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Final Fantasy Tactics Random Encounters

If you play Final Fantasy Tactics all the way through, you're probably going to run into a lot of random battles along the way. If you play it through more than once, you may even end up entirely sick of them. But these random encounters have a lot of randomness that build them up; encounters are defined by how you enter the location, and even then there are a lot of variables involved. Some enemies will always appear, some will appear infrequently or not at all, and some maps even have completely separate, very rare encounters. This page gives you a digest of them all.

Grog Hill

Entering from Doguola Pass
Common 1Always present: Grenade
May appear: Grenade, Grenade, Grenade, Grenade, Grenade, Grenade, Chocobo, Chocobo, Chocobo, Chocobo, Juravis, Juravis
Common 2Always present: Flotiball
May appear: Ahriman, Flotiball, Ahriman, Ahriman, Ahriman, Samurai, Bomb, Chocobo, Grenade, Chocobo, Cuar, Bull Demon
Common 3Always present: Red Chocobo
May appear: Chocobo, Black Chocobo, Bomb, Grenade, Explosive, Ahriman, Ahriman, Explosive, Grenade, Bomb, Black Chocobo, Chocobo
Common 4Always present: Ahriman
May appear: Grenade, Grenade, Grenade, Grenade, Bomb, Summoner, Ahriman, Ahriman, Bull Demon, Bull Demon, Bull Demon, Cuar
Entering from Lesalia Imperial Capital
Common 1Always present: Chocobo
May appear: Black Chocobo, Bomb, Grenade, Flotiball, Ahriman, Woodman, Woodman, Flotiball, Flotiball, Grenade, Bomb, Black Chocobo
Common 2Always present: Cuar
May appear: Cuar, Cuar, Cuar, Red Panther, Red Panther, Red Panther, Geomancer, Geomancer, Priest, Chocobo, Chocobo, Red Chocobo
Common 3Always present: Bull Demon
May appear: Bull Demon, Bull Demon, Bull Demon, Bull Demon, Grenade, Black Goblin, Flotiball, Flotiball, Flotiball, Flotiball, Bomb, Goblin
Common 4Always present: Bull Demon
May appear: Bull Demon, Bull Demon, Bull Demon, Bull Demon, Archer, Archer, Ahriman, Ahriman, Flotiball, Flotiball, Summoner, Wizard
RareAlways present: Monk, Monk, Monk, Monk, Monk, Monk, Monk, Monk, Monk, Monk, Monk
Entering from Yardow Fort City
Common 1Always present: Chocobo
May appear: Chocobo, Chocobo, Bomb, Bomb, Bomb, Blue Dragon, Flotiball, Flotiball, Flotiball, Grenade, Grenade, Red Panther
Common 2Always present: Black Chocobo
May appear: Chocobo, Chocobo, Grenade, Grenade, Grenade, Grenade, Knight, Knight, Knight, Cuar, Cuar, Red Panther
Common 3Always present: Ahriman
May appear: Grenade, Grenade, Grenade, Grenade, Bomb, Bomb, Ahriman, Ahriman, Bull Demon, Bull Demon, Bull Demon, Cuar
Common 4Always present: Revenant, Revenant, Gust
May appear: Trent, Trent, Taiju, Trent, Oracle, Oracle, Oracle, Chocobo, Chocobo, Chocobo
Grog Hill map

Lenalia Plateau

Mandalia Plains

Entering from Gariland Magic City
Common 1Always present: Goblin
May appear: Chocobo, Chocobo, Chocobo, Goblin, Goblin, Red Panther, Red Panther, Chocobo, Red Panther, Chocobo
Common 2Always present: Red Panther
May appear: Knight, Knight, Red Panther, Black Goblin, Red Panther, Wizard, Wizard, Wizard, Goblin, Black Goblin
Common 3Always present: Black Chocobo
May appear: Black Chocobo, Black Goblin, Black Chocobo, Black Goblin, Black Chocobo, Black Goblin, Cuar, Cuar, Grenade, Black Goblin
Common 4Always present: Gobbledeguck
May appear: Gobbledeguck, Gobbledeguck, Black Goblin, Vampire, Vampire, Cuar, Lancer, Lancer, Lancer, Archer, Archer, Archer
Entering from Igros Castle
Common 1Always present: Goblin, Red Panther
May appear: Red Panther, Goblin, Red Panther, Chocobo, Goblin, Chocobo, Goblin, Red Panther
Common 2Always present: Squire
May appear: Chocobo, Chocobo, Goblin, Goblin, Goblin, Archer, Squire, Archer, Squire
Common 3Always present: Cuar
May appear: Black Goblin, Black Chocobo, Chocobo, Black Goblin, Black Goblin, Goblin, Black Chocobo, Cuar, Morbol, Chocobo
Common 4Always present: Gobbledeguck, Black Chocobo
May appear: Black Goblin, Black Goblin, Chocobo, Chocobo, Archer, Archer, Summoner, Summoner
Entering from Thieves' Fort
Common 1Always present: Goblin
May appear: Chocobo, Red Panther, Chocobo, Red Panther, Goblin, Red Panther, Chocobo, Goblin
Common 2Always present: Goblin
May appear: Goblin, Red Panther, Red Panther, Chocobo, Chocobo, Knight, Knight, Knight
Common 3Always present: Black Chocobo, Cuar
May appear: Gobbledeguck, Black Goblin, Vampire, Cuar, Black Chocobo, Ahriman, Ahriman, Gobbledeguck
Common 4Always present: Cuar
May appear: Red Panther, Wizard, Wizard, Oracle, Oracle, Knight, Knight, Knight, Knight, Vampire, Red Panther
RareAlways present: Red Dragon, Dragon, Chocobo, Chocobo
May appear: Blue Dragon, Dragon, Blue Dragon, Dragon, Blue Dragon, Dragon, Blue Dragon, Dragon, Blue Dragon, Dragon, Blue Dragon, Dragon
Mandalia Plains map

Poeskas Lake

Entering from Germinas Peak
Common 1Always present: Bomb
May appear: Bomb, Skeleton, Skeleton, Ghoul, Ghoul, Archer, Bone Snatch, Bone Snatch, Gust, Gust, Grenade, Grenade, King Behemoth
Common 2Always present: Cocatoris
May appear: Cocatoris, Skeleton, Skeleton, Living Bone, Living Bone, Behemoth, Bone Snatch, Bone Snatch, Monk, Monk, Steel Hawk, Steel Hawk, King Behemoth
Common 3Always present: Grenade
May appear: Explosive, Skeleton, Bone Snatch, Ghoul, Ghoul, Red Dragon, Living Bone, Living Bone, Gust, Gust, Grenade, King Behemoth, Revenant
Common 4Always present: Bomb
May appear: Bomb, Skeleton, Skeleton, Grenade, Grenade, Behemoth, Bone Snatch, Bone Snatch, Summoner, Summoner, Grenade, Grenade, King Behemoth
RareAlways present: Wizard, Wizard, Oracle, Chemist, Wizard
May appear: Time Mage, Summoner, Priest
Presence unspecified: Chocobo, Chocobo, Chocobo, Chocobo, Chocobo, Chocobo, Chocobo, Chocobo
Entering from Limberry Castle
Common 1Always present: Grenade
May appear: Explosive, Bone Snatch, Gust, Bone Snatch, Gust, Explosive, Bomb, Bomb, Bomb, Bomb, Ghoul, Grenade, Behemoth
Common 2Always present: Grenade
May appear: Explosive, Minitaurus, Gust, Minitaurus, Minitaurus, Explosive, Bomb, Revenant, Bomb, Bomb, Bull Demon, Grenade, Chemist
Common 3Always present: Grenade
May appear: Explosive, Bone Snatch, Gust, Bone Snatch, Gust, Explosive, Bomb, Bomb, Bomb, Bomb, Ghoul, Grenade, Behemoth, Behemoth
Common 4Always present: Behemoth
May appear: Behemoth, Behemoth, Behemoth, Behemoth, King Behemoth, King Behemoth, Dark Behemoth, Dark Behemoth, Dark Behemoth, Dark Behemoth, Dark Behemoth, Archer, Archer, Wizard
Poeskas Lake map

Sweegy Woods

Entering from Dorter Trade City
Common 1Always present: Black Goblin
May appear: Black Goblin, Black Goblin, Skeleton, Black Goblin, Bomb, Skeleton, Bomb
Common 2Always present: Skeleton
May appear: Skeleton, Goblin, Goblin, Black Goblin, Black Goblin, Squire, Squire, Squire, Archer, Archer
Common 3Always present: Black Goblin
May appear: Gobbledeguck, Skeleton, Bone Snatch, Woodman, Trent, Bone Snatch, Woodman, Gobbledeguck, Woodman, Bull Demon
Common 4Always present: Black Goblin
May appear: Grenade, Grenade, Explosive, Living Bone, Living Bone, Living Bone, Goblin, Gobbledeguck, Wizard, Wizard, Wizard, Black Goblin
RareAlways present: Archer, Archer, Geomancer, Time Mage, Oracle
May appear: Knight, Wizard, Summoner
Presence unspecified: Chocobo, Chocobo, Chocobo, Chocobo, Chocobo, Chocobo, Chocobo, Chocobo
Entering from Gariland Magic City
Common 1Always present: Black Goblin
May appear: Black Goblin, Black Goblin, Skeleton, Skeleton, Skeleton, Bomb, Bull Demon
Common 2Always present: Bomb
May appear: Chocobo, Skeleton, Bomb, Chocobo, Bomb, Monk, Monk, Monk, Skeleton
Common 3Always present: Living Bone
May appear: Black Chocobo, Living Bone, Bone Snatch, Red Panther, Red Chocobo, Cuar, Grenade, Vampire, Woodman
Common 4Always present: Gobbledeguck
May appear: Black Goblin, Goblin, Explosive, Grenade, Woodman, Explosive, Explosive, Knight, Knight, Archer, Grenade
Sweegy Woods map
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