Fafnir (Final Fantasy X)

Fafnir is a special enemy in Final Fantasy X, created in the Species Conquest at Monster Arena when four of each Drake-type fiend has been captured.

Battle
Fafnir's Triple Attack is powerful, and its first physical hit is unaffected by Protect, though its final hit is reduced by Protect. Triple Attack is a physical attack followed by an elemental attack on all opponents, and finishing off with another physical. The final attack will not come if two characters are KO'd by the second.

Fafnir will drop weapons with any of the elemental strikes (the Lightning version being fixed) and armor with Fire Eater, Water Eater, or Ice Eater.

Strategy
Element Eater armors will make Fafnir less likely to kill the party. If they are not used, then NulBlaze, NulShock, and NulFrost should be maintained (NulTide is not needed), and in such a case it is important to keep everybody alive as a newly-revived character would need three Nul-spells casting on them.

In addition to Protect, Cheer may make the difference between a character surviving and falling when they're the primary target of Triple Attack. The party should be in Haste, especially since Fafnir can use Triple Attack with high frequency.

Trivia

 * Fafnir's ability or inability to break the damage limit with specific attacks is very inconsistent. Its physical attack can break the damage limit when used on its own, but not when used as part of Triple Attack. Additionally, Fafnir's fire-elemental breath can break the damage limit, but its ice and lightning ones cannot.

Related Enemies

 * Kusariqqu
 * Lamashtu
 * Mushussu
 * Nidhogg
 * Vouivre

Final Fantasy X-2

 * Bolt Drake
 * Elder Drake
 * Greater Drake
 * Lesser Drake
 * Spine Drake

Final Fantasy X-2: Last Mission

 * Bolt Drake
 * Lesser Drake
 * Spine Drake

Goldhorter Fafnir/Final Fantasy X Fefnil (Final Fantasy X)