Bahamut (Final Fantasy VIII)
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| Japanese | バハムート | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Romaji | Bahamūto | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Location | Deep Sea Research Center | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Scan | Called the King of GF; its Mega Flare ignores all defence, giving a powerful blow, Gives assistance freely to those who show their power. | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Maximum Level | Level 100 | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Mug | Hyper Wrist | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Common Drop | Hyper Wrist, Bahamut Card | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Rare Drop | N/A | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Card | N/A | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Draw | Flare, Curaga, Full-Life, Dispel | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Taste | Cannot be devoured | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Attacks | Mega Flare, Claw Swipe | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Magic | Thundaga, Tornado, Stop | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Status Immunity | Lightning, Wind, Earth | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Legend | * - Lvl 1 to 19 ^ - Lvl 20 to 29 " - Lvl 30 to 100 | ||||||||||||||||||||
Bahamut is an optional boss in Final Fantasy VIII. Before being able to fight, the player must answer "We do not wish to fight" to the first question, "never" to the second question, and the secret third option for the third question. You must fight a Ruby Dragon after each answer. Defeating Bahamut nets it as a Guardian Force.
[edit] Battle
At the start of the battle, there will be a brief conversation:
Bahamut: 'I am...Bahamut.'
Squall: 'The Great GF...Bahamut.'
Bahamut: '...GF? I...?'
'Using my powers...'
'...it is you humans...I fear...'
For a King of GF, Bahamut is susceptible to Blind, cast this to avoid its Claw Swipe. Its magic attacks can be countered by status defense on Lightning and Wind, and having Auto-Haste helps when Bahamut decides to cast Stop, YOU MAY ALSO wish to junction some Stop spells to your status defense to reduce the chances of that hitting. Mega Flare is a non-elemental attack that will ignore Spirit stats; however the damage may be lessened by being Shelled and using the Defend command.
Upon its defeat, Bahamut will say:
Bahamut: 'Have you seen the light...?'
[edit] Trivia
- In Ultimecia Castle is another boss, called Tiamat who looks surprisingly similar to Bahamut and even has a similiar move to Bahamut's Megaflare (D-A-R-K-F-L-A-R-E).
- The first line of Bahamut's Scan description in the English language release of Final Fantasy VIII actually contains a grammatical error, reading "Called the King of GF; its Mega Flare ignores all defence, giving a powerful blo". In the PlayStation Greatest Hits (Platinum) release this error was corrected so that the first line ends with simply "ignores all defense."
[edit] Etymology
The name Bahamut comes from an aquatic creature from the Arabian mythology. With time that name has modernized into something very different from what it used to be.
