What Are The Best Party Compositions For Theatrhythm: Final Bar Line?

In RPGs, your party is everyꦜthing. After all, sometimes it takes a specific combination of abilities to accentuate the best of your team and take down formidable enemies. This sentiment also rings true in the Final Fantasy spin-off .

FBL's Series Quest mode has hundreds of missions to pursue, all with radically different requirements. Some missions require your party to deal a high amount of damage points. Yet, other missions may require picking up a set number of treasure chests. Fortunately, with FBL's diverse roster of characters, you can form a party formation for any need. Here are some of our go-to team compositions.

7 🧸 The Thief Party

Yuffie, Zidane, Rikku, and Fran in a thief-focused party for Theatrhythm: Final Bar Line.

A strong thief party consists of four Hunter-type characters who can perform stealing abilities. In addition, since Hunters often tout haste skills, they'll prove helpful for FMS stages. This formation is perfect for missions with a treasure chest quota. Furthermore, a thief party can help you scavenge for items and collectibles when needed.

Here is an example of what a thief par♔ty may look like.

Character	Yuffie	Zidane	Rikku	Fran
Character Type	Hunter	Hunter	Hunter	Hunter
Equipped Abilities	Discerning Eye Rare Summoner Rare Collector	Mug Thievery CollectaCard Magnet	Steal Mug Master Thief	Shatterheart Item Hunter Haste

6 🦩 The Healing Party

Aerith, Ignis, Yuna, and Ciaran in a healing-focused party for Theatrhythm: Final Bar Line.

A strong healing party comprises four Healing, Support, Summon, or Hunter characters who can perform cures, status removals, or damage-avoiding abilities. This🎉 composition is helpful when taking on high-difficulty music stages or missions that require a zero-damage run. In addition, this party formation will help you survive more challenging score levels, including Ultimate and Supreme.

Don't expect to take down many enemies if you're playing with a healing party. Instead, this formation focuses on survival and preservation. Still, some healing types sport proficient combat skills. For instance, Ignis has a complete set of wind magic abilities. Even Ciaran, a support type, has two ice attacks at his disposal should you need them.

Here is an example of what a healing party may look like𝓀:

Character	Aerith	Ignis	Yuna	Ciaran
Character Type	Healing	Healing	Summon	Support
Equipped Abilities	Cure Cura Great Gospel	Full Cure Regen	Curaga Protect Shell	Toad Poisona Silena

5 The Elem𝓰ental Party

Cloud, Alphinaud, Krile, and Chocobo in a wind-focused party for Theatrhythm: Final Bar Line.

Elemental parties can take on various forms. After all, each quest mission requires proficiency in different elements. Therefore, it's vital to train at least one ice, fire, thunder, and wind-wielding character to level 99. Those four characters will be the foundations of your elemental parties. Then, complement those foundational characters with characters that know similar abilities. This𒁏 party configuration works best for missions requiring defeating an enemy utilizing 🍌a specific element.

It's common for elemental parties to primarily include magic types. However, basic expertise is not exclusive to magic characters. For instance, Cloud, a physical type, and Chocobo, a support type, wield sufficient wind abilities. In addition, Rydia, a summon type, specializes in ice magic. There are many more examples in FBL's roster.

Here is an example of what an elemental party may look like. In this case, we're building a party specializing in wind abilities:

Character	Cloud	Alphinaud	Krile	Chocobo
Character Type	Physical	Magic	Magic	Support
Equipped Abilities	Aero Blade Aerora Blade Aeroga Blade	Aero Aerora Aeroga	Aeroga Tornado Leaf Swirl	Aero Aerora Chocobo Dash

Our example uses wind characters exclusively. However, elemental exclusivity is not a hard and fast rule for this formation. For instance, if you're facing other enemies that are resistant to your party's primary element, you can include a member with a different elemental focus. Or, you can fill a slot with a supporting character that can increase your party's stats.

4 The🐷 Magic Dama🌊ge Party

Maria, The Emperor, Krile, and Alphinaud in a magic attack-focused party for Theatrhythm: Final Bar Line.

Magic damage parties consist of your four strongest Magic-type characters. This formation is best for missions with enhanced magical damage effects or diminished physical damage effects. In addition, keeping a diverse assortment of elemental attacks equipped will help this party navigate long strings of enemies in music stages. So, even if an enemy resists one party member's attack, another party member may hit the enemy with their weakness.

Here is an example of what a magic damage party maꦕy look like:

Character	Maria	The Emperor	Krile	Alphinaud
Character Type	Magic	Magic	Magic	Magic
Equipped Abilities	Fire Fira Firaga	Blizzard Blizzara Blizzaga	Thunder Enthunder Thundara	Aero Aerora Aeroga

3 The Physical Damage Party 𓄧

Cloud, Tifa, Firion, and Leon in a physical attack-focused party for Theatrhythm: Final Bar Line.

Physical damage parties consist of your four strongest Physical or Defense-type characters. Theoretically, it's the opposite of what a magic damage party should be. Therefore, it best suits missions with enhanced physical damage effects or diminished magical damage effects. You'll want to assign four of your most damaging physical types to this party. However, your equipped abilities should vary, including slashing, piercing, and blunt attacks.

Physical damage parties are also helpful for missions that require you to trigger many abilities in one music stage. Many low-tier physical abilities have unlimited uses. In addition, the Added Cut ability triggers after any five of your party's abilities activate. Your ability usage will quickly rise into the double digits!

Here 𒀰is an example of what a physical damage party may look like:

Character	Cloud	Tifa	Firion	Leon
Character Type	Physical	Physical	Physical	Physical
Equipped Abilities	Aeroga Blade Added Cut Ultima Blade	Brawler Chi Blast Lance	Added Cut Blood Weapon Bravery	Meteor Blade Sacrifice Dark Knight's Charge

2 ♚ The Summoner Par♈ty

Yuna, Garnet, Alphinaud, and Tidus in a summoner-focused party for Theatrhythm: Final Bar Line.

Summoner parties consist primarily of characters with Summon-boosting skills, such as Mana Cede, Swiftness, or Boost. Therefore, you'll need at least one strong summoner character to form your party. However, since there aren't many summoner characters in FBL, recruit characters with skills to support your summoner. For instance, Tidus, a physical type, and Alphinauph, a magic type, both have summoning abilities.

A summon party is the best fit for missions that require you to meet a high✅ Summon damage value or battles when Summon damage is multiplied. However, since summoned monsters can only attack in Battle Music 🉐Stages, refrain from using this party for Field Music Stages. Otherwise, their skillset will go unutilized.

Here is an example of what a summone𒉰r party may look like:

Character	Yuna	Garnet	Alphinaud	Tidus
Character Type	Summon	Summon	Magic	Physical
Equipped Abilities	Mana Cede Boost Grand Summon	Blessing Of Alexandria Mana Cede Swiftness	Swiftness Mana Cede Drain	Mana Cede Boost Blitz Ace

1 The High-Level Pa𓃲rty 🧜

Four Star Level 8 characters, Cloud, Alphinaud, The Emperor, and Maria, in a high-level party for Theatrhythm: Final Bar Line.

As its name suggests, this party configuration features your four highest-level characters, regardless of type. This party will often be your primary team since their stats are better than their lower-level piers. Since this party is your A-Team, filling it with characters you understand how to use well is essential. For instance, if a character has an ability that's hard to activate, you may not want to include them.

There is no standard team configuration for this specific formation. However, you'll likely form this team naturally as you discover which characters you prefer to play with. However, we recommend keeping this party diverse with different skill types. Then, you can assign each member to the other parties listed too!