Aerith provides the heavy lifting when it comes to supporting your entire team, but it’s hard to build around her character, especially if you don’t fully know her capabilities. In this guide, I created a few best builds for Aerith in Final Fantasy 7 Rebirth.
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Best builds for Aerith in FF7 Rebirth
Aerith can provide your team with lots of support. From healing to giving helpful buffs as well as becoming a mage for your party, here are a few builds you can use as a base and improve along the way!
Passive Support Trope Build
If you don’t feel like using Aerith much or do not understand her kit well, this is the best build for you.
Since you’ll primarily be healing throughout the battle, here are some of theFolio nodesI recommend for this build:
To be fair, you won’t really need muchmicro-managingwith this build. You can just ignore Aerith throughout the battle, as she willautomatically healyour party when she has the opportunity. However, you still have the option to use her normally to cast Synergy Skills likeBodyguardwhen she gets enemy aggro.
Aerith’s elemental strength will primarily be thewind elementalin the early game, as your other party members can simply have the Fire and Ice materia and one Lightning materia to exploit enemy weaknesses.
Her playstyle will mostly revolve aroundward placementsacross the field and teleporting if the enemies get too close to her. Since Aerith’s dodge is really meh compared to others,Ward Shiftwill be her primary go-to mobility skill.
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Balanced Sorceress Support Build
The Balanced Sorceress provides a well-rounded experience for Aerith. This is perfect for players who only want to control her for a limited amount of time without getting a doctor’s degree on her entire kit.
Here are some of the early-game Folio nodes I recommend for this build:
This is an overall well-rounded build for Aerith, and she’s much more usable in this state as she can also dish out damage while providing healing to the entire team.Bodyguardis still the staple Synergy Skill to use in this case, as you may always ask Cloud or Red XIII to defend you whenever you’re building up your ATB.
At the same time, you can also cast yourArcane Wardwhile you pummel the enemy with powerful spells from your party. Be careful aboutAerith’s positioningin this case, as she can’t Ward Shift to another location using this tactic.
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Elemental Sorceress Supreme Build
As the name suggests, as Aerith, you’re expected to cast a plethora of spells during the battle, making her much moreproactiverather than the passive build.
Since you’re an elemental sorceress, you’ll need the following nodes to further optimize your build:
All of the nodes above give you a boost in magic potency and use-case, like Jet Stream, Cold Frost, Heatwave, and Rolling Thunder. All of those elements cover a huge variety of enemy weaknesses, and Aerith will be able to exploit them with much more power compared to Cloud or Tifa hybrid builds.
I addedChrono Aegison the Spell Shortcuts asBodyguardis not always readily available as a Synergy Skill. There are instances where you have no choice but to protect yourself, as Aerith andChrono Aegiswill be able to cover that aspect, at least temporarily.
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