Final Fantasy 8

Centra Ruins Revisited

Items:
20x Chef's Knife, 1x Royal Crown

Magic:
Drain - in the main compound of Centra Ruins.

Save Pt:
n/a

GF:
Tonberry

Monsters
Tonberry: Death
Tonberry King: Death, Curaga, Full-Life

Essential Preparations
100x Life for each character and Draw command for each character. Life can be drawn from Mesmerize found in Trabia - Hawkwind Plains/Bika Snowfields

GF Diablos - Prefered it has accquired Level 100.

100x Demi - you can draw from Torama found at the Great Plains of Esthar or Esthar City.

100x Curaga - you can also draw it from Mesmerize found in Trabia - Hawkind Plains and Bika Snowfields.

Revive Command - Alexander, 200 AP

Recover Command - Leviathan, 200 AP

100x Aura - Supt Mag-RF for Fury Fragment into Aura spells [1:5]

GFs: all from Disc 1, 2 and Doomtrain. Cactuar can quite useful if it's level 50 and above.

Mighty Guard: defeat/steal from Behemoths to get Barrier and use it on Quistis

Party Optimizer
Items: not necessary

Recommended HP: above 4000 HP for each character

Commands:
Attack, Magic, Recover, Draw
Mug, Magic, GF, Draw
Attack, Magic, Revive, Draw

Abilities: Auto-Haste, Auto Potion, Mug, Str +40%, Vit +40%, Spd+20%

Preferred:
Squall [Lion Heart] (for Disc 2, Punishment)
Quistis [Mighty Guard, Gatling Gun, Micro Missile]
Selphie [Full-Cure and Wall]

* Note this can be done in Disc 2 After finishing off Cactaur, it's time to head back to Centra Ruins. It's time, for a series of tough fight and get another GF: Tonberry. This GF is quite tough.. You can also avoid to have that 20 fights if you managed to get 20x Chef Knives. These items can obtain by modified the Tonberry King's Card and Tonberry's Card through Card-Mod RF. The more Chef's Knives you have, the less fight you are getting. [I got 2x Chef Knives and found out that I fought the Tonberry for only 16 times.] So it's the Chef's Knives that count.

But before that you need to dealt with the Tonberry. Also even though you have 20x Chef's Knives, you are still going to fight the Tonberry King. Here is what if you are going to fight the 20 times…

1) Keep track of battles, exit the Centra Ruins and save your game at World Map and use a Tent. Make use of the Chef Knife to keep track.

2) You can finished it quicker by using Limit Breaks, but it will be risky

Ways to defeat a Tonberry.

1) Once you get into the battle, do NOT attack with the Attack/Mug Command too often, as there is a probability of the Tonberry using Everyone's Grudge at your character. This also applies to offensive magic such as Ultima. It does not use that move to counter damage done by GFs. Everyone's Grudge can easily does a 4000 HP damage and that random.

2) Have someone with high compatibility with the Diablos and give that person Auto-Haste. Just keep on summoning GF Diablos and you will be able to do approximately 18,000 HP damage in two turns. If it work better if you have Doomtrain as Doomtrain lowers it's defense. After the Diablos does its job, summon any other GF [preferred Pandemona, Alexander or Cactaur to deal the remaining 2000 HP damage.]

3) Don't not let the Tonberry approaches your character. Try to keep a distance apart and keep on damaging it, before it uses Chef's Knife

4) Rapture and Degenerator does not work it, so don't bother to use it. It will be pretty easy if Quistis have cast the Mighty Guard and have Squall unleashes his Limit Breaks. 2x Renzoukukens followed by a finishing blow will be enough [different case, if you cast Meltdown first, but it has a possibility of being counter, therefore summon Doomtrain first]

After the 20th Tonberry has been defeated, you will fight the Tonberry King and it is the beginning of the BOSS fight!

Boss 24 - Tonberry King
Level 92
HP: 120,000+
Description: The King of Tonberries appears to seek revenge for all defeated Tonberries.
Attacks: It's sharp!, Junk, Everyone's Grudge, Death
Facts: n/a
Draw: Death, Curaga, Full-Life
AP gained: 21
Mug: n/a
Win: 1x Royal Crown
Squall's Level: 98
King Tonberry's Data Information

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                  || DEX  EVA |

Strategy
It's getting stronger and tougher each time.. [if you are observant over the previous battles. This GF could easily kick you out of the way if you are not careful enough. GF Diablos and Demi no longer works on this transformed version. Make use GF Doomtrain to lower its defense and have Slow status on it. Now be careful of it's following attacks:

It's sharp!: Tonberry King approaches your characters and followed by a sharp poke, caused damage corresponding to Vit stats. (it may be random) Junk: The Tonberry King call a series of Junk [footballs, baseball bats, hats and even televisions] come down from the sky and cause damage to all characters.

Everyone's Grudge: It is a counter-attack move against normal attacks.
Death: Instant death attack, make sure you have 100x Death junctioned ST-Def-J.

Terrible huh? You can easily counter all.. First cast Aura on Quistis and have her cast Mighty Guard. If you are luck, you may find the entire party with Aura status. If not, have other member cast on Squall. Keep pressing Circle and you will be able to unleash Renzouken. Most of the time, you will use Fated Circle, Rough Divide and Blasting Zone. As for Lion Heart, it's rarely unless you are really in deep shit. Selphie's usage as a great magic user comes handly in terms as a support member. With a status protection of Protect/Regen/Shell/Haste in one turn, Mighty Guard really proves its worth. If entire fleet of characters are below 200 HP, have Selphie uses Full-cure on the entire party. It's more advisable then to got all out... or have cast Recover on one of the member [I would try to protect Selphie as Quistis/Squall upon using a Phoenix Down could easily use their Limit Breaks]

Now you have gotten the new GF Tonberry, I would recommend you to get its menu abilities. [Familiar, Call Item Shop, Haggle and Discount are extremely helpful.] With these abilities, you can also make the hell of it. Yeah and here is a method: (I have gotten 6 million gil in an hour with this method; but I hoped that I could made Squall a billionaire ^_^;)

Infinite and Quick Cash Gain
You can get infinite gil at any time later in the game (well, it applies any time after you get Tonberry to be exact). Have Tonberry learn all menu abilities. Call an Item shop. Buy as many Tents as possible. Even without doing any SeeD Tests, I managed to accumulated sufficient cash. You needed at most 100,000 gil (75,000 gil if you have Discount) to have 100x Tents.

Now convert them into Mega Potions with Leviathan's Recov Med-RF ability. The exchange rate is 4 Tents = 1 Mega Potion. You will get 25x Mega Potions. Now sell them and you can get 187,500 gil in return! That's a quick gil.. Unlike you have to wonder and wait for a salary payment from SeeD. If you don't like the idea of sacrficing a Tent, you can also go nuts with Mesmerize Blade which can be won from Mesmerize! That's a short cut to get quick money.

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