Antlion, also known as Antolyon, is a boss in Final Fantasy V fought when Bartz and Krile fall into a hole on their journey away from Castle Tycoon in the merged world. In this battle, the player can only use these two characters.
Stats[]
Battle[]
Antlion's normal attacks are strong. It regularly uses Dischord to halve a character's level, making them more vulnerable to its attacks. On every fifth turn, it will use Digestive Acid to damage and inflict the sap condition on one character.
It is susceptible to many status effects, such as darkness, slow, aging, and sleep. Antlion also has a weakness to water element. It is susceptible to Level 2 Old.
When its HP reaches 0, it will flee from battle instead of dying.
Strategy[]
The easiest way to win the battle is to use the Black Magic Sleep. After that, Bartz and Krile can throw Water Scrolls to hit its weakness while also avoid waking the Antlion up.
The party can also use the Time Magic Old, or the Blue Magic spell Level 2 Old, to inflict aging, and gradually diminish the damage from Antlion's normal and critical attacks to 0. It can still deal some damage with Digestive Acid, but doesn't use it fast enough to be a threat. Bartz and Krile can just strike with whatever attacks they prefer.
The Blue Magic spell Time Slip inflicts both old and sleep for a very easy battle.
Other appearances[]
Pictlogica Final Fantasy[]
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Etymology[]
Antlions are a family of insects, known by the scientific name Myrmeleontidae. "Antlion" usually refers to the larval form of the insect, and they are so named because the larva's typical food is ants, though they will eat other insects as well. Antlions will dig pits in sand inches deep and lurk in the bottom waiting for prey to come close. When the prey falls into the pit, the loose sand on the sides of the pit prevents them from escaping and causes them to fall further down towards the antlion. The antlion's jaws are hollow, and upon biting its prey it will suck out its juices rather than actually eat it. When the antlion is finished, it flicks the husk out of its sandpit and fixes any damage done to the walls, then waits for its next meal to pass by.
"Ant-lions" are also large mythical creatures with features of ants and lions.