Final Fantasy X Monster Arena

Species Conquest

Species Conquest creations are unlocked by capturing several of every fiend in a related family. Unlike Area Conquest, those families are scattered across Spira, so keep the capture tracker open and work toward the thresholds below while you finish each area.

Every Species Conquest fight costs 8,000 Gil after the free first attempt. Most award 10,000 AP and 0 Gil; Juggernaut is the exception at 8,000 AP. The normal item drop has a small chance to be replaced by , and an doubles the item quantity but not the AP. The owner gives each unlock reward once, when its creation becomes available.

Species Conquest Unlocks

Family	Capture each	Required fiends	Creation	First reward
Wolves	3	Dingo, , , , , ,	Fenrir	×99
Lizards	3	Dinonix, , , , , , Zaurus	Ornitholestes	×99
Birds	5	Condor, ,	Pteryx	×99
Insects	4	Killer Bee, , ,	Hornet	×60
Imps	4	, , Imp	Vidatu	×99
Eyeballs	4	, , , , Floating Death	One-Eye	×60
Flans	3	Water Flan, , , , ,	Jumbo Flan	×60
Elements	3	Yellow Element, , , , , ,	Nega Elemental	×99
Armored moles	3	, , , , Shred, Halma	Tanket	×99
Dragons	4	, , , ,	Fafnir	×99
Fungi	5	, Thorn,	Sleep Sprout	×99
Bombs	5	Bomb, , Puroboros	Bomb King	×60
Horned fiends	5	, ,	Juggernaut	×99
	10	, ,	Ironclad	×60

The two Gemini forms have separate capture counters. You need ten sword-wielding Gemini and ten club-wielding Gemini for Ironclad; ten encounters with whichever one happened to show up first will not do it.

Fenrir

Boss Fight: Fenrir

HP /	850,000 / 99,999
Steal	×2; rare: ×1
Weak / Absorbs	No elemental weaknesses or absorbs; resists Fire, Ice, Lightning, and Water; immune to Gravity
Reward	10,000 AP; 0 Gil
Drops	×1; rare: ×1 (quantities double on )
Strategy	Fenrir is extremely fast and evasive. Fangs of Chaos inflicts Confusion while removing most of a target’s current HP, and Fangs of Hell can cause instant death even through , though both attacks can miss. Put on your strongest character, use Haste and , and bring Aim, , high Luck, or attacks that do not care about Evasion. A powerful or a multi-hit is the easier answer for a developing party; the Fangs of Chaos can also strip away most of Fenrir’s HP because percentage damage works here.

Ornitholestes

Boss Fight: Ornitholestes

HP /	800,000 / 99,999
Steal	×1; rare: ×1
Weak / Absorbs	Absorbs Fire; immune to Water and Gravity
Reward	10,000 AP; 0 Gil
Drops	×2; rare: ×1 (quantities double on )
Strategy	This is another fast, evasive target. Poison Touch removes most of a character’s current HP and adds Poison, while Drain Touch heals Ornitholestes for the damage it deals. keeps the first problem under control. Haste, Protect, Reflex, Aim, and work once your party can connect reliably; otherwise use Overdrives or a strong . Zombie creates the amusing reversal where Drain Touch hurts the boss and heals its target, but do not build the whole fight around waiting for it.

Pteryx

Boss Fight: Pteryx

HP /	100,000 / 99,999
Steal	×4; rare: ×1
Weak / Absorbs	No elemental weaknesses or absorbs; immune to Gravity
Reward	10,000 AP; 0 Gil
Drops	×1; rare: ×1 (quantities double on )
Strategy	Pteryx starts with Beak of Woe, which hits the party and inflicts Curse, then concentrates on anyone who escaped the status. or removes Curse if you need an . Its very high Evasion is more troublesome than its 100,000 HP, so use Aim, , Luck, Overdrives, or an rather than spending the afternoon swinging at empty air.

Hornet

Boss Fight: Hornet

HP /	620,000 / 50,000
Steal	×4; rare: ×2
Weak / Absorbs	No elemental weaknesses or absorbs; immune to Gravity
Reward	10,000 AP; 0 Gil
Drops	×1; rare: ×1 (quantities double on )
Strategy	Hornet’s attacks never miss, and its stabs pile on Sleep, Poison, Confusion, or instant death. and are the most useful protections, with and filling the remaining gaps. Hornet is evasive but not especially durable by Arena standards, so Haste, Aim, and (or a powerful or Attack Reels) should end the battle before the status ailments get creative. Silence or Reflect can also keep it from healing itself with .

Vidatu

Boss Fight: Vidatu

HP /	95,000 / 10,000
Steal	×4; rare: ×1
Weak / Absorbs	No elemental weaknesses or absorbs; permanent NulAll nullifies Fire, Ice, Lightning, and Water; immune to Gravity
Reward	10,000 AP; 0 Gil
Drops	×1; rare: ×1 (quantities double on )
Strategy	Vidatu combines high Defense and Evasion with permanent NulAll, , , and . A or Banishing Blade applies reliably, after which one accurate 99,999-damage hit ends the fight. Before that point, use Aim and non-elemental magic such as , Holy, or , or let an do the work. If you are looking for a short battle to try and farm rare drops, this short battle is a pretty good option.

One-Eye

Boss Fight: One-Eye

HP /	150,000 / 15,000
Steal	×3; rare: ×1
Weak / Absorbs	No elemental weaknesses or absorbs; immune to Fire, Ice, Lightning, Water, and Gravity
Reward	10,000 AP; 0 Gil
Drops	×1; rare: ×1 (quantities double on )
Strategy	One-Eye can open with Shockwave, a party-wide magical attack that brings Slow, Confusion, Sleep, Darkness, and Silence along for the ride. Give somebody so that character can swap in Yuna and summon if One-Eye wins initiative, or use status-proof armor and kill its modest 150,000 HP before it moves. Black Stare is the quieter follow-up, dealing physical damage and Curse to one target.

One-Eye Equipment Farming

One-Eye can drop weapons with , making it one of the most useful early Arena farms. Once one attacker can deal 99,999 damage, a weapon turns each run into a very short audition for better equipment. Keep pieces with two or three empty slots so you can add and for the Don Tonberry AP grind, and sell the failures to recover some of the entry fees.

Jumbo Flan

Boss Fight: Jumbo Flan

HP /	1,300,000 / 99,999
Steal	×4; rare: ×1
Weak / Absorbs	Absorbs Fire, Ice, Lightning, Water, and Holy in the original-PS2 enemy table; weapon-based physical attacks deal 0; immune to Gravity
Reward	10,000 AP; 0 Gil
Drops	×1; rare: ×1 (quantities double on )
Strategy	This guy is REALLY tough. Well, technically he is jellylike and probably soft and squishy to the touch, but he is hard to defeat. Do not even think about normal weapon attacks. Reflect a Slow spell from one of your own characters, then use and ; can work if you bounce it around Reflect, but is simpler. The lower-stat solution is with Haste, Shell, or , and Pain. Jumbo Flan’s when it appears and keep going. Would you want to touch him, anyway? I wouldn’t.

Nega Elemental

Boss Fight: Nega Elemental

HP /	1,300,000 / 15,000
Steal	×4; rare: ×1
Weak / Absorbs	Absorbs Fire, Ice, Lightning, Water, and Holy; immune to Gravity
Reward	10,000 AP; 0 Gil
Drops	×2; rare: ×1 (quantities double on )
Strategy	Nega Elemental answers every physical attack and most Special commands with , and ignores Reflect. Either arrive with enough Magic Defense plus Shell to survive that argument or do not start it. followed by works; Pain also avoids the counter, so Haste and Shell her and keep using it. Nega Elemental’s regular Drain and are comparatively harmless, and Reflect can block both if needed.

Tanket

Boss Fight: Tanket

HP /	900,000 / 10,000
Steal	×4; rare: ×4
Weak / Absorbs	No elemental weaknesses or absorbs; immune to Gravity
Reward	10,000 AP; 0 Gil
Drops	×1; rare: ×1 (quantities double on )
Strategy	Tanket is Armored, delays its targets, and can inflict Berserk. Below half HP it switches to Rush Attack; if only one character is standing, the repeated delay can leave Tanket attacking until that character is dead. Use and , apply with a or Banishing Blade, and kill it quickly once its HP crosses the halfway mark. Better still, bring weapons and finish the entire fight before Tanket gets a turn.

Fafnir

Boss Fight: Fafnir

HP /	1,100,000 / 13,000
Steal	×2; rare: ×2
Weak / Absorbs	Absorbs Fire, Ice, and Lightning; immune to Gravity
Reward	10,000 AP; 0 Gil
Drops	×20; rare: ×1 (quantities double on )
Strategy	Fafnir’s Triple Attack combines a physical bite with elemental breaths, so Protect and the matching Nul spells make a large difference. A weaker party can use a Hasted, Protected . Don’t forget that can heal from the Lightning breath, although the Fire and Ice portions are still very much his problem. A strong party should apply and use Haste plus to kill Fafnir before the attack cycle matters. If you need ordinary red Spheres, use a Distiller or Extract before the finishing blow to turn the 20 into 20 Spheres, or 40 on an .

Sleep Sprout

Boss Fight: Sleep Sprout

HP /	98,000 / 10,000
Steal	×4; rare: ×1
Weak / Absorbs	Weak to Fire; no elemental absorbs; immune to Gravity
Reward	10,000 AP; 0 Gil
Drops	×1; rare: ×1 (quantities double on )
Strategy	As the name implies, Sleep Sprout has a sleeping attack. Goodnight is also its first normal turn and its counter to physical damage, inflicting long-lasting Sleep and Berserk along with damage and stat breaks. Fortunately it has less than 99,999 HP. Use a weapon and end the battle in one hit, use an that avoids the counter, or summon an , which ignores the statuses. Fire is its weakness if you are tackling it before one-hit damage.

Bomb King

Boss Fight: Bomb King

HP /	480,000 / 10,000
Steal	×4; rare: ×1
Weak / Absorbs	Absorbs Fire; immune to Gravity
Reward	10,000 AP; 0 Gil
Drops	×1; rare: ×1 (quantities double on )
Strategy	Bomb King grows after every third time it is targeted, escalating from physical attacks to , , and eventually . It does not . A strong party can simply hit hard enough to end the battle before the escalation. A weaker party can wear or armor and let an handle it. For the peculiar slow method, equip and defend: those counterattacks damage Bomb King without adding to its growth counter.

Juggernaut

Boss Fight: Juggernaut

HP /	1,200,000 / 15,000
Steal	×4; rare: ×1
Weak / Absorbs	Absorbs Fire; no other elemental weaknesses or absorbs; immune to ordinary magic and Gravity
Reward	8,000 AP; 0 Gil
Drops	×1; rare: ×1 (quantities double on )
Strategy	Juggernaut spends its first turn Charging and follows with Salvo, a powerful Fire attack against the party. , , or therefore turns the opening into two free rounds. Cast , apply with a or Banishing Blade, and unload before it moves again. If the battle drags on, handles Crush Spike’s instant-death effect and Protect softens its physical attacks; a summoned can also take Salvo for a developing party.

Ironclad

Boss Fight: Ironclad

HP /	2,000,000 / 99,999
Steal	×4; rare: ×1
Weak / Absorbs	No elemental weaknesses or absorbs; immune to Fire, Ice, Lightning, Water, and Gravity
Reward	10,000 AP; 0 Gil
Drops	×1; rare: ×1 (quantities double on )
Strategy	Ironclad is Armored and normally resists , but Banishing Blade or a applies it reliably. It counters attacks with Reppageki, an evadable single-target strike; Celestial Weapons plus high Evasion or make the farm much cleaner. Its normal cycle adds Bushinzan, which hits the party and drains MP, and Shinryudan against one target. A weaker party can put Protect on Auron and use , or send in a Hasted, Protected and rely on Pain.