Final Fantasy VI All Enemies and Bosses

Girl just isn't that interesting. Pearl Wind can show up at any turn, and !Calmness may make a cameo appearance too. If you dare to kill off Sleep before Girl, Girl will respond by casting Life 2 on Sleep, reviving it. Note that Sleep won't revive back to its max HP, but to 9999 HP instead, which is good news for us.

Girl is just there to keep Sleep around, which is bad enough for you, as Sleep is a particularly nasty enemy to have around. Every odd turn, Sleep may cast either W Wind or Merton, and, on every even turn, Sleep will either use Battle or Condemned. Since this tends to be a long battle, Condemned quickly becomes a burden. Sleep really goes for the kill once it dips below 10240 HP, though. Once you've brought this disaster on yourself, Sleep will use Meteo. Always. Not only this, but it will also gain access to an omni-counter: 33% Meteo, 33% nothing, and 33% Train, a new attack. Train is unblockable and sets Dark and Mute, which is pretty bad as unless your characters are White Cape-, Ribbon-, or Rage-protected. Once Sleep is killed, it'll use at least one and possibly two !Calmness attacks to set Death on a character, which is, again, pretty bad, since characters killed this way cannot be revived right after and disappear from your team.

The first priority of this battle is Golem or Fenrir. As soon as this is in place, Girl needs to go down. It is vital you have non-elemental and targetable attacks to use for this purpose. Edgar's Drill Tool, Shadow's Ninja Stars, Falchions, Tack Stars or Imp Halberds, Fixed Dice, Flare spells, and Ragnarok or Illumina swings are all grand. Obviously, nothing is stopping you from hurting Sleep in the meantime, so GrandTrain and Ultima aren't out of the question either. Taking down Girl can be quite tedious, as she is constantly healed by both her own Pearl Wind attacks and Sleep's Merton spells. If you brought Locke or Gogo with a Steal command, you might try to Steal Girl's Ragnarok sword; if one of your characters is wielding an Enhancer, replace it.

Once Girl has been killed, you just need to rough it out with Sleep. Keep yourselves healed and always recover from Train right away. You just need to bridge the dangerous gap between Sleep having 10240 HP and Sleep having 0 HP, as in this window Sleep is simply strong enough to kill you whenever his AI script gives him the chance. The best route in the end is to go all-out on the offensive and give Sleep as little time as possible to use Meteo. When Sleep dies, it'll use either one or two !Calmness attacks. This is why we kept Golem and/or Fenrir around for all this time: Avoiding the gruesome fate of a successful !Calmness attack. Having circumvented this dirty last trick, it's time to rise even further up in the Heavens and face the Fallen One himself. Expand Full Strategy

This is Specter. According to the latest Anthology release, this is the ghost of a murdered person. Oh my.

Specter has normal access to three attacks: Attack, the Ice spell, and Raid, which drains HP. If you damage Specter, he will hate you for it and get a 33% shot at attacking his attacker with !Lightning, which is nothing even remotely like Lightning-elemental.

There are a number of ways to kill this thing humiliatingly easy, but the Top 2 of cheap tactics go right against my game ethics. Of course, there's taking advantage of Square's assumption that even though it's supposed to be a rather difficult enemy, it still should be vulnerable to a Fenix Down, scoring a one-hit KO. Also, you're traveling with a ghost that is capable of delivering a one-hit KO on everything. But I'll guess that not only are you too good for the Fenix Down move, you also don't want to lose your cool ghost guy just yet.

So, when the battle begins, wait for Cyan's third Bushido skill, Slash. Don't move with Sabin and Shadow or even the ghost; just skip to Cyan and use Slash. It'll halve his current HP and should do 750 damage. Follow up with an Aurabolt and a Shuriken and you should be done. Expand Full Strategy

Note that the game data says that this guy gives you a BehemothSuit 100% of the time, which is how it is supposed to be. However, they overlooked something with the data concerning the switch between the two SrBehemoth 1s, so the items from the first SrBehemoth 1 get grabbed from some random data location. In the US SNES versions, this means you either get a Jewel Ring or a Thunder Blade.

The blue SrBehemoth 1, despite his appearance, is almost a pure spell caster. He'll normally attack with Ice 2, Ice 3, and Pearl spells which all hit with considerable force. If he hits the 10240 Hit Point mark, he'll get more Ice 3 spells than before and throw Meteo in the mix, which hurts a bundle (around 1000 on every character, pretty much the same force Intangir used to throw Meteo attacks on you).

If a character of yours is under the influence of Reflect, he'll target the character and use !Evil Claw to remove the Reflect status (the message "Effect of "Rflect" vanished" will appear) and then return to his normal AI script. If multiple characters are under the influence of Reflect, he'll go down from character #1 to character #4, alternating between !Evil Claw turns and normal AI script turns. Note that characters with Wall Rings still yield the "Effect of "Rflect" vanished" notion yet keep the status. If SrBehemoth 1 is turned into an Imp, it'll respond by changing its AI Script. The boss will now receive auto-criticals from being turned into an Imp and will proceed to use two Battle attacks every turn for three turns, after which it'll cast the Imp spell to try and remove the Imp status. It won't try to do this if it has the Reflect status at the moment, though.

SrBehemoth 1, if hit by the Pearl spell, will counter with Meteo. Sadly, due to a bug, this overrides the other normal counter (that of having a 33% chance at countering every other damaging attack with battle), so the next time you attack, the party will also be countered with a Meteo attack. In other words, the Pearl spell eventually sends two extra Meteo attacks down your throat, so don't do it. The Orog and White Drgn Rages cast Pearl; ignore them.

What to do? The best way to deal with the blue SrBehemoth 1 is a combination of Imp and Stop. With this done, give it everything you have. Cast Haste 2 to speed up the process. Summoning Fenrir or Golem helps protect against stray physicals from the opposing side. Fire 2 and Fire 3 really hurt him. Gau's Scrapper Rage gives Gau inherent Haste and makes him use Elf Fire; it's great for this battle. If you don't have access to either the Imp or Stop status ailments, Celes's Runic can really help if you brought her. Bum Rush, Fixed Dice, Dragon Horn Jumps - you know what works. Expand Full Strategy

This SrBehemoth 2 is a little simpler. He'll just use Battle, !Hypno Gas, the Doom spell, or Meteo. He won't use Doom until the second turn, and he won't use Meteo until the third (after which he resets back). If he successfully uses !Hypno Gas on a person, he'll immediately target that person with four consecutive Battle attacks (of which the first one is sure to land). That's about it.

The undead SrBehemoth 2's one weakness is the instant death attack. It can be killed by X-Zone, Snare, and the Air Anchor Tool, and it is hurt by Slash, Demi, etc. Since SrBehemoth 2's first turn isn't dangerous and he has no threatening counters, the Air Anchor really is a great option to use. The Dusk Requiem from Mog houses both Cave In and Snare which both truly cripple the massive menace. Since SrBehemoth 2 is Undead and lacks Instant Death protection anyway, the Life spell is a glorious option; the Life spell also works on an Undead with Instant Death protection, mind you, but here it feels less like taking advantage of the system. Expand Full Strategy