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- "Masters of hand-to-hand combat who intuitively counterattack"
- —Description
The Monk is a job in Final Fantasy V, which is given to you after the Wind Crystal shatters.
[edit] Appearance
The monk job class gives all the characters more unique clothes than other jobs, but they all have a far-eastern feel. Bartz wears a headband, a green vest and some trousers. Lenna wears a red dress similar to a Chinese Qipao, and even wears her hair in the odango fashion. Faris just wears a white Gi, while Galuf wears a red belt and black trousers. Krile wears something similar to Lenna's, but with a bow-tie in her hair.
[edit] Abilities
- Job Command - Kick
- Innate Abilities - Counter, Barehanded
- Equipment - None
The monk's job command causes it to launch a flying kick at all enemies, for some minor damage. Strangely enough, this is the only job command in the game that can't be learned by leveling up the job, and thus can only be used if you are a monk. If the monk is attacked physically, Counter will cause the monk to attacks the attacking enemy back. Barehanded is, of course, the monk's trademark ability, causing it to have high attack power when it doesn't have anything equipped.
By Mastering Ranger's ability X-Fight, because the Monk normally attacks twice on an enemy, multiply that with five, and cause the Monk to attack ten times, something that is really useful for dealing extremely heavy damage to bosses.
[edit] Level-Up Abilities
| Level 1 ability
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| RPGe Name
| Store
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| Anthology Name
| Store
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| GBA Name
| Focus
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| AP Required
| 15
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| Type
| Command
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| Description
| Focus energies for a hit with twice the attack power.
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| Information
| For its first turn, the monk will stand there, gathering power. When it has gathered enough, it will attack the enemy, with twice more power than usual.
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| Level 2 ability
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| RPGe Name
| Brawl
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| Anthology Name
| Barefist
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| GBA Name
| Barehanded
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| AP Required
| 30
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| Type
| Passive
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| Description
| Gain the same attack power as monks when unarmed.
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| Information
| Allows for any job to fight with the same attack power as a monk, after removing all equipped weapons.
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| Level 3 ability
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| RPGe Name
| Mantra
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| Anthology Name
| Chkra
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| GBA Name
| Chakra
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| AP Required
| 45
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| Type
| Command
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| Description
| Healing energies recover HP and cleanse the body of poison and darkness.
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| Information
| Heals the users HP, cannot target any other character. Also, it heals poison and dark.
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| Level 4 ability
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| RPGe Name
| Counter
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| Anthology Name
| Counter
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| GBA Name
| Counter
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| AP Required
| 60
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| Type
| Passive
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| Description
| Automatically counter when hit.
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| Information
| Allows other jobs to counterattack whenever hit with a physical attack.
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| Level 5 ability
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| RPGe Name
| HP +10%
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| Anthology Name
| HP 10%
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| GBA Name
| HP +10%
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| AP Required
| 100
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| Type
| Passive
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| Description
| Increase maximum HP by 10%.
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| Information
| Increases the character's Max HP by 10%.
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| Level 6 ability
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| RPGe Name
| HP +20%
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| Anthology Name
| HP 20%
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| GBA Name
| HP +20%
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| AP Required
| 150
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| Type
| Passive
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| Description
| Increase maximum HP by 20%.
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| Information
| Increases the character's Max HP by 20%.
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| Level 7 ability
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| RPGe Name
| HP +30%
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| Anthology Name
| HP 30%
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| GBA Name
| HP +30%
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| AP Required
| 300
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| Type
| Passive
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| Description
| Increase maximum HP by 30%.
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| Information
| Increases the character's Max HP by 30%.
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