HP to one ability

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Heartless Angel in Final Fantasy VI, the first instance of an HP To One ability.

HP to one abilities are a recurring theme in the Final Fantasy series. They reduce the HP of one or more party members to one, regardless of their current HP. This is sometimes done by simply setting the targets to one HP, at other times by inflicting damage to them equal to their max HP minus one. They are commonly used by Final Bosses and Superbosses. One of the most well-known of these abilities is Heartless Angel, which has become the trademark attack of Sephiroth.

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Appearances

Final Fantasy II

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Attack	Target	Classification	Used By
Destroy	Caster		Player's party

Final Fantasy VI

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Attack	Target	Classification	Used By
Heartless Angel (Fallen One)	Entire Party	Reduce to one	Kefka, Fiend Dragon, Relm (Sketch Black Dragon), Holy Dragon (Dragons' Den), Kaiser Dragon, Omega Weapon, Glutturn

Final Fantasy VII

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Attack	Target	Classification	Used By
Heartless Angel	Entire Party	Inflict damage	Bizarro∙Sephiroth, Safer∙Sephiroth

Crisis Core -Final Fantasy VII-

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Attack	Target	Classification	Used By
Dynamite	Zack		Combatant, Ensign, Guard, Warrant Officer
Heartless Angel	Zack	Inflict damage	Sephiroth

Final Fantasy VIII

Template:Sideicon Omega Weapon has a similar ability called Megiddo Flame. The ability does not reduce the party to one HP, but deals a guaranteed 9,998 damage to the entire party, and thus the only way to survive is to have 9,999 HP, leaving the party with one HP after the attack hits.

Diving into the game code reveals two dummied spells specific to Selphie, Percent (a reduce-HP-to-1 move similar to Matra Magic), and Catastrophe (major damage to all enemies). These two spells were removed from Selphie's spell list in the final build of Final Fantasy VIII, but can be found via third-party data exploitation programs, although they just use Fire's spell animation.

Attack	Target	Classification	Used By
Soul Crush	Ward, Kiros	Inflict damage	Esthar Soldier
Sai	Single party member	Inflict damage	Fujin
Corona	Entire party		Mobile Type 8
Hell's Judgment	Entire party	Inflict damage	Ultimecia

Final Fantasy IX

Template:Sideicon Beatrix uses Stock Break and Climhazzard to reduce the party's HP to 1 when fought as a boss, and these abilities cannot be blocked or avoided. This leads to the end of battle once she has performed them. When these abilities are used by the player's party, Stock Break and Climhazzard instead simply deal major non-elemental damage to all enemies.

Attack	Target	Classification	Used By
Helm Split	Single target		Iron Man
Matra Magic	Single target		Armstrong
Photon	Single target		Ark
Smash	Single target		Shell Dragon
Stock Break	Entire party		Beatrix
Climhazzard	Entire party		Beatrix
Judgment Sword	Single target		Hades
Blue Shockwave	Single target		Necron

Final Fantasy X-2

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Attack	Target	Classification	Used By
Blaster	Single target	Inflict damage	Coeurl
Death Blaster	Single target	Inflict damage	Queen Coeurl
Heavy Seed Cannon	Single target	Inflict damage	Cephalotus, Leucophylla
Zanmato	Single target	Reduce to one	Yojimbo

Final Fantasy XI

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Attack	Target	Classification	Used By
Beastruction	Area effect	Inflict damage	Umagrhk
Edge of Death	Area effect		Hachiryu Armor, Hizamaru Armor, Omodaka Armor, Tatenashi Armor, Ubuginu Armor
Final Sting	Caster	Reduce to one	Player character Blue Mages
Self-Destruct	Caster	Reduce to one	Player character Blue Mages
Tarsal Slam	Area effect	Inflict damage	Neith, Resheph

Final Fantasy XII

Template:Sideicon There are no enemy attacks that bring the party's HP to one HP, but in Final Fantasy XII: International Zodiac Job System version, Judge Ghis, when fought on the final Trial Mode challenge, uses Elixirs on reversed party members leaving them with 1 HP.

Final Fantasy XIV

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Attack	Target	Classification	Used By
Photon	Multiple targets	Reduces four party members' HP to one.	Cruise Chaser

Final Fantasy Tactics

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Attack	Target	Classification	Used By
Gravija	Multiple targets		Zalera

Final Fantasy Tactics A2: Grimoire of the Rift

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Attack	Target	Classification	Used By
Butcher Knife	Single target		Tonberry, Master Tonberry
Gravija	Multiple targets		Demon Wall

Final Fantasy Type-0

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Attack	Target	Classification	Used By
Sacrificial Slug	User	Reduce to one	Eight
Transience	User	Reduce to one	Jack

Bravely Default

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Attack	Target	Classification	Used By
Phoenix Flight	Single target	Inflict damage	Monk job
Chomp	Single target	Reduce to one	Valtora, Vampire job

Final Fantasy Dimensions

Template:Sideicon Shango uses Divine Storm to reduce the party's HP to 1 when fought for the first time. This leads to the end of battle once he has used it. The same goes for Glacial Dance used by Cocytus. The battle are scripted events when these are used. When these abilities are later used by them during their real battle, they deal normal damage.

Attack	Target	Classification	Used By
Divine Storm	Entire party	Reduce to 1	Shango
Glacial Dance	Entire party	Reduce to 1	Cocytus
10000 Gs	Entire party	Reduce to 1	Chaos Elgo

Dissidia Final Fantasy

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Attack	Target	Classification	Used By
Excalipoor	Summoner	Reduce to 1	Gilgamesh summon
Heartless Angel	Opponent	Inflict damage	Sephiroth

Dissidia 012 Final Fantasy

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Attack	Target	Classification	Used By
Excalipoor	Summoner	Reduce to 1	Gilgamesh summon
Heartless Angel	Opponent	Inflict damage	Sephiroth

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