Most Hated/Annoying Monsters

^This post in the Status Ailments thread gave me the idea for this thread. Because malboros suck. A lot.

So, which monsters/fiends do you hate the most, or find the most annoying?
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Malboros are practically a given, though they are most annoying in VIII, I'd say. I'd often find my party completely screwed, especially when I first started encountering them.

Another monster that really ticks me off is the yan from FFIX. Those little punks were strong. I probably couldn't even count how many times they slaughtered me while I was trying to level up, even when my party was pretty strong to begin with. Damn things. But the EXP you gained from killing them made it worthwhile.

 

I agree. XII's malboros were easily killed with a few attacks, even when they first start appearing, and their bad breath (if I am remembering correctly) only hit one character at a time. Although, Carrot was one annoying boss.

 

^Yes, I'd count that, because MZ was more of a random encounter type than a boss, in my opinion.

And he was pretty annoying- ejecting my character with the enemy skill materia from the fight while I'm trying to learn Beta. And for being so annoying, I seem to remember that defeating him earns you very sucky EXP.

 

I think that's part of his charm. He's the exact same way in FF V. And he's really a boss, moreso than a monster. >_<

In FFIX, I remember some cat-like monsters who'd ask for a gem, and if you attacked them, went psycho with the meteor. They were annoying (especially since at first I thought it was one of the friendly monsters and wasted a diamond on it), though not especially difficult to defeat.

 

Eh, all of the hunts are bosses, in my opinion. This thread is moreso about the random encounters you come across throughout the games.

Tonberries are another type of monster that annoy me, though how much varies on the game. Generally, it's the earlier games that have the more annoying versions in my opinion, though the Mega Tonberries (I think that's what they were called) in FF X-2 were both kind of creepy and a pain in the you-know-what to defeat. Catnip + Trigger Happy ftw.

 

Everyone's Grudge in the earlier games works the same way and it's annoying. But, at least I know that the tonberry will counterattack if I can't kill it in one hit, so I'm prepared. And he's still far away. It's when he gets really close and starts Chef's Knifing all of the characters faster than they can be revived that the tonberry really sucks.

 

Not all of the games have those abilities. I thought tonberries were easy in X. VII and VIII is where I found them more problematic (moreso VII, I believe).

Yes, these suck. XII had a lot of ungodly strong monsters that consistently slaughtered me- mainly in the Henne Mines, Barheim Passage (I think) and the Great Crystal. Every monster in the Great Crystal area was a pain in the ass. >_<

 

Eh, perhaps it was just the monotony of fighting so many of them- I got lazy. But I think VIII's version was still harder than X's. You could put X's to sleep and magic 'em to death before they wake up if you were too underleveled to beat them with physical attacks. VIII's were immune to most of that stuff, I think. >_<

Ultima I don't remember as being that hard. You could beat her before 99. Omega Mark XII was a huge pain though. I don't think I was quite level 99 when I beat him, though I was close, and he killed me tons before I finally won. Good luck, if you decide to face him.