Celes Chere/Gameplay

Celes's abilities are similar to Terra's. She has balanced stats and equips swords, maces, some daggers, heavy armor, some hats and robes, and all shields. She has access to female-exclusive equipment.

Celes and Terra have almost identical equipment draws, except for the Cotton Robe, and their respective ultimate weapons in the Advance and subsequent releases — while Terra uses the Apocalypse, Celes wields the Save the Queen.

Celes is one of only two characters who naturally learn magic. Her ability is Runic, which negates the next magical ability used and heals Celes of an amount of MP equal to the ability's MP cost. Her Desperation Attack is Spinning Edge that deals magical damage to one enemy.

As she is rescued from prison when she joins the party, Celes joins with only a Hairband equipped.

Spells
Along with Terra, Celes is the second party member to naturally learn magic without equipping magicite. Compared to Terra, who learns healing and attack spells, Celes focuses on attack and status magic. Celes learns the Blizzard line of spells, contrasting Terra's Fire spells.