Onion Helm in Final Fantasy XIV.
A helm 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 Helm (オニオンヘルム, Onion Herumu?), also known as Onion, is a recurring helmet in the Final Fantasy series. It is often the most powerful helmet in the games it appears in, offering extremely good defenses. It is part of the onion equipment set.
Appearances[]
Final Fantasy III[]
Onion Helm is the most powerful helmet, dropped from Yellow Dragon. It can be equipped by the Onion Knight class.
In the NES version, it provides 48 Defense, 48 Magic Defense, 48% Evade. In the 3D versions, it provides 40 Defense, 40 Magic Defense, and immunity to all statuses in addition to Mind and Intellect +5.
Final Fantasy IV[]
Onion Helm is the strongest helmet in the 3D remakes, providing Defense and Magic Defense equal to the user's Level/10, as well as Speed equal to user's Current Level/3. The Green Tail can be traded with the Tail Collector for the Onion Helm, and can be equipped by Cecil, Rydia, Rosa, Kain, and Cid.
Final Fantasy XIII-2[]
A helm that seems weak and powerful—at the same time.
Description
Onion Knight's Helm is an adornment that can be placed on a Paradigm Pack monster. It can be won as a prize from the Chocobo Races (Undying Cup).
Lightning Returns: Final Fantasy XIII[]
A helm that seems weak and powerful—at the same time.
Description
Onion Knight's Helm is an adornment that can be worn by Lightning. It is a reward for completing the "Adoring Candice" quest in Yusnaan.
Final Fantasy XIV[]
The Onion Helm is 
Head armor that can be equipped by all classes. It could only be acquired as a pre-order bonus for the original release, making it an exceedingly rare item. Being level 1 with low attributes, it is primarily used for glamours.
| Onion Helm
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Head All Classes Lv. 1 Item Level 11 |
Defense: 6 | Magic Defense: 13 | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Vitality +1
Piety +1 Reduced Durability Loss +20 | ||||
Repair/Melding/Desynthesis: Armorer
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Dyeable: No | Unique Untradeable | ||
Final Fantasy Tactics[]
Onion Helm is the strongest helmet that provides +200 HP and can only be equipped by the Onion Knight class. It is only obtainable in the Melee mode in the PSP and later versions.
Final Fantasy Crystal Chronicles: Echoes of Time[]
A helmet that existed within the third final fantasy. For males of all tribes.
Description
Onion Helm is a high-ranked helmet that provides 1 Attack, 48 Defense, 1 Magic, 1 Magic Resistance, and has two available slots for jewels. It can only be equipped by males of all races.
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A crimson helm brought from the Farplane. The helm is characterized by the burning red color, and the feather affixed to the top of the helm. These helms were worn in the Farplane by those who bore the mysterious job of the "Onion Knight," who were known as being both the weakest and the strongest of all. These helms are extremely hard to come by, and could only be obtained by defeating fearsome dragons.
Description
Onion Helm is a helm that provides 15 ATK, 20 DEF, and when equipped by the Onion Knight, gives +50% resistance to Poison, Sleep, Confuse, and Disease. It is obtained from the Final Fantasy III event, "Castle Hein".
Gallery[]
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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)