why is Yuffie so overpowered?

[Hero of the Imperium]

she has instant access to all 4 elements without needing materia or unlocking extra skill nodes for them, she gets windstorm early on which pretty much trivializes 90% of mob enemies on top of a bunch of other great moves. Meanwhile Aerith is supposed to be the most powerful magic user yet her dodge is trash and her ATB builds painfully slowly and Tifa is more or less the same as she was in the first part of the remake. It's really annoying how none of the characters from part 1 besides Cloud seem to really get an upgrade that makes them match the newer characters added in this part. I get that Yuffie played like this in Intergrade too, but it made more sense there since she was effectively the only character you controlled in that sidestory.
also she's just annoying and gets way too many lines. I'm stuck in this irritating situation where I can't really justify not using her because she's just really good in gameplay, but it does nothing to make me actually like her as a character. she's the poochie of this game

[meowlo]

Eh, I liked playing as just her in the DLC. But in Rebirth I mostly avoided her -- sure she's pretty OP, but her combat style isn't as fun when the party gets a bit more crowded.

[WT_Neptune]

Ninjas spam weaknesses at low damage, welcome to FF

[Sevrojin]

you need to try aerith and yuffie. most broken combo by a massive margin

have aerith put a atb ward under yuffie and have her dodge attacks with brumal form.

so much atb you cant spend it fast enough

also arcane ward works on yuffie so... she can quad cast with doppleganger and arcane ward

[Hero of the Imperium]

Originally posted by Sevrojin:

you need to try aerith and yuffie. most broken combo by a massive margin

have aerith put a atb ward under yuffie and have her dodge attacks with brumal form.

so much atb you cant spend it fast enough

but I want less Yuffie. I want the other characters to be better, and also for Yuffie to talk less.

[Sevrojin]

Yuffie is good.

Cait sith is overpowered by himself

[IL_Davu]

with this remake, they tried to fix many 'flaws' of the original.

At the time, one of the fiercest criticisms it received, both in the console release and the Win98 version, was the absence of jobs replaced by the materia system.

But if you look at the Remake series, with the characters' abilities, they tried to address the absence of jobs.

If you notice, all the FF job archetypes are present in the characters: Yuffie is the ninja (gameplay is heavily taken from FFXIV, works similarly), Cloud is the dark knight, Tifa is the monk, Barret is the machinist, Aerith is the white mage, Cait Sith is the summoner, and Red XIII is the paladin.

[Scarlet Crusade]

She had the best ultimate weapon in the original game and her mini-Omnislash was one of the best Limits as well. Aside from Cloud and Cid getting triple AP growth weapons, she’s the only one who gets a stronger double AP growth weapon later in the game. Yuffie being top tier isn’t really anything new.

[This PC]

Not like it makes a difference ? This game is pretty easy no matter who you use ? Maybe I haven't seen enough content yet ?

[Doctor Gitgud]

I had always just assumed you could only use one ward at a time with Aerith, but you can actually stack them on top of each other and she turns into a complete beast standing in the middle of them all.

[PmcD]

aerith plays a lot better compared to remake. so much QoL. her teleport is amazing if you use it right. baseline familiar is great and her wards and barrier can save any fight. barret is as awesome as he was in remake, but now he can have auto protect and regen without materia. tifa is improved as well with baseline parry and deadly dodge expanding her combo potential. tifa didnt need to change much cuz she was the most well developed character gameplay wise in the first game. also, you can ATB charge party members you arent controlling faster by using the synergy attacks while holding block

[MancSoulja]

If you wanna see overpowered, google exploding Yuffie

[MingQWERTY]

For Aerith, I suggest to always pop down a radiant ward (it enhances both her normal attacks and dodges), using her ward shift ability and practice perfect bllocking. Once you understand how she plays she is really broken

[Tiberius]

Ninja has always been op in FF

[Rikuto01]

Of course she's OP. She's a ninja.

If you were a ninja, maybe you'd be OP too.

[Sogreth]

It's because she was so underwhelming in the OG, they tried to overcompensate for it.

She was really only used as Morph spam.