Final Fantasy VIII enemy abilities

Below is a list of enemy abilities that appear in Final Fantasy VIII. Abilities in italics are not named in the game.
== Abilities ==
=== # ===
Ability	Description 	Enemy
 	Counts down to Ultima. 	Sorceress (C)
 	Inflicts 1000 damage. 	Cactuar
 	Inflicts 10000 damage. Used as a counterattack every 5th attack.	Jumbo Cactuar
 	Counts down to Ultima. 	Sorceress (C)
 	Counts down to Ultima. 	Sorceress (C)
 	Counts down to Ultima. 	Sorceress (C)
 	Counts down to Ultima. 	Sorceress (C)
=== A ===
Ability	Description 	Enemy
 	Removed from battle. 	Griever, Ultimecia (1st), Ultimecia (Griever form), Ultimecia (Final)
 	Non-elemental physical damage that never misses. Used only when at 25% or less Max HP, and never used when only one character is alive.	Tri-Face
 	Wind-elemental damage. 	Abyss Worm, Cerberus, Chimera, Fujin (1st), Ruby Dragon, Sorceress (A), Torama, Vysage
 	Extreme non-elemental damage to the party. Spell power of 200. 	Ultimecia (Final)
 	Moderate Water-elemental damage to the party. 	Chimera
 	Vitality and Spirit is lowered by 50%, lasts 4 turns. Occurs after a physical attack sometimes. 	Armadodo
 	Stats return to normal. Used after being knocked down for 4 turns. 	Armadodo
 	Non-elemental physical damage. 	Gerogero
 	Non-elemental physical damage. 	X-ATM092
 	Non-elemental physical damage that never misses and always criticals. 	Wendigo
 	Non-elemental physical damage. Used as a counterattack after a Base Soldier has been killed. 	Base Leader
 	Non-elemental physical damage that always criticals. 	Behemoth
 	Non-elemental physical damage. Spell power of 16. 	Edea (1st)
 	Increases Strength. 	Elite Soldier, Raijin (3rd)
=== B ===
Ability	Description 	Enemy
 	Inflicts Darkness, Confuse, Berserk, Poison, Sleep, Silence, Curse, Petrifying, and Slow on the entire party. Inflicts non-elemental magical damage as well as Slow to the party in Geezard's case.	Geezard, Malboro
 	Non-elemental physical damage that always criticals when used by Snow Lion. 	Hexadragon, Snow Lion, Turtapod
 	Non-elemental physical damage and Petrifying. 	Cockatrice
 	Heavy non-elemental magical damage that ignores Shell in first encounter. 	BGH251F2
 	Non-elemental physical damage. 	Elastoid
 	Non-elemental physical damage that always criticals. 	Death Claw
 	Occasionally counters with physical attacks when hit with a physical attack. 	Belhelmel
 	Occasionally counters with magical attacks when hit with a magical attack. 	Belhelmel
 	Inflicts Berserk. 	Belhelmel, Blobra, Blood Soul, Cerberus, Chimera, Gargantua, Gerogero, Gesper, Imp
 	Inflicts Poison elemental damage as well as Poison. 	Blue Dragon, Funguar, Left Orb, Torama, Ultimecia (1st)
 	Non-elemental physical damage. 	Adamantoise, Bite Bug, Blood Soul, Chimera, Grendel, Thrustaevis, T-Rexaur, Torama, Tri-Face
 	Non-elemental physical damage, twice as powerful. 	Tri-Face
 	Non-elemental physical damage that always criticals. 	Propagator
 	Non-elemental physical magic counterattack that always criticals. 	T-Rexaur
 	Non-elemental physical magic counterattack. 	Mesmerize
 	Non-elemental physical damage. 	Mesmerize
 	Non-elemental physical OR magical damage and Petrify. 	Torama
 	Inflicts Darkness. 	Abadon, Blood Soul, Blue Dragon, Cerberus, Forbidden, Fujin (2nd), Gesper, Imp, Lefty, Ochu, Propagator
 	Increases Strength and Magic after hit by a Thunder-elemental spell and damages melee attackers with Lightning elemental damage. 	Blitz
 	Major Ice-elemental damage. 	Edea, Glacial Eye, Imp, Jelleye, Sphinxaur, Ultimecia (1st)
 	Moderate Ice-elemental damage. 	Base Soldier, Esthar Soldier (Cyborg), Glacial Eye, Jelleye, NORG, Slapper, Sorceress (A)
 	Minor Ice-elemental damage. 	Jelleye
 	Non-elemental physical damage to the party. Used more as HP is lower. 	Seifer (4th)
 	Completely removes all stock of any magic in a character's magic list. 	Griever, Ultimecia (Final)
 	Non-elemental physical damage. 	Bomb
 	Non-elemental physical damage to the party that always hit. Will only use Punch after using this. 	Esthar Soldier (Cyborg)
 	Non-elemental physical damage. Only used if Lefty and Righty are alive. 	Vysage
 	Inflicts Petrify. 	Blue Dragon, Chimera
 	Non-elemental magical damage to the party. 	Blue Dragon
 	Thunder-elemental magical damage to the party. 	Grendel
 	Non-elemental magical damage to one character. 	Hexadragon
 	Non-elemental physical damage to all of the party. Will only be used if there are three alive party members. 	Ruby Dragon
 	Non-elemental magical damage. 	Blood Soul
 	Non-elemental magical damage to target as well as Slow, Curse, and Darkness. 	Gerogero
=== C ===
Ability	Description 	Enemy
 	Non-elemental physical damage. Only used after 3x Store. 	SAM08G
 	Non-elemental physical damage. 	BGH251F2
 	Non-elemental physical damage to the party. 	GIM47N
 	At 15% or less HP, will only use Iai Blow. 	Forbidden
 	Non-elemental physical damage. 	Biggs, Elite Soldier
 	Non-elemental physical damage that always criticals. 	Krysta
 	Non-elemental physical damage. Only used if Tonberry is close to the party. 	Tonberry
 	Non-elemental physical damage to the party. 	X-ATM092
 	Non-elemental physical damage. In Raldo's case, only used if Granaldo is dead. Always criticals when used by Ultimecia (Griever form).	Bahamut, Catoblepas, Creeps, Diablos, Granaldo, Grand Mantis, Griever, Iguion, Raldo, Ruby Dragon, Tri-Point, Ultimecia (Griever form), Ultimecia (Final)
 	Non-elemental physical damage that always criticals. 	Ultimecia (Final)
 	Non-elemental physical damage. 	Behemoth
 	Non-elemental physical damage. 	Minotaur
 	Inflicts Confuse. 	Abadon, Base Leader, Belhelmel, Chimera, Fujin (2nd), Funguar, Gesper, Imp, Torama
 	Reduces party's HP to 1. First attacked used when in "Mobile Off, Support On" mode. 	Mobile Type 8
 	Non-elemental magical counterattack when in Laughing mode. 	Belhelmel
 	Non-elemental physical counterattack to any type of attack except physical. 	Krysta
 	Non-elemental physical counterattack when in Scowling mode. 	Belhelmel
 	Non-elemental physical counterattack against physical attacks that always criticals. 	Gargantua
 	Lasts 3 turns and greatly increases Vitality and Spirit. 	Turtapod
 	Spawns a Droma. 	Trauma
 	Creates a Helix. After having 2x Helixes, is able to use Ultima, Meteor, and Great Attractor. 	Ultimecia (Griever form)
 	Non-elemental physical counterattack that always criticals. Used if Sorceress is not counting down to Ultima. 	Sorceress (C)
 	Non-elemental physical damage. 	Grendel
 	Restores a moderate amount of HP. 	Base Leader, Blobra, Blood Soul, Elite Soldier
 	Restores a major amount of HP. 	Blobra, Blood Soul, Diablos, Elite Soldier
 	Restores a minor amount of HP. 	Biggs, Blobra, Elite Soldier, Gesper
 	Inflicts Doom and non-elemental magical damage. Only used if both Lefty and Righty are alive. 	Vysage
=== D ===
Ability	Description 	Enemy
 	Counts down to Dark Flare. 	Tiamat
 	Counts down to Dark Flare. 	Tiamat
 	Counts down to Dark Flare. 	Tiamat
 	Counts down to Dark Flare. 	Tiamat
 	Counts down to Dark Flare. 	Tiamat
 	Fire-elemental damage to the party. Spell power of 180. 	Tiamat
 	Non-elemental magical damage and Darkness to the party. Only used at 50% or less HP. 	Anacondaur
 	Non-elemental physical damage that always criticals. 	Catoblepas
 	Inflicts Death. Can be used as a final attack in Buel's case. 	Blue Dragon, Buel, Edea (2nd), Elnoyle, Esthar Soldier (Cyborg), Forbidden, Torama
 	Non-elemental physical damage. 	Death Claw
 	Inflicts Eject and removes target from battle. Will not use if only one party member is alive. 	Gesper
 	Reduces HP by 1/4. 	Diablos, Esthar Soldier (Cyborg), Funguar, Gargantua, Paratrooper, Ruby Dragon, Torama
 	Non-elemental physical damage. 	Seifer (2nd)
 	Inflicts 9999 damage to a GF being summoned. 	Ultimecia (Griever form), Ultimecia (Final)
 	Non-elemental magical damage and Silence. 	Blood Soul
 	Reduces HP by 37.5% and inflicts Vit 0. 	Malboro
 	Removes all positive statuses. 	Abadon, Blood Soul, Cerberus, Chimera, Edea, Elastoid, Elnoyle, Gerogero, Imp, Ochu, Right Orb, Sorceress (A), Ultimecia (1st), Ultimecia (Griever form), Ultimecia (Final), Vysage
 	Non-elemental physical damage that always criticals. 	Thrustaevis
 	Inflicts Doom on a target. 	Griever, Sphinxara
 	Allows target to cast two consecutive spells. 	Sorceress (B), Ultimecia (1st)
 	Non-elemental physical damage that always criticals. 	Abadon
 	Non-elemental physical damage. 	Forbidden
 	Drains HP from target and restores own HP. Spell power of 25. 	Blue Dragon, Lefty, Trauma
 	Drains HP from target and restores own HP. Spell power of 50. Cannot be reduced with Shell. 	Trauma
 	Drains HP from target and restores own HP. Spell power of 33. 	Adel
 	Draws magic from character's stocked magic and uses it immediately. 	Griever, Lefty
 	Non-elemental physical damage that never misses. 	Wendigo
 	Randomly removes 1 magic from target, and is used used as a magic counterattack as well as inflicting non-elemental damage.	Ochu
=== E ===
Ability	Description 	Enemy
 	Earth-elemental damage to the party. Can be used as a final attack in Armadodo's case. 	Armadodo, Ochu
 	Non-elemental magical damage to the party. 	Malboro
 	Thunder-elemental damage to the party. Used when alone. 	Cockatrice
 	Requests an Elixir. 	PuPu
 	Non-elemental physical damage that always criticals. Spell power of 12. 	Adel
 	Flees from battle. Used at 2% or less Max HP. 	Jumbo Cactuar
 	Flees from battle. 	Cactuar
 	Removes all negative statuses. 	Abadon, Blobra, Fujin (2nd), Lefty, Sorceress (A), Sorceress (B), Torama, Vysage
 	Counterattack if attacked before it takes 2 turns. Damage is equal to the number of enemies the target has killed x20.	Tonberry
 	Non-elemental magical damage to the party as well as Slow and Curse. 	Gargantua
 	Non-elemental physical damage to the party. Never misses, and only used when HP is below 50%. 	Death Claw
=== F ===
Ability	Description 	Enemy
 	Non-elemental physical damage. 	Red Bat
 	Non-elemental magical damage and Berserk. 	Bite Bug
 	Moderate Fire-elemental damage. 	Buel, Edea (2nd), G-Soldier, Geezard, Hexadragon, Jelleye, Left Orb, Ruby Dragon, Seifer (1st, 2nd, 3rd), Sorceress (A)
 	Major Fire-elemental damage. 	Buel, Edea (1st), Hexadragon, Imp, Jelleye, Ruby Dragon, Seifer (2nd & 4th), Sphinxaur
 	Minor Fire-elemental damage. 	Bomb, Buel, Elvoret, Funguar, G-Soldier, Geezard, Ifrit, Jelleye, Sorceress (A), Wedge
 	Non-elemental physical damage. 	Raijin (3rd)
 	Heavy non-elemental damage. 	Adel, Behemoth, Griever, Ruby Dragon, Seifer (4th), Sorceress (B), Ultimecia (Final)
 	Target becomes immune to earth elemental attacks. 	Gesper
 	Will no longer use Firaga, Blizzaga, or Thundaga and will start to use Meteor, Quake, and Tornado.	Imp
 	Non-elemental physical damage. 	Fastitocalon, Fastitocalon-F
=== G ===
Ability	Description 	Enemy
 	Non-elemental magical counterattack on the party that deals damage and inflicts Sleep. 	Death Claw
 	Reduces HP by 50%. In Grat's case, non-elemental physical damage and Poison instead. 	Gayla, Grat
 	Non-elemental physical damage. 	SAM08G
 	Non-elemental physical damage to the party. 	Red Giant
 	Non-elemental physical damage. 	Fake President
 	Non-elemental physical damage that always criticals. 	Blue Dragon
 	Non-elemental physical damage to the party. 	Iron Giant
 	Reduces party's HP by 75%. 	Diablos, Griever, Omega Weapon, Ultima Weapon
 	Heavy non-elemental physical damage to the party that ignores defense. Spell power of 64. 	Ultimecia (Griever form)
 	After being attacked, increases Strength and Magic, and after using twice, will use Suicide.	Bomb
 	Non-elemental physical damage. 	Seifer
=== H ===
Ability	Description 	Enemy
 	Inflicts Haste. 	Biggs (2nd), Elastoid, Fujin (2nd)
 	Non-elemental physical damage. 	Geezard
 	Non-elemental physical damage. 	Anacondaur, Caterchipillar, Gayla
 	Non-elemental physical damage. 	Droma, Elastoid
 	Physical damage to the party. Used only after Lift Head. 	Abyss Worm
 	Non-elemental magical damage. 	Creeps
 	Reduces party's HP to 1. 	Ultimecia (Final)
 	Non-elemental physical damage. 	Mesmerize
 	Restores 1000 HP. Used on self, as well as allies with Raijin. 	Fujin (1st), Raijin (1st & 2nd), Seifer (2nd)
 	Non-elemental physical damage. 	Blue Dragon
 	Heavy Holy-elemental damage. Used as Imp's last attack. 	Adel, Elnoyle, Imp, Torama, Ultimecia (1st), Ultimecia (Griever form), Ultimecia (Final)
 	Non-elemental magical counterattack when probes are off of body.	Left Probe, Right Probe
 	Inflicts Sleep. 	Gayla
=== I ===
Ability	Description 	Enemy
 	Non-elemental physical damage and Death. 	Forbidden
 	Ice-elemental damage to the party. 	Snow Lion
 	Non-elemental physical damage that ignores defense. Damage is equal to the number of enemies target has killed x30.	Tonberry King
=== J ===
Ability	Description 	Enemy
 	Jumbo Cactuar may attempt to escape. Appears at 5% or less Max HP.	Jumbo Cactuar
 	Non-elemental physical damage. 	Ifrit
 	Non-elemental counterattack for every 5th hit done to it. 	Tonberry King
=== K ===
Ability	Description 	Enemy
 	Non-elemental physical damage to the party.	Jumbo Cactuar
 	Non-elemental physical damage. 	Tonberry King
=== L ===
Ability	Description 	Enemy
 	Non-elemental physical damage. Targets a female party member. 	Funguar
 	Lowers Vitality and Spirit. 	Turtapod
 	Non-elemental physical damage that always criticals. 	Jumbo Cactuar
 	Non-elemental physical damage. 	X-ATM092
 	Inflicts physical damage and Curse. 	Abadon
 	Changes forms, and will no longer use Protect, Reflect or Sand Shake. Used after being physically attacked 4 times.	Abyss Worm
 	Always inflicts 9999 damage. 	Omega Weapon, Ultima Weapon
 	Loses sword when HP is below 9000. 	Red Giant
 	Inflicts Death on targets whose levels are a multiple of 5. 	Omega Weapon, Torama
=== M ===
Ability	Description 	Enemy
 	Non-elemental physical damage. 	Base Leader, Biggs, Elite Soldier
 	Earth-elemental damage to the party. Only used if both Minotaur and Sacred are alive. 	Minotaur, Sacred
 	Halves party's HP and inflicts Curse. Ultimecia removes 62.5% of current HP. 	Edea (2nd), Ultimecia (1st)
 	Ultima will be used the following turn. 	Adel
 	Summons Jelleye, Forbidden, or Tri-Face, in that order. 	Sphinxara
 	Fire-elemental damage and Petrifying. 	Iguion
 	Heavy non-elemental magical damage to the party that ignores defense. Spell power of 120. 	Bahamut
 	Non-elemental magical damage to the party that ignores defense. Used when 2x Dromas are killed and before creating 2x new Dromas. 	Trauma
 	Thunder-elemental counterattack against all attacks except when hit by an attack of its weakness. Spell power of 120 and ignores defense. 	Tri-Point
 	Non-elemental magical damage to the party that ignores defense. Last attack used in "Mobile Off, Support On" mode for Mobile Type 8. Spell power of 78. In Omega Weapon's case, always inflicts 9998 damage to party.	Mobile Type 8, Omega Weapon
 	Non-elemental magical damage and inflicts Vit 0. 	Elite Soldier, Sorceress (B), Ultimecia (1st)
 	Fire-elemental damage to the party. Used below 33% HP. 	Hexadragon
 	Non-elemental magical damage and Silence. 	Grand Mantis
 	10 hits of non-elemental damage to random party members. Used as a final attack in Catoblepas's case, and can be used as a final attack in Behemoth's case. 	Adel, Behemoth, Catoblepas, Elnoyle, Fujin (2nd), Imp, Lefty, Omega Weapon, Ruby Dragon, Sorceress (B), Torama, Ultima Weapon, Ultimecia (1st), Ultimecia (Griever form), Ultimecia (Final)
 	Non-elemental physical damage to the party. Never misses. 	Fujin (2nd)
 	Halves target's HP (25% if target has Protect). 	GIM52A
 	Casts Protect and Shell on self, as well as allies when used by Behemoth. Used when at 50% or less HP. 	Behemoth, Iron Giant
 	Non-elemental magical damage that ignores defense and Shell. Is 1/3rd the power of Pulse Cannon. 	Droma
 	Requests another Elixir. 	PuPu
 	Either Vitality is boosted and Tentacle is the only attack used, Vitality and Spirit are boosted and only magic attacks are used, or Vitality and Spirit are boosted and all attacks are used. 	Jelleye
 	Non-elemental physical damage to the party. 	Minotaur
 	Non-elemental physical damage. 	Cactuar
=== N ===
Ability	Description 	Enemy
 	Non-elemental physical damage that inflicts Poison.	Bite Bug
=== O ===
Ability	Description 	Enemy
 	Inflicts Curse and Slow to the party. 	Ochu
 	Reduces HP by 62.5%. Counter when HP is below 1/3rd of Max HP. Never misses.	Oilboyle
 	Non-elemental physical damage and inflicts Darkness. 	Oilboyle
 	Non-elemental physical damage that always criticals. 	Tri-Point
 	Appears above ground. Defense is reduced. 	Fastitocalon, Fastitocalon-F
=== P ===
Ability	Description 	Enemy
 	Inflicts Poison, Darkness, and Silence. 	Elnoyle, Fujin (2nd), Griever
 	Inflicts Petrify. Can also be used as a counterattack to magic attacks in Cockatrice's case.	Cockatrice, Glacial Eye
 	Non-elemental magical damage as well as Poison and Confuse. 	Tri-Face
 	Non-elemental magical damage and Poison to the party. Only used at 50% or less HP. 	Anacondaur
 	Restores 200 HP. 	Base Soldier
 	Non-elemental physical damage that never misses. 	Wendigo
 	Halves damage done by physical attacks. 	Abyss Worm, Adamantoise, Base Leader, Edea (1st), Elastoid, Elite Soldier, Gesper, NORG, Vysage
 	Non-elemental physical damage. 	NORG
 	Non-elemental physical damage that always criticals when used by Gargantua. 	Blobra, Esthar Soldier (Cyborg), Gargantua, Gesper, GIM47N, GIM52A, Propagator, Red Giant, Wendigo
=== Q ===
Ability	Description 	Enemy
 	Heavy Earth-elemental damage to the party. Spell power of 40.	Cerberus, Imp, Lefty, Sorceress (B)
 	Heavy Earth-elemental damage to the party. Spell power of 80.	Adel, Gargantua, Ultima Weapon, Ultimecia (1st), Ultimecia (Griever form)
=== R ===
Ability	Description 	Enemy
 	Non-elemental physical damage that always criticals. 	Raijin (2nd & 3rd)
 	Non-elemental physical damage. Only used when Raldo is alive. 	Granaldo
 	Non-elemental physical damage. Only used when Raldo is alive. 	Granaldo
 	Non-elemental physical damage. 	Mesmerize
 	Non-elemental magical damage to the party. Spell power of 24/26. 	GIM52A, X-ATM092
 	Bounces spells back at enemy party. 	Adamantoise, Blue Dragon, Buel, Edea (2nd), GIM47N, Glacial Eye, Lefty, Ruby Dragon, Sorceress (A)
 	Non-elemental physical damage to the party. 	Elastoid
 	Target gradually restores HP over time. 	Biggs (2nd), Blood Soul, Fujin (2nd)
 	Removes negative statuses. 	Base Leader, Base Soldier, Fujin (1st), Paratrooper, Seifer (2nd)
 	Used only if knocked down. Indicates how close to being fully restored. 	X-ATM092
 	Non-elemental physical damage to the party. Only used if both Iguions are alive.	Iguion
 	Non-elemental physical damage that always criticals. 	Armadodo
=== S ===
Ability	Description 	Enemy
 	Reduces HP to 1. Never misses. 	Fujin
 	Non-elemental magical damage and Curse. 	Abyss Worm
 	Counterattack against physical attacks. Inflicts Earth-elemental damage to the party. 	Abyss Worm
 	Non-elemental physical damage and Darkness to the party. 	Adamantoise
 	Non-elemental magical damage to the party. 	Fastitocalon
 	Reads target's vital information. Cannot be reflected. 	Tri-Point
 	Non-elemental physical damage that always criticals. 	Righty
 	Halves damage done by magical attacks. 	Abyss Worm, Adamantoise, Base Leader, Edea (1st), Elastoid, Elite Soldier, Gesper, NORG, Vysage
 	Extreme non-elemental magical damage to the party. Used halfway through the fight; if not, then used as death move. Spell power of 180. 	Griever
 	Non-elemental physical damage to the party. 	Wendigo
 	Non-elemental physical damage. 	Esthar Soldier (Human), Esthar Soldier (Cyborg)
 	Non-elemental physical damage. 	SAM08G
 	Non-elemental physical damage to the party. 	Vysage
 	Inflicts Silence. 	Abadon, Blobra, Blood Soul, Cerberus, Edea (2nd), Forbidden, Gargantua, Gerogero, Gesper, Glacial Eye, Imp, NORG, Paratrooper, Propagator, Right Orb
 	Vitality and Spirit return to normal values. 	Abadon
 	Non-elemental physical damage that always criticals when used by Adamantoise. 	Adamantoise, Krysta, Righty, Trauma
 	Non-elemental physical damage that does extra damage when Blitz is charged. 	Blitz, Omega Weapon
 	Inflicts Sleep. 	Belhelmel, Blood Soul, Elastoid, Forbidden, Funguar, Gerogero, Guard, Ochu, Sphinxara
 	Non-elemental counterattack that inflicts Sleep to the party. 	Grat
 	Non-elemental physical damage. 	Belhelmel, Mesmerize
 	Target's ATB gauge fills up half its normal rate. 	Biggs (2nd), Blobra, Edea (2nd), Forbidden, Fujin (2nd), Gesper, Lefty, NORG, Paratrooper, Right Orb, Sphinxara
 	Non-elemental magical damage to one target. 	GIM47N
 	Non-elemental magical damage and Curse to the party. 	Oilboyle
 	Reduces target's HP to 1. 	Esthar Soldier (Cyborg)
 	Non-elemental physical damage. 	Left Probe, Right Probe
 	Will only use Reflect Beam while in this mode. Only used when at 30% or less Max HP. 	Elastoid
 	Non-elemental physical damage. 	Anacondaur
 	Vitality and Spirit are greatly increased. In Torama's case, will only used at 40% or less HP, and will no longer use magic and instead use Bite and Blaster.	Abadon, Torama
 	Non-elemental magical damage as well as Poison, Confuse, Darkness, and Silence. 	Vysage
 	Non-elemental physical damage. 	Sacred
 	Non-elemental physical damage. 	Slapper
 	Non-elemental physical damage and Slow. 	Blobra
 	Inflicts Slow (lv20–29) / Stop (lv30+). 	Caterchipillar
 	Lasts 3 rounds, and only used if at least one other enemy is alive and isn't a SAM08G. 	SAM08G
 	Non-elemental physical damage. 	Esthar Soldier (Human), Esthar Soldier (Cyborg), Raijin
 	Non-elemental physical counterattack to physical attacks. 	Krysta
 	Inflicts Stop on a target. 	Bahamut, Blobra, Chimera, Elastoid, Forbidden, Lefty, Ultimecia
 	Non-elemental magical damage to the party. Used every 3rd turn for Elvoret and 6th turn for Elnoyle. 	Elnoyle, Elvoret
 	Non-elemental physical damage. 	Oilboyle
 	Used after using Grow twice. Inflicts damage equal to Bomb's Max HP x2. Never misses. 	Bomb
 	Non-elemental physical damage that always criticals. 	Grand Mantis
 	Non-elemental physical damage. 	Armadodo, Death Claw, Elnoyle, Elvoret, Geezard, SAM08G
 	Non-elemental physical damage. 	Iron Giant, Paratrooper, Red Giant
 	Non-elemental physical damage. 	Base Soldier, Forbidden, G-Soldier, Guard, Ultima Weapon, Wedge
=== T ===
Ability	Description 	Enemy
 	Non-elemental physical damage. Hits all when used by T-Rexaur, and always criticals when used by Cerberus under Triple status.	Cerberus, T-Rexaur
 	Non-elemental physical damage. 	Caterchipillar
 	Non-elemental physical damage. 	Grendel
 	Non-elemental physical damage. 	Snow Lion
 	Non-elemental physical damage. 	Glacial Eye
 	Non-elemental physical damage that always criticals. 	Elnoyle
 	Non-elemental physical damage. 	Blue Dragon, Gayla
 	Non-elemental physical damage. 	Gesper
 	Non-elemental physical damage. 	Sorceress (A), Sorceress (B)
 	Non-elemental physical counterattack. In Ochu's case, non-elemental physical damage and Poison. 	Jelleye, Ochu
 	16 hits of heavy non-elemental physical damage to random targets that ignore defense. Spell power of 15/hit. 	Omega Weapon
 	Ends battle. 	PuPu
 	Will only use Hind Kick and Ram. Can happen after any attack. 	Mesmerize
 	Non-elemental physical damage that always criticals. 	Forbidden
 	Major Thunder-elemental damage. 	Bahamut, Behemoth, Belhelmel, Blitz, Buel, Catoblepas, Cerberus, Chimera, Creeps, Edea (1st), GIM52A, Imp, Jelleye, Lefty, Propagator, Sorceress (B), Sphinxaur, Ultimecia (1st)
 	Major Thunder-elemental damage. Cannot be reflected. Charges Blitz. 	Blitz
 	Moderate Thunder-elemental damage. 	Base Leader, Belhelmel, Biggs (2nd), Blitz, Buel, Chimera, Creeps, Edea (2nd), GIM52A, Jelleye, Left Orb, Sorceress (A)
 	Moderate Thunder-elemental damage. Cannot be reflected. Charges Blitz. 	Blitz
 	Minor Thunder-elemental damage. 	Belhelmel, Biggs (1st), Blitz, Buel, Creeps, Elvoret, Grendel, Jelleye, Lefty, Sorceress (A), Torama
 	Minor Thunder-elemental damage. Cannot be reflected. Charges Blitz. 	Blitz
 	Thunder-elemental damage to the party. Used after using Thundaga 3 times. 	Catoblepas
 	Tonberry wastes a turn. 	Tonberry
 	Heavy Wind-elemental damage to the party. Spell power of 38. 	Bahamut, Behemoth, Cerberus, Chimera, Fujin, Imp, Left Orb, Ultimecia (1st), Vysage
 	Heavy Wind-elemental damage to the party. Spell power of 76. 	Ultimecia (Griever form)
 	Allows target to cast 3 spells consecutively. 	Cerberus, Griever
 	Non-elemental magical counterattack when probes are on main body and main body is attacked. 	Left Probe, Right Probe
 	Non-elemental physical counterattack. 	Helix
=== U ===
Ability	Description 	Enemy
 	Heavy non-elemental damage to the party. Spell power of 80. 	Krysta, Sorceress (C)
 	Heavy non-elemental damage to the party. Spell power of 110. 	Adel, Omega Weapon, Ultimecia (Griever form), Ultimecia (Final)
 	Non-elemental magical damage and Sleep (lv1-19)/ Confuse (lv20+).	Red Bat
 	Non-elemental magical damage and Berserk to the party. 	Caterchipillar
 	Non-elemental physical damage. 	Fastitocalon, Fastitocalon-F
 	Non-elemental physical damage. 	Cockatrice
=== V ===
Ability	Description 	Enemy
 	Steals HP to restore own HP. Only used when HP is below 25% in Glacial Eye's case. In Red Bat's case, only used if HP is below 50%.	Glacial Eye, Grat, Red Bat
 	Non-elemental physical damage. 	Grat
=== W ===
Ability	Description 	Enemy
 	Moves forward. 	Tonberry
 	Water-elemental damage. 	NORG
 	Increases Strength and Magic. Used when HP is below 75%. 	Wedge (2nd)
 	Non-elemental physical damage. 	Mobile Type 8
 	Restores HP equal to user's Max HP minus user's current HP to the party.	Adamantoise
 	Non-elemental physical damage to party. Only used after 3x Store. 	SAM08G
 	Wind-elemental damage to the party. Only used when below 30% of Max HP. 	Thrustaevis
 	Non-elemental physical damage. 	Buel
=== Z ===
Ability	Description 	Enemy
 	Non-elemental physical damage. 	Fujin
 	Game Over. Only used if timer during battle runs out.	Odin
 	Inflicts Zombie. 	Blood Soul, Sphinxara
== Gallery ==
Category:Enemy abilities in Final Fantasy VIII
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