Selphie Tilmitt/Gameplay

Selphie is a playable character in Final Fantasy VIII. She wields nunchaku in battle, and her Limit Break is Slot that draws up various random magic spells. Selphie is also available as a Triple Triad card and challenger. Selphie acts as the party leader during the Missile Base mission.

For playable appearances outside Final Fantasy VIII, see Selphie Tilmitt/Other appearances

Party member

Selphie joins the party outside the Dollet communication tower during the SeeD exam. Her intro pose is to hop with her nunchaku behind her, before swinging it in front of her. Her victory pose is to jump up in the air and swing her weapon, striking a cutesy pose, shaking a hip.

Weapons

Selphie wields oversized nunchaku in battle. Equipping more advanced models will increase Selphie's attack power and hit accuracy. Selphie's ultimate weapon, the Strange Vision, is the only weapon apart from the gunblade that has natural 255% accuracy.

Selphie's weapon is called "Nunchaku" in the NTSC versions of Final Fantasy VIII, but in the English PAL version they are known as "Shinobou" due to nunchaku's status as an illegal weapon in UK at the time.

There are four nunchaku models available for Selphie:

• Flail – Initial model. Described in Weapons Monthly, March Issue.
• Morning Star – Described in Weapons Monthly, June Issue.
• Crescent Wish – Described in Weapons Monthly, July Issue.
• Strange Vision – Described in Weapons Monthly, 1st Issue.

Limit Break

Main article: Slot (Final Fantasy VIII)

The End.

Selphie's Limit Break, Slot, allows her to cast spells from a random spell pool. Each spell can be cast up to three times in succession. The player can "Do over" Slot indefinitely. In the game's PlayStation version it is possible to "cheat" while executing the Limit Break: before selecting a spell, one can open the disc cover and the enemy will not attack, thus one can "Do over" until one encounters the desired spell.

Aside from the usual magic encountered throughout the game, Selphie has four spells solely available for her in Slot:

• Full-cure - Restores all party members' HP and removes all status effects.
• Wall - Casts Protect and Shell on all party members.
• Rapture - Wings appear and carry enemies away. It does not work on enemies immune to eject.
• The End - The party instantaneously wins the battle. Works against all enemies apart from undead creatures and the percentile range for this particular slot coming up is low.

In the Japanese version Selphie's spell Rapture is named Levitaga, i.e. a third level Float spell.

Stats

LV	HP	Str	Vit	Mag	Spr	Spd	Luck
1	211	1	1	5	2	15	18
2	250	2	1	6	3	15	18
3	289	2	2	6	3	15	18
4	328	3	2	7	4	16	18
5	367	4	3	8	5	16	18
6	405	5	4	8	5	16	19
7	444	5	4	9	6	16	19
8	482	6	5	10	7	17	19
9	520	7	5	10	7	17	19
10	559	7	6	11	8	17	19
11	597	8	6	11	8	17	19
12	635	9	7	12	9	18	19
13	673	9	7	13	9	18	19
14	711	10	7	13	10	18	19
15	749	11	8	14	10	18	19
16	786	11	9	14	11	19	19
17	824	12	9	15	12	19	19
18	862	13	9	16	12	19	20
19	899	13	10	16	13	19	20
20	937	14	10	17	13	20	20
21	974	14	11	17	14	20	20
22	1012	15	11	18	14	20	20
23	1049	16	12	18	15	20	20
24	1086	17	12	19	15	21	20
25	1123	17	13	20	16	21	20
26	1160	17	13	20	16	21	20
27	1197	18	13	20	17	21	20
28	1234	19	14	21	17	21	20
29	1271	19	14	21	18	21	20
30	1307	20	15	22	18	21	21
31	1344	20	15	23	19	21	21
32	1380	21	15	23	19	22	21
33	1417	22	16	24	20	22	21
34	1453	22	16	24	20	22	21
35	1489	23	16	25	20	22	21
36	1526	23	17	25	21	23	21
37	1562	24	17	26	22	23	21
38	1598	24	17	26	22	23	21
39	1634	25	18	27	22	23	21
40	1670	25	18	27	23	24	21
41	1706	25	18	28	23	24	21
42	1741	26	19	28	23	24	22
43	1777	27	19	29	24	24	22
44	1813	27	19	29	24	25	22
45	1848	28	20	30	25	25	22
46	1884	28	20	30	25	25	22
47	1919	28	20	30	25	25	22
48	1954	29	20	31	26	26	22
49	1989	30	21	31	26	26	22
50	2024	30	21	32	27	26	22
51	2059	30	21	32	27	26	22
52	2094	31	22	33	27	27	22
53	2129	31	22	33	28	27	22
54	2164	32	22	33	28	27	23
55	2199	32	23	34	28	27	23
56	2234	32	23	34	29	27	23
57	2268	33	23	35	29	27	23
58	2303	33	23	35	29	27	23
59	2337	34	23	35	30	27	23
60	2371	34	24	36	30	28	23
61	2406	34	24	36	30	28	23
62	2440	35	24	37	31	28	23
63	2474	35	24	37	31	28	23
64	2508	36	24	37	31	29	23
65	2542	36	25	38	32	29	23
66	2576	36	25	38	32	29	24
67	2609	37	25	39	32	29	24
68	2643	37	25	39	32	30	24
69	2677	37	25	39	33	30	24
70	2710	38	26	40	33	30	24
71	2744	38	26	40	33	30	24
72	2777	38	26	40	33	31	24
73	2811	39	26	41	34	31	24
74	2844	39	26	41	34	31	24
75	2877	39	26	42	34	31	24
76	2910	39	27	42	34	32	24
77	2943	40	27	42	35	32	24
78	2976	40	27	43	35	32	25
79	3009	40	27	43	35	32	25
80	3042	41	27	43	35	33	25
81	3074	41	27	44	35	33	25
82	3107	41	27	44	35	33	25
83	3139	41	27	44	36	33	25
84	3172	42	27	44	36	33	25
85	3204	42	28	45	36	33	25
86	3236	42	28	45	36	33	25
87	3269	42	28	45	36	33	25
88	3301	42	28	46	37	34	25
89	3333	43	28	46	37	34	25
90	3365	43	28	46	37	34	26
91	3397	43	28	46	37	34	26
92	3429	43	28	47	37	35	26
93	3460	44	28	47	37	35	26
94	3492	44	28	47	37	35	26
95	3524	44	28	48	37	35	26
96	3555	44	28	48	38	36	26
97	3587	44	28	48	38	36	26
98	3618	44	28	48	38	36	26
99	3649	45	28	48	38	36	26
100	3680	45	28	49	38	37	26

Compatibility

See also: Guardian Force § Charge time and compatibility

The below values are the base compatibility values at the start of the game.

GF	Compatibility
Quezacotl
Shiva
Ifrit
Siren
Brothers
Diablos
Carbuncle
Leviathan
Pandemona
Cerberus
Alexander
Doomtrain
Bahamut
Cactuar
Tonberry
Eden

Triple Triad

Card

Selphie Card
	Element	None
	Refine	1 refines into 3 Elem Guards
	Drop	N/A
	Card	N/A
Level 10 (Player Card)	Win	Selphie's friend in Trabia Garden. The CC Group in the Ragnarok airship on disc 4.

Challenger

After Balamb Garden becomes mobile, Selphie becomes available to challenge to a match of Triple Triad. When not in Squall's party she frequents the Balamb Garden second floor classroom (possibly updating her site) where she can be challenged, but she doesn't play any rare cards.

Quests

Selphie's website

Selphie's website.

See also: My Friends, My Diary, or Sir Laguna's Page

Selphie's main "sidequest" is the collection of Timber Maniacs magazines that has Selphie add new entries to her Sir Laguna's Page, viewable from the Balamb Garden Study Panel. Selphie updates a blog as well that gains new entries after cleared storyline scenarios.

Optional scenes with Selphie

At the beginning of the game Selphie will bump into Squall and the player has an option to give her a tour of the Garden premises. If Squall then visits the quad before taking the Fire Cavern mission, he will find Selphie who chases after him in the hopes of getting him to join the Garden Festival Committee. Selphie recognizes Squall if he gave her a tour of the Garden. If the player joins the Festival Committee at this point, Selphie's dialog will change at the SeeD graduation dance, prompting Squall to work hard in the festival besides doing well in SeeD.

When the party is on its way to Timber they pass by the Balamb Town gas station. If they return to this area and speak to the gas station attendant, Zell will boast about his pull-ups record, but Selphie is less than impressed. If the player accepts Irvine's initial party set-up when leaving Galbadia Garden, Selphie will display mock infatuation with him.

If the player enters Missile Base on foot without the Galbadian vehicle, Selphie's party is denied entry and she gets rude with the guard, telling him "up yours". If the player brings Selphie to liberate Balamb, she has a unique scene in Zell's room where he is annoyed she is acting too much like "at home". Not taking Selphie's side has the player's SeeD rank drop. After the town is liberated, the player can talk to a chef on the harbor with Selphie in the party to get a scene where Selphie talks about her favorite food being Ms Moogle's Cake.

Selphie with the computer terminal.

When the party visits Trabia Garden, before heading to the basketball court the player can trigger various scenes with Selphie: talking to her friend, comforting the kids about her lost teddy bear, visiting her friends' graves, and turning off a computer terminal that displays Selphie's personal information when it comes back online.

Selphie is the default party member to pilot the Ragnarok while on its flight deck.