Grat (Final Fantasy VIII)

Grat is an enemy in Final Fantasy VIII. It is a weak enemy found in Balamb Garden's training center and in the final dungeon. It is a plant that uses status attacks, and is among the few random encounters to be immune to ejecting attacks. It also appeared in the PC version demo.
==Stats==
== Battle ==
Grat are fought as random encounters within the Garden Training Center, all around the Garden as random encounters during the Balamb Garden Revolt event, and in a fixed battle at the library at this event, summoned by the Garden Faculty.
Grat uses Vampire that inflicts damage and restores Grat's HP equal to the amount of damage it inflicted. Its Gastric Juices is a physical attack that may inflict Poison on the player, though this attack can be avoided with high evasion and luck. The chance of it casting Gastric Juice as well as inflicting Poison increases as the player levels. Sleeping Gas is used sometimes as counterattack if Grat is physically or magically attacked, and this may inflict Sleep on all party members.
Grats are weak to Ice and Fire. They are a good source of Sleep and Silence magic early in the game; Sleep is useful against the T-Rexaur, a tough monster rarely encountered in the Training Center as well. 
Grat is one of the few non-boss monsters that is unaffected by Quistis's Degenerator Limit Break and Selphie's Rapture. Odin also never appears against it. The others are Vysage, Lefty, Righty, Cactuar, Tonberry, Esthar Soldier (Terminator), UFO? and PuPu.
===Strategy===
Summoning Ifrit and Shiva defeats groups of Grats easily.
== Triple Triad ==
Grat is a Level 2 Monster Card in Triple Triad that becomes Magic Stone with Quezacotl's Card Mod.
==Behind the scenes==
In the 2000 film version of Charlie's Angels, two boys are seen playing Final Fantasy VIII, controlling Squall and Quistis in a battle in the Training Center. They are shown fighting against two Grats, with one using the Vampire ability.
== Gallery ==
Ff8-grat.gif|Concept art.
Grat FFVIII Color Art.jpg|Colored concept art.
FFVIII Sleeping Gas.png|Sleeping Gas.
FFVIII Vampire.png|Vampire.
FFVIII Vine.png|Vine Strike.
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