Walkthrough:Final Fantasy X/Apoqliphoth/Part 44

What a lovely morning. The last series of one of my favourite crime dramas, New Tricks started last night and I don't think I've come down yet.

At any rate, welcome back to Apoqliphoth's guide to the Monster Arena! We're getting into the more difficult fiends now; you'll want to have started level grinding by now; ideally having around 3/4 of the Sphere Grid covered for your main party.

Species Conquest Part 3

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Jumbo Flan

Jumbo Flan

HP: 1,300,000 (99,999) AP: 10,000 (10,000) Gil: 0 Vulnerabilities: Darkness (100%) Slow (100%) Difficulty: Hard Well, 'soft'. And very squishy. So squishy in fact that physical attacks don't do a thing to it. It's actually immune to physical damage. So this is a battle of Magic (or Overdrives). Unfortunately, it also has permanent Auto-Reflect, so really it's a case of spamming Ultima. It uses all high-level Magic, including -aga spells as well as Flare and Ultima. It also has Regen, which you should dispel immediately. Bounce Slow off one of your party members to keep it in check. From there you have two choices. Method 1: Doublecast Ultima: If you have One MP Cost and enough Magic power, this is a viable (though boring) tactic. Copycat it with your other characters and it won't take too long. Method 2: Anima tank: Pain is the ideal counter to Jumbo's defences. It's both Magical and non-elemental, and the animation is shorter than Ultima. With Haste and Shell up, you should be blazing through Pains while taking sod all damage. At 99,999 damage (and you really want that), it'll take 14 Pains to put this thing down. Sadly, you need to farm this thing for Magic Spheres. Why, Square, why.

Conditions for Unlocking:
Capture at least three of every Flan fiend.
Water Flan	Thunder Flan	Snow Flan	Ice Flan	Flame Flan	Dark Flan

Equipment		Prize for Unlocking: Twin Stars x60
Slots	2-4	Steal: Lunar Curtain x4, Mana Tablet x1
Empty Slots	1-3	Drops: Magic Sphere x1, Dark Matter x1
Weapons
Abilities	Magic Booster
Armour
Abilities	Fire Eater				Water Eater				Ice Eater

Nega Elemental

Nega Elemental

HP: 1,300,000 (15,000) AP: 10,000 (10,000) Gil: 0 Vulnerabilities: None Difficulty: Hard It absorbs every single element, and counters everything with Ultima. It has an even larger repertoire of magic than Jumbo Flan, throwing out Bio, Drain and Osmose. Thankfully it doesn't have Regen though. The strategy here is identical to that of Jumbo Flan -- spam either Doublecast Ultima or Anima tank. It just takes longer because of its hair-trigger Ultima response. Boo.

Conditions for Unlocking:
Capture at least three of every Elemental fiend.
Yellow Element	White Element	Red Element	Gold Element	Blue Element	Dark Element	Black Element

Equipment

Prize for Unlocking: Star Curtain x60

Slots

2-4

Steal: Star Curtain x4, Twin Stars x1

Empty Slots

0-2

Drops: Twin Stars x2, Dark Matter x1

Weapons

Abilities

Firestrike

Icestrike

Waterstrike

Lightningstrike

Armour

Abilities

Fire Eater

Ice Eater

Water Eater

Lightning Eater

Tanket

Tanket

HP: 900,000 (10,000) AP: 10,000 (10,000) Gil: 0 Vulnerabilities: Armour Break (10%) Mental Break (1%) Difficulty: Medium Remember when I said there was one exception to the Anima tanking strategy? Well, this guy is it. His name is in fact very misleading, as you must not use Anima tank here, or any other Aeon for that matter. His Rush Attack is like a regular attack, but it both delays your turn and increases his speed at the same time. What this means is that it will attack constantly until the Aeon is KO'd, without giving you a turn. Or worse. If your Aeon is under Regen and is gaining more HP per turn than Tanket can deal with Rush Attack, you're stuck. Because Tanket is programmed to use Rush Attack until the target is KO'd, it will never stop attacking and you'll have to hard reset your game. Throw out a Frag Grenade or Banishing Blade to crack those defences, then get to work. You should be nearing 99,999 damage on your main melee character, otherwise this battle will go on too long. This is another highly farm-worthy monster due to its common Defence Sphere drop.

Conditions for Unlocking:
Capture at least three of every Helm fiend.
Raldo	Bunyip	Murussu	Mafdet	Shred	Halma

Equipment		Prize for Unlocking: Golden Hourglass x99
Slots	2-4	Steal: Light Curtain x4, Lunar Curtain x4
Empty Slots	1-3	Drops: Defence Sphere x1, Dark Matter x1
Weapons
Abilities	Strength +5%				Strength +10%				Strength +20%
Armour
Abilities	Defence +10%				Defence +20%				Defence +30%

Fafnir

Fafnir

HP: 1,100,000 (13,000) AP: 10,000 (10,000) Gil: 0 Vulnerabilities: All "Breaks" (5%) Difficulty: Medium Banishing Blade is your opener of choice -- it uses both physical and magical attacks, and you'll be hitting it physically anyway, so 3 out of 4 warrants Full Break. Its Triple Attack hits first with a physical that's unaffected by Protect, then a random breath attack (Fire, Ice or Lightning) followed by a third physical that does consider Protect. It seems to have a strange affiliation with the damage limit. Triple Attack physicals can't break 9,999, but its regular physical can. Its fire breath can break 9,999, but its ice and lightning breaths can't. Whatevs, brah. Have equipped as much Element Eater armour as possible to nullify his breath attacks, otherwise NulElement Magic is a thing. Like most of the other Conquest creations, Anima tanking works well here. As do Ifrit and Ixion due to their respective elemental absorption, though their stats are greatly inferior to Anima's.

Conditions for Unlocking:
Capture at least four of every Drake fiend.
Vouivre	Lamashtu	Kusariqqu	Mushussu	Nidhogg

Equipment

Prize for Unlocking: Purifying Salt x99

Slots

2-4

Steal: Gold Hourglass x2, Stamina Spring x2

Empty Slots

0-3

Drops: Light Curtain x20, Dark Matter x1

Weapons

Abilities

Firestrike

Icestrike

Waterstrike

Lightningstrike

Armour

Abilities

Fire Eater

Ice Eater

Water Eater

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