Tiamat (Final Fantasy)

Tiamat is the Fiend of Wind from the original Final Fantasy. She appears atop the Flying Fortress as a multi-headed dragon.
== Stats ==
== AI script ==
=== First Battle ===
Action 	Probability
Attack 	42.86%
Icestorm (BLIZZARD)	14.29%
Blaze (BLAZE) 	14.29%
Poison Gas 	14.29%
Thunderbolt 	14.29%
Prior to Pixel Remaster:
Action 	Probability	Cycle
Attack 	50.00% 	
Enemy-exclusive ability	50.00% 	Thunderbolt → Poison Gas → Icestorm (BLIZZARD) → Blaze (BLAZE)
=== Second Battle ===
Action 	Probability
Attack 	25.51%
Fira 	14.29%
Thundara 	14.29%
Blizzara 	14.29%
Icestorm (BLIZZARD)	7.14%
Blaze (BLAZE) 	7.14%
Poison Gas 	7.14%
Thunderbolt 	7.14%
Scourge 	3.06%
Prior to Pixel Remaster, starting from WSC (includes PS1, GBA, PSP):
Action 	Probability	Cycle
Attack 	34.00% 	
Magic 	32.00% 	Scourge → Blizzara → Thundara → Fira
Enemy-exclusive ability	34.00% 	Thunderbolt → Poison Gas → Icestorm (BLIZZARD) → Blaze (BLAZE)
Prior to WSC (includes NES):
Action 	Probability	Cycle
Attack 	25.00% 	
Magic 	50.00% 	Scourge → Blizzara → Thundara → Fira
Enemy-exclusive ability	25.00% 	Thunderbolt → Poison Gas → Icestorm (BLIZZARD) → Blaze (BLAZE)
== Story ==
Four hundred years ago Tiamat tossed the Lufenian civilization into ruin with only a village, a single airship, and her personal haunt left standing. With the Wind Crystal under her control, the wind itself began to die down.
As the first fiend to awaken, she is the most powerful of the Four Fiends, and uses several powerful attacks. A younger version of her appears on the fourth basement of the Chaos Shrine 2000 years in the past, where she is slightly stronger. Once she is defeated she dies again, preventing her from ever journeying to the future and wreaking havoc.
== Battle ==
=== First battle ===
Tiamat uses elemental skills and physical prowess. Tiamat resists the basic three magic elements of fire, ice and lightning, in addition to earth. She also resists elements that can cause an instant KO, such as stone, poison, time and instant death.
Prior to Pixel Remaster, Tiamat was weak to stone and poison, and did not have resistances against the instant KO elements.
==== Strategy ====
Non-elemental magic, such as Flare and Holy, work given her resistances. The Nul- line of spells and Curtains shield against her party-wide elemental attacks. If a party member is poisoned, the party's White Wizard should keep using Healara to cure the physical damage instead of wasting turns using Poisona.
Otherwise, focusing on physical attacks, buffed with Haste, Temper, Saber from the Giant's Gloves and Speed Drinks will defeat her fairly quickly.
Prior to Pixel Remaster, Tiamat's weaknesses mean that she can be instantly killed either by petrifying or poisoning her. Possible spells include Scourge (can be cast with Razer) or Break. From Dawn of Souls to 20th Anniversary Edition, a Cockatrice Claw can be used in place of the Break spell.
=== Second battle ===
Tiamat is fought in the Chaos Shrine of the past along with the other fiends. She gains the Mage type and adds the tier 2 elemental spells and Scourge to her arsenal.
Comparing against her first battle for versions prior to Pixel Remaster, she loses her weaknesses to stone and poison.
==== Strategy ====
The same strategies as before should defeat her. Poison resistance is recommended to avoid anyone falling to Scourge.
== Other appearances ==
=== Pictlogica Final Fantasy ===
=== Final Fantasy Record Keeper ===
===Final Fantasy Brave Exvius===
==Behind the scenes==
Tiamat, as drawn by Yoshitaka Amano.|thumb
Even though Tiamat has six heads on her artwork, only four are visible in her NES/MSX sprites. Later versions are more accurate to the artwork.
In Dissidia Final Fantasy, Tiamat's summon file says she is called the "demonic dragon" and one of the rulers of hell, referring to Tiamat being one of the bosses of Pandaemonium in Final Fantasy II. The same description holds true to Tiamat's counterpart in Dungeons & Dragons, where she is encountered in the first of the nine planes of Hell.
== Gallery ==
Tiamat Nintendo Power.png|Artwork of Tiamat from Nintendo Power.
Tiamat DoS.png|Dawn of Souls artwork.
FF1_3DS_Tiamat.jpg|Tiamat in 3DS.
FF1_3DS_TiamatLocation.jpg|Tiamat's location (3DS).
FFI Blaze 2 GBA.png|Blaze in the Advance version.
FFI Icestorm 2 PS.png|Icestorm in the Origins version.
FFI Thunderbolt PS.png|Thunderbolt in the Origins version.
FFI Toxin 1 PS.png|Toxin in the Origins version.
Tiamat by Creatures Kai.jpg|Creatures -Kai-
== Etymology ==
Tiamat in Final Fantasy refers to the deity of the same name from Dungeons & Dragons, who is depicted as a villainous, five-headed dragon. Both are named after the monster from Ancient Mesopotamian religion, who is often said to be the mother of dragons. Many elements in the original Final Fantasy are lifted from the Dungeons & Dragons.
== Related enemies ==
* Lich
* Marilith
* Kraken
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