Pandemona Pandemona is a Wind - based Guardian Force in " Final Fantasy VIII " . It learns Speed and Strength junctions and support abilities to enhance them . It is the first Guardian Force to learn Speed boosts naturally , and also the first to learn an ability that lets the junctioner act first in a battle along with a command that lets the user absorb HP from a target . It doesn ' t learn any refine abilities ; the ability that refines Wind magic is learned by Quezacotl . Profile . Pandemona is a pastel - colored creature . Its body is lavender with colorful aspects . It is bipedal and can suck in air and enemies via its " funnel " up front , storing the contents inside its tail that blows up like a balloon . Obtained . Pandemona is drawn from Fujin during the fight in the Balamb Hotel . After drawing Pandemona from her , Fujin stops using Wind magic . If missed , Pandemona can be drawn from Red Giant in the final dungeon . If the player misses both opportunities , Pandemona cannot be obtained in that playthrough . Obtaining Pandemona in the Steam version earns the achievement Pandemona . Battle . Pandemona ' s attack , Tornado Zone , is a Wind - elemental attack against all opponents . Majority of enemies have a weakness against Wind . Pandemona ' s summon time is 22 . 8s , which , according to the " Final Fantasy VIII Ultimania " , allows the player to boost its damage to around 240 % of normal damage using a regular PlayStation controller . Its damage is calculated as follows : Elemental Defense starts at 800 ( 0 % ) , 900 nullifies damage and 1000 absorbs it . If an enemy is shown to be weak against an element , its Elemental Defense is below 800 . If damage becomes negative ( due to high Elemental Defense ) , the target is healed by that amount . Compatibility . A Guardian Force ' s compatibility determines how fast the summon attack can be executed . Compatibility is raised by summoning Pandemona , casting magic that has affinity with Pandemona , and by using its compatibility items . The compatibility is lowered by summoning other GFs and using other GFs ' compatibility items . The below values are the base compatibility values with all playable characters at the start of the game . Even if Seifer cannot junction Pandemona in a normal playthrough , a default compatibility value still exists for him . Stats . The following table represents Pandemona ' s base stats : Abilities . Abilities learned naturally by Pandemona are listed below : Other appearances . " Final Fantasy Type - 0 " . Pandemona , along with Typhon and Phoenix , was considered to be a summon in " Final Fantasy Type - 0 " but was discarded . Etymology . Pandemona comes from the word " Pandemonium , " the GF ' s name in the original Japanese release . The word ' s meaning of any loud , chaotic thing , refers to Pandemona ' s use of a tornado . His use of a bag to unleash his wind powers is more in reference to , the Japanese " " of wind who also used a bag filled with wind ; gaining the summon from the character of the same name hints to this . The game ' s debug menu , only accessible via cheating device , calls Pandemona " Pandemonium , " but as the name exceeds the character limit the shortened version is used in the English release . Pandemona is called Zephyr in the French version , Eolo in the Spanish version , and Pandemon in the Italian version .