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[[List of Final Fantasy IV Armor#Onion Shield|Onion Shield]] is the strongest shield in the game, providing Defense equal to the user's Level/10, Stamina equal to the user's current Level/3, and resistance to all statuses except [[Berserk (Status)|Berserk]]. It can only be obtained by trading a Blue Tail to the [[Tail Collector]], and can be equipped by [[Cecil Harvey|Cecil]], [[Rydia]], [[Rosa Joanna Farrell|Rosa]], [[Edge Geraldine|Edge]], and [[Kain Highwind|Kain]].
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[[List of Final Fantasy IV Armor#Onion Shield|Onion Shield]] is the strongest shield in the game, providing Defense equal to the user's Level/10, Stamina equal to the user's current Level/3, and resistance to all statuses except [[Berserk (Status)|Berserk]]. It can only be obtained by trading a Blue Tail to the [[Tail Collector]], and can be equipped by [[Cecil Harvey|Cecil]] and [[Kain Highwind|Kain]].
   
 
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Revision as of 21:19, 15 September 2015

Onion Shield FFIII Art

Artwork from Final Fantasy III.

A shield forged for swordsmen who have mastered every technique and achieved knighthood's most exalted rank.

Onion Shield (オニオンシールド, Onion Shīrudo?), also known as Onion, is a recurring shield in the series. It is the most powerful shield in the games it appears in, giving outstanding defenses but lacking any other special properties such as that of the Adamant Shield or other such high-leveled shields.

Appearances

Final Fantasy III

Template:Sideicon Onion Shield is the strongest shield in the game, providing 30 Defense (48 in the NES version), 30 Magic Defense (48 in the NES version), 48% Evade (NES only), and +2 to all stats (3D versions only). It can only be obtained by winning it from Yellow Dragon, Green Dragon, and Red Dragon. It can only be equipped by the Onion Knight.

Final Fantasy IV

Template:Sideicon Onion Shield is the strongest shield in the game, providing Defense equal to the user's Level/10, Stamina equal to the user's current Level/3, and resistance to all statuses except Berserk. It can only be obtained by trading a Blue Tail to the Tail Collector, and can be equipped by Cecil and Kain.

Final Fantasy XIV

Template:Sideicon Onion Shield is a item level 90 shield equippable by Gladiator and its job Paladin. It has a 92 block strength and a 295 block rate, and provides 9 Strength, 10 Vitality, 7 Parry and 11 Critical Hit Rate.

Final Fantasy Tactics: The War of the Lions

Template:Sideicon Onion Shield is the strongest shield in the PSP version of the game, providing 80% Physical Evasion and 75% Magic Evasion. It can only be obtained in Rendezvous mode, and can only be equipped by the Onion Knight.

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).


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