Final Fantasy V Walkthrough
Written by Djibriel
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1.36: Wrapping Up: Walz Meteorite and Byurobolos
Enemies: Byurobolos
Blue Magic: 
Exploder
Byurobolos  Boss Monster |
Type |
Level |
HP |
MP |
Gil |
EXP |
Speed |
None | 22 | 1500 | 100 | 0 | 0 | 20 | |
Strength |
Attack Mult. |
Magic Atk. |
Evasion |
Defense |
Mag. Def. |
Mag. Evade |
|
45 | 7 | 10 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 10 | |
Stolen Items |
Dropped Items |
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Common: Eye Drop | Common: Tonic | ||||||
Command Immunities | Elemental Immunities | ||||||
Catch | None | ||||||
Elemental Absorb | Elemental Weakness | ||||||
None | None | ||||||
Blue Magic | Status Immunities | ||||||
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Strategy | |||||||
Since you need to defeat all of the monsters in quick succession, or risk them resurrecting each other, either Silence as many as possible, or focus on dealing damage to all the targets at once. The latter works best, but be aware that Byurobolos will heal every time they are hit with a Summoned monster. | |||||||
A decently leveled Summoner with
EarthRobe wielding Titan's power can take out all six Byurobolos in a single hit. I'm not counting on you having that, though. Byurobolos' can be very, very annoying. Every time one is killed, it revives all deceased comrades with full HP. With 1500 HP and the ability to cast Exploder every single turn, you'll want to deal with them very quickly. So, there's basically two approaches:The Silence status prevents a Byurobolos from casting
Arise when dying. It's, however, very difficult to set the ailment and deal sufficient damage at the same time. It's a shame the 
Mute spell has no effect in this battle.The best way to deal with the Byurobolos is by dealing damage to all targets. Clothes characters can throw Scrolls, which are even better when a spell ability is set to the character to boost its Magic Power. Gaia's Wrath deals around 1100 damage (1700 when boosted), but beware; every Summoned monster attack makes a Byurobolos cast
Cure2 on itself, healing for about 200 HP. AquaRake deals around 800 damage as well. The way to kill all Byurobolos in a single hit if you're sick of them is the Samurai's !$Toss; a level 25 character deals over 5000 damage to all targets. It'll cost you about 7500 Gil though, and it's really not necessary. I'd go with a Scroll followed up with Gaia's Wrath or something like that, works like a charm and costs you nothing.I wonder where Cid and Mid have Gorn? OMG! Pun intended. It's below the Quicksand Desert, remember?
Caves of Narshe: Final Fantasy V
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All fanfiction and fanart (including original artwork in forum avatars) is property of the original authors. Some graphics property of Square Enix.