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Limit breaks are powerful attacks, or other handy status boosts, that can be performed once the limit bar is full. The limit bar is slowly filled as enemies attack the character. '''Fury''' status makes limit bar fill quicker and '''Sadness''' status makes the limit bar fill slower.

Most of the first limits on each level are learned by killing more and more enemies. This means that the character has to be the one that deals the killing blow; it doesn't matter if other characters damage the enemy as well. Most second limits on each level are simply gained by using the first limit on the level enough times.

These tables below list the number of times you have to use the first limit break of each level to get second limit breaks, as well as the number of kills needed to gain the first limit break of the next level. These numbers aren't conclusive because there is an amount of randomness to the system, they should be used as guidelines

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! Name || width="45px" | Level || Effect || How to unlock

| Level 1 || Damages one enemy || Cloud starts with it

| Level 1 || Damages one enemy, inflicts stop || Use Braver 8 times

| Level 2 || Damages one enemy, splash damage to all others || Kill 80 enemies

| Level 2 || Damages one enemy || Use Blade Beam 8 times

| Level 3 || Damages random enemies || Kill 80 more enemies

| Level 3 || May remove enemies from battle || Use Meteorain 8 times

| Level 4 || 15 slash attack || Buy the Omnislash manual from the [[Final Fantasy VII/Minigames/Gold Saucer#Battle Arena|Battle Arena]] in the [[Final Fantasy VII/Minigames/Gold Saucer|Gold Saucer]]. It costs 64,000 Battle Points in Disk 1 and 32,000 Battle Points in Disk 2 and 3.

Tifa's limit breaks are chained. When a limit break is used, she will do all of the attacks in the following order, up to the maximum limit of the level currently selected. The slots system is used to pick how well the limits in question are handled: "Hit" means normal damage, "Yeah!" gives extra damage, and "Miss" will mean the limit is not going to be used. Too many misses will break the chain and the limits that follow aren't used. If a "Miss" occurs for a certain limit break, the count for that limit break doesn't go up.  Also only the first limit break of the Level Tifa is set on will accumulate uses. For example, if Tifa has her first limit breaks of Level 1 and Level 2 and is set on the Level 2 limit.  Then no matter how many times she gets a "Hit" or "Yeah!" on the Beat Rush portion of the slot, her count for Beat Rush will not improve.

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! Name || Level || Effect || How to unlock

| Level 1 || Damages one enemy || Tifa starts with it

| Level 1 || Damages one enemy || Use Beat Rush 8 times

| Level 2 || Damages one enemy, water elemental || Kill 80 enemies

| Level 2 || Damages one enemy || Use Waterkick 8 times

| Level 3 || Damages one enemy || Kill 80 more enemies

| Level 3 || Damages one enemy || Use Dolphin Blow 8 times

| Level 4 || Damages all enemies || On Disc 2 or 3, after Cloud is rescued, play the piano in Tifa's house in Nibelheim to get the manual.

In game, there's one way of learning the melody - during Cloud's story in Kalm. You can get the limit break even if you don't find the melody out then, however, just play the melody normally.

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See also [[Final Fantasy VII/Minigames/Tifa's piano|Separate module about Tifa's piano.]]

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! Name || Level || Effect || How to unlock

| Level 1 || Damages one enemy || Barret starts with it

| Level 1 || Damages one enemy's MP || Use Big Shot 8 times

| Level 2 || Damages all enemies || Kill 80 enemies

| Level 2 || May instantly kill an enemy || Use Grenade Bomb 8 times

| Level 3 || Damages all enemies || Kill 80 more enemies

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| Level 3 || 18 attacks on random enemies || Use Satellite Beam 8 times

| Level 4 || 20 attacks on random enemies || Save [[Final Fantasy VII/A journey through cloudless skies#The Flying Materia Train.21|North Corel from the runaway train]], and an old lady in a hut will give the manual to you.

==Aerith==

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! Name || Level || Effect || How to unlock

| Level 1 || Heals the party for half their HP || Aerith starts with it

| Level 1 || May stop and silence an enemy || Use Healing Wind 8 times

| Level 2 || Cures all party members' status ailments || Kill 80 enemies

| Level 2 || Fills all party members' limit bars || Use Breath of the Earth 7 times

| Level 3 || Makes all party members invincible for a period of time || Kill 80 more enemies

| Level 3 || Completely heals party || Use Planet Protector 6 times

| Level 4 || Planet Protector + Pulse of Life || From the weapon store on the Peninsula.

To make it easier to get Aeris's 2nd and 3rd limit breaks just do the following. After you escape from the Church give Aeris some Materia (I gave her Fire, Ice, and Restore Materia) and get into some random battles. Fight only with Aeris using her magic (this should instantly kill most enemies) and use Cloud for healing. Do this until you have her 2nd limit break (If you don't have Seal Evil limit break by the time this is done...you can do it now if you want). Seems like it'll take forever? It only took me a little more than a half an hour. Take a break from playing, (Unless you want to continue of course!) and repeat to get her 3rd limit break. This'll make it easier when you want to get her last limit break.

To get the Level 4 manual, you need to talk to the sleeping man in a cave near Junon. He'll tell how many battles you've been in. When the two last digits of the battle count are same and odd, he'll give you a piece of Mythril. This can then be traded for the Great Gospel manual at the blacksmith on the peninsula south of Gongaga after the events of Rocket Town. The blacksmith will give you two boxes to choose from, the "big one" and the "small one", choose the "small one". The small box is located up the stairs in a grey safe.

You can do this any time after getting out of the Corel Desert prison and before going to the Temple of the Ancients. Take the buggy given from Dio, go to Costa de Sol, and take the boat back to Junon. It will allow you to cross the river to get to the cave. You can also get there by following the coasts and going up the river with the Tiny Bronco.

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! Name || Level || Effect || How to unlock

| Level 1 || Damages one enemy || Red XIII starts with it

| Level 1 || Casts haste on the party || Use Sled Fang 8 times

| Level 2 || Drains HP and MP from one enemy || Kill 80 enemies

| Level 2 || 10 random attacks || Use Blood Fang 8 times

| Level 3 || Casts haste, berserk and increases power for Red XIII || Kill 80 more enemies

| Level 3 || 5 random attacks || Use Howling Moon 8 times

| Level 4 || Damages all enemies || Defeat [[Final Fantasy VII/Optional characters#Vincent|Lost Number in the Shinra Mansion]] to obtain the manual.

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! Name || Level || Effect || How to unlock

| Level 1 || Damages one enemy for 100 times the sum of the dice || Cait Sith starts with it

| Level 2 || Random effects || Kill 40 enemies

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! Name || Level || Effect || How to unlock

| Level 1 || Damages one enemy || Cid starts with it

| Level 1 || Damages all enemies || Use Boost Jump 8 times

| Level 2 || Damages all enemies || Kill 80 enemies

| Level 2 ||Drains HP and MP from one enemy || Use Hyper Jump 8 times

| Level 3 || 6 random attacks || Kill 80 more enemies

| Level 3 || 8 random attacks || Use Dragon Dive 8 times

| Level 4 || 18 random attacks || Use the submarine to reach the [[Final Fantasy VII/Things to Collect#Sunken Gelnika|sunken Gelnika]] (airplane wreck found in one of the bays). The manual can be found in the cargo hold.

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! Name || Level || Effect || How to unlock

| Level 1 || Damages one enemy || Yuffie starts with it

| Level 1 || Heals party || Use Greased Lightning 8 times

| Level 2 || Damages all enemies || Kill 80 enemies

| Level 2 || 10 random attacks || Use Landscaper 8 times

| Level 3 || Damages all enemies || Kill 80 more enemies

| Level 3 || 15 random attacks || Use Gauntlet 8 times

| Level 4 || Damages all enemies || Defeat Godo at the top of the [[Final Fantasy VII/Wutai sidequests#Climbing the Pagoda|Wutai Pagoda]] and finish Yuffie's subquest to obtain the manual.

Vincent, unlike all the others, has only one limit break per limit level, and his limit breaks involve morphing into another creature. You cannot control Vincent while he is morphed, and the one of the two possible effects is picked randomly for each attack.

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! Name || Level || Effect 1 || Effect 2 || How to unlock

| Level 1 || Berserk Dance: Damages one enemy || Beast Flare: Fire damage to all enemies || Vincent starts with it

| Level 2 || Giga Dunk: Damages one enemy || Livewire: Lightning damage to all enemies || Kill 60 enemies

| Level 3 || Splattercombo: 5 attacks to one enemy || Nightmare: Status ailments to one enemy || Kill 60 more enemies

| Level 4 || Chaos Saber: Fire damage to all enemies || Satan Slam: Attempts instant death, then does fire damage to all enemies || Waterfall by the lake.

To get the lvl4 manual, go to the waterfall on the northern side of the round lake on the second continent. You need a either a colored chocobo or the submarine to reach it.