Tonberries (Final Fantasy VI)

The Tonberries, also called Pugs, are bosses in Final Fantasy VI. They should not to be confused with the single enemy Tonberry. They are fought as a monster-in-a-box in Yeti's Cave, and there are three of them in the chest. Just like the singular Tonberry, they do not inflict the party with the status condition.
== Stats ==
== Battle ==
The Tonberries attack by slowly advancing towards the party. When they reach them, they will use their special attack, Knife, to deal massive damage to the member in front of whom they are standing, usually killing them. They will then return to the far side of the battle screen. They counter magic with the powerful Holy spell. They have high evasion.
Locke can steal valuable Minerva Bustiers from them, and they sometimes drop Minerva Bustiers as well.
=== Strategy ===
The player should stick to normal attacks to defeat them. A great technique is to cast on the party. Using only physical attacks can be tedious since the Tonberries have a high evade rate; therefore equipping a Sniper Eye relic to at least one of the characters can help. Special techniques, such as Blitz, Tools, and Bushido, will also work well. Slowga is effective for delaying the Tonberries' turns and thus their Knife attacks.
Alternatively, one can silence them, and use magic (which can include poisoning them with Bio). Another strategy is simply to Imp them; it hinders their physical attack power and stops them from counter-attacking with Holy.
The easiest strategy to defeat them is to spam Ultima.
== Rage ==
Tonberries is one of the four Rages that cannot be learned by Gau. In the case of the other three such monsters (Siegfried, Typhon, and Death Warden), this is because they do not appear on the Veldt, and thus using a cheating or hacking device to make them appear there will allow Gau to learn their Rage normally. This is not true of Tonberries, who do appear on the Veldt. The reason their Rage cannot be learned is different: there are 256 Rages available, but because of a bug in the way the game accesses this data, the Tonberries Rage, which is the 256th Rage, does not work properly and was removed from the game. In the GBA version, the Rage can be added to Gau's Rage list in the main Abilities menu if he "learns" it on the Veldt, but it will not appear on his list when in battle and thus cannot be selected.
== Formations ==
Number	Enemies 	Encounter flags	Encounter flags	Encounter flags	Encounter flags	Introduction flag	Musical theme	Magic AP
Number	Enemies 	Normal 	Back 	Surrounded 	Side 	Introduction flag	Musical theme	Magic AP
 	Tonberries x3 	 	 	 	 	Sides, individual	Battle 	5
 	Tonberries 	 	 	 	 	Sides, individual	Battle 	—
 	Abaddon, (Tonberries x5)	 	 	 	 	Sides, individual	Battle 	—
== AI script ==
If monster has taken 8 steps:
:Knife (100%)
:Monster moves back to the right side and starts walking towards party again
Every Turn:
:Attack (100%)
:Move one step closer
If attacked by "Attack":
:If monster has taken 2 or more steps already:
::If monster has been attacked with "Attack" 3 or more times:
:::Monster takes one step backwards
If attacked by "Magic": Holy (100%)
== Etymology ==
== Related enemies ==
* Tonberry
* Master Tonberry
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