Malboro (Final Fantasy X)

The Malboro of Final Fantasy X is a fiend encountered more easily in the northwest of the grassland area in the Calm Lands, and occasionally in the rooms (not hallways) in the Cavern of the Stolen Fayth. It is a large plant that overwhelms the party with status ailments.
==Stats==
==Battle==
Malboro is one of the tougher monsters of the Calm Lands due to its Bad Breath ability, which inflicts several status effects on the active party: Silence (100% chance and for 3 turns), Darkness (100% chance and for 3 turns), Slow (30% chance and for 3 turns), Poison (150% chance), Confusion (80% chance), and Berserk (30% chance). Bad Breath will be executed when its counter reaches 7; the counter increases by 1 when targeted, or 2 when targeted with a fire-elemental attack (its elemental weakness). Malboro will not use Bad Breath against aeons or when Provoked. Kimahri can learn Bad Breath as a Ronso Rage.
Malboro might drop armor with wards against many different status ailments. It will also drop weapons with Sleeptouch, Silencetouch, Poisontouch, or Darktouch.
===Strategy===
As aeons are immune to status ailments, the player can summon them against the Malboro. Ifrit can be a good choice as Malboros are weak to Fire.
If the player wants to win without aeons, they will need to either kill the Malboro quickly (e.g. with Overdrives) or have armor with lots of status protection. At least Confuse Ward is needed, and ideally Confuseproof, to ensure most or all of the party remains controllable after Bad Breath. Physical attackers should have Dark Ward/Darkproof while mages should have Silence Ward/Silenceproof. Ribbon protects against all of the status ailments, but by the time the player has armor with Ribbon, Malboros should be easy to defeat. For offense, the player can use fire spells and/or weapons with Firestrike.
==Other appearances==
===Final Fantasy Portal App===
Malboro appears as a Triple Triad card.
==Gallery==
Malboro Scan.png|Concept art.
Malboro TCG.png|Trading card.
==Etymology==
==Related enemies==
*Great Malboro
*Malboro Menace
===Final Fantasy X-2===
*Great Malboro
*Malboro
===Final Fantasy X-2: Last Mission===
*Malboro
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