Full Throttle
Special Dresspheres can only be used by one character (in this case, Paine) and need to be activated by activating every node on a Garment Grid. Activating the Special Dressphere will chase Yuna and Rikku off the battle field, and you’ll gain control of Full Throttle, Dextral Wing, and Sinistral Wing.
Overview
Full Throttle is the strongest single target Special Dressphere. It’s able to deal heavy hitting elemental attacks and can gain access to
Deeth, which can randomly instantly defeat an enemy.
Sword Dance is its only attack that hits everything, so this is the Special Dressphere to use against bosses if you’re having difficulty.
The two wings, Dextral and Sinistral, have different capabilities. The Dextral Wing is able to both deal damage and apply status ailments (unfortunately, most bosses are immune), while the Sinistral Wing is able to deal damage and provide support. Both wings can restore HP and MP and revive a KO’d section of Full Throttle, so this form is also the most self sufficient of the three.
The three forms share defensive auto-abilities; however, the HP and damage limit breakers require you to obtain the
Corpus Invictus and
Victor Primoris items rather unlocking just through AP alone.
The annoying aspect for all Special Dresspheres are the steps you have to take to activate them and how slowly they gain Ability Points (AP). You'll have to jump through Dresspheres and Garment Grids, and then only Paine’s Special Dressphere will gain AP since Yuna and Rikku will be chased off the battlefield.
How to Obtain It
Full Throttle is the earliest of the three. Tromell hands it to Paine in Macalania Woods in Chapter 1 at the end of the conversation with him:
Walkthrough
Macalania Woods in Chapter 1, covering the sparkling shortcut path, the reunion with Tromell, and tracking down O’aka to deal with his debt.
Helpful Hint
Special Dresspheres can’t be placed on the Garment Grid, so you can’t simply spherechange into one. During a battle, change into every Dressphere on the party member’s equipped Garment Grid once. After you’ve activated them all, open the Garment Grid one more time and press and then
to transform.
List of Abilities
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Stats
Full Throttle is Paine’s Special Dressphere, so these are her stats alone. The table below shows how they grow at each level milestone.
| Level | HP | MP | Strength | Magic | Defense | Magic Defense | Agility | Accuracy | Evasion | Luck |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 197 | 102 | 24 | 28 | 52 | 50 | 40 | 105 | 1 | 3 |
| 10 | 811 | 132 | 47 | 42 | 62 | 54 | 41 | 108 | 2 | 4 |
| 20 | 1467 | 164 | 71 | 55 | 70 | 58 | 42 | 111 | 3 | 5 |
| 30 | 2090 | 195 | 94 | 68 | 79 | 62 | 43 | 114 | 4 | 6 |
| 40 | 2678 | 224 | 116 | 80 | 85 | 64 | 44 | 117 | 5 | 7 |
| 50 | 3231 | 252 | 137 | 90 | 90 | 66 | 44 | 120 | 5 | 7 |
| 60 | 3751 | 276 | 157 | 99 | 95 | 69 | 45 | 122 | 6 | 8 |
| 70 | 4236 | 300 | 177 | 107 | 99 | 71 | 46 | 125 | 6 | 9 |
| 80 | 4687 | 320 | 194 | 116 | 101 | 73 | 46 | 127 | 6 | 9 |
| 90 | 4933 | 328 | 213 | 122 | 104 | 74 | 46 | 130 | 6 | 9 |
| 99 | 5267 | 343 | 226 | 126 | 104 | 74 | 45 | 131 | 5 | 8 |