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Overview

Refer to the items pages (weapons, armors, other) for item information, the spells page for standard magic, characters skills page for player-usable abilities, the enemy skills page for other abilities, and the status page for status effects.

Monsters are listed here in the order the game stores them in, which is also the order used in Gau's Rage list where applicable.

I've finally converted the data to a new layout, It's much more readable than the old layout, in addition to giving more information than ever before. Comments and suggestions are welcome, as always.

Monster Lists

Monsters with Rages

All the others

Explanation of Data

Sample entry

ID: 000 Name (JP/mine/NA): ガード Guard Guard Level 5	HP	MP	Atk	Def	Evd	Hit	MAtk	MDef	MEvd	Agility
	40	15	16	100	0	100	6	140	0	30
	EXP	Gil	Common Drop		Rare Drop		Common Steal		Rare Steal
	48	48	-		Potion		Potion		High Potion
	Common Sketch		Metamorphose (success rate 255/256)
	Battle		Antidote		Yellow Cherry		Eyedrops		Gold Needle
	Rare Sketch		Control Commands
	Battle		Battle		-		-		-
	Rage Skill		Weak		Null		Absorb		Initial Status
	Special (Critical)		毒		-		-		-
	Location					Other Flags		Locked Status
	first visit to Narshe (can't miss)					humanoid		-

Left column

ID: The internal ID number of this monster. This also determines its position in the Rage list.

Name: The monster's name, with the Japanese version name on top, my translation or interpretation of that in the middle, and the English version name on the bottom. The name will usually display in the bottom left of the combat screen when facing one or more of this enemy, though certain special cases will not display.

(Image): What the monster looks like.

Level: The monster's level. Affects the effectiveness of all sorts of things, plus vulnerability to blue magic with level-based targeting.

Row 1

Most of these are identical to the corresponding player stats.

HP: Hit points. Monsters die when this runs out, though some may take a final action ("dying counter") on their way out.

MP: Magic points, consumed for casting spells and using some spell-like skills. Most monsters have at least some MP, even those with no way to use it. Late-game bosses typically have over ten thousand, so don't expect them to run out quickly. Certain monsters will die if they ever have no MP left.

Atk: Attack power, same as for player characters. Most monsters fall in the 10 to 30 range, which doesn't do Sketch any favors.

Def: Defense power, same as for player characters. Most monsters fall in the 50 to 200 range, which makes for enough variation to be quite noticable.

Evd: Evade rate, just as useless as for player characters. While most monsters don't have any regardless, enough do—56 of them, including 33 of the first 256 monsters—that it's clear it was supposed to matter.

Hit: Hit rate. This is 100 for nearly all monsters. Player characters have hit rate determined by weapon rather than having an innate value. Chance to hit is roughly (hit rate minus 1/128 of hit rate per point of opposing MEvd)%. When the target has 0 MEvd, chance to hit = hit rate.

The monsters that are exceptions, and their hit rates, in order of monster ID, are: Slug Crawler (180), Malboro (80), Shiva (150), Ifrit (150), Flame Eater (130), Dullahan (150), Death Gaze (150), Samurai Soul (130), final boss Cefca (190), and an Imperial Soldier used only for an event (1).

MAtk: Magic power. Same as magic for player characters. This is 10 for more than half of all monsters, and only a few outliers stray far from that. All main player characters have at least 25, but only 11 monsters out of 384 do, which is one reason Sketch rarely works out well in practice.

MDef: Magic defense. Same as for player characters. Most monsters fall in the 100 to 180 range.

MEvd: Magic evade rate. Same as for player characters. Most monsters have 0, which makes them very easy to hit.

The only monsters with any magic evasion, and their MEvd values, in order of monster ID, are: Al-Jabr (30), Brachio Raidus (50), the coliseum version of Siegfried (25), Armed Weapon (10), Cactuar (250), Tonberry (50), Kamuy (30), Sorath (10), Basilisk (10), Aspidochelone (20), Vector Chimera (30), Glasya-Labolas (10), Dadaluma (10), the invincible version of the Guardian (50), Ultima Weapon (10), Death Gaze (30), Narshe siege battle boss Cefca (30).

Agility: Same as for player characters. Most monsters fall in the 25 to 40 range.

Strength is not listed because monsters use a strength value selected randomly when combat begins, minimum 56, maximum 63.

Stamina is not listed because monsters use a stamina value equal to 16 plus one per 512 max HP, capped at 40 (which happens at 12,288 or greater max HP). This gives monsters about a 1/8 minimum to 5/16 maximum, or roughly 13% to 32%, chance to avoid stamina-blockable attacks

Nothing in Row 1 affects a character using the monster's Rage.

Row 2

EXP: The number of experience points gained for defeating this monster. Total experience gained is divided evenly between the surviving player characters.

Gil: The amount of gil (money) this monster drops when beaten.

Common Drop: The monster may drop this item when beaten. 7/8 chance, otherwise the rare drop (if any) drops.

Rare Drop: The monster may drop this item when beaten. 1/8 chance, otherwise the common drop (if any) drops.

Since either the rare or the common drop is always chosen, any time the same item appears in both slots, it has a 100% drop rate.

Common Steal: This item can be stolen from this monster. 7/8 chance when Steal or Mug succeeds. If this entry is blank, all successful theft attempts that select the common item will become failures. If both common and rare steal are blank, you'll get the "nothing to steal" message instead.

Rare Steal: This item can be stolen from this monster. 1/8 chance when Steal or Mug succeeds. If this entry is blank, all successful theft attempts that select the rare item will become failures. If both common and rare steal are blank, you'll get the "nothing to steal" message instead.

Nothing in Row 2 affects a character using the monster's Rage.

Row 3

Common Sketch: Successfully using Sketch on this monster will result in this action 75% of the time.

Metamorphose: Using Metamorphose (Ragnarök summon) against this monster will succeed at the given rate. Success kills the monster and yields one of the four items listed, chosen randomly with equal probability. If the same item is listed more than once, each counts as a different item for the purpose of selection.

Nothing in Row 3 affects a character using the monster's Rage.

Row 4

Rare Sketch: Successfully using Sketch on this monster will result in this action 25% of the time.

Control Commands: This is the command list that appears after successfully using Control on this monster. The monster will also select random actions from this command list when under 'confusion' or 'charmed' status, or when appearing in the coliseum.

Nothing in Row 4 affects a character using the monster's Rage.

Row 5

Rage Skill: A character who has selected this monster from the Rage command will use this skill 50% of the time (the other 50% is Battle). This entry only applies to the first 256 monsters. Modders should note that monsters actually have two Rage Skill entries, not one, it's just that the first one is always set to Battle.

Weak: This monster takes double damage from any attack traits listed.

Null: This monster takes no damage from any attack traits listed.

Absorb: This monster is healed by any attack traits listed.

Note that, while equipment often has elemental resistance that halves damage from a given trait, monsters in this game don't get anything equivalent. There's no middle ground for them between having no resistance and having outright immunity.

Initial Status: This monster has any status effects listed here active from the onset of combat. These are typically permanent and unremovable.

A character using the monster's Rage inherits everything on Row 5. Elemental traits are combined with anything from equipment with standard results (the most beneficial modifier available takes precedence). Initial status effects can be prevented with appropriate equipment. Most, however, cannot be removed once the Rage begins. The exceptions are 'darkness', 'poison', and 'transparent' (and, in theory, several others that are never used as initial status for Rageable monsters). These can be briefly removed, unless locked status prevents it. However, they will simply be re-applied every turn, making removal largely pointless.

Row 6

Location: Where to find this monster. Not all possible locations are necessarily listed. Whenever applicable, encounters that will allow the monster to appear on the Beast Plain are preferred (though technically this is determined by monster formations, not individual monsters). Shorthand for this entry includes the following:

• can't miss = You will automatically get in at least one battle with this monster that (if applicable) counts for the Beast Plain.
• doesn't count = You can fight it here, but that won't make it appear on the Beast Plain.
• boss = This monster is specific to an unavoidable boss battle in a required area. This makes these a special type of "can't miss".
• optional boss = This monster is specific to a boss or similarly unique battle, but either the battle itself or the entire location where it occurs is completely avoidable in normal gameplay. While you can skip the battle, it's typically possible to fight it later, so these aren't permanently missable unless otherwise noted. Regular monsters in optional areas will not be marked.
• WoB = This monster can only be fought here before the Major Plot Spoiler (World of Balance). If no WoR location exists, then this monster is also missable. Omitted if the monster cannot be avoided.
• WoR = This monster can only be fought here after the Major Plot Spoiler (World of Ruin). Omitted for locations that do not exist until the WoR—the point of this note is to indicate that although you can go there in the WoB, the monster won't appear yet.
• missable = Once you pass a certain point in the game, you can no longer find this monster (not counting the Beast Plain if it appears there after you fight it). Since WoB monsters with no WoR location become unavailable once you pass the Major Plot Spoiler, these are missable by nature and will not be explicitly marked as such.
• only chance = A subtype of missable. These monsters appear only in a single battle or one-time event (not couning the Beast Plain if it appears there after you fight it).
• unused = As stated. This monster cannot be fought anywhere at any time without cheating or editing the game in some way.

Other Flags: Miscellaneous other properties:

• nameless = This monster's name does not display.
• mystic = This monster dies when its MP reaches 0.
• humanoid = The Maneater's double damage bonus applies against this monster.
• undead = Most healing spells, skills, and items damage this monster. Attacks against this monster that drain HP and/or MP are reversed, causing the monster to recover and the attacker to take damage. Most instant death attacks against this monster instead restore full HP, though a few still work normally.
• kappow = Instead of dropping to 1 attack power when under 'kappa' status like most monsters, this monster instead keeps its normal attack power and additionally gets automatic critical hits (+100% damage). Curiously, some monsters with this flag set are immune to the status effect anyway.
• stalker = This monster counts as three monsters when determining run success, making it more difficult to flee combat than usual.
• can't lift = Mash's Meteor Strike automatically fails against this monster. Many enemies that are flying or somehow anchored in place have this flag set. A steam locomotive that undoubtedly weighs many tons, however, does not.
• can't flee = You can't run away from combat when at least one monster with this flag is alive. Some such monsters also have the flag I'm calling 'stalker', but because that seems redundant, I'm listing only this one when both are set.
• can't scan = The Library spell always fails against this monster.
• can't control = The Control command always fails against this monster.
• seals magic = This monster has a passive magic-absorbing effect that is always active but otherwise works much like Magicseal Sword.
• first strike = This monster will act immediately as soon as combat begins, although this "action" in most cases is just displaying a message, triggering a scripted event, or otherwise setting up the battle, rather than the monster actually doing anything.

Locked Status: Also referred to, somewhat misleadingly, as "status immunities". More accurately, having one of these flags set simply means that the associated status effect cannot be toggled. In other words, you can't apply the status if it's not set, and you can't remove it if it is. For example, a monster with 'darkness' under both initial status and locked status is permanently and incurably afflicted with 'darkness', while one with 'reflect' under both is endowed with a 'reflect' status that can neither wear off nor be dispelled. Note, however, that locked status flags are ignored in a few special cases, for instance some instant death attacks.

Immunities incidentally work the same way for player characters, and this is how accessories like the Reflect Ring work.

Rage-users inherit locked status, and most will add to and co-exist with any immunities from equipment. However, a monster that lacks immunity to instant death will override the Safety Bit, making the user vulnerable to affected attacks.

The mystic, undead, and humanoid flags will also affect a character using Rage, and monsters lacking the undead flag will override the effect of the Relic Ring if equipped. Kappow is supposed to work as well, but 'kappa' status doesn't behave quite the way it ought to when in a Rage, and never bothers to check the flag.

To rehash the Rage quirks, if you want to be undead while using a Rage, the Rage itself must be undead (the Relic Ring is ignored once in a Rage), and if you want instant death immunity during a Rage, the Rage itself must have that immunity (the Safety Bit is ignored once in a Rage).

Icons for status effects:

Icons from the game are used when possible, and I made up the rest.

	Darkness:		Petrified:		Berserk:		Slow:
	Zombie:		Instant Death:		Confusion:		Haste:
	Poison:		Death Sentence:		Slip:		Stop:
	Sorcerous Armor:	{mtek}	Near Fatal:	{near fatal}	Sleep:		Shell:
	Transparent:		Decoy:		Levitate:		Protect:
	Kappa:		Silence:		Regenerate:		Reflect:

E-mail comments, corrections, etc. Especially any ideas on some of the weirder monster names!