability usage this helps a lot.
Overpower is a very poorly explained move, but it does have it's uses.
The main issue is that it uses the word "pressure" but it doesn't mean pressure in the sense of the Pressure/Stagger mechanic. It just means literal pressure.
Your basic attacks from mashing square after using Overpower are given a very high interrupt ability, meaning it's much easier to knock enemies out of what they're doing. It's very good when you're up against enemies that don't flinch at all from your attacks. It's also a very good distance closer and can put you into the air out of an uppercut, so it has some utility that way too.
For a more in-depth explanation, every attack has an interruption strength and resist stat that determines what wins out when moves collide. The rule of thumb for most abilities is 50 strength and 40 resist, assuming it works the same as Remake. (Starshower has 60 resist, which is why, as you noted, it's so hard to knock Tifa out of it.) Overpower gives your follow up basic attacks the same 50 interrupt strength that most full abilities have. If used effectively, you can simply Overpower an enemy instead of dodging or blocking to keep up the literal "pressure."
I use unfettered only now. When you are in rage and fall, follow up most attacks by pressing Square repeatedly and she does a kinda of mini magic chi trap which gives a massive boost to ATB.
Using this with ATB assist and overpower you can charge teammates atbs super fast.
I have Aerith with Synergy Magic casting on the same team and aerith hammers the same enemy with spells.
Its great.
Then when an enemy is staggered
True strike, true strike, Triangle skill, Triangle Skill, True Strike, True Strike.
This deals huge damage and thats not even accounting for teammate damage
Yoo this was sick! I'm going to pair this with my "Evil Aerith" build I got going on. Lol
Darkside materia?
@e-heromanny4348 Oh yeah. Paired with transcendence, mind blast, or divine judgment, it can do hella damage. Still testing to see the max damage I can get.
Focus Strike is actually great! You get refunded ATB for dodging an enemy attack. If you put on Speed Demon Keychain, Plasma Discharge from Enemy Skill, try dodging Titan’s attacks as Tifa solo. She’s like a like a never ending firework 5:21
Thanks for covering Tifa first! She's who I'm focusing on building first for my hard mode playthrough! She's just too fun to play! Im my first playthrough i used the enhanced expedientiary medal and limit siphon for instant meteor strikes and it was really fun! I hit level cap last night and am gonna try to get fury ring!
Cait sith
Its a shame this game didnt sell well. To me it is the GOTY so far. Best Final Fantasy game since FF 10.
The combat system in this game is so amazing. I really kinda wish there had been some sort of endgame that wasn't just insanely brutal challenges, because I personally am just not man enough for those apparently. Also I would KILL to be able to divekick at any height. Really not sure why you can't.
You can always replay a campaign on Dynamic. The enemies will scale up to your level. Even reset quest completion so some of the quest mobs have to be rekilled. I know whenever I do go back to replay it I think I'll reset my quests and go fight that wolf on the beach in Grasslands again, that fight was rough running into it at low level, interested in how it'll play at 70.
What you mean divekick at any height? Just uppercut then cancel with divekick this way you skip raw divekick slow startup. Or did you mean divekick from when you are too high fighting in the air? in that case, well, Tifa aint at her Best in the air, gotta just hold square to bring enemy down and do ground ownage.
He means divekick when she is in the air, but your enemy is on the ground/below you.. Should work like braver.
The Brutal challenges were just BS hard. Not fun to replay imo. I just did them and bounced. The solo legendary however I find rather fun.
Which is better accessory for Tifa. Fury Ring or Genji Earrings?
Unfettered Fury renders Unbridled Strength useless. It builds Stagger from simple basic attacks faster than any other ability and her Uppercut is cancelable with a basic punch too which can then be linked straight into True Strike for a loop on Staggered enemies that does more damage than anything you can do with Unbridled Strength and you don't lose your Ki either. So it's by far her best ability in this this game.
Not to mention the Triangle attacks from Unfettered Fury can be cancelled straight into Divekick. Also Overpowered can be cancelled straight into Diveckick too. In conclusion, Unbridled Strength is her most useless ability in this game now that Unfettered Fury exists. A literal waste of space.
Omnistrike will never be a waste of space.
Not 1st idk
Cool video dude. Always enjoy the content
I wish focus strike didn't get nerfed
Overpower is not to increase stagger, but to make them go in to pressure state. Useful for small enemies, bosses n bigger enemies is useless
The focus strikes to refund some atb if you dodge an attack with it, like perfect block.
Yeah got to that part and had to make sure this got commented. Focused Strike still gives basically a full atb (and then some) refund, you just need to actually dodge an attack for it. So like perfect blocking, it rewards good play.
Anything that relies on the enemy's action is not really great. What are you going to do? Save your ATB just in case the enemy does an attack so you can dodge and get a VERY small pressure increase and some ATB? Furthermore, you can mess up the dodge timing and waste a bar, no ATB refund and get knocked around in the process. Tifa's role is to build stagger % and do boatload of no-MP damage, I let Barret or Cloud handle the pressure build up
@Gennosuke1983
Tifa is a meele fighter. Her job is to stay on the enemy and hail attack.
Her focus strick doesn't deal much stager because she hit the most of them all.
While cloud focuses on big hits and counter, tifa focuses on quick attacks and dodging.
This is also why she has the quickest dodge of them all.
@@Gennosuke1983 you aren't utilizing her well enough then, Tifa is a god in both roles when done correctly because of how fast she can build up her atb bar. With a chi level of 2 using the unfettered fury, you can hold square then press square again to enter a unique attack that restores about 1 atb charge. Utilizing this with an uppercut dive combo, and dodging when needed allows her to pressure the enemy faster than either barret or cloud, while also letting her do damage. Add haste, and atb assist, and it works even better. even more so with the enemy skill plasma shock skill
@@itwasallpartofmyplanforyou4083 I don't need you to tell me how to play Tifa. It doesn't matter how fast she builds ATB, Focused Strike still sucks, you can barely see the bar increase when you use it on a Pressured enemy. Cloud and Barret increase the Pressure bar at least 5 times faster with the same ATB cost. They can do that while Tifa does damage and when the enemy is staggered, she can increase the damage percentage. Her role is not to build pressure
seems like one thing that would greatly improve this strategy is to have one or both of Tifa's teammates equipped with Time Materia to cast Stop on the enemy as soon as it's staggered. Will massively increase the time you have to wail on the enemy during stagger.
This is what I do for hard. Barret or Cloud has stop and uses it right away. Aerith and Tifa use thier abilities to increase stagger.
Stoked on this content, thanks Caleb
I really loved this! This is exactly how I’ve been using Tifa! :D I also really love the commentary about differences from Remake and stuff that worked in that game.
Regarding Overpower, at least on spanish, the description says it makes easier to get the enemies into pressured state, but does not says that it increases the pressure gauge. Supposedly, makes the enemy more easy to get into pressure state... but I have no idea if it works or not, as most enemies have a gimmick to get them in pressure state, so no point in using overpower.
This game’s combat is deep.
Dragon claws > kaiser knuckles
Cloud: All rounder
Barret: Long Range specialist
Tifa: Stagger Queen
Aerith: Spellmaster and Support
Yuffie: Crowd Control
Cait Sith: Extra 4th Member (The moogle), Dice and Slots, Quirky to play.
Cait Sith, debuff and critical
Cait Sith is decent as support too. Does a little crowd control and can build stagger with his main attack.
Nanaki gets no respect.
I've been having so much fun with barret/yuffie combo I have really even gotten into Tifa yet, but now I'm even more excited to start. Thanks!
Some combos/tips that are also worth mentioning is whenever you have a limit break, always do starshower first so the limit does double damage, specially useful in low/mid game, end game too outside of stagger where the limit doesnt reach 9999 raw unbuffed.
Same for trinity strike, starshower-trinity strike does more DPS than trinity strike-trinity strike, first one is faster and less unlikely to mess up, this combo is actually better than unbindled strenght-omnistrike spam when you know you wont stagger an enemy and rely on raw damage. Against staggered enemy, the omnistrike loop is still better for obvious reason.
Point is, starshower has more cool applications and that trinity strike isnt straight up worse than omnistrike spam.
But yeah, omnistrike spam is her bread and butter, you cant fuck it up and is strong af.
to me starshower just takes way too long
That was well taught👨🏻🏫❤ Do cait sith
Starshower should set up limit breaks during stagger. The limit will increase in damage and u don't have to worry about being hit in between the starshower
Your thumbnail was very misleading but good explanation nonetheless
Give cloud limit syphon + enhanced expeditionary medal for when tifa builds her limit to throw a finishing touch into the stagger mix for insane damage. Made the Brutal VR a joke.
Focus Strike does refund ATB but u have to actually dodge an attack and still builds decent stagger but the new move rage and fall move forgot name does build even more stagger
focus strike does get an ATB refund but you need to actually dodge an attack for it to happen.
Im really surprised he doesnt know about the atb gain uppercut to heavy punch with unfettered strength. I do have the olatinum so maybe ive spent more time in the game though. She also has the second highest magic stat. When you switch her atk and magic. Aerith, tifa, and yuffie is absolutely devestating.
Awesome video brother! Tifa is, as always, such a broken character! Love seeing what you can do with her in Rebirth! Keep 'em coming bud!
In remake overpower was great for pressuring, not sure what it's like in rebirth though.
About Focused Strike; If you successfully evade an attack with it's dodge, you get the ATB refunded.
Did you ever end up finishing the brutal and legendary VR challenges from Chadley?
I agree with everything in this video, but are u putting Skill Master materia on her cause that is where u get your atb build from
i havent been enjoying rebirth...because i dont own it yet :P waiting on that PC goodness!
I don’t know if you would want to but god if you have a guide for ap farming and the difficult vr missions and hard post game content I’d be for it cuz man the hard minigame wall vr wall and ap grind hell is making me not enjoy the game anymore I just want the damn plat trophy but I can’t beat ifrit in 3d brawler or the vr missions to do hard mode
if you can't beat Ifrit, you're gonna hate the 'final boss' of that minigame. you have to dodge ten times to get one hit on him and it only takes him 3 hits to get his LB
Best suggestion is brutal challenge 1 with a quaga build for ap farming. Ap boosts and choco armband give super fast AP.
For 3D Brawler you can pause when they ready their attacks to make it easy
@@Hugsloth you’re kidding… that’s fucking ridiculous who made this shit 😂
Omg I did it I finally beat ifrit thank you guys for the help and suggestions that was so much easier I appreciate it
420th like, blaze it 🔥
Go read Starshower, it makes your next attack skill do more damage, doesn't need to be another starshower. Overpower is mainly used to pressure the enemy faster when the enemy has no elemental weakness, overpower is well overpowered. Nice "guide".
i like it
Great guide and well explained
Good stuff, Clabe!
@CalebHeart42 when will the last video of the FF rebirth hard mode drop? Check multiple times everyday… but nothing :( can’t wait to see it! I really like you , love your videos but the Pokémon stuff is not mine! Iam
Just a huge fan of FF VII … unfortunately ff rebirth isn’t good as the OG! I mean where is the emerald , diamond , ultima weapon? Under junon reactor etc? I mean how they will do it on disk 3?
If they drop more Zack content iam not gonna play 3rd episode of remake! I want cid and Vincent, and want to punch Hojo 😂 also I want all the materia like ultima Bahamut 0 and ofc the highwind!!!!!!!!! Oh man, I can’t stop playing the OG FF VII! Don’t get me wrong I love rebirth but the story … I have a big problem with the story! They telling us everytime different story’s! Cloud never been a solder 1st class, cloud is a sephirtoh dupe! I hope disk 3 will be the OG FF VII when we enter the holy forest and find the key under water for the OG!
God i gotta get better at detecting clickbait
It's not a good sign that a video like this can be made about a video game. Because it suggests that the game is not intuitive. Good game mechanics should be easy to learn, hard to master. That's what turn based did so well, especially in later entries like FF10 and Lost Odyssey. Ridiculously simple but can be made very challenging. The opposite would be to design the game so that the hardest challenge is understanding how it plays.
Rebirth's main problem besides a horribly paced story, too much fan service at the expense of the narrative is that it tries to be too many game genres at once. They had tutorial windows pop up 100 hours into the game, we're an action game, we're a strategy game, we're a 3d platformer, we are 50 mini games, we are an open world mmo fetch quest game. Deciding on one genre would have been so much better, preferably a game genre that doesn't destroy the pacing of the story.
Wtf you talking about? You can get through most of the game by pressing square on almost any characters. This guide is for people who want to optimize DPS.
@@VentusLionheart So it's easy to learn, easy to master, then what's the point? If the game is designed for idiots why would you play it or care for a dps guide...? You're admitting to being stupid.
I still think even if the game is easy, that it's not designed to be as easy to LEARN as it could have been. Take the mechanic that you have to build the ATB to use skills. What's the point? Same with the stagger mechanic, why not just health?
It's like they're trying to be fancy so that the difficulty in part becomes the mechanics themselves. This is a mistake. They want it to be complicated so that it appears harder instead of designing it to be simple but ramp up the difficulty of the enemy AI.
Chess is the perfect example where the difficulty is done really well, very simple rules but out of those simple rules grows difficulty that is unprecedented. If this game played really well a guide about it would be about order of actions in battle not how to optimize damage.
@@DanIel-fl1vc Are you just hating on this game for the sake of hating on this game?
The OG 7 was a freaking turn based game. What about that game was so hard to master? I was like 12 or 13 years old when I played FF7, and I remember getting through most of the game by pressing X to attack.
Remake combat is 100% superior to the original's. You can control every single party member and they all play differently. Once you learn the game, there's this thing called hard mode and then you can really test our mastery of the game.
FF7 is not chess and it shouldn't be like chess. The original game's combat was not chess either. Not only was the original's combat piss easy, cause no combat can be really difficult when you you have unlimited time to make a decision, the mastery was also pretty simple. We all knew how to use Phoenix, KOTR, etc. effectively.
I don't know how much of this game you even played considering your views on the combat is so limited.
@@VentusLionheart It's not hate, I'm a game developer so it has more to do with how I approach game development than the experience an average gamer would have of a game. I've studied thoroughly, storytelling, sculpting, programming, music creation and gained a healthy apprecation of the importance of camera work and how you present something. Presentation is as important as the quality of the visuals.
As for the saying easy to learn, hard to master. It doesn't really translate directly into how hard a particular game is to beat or play. It's more of a principle of game mechanics. I think I said it already but if the main difficulty of a game are the rules it plays by. That's not intuitive or great gameplay design.
Turn based was easy to learn and here's the crux of the matter, hard to master IF the AI is designed to be very clever. Take advanced chess engines for example. They don't just randomly pick a move, that's what the AI in final fantasy games usually do. A sophisticated chess engine plans several moves ahead and then decides on the move that is most likely to increase its winning chances.
The turn based gameplay could easily be made, hard to master. Imagine if it was multiplayer, each player has 4 player characters. They have a wide variety of skills those characters could learn. They're matched to have similar stats and level so there's not much unbalance. Such a game could be hard to master. There would be builds, rules of engagement, strategies surrounding a way to play the game.
You could do the same with rebirth but it wouldn't be as easy to learn, it's not intuitive and also not as strategic since it's not really turn based. It's an action rpg which relies more on reflexes than strategy. The original turn based final fantasy style is just better, perfected in FF10 and Lost Odyssey. I don't think that's up for discussion, also as a game developer I know for a fact that they decided on building atb with mashing and the stagger bar because it's pleasant for a game developer to make something more complex. Or at least not too straightforward, you imagine in your head that fancy nuances makes it play better. But what you're really doing is comforting yourself, you pride yourself in doing something that seems more complicated.
But as I said, I'm a greater student of storytelling, music, graphics and presentation than I am gameplay. Gameplay is fairly simple in comparison and I think rebirth fails at it. But the story is terrible, original FF7 story was terrible, the music doesn't stick to one or two genres but is all over the place. There's no consistance and it doesn't compliment the locations or what's going on at all. The camera work is like a rollercoaster, completely unrealistic.
I'm not hating on the game for the sake of hating it or because I much care for original FF7 which is very overrated. FF9 was much much better, except in how slow the combat plays but that's another topic entirely. I don't hate it, I just express my professional opinion on the game. And I really need to emphasise, professional. That's not me being full of myself, I have really studied all of it in detail and I apply that knowledge not on 2d indie pixel games but on quite nice looking and playing 3D games. I do resent brand loyalty and most gamers, the average gamer is a mentally damaged man child. They don't understand game development, music theory, storytelling or art in general. Usually they're just stuck on some childhood nostalgia they had for some average thing made for children.
Anyway Final Fantasy to me is like a book of recipies or ingredients. So much done right, a few things done badly. But I can't in good conscience say anything after FF12 has been very good, least of all FF14. They have no idea what they're doing, they're amateurs that inherited a massive budget and a loyal fan base. And it's occassionaly fun to tear it apart and people who are fans of it. Because it's low hanging fruit, it's not like I'm wrong or there's much of a debate her. You play games, I make them. There's a massive knowledge gap, I have found on the internet a couple of streamers that have relatively good understanding of game development despite being gamers and not having ever animated anything or written a line of code. But you can count them on one hand. Most are completely ignorant, oh man rebirth broke all the rules and still you praise it. That's very impressive dedication, it's wonderful to be able to step back and look at something objectivally. But it's going to require some work on your part.
Anyway yeah.