Final Fantasy VI All Enemies and Bosses

Dadaluma is...yeah, what the hell is he anyway? He's a crazy lying dog like the entire population of Zozo, charging at you as soon as he's finished saying he's going to let you by unharmed. He's some hybrid between a martial artist and a thief: The love child of a Harvester and an Iron Fist plus a load of anabolic steroids. Most of his attacks are physical, and his most powerful ones are thrown weapons. Your Invisible characters are relatively safe if he doesn't expose them with Shock Wave, which is a weakish attack with the power to hit your Invisible targets. When he's taking enough damage to dive below 1920 HP, he'll use either a Tonic or Potion three times and cast Safe on himself. That's only slightly annoying for Locke, as all other characters are going to attack either with barrier-piercing attacks or those that are magical of nature.

There are some more twists and turns to Dadaluma's battle script! When you've hurt him with the Magic command two times, he will Throw one weapon and Jump in the air, being temporarily untouchable. He'll come down to damage a character for some minor physical hurting. He won't do all this if he has the Slow status, but since the only way to set it is by using Gau's Poplium Rage, there are much better things to set on Dadaluma.

If you've hit him with the Attack command four times, he will Throw two weapons. Such violence. Obviously, you're never going to use Attack that much, but if you brought Locke and Cyan and went Attack-happy for some reason, watch out. Finally, after 30 seconds, he will call some aid. God knows he needs it by then, if he's not dead already. He'll whistle for two Iron Fists that you'll never face alone and thus escape their one and only strength: Stone.

So yeah, you can imagine what to do. Try to nick that rare Sneak Ring with Locke. Edgar can play with his new tools. Aurabolt with Sabin. Cyan's Quadra Slam will be better before Dadaluma has cast the Safe spell on himself, but Dispatch comes out victorious after he's successfully done so. Even when Protect isn't in effect, the wait time might make Dispatch more appealing to you. Celes' Imp spell can seriously cripple Dadaluma, as it actually works on him. His physicals will now always do twice as much damage, but his Shock Wave/Throw days are over, so if you have any characters under Invisible, you're destined to win. Have her pose as a back-up Cure caster if necessary, and if you choose not to turn Dadaluma into an Imp, you'll want her ready with Runic to disable Protect for the Lockes and Cyans of this world. Gau's Araneid and Primordite Rages will set Stop on Dadaluma, turning him completely useless. Trilium also offers Bio, which will hit for CRAZY damage. Shadow can simply toss his stuff; his Scrolls (especially when Earrings-boosted) will come out stronger than his Shuriken, but you might not want to waste them on an easy fight like this. Expand Full Strategy

The Dirt Drgn is fairly unique; he's the only elemental dragon that doesn't absorb his own element (instead, he uses the Float status to circumvent almost all Earth-elemental damage). Why they chose to do this is beyond me, as even with Quake healing, Dirt Drgn wouldn't have been that crazy of a challenge. We may well never know. Every 20 seconds, the Dirt Drgn will use his 50 Gs attack, a Dirt Drgn-only move that removes the Float status on all targets. Irremovable Float, like the one given by the Cherub Down and Float-inducing Rages, will not be removed. Given the fact that Earth's G is, as you might expect, 1 G, 50 G is plain crazy; you'd effectively become 50 times as heavy as you normally are. Shadow would suddenly become 7250 lbs, for instance. But enough with the first-grade science. He has a one-third chance of countering any damage done to him with the dreaded !Honed Tusk attack, which really is quite strong. Any other attack he uses will be either Battle or ground-based. Quake always misses Dirt Drgn himself, and the Magnitude8 and Slide attacks should either miss or heal you if you've been smart up until now.

Start the battle off by throwing up your barriers. Golem and Fenrir are particularly useful, as the only real threat in this battle should be Dirt Drgn's !Honed Tusk and Battle attacks. Strago's Big Guard should also help in that department. Haste 2 is great as always, and Kirin doesn't hurt either. Cast a combination of Sleep and Slow on the Dirt Drgn as well: remember that Sleep can also be set with Strago's Sour Mouth attack, which also can set Poison on the Dirt Drgn. Now that you've been bulked up plenty, (and the Dirt Drgn is vulnerable in his extended slumber) it's time to start the magical offensive.

If you want to keep Dirt Drgn sleeping, keep Gau busy with Magic spells. Back Row Gau with 255 Defense and a Float-inducing Rage is invulnerable, but it may come at the cost of fallen party members. If that sounds a bit cheap to you, and since all characters are either draped in Gaia Gear or protected by Cherub Down, I should mention that Rages like Harpiai, Ninja, Hornet, and Luridan really help (especially Harpiai). Strago's Aero packs a proverbial wallop, and Shadow's Water Skeans are pretty strong. If you don't care for the Sleep status, Thrown Blossoms are extremely painful to Dirt Drgn. Sabin's Bum Rush still gets the job done as always, and it is superior to Air Blade even though it doesn't exploit a specific weakness. Mog's Water Rondo is a superior alternative to Jump attacks if you're trying to maintain a snoozing Dirt Drgn. His Wind Song is also an option; Wind Slash is weaker than El Nino, but you might prefer Wind Song's 6/16 Sun Bath to Water Rondo's 6/16 Plasma attack. All other characters should just stick to Magic spells. Umaro should be kept far away from this battle, as usual. His presence makes the Sleep status strategy rather impossible. Expand Full Strategy

Doom is one heck of an ice queen, I tell you. Not just a shell, this one! Luckily, she's also pretty predictable and one-dimensional, which in my opinion makes her quite easy to defeat (certainly easier than Goddess or Poltrgeist, even ignoring Stop). Her normal moves include the ever-present Battle, Ice 3 spells, Absolute0, and the annoying N. Cross attack, from which one can be easily recovered by a simple Fire spell. Of course, she gets extra mean when you damage her enough. Once Doom hits 32640 HP, the message "Doom's aura is shaking!" appears, and, my goodness, so it appears.

By doing this, Doom self-applies the Image, Reflect, and Haste statuses, meaning that you will want to cast Dispel to get rid of all three of them and quickly cast Slow or Slow 2 to reduce her speed even further. From this point on though, she will ignore her single- and multi-target Ice-elemental options and focus on a few select attacks.

Every twenty seconds, Doom will use the Force Field attack, which is a Lore Strago will only be able to learn in this battle. Force Field takes an element (one not previously selected by Force Field, if using it a second time) and renders it completely ineffective. It doesn't matter how strong the caster is or if the target is weak to said element: Once the element has been picked, this element will do exactly 0 damage for the duration of the battle. Once all eight elements have been rendered useless, Force Field will do nothing. Aside from Force Field, Doom will use Battle and Targetting. Targetting does absolutely nothing more than 'store' that target in her memory, and the very next turn she will use !Demon Rage on that person, period. Should this person suddenly be unavailable, !Demon Rage will be used on a random person. Of course, the game would have us believe that the Targetting move somehow makes !Demon Rage unblockable, but !Demon Rage is unblockable in itself, so the act of using Targetting is really just for show.

That's it! Pretty easy, I'd say. Set Slow at the start of the match, throw up the barriers you like, and pummel Doom with the strongest attacks you have. Strago might be able to get some play out of his L? Pearl attack now that you've a) obviously brought him here and b) made sure to rig it into always hitting. Have Gau engage in a Rage that will have him produce non-elemental damage, since you won't be able to easily stop him once Doom starts nullifying the elements. The Pearl spell is really useful when Doom is in her 'easy' phase, but beware that you don't waste turns casting zero-damage Pearl spells when she's left said phase. Make sure you don't allow Doom to maintain her Image, Haste, or Reflect statuses: everybody who knows the Pearl spell knows Dispel too, and Terra learned it naturally at level 37. Expand Full Strategy

No restrictions. However, Vanish/X-Zone, Vanish/Atom Edge, Vanish/True Edge, Vanish/Cleave and Vanish/Snare all cause the final bit of 'Doom Gaze has died' to not be set (as that's his final 'counter', so to speak), meaning that you won't gain the cutscene at the end. This means no Bahamut Magicite either. What you do get if you use one of those attacks is that Doom Gaze will have gained back all HP and will be still available for you to defeat, so you'll have gained nothing in the end. Other ID attacks won't result in this sad situation, however, so Vanish/Doom and Vanish/Antlion and such (any others I didn't mention to avoid above) are all fine.

You've heard it all over the place... Doom Gaze soaring over the skies of this new world, terrorizing all in its path. An ancient demon who knows no remorse; no satisfactory pack of unlikely heroes could possibly let this continue! Doom Gaze is a relatively simple yet tough opponent, so prepare well.

Doom Gaze will start every battle by using L. 5 Doom; Safety Bits and Memento Rings protect against it if your level is right (or wrong, depending on your interpretation), but it's most likely that you don't have the former and can't use the latter, at least when you first encounter the thing. Doom Gaze may cast an Ice 3 or Doom spell in its the first turn, and may cast Doom or use Aero the second. After every two turns (not counting the initial L. 5 Doom), Doom Gaze has a 66% chance of using Escape to flee the battle. When damaged, it may counter with Battle, as all bosses tend to do.

So Doom Gaze has inherent Safe and Shell status boosts, a weakness to Fire- and Pearl-elemental attacks to consider, the ability to absorb Ice- and Poison-elemental attacks and no status ailment vulnerabilities to exploit. How are we going to take this guy down as effectively as possible?

Breaking Rods have always been powerful, but against Doom Gaze, they're a blessing; since spells executed by breaking Rods gain a barrier-piercing property, you'll be able to break Fire Rods for a barrier-piercing Fire 2 spell and Pearl Rods for a barrier-piercing Pearl spell (the latter is much more powerful). Dragon Horn Jumps with a Pearl Lance are pretty powerful (though the damage inflicted is impaired by the Safe status), but if your Edgar is still working with the Gold Lance, you should stick to Atlas Armlet with Drill/Chain Saw. Bum Rush is also barrier-piercing so that works rather nicely. Setzer's GP Rain surpasses all his other forms of damage output. For other characters: Terra, Celes, and Relm should cast Fire 3, Pearl, Fire 2 (in order of preference), Umaro should not be equipped with a Blizzard Orb as Doom Gaze absorbs Storm; Rage Ring/Atlas Armlet is the way to go.

Never mind Mog's Dances, they're far too weak here; Dragon Horn Pearl Lance Jumps or his strongest spells are the best alternatives for this character. Gau's Io-induced Flare Star will deal 9999 damage with every Flare Star while nullifying the effects of Aero; Gau's Powerdemon Rage will cast Flare, which is decent enough, and with the inherent Undead property, he won't have to fear the Doom spell. Strago should stick to Step Mine (or Grandtrain if he has it), Shadow should throw Pearl Rods or Flame Sabres (Pearl Rods are stronger) or even plain Ninja Stars if you don't have any elemental weapons to abuse, and Gogo is probably best off Raging Io if possible or throwing out Bum Rush attacks (via Mimic, of course). Locke equipped with a Valiant Knife delivers barrier-piercing damage to begin with and Cyan should stick to Atlas Armlet-boosted Dispatch attacks (the only other barrier-piercing attack he has is Quadraslice and we can't wait that long). Note: I know that Flame Shields are even stronger than Pearl Rods. This is only by a small margin though, and Pearl Rods are far easier to acquire in bulk in addition to being less useful in other battles. Expand Full Strategy