Template:Sideicon Template:Job Onion Knight is a job from Final Fantasy Tactics: The War of the Lions. It has Onion Knight basic stats and no real abilities. It has hidden potential, in that its power depends on the number of other jobs the unit has mastered, much like Freelancer in Final Fantasy V.
To get one level, the character must master two jobs; to get the maximum Onion Knight level the character must master fourteen jobs. However, mastering the Squire, Chemist, Mime, or Dark Knight will not count towards leveling up an Onion Knight.
Stats
Although able to equip all weapons, this sad warrior excels at none, and is far from being the most powerful.
Prerequisite | Weapons | Helmet | Armor | Shields |
---|---|---|---|---|
Lv. 6 Squire Lv. 6 Chemist |
All | All | All | Yes |
Note: The Onion Knight can equip every piece of equipment. Males can even equip female-exclusive equipment.
Move Rate | Jump Rate | Speed | Physical Evasion Rate | Base Attack | Base Magic | Base HP | Base MP |
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3 (Base), 4 (Mastered) | 3 (Base), 4 (Mastered) | 8 (Base), 10 (Mastered) | 5% (Base), 30% (Mastered) | Low (Base), High (Mastered) | Low (Base), High (Mastered) | Low (Base), High (Mastered) | Average |
Abilities
The Onion Knight learns no abilities and is unable to equip abilities of any kind. Onion Knights' special ability being able to use any kind of equipment, and is the only job class to equip the famed Onion equipment.
Other appearances
Final Fantasy Trading Card Game
Template:Sideicon Onion Knight appears with a Fire- and an Ice-elemental card.
Non-Final Fantasy guest appearances
Knights of the Crystals
Onion Knight appears as a card in the Ivalice Special Arena has a limited-time special arena with eighteen floors.
Gallery
Etymology
onion, also known as the bulb onion or common onion, is used as a vegetable and is the most widely cultivated species of the genus Allium.
TheIn a 2020 Famitsu interview with Koichi Ishii and Hiromichi Tanaka about Final Fantasy III, Tanaka stated that he created the term "Onion Knight" after seeing Ishii's character design for the job, likening the shape of its helmet's large, white plume to that of an onion.[1]
Fans had previously speculated that "Onion Knight" refers to the Japanese metaphoric idiom "peeling away one layer at a time and crying all the way" (referring to poverty) or from the slang phrase "to know one's onions" (meaning to be very versatile).
Trivia
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- ↑ "『FF3』30周年で訊く、開発秘話ミニインタビュー。ジョブデザインや魔剣士、たまねぎ剣士の秘密も" by Famitsu (2020), translated into English in "The Origin of Final Fantasy’s Onion Knight (Translated Interview)" by Lost in Localization (2022)