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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
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

The 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.

In 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

  • The Onion Knight appears in the game's logo (Final Fantasy Tactics Lion War logo).

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