Artwork from Final Fantasy III.
Armor forged for swordsmen who have mastered every technique and achieved knighthood's most exalted rank.
Final Fantasy Tactics: The War of the Lions description
Onion Armor (オニオンアーマー, Onion Āmā?), also known as Onion, is a recurring piece of armor in the Final Fantasy series. It is usually the strongest armor piece in terms of defense, being extremely rare and hard to find.
Appearances[]
Final Fantasy III[]
Onion Armor is the strongest armor that can only be dropped from Red Dragon. It can be equipped by Onion Knights.
In the NES version, it provides 48 Defense, 48 Magic Defense, and 48% Evade. In the 3D versions, it provides 60 Defense, 40 Magic Defense, and +5 Strength and Vitality.
Final Fantasy IV[]
Onion Armor is the strongest armor in the 3D remakes, though the Adamant Armor provides more utility. Onion Armor provides Defense and Magic Defense equal to the user's level, while it also provides Intelligence equal to the user's Current Level/3. It can be obtained by trading in a Black Tail to the Tail Collector, and can be equipped by Cecil, Rydia, Rosa, Kain, and Edge.
Final Fantasy XIV[]
Onion Armor is 
Body armor for 
Dragoons. It can be obtained as a drop from Phlegethon in labyrinth of the ancients.
| Onion Armor
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Body LNC DRG Lv. 50 Item Level 80 |
Defense: 107 | Magic Defense: 84 | |
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Strength +25
Vitality +27 Direct Hit Rate +30 Skill Speed +21 | ||||
Repair/Melding/Desynthesis: Armorer
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Dyeable: No | Unique Untradeable | ||
Final Fantasy Tactics[]
The Onion Armor is the strongest armor, obtainable in Rendezvous mode in the War of the Lions version. It provides +250 HP as well as Auto-Regen, Auto-Reraise, Auto-Protect, and Auto-Shell, and can be equipped by the Onion Knight class.
Final Fantasy Type-0[]
Increases Defense by 70 and grants Aura.
Description
Onion Armor is an accessory that grants Defense +70 and Auto-Aura. It is the best defense accessory alongside the Crystal Mail. Onion Armor can be bought from SPP Post after completing "The Climactic Clash at Azurr" mission on Finis difficulty for 20,000 SPP. It sells for 10,000 gil.
Final Fantasy Crystal Chronicles: Echoes of Time[]
Armor that existed within the third final fantasy. For males of all tribes.
Description
Onion Armor is a mid to high-ranked armor that provides 5 Attack, 60 Defense, 5 Magic, 5 Magic Defense, and has two available slots for jewels. It can be equipped by males of all tribes.
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Onion Armor (III) is a 7★ armor for Onion Knight with a base CP of 210 and maximum level 50. It provides 18 ATK, 32 HP, 118 mBRV, 1749 DEF and teaches him the passive ability "Attack's Keystone" which increase both self BRV Damage Cap and Max BRV Cap by 15%. It is realizeable with maximum level 60.
Final Fantasy Record Keeper[]
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A set of crimson light armor brought from the Farplane. The distinct, brilliant red color of this armor is a target of admiration of those who call themselves "Onion Knights," who are the only ones that can wear this set of armor. It is as rare as the Onion Helm and Onion Gauntlet, making it difficult to complete, but those who accomplished this feat became so powerful that they remain, to this day, in various records touting their existence.
Description
Onion Armor is a Light Armor obtained during the Final Fantasy III event, Castle Hein. It provides 10 ATK, 40 DEF, and when equipped by Onion Knight, provides HP +15%.
Gallery[]
![Dissidia Final Fantasy Opera Omnia [FFIII]](/wiki/File:DFFOO_Onion_Armor_(III).png "DFFOO Onion Armor (III).png (94 KB)")
![Final Fantasy Record Keeper [FFIII].](/wiki/File:FFRK_Onion_Armor_FFIII.png "FFRK Onion Armor FFIII.png (9 KB)")
Etymology[]
The onion, also known as the bulb onion or common onion, is used as a vegetable and is the most widely cultivated species of the genus Allium.
In a 2020 Famitsu interview with Koichi Ishii and Hiromichi Tanaka about Final Fantasy III, Tanaka stated that he created the term "Onion Knight" after seeing Ishii's character design for the job, likening the shape of its helmet's large, white plume to that of an onion.[1]
Fans had previously speculated that "Onion Knight" refers to the Japanese metaphoric idiom "peeling away one layer at a time and crying all the way" (referring to poverty) or from the slang phrase "to know one's onions" (meaning to be very versatile).
- ↑ "『FF3』30周年で訊く、開発秘話ミニインタビュー。ジョブデザインや魔剣士、たまねぎ剣士の秘密も" by Famitsu (2020), translated into English in "The Origin of Final Fantasy’s Onion Knight (Translated Interview)" by Lost in Localization (2022)