Morpher

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Nu mou who can take a captured monster's form.

In-game Description

Morpher (めたもる, Metamoru?), also known as Doppelganger, is a job from Final Fantasy Tactics Advance. Only for the nu mou, Morphers take the forms of captured monsters in the Monster Bank. When morphed, they can use all of the abilities the monster has in battle. The effectiveness of the Morpher will depend on the stats of the monsters in the bank.

Prerequisites

• Five Beastmaster A-Abilities.

Stats

Move Rate	Jump Rate	Evade Rate
4	3	30

Weapon	Head	Body	Equip Shields?
Souls	Hats	Clothing, Robes	No

Growth Chart

Like their predecessor, Morphers are an Attack-oriented job, although they are a bit more balanced between Attack and Magic Power. Morphers actually lose a lot of the stat growths they had as Beastmasters, but make up for it by having the highest Speed of all nu mou jobs. This high Speed allows Morphers to activate their morphs as quickly as possible, and once that happens the rest of their stats are irrelevant for rest of the battle, as they use their monster's stats instead of their own.

HP	MP	Attack	Defense	Magic Power	Magic Resistance	Speed
6.8 C+	2.8 D+	7.1 C-	8.2 B-	7.6 C	8.1 B-	1.6 B

Information

For a Morpher to learn anything, they need to procure souls that are dropped by captured monsters. Hunters are the only class that can capture monsters, so it is crucial for the player to have one if they plan on raising a Morpher. Once a monster is captured, its Soul is automatically added to the inventory and then is able to be equipped to the Morpher.

The Monster Bank in Cyril.

Once a monster is in the Monster Bank, the player can then start raising it by feeding it items. Soon enough, they will only accept Curealls as food, and that's when they start gaining stats. Except for Dragons, Lamias, and Malboros, each monster will gain one point in every stat for every 2 Curealls fed to it. Dragons and Lamias will gain one point for every Cureall fed, and Malboros do not accept Curealls. Malboros will need to be fed Ethers and Elixirs.

During battle, after the Morpher has taken the form of a monster, he can then use all of the skills that the monster has. For Dragons, for example, if the player has a Thundrake and a Firewyrm, they can use both of those monsters skills in battle after morphing into a "Dragon". The strength of the attacks when morphed are based on the monsters' stats, so a Lv. 5 Goblin in the beginning of the game will not deal as much damage at the end.

Also, it is crucial to capture a Goblin as soon as possible because they go "extinct" fairly early in the game. Capture-able Thundrakes also go "extinct" eventually.

Abilities

Morph

Morpher command. Assume captured monster's form.

Ability	Equipment	Effect	AP
Goblin	Goblin Soul	Morph into goblins and red caps.	200
Flan	Flan Soul	Morph into ice flans, jellies, and creams.	200
Bomb	Bomb Soul	Morph into bombs and grenades.	200
Dragon	Dragon Soul	Morph into thundrakes, firewyrms, and icedrakes.	200
Lamia	Lamia Soul	Morph into lamias and liliths.	200
Bug	Bug Soul	Morph into antlions and jawbreakers.	200
Panther	Panther Soul	Morph into red panthers and coeurls.	200
Malboro	Malboro Soul	Morph into malboros and big malboros.	200
Floateye	Eye Soul	Morph into floateyes and ahrimans.	200

Reaction

Skill	Equipment Learned From	Effect	AP To Master
Damage > MP	Judo Uniform	Converts HP damage to MP damage. Will not work if there is no MP to spare. Overflow does NOT get taken from HP.	300

Support

• None

Combo

Skill	Equipment Learned From	Effect	AP To Master
Morph Combo	Mythril Soul	Allows the unit to start or join in a Combo during combat.	100

Gallery

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Trivia

• Morphers are the only Job class from Final Fantasy Tactics Advance to not reappear in the sequel.

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