Chocobo Knight (Tactics A2)

Chocobo Knight
(チョコボ士, Chokobo Shi?)
Sprite(s)
Availability
Location obtained	Complete the "Popocho's Chocobos" mission and master two Animist A-Abilities
Required jobs	Animist
Character users	Moogles
Abilities
Stats	See stats
Weapons	All (range 2 or fewer)
Armor	Hats and light armor Can't equip shields
Command abilities	Chococraft
More information
Recurring appearance

Chocobo knights harness the innate abilities of their feathered mounts.

Description

Chocobo Knight is a job in Final Fantasy Tactics A2: Grimoire of the Rift, exclusive to moogles.

Neither Hurdy nor Montblanc can become a Chocobo Knight due to their unique sprites. According to Gurdy's section in Hurdy's side story, Montblanc couldn't ride on a chocobo. Hurdy says he could ride a chocobo, but has a policy against it.

Profile

Able to tame chocobos, these knights can capture them during battle, ride them and use the chocobo's abilities, such as Choco Meteor, until it dies. Even if re-raised or petrified, the player will lose the mounted chocobo, but Equip Ribbon from the Tinker job is a good way to counter the petrification.

Although Chocobo Knights have no innate abilities and limited stat growth, their speed growth is unmatched and they can wield any type of non-ranged weapon. This means that they can wield spears, which allows them to attack up to two tiles away. Unfortunately, when riding a chocobo, the knight uses only its base physical power for attacks (with few exceptions). They can ride different colored chocobos with each color giving the knight different abilities (though some are shared among all colors). Although they can use the chocobo's abilities when mounted, Chocobo Knights cannot use any secondary A-abilities (e.g. Onslaught, Thievery and so on) while doing so. Keep in mind that Chocobo Knights do not master the abilities of chocobos; they are only usable as long as the Knight is riding a chocobo.

• Regular attack and Choco Beak act solely on attack power.
• Both Choco Cure and Choco Barrier are highly versatile abilities, and are available to all kinds of chocobos.
• Choco Meteor(Red) and Choco Flame(Black) provide a good source of ranged damage.
• Choco Meteor, Choco Cure and Choco Flame are affected by magick power, and can be increased in power by staves, such as the Heretic's Rod, but Choco Flame can also be affected by the weapon's attack power. Choco Flame ignores target's resistance.
• Green chocobos have access to Choco Esuna, acting essentially identical to the White Mage's Esuna and should be used as such.
• Brown chocobos have access to Choco Guard, which in combination with Choco Cure and Choco Barrier, provides some great defensive capabilities to the field.
• Choco Recharge is exclusive to White chocobos, and has the ever-useful effect of restoring MP to a target, being one of the few abilities to do so.
• Besides abilities, the different chocobo kinds also have their own stats, mainly with minor differences between Resilience and Movement. It is worth noting that Black chocobos fly, ignoring elevation.

Overall, the Chocobo Knight is a very unique support class, even with its flaws. Chocobo Knights can wield nearly every kind of weapon, and the Chocobos provide very practical abilities. Of course, they cannot all be used at any given time, but Choco Cure and Choco Barrier are available to all variants. The Red and Black Chocobos have abilities useful for offense, while the Green, Brown, and White chocobos have abilities useful for defense and support.

Aside from their Speed, Chocobo Knights have unremarkable stat growths, thus it is highly recommended to level up in other classes such as Moogle Knight instead before switching to the job. In addition, the intricacies regarding chocobo mounting are far from convenient. Chocobo Knights lose their mount anytime they are KOd, change their job class, or purposefully dismount their ride. Losing mounts can hinder strategies, lower combat performance, and overall provide an inconvenience.

Mounting

When a Chocobo Knight mounts a chocobo, the name of the job will change according to the chocobo's color; e.g. mounting a black chocobo changes a Chocobo Knight's job to Black Rider. To capture a chocobo, the chocobo's HP must fall below Critical status. It can then be mounted by any Chocobo Knights in a 1 square range (a special command will appear). A chocobo cannot be mounted if it is afflicted with debuffs (such as Berserk), but they can be mounted through buffs, such as Protect or Shell. With the additional height from their mounts, Chocobo Riders can enter water without the aid of Winged Shoes, but a chocobo cannot be mounted while it is standing in water.

Stats

Unit	Move	Jump	Evasion	Unarmed Attack Raise	Resilience	Weak
Chocobo Knight	3	2	0	10	60	—
Rider	4	3	5	35	50	Water, Lightning, Holy
Red Rider	4	3	5	38	55	Water, Lightning, Holy
Black Rider	4	1*	5	38	55	Water, Lightning, Holy
Green Rider	6	3	5	38	60	Water, Lightning, Holy
Brown Rider	4	3	5	38	60	Water, Lightning, Holy
White Rider	5	3	5	45	60	Water, Lightning, Holy

*The Black Rider is a flying unit, so its Jump stat is irrelevant.

Unit	HP	MP	Atk	Def	Mgk	Res	Spd
All	E	H	F	E	F	E	99%

If the rider is wearing armor that gives protection to Water, Lightning or Holy, the weakness to the element will be overwritten by the specific strength of resistance of the armor (Half Damage/Immune/Absorb).

Abilities

Chococraft

The CHOCOBO KNIGHT has the powers of his mount at his command.

Description

Skill	Chocobo	Range	MP
Choco Cure	All	All sides and self	8
	Recovers HP.
Choco Esuna	Green	All sides and self	8
	Cures status ailments.
Choco Flame	Black	4	18
	Fires projectile fireball at enemy.
Choco Meteor	Red	4	18
	Weakened version of Meteor.
Choco Beak	All	1	—
	Damages the foe slightly more than a regular attack.
Choco Recharge	White	1	4
	Recovers 34 MP to a nearby target.
Choco Guard	Brown	All sides and self	10
	Raises Defense/Magick Defense and bestows Regen.
Choco Barrier	All	All sides and self	8
	Casts Protect and Shell.

Gallery

Choco Beak.

Etymology

[view · edit · purge]The name "chocobo" derives from a Japanese brand of chocolate malt ball by Morinaga, ChocoBall (チョコボール, Chokobōru?). The mascot for this product is Kyoro-chan (キョロちゃん?), a bird who says "kweh".

食う / くう / kuu is a rough way to say "eat", whose volitional casual form is 食え / くえ / kue ("let's scoff 'em down!"), leading to Kweh!