Top 7 Hardest Random Encounters (Hardest Normal Enemies)
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Random encounters are notorious in Final Fantasy and over the years there have been some horrible enemies hidden within that have wiped players out and made them lose hours upon hours of progress.
Within this video we're going to focus on seven of the worst offenders... enemies that you prayed you wouldn't encounter unless you were fully prepared!
►KEY POINTS WITHIN THIS VIDEO
1. Final Fantasy 1 Warmech
2. Final Fantasy 5 Exdeath's Soul
3. Final Fantasy 8 Malboro
4. Final Fantasy 6 Brachiosaur
5. Final Fantasy 2 Iron Giant
6. Final Fantasy X-2 Mega Tonberry
7. Final Fantasy 9 Yan
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1. A wild Malboro appears!
2. Haven't saved in hours
3. Breath attack
4. Everyone is petrified/paralyzed/mini/frog/sleep/poisoned/berserk
5. Full party wipe, Game over
Lesson of the story, kids: Save often and wear ribbons
First time was in FF7 for me, i didn't know of this foe until i encountered it for the first time.
Or anything that allows you to attack first, often you run into Marlboro's long b4 any ribbons are available.
@@Cloud971 the thing that makes malboros in vii potentially the least threatening is that it's possible to have 2 ribbons by the time you encounter your first one.
FF8: What are ribbons?
Or have someone with 1st strike that can make the party flee or swap with auron or kimari to eject that thing
Well, everytime you'll see a Malboro in a FF series, your save data better be recent man...
church
Halitosis incarnate
Never lost to a Malboro except on crystal chronicles
I went to the Omega-Ruins in FFX today and a forgot about that Marlboro...
Reason why I didn't save was because I thought, the enemies couldn't kill my overleveled characters. Well, of course, I forgot to wear confuse protection...
I learned my lesson and used confuse protection and won. But the next fight was against enemies that use berserk and if they make everyone berserk, the fight cannot be won...
@@ShiakKazim35 well that's the issue when you're against a Malboro, if your characters are overpowered, if you're confused, your buddies will easily kill themselves...it happened a lot of time for me...so when I go to the Omega Ruin, I always got one of my buddies with a weapon with the ability "First Strike" so I can run away if the Malboro is too strong, if you got Masamune (the Ultimate Weapon for Auron) or at least having one of your gear need to get "Confuseproof" and "Berserkproof" or "Ribbon" but you need 99x Dark Matter...and it's pretty rare to get them...it's pretty hard to win a fight when your buddies goes Berserk, but it's more manageable than when you're confused
Malboro. he'll find you esuna or later.
Remedy or not, here he comes.
These jokes make no Tent.
Better be ribbon or else...
These are terrible.... For gods Quake
I'm sure Dispel of bad jokes will end.
I think Tonberries were by far the most surprising enemy when first encountered. These cute, unassuming, little mole things that don't even attack you. They just hold their little knife and lantern and slowly walk up to you. Then, all of a sudden, without much warning, Tifa's dead. Then you get unlucky and it counters Cloud with Everyone's Grudge and he promptly dies as well. At least Malboros look like these horrifying, sentient mouths, Tonberries just look like something out of a kids cartoon about friendship and rainbows.
Skull eaters from FFV: you are exploring a cave full of harmless nut eaters, then suddenly you are facing a gray squirrel with powerful attacks, when it's you attacking it will either evade or take 0 damages, try to cast magic on it and you will have to face many of them.
I remember that well 🤣
Been there done that
Oh god, those things were the worst.
oh my god the nightmares i had just gotten over them thanks a lot
those fuzzy nightmares just loved one-shot killing my characters. luckily, you could run away from them if needed.
tonberry and yan are two good reasons to not judge an enemy by how they look.
If you ever faced master tomberry in ff15 then even how there moving at first walks up to you slow then out of no where does an anime like front flip as it swings its light saber crazy fast lol
@@williambrinkmeier1772 basically yoda
@@williambrinkmeier1772 it's Master Yoda turned to the dark side.
FFX tonberry hits you with karma like it's ghost rider's pennant stare. Straight nukes you. Them and Marlboros are my standard for enemies to be wary of
No shit
That FML at the Malboro part is a whole mood, man.
Like just put your controller down and let your team off itself.
Fraya: aww, look at the sheep. so adorable!
Yaan: *you will know true pain, unfortunate child*
true, the little thing is broken. it looks cute but the little "sheep" came from hell to give people more trouble than most bosses
Definitely like the bunny from holy grail
DOES THIS LOOK LIKE THE FACE OF MERCY
@@willthebillstealthkillkell7776 truly a game you wish you had the holy hand grenade...
@@shioriryukaze 1 2 5 three sir three
I'll never forget when I was grinding out my lvls in ff8 when on island closest to hell got attacked by a malboro. Fight starts, bad breath, Zell and quistis are n blinded and asleep. Squall is blinded and confused. Also he has 255 accuracy so he never misses even if blinded. Unfortunately, he has 100 deaths junctioned to status attack. It was very handy once shotting lesser enemies with 100% death spell of every attack. But zell and quistis don't have death guard of any kind. So squall one shots quistis, turns, one shots zell, and, since he has deaths on status atk not Def, he is able to one shot himself... And so he does. And malboro just watches the carnage.
You're the most unfortunate gamer ever.
Dang...That's a real bloodbath...
Wow that's some bad luck
To make you feel better, I had many fights against Marlboros starting with Odin.
Yeah the Malboros in ff8 are the worst
I remember those devil sheep called Yans, they were more sickening than the last boss himself. Super cute, super evil.
Yeah you would be wanting a regular dragon spawn or something to kill grinding level 99 and get completely wrecked lol
When you fought one, you had the urge to keep fightning and see what they give you. At least to me anyways :)
Well everything in ff9 are super cute. That's why I love that game so much
Warmech from FF1. Maybe not that hard by today's standards, but deserves some recognition for being the first "superboss" in a FF game and the developers were cruel enough to make it a random encounter.
I had to start that tower again because it came out...
I know why I finished 7 in 3 days now
Played 1 long time ago, I only remember pain.
3 times, that bastard made me restart that tower 3 times. I ended up just leveling a bunch more and killing it.
Edit: this was before the Internet was a thing and I had no idea where I needed to go.
bgates87 I wish they would've actually upped the encounter rate in the Dawn of Souls version of the game. I went around purposely looking for that bastard and he eluded me the entire time. Yes, I realize that no sane person would go looking, but I'm a bit of a masochist and hunting the Final Fantasy series' super-bosses is a habit of mine.
Update on today's standards: I encountered Warmech yesterday in the Pixel Remaster and it used Nuke literally every turn except one until my party was just a fine, red mist, so yeah-- still difficult lol
When i cast my bad breath ability irl it just makes people flee...
Better than making them Berserk
I remember starting out FFXII and strolling into the Eastern sands. Killed a bunch of wolves and blah blah blah, then I saw a dinosaur and tried to kill it. I got fucking annihilated. Good times~
Awesome list, all of these were insane random encounters. I can't even image what it was like before the internet existed hahaha
ah yes, the iconic Esterstand Tyrannosaur. the first hint of "you shouldn't hit everything you see"
@@cereyza you got that right. Big mistake there. Got a game ove. On my first day.
Could be worse, could be adamtoise in 13...
@@wiseguy240Winston oh they are a pain to kill. And the more powerful version are even worse. Never was able to beat one.
@@cereyza Specifically "you shouldn't hit things that aren't hitting you first". Yeah there are exceptions like the bombs that are about equal to aggressive enemies at the place you find them, but then you get elementals and of course the entites. The elementals are one thing, they're mostly damage sponges, but that means you might have to move around to recharge your MP. Entites are an entirely different story. Don't let their level fool you. That's not your run of the mill level 30 enemy after all. It's a level 30 greater elemental, and they cast third tier offensive magic. I will never forget the time I was Firaga'd from behind because of my gambits. Sandsea, first visit, Salamand Entite spawned, somebody cast fire of a Yensa, Salamand didn't like being shown up by a noob in the magic arts. Wiped my active party. Switched in my reserve, and instead of holding the run button and noping out of there like a sensible person, I was like 'oooh, what hit me?' Two shot game over. Only found out later that it was aggro'd by the magic.
Even though FF12 doesn't have random encounters in the normal sense, the Elementals and Entites definitely count. They show up in various places under specific weather, but have levels far above the area's normal range (ex. the Salamand Entite at the Ogir-Yensa Sandsea during clear skies). They're normally non-agressive, but will aggro if you cast spells when they're nearby.
I died a lot of times in yensa because i didnt see it xD
Archeoaevis in Zertinan in the Zodiac versions really blindsides you.
Nothing is stronger than a f***ing Lvl. 99 Chocobo. Believe me.
Aggroing when casting spells. I can see it now: "YOU CALL THAT CASTING? HERE, LET ME SHOW YOU CASTING."
@@Nehfarius "You think you can cast magic? IN MY PRESENCE!? I *AM* MAGIC!"
Other great features of the Yan:
1: Comet could still fail when used by a Yan, but Float made it guaranteed to connect.
2: Virus Powder would inflict the Virus status, which makes the character not gain any Exp or AP until cured
3: Yan had the highest exp, so farming them was the fastest way to level endgame
4: Getting party members removed from battle counted the same as death for game overs, and Float made Snort more likely to connect, I believe.
also the virus condition made you unable to heal and couldn't be removed easily..
Best strategy for Yan - Turn off the console
Virus was such a pain to deal with you'd figure, let that character die instead, but I THINK it stayed on them.
Great Marlboro FFX Omega Ruins is the bane of my existence when you first go there and just want to try getting some sphere levels and he kills you because the only save point is at the beginning of the dungeon
I could never bring myself to attack the friendly Yan. He's asks you for a Diamond so politely and just look at those eyes, he's too adorable to attack. I say whoever attacks it deserves a game over!
Interestingly enough, the friendly yans offensive stats aren’t very impressive. However it’s defensive stats are at capped out at 255 which also includes its evasiveness. It also has 10,000 more HP than Ozma. In other words the player won’t be doing jack to it.
@@theomnigamer9177 Vivi nukes the whole planet!! Friendly Yan takes 263 dmg. Like, WHAT?
Abrar Reza That was my reaction when I used Ark on the Friendly Yan out of curiosity.
So politely? He says,"Give me a diamond" 3 times, after which he says,"You're not giving me any?" around 2-3 times, after which he uses a cry that smashes your party to oblivion, leaving the people standing with Blind and Silence. I think this game's busted Regen mechanic was implemented solely for this guy.
@@AbRas644 I thought he only attacks you if you attack him?
You never forget your first encounter with Tonberry, for me it was in 7, the little bastard caught me off guard and I avoided him like the plague ever since, I had to grind for a couple hours before I managed to beat him.
Oh God. I'm getting Vietnam flashbacks of the Malboro from Final Fantasy VIII. Certainly the worst version that vile beast. 😪
Another random encounter I find difficult were against the Red Chocobos in Final Fantasy Tactics. Even the best leveled-up and geared party was f**cked against a group of 3 or more of the damn things and their broken/cheap "Choco Meteor" attack... 🤬
Well, I'm glad im not the only one that remembered those little chicken fucks. They were a hell of a party member, but fighting those things without the Thunder God himself was a NIGHTMARE. Especially as you got higher in levels.
Choco meteor, the most destructive but cutely named attack...
I feel you.
@@djmike679 I know right? There was a mandatory fight near a river where the number of the little shits you have to fight was randomized too. 😡
Resetting the game on that part is useful. One time, one possibility was fighting 7 of the damn things. I didn't bother...
@@gjtrue I remember that river. I had to go to a specific map, and use a Deleveling trap, because i learned the hard way in one of my playthroughs, that your gear does actually matter to a degree against them. And if your too high level, they will one shot you out of the gate with the gear you have access to at that point. Yeah you could fight random encounters for a chance at better gear but then you risk over leveling even more
Chac from Final Fantasy X-2 was a pain. Now she starts as a boss in the optional dungeon in Bevelle, but after her boss fight she becomes a random encounter in the lower levels. so not only did you have to figure out how to beat her, but you had to be ready for her at any time. Her biggest problem was that she caused petrify. but you have the dark knight dressphere you say. sorry you still get petrified even though dark knights are immune to it. talk about a real pain. LOL
I was replaying FF8 a few years ago and managed to power my way through a large part of the story without saving. I ended up getting bad breathed by a Marlboro after 10 or so hours without saving. Yeah I sat there, stoned off my chops, staring at my TV in total disbelief. Pretty sure I had a few tears in my eyes. That's several hours of my life gone, awesome
I saw Yan in the thumbnail, I couldn't not click
Ah Malboro this monster taught me how to always use equipment carefully not just focus on defense
Sees a malboro in the intro starts having a ptsd flashback
You’re not the only one...
_This_ is what trigger warnings are for. I almost shot my phone when I seen the Marlboro...
Not really the hardest of random encounters, but one enemy that I was always fearful of is Sorcerers in the Ice Cavern in FF1. They have added effect death on their attacks. Didn't matter if you had death protection armor items or if you were a high level, they could 1 shot any character.
reall nes ff, everything with rub was a terror, because only a very high level white mage would use life, and could really only use it a handful of times.
That intro was my entire FFX playthrough summed up
Who remembers playing ff7 & running into the Midgard serpent for the 1st time😟? I know I do. I also remember going back & facing it just to see how strong I've become. Anybody ever did that?😂
Can also get an enemy skill from it
He was so overpowered when you meet him the first time, and by the time you revisit him he's pathetically weak!
I was an idiot, thinking that the only way to get through the swamp was to fight the serpent head-on. needless to say, I died too many times too early in the game.
@Jerry Smith The midgar zolom only uses beta when it dies - if its used beta, you've won (assuming you survive beta). No need to run, you've killed it.
I did that. and I even was able to get across the water with NO chocobo. but it took me many tries
5:00 running away? In FFV? And depowering the Sword of Courgae!? NEVER!
The Chicken Knife is better.
@@ace-trainer-aj Chicken Knife looks awful and sounds awful. :p
For real though, Chicken Knife is better. Seriously.
and this friends, is why you pick the chicken knife instead.
You took the sword? You fucked up.
The thumbnail alone gave me war flashbacks...
FFX Malboro still gives me nightmares
FFX’s Blue Marlboro was brutal. First Strikes you with a Bad Breath right off the bat 😆
That can easily be dealt with though. First strike and then using provoke to force it to use its ordinary attack instead of Bad Breath.
Running into a skulleater in FF5 was a learning experience. It was a squirrel but its damage threshold was really high and if you didn't hit it past this it would do 0 damage. Its defense, evasion and speed were ridiculous and it had an instakill move. There was also a change for one to multiply in to 4 skulleaters randomly. Definetly not fair at all
Jackanapes or something always did me in. >.
*Runs into a Skull Eater* Oh... this is bad.
*Skull Eater multiplies, leading to confused screaming*
@@TheMidnightCrazies I hate Jackanapes...
In FF XV there was this giant mech lvl. 99 randomly dropping from the magitech aircrafts.
My first encounter with it was pretty early in the game and it instantly killed my entire group. Now I know that this is one of the hardest enemies in the game and you will get the magitech armor from it.
Alterna is the way to kill it. Hardest normal mob in the game and boring as f***!
starting the video ... my sister walks by screams NOOOOOO not one of those things xD
I've played enough final fantasy games to have felt the frustration of all of these encounters. You did not exaggerate their irritation in the slightest lol.
Yes, the god damn Yans of FF9. I hated those guys.
They are vulnerable to doom and death but it is a cointoss
@@xandertheupriser8600 you can inflict doom with Zidane equipped with masamune and the add status command forgot it's name I think it's 100% chance that way? Or the % is based on spirit
@@o.j.phillips7754 Zidane+masamune+soul blade is 100%..anything with soulblade is 100% I think.. but that is if you don't get snorted..
@@xandertheupriser8600 I used Odin, and it was pretty effective with Quina. First, you need 99 Ores, which you can get from Eiko's Might spell (one enemy can have 99 Ores). This boosts Odin's chance of Death to almost 50%. After that, Night+Odin meant every turn, there's one Yan dying, or all three dying. Just remember to save.
In Final Fantasy 12 there's a T-Rex in the very first area you can be that's usually friendly and doesn't attack but as soon as you hit it can instantly kill a whole party of players in to this day I still haven't really even killed it I've just pretty much ignored it.
The same goes for the two werewolves in Giza plain. They are totally devastating but also a great source of exp in the early game. Too bad they're not there anymore in the Zodiac version.
Final Fantasy XII has a lot of strong enemy encounters through the whole game with it's elements and exotic monsters, which are nearly impossible to beat, when you first enter an area.
@@TARDISES The weather in Giza during your first two visits doesn't change and I think they guard the way you have to take later in the game.
Yan is 100% the worst random encounter. Literally just a speed DPS with no mercy.
FF1 had a handful of these. My most hated was the 9 ghoul/ghast/etc. battles in Marsh Cave and outside Ruby Giant. Just paralyze the whole party and grind you to a slow death! Also the Sorcerers in Ice Cave. 1 hit kills and paralyze. Or Cocatrices. Or... My young brain was always terrified of the next battle. That's why I loved it!
When I first encountered Barchiosaur, I was feeling confident! I had a full Party, decent Lv, but by the time I'd registered what I was facing, I found myself staring at a Game Over screen! Way harder than any Marlboro, that thing... And it can evade Magic! First enemy I encountered that can do that!
King Malboro...the very reason why I modified some equip with Rikku’s feature so that I could negate Confusion/Berserk.
I have lost way too many hours of grinding because of him!
In final fantasy 4, first time in ‘the fathers cave’ or whatever, on the long skinny passages a Behemoth or a Red Giant could spawn. If you weren’t ready for the fight, or didn’t know how to fight one, just beating one could rain on your parade, and then you had to hope a second one didn’t pop out. You don’t encounter these again until the final dungeon.
FF9 Seems to hold so many records
@sc128 Which quest is that?
one of those is to beat the entire game under a certain time limit just so Steiner can be a bigger dick.
@@Potatinized Yeah, for sure, Excalibur 2 is such a complete pain to get as you basically have to beat the entire game in a rather short amount of time (under 10 or 12 hours depending on version).
@@MisterXZen Nero siblings sidequest in Linblum on disc 4, I believe.
@Mike Grill I skipped a day of school to do just that. the spanking was worth it. Wasn't really a good liar, to think of it now.
The Entites in FFXII come to mind, they were a huge pain
also FFVI Intangir
Malboro appears!
Ambushed!
Uses Bad Breath
Presses the restart button PS2/ Go to Home button PS3/PS4
Literally the only thing left to do at that point.
I actually wanted to fight with warmech because I was fascinated by how unique this enemy was.
i remember i had FF9 for years before my cousin found the Yan's while running randomly around the world map. i couldn't believe what i heard when he yelled me that a sheep killed his party :D ..it was endgame save with some lvl 99 chars aswell so that just added to the disbelief
I remember the first time I ever got introduced to Marlboros in FFVIII. I was getting some tips and tricks from a friend of mine who was much further in the game. Showing me the Islands Closest to Heaven and Hell, and despite the fact he was very high leveled and had no problem taking down other enemies, he always tried to run from a Marlboro fight, and while on the islands he saved constantly because they were a threat. I still do the same on the remastered version. Haha
Demonolith from FFX always pissed me off early on in the Omega Ruins. And FF12 is full of ridiculous random encounters!
Magic Pots in Subterra of FF12.
Intangir of FF6. Death Machine/Duel Armor formations if you're at bad levels or ambushed in FF6. Any formation of Madam/Cherry and Outsiders in FF6.
Everything in the Lunar Core of FF4.
Red Dragon in FF3.
Parties of 4 Gas Dragons or Blue Dragons in FF1.
Intangirs were stupid easy back when Doom couldn't miss invisible targets.
Intangir and Cyan's Dragon.
That fucking charm so freaking annoying.
Great Malboros were bad, but the Mega Tonberries were a nightmare!
grinding for level in final fantasy 9
and I came across yan !!
the first time was a good lesson for me . after that I owned them like a boss , by the way you can level up so fast if you keep fight yan it's really a good chance for leveling up !!
The Yan are Dragonborns and Snort is actually Fus Ro Dah.
For me fus ro dah is actually friendly Yan's "BAHHHHH"
So we haven't seen their final form yet
Righteous1 their final form is when they become friendly yan lol
@@DarkXVenator Would be cool if they turn into adult dragons
Is this a skyrim reference
Green dragon in FF9 at low level. Or Gimme Cat..meow, meow, meow! I fooled you!
When you go up the vine and the moogle yells DON'T GO THAT WAY. I was like you don't tell me what I can or cannot do fool! *goes up> encounters dragon> dies> I am not going up there again but it is MY CHOICE OK?!
@@georgeosorio5815 ah disc 1 level farming, you end up becoming too OP for the rest of the game
@@Rigter9029 ikr? Surviving a disc 1 Beatrix shock is really satisfying... also if you're really lucky you can dig out a chocograph that leads to the oak staff in disc 1 lol. IIRC it let Vivi cast bio comet and death.
@@o.j.phillips7754 oak stad let's you learn bio, stop and drain
@@Rigter9029 yeah I got confused still bio is OP as it's non elemental
Thanks for the video! This was a fun one to watch! That awful Marlboro brought back some funny memories of game over screens. Would it be possible for you guys to make a video answering the question, what are your top three favorite final fantasy games of all time and why?
Just imagine a beautiful girl like Quistis has bad breath...
Smoking malboros lol
She's hot
I'd still hit it
Maybe because she forgot to brush her teeth 😂😂😂
@@jakatarung1558 for 20 years
Red dragon in 8 drove me nuts. The breath attack hit so hard.
I think that's ruby dragon. But yeah i agree it was a pain.
Or the T-Rexaurs right at the beginning, when you neither have sleep nor blind 😂
Oof... I walked through the Crystal Tower in FF3 on the DS and encountered a Red Dragon.... it was such a low encounter rate and you can't save inside that dungeon. Needless to say I didn't play for a while after that horrendous defeat.
Yeah, the 3 dragons on the Crystal Tower (especially the red one) are harder than the Final Boss :/
I hated that last dungeon. I got towards the end and was thinking "there has to be a save point" when I ended up in the boss room. I didn't have enough items to keep my team alive and lost alllll of that dungeon's progress. That was in 2008 and I haven't picked it back up since.
Man I love this channel, straight up ff encyclopedia
Loving the content guys. You're doing great!
Marlboro from any FF series gives me a headache including the latest FFVII Remake Marlboro. So much joy when you defeat one
He's a pushover in IX and XII.
Malboro in FFVIII isnt actually that bad either, its only a problem if you're not prepared for it. At minimum all you need is to junction 100 Berserk spells to status defense and have it eventually hit you with its gastric juice attack, which will remove the sleep and confuse statuses. Then use Siren's Treatment spell, or the item command to throw a remedy/remedy+ to remove the rest.
My first FF game was FFVIII and Malboro almost made me gave up first time. I finished the game and played my second FF game that is FFIX. The Yan gave me a brutal scare compared to Malboro or any other monster. Stupidly I tried to use them as EXP farm. Didn't go well, to say the least.
You'd best believe that I liberated those Brachiosaurs of their Ribbons.
get there, Vanish + Doom. That is for all the 1 shot party kills when it cast Ultima for maximum damage. Cheese attack meet cheese attack!
Good to see that the first thing I thought of other than what's on the thumbnail is the first entry.
The goblin type enemy in the end dungeon of Final Fantasy 4. It asks you to use a lightning attack on it, so guess what I did after not saving for about 2 hours - cast bolt. Needless to say it didn't end well
If you were playing the SNES FF2 version, it was called Tricker, which was a pretty big hint not to listen to it! Later versions called it Li'l Murderer, which still sounds like someone I wouldn't exactly trust!
Final Fantasy Tactics - my best friend ran into a whole group of Calculators on a random encounter during a play through. RIP
Great video, man. Subscribed.
Just south of the village where you start in Final Fantasy II for the NES, there's a location called southern point, it's the 4 bottom squares of the peninsula. Just play around in there for a bit and you'll see the true horror of FFII random encounters
What you say about random encounters at the beginning of this video is exactly why I miss them. I feel like JRPGs are lesser without them. :(
But I know I'm in the minority with this.
Some games I miss them, some not so much. The random encounters in the early JRPGs are horrible. You get one every time you tried to move. It's just annoying. The Dragon Quest series did a good job with it though.
They're annoying if they're too frequent, but that's true even if they're not random.
they are nice in the "lets see what i get this time" aspect but after youve trudged along and 90% of your playtime is just trying to GET to the story bits....well the fun of the game starts to wane. think of it this way, remove all random encounters and how well does the story hold up afterward? ive heard lots of flak about 12 and 13 for story....but was it story or the lack of a random encounter system forcing you to withstand 3-6 times the playtime just to progress?
@@pulsefel9210 For me it's the other way around though. I trudge through the story to get back to the random encounters and level grinding.
@@pulsefel9210 For me personally, FF12's battle system felt too awkward to the point I was put off long before the story started to take off.
Hands down the Marlboro in FF8!
'How many status ailments do you want?' 'Yes'
Tama ka jan idol hahahaha
For FF8 I'll always remember the mad dash to land Quistris's degen attack before the Malboro hit bad breath, during grinding efforts. Unless you had the initiative (?) skill junctioned (IIRC).
Seeing that battle encounter transition at the start of the video i was like ok here we go!!
Bring back random encounters! XVI needs to return to the actual final fantasy format!
Glad to see I'm not the only one who misses random encounters.
And overworld maps, too.
That's not an actual format of the series, just 1 and it wouldn't work at all considering SE is going the action RPG route.
@@wiseguy240Winston Yes because kids nowadays want ACTION and OPEN WORLD everywhere.
@@Cloud971 because turn based rpgs are boring af?
Neat video! Thanks for uploading!
Wicked! Opening with the great malboro in the omega ruins encounter gave me chills! Dealing with them is forever branded in my mind! That said is easy when you know the trick, a lot of omega ruin encounters required "gimmicks", for great malboro get tidus a first strike wep and then just provoke him, it won't use bad breath with provoke in effect!
5:00 Hello darkness, your not my friend fu!
I remember grinding to level 99 with all characters by killing those sheep on the fairy island in ffix... they were tough, but with good strategy you can beat them and the exp they gave you was pretty hefty. And of course you can save game on overworld map, so even if you die it wouldnt be too bad..(which would happen at times, even with good strategy)
great video guys loved
I remember playing Final Fantasy I on my PS1 when I was a kid. I was grinding at the end of Tiamat's dungeon because I needed money, but then I suddenly encountered Warmech. I think they buffed it in all the remakes (Origins too)
Not gonna lie, casting bad breath on a marlboro is a god tier feeling.
What about the Archaeoaevis from FFXII The Zodiac Age. They have 961,000 HP and are crazy strong. Was just wondering around the Zertinan Caverns at lvl 70 plus then just got owned.
Yeah there I was thinking I was in the clear after killing Catoblepas and I find these Aevis fighting some Cockatrice. "Easy pickings". Thank Zodiac Age for auto saves.
Yeah you could make some enemies seriously dangerous by upping their levels in ff12. Lvl 99 red chocobo was quite dangerous as well.
70?! Mine were all 99!!
a great random encounter is when you got out of Balamb Garden for the 1st time on FF VIII to head to Ifrit's Cavern & you by chance pass the jungle area just to meet a freakin T-Rex
In my first playthrough of FF5, my first Game Over came as a result of encountering Page 64 (for the first time) when all four of my party members were level 15.
Lmao i remember when that happened to me too! Lvl 5 Death did instakill everyone
I always ran away whenever a Yan appeared. Would still keep me as a pet though
I always loved the unseen random encounters in this series. I always made my own head cannon on why i got into the fight in the first place. I also like how it gives you the feeling that you may have the biggest hang low around, but you could still get your shit rocked. Yeah it sucks when you get a team wipe, but that would be the reality if you actually lived the scenario. Real life doesnt let you see your fights, so you have to be prepared
Agreed. The random encounters are one of them things you love to hate. They really ONLY annoy me if I’m tryin hurry up and do somethin specific and they’re slowin me down
FF II was the king of random encounters, because enemy power shifted between areas so you could end up strolling too far and get stomped by an ogre xD. Good times
shiningdahlia Lol I keep avoiding FF2 cause I hear leveling system is mad tedious
@@MathisR412 It is for a little bit, I just got through it because I wanted to fight Emperor. But the side characters are one of the best I've seen in the pre-FFVII era, also the music is amazing, so it's easier to overlook the bad stuff xD
What do you mean 'real life doesn't let you see your fights?". Yeah man, you can absolutely see your fights in real life, and you can usually avoid them completely, because in real life the experience usually isnt worth the trouble.
In Final Fantasy 4 towards the last dungeon there was an enemy that would go by the name of Wicked Mask. This enemy would cast reflect on itself and your entire party so if you tried healing your party it'll just bounce back towards him. Plus the damage from the reflected spells like Holy or flare can deal around 2000-3000 damage. It is a very tedious fight where you have to target your spells at your allies and hope your reflect status hasn't expired.
I once randomly encountered the Lvl 99 Red Chocobo in FFXII while grinding lvls. I lost SEVERAL hours of progress.
I had no idea what happened when I died out of nowhere to this giant red bird. I initially thought it was a glitch. But nope. I was just EXTREMELY unlucky.
You forgot Jackanapes from Final Fantasy V. I got so many game overs because of this bastard.
I think they even had 666 hp, unless that was changed like the name. Those things SUCK early on in the game, my best strategy was to run and revive the fallen characters
There was a cheat to never encounter them within the castle.
The hardest random encounter in FFT is a group of red/black chocobos or monks.
don't forget the samurai ninjas and calculators
Great Malboros in FFX is definitely the worst random encounter enemy in that game. If you want to complete the game 100% you need to capture 10 of them and they have 64,000HP. This means that you can't attack them with any celestial weapons (unless you're underpowered) and you have to make sure at least one character has ribbon. Capturing 10 of those things that always start the fight with Bad Breath was probably the biggest kick in the teeth for me
The easiest way to do this was have First Strike on one of your Party Member's weapons:
Ability: [First Strike]
Effect: Allows you to attack first, regardless of your Agility statistic or having been ambushed.
Requires: Return Sphere x1
Rating: 5/5 stars - especially useful late in the game, against fiends who ambush you, then immediately use punishing attacks, such as the Great Malboro in the Omega Ruins
@@adamgray1753 in the end I just kept Auron on the team with his celestial weapon equipped. He also was the only person I managed to give ribbon to and used Tidus and wakka to chip away at the Malboros health. I used Auron to prepare for bab breath and to heal everyone of the status effects. I also had Tidus and Wakka have ConfuseProof or ConfuseWard equipped as the confusion status effect was what got me
Yeah, @@kaitlyngarner740. The ConfuseProof Armors become invaluable for the rest of the game. Especially Inside Sin portions of the game.
This was actually very easy to deal with and hardly takes any preparation at all. Have First Strike on a weapon, swap that character out for Yuna (if it wasn't Yuna's weapon,) then summon. All your Aeons are immune to Bad Breath. Use the Aeon to chip the Malboro down to nothing, then dismiss it and capture.
I remember that in FFV in the first world, there was a squirrel in a castle (where you get Odin) and it damaged 9999 in one hit and had a very high Def, already in world 3 it captured it to do great damage to the bosses .
Some of the random encounters in FF3 are pretty up there in terms of kicking your ass. Red Dragons come to mind.
Behemoths in FF4 are pretty brutal in the original version of the game. They counter attack everything with high physical damage, use twister at low HP to reduce party members to critical, and are quite capable of one shoting anyone save Cecil or Kain. Hard to contend with if you're behind on levels for some reason.
Legitimately surprised that you ranked Exdeath Soul as the hard encounter from that dungeon. Shield Dragon is way more powerful without making use of Control with the Beast Master class. Especially relative to your level development if you go in there early. Exdeath Soul you can just mow down without much thought by the time he starts appearing. Though would you really classify either of these as random encounters, since they are the only enemies encountered within that castle?
When I was a kid I always dreaded encountering Brainpans on The Floating Continent in FF6. I didn't understand why instant death didn't work, and when they inflict stop on party members, for which there's little/no defense against other than killing them before they do it... on top of Blowfish/1000 Needles... If you're behind in levels and don't take those Brainpans out fast they'll wreck you.
In FF2 there are lot of nasty encounters. Iron Giant isn't really that bad. You just Berserk up and cut him down. Couerls x6 that get an ambush though... those can wipe you out completely with you being unable to do anything about it. Very similar to Mindflayers from FF1, though those are neutered by Protect Ring/cape/etc.
Will forever remember the Moogle's warning in FF9 to not go outside the Gizamaluke's Grotto with the vine. Ignoring him. Boom, Green Dragon. Relative to my level it was Game Over.
Prior to the advent of Trusts, overworld enemies in FFXI were all far stronger than most every job class in FFXI. The only way to solo things was with magic or abilities that allowed you to undertake battles of attrition. Even then, even on the best classes(Mages), regular enemies could kill you through a spell failing to land and have its desired effect or by as little as 1 other monster joining the fray. This echo'd onto EXP parties as well, without someone to crowd control, getting links often led to death and EXP loss. Absolutely brutal world for FFXI, prior to Trusts. In fact, it was so brutal that you often would buy items such as Silent Oil and Prism Powder to turn yourself invisible/mute your foot steps. Monster behavior had monsters that agro by sight, sound, true sight, true sound, and beyond that they would follow you using their detection type, sight, sound, or smell. There was legitimately an item and spell called Deodorize(r) so that you could lose a monster pursuing you. And originally monsters had no tethers, so they would pursue you to the depths of hell. Of particular note was the Tauri type monsters on the Uleguerande Range. Agro one of those, true sight, and they would follow you at 150% your running speed up the whole mountain. There was no getting away, and a high chance for you to die. Not random, but certainly an encounter, and certainly not a boss.
you describing that really shows me how accurate eureka in ffxiv was at replicating the feeling of ffxi.
@@cereyza Pagos really did feel very much like a zone from FFXI. The others, ehh, I guess Baldesion Arsenal felt like Dynamis. Hehe.
This guy knows his shit. 😂
In FF2, 100eye was the sorcerer of that game. Found only in the jade passage. 1 hit death touch and high level aspil and other spells.....ugh, and they were magic immune so you could not toad them. All you could do with their super high magic resistance was berserk up and hope they didn't do anything too assholish. The 3 most common enemy packs you ran into in Jade were Abyss worms, Malboros(1 hit Bad breath lol) and 100eye's. Couerls were the bastards of Pandemonium for sure.
Behemoths in FF4 were a joke really. They would only attack if you attacked first. It was impossible to lose that battle unless you tried casting spells to get hit with their storm. it was possible to just stop attacking and revive/heal the entire party
The viciousness of the FRIENDLY YAN! OMFG. This vid brought me back. I've encountered all of these. Not in a minute though. I just got Tales of Berseria. Pretty fun so far.
I distinctly remember playing through FFX on my PS2, climbing Mount Gagazet and battling hard for over an hour without seeing another save point. Finally I got to the top and was a few steps away from the save point when a random battle appeared and... of course, a Marlboro, which instantly performed Bad Breath, causing confusion to my party members who killed each other before I could flee the battle.
The controller hit the floor so hard I was amazed it didn't smash into pieces...
I'm learning through your channel that I never properly utilized Quina when playing Final Fantasy IX. I need to do a Quina run one of these days and exploit their full power.
I remember my first run-in with a tonberry. It was before the internet and I'm busy playing away on Final Fantasy 7 when I run into one. I had not learned what I know now which is looks can be deceiving. So when it stabbed one of my characters and killed them? I paused the game and stared at the screen. After the shock wore off, I unpaused the game and ran for my life. To this day decades later, anytime I see the tonberry the first word out of my mouth is F***
That was my first thought when i saw tonberry... Wow look at this cute guy. Till he killed my character with one stab. 😢 I also ran out from the first fight real quick.
Wasn’t there a random encounter in saga frontier where the enemy had a billion hp? Can anyone that played it confirm? I read it in a tips and tricks magazine ages ago if I remember correctly and I couldn’t believe it.
What a lovely and underrated channel
Malboros are one of my favorite enemies for their design and iconic status. It is however a real dick kicker at times. “Hey kids, you like status ailments?”
In the underground lab in ff7 remake there's a random group of dogs that on normal mode just fkn DESTROY Aerith and Tifa. Does this count?