Pandemona

Pandemona is a Wind-based Guardian Force in Final Fantasy VIII. It learns Speed and Strength junctions and support abilities to enhance them. It is the first Guardian Force to learn Speed boosts naturally, and also the first to learn an ability that lets the junctioner act first in a battle along with a command that lets the user absorb HP from a target. It doesn't learn any refine abilities; the ability that refines Wind magic is learned by Quezacotl.
==Profile==
Pandemona is a pastel-colored creature. Its body is lavender with colorful aspects. It is bipedal and can suck in air and enemies via its "funnel" up front, storing the contents inside its tail that blows up like a balloon.
==Obtained==
Pandemona is drawn from Fujin during the fight in the Balamb Hotel. After drawing Pandemona from her, Fujin stops using Wind magic. If missed, Pandemona can be drawn from Red Giant in the final dungeon. If the player misses both opportunities, Pandemona cannot be obtained in that playthrough. Obtaining Pandemona in the Steam and Remastered versions earns the achievement Pandemona.
==Battle==
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Pandemona's attack, Tornado Zone, is a Wind-elemental attack against all opponents. The majority of enemies have a weakness against Wind. Pandemona's summon time is 22.8s, which, according to the Final Fantasy VIII Ultimania, allows the player to boost its damage to around 240% of normal damage using a regular PlayStation controller.
Its damage is calculated as follows:
:Damage = 65 \times Level / 10 + 46 + 14
:Damage = Damage \times (265 - TargetSpr) / 8 
:Damage = Damage \times 46 / 256 
:Damage = Damage \times Boost / 100 
:Damage = Damage \times (100 + SummonMagBonus) / 100 
:Damage = Damage \times (900 - ElemDef) / 100:
Elemental Defense starts at 800 (0%), 900 nullifies damage and 1000 absorbs it. If an enemy is shown to be weak against an element, its Elemental Defense is below 800. If damage becomes negative (due to high Elemental Defense), the target is healed by that amount.
===Compatibility===
A Guardian Force's compatibility determines how fast the summon attack can be executed. Compatibility is raised by summoning Pandemona, casting magic that has affinity with Pandemona, and by using its compatibility items. The compatibility is lowered by summoning other GFs and using other GFs' compatibility items.
Compatibility Chart	Compatibility Chart 	Compatibility Chart
Summon Effect 	Pandemona +20, Brothers -10, Every other GF -1.6 	
Compatibility Items	Shear Feather +1.6, Windmill +3.2, LuvLuv G +20.2 	
Casting Magic 	Tornado +1, Aero +0.6, Apocalypse +0.2, Ultima +0.2, Water -0.8	
The below values are the base compatibility values with all playable characters at the start of the game. Even if Seifer cannot junction Pandemona in a normal playthrough, a default compatibility value still exists for him.
Party member	Compatibility
Squall 	570
Quistis 	560
Zell 	570
Selphie 	620
Rinoa 	640
Irvine 	540
Seifer 	320
Edea 	729
===Stats===
The following table represents Pandemona's base stats:
Level	HP 	Attack Power
19 	1,442	1,052
20 	1,506	1,092
30 	2,146	1,466
40 	2,794	1,840
50 	3,450	2,213
60 	4,114	2,587
70 	4,786	2,961
80 	5,466	3,335
90 	6,154	3,708
100 	6,850	4,082
==Abilities==
Abilities learned naturally by Pandemona are listed below:
Ability 	AP 	Prerequisite
Str-J 	(Already learned)	(Already learned)
Spd-J 	120 	None
Elem-Atk-J 	(Already learned)	(Already learned)
Elem-Def-J 	(Already learned)	(Already learned)
Elem-Def-Jx2	130 	None
Magic 	(Already learned)	(Already learned)
GF 	(Already learned)	(Already learned)
Draw 	(Already learned)	(Already learned)
Item 	(Already learned)	(Already learned)
Absorb 	80 	None
Ability 	AP 	Prerequisite
Str+20% 	60 	None
Str+40% 	120	Str+20%
Spd+20% 	150	Spd-J
Spd+40% 	200	Spd+20%
Initiative	160	None
SumMag+10%	40 	None
SumMag+20%	70 	SumMag+10%
SumMag+30%	140	SumMag+20%
GFHP+10% 	40 	None
GFHP+20% 	70 	GFHP+10%
GFHP+30% 	140	GFHP+20%
Boost 	10 	None
==Triple Triad==
Pandemona is a wind-elemental Level 9 GF Card in Triple Triad used for playing the minigame# and for turning into 100 Windmills with Quezacotl's Card Mod. It is held by the hotel owner in Balamb Town.
==Other appearances==
===Final Fantasy Type-0===
Pandemona, along with Typhon and Phoenix, was considered to be a summon in Final Fantasy Type-0 but was discarded.
===Dissidia Final Fantasy Opera Omnia===
===Pictlogica Final Fantasy===
===Mobius Final Fantasy===
Pandemona appeared as a wind-elemental Mage ability card for players to summon during the Final Fantasy VIII collaboration event. It allowed player characters to perform the Guardian Force: Wind Mage ability, which dealt wind damage to enemies within an area of effect. Additionally, the attack drew three wind elemental orbs, along with granting the Windforce and Resist Earth buffs on the user.
==Gallery==
Pandemona FFVIII Art.png|Artwork by Tetsuya Nomura.
FFVIIIPandemonium.jpg|Pandemona model render.
Pandemona2.png|Tornado Zone.
Pandemona1.png|Tornado Zone.
Tornado Zone.png|Tornado Zone.
Pandemonatype-0.jpg|Pandemona as it was set to appear in Final Fantasy Type-0.
PFF Pandemona Icon.png|Icon in Pictlogica Final Fantasy.
PFF Pandemona Sprite.png|Pictlogica Final Fantasy.
==Etymology and allusion==
Pandemona comes from the word "Pandemonium", the GF's name in the original Japanese release.
The word's meaning of any loud, chaotic thing, refers to Pandemona's use of a tornado. His use of a bag to unleash his wind powers is more in reference to Fūjin, the Japanese kami of wind who also used a bag filled with wind; gaining the summon from the character of the same name hints to this.
The game's debug menu, only accessible via cheating device, calls Pandemona "Pandemonium", but as the name exceeds the character limit the shortened version is used in the English release.
Pandemona is called Zephyr in the French version, Eolo in the Spanish version, and Pandemon in the Italian version.
Pandemona's appearance and name may be in reference and in tribute to the PlayStation platformer games Pandemonium and Skullmonkeys, which featured floating and flying mechanics, and were popular in Japan.
==Citations==
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