Lanista (Tactics A2)

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Long years of fighting in the arena have honed the skills of these swordsmen to perfection. They call their closely guarded techniques "Astutia".

Description

The Lanista (ラニスタ, Ranisuta?) is a job in Final Fantasy Tactics A2: Grimoire of the Rift exclusive to the seeq. Lanista specializes in various skills, such as support, absorption, and dealing heavy damage at their own expense, the last similar to a Dark Knight.

Requirements

To unlock the job the player must complete "A Lanista's Pride" mission, which appears after the story mission "A Request". To use it, the player must master a Berserker A-Ability.

Stats

Weapons	Head	Body	Equip Shields?
Greatswords	Hats, Helmets	Light Armor, Heavy Armor	No

Move	Jump	Evasion	Unarmed Attack Raise	Resilience	HP	MP	Atk	Def	Mgk	Res	Spd
4	2	0	18	35	C	G	C	C	E	F	50%

Abilities

Astutia

The LANISTA turn to these skills bought with blood and blade.

Skill	Equipment	Range	AP	MP
Souleater	Xankbras	Weapon Range	150	—
	Sacrifice the user's HP to deal dark damage to the target.
Sword of Darkness	Ancient Sword	Weapon Range	350	12
	Steal the target's life force. Restores HP to the unit.
Sword of Light	Ogrenix	Weapon Range	300	8
	Steal the target's magickal energy. Restores MP to the unit.
Haunting Vision	Dagriohm	4	300	8
	Show the target a vision from their darkest dreams. Deals damage and BLINDS the target.
Block!	Diamond Sword	4	250	8
	Conjure a magickal shield around units in a small area. Raises DEFENSE.
Strike!	Luabreaker	4	250	8
	Temporarily grants extensive anatomical knowledge that can be used to carefully target attacks. Raises the CRITICAL HIT rate of units in a small area..
Charge!	Hardedge	1	350	8
	Magickally strengthen the unit for a single rush attack. Deals damage and knocks the target back. May also destroy the target's armor.
Razzle-Dazzle	Vigilante	All sides	450	24
	Absorb the life force of surrounding units. Restores HP.

Reaction

Skill	Equipment	Effect	AP
Blink Counter	Bone Armlets	Counter attack and knock back the attacker after being the target of an offensive action.	250
Dragonheart	Tournesol	Gain RERAISE after taking damage. Only works once per battle.	500

Support

Skill	Equipment	Effect	AP
Monkey Grip	Oblige	Wield two-handed weapons with one hand.	250
Tank	Platinum Armor	Enables the user to equip helms and heavy armor, regardless of their current job.	200

Other appearances

Final Fantasy Trading Card Game

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Lanista appears with an Earth-elemental card.

Notes

• Lanista's Souleater ability is useful to deplete one's own HP to boost the power of Razzle-Dazzle. However, to make it work better, one may need to level up their seeq as a Berserker due to their excellent HP growth. Souleater and Sword of Darkness are preferable against the troublesome Sprites and Banshees.

Gallery

Souleater.

Sword of Darkness.

Sword of Light.

Haunting Vision.

Charge!.

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Etymology

[view · edit · purge]The word lanista is a First Declension Latin noun, with a grammatical gender of masculine. The word means "one who manages and trains a team of Gladiators".

The Lanista's skillset, Astutia, means "the quality of being astute".