Malboro Menace (Final Fantasy X)

The Malboro Menace is an enemy in Final Fantasy X. It is fought at the Monster Arena in the Area Conquest once the player has caught at least one Dinonix, Killer Bee, Yellow Element, and Ragora, which are the monsters for Kilika.

Battle
The Malboro Menace attacks like the other Malboros. It attacks a party member with Mega Gastric Juice similar to the normal attacks regular Malboros use. Its Gastric Juice Blast spits from its eyes multiple times on the party and has a chance to inflict Petrify, among other ailments. The Malboro Menace's most damaging attack is Chow Time, where it swallows a party member and regurgitates them immediately. This attack inflicts all Break statuses on a party member.

Its most dangerous attack is Putrid Breath, which is similar to Bad Breath and hits all party members randomly inflicting any status ailment, but Silence, Darkness, Confuse, Berserk, and Poison are the most common. Additionally, Putrid Breath inflicts damage. The damage from this is very unusual; while it is determined based on Malboro Menace's Magic and the targets' Magic Defence, it is considered physical damage and thus is reduced by Protect rather than by Shell. Malboro Menace will not use Putrid Breath for a second time until after he drops below half his HP.

Malboro Menace drops many weapons with status-strike abilities, and many status-proof armors.

Strategy
One of the more difficult fiends to kill, the Malboro Menace starts with an ambush and uses Putrid Breath. Auto-Med armor is a helpful countermeasure. Attacks and magic can deal full damage.

If Auto-Med or Ribbon is unavailable a good strategy is equipping a character with First Strike and use their turn to switch to Yuna and summon an aeon. This will avoid and delay Putrid Breath.

Related Enemies

 * Great Malboro
 * Malboro

Final Fantasy X-2

 * Great Malboro
 * Malboro

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