Pandemona

Pandemona is a Wind-based Guardian Force appearing only in Final Fantasy VIII. Pandemona can be drawn from Fujin during the fight in the Balamb Hotel in disc 2. In the game's western versions, Pandemona can also be drawn from the boss in Ultimecia Castle, Red Giant, if the player failed to draw the GF from Fujin earlier in the game. Obtaining Pandemona in the Steam version earns the player the achievement Pandemona.

Tornado Zone
Pandemona's attack, "Tornado Zone", is a Wind-elemental attack against all opponents. It is considered a welcome addition, as the majority of enemies in Final Fantasy VIII have a weakness against Wind attacks. Pandemona's summon time is 22.8s, which, according to the Final Fantasy VIII Ultimania, allows the player to boost its damage to around 240% of normal damage using a regular PlayStation controller.

Its damage is calculated as follows:
 * $$Damage = 65 * Level / 10 + 46 + 14$$
 * $$Damage = Damage * (265 - TargetSpr) / 8 $$
 * $$Damage = Damage * 46 / 256 $$
 * $$Damage = Damage * Boost / 100 $$
 * $$Damage = Damage * (100 + SummonMagBonus) / 100 $$
 * $$Damage = Damage * (900 - ElemDef) / 100:$$

Elemental Defense starts at 800 (0%), 900 nullifies damage and 1000 absorbs it. If an enemy is shown to be weak against an element, its Elemental Defense is below 800. If damage becomes negative (due to high Elemental Defense), the target is healed by that amount.

Compatibility
A Guardian Force's compatibility determines how fast the summon attack can be executed. Compatibility is raised by summoning Pandemona, casting magic that has affinity with Pandemona and by using its compatibility items. The compatibility is lowered by summoning other GFs and using other GFs' compatibility items.

Abilities
Abilities learned naturally by Pandemona are listed below:

Final Fantasy Type-0
Pandemona, along with Typhon and Phoenix, was apparently considered to be a summon in Final Fantasy Type-0 but it was discarded.

Etymology
Pandemona comes from the word "Pandemonium", the GF's name in the original Japanese release.

The word's meaning of any loud, chaotic thing, refers to Pandemona's use of a tornado. His use of a bag to unleash his wind powers is more in reference to, the Japanese kami of wind who also used a bag filled with wind; gaining the summon from the character of the same name hints to this reference.

The game's debug menu, only accessible via cheating device, calls Pandemona "Pandemonium", but the name is over the character limit, resulting in the shortened version in the English release.

Pandemona is called Zephyr in the French version, Eolo in the Spanish version, and Pandemon in the Italian version.