Final Fantasy V Walkthrough

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1.29: The Battle with the Sandworm

Sandworm Bestiary #256	Type	Level	HP	MP	Gil	EXP	Speed
	Desert	18	3000	10125	0	0	50
	Strength	Attack Mult.	Magic Atk.	Evasion	Defense	Mag. Def.	Mag. Evade
	25	10	1	0	0	10	1
	Stolen Items			Dropped Items
	None			None
	Command Immunities			Elemental Immunities
	Catch, Control			None
	Elemental Absorb			Elemental Weakness
				None
	Blue Magic			Status Immunities
	None
	Strategy
	Hitting one of Sandworm's holes gives you a 2-in-3 chance of getting countered by Gravity. It's safest to use multi-target magic, particularly Aqua Breath as its nature multiplies its damage against Sandworm by a factor of eight.

Here's the deal. There are three Holes which Sandworm will regularly pop out. Every time you hit a hole with a non-Magic attack, it has a 66% counter rate with a

Gravity spell. The Sandworm in the meantime will use Battle and a move called Quicksand. Quicksand will deal 60 damage to everybody and set the Sap status.

Multi-target magical attacks are the way to go.

Aqua Breath deals 8 times as much damage to Sandworm since it's a Desert creature. A normally leveled !Blue caster will take out Sandworm in a single attack. Releasing a Dhorme Chimera will deal about 2300 damage, thoroughly crippling him (nets you counter-

Gravity spells though). Water Scrolls are very powerful, especially if the character using !Throw has a mage's Magic Power. Summoning Rod

Thunder Rod-boosted Ramuh deals good damage too, and doesn't evoke counterattacks.

It's not that hard a fight. Keep Berserkers away from this fight; they'll attack the holes most of the time. If your Axe

Death Sickle casts

Doom on a hole, you'll get a chance of countering for both the physical strike and the added spell, strangely enough.

When you're done, you've made a bridge. Excellent! *guitar noises*

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