Relm (Final Fantasy VI party member)

Relm is a playable character in Final Fantasy VI. She is the final character to join the party in the World of Balance and the last main playable character, not counting the two secret characters.

Battle[]

Relm's Strength and Stamina are among the worst in the game, but her Speed, Evasion and Magic Evasion are above average, particularly for mage-type characters. Relm's standout stat is her Magic—at base 44 she has the highest Magic in the game, making her a natural fit to be a mage.

Stats[]

Name	Initial Stats
Strength	26
Speed	34
Stamina	22
Magic	44
Attack	11
Defense	35
Evasion	13%
Magic Defense	30
Magic Evasion	9%
Escape Success	5
HP Gain	37
MP Gain	18
Level Averaging	+0

Level	HP	MP	EXP
1	37	18	0
2	48	22	32
3	60	26	96
4	74	31	208
5	91	36	400
6	111	42	672
7	133	48	1056
8	157	55	1552
9	183	63	2184
10	210	71	2976
11	238	80	3936
12	268	89	5080
13	303	99	6432
14	342	109	7992
15	386	119	9784
16	436	129	11840
17	490	139	14152
18	547	150	16736
19	608	161	19616
20	673	172	22832
21	740	183	26360
22	809	194	30232
23	881	206	34456
24	957	218	39056
25	1036	230	44072
26	1118	242	49464
27	1204	254	55288
28	1294	267	61568
29	1389	280	68304
30	1488	293	75496
31	1588	306	83184
32	1689	319	91384
33	1791	333	100088
34	1893	347	109344
35	1996	361	119136
36	2100	375	129504
37	2206	389	140464
38	2313	404	152008
39	2421	419	164184
40	2531	434	176976
41	2642	449	190416
42	2755	464	204520
43	2869	480	219320
44	2985	496	234808
45	3102	512	251000
46	3221	528	267936
47	3341	544	285600
48	3463	561	304040
49	3588	578	323248
50	3716	595	343248
51	3846	611	364064
52	3977	626	385696
53	4110	640	408160
54	4244	653	431488
55	4380	665	455680
56	4517	676	480776
57	4656	686	506760
58	4798	695	533680
59	4942	703	561528
60	5087	710	590320
61	5234	716	620096
62	5382	721	650840
63	5532	726	682600
64	5684	732	715368
65	5837	738	749160
66	5992	745	784016
67	6148	752	819920
68	6306	759	856920
69	6466	767	895016
70	6628	775	934208
71	6788	783	974536
72	6943	791	1016000
73	7094	799	1058640
74	7239	806	1102456
75	7379	813	1147456
76	7515	820	1193648
77	7647	826	1241080
78	7773	832	1289744
79	7893	838	1339672
80	8010	844	1390872
81	8123	849	1443368
82	8233	854	1497160
83	8341	859	1552264
84	8446	864	1608712
85	8548	869	1666512
86	8648	874	1725688
87	8746	879	1786240
88	8841	885	1848184
89	8933	891	1911552
90	9023	897	1976352
91	9111	903	2042608
92	9198	909	2110320
93	9283	916	2179504
94	9366	924	2250192
95	9448	933	2322392
96	9528	943	2396128
97	9611	954	2471400
98	9697	966	2548224
99	9785	979	2637112

Equipment[]

Relm's equipment draw is nearly identical to Strago's, with the addition of female-exclusive pieces and a pieces exclusive to Relm. She can equip Brushes, rods, maces, and some daggers for weapons, and universal shields, robes, and creature costumes for armor. She joins the party equipped with a Chocobo Brush, Mythril Shield, Plumed Hat, and a Silk Robe. Her ultimate weapon is the Angel Brush, won from the Plague in Dragons' Den. She also has an exclusive Relic, the Fake Moustache.

Relm's access to daggers and maces is largely irrelevant due to her poor physical stats. She can use magical rods to cast spells when attacking, and the Healing Rod can be used to heal party members without using magic or items, or used offensively against undead enemies. The Magus Rod offers +7 Magic and can be acquired early in the World of Ruin. Her various brushes offer lower Magic boosts, but boosts her other stats instead.

Relm's defensive options are light gear and mage robes, but in the late-game she has access to two powerful armor pieces, the Behemoth Suit and the Cat-Ear Hood. The Behemoth Suit is almost as powerful as Genji Armor and boosts all of Relm's stats by 6, and the Cat-Ear Hood grants Relm resistance to all elemental damage but water and poison, and doubles the amount of gil won from battles. With the Behemoth Suit and Cat-Ear Hood and a proper shield, Relm can be a very durable mage.

Weapons[]

Armor[]

Abilities[]

FFVI PC Relm Sketch — Relm draws Ultros.

See also: Sketch or Control (ability)

Relm's primary ability is Sketch, which lets her draw a living replica of an enemy to attack. In the vast majority of cases, when Relm Sketches an enemy, there is a 25% chance of one attack being used and a 75% chance of the other. There is, however, a handful of enemies in the game which always deliver the same attack when Sketched. The attacks usable via Sketch are usually attacks the enemy is capable of using normally. In the original Super NES release, Sketch was glitchy and the game could be corrupted if the wrong enemy was Sketched.

Sketch is largely useless due to the fact the attacks used via Sketch calculate damage based on the enemy's stats. Because of how Final Fantasy VI's damage formulas are balanced, enemies usually have far lower Strength and Magic than the party will, so even if Relm Sketched an attack that would be very powerful otherwise, it will be far less effective than expected. Many enemies have either normal attacks or their special attack as one or both possible Sketch attacks, including most bosses, with the notable exceptions of Kefka and the eight legendary dragons. Most of the time whatever attack Relm uses via Sketch will simply not be very powerful.

By equipping the Fake Mustache, Relm's Sketch turns into Control. When Relm controls an enemy, the enemy enters a Confuse-like state where their sprite reverses. Relm takes the same stance as when casting a spell, and on her turn she will have a unique command window with up to four commands usable by the enemy monster. When a command is input, the monster will use the command, and Relm's ATB gauge then depletes and refills as though she is taking her normal turns. If the monster dies or is struck by a physical attack, Control ends and Relm's ATB gauge depletes, and she will have her normal commands on her next turn.

Control is far more useful than Sketch in most situations. It can take a monster out of battle for several turns and turn their own powers against them. However, it is still preferable to teach Relm powerful spells and utilize her as a mage, since monster stats are still low and they will do less damage than Relm could herself. It is difficult to maintain Control of an enemy in a battle with primarily physical attackers, and most bosses are immune to Control.

Both Sketch and Control are useful as utility abilities to teach Strago Lores. Monsters that use Lores Strago can learn often have them as Sketch or Control abilities, eliminating the need to wait for the enemy to use the Lore so Strago can learn it.

If Shadow was not waited for before escaping the Floating Continent, Relm will gain the protection of Interceptor in his place in the World of Ruin. Interceptor will randomly intercept blockable physical attacks on Relm, nullifying their damage, and has a chance to then counterattack with Wild Fang or Takedown, which deal non-elemental magic damage to one opponent, but miss on Floating targets.

Relm's Desperation Attack is Star Prism, which inflicts Instant Death on an enemy.

Quests[]

Recruitment[]

In the World of Balance, Relm joins the party in the Esper Caves. When the party battles Ultros, Relm will automatically arrive when his HP falls below a certain threshold, and after a cutscene joins the party. Using her Sketch ability on Ultros automatically ends the battle.

In the World of Ruin, the way to recruit Relm varies depending on whether the party waited for Shadow before escaping the Floating Continent. If they did, Relm can be found in Owzer's Mansion in Jidoor and will rejoin the party after they defeat Chadarnook. If the party did not wait for Shadow, Relm will be found in the Cave on the Veldt and the party must rescue her there and defeat the Behemoth King, after which she can be found in Owzer's mansion.

Recruiting Relm in the World of Ruin in the mobile/Steam version earns the Portrait Time! achievement.

Story role[]

Relm must be recruited in the World of Ruin to recruit Strago. When entering the Cultists' Tower with Relm in the party, a cutscene will occur where she snaps Strago to his senses and he rejoins the party.

When the player revisits Thamasa with both Relm and Strago in the party, a cutscene initiates where Strago learns his friend Gungho has been hurt fighting the monster Hidon, and a cave on Ebot's Rock appears containing Hidon's lair. Relm must be in the party to initiate the cutscene, but does not need to enter Ebot's Rock to face Hidon, only Strago is required.

During the ending when the party is escaping Kefka's Tower, Relm's ending scene will be different if Strago was not recruited, where Edgar, Celes and Setzer run by her as she struggles to get down the conveyor belt, until she threatens to draw their portraits and they come back for her. Relm also appears in Strago's ending scene.