Character Stats Explained

Character stats in Final Fantasy 7 Rebirth (FF7 Rebirth) are parameters that affect a character's performance in battle. Read on to learn more about each character stat, what they're for, and how to increase them!

Character Stats and Explanations

Stat	Summary
Attack	Modifiable stat that directly affects Strength.
Magic Attack	Modifiable stat that directly affects Magic.
Defense	Modifiable stat that directly affects Vitality.
Magic Defense	Modifiable stat that directly affects Spirit.
Strength	Determines physical damage done by swords, fists, guns, and claws.
Magic	Determines magic damage done by spells and abilities.
Vitality	Determines physical damage resisted.
Spirit	Determines magic damage resisted from incoming spells.
Luck	Modifiable stat that directly affects Critical Hit Rate and Steal success rate.
Speed	Modifiable stat that directly affects ATB Gauge charge rate.
Critical Hit Rate	Determines the odds of scoring a critical hit.
Critical Hit Damage	Determines the increased damage done by critical hits.
ATB Charge Bonus	Determines the amount of ATB recharged by normal attacks and blocking.
Initial Limit Level	The starting level of a character's Limit Break.
Max Limit Level	The maximum level a character's Limit Break can reach.

Attack

A character's Attack affects their Strength and can be modified by equipping them with weapons, accessories, and Materia that contribute to it. Some abilities like Bravery can also increase a character's Attack, albeit temporarily.

What Does Attack Do?

Magic Attack

A character's Magic Attack affects their Magic stat and can be modified by their weapons, armor, and Materia. Some abilities like Faith can also increase a character's Magic, albeit temporarily.

What Does Magic Attack Do?

Defense

A character's Defense affects their Vitality and can be modified by equipping certain accessories, armor, and Materia. Some abilities like Protect and can also increase a character's Defense, albeit temporarily.

What Does Defense Do?

Magic Defense

A character's Magic Defense affects their Spirit and can be modified by accessories, armor, and Materia. Some abilities like Shell and can also increase a character's Magic Defense, albeit temporarily.

What Does Magic Defense Do?

Strength

Strength is a passive stat that determines how strong one's physical prowess is and how much physical damage they can deal to enemies. The Strength stat usually affects damage done by swords, fists, guns, and claws.

A character's Strength increases as they level up and can only be activiely modified through their Attack stat.

What Does Strength Do?

Magic

Magic is a passive stat that determines one's proficiency in magic and how much magic damage they can deal to enemies via spells and abilities. Magic also affects the damage done by staves, which deal non-elemental magic damage.

A character's Magic increases as they level up and can only be actively modified through their Magic Attack stat.

What Does Magic Do?

Vitality

A character's Vitality is a passive stat determines how much physical damage they can negate. The higher it is, the less physical damage that character takes, making them harder to take down.

Vitality can be increased by leveling up or by modifying a character's Defense stat.

What Does Vitality Do?

Spirit

Spirit is a passive stat that determines how strongly a teammate can negate magic damage. The higher it is, the less damage that teammate takes from magic spells and abilities.

Spirit increases as characters level up, but can be modified through the Magic Defense stat.

What Does Spirit Do?

Luck

The Luck stat can be modified by equipment and Materia and directly affects a party member's critical hit rate. Additionally, it affects the likelihood of teammates stealing items successfully.

What Does the Luck Stat Do?

Speed

A character's Speed is modifiable and deternines how fast their ATB Gauge recharges over time. Speed can be increased by leveling up, certain equipment like the Whistlewind Scarf, and spells like Haste.

However, spells like Slow and Stop can do the exact opposite.

What Does Speed Do?

Critical Hit Rate

Critical Hit Rate determines the likelihood of your characters dealing critical hits on targets. This is directly affected by the Luck stat, and the higher it is, the more frequently you and your teammates can score critical hits.

Critical Hit Damage

Critical Hit Damage refers to how much increased damage critical hits deal. Normally, this would be 1.2x, but it can increase by other means. In essence, should a character's Strength be high, so too will their critical hits be, thanks to the Critical Hit Damage stat.

ATB Charge Bonus

Not to be confused with the Speed stat, the ATB Charge Bonus refers to the increased amount of ATB is restored to a character via normal attacks and blocking. Certain equipmment may be able to modify this.

Initial Limit Level

The Initial Limit Break stat refers to the starting level of a character's Limit Break. By default, this stat is at 1.

Max Limit Level

The Max Limit Level stat refers to the maximum level a character's limit break can reach. This may increase as your characters level up, leading to much greater effects should you opt to cast your Limit Breaks.

How to Increase Character Stats

All Tips and Tricks
Level Up to Increase All Stats Equip Gear and Materia Unlock Stat Increases in Character Folios Use Buffs and Abilities

Level Up to Increase All Stats

The most natural and permanent way to increase your stats is by farming for EXP and leveling up.

Going up against formidable opponents such as Fiends, completing side quests, participating in minigames, and many other means can give considerable amounts of EXP! When in a new region, do not hesitate to try new things!

Equip Gear and Materia

Gear such as weapons and armor have fixed amounts of stat increases to bestow upon teammates, and may even come with passive buffs. Other equipment like accessories and Materia can also help increase your stats.

Some of these equipment can be purchased from shops, others are exclusive rewards from quests and minigames, while a number of them can be found in chests all over Midgar. Keep your eyes peeled for new equipment and sieze them every chance you get!

Unlock Stat Increases in Character Folios

Apart from unlocking new abilities, Character Folios also have nodes you can unlock that increase character stats. Once you have accumulated enough Skill Point (SP), be sure to visit Maghnata Books to check onn your Folios!

Use Buffs and Abilities

Another useful and almost instantaneous way of increasing your stats is by using spells and abilities that do so. However, these buffs can only last for a certain duration, and will need to be re-cast.

When going up against powerful foes, be sure to keep spells like Bravery, Faith, Protect, Shell, and Haste in mind and cast them to even out your odds!

FF7 Rebirth Related Guides

FF7 Rebirth Complete Guide

All FF7 Rebirth Guides

FF7 Rebirth Guides
Story Walkthrough	Bosses
Side Quests	Queen's Blood
Minigames	Characters
Romance	World Intel
Materia	Weapons
Armor	Accessories
Limit Breaks	Folio Skill Tree
Chocobos	Maps and Locations
Combat Simulator	Crafting Materials
Enemies	News and Game Info
Demo Walkthrough

Beginner's Guide and Getting Started

Guides for Getting Started
Beginner's Guide	Best Gameplay Settings
Difficulty Setting Differences	Should You Watch The Story So Far?
How to Claim Bonuses	How to Skip Chapter 1
Trophy List and Guide	List of Controls

Gameplay System Tips and Tricks

Gameplay Tips and Tricks
Combat System Explained	Battle Icons and Status Effects Explained
Active and Classic Combat Style Differences	First Strike Explained
How to Restore HP and MP	How to Change Your Party
How to Pressure and Stagger Enemies	How to Fill the ATB Gauge
How to Attack Flying Enemies	How to Counter and Parry Attacks
How to Dash (Run)	How to Use Terrain Actions
How to Run Away (Fleeing)	Chocobo Customization Guide
How to Fix Insert Data Disc Bug	How to Fast Travel Across Regions
All Beach Outfits and Which to Choose	How to Go Down Ladders Fast
Steal List & Guide: Best Items to Steal	Morph List & Guide: Best Items to Morph
What to Spend GP On and All Gold Saucer Items	Missable Items, Events, and Quests
Weapon Upgrades Explained	How to Get Unbound
How to Take Photos in Photo Mode	All Synergy Abilities and How to Use
How to Save the Game and Delete Save Files	Shinra Boxes Explained
Weapon Abilities Explained	How to Lock On to Enemies
How to Farm GP	-

Character Stat Guides

Character Stats Guides
Character Stats Explained	What Does Attack Do?
What Does Defense Do?	What Does Magic Do?
What Does Magic Defense Do?	What Does Magic Attack Do?
What Does Strength Do?	What Does Spirit Do?
What Does Vitality Do?	What Does Speed Do?
What Does Luck Do?	-

Mount Guides

Mount Guides
All Mounts and How to Unlock	How to Get the Buggy
How to Get the Tiny Bronco	How to Get the Wheelie (Segway)

Farming Guides

Farming Guides
Gil Farming Guide - How to Farm Gil (Money) Fast	AP Farming Guide - How to Farm AP Fast
EXP Farming Guide - How to Level Up Fast	How to Increase Party Level and Rewards
Moogle Medal Farming Guide	SP Farming Guide - How to Farm SP Fast

Post-Game Guides

Post-Game Guides
Chapter Select and New Game Plus Explained	Post-Game Content and How to Get 100% Clear
Hard Mode Difficulty Guide	List of All Manuscripts Guide
All Johnny's Treasure Trove Locations	How to Recover MP in Hard Mode

Story Guides

Story Guides
How to Escape the Depths	How to Get Into the Crow's Nest
How to Get the Gondola Ticket	How to Wake Up the Dead Businessmen
Should You Pay 2,000 Gil to the Bandits?	Swindling Seminar Solution
Which Direction Should You Set the Minecart?	World Intel Guide and Rewards
Which Direction Should You Set the Minecart?	All Pirate Relic Locations
Which Gift to Choose for Aerith?	How to Unlock the Elevator with Yuffie
Point of No Return	-