How to obtain it
You have it from the beginning of the game (Chapter 1)
Strengths & weaknesses
Great Agility, Evasion and Luck (*****), average Magical Defence and Accuracy (***) and relatively weak HP, MP, Strength, Defence and Magic (**)
Comments
It's the dressphere Rikku has equiped at the beginning. Maybe one of the early dresspheres you'll rely on the most if only for the now classic "steal" ability, which allows you to steal items from your opponents during battle, but also because she can steal gils, as well as HP and MP, among other things. Stealing items should become a habit throughout the game really. While she's pretty weak in terms of strength, she does hit twice for every time you select the attack command, so it can be worth it if you reinforce her strength with accessories or garnment grids
| Name |
AP |
MP |
When to learn |
Description |
| Attack |
- |
- |
A |
physical attack against one target; 2x strike |
| Steal |
- |
- |
A |
attempt to steal item from one enemy |
| Pilfer Gils |
30 |
2 |
B |
steal gils from one enemy |
| Borrowed Time |
100 |
16 |
B |
inflict stop on one enemy |
| Pilfer HP |
60 |
10 |
C (Pilfer Gils) |
steal HP from one enemy(which is then added to the user's HP gauge) |
| Pilfer MP |
60 |
- |
C (Pilfer HP) |
steal MP from one enemy (which is then added to the user's MP gauge) |
| Sticky fingers |
120 |
20 |
C (Pilfer HP) |
guaranteed steal from one enemy |
| Master Thief |
140 |
20 |
C (Sticky Fingers) |
attempt to steal rare item from one enemy |
| Soul Swipe |
160 |
12 |
C (Pilfer HP) |
inflict beserk on one enemy |
| Steal Will |
160 |
18 |
C (Soul Swipe) |
attempt to make an enemy flee |
| Flee |
10 |
- |
B |
guaranteed escape of the party |
| Item Hunter |
60 |
- |
B |
raise chances to win items after battles (auto) |
| First strike |
40 |
- |
B |
user starts all battles with full ATB gauge (auto) |
| Initiative |
60 |
- |
C (First Strike) |
raise chances for party to have first strike in battle (auto) |
| Slowproof |
20 |
- |
C (Item Hunter) |
protect user from slow (auto) |
| Stopproof |
40 |
- |
C (Slowproof) |
protect user from stop (auto) |
How to obtain it
You have it from the beginning of the game (Chapter 1)
Strengths & weaknesses
Very good Strength and Defence (****), average HP, Agility and Luck (***), relatively weak Accuracy and Evasion (**) and weak MP, Magic and Magic Defence (*)
Comments
It's the dressphere Paine has equiped at the beginning. In the early stages of the game, it's really your best fighter when it comes to deal physical attacks; you may want to switch more often than not to Dark Knight once you get this dressphere in Chapter 2. However, you'll like to use many of its abilities like physical elemental attacks or the break attacks to lower the stats of your enemy.
Once you've learned Sentinel, use it and leave the two other girls to deal with the battle at hand: it's a cheap way to earn a lot of AP
| Name |
AP |
MP |
When to learn |
Description |
| Attack |
- |
- |
A |
physical attack against one target |
| Sentinel |
20 |
- |
B |
physical damages reduced to 1 during a turn |
| Flametongue |
20 |
4 |
B |
elemental (fire) physical attack againt one target |
| Ice Brand |
20 |
4 |
B |
elemental (ice) physical attack againt one target |
| Thunder Blade |
20 |
4 |
B |
elemental (thunder) physical attack againt one target |
| Liquid Steel |
20 |
4 |
B |
elemental (water) physical attack againt one target |
| Demi Sword |
60 |
6 |
C (all four elemental attacks) |
elemental (gravity) physical attack againt one target |
| Excalibur |
120 |
24 |
C (Demi Sword) |
elemental (holy) physical attack againt one target |
| Power Break |
- |
4 |
A |
physical attack and decrease of strength of one target |
| Armor Break |
30 |
4 |
B |
physical attack and decrease of defence of one target |
| Magic Break |
30 |
4 |
B |
physical attack and decrease of magic of one target |
| Mental Break |
30 |
4 |
C (Magic Break) |
physical attack and decrease of magic defence of one target |
| Delay Attack |
100 |
10 |
C (Armor Break) |
physical attack and delay of target's next turn |
| Delay Buster |
120 |
16 |
C (Delay Attack) |
physical attack and delay of target's next turn (2x longer delay than with Delay Attack) |
| Assault |
100 |
- |
C (Sentinel) |
cast booster, beserk, shell and protect on entire party |
| SOS Protect |
20 |
- |
C (Sentinel) |
trigger protect on user whenever HP below 1/3, until over that limit again (auto) |
How to obtain it
You have it from the beginning of the game, with the entrance of Yuna (Chapter 1)
Strengths & weaknesses
Great Accuracy (*****), very good Luck (****), average Agility (***), relatively weak HP, Strength, Defence, Magical Defence and Evasion (**) and weak MP and Magic (*)
Comments
This is the dressphere Yuna starts with. Quite honestly, this isn't the most useful of all dresspheres, far from it. Apart from the beginning of the game when you have only a limited number of them, and at the end if you have the cat nip accessory and that your girl is in critical condition: you can hit your opponent twelve times for 9999 HP with Trigger Happy; but that will only come really late in the game. Between those two, the only other interesting aspect I can think of is the ability to create long combos, again using Trigger Happy, which would result in the Gunner's teammates' hits to benificiate from a good boost if their action comes right behind
| Name |
AP |
MP |
When to learn |
Description |
| Attack |
- |
- |
A |
physical attack against one target |
| Trigger Happy |
- |
- |
A |
physical attack against one target with multiple hits (keep pressing R1 while hitting at X) during 1.8 seconds |
| Potshot |
20 |
8 |
B |
physical attack against one target (about 1/4 stronger than regular Attack) |
| Cheap Shot |
30 |
8 |
C (Potshot) |
physical attack against one target, not influenced by target's defence |
| Enchanted Ammo |
30 |
8 |
B |
non-elemental magic attack against one target |
| Target MP |
30 |
8 |
C (Enchanted Ammo) |
deplete the MP of one target |
| Quarter Pounder |
40 |
8 |
C (Target MP) |
deplete one target's HP by 1/4 |
| On The Level |
40 |
12 |
C (Target MP) |
Special attack - deplete on target's HP by the user's current level time 16 |
| Burst Shot |
60 |
12 |
B |
guaranteed critical physical attack against one target |
| Table Turner |
60 |
8 |
C (Potshot) |
special physical attack, the higher the target's defence, the higher the damage |
| Scattershot |
80 |
8 |
C (Burst Shot) |
physical attack against all members of the target party |
| Scatterburst |
120 |
36 |
C (Scattershot) |
guaranteed critical physical attack against all members of the target party |
| Darkproof |
30 |
- |
B |
protect user from darkness (auto) |
| Sleepproof |
30 |
- |
C (Darkproof) |
protect user from sleep (auto) |
| Trigger Happy Level 2 |
80 |
- |
B |
increase time of Trigger Happy to 2.2 seconds (auto) |
| Trigger Happy Level 3 |
150 |
- |
C (Trigger Happy L2) |
increase time of Trigger Happy to 2.6 seconds (auto) |
How to obtain it
You receive it during the last boss fight of mission 1 (Chapter 1)
Strengths & weaknesses
Very good Agility (****), average MP, Magic, Magical Defence and Evasion (***), relatively weak Luck (**) and weak HP, Strength, Defence and Accuracy (*)
Comments
Yuna receive the dressphere shortly into the game. The huge problem about this dressphere is the low HP and Defence, that make her very weak against pretty much any kind of attack (although her magical defence stats are somewhat better). However, most of her abilities are worth using, either at the beginning of the battle to improve your party's stats, or during the battle against the right enemies. However, once you've improved the stats, and unless her dances can paralyze all enemies, keeping them from harming the songstress, you'd better switch to another dressphere or your girl will be quickly in great danger
| Name |
AP |
MP |
When to learn |
Description |
| Darkness Dance |
- |
- |
A |
inflict darkness to all enemies while dancing (while ATB bar fills up) |
| Samba of Silence |
20 |
- |
B |
inflict silence to all enemies while dancing (while ATB bar fills up) |
| MP Mambo |
20 |
- |
C (item Magical Dances, Vol. 1) |
allies do not consume any MP while user dances (while ATB bar fills up) |
| Magical Mask |
20 |
- |
C (item Magical Dances, Vol. 2) |
allies do not suffer any damage from magical attacks while user dances (while ATB bar fills up) |
| Sleepy Shuffle |
80 |
- |
B |
inflict sleep to all enemies while dancing (while ATB bar fills up) |
| Carnival Cancan |
80 |
- |
C (Sleepy Shuffle) |
double party's max HP while dancing and restores 1/4 max original HP |
| Slow Dance |
60 |
- |
B |
inflict slow to all enemies while dancing (while ATB bar fills up) |
| Breakdance |
120 |
- |
C (Slow Dance) |
inflict stop to all enemies while dancing (while ATB bar fills up) |
| Jitterburg |
120 |
- |
C (Slow Dance) |
cast haste on the party while user dances (whiles ATB bar fills up |
| Dirty Dancing |
160 |
- |
C (Carnival Cancan) |
allies' physical attacks are guaranteed critical while user dances (while ATB bar fills up) |
| Battle Cry |
10 |
4 |
B |
increase all party's members' Strength by 1 level |
| Cantus Firmus |
10 |
4 |
C (Battle Cry) |
increase all party's members' Defence by 1 level |
| Esotheric Melody |
10 |
4 |
B |
increase all party's members' Magic by 1 level |
| Disenchant |
10 |
4 |
C (Esotheric Melody) |
increase all party's members' Magical Defence by 1 level |
| Perfect Pitch |
10 |
4 |
B |
increase all party's members' Accuracy by 10 levels |
| Matador's Song |
10 |
4 |
C (Perfect Pitch) |
increase all party's members' Evasion by 10 levels |
