Dark Flan (Final Fantasy X)

The Dark Flan is an enemy from Final Fantasy X found in the caverns of Mt. Gagazet and in the Zanarkand Ruins. The Dark Flan will appear alone in battle and is a much larger, non-elemental, and more powerful version of its cousins.

The Dark Flan has a host of attacks at its disposal. It casts Black Magic such as Demi, Bio, Drain, Osmose, and Flare. It can also heal itself using White Wind. Unlike the other flans encountered in Spira, it does not have an elemental weakness.

The ideal strategy is to use Silence on the Dark Flan, which it has no means of removing, as the White Wind in Final Fantasy X does not remove status abnormalities.

To dispatch it, the player can pound away with Flare and physical attacks after using Armor Break, or to inflict Zombie on it, then heal or use Life or a Phoenix Down. In addition to being able to damage it with healing magic cast by the player, inflicting Zombie Status has the added benefit of causing the Flan to damage itself when it uses White Wind. One can also use Reflect in addition to the above strategies to cause it to attack itself with Flare.

It drops armor and weapons with MP+ and Magic+ abilities. Additionally this is Kimahri's only chance, outside his duel with Biran and Yenke, to learn White Wind.

Related Enemies

 * Aqua Flan
 * Flame Flan
 * Ice Flan
 * Jumbo Flan
 * Snow Flan
 * Thunder Flan
 * Water Flan

Final Fantasy X-2

 * Flan Amarillo
 * Flan Azabache
 * Flan Azul
 * Flan Blanco
 * Flan Palido
 * Flan Rojo

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