Enemy-Specific Skills

A special attack is coded into the data for each enemy. This is the "Special" (とくしゅ) option that often appears on the Control menu.

In the same order as the monsters that have them, these are the monster special abilities. Although each monster has a special move, some monsters never use them. In fact, some are completely meaningless, since they aren't usable either by the monster itself or through Sketch, Control, or Rage!

Unless otherwise noted, these cannot be reflected (with 'reflect' status), are unaffected by Magicseal Sword (Celes's skill), work normally on undead targets, are affected by the target's defense, and are blockable (through magic evasion). Enemy specials are simply modified physical attacks.

Common Skills

Meh, let's just list out the whole skill catalog, which consists of:

• (000~053) Player-learnable spells in the order listed
• (054~080) Genjuu summons: Ramuh, Ifrit, Shiva, Siren, Midgarðsormur, Catoblepas, Madin, Bismarck, Cait Sith, Quetzal, Valigarmander, Odin, Raideen, Bahamut, Alexander, Jihad, Ragnarök, Qilin, Zone Seeker, Carbuncle, Phantom, Seraphim, Golem, Unicorn, Fenrir, Lakshmi, Phoenix
• (081~083) Ninja scrolls: Katon, Suiton, Raijin
• (084) Umaro's Snowstorm
• (085~092) Cayenne's sword skills in the order listed
• (093~100) Mash's martial arts in the order listed
• (101~124) Skills from Mog's dances: Wind Scythe, Sunbathing, Leaf Flurry, Basking in the Forest, Sandstorm, Ant Lion, Will-o'-the-Wisp, Apparition, Rockfall, Sonic Boom, El Niño, Plasma, Pitfall, Cave-In, Snowball, Avalanche, Cockatrice, Wombat, Meerkat, Tapir, Wild Piglets, Raccoon, Poison Frog, Mountain Hare
• (125~126) Magic attacks from Edgar's machinery: Bio Blast, Sunbeam
• (127~129) Skills from Setzer's slots: Chocobo Rush, Diving Bomb, Seven Flash
• (130) Leo's Shock (internally called メガショック = Megashock, or Megahit in NA version)
• (131~138) Sorcery commands: Fire Beam, Thunder Beam, Blizzard Beam, Bio Blaster, Heal Force, Confuser, Dejonater, Sorcery Missile
• (139~162) Stragus's blue magic in the order listed
• (163~237)  All other skills
  
• (238) Battle
• (239) Special (see "enemy-specific skills" above)
• (240~251) Player secret deathblow skills in the order listed
• (252~253) Attacks from Shadow's dog Interceptor in the order listed
• (254) Mysidia Rabbit from Setzer's slots
• 255 is used as a blank. The name appears as "??????????" in the English version, and みしようちゃんよ in the Japanese. Both "names" are the maximum length allowed. みしよう means "not (yet) used", with the ちゃん treating it like someone's name (Mishiyou-chan), and the よ is an emphatic that probably is just here to round out the length.

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