Rikku is the thief of the party, her main skills being Steal and Use, which allow her to steal items from enemies and use items other members of the party would not ordinarily be able to respectively. Other than these 2 skills and a couple of others, Rikku is not likely to be used for much else owing to mediocre strength and magic attributes. However, the uses of stolen objects for customising weapons and armour, teaching Aeons abilities as well as being very useful for her overdrive makes Rikku a very useful character. As she joins the party a lot later than the rest of the crew, her route on the sphere grid is by far the shortest, and therefore the attribute increases are generally higher than those on the other characters' paths. It should ... be noted that Rikku's grid starts with a lot of HP nodes to help get her strong enough to fight the battles she immediately finds herself in. Being a thief, Rikku is of course highly agile and excells only really in this attribute, although her accuracy and defences are servicable.