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    I just got Rikku and honestly I see no use for her. She's weak and is all item based. I just, I don't like that. Is there anyway to actually use her productively? I don't want to completely avoid using her like I have been for all these years. Using Auron, Lulu, Tidus/wakka/yuna is just so much better! I don't see Rikku as much use to the party in combat. I like her there IN the party. Just not fighting amongst it.

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    Sure there is! I use her all the time! She's stealing items constantly for general use or weapon/aeon upgrades (though it helps that I've played this game enough times to have memorized what enemies have items worth stealing) and she's a great item-based healer, especially if you give her a weapon with Alchemy. Once I did that I used her more than I did Yuna. She also has the highest agility stat, which is very useful for me because my playstyle usually involves manipulating speed, recovery times, and delays to make sure the enemy almost never has a turn.

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    I completely ignored her my first playthrough as well. This time I'm trying to use her to steal items more. I have no idea what items or enemies to target, though, and so far I've just been stealing from the stronger enemies and bosses. I haven't had her that long, so no idea how useful she will prove.

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    I used her as my main healer for a while until I maxed out everyone's sphere grid thing.


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    If I recall correctly, she is useful against machina-type monsters as she can dismantle them by stealing from them. Is that correct? In any case, I found her moderately useful as she has the strongest physical attack out of the female characters, so she can be somewhat decent at physical attacking with her high speed.
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    She can one hit any land based machina except the guardians, and eventually becomes equal in power to tidus, just ever so slightly slower (or maybe she was the faster one...) . She can use her combine limit to fully heal the party and make it invincible, or to warp enemies, create explosions, etc. She can use steal, and mug, and is the only one who can loot background chests. I believe there is a boss that has a charging attack that if she uses steal on it will negate the charge attack. (may be different game) Also she has that awesome sweater.
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    Her speed is great, so once youve reach the end of her grid section, jump her onto the end of wakka or auron's grid to get some awesome strength. Stealing becomes very useful late game when youre looking to upgrade you items and the al bhed potions are useful at some point in the game too (i forgot which).

    Though i dont see why she makes us read instead of translating written al bhed text for us, the bitch
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    Though i dont see why she makes us read instead of translating written al bhed text for us, the bitch
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    Rikku is great once she starts getting some strength bonuses. Plus her overdrive can be completely lethal, and Al Bhed potions are way effective.

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    Especially when you get the two Attack +8s at the end of her grid, she can dish out some serious damage. And if you warp her to Auron...

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    Quote Originally Posted by blackmage_nuke View Post
    Though i dont see why she makes us read instead of translating written al bhed text for us, the bitch
    Seriously, why can't she just read the stuff for us???

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    Quote Originally Posted by Jiro View Post
    Rikku is great once she starts getting some strength bonuses. Plus her overdrive can be completely lethal, and Al Bhed potions are way effective.
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    Rikku is actually one of my favorites in this game and I used her for my sneakthief and healer. I'm sexist in the fact that men do the fighting and women do the healing, so I probably didn't utilize her to her full potential, but that's the way things are.

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    Every time I play, she's my 3rd highest damage dealer, behind Tidus 2nd, and Auron 1st. She deals about 8k damage by the time I'm in Calm Lands.

    Also, if you want to customize your weapons, you basically have no choice to use her.
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