Final Fantasy VI All Enemies and Bosses

As soon as Rizopas comes, you're in trouble. This little guy has access to the El Niño spell, which will deal up to 250 damage to both characters. Your best bet is to go all-out offensive. While Rizopas has very decent magical defense, Aurabolt still out-damages Pummel (and Fire Dance, but that should be obvious). For Bushido, Slash doesn't work, so just go with Dispatch. If you're really unlucky, Rizopas kills you, and there's nothing you can do about that short of over-leveling. The odds aren't that high, though. Expand Full Strategy

After the introduction between you and Siegfried is done, it's time to fight. Siegfried has 100 HP and opens with a flurry of eight weak physical attacks. Chances are your Black Belt character or Interceptor kills him before he finishes all eight, but if that's not the case, you can just do whatever (except the Slash Bushido skill!). Expand Full Strategy

Skull Drgn just isn't very assuming. It's a generally subpar dragon as-is, once you ignore the fact it has no status vulnerabilities to exploit, but, at the very end of the game, your party is a force to be reckoned with. It's kind of ridiculous and sad all at the same time.

Battle, Condemned, Elf Fire, and Specter all show up on the boss' first three turns, Condemned easily being the most popular one. Every fourth turn, Skull Drgn may use Disaster, which is clearly its most crippling attack. It will be randomly single or multi-targeted by the semi-Undead dragon, and it sets Dark, Imp, Condemned, Mute, Muddle, and, oddly enough, the Float status. One interesting little tidbit about the Specter move is that the graphic designers never expected any monster to use it, so, instead of a graphic of the caster (Skull Drgn in this case), you'll see a half-baked sprite of your leading party member instead. Every damaging attack it takes may be countered by Battle.

Throw on Ribbons where possible. You shouldn't need any special protection for Elf Fire, as it's about as powerful as Fire 2, but you can equip Flame Shields, Ice Shields, Minervas, or Rage Rings to absorb or nullify the attack. On the offensive front, just do whatever you have learned works. Since it's possible you have Ragnarok's Metamorph at your disposal, you can try that for a quick win. Fire 3 spells are extremely powerful (more so than the Pearl spell). Ragers can Rage Srbehemoth to cast Fire 3 and become immune to Condemned (the eventual death trigger will heal him), and the Imp, Mute, and Confuse statuses that Disaster may set (the remaining Dark and Float statuses that will be set are nothing to worry about for obvious reasons). Gogo should Rage like Gau. If you bought Flame Sabres for Shadow, know that they are superior to other weapons Shadow can throw. Expand Full Strategy