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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.

Dugeura Pass

Entering from Bervenia
Common 1Always present: Chocobo
May appear: Chocobo, Red Panther, Red Panther, Jura Aevis, Jura Aevis, Wisenkin, Black Chocobo, Coeurl, Coeurl, Steelhawk, Steelhawk, Behemoth
Common 2Always present: Coeurl
May appear: Coeurl, Coeurl, Coeurl, Coeurl, Jura Aevis, Archer, Chocobo, Chocobo, Chocobo, Steelhawk, Steelhawk, Dryad
Common 3Always present: Chocobo
May appear: Chocobo, Chocobo, Chocobo, Black Chocobo, Red Chocobo, Bomb, Behemoth, Behemoth, Behemoth, Behemoth, Behemoth, Behemoth
Common 4Always present: Chocobo
May appear: Chocobo, Archer, Archer, Jura Aevis, Jura Aevis, Wisenkin, Black Chocobo, Archer, Archer, Steelhawk, Steelhawk, Behemoth
Entering from Grogh Heights
Common 1Always present: Chocobo
May appear: Chocobo, Red Panther, Red Panther, Jura Aevis, Jura Aevis, Wisenkin, Black Chocobo, Coeurl, Coeurl, Steelhawk, Steelhawk, Behemoth
Common 2Always present: Coeurl
May appear: Coeurl, Coeurl, Coeurl, Coeurl, Jura Aevis, Monk, Chocobo, Chocobo, Chocobo, Steelhawk, Steelhawk, Dryad
Common 3Always present: Steelhawk
May appear: Steelhawk, Steelhawk, Bomb, Grenade, Grenade, Wisenkin, Black Chocobo, Black Chocobo, Red Chocobo, Red Chocobo, Exploder, Behemoth
Common 4Always present: Chocobo
May appear: Chocobo, Knight, Knight, Jura Aevis, Jura Aevis, Wisenkin, Black Chocobo, Knight, Knight, Steelhawk, Steelhawk, Behemoth
RareAlways present: Time Mage, Time Mage, Time Mage, Black Chocobo, Red Chocobo
May appear: Monk, Monk, Monk, Archer, Archer
Presence unspecified: Chocobo, Chocobo, Chocobo, Chocobo, Chocobo, Chocobo
Dugeura Pass map

Finnath Creek

Entering from Bervenia
Common 1Always present: Chocobo
May appear: Chocobo, Black Chocobo, Red Panther, Red Panther, Piscodaemon, Piscodaemon, Coeurl, Coeurl, Squidrakin, Squidrakin, Squidrakin, Squidrakin, Malboro, Ochu
Common 2Always present: Black Chocobo
May appear: Ochu, Black Chocobo, Ochu, Mystic, Piscodaemon, Piscodaemon, Mystic, Mystic, Squidrakin, Piscodaemon, Piscodaemon, Squidrakin, Chocobo, Chocobo
Common 3Always present: Black Chocobo
May appear: Red Chocobo, Red Chocobo, Red Chocobo, Red Chocobo, Red Chocobo, Red Chocobo, Piscodaemon, Piscodaemon, Archer, Mindflayer, Mindflayer, Mindflayer, Dragon, Dragon
Common 4Always present: Mindflayer
May appear: Mindflayer, Mindflayer, Mindflayer, Squidrakin, Squidrakin, Squidrakin, Summoner, Summoner, Summoner, Dragoon, Dragoon, Dragoon, Dragon, Blue Dragon
Entering from Zeltennia Castle
Common 1Always present: Chocobo
May appear: Chocobo, Chocobo, Red Dragon, Red Chocobo, Black Chocobo, Red Chocobo, Malboro, Malboro, Ochu, Malboro, Malboro, Malboro, Squidrakin, Mindflayer
Common 2Always present: Coeurl
May appear: Coeurl, Coeurl, Knight, Knight, Squidrakin, Squidrakin, Squidrakin, Squidrakin, Squidrakin, Squidrakin, Treant, Treant, Treant, Treant
Common 3Always present: Coeurl
May appear: Red Panther, Coeurl, Red Panther, Red Panther, Red Panther, Red Panther, Dragon, Dragon, Dragon, Dragon, Chocobo, Chocobo, Red Panther, Red Panther
Common 4Always present: Treant
May appear: Treant, Elder Treant, Dryad, Dryad, Dryad, Dryad, Ninja, Ninja, Archer, Archer, Malboro, Malboro, Ochu, Great Malboro
RareAlways present: Behemoth, Behemoth, Behemoth, Behemoth, Behemoth, Goblin, Piscodaemon
May appear: Wisenkin, Wisenkin, Wisenkin, Wisenkin
Presence unspecified: Wisenkin, Wisenkin, Wisenkin, Wisenkin, Wisenkin
Finnath Creek map

Fovoham Windflats

Entering from Lenalian Plateau
Common 1Always present: Piscodaemon
May appear: Piscodaemon, Piscodaemon, Wisenkin, Floating Eye, Floating Eye, Goblin, Goblin, Floating Eye, Piscodaemon, Piscodaemon
Common 2Always present: Squidrakin
May appear: Floating Eye, Jura Aevis, Piscodaemon, Piscodaemon, Piscodaemon, Thief, Thief, Squidrakin, Squidrakin, Squidrakin
Common 3Always present: Mindflayer
May appear: Sekhret, Vampire Cat, Ahriman, Mindflayer, Mindflayer, Mindflayer, Mindflayer, Mindflayer, Squidrakin, Squidrakin
Common 4Always present: Floating Eye
May appear: Wisenkin, Floating Eye, Wisenkin, Floating Eye, Steelhawk, Floating Eye, Steelhawk, Wisenkin, Steelhawk, Archer, Archer, Archer
Entering from Riovanes Castle
Common 1Always present: Squidrakin
May appear: Squidrakin, Squidrakin, Squidrakin, Squidrakin, Squidrakin, Black Chocobo, Piscodaemon, Piscodaemon, Floating Eye, Ahriman, Cockatrice
Common 2Always present: Mindflayer
May appear: Mindflayer, Mindflayer, Ahriman, Ahriman, Ahriman, Ahriman, Squidrakin, Squidrakin, Mystic, Mystic, Malboro, Malboro
Common 3Always present: Minotaur
May appear: Wisenkin, Wisenkin, Wisenkin, Wisenkin, Wisenkin, Wisenkin, Ahriman, Steelhawk, Ahriman, Steelhawk, Red Panther, Red Panther
Common 4Always present: Sekhret
May appear: Minotaur, Wisenkin, Cockatrice, Steelhawk, Jura Aevis, Plague Horror, Ahriman, Monk, Monk, Monk, Monk
Entering from Ziekden Fortress
Common 1Always present: Wisenkin
May appear: Floating Eye, Floating Eye, Jura Aevis, Jura Aevis, Piscodaemon, Jura Aevis, Jura Aevis, Floating Eye, Red Panther
Common 2Always present: Squidrakin
May appear: Steelhawk, Ahriman, Floating Eye, Jura Aevis, Floating Eye, Jura Aevis, Squidrakin, Knight, Knight, Knight
Common 3Always present: Steelhawk
May appear: Jura Aevis, Jura Aevis, Jura Aevis, Jura Aevis, Jura Aevis, Jura Aevis, Cockatrice, Cockatrice, Cockatrice, Ahriman, Ahriman, Floating Eye
Common 4Always present: Mindflayer, Sekhret
May appear: Squidrakin, Mindflayer, Mindflayer, Sekhret, Minotaur, Sekhret, Gobbledygook, Goblin, Goblin, Summoner, Summoner, Summoner
RareAlways present: Knight, Knight, Time Mage, Time Mage, Time Mage
May appear: Archer, Archer, Black Mage, Black Mage, Black Mage
Presence unspecified: Chocobo, Chocobo, Chocobo, Chocobo, Chocobo, Chocobo
Fovoham Windflats map

Grogh Heights

Entering from Dugeura Pass
Common 1Always present: Grenade
May appear: Grenade, Grenade, Grenade, Grenade, Grenade, Grenade, Chocobo, Chocobo, Chocobo, Chocobo, Jura Aevis, Jura Aevis
Common 2Always present: Floating Eye
May appear: Ahriman, Floating Eye, Ahriman, Ahriman, Ahriman, Samurai, Bomb, Chocobo, Grenade, Chocobo, Coeurl, Wisenkin
Common 3Always present: Red Chocobo
May appear: Chocobo, Black Chocobo, Bomb, Grenade, Exploder, Ahriman, Ahriman, Exploder, Grenade, Bomb, Black Chocobo, Chocobo
Common 4Always present: Ahriman
May appear: Grenade, Grenade, Grenade, Grenade, Bomb, Summoner, Ahriman, Ahriman, Wisenkin, Wisenkin, Wisenkin, Coeurl
Entering from Lesalia
Common 1Always present: Chocobo
May appear: Black Chocobo, Bomb, Grenade, Floating Eye, Ahriman, Dryad, Dryad, Floating Eye, Floating Eye, Grenade, Bomb, Black Chocobo
Common 2Always present: Coeurl
May appear: Coeurl, Coeurl, Coeurl, Red Panther, Red Panther, Red Panther, Geomancer, Geomancer, White Mage, Chocobo, Chocobo, Red Chocobo
Common 3Always present: Wisenkin
May appear: Wisenkin, Wisenkin, Wisenkin, Wisenkin, Grenade, Black Goblin, Floating Eye, Floating Eye, Floating Eye, Floating Eye, Bomb, Goblin
Common 4Always present: Wisenkin
May appear: Wisenkin, Wisenkin, Wisenkin, Wisenkin, Archer, Archer, Ahriman, Ahriman, Floating Eye, Floating Eye, Summoner, Black Mage
RareAlways present: Monk, Monk, Monk, Monk, Monk, Monk, Monk, Monk, Monk, Monk, Monk
Entering from Yardrow
Common 1Always present: Chocobo
May appear: Chocobo, Chocobo, Bomb, Bomb, Bomb, Blue Dragon, Floating Eye, Floating Eye, Floating Eye, Grenade, Grenade, Red Panther
Common 2Always present: Black Chocobo
May appear: Chocobo, Chocobo, Grenade, Grenade, Grenade, Grenade, Knight, Knight, Knight, Coeurl, Coeurl, Red Panther
Common 3Always present: Ahriman
May appear: Grenade, Grenade, Grenade, Grenade, Bomb, Bomb, Ahriman, Ahriman, Wisenkin, Wisenkin, Wisenkin, Coeurl
Common 4Always present: Revenant, Revenant, Ghast
May appear: Treant, Treant, Elder Treant, Treant, Mystic, Mystic, Mystic, Chocobo, Chocobo, Chocobo
Grogh Heights map

Lake Poeskas

Entering from Limberry Castle
Common 1Always present: Grenade
May appear: Exploder, Bonesnatch, Ghast, Bonesnatch, Ghast, Exploder, Bomb, Bomb, Bomb, Bomb, Ghoul, Grenade, Behemoth
Common 2Always present: Grenade
May appear: Exploder, Minotaur, Ghast, Minotaur, Minotaur, Exploder, Bomb, Revenant, Bomb, Bomb, Wisenkin, Grenade, Chemist
Common 3Always present: Grenade
May appear: Exploder, Bonesnatch, Ghast, Bonesnatch, Ghast, Exploder, Bomb, Bomb, Bomb, Bomb, Ghoul, Grenade, Behemoth, Behemoth
Common 4Always present: Behemoth
May appear: Behemoth, Behemoth, Behemoth, Behemoth, Behemoth King, Behemoth King, Dark Behemoth, Dark Behemoth, Dark Behemoth, Dark Behemoth, Dark Behemoth, Archer, Archer, Black Mage
Entering from Mount Germinas
Common 1Always present: Bomb
May appear: Bomb, Skeleton, Skeleton, Ghoul, Ghoul, Archer, Bonesnatch, Bonesnatch, Ghast, Ghast, Grenade, Grenade, Behemoth King
Common 2Always present: Cockatrice
May appear: Cockatrice, Skeleton, Skeleton, Skeletal Fiend, Skeletal Fiend, Behemoth, Bonesnatch, Bonesnatch, Monk, Monk, Steelhawk, Steelhawk, Behemoth King
Common 3Always present: Grenade
May appear: Exploder, Skeleton, Bonesnatch, Ghoul, Ghoul, Red Dragon, Skeletal Fiend, Skeletal Fiend, Ghast, Ghast, Grenade, Behemoth King, Revenant
Common 4Always present: Bomb
May appear: Bomb, Skeleton, Skeleton, Grenade, Grenade, Behemoth, Bonesnatch, Bonesnatch, Summoner, Summoner, Grenade, Grenade, Behemoth King
RareAlways present: Black Mage, Black Mage, Mystic, Chemist, Black Mage
May appear: Time Mage, Summoner, White Mage
Presence unspecified: Chocobo, Chocobo, Chocobo, Chocobo, Chocobo, Chocobo, Chocobo, Chocobo
Lake Poeskas map
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