Final Fantasy 7 Rebirth - Best Abilities for Each Character

• Allows you to easily hit multiple enemies.
• Can hit airborne enemies.
• Suffers from low single-target damage.

• Essential tool for building up stagger quickly.
• Very good gap closer.
• Not good against enemies that are constantly airborne.

• Very good damage and chance of landing hits.
• Good way to build ATB charges while switching between Operator and Punisher modes.
• Can be used while airborne.

• High single-target damage ability.
• Very good combo ender during enemy stagger phase while airborne.
• Hard to land hits against highly mobile enemies.

• Good source of fire and lightning damage that does not require MP.
• Can hit airborne enemies.
• Hard to apply both types of elemental damage against highly mobile enemies.

• The single best magic buff ability in the game.
• Allows you to doublecast offensive magic when inside the ward, maximizing damage and MP spent.
• Valuable against many bosses weak to various elemental spells.

• Prevents damage and interruption when casting spells, making it useful against highly aggressive regular enemies and bosses.
• Buffs basic attacks while inside the ward.

• Drains MP form enemies
• One of the best ways keep casting magic during Combat Simulator missions where items are disabled.

Useful defensive ability to block incoming enemy projectiles.

• Useful defensive ability that damages and immobilizes enemies.
• Not effective against bosses.

• Tifa’s single best ability to maximize her offensive potential.
• Unlocks Omnistrike and Rise and Fall combo follow-ups.
• Essential for maximizing combo count and overall damage output.

• Powerful evade and counter move.
• Builds a good amount of the enemy’s stagger gauge.
• Useful for ATB gain when used in conjunction with enemy attacks.

• Useful wind-infused attack against enemies weak to the attribute.
• Gives Tifa an elemental attack outside of using MP.
• Hard to hit highly mobile enemies with all hits.

• Useful attack to quickly pressure enemies.
• Effective against many regular enemies throughout the game.
• Not very useful against most bosses.

• High single-target damage move.
• Very good against staggered enemies.
• Slow windup, making it hard to hit highly mobile enemies.

• Essential long-range ability that can reliably hit both grounded and airborne enemies.
• Very good stagger gauge buildup.
• Consumes all ATB.

• Essential buff that improves damage and stagger rate of basic attacks and Overcharge.
• Useful against any enemy in the game.

• High-damage long-range ability.
• Useful in stacking damage when the enemy is staggered.
• Not as good as Focused Shot for building up stagger.

• Useful survivability tool which grants Barret increased HP for a fixed duration.
• Allows Barret to better fulfill his tank role in the party, especially when fighting alongside low HP characters like Aerith and Tifa.

• Decent defensive buff that reduces damage taken and chance of being interrupted for a certain period.
• Generally a poor skill given Barret’s ranged fighting style which makes him a less likely target in battles.

• Red XIII’s single best ability for maximizing the Vengeance gauge gain rate.
• Blocks incoming attacks and reduces damage taken.

• High single-target damage ability.
• Powerful and easy to use against staggered enemies.

• High-damage area-of-effect ability.
• Extremely useful in regular battles against multiple enemies.
• Expensive to use as it requires 2 ATB charges.

• Useful ice-attribute counterattack move.
• Gains a portion of the Vengeance gauge when countering successfully.
• Limited effectiveness, especially against enemies with ice resistance.

• High damage three-hit combo.
• Gains increased power and range during Vengeance mode.

• Boosts the power of follow-up attacks after using the ability.
• Continue to gain increased damage when the ability is used repeatedly.

• Useful evasion move that grants Yuffie a good survivability option, especially against powerful attacks used by many late-game bosses.
• Gains ATB when successfully evading enemy attacks.

• Highly-versatile ability that gives Yuffie access to various types of elemental damage.
• Very good way to save MP.

• Situational move that lets Yuffie attack even when immobilized or reeling from damage.
• Very limited use as you want to avoid getting hit or being immobilized.