Anything Eater is a boss in Final Fantasy X-2 found in the Ruin Depths optional dungeon and Cloisters 75 to 79 of the Via Infinito, as well as the Fiend Arena. It uses Earth Eater's model from Final Fantasy X.
Stats[]
Normal
Oversoul
Battle[]
The normal Anything Eater has access to powerful magic, such as Flare and Osmose, which the oversouled Anything Eater lacks. Its spells cannot be reflected because its casts them using its own reflective shield. It has one physical attack with two variations: one deals damage equal to the target's maximum HP (known as Kill Attack in the Fiend Arena), while the other deals normal damage but removes all positive status effects, even Invincible and Auto-Life. The latter is only used in response to attacks whose damage can be reduced by Shell, namely magic spells that ignore Reflect, such as Ultima or Meteor (only by captured creatures).
For its Oversouled state, Anything Eater may start picking off party members one by one depending on dressphere. It no longer has Auto-Reflect, but it can dispel the party's Reflect.
Strategy[]
One can opt to use brute force, because at this stage of the game an enemy with 36,980 HP and 38 Defense is not particularly tough, especially when Anything Eater is vulnerable to Slow.
Equipping Tetra Bands, Tetra Guard, or the Tetra Master Garment Grid helps because they either nullify or absorb elemental spells. (Tetra Master needs a round of spherechanging.) Another option is to employ captured fiends that have already learned or been taught Tetra Eater, like the Black Elemental (unlockable by defeating it in Via Infinito Cloister 40).
If Anything Eater is Oversouled, it is best to avoid having all party members with the same dressphere and to spherechange whenever the message "Me no like dressphere!" appears.
Creature Creator[]
After the player defeats Anything Eater in the Ruin Depths in Chapter 5, they can recruit it into the party with a Trap pod L in the Calm Lands. Anything Eater comes with Attack and Quick Attack, as well as Life Preserver (Deathproof + Stoneproof) and Health Preserver (Poisonproof + Sleepproof). Total Limit Break is unlockable at Level 30 or higher by receiving any finishing move in battle and surviving it, such as Flare from an Aeshma.
Fiend Arena[]
In the Fiend Arena, Anything Eater, while the same as in the Ruin Depths and Via Infinito, is paired with a strong Chocobo, as part of the team Today's Friends. These two enemies, paired together, are among the most dangerous enemies in the Chocobo Cup.
Musical themes[]
Anything Eater, along with Angra Mainyu and Humbaba, use the aeon-battle battle theme known in Final Fantasy X-2 as "Aeons" when it is fought in the Ruin Depths.
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