Diabolos (Final Fantasy VI)

Diabolos is an esper in the Advance and the now-discontinued 2014 mobile/Steam versions of Final Fantasy VI who can be acquired as a magicite.
==Profile==
Diabolos is a humanoid, devilish creature. Its skin is mostly black and red, with large red wings and a long, black tail.
Diabolos's appearance is similar to its debut appearance in Final Fantasy VIII.
==Story==
Diabolos was one of several espers the Gestahlian Empire captured during their first raid on the esper world. The captive espers were taken to the Magitek Research Facility at Vector, and for sixteen years they were experimented on and had their magic drained to develop the Empire's Magitek army.
Shortly before the Returners infiltrated the facility and shut it down, Diabolos, along with three other espers, escaped. Through unknown circumstances, Diabolos turned into magicite and ended up in Dragons' Den, where it was guarded by Kaiser Dragon. The Returners explored Dragons' Den and defeated Kaiser, taking Diabolos's magicite.
==Gameplay==
Diabolos costs 100 MP to summon and casts Dark Messenger, which reduces all opponents' HP to 1/16. It ignores immunity to Instant Death and inflicts sap. At level up, Diabolos provides a +100% boost to the base HP gain.
Diabolos is largely useless as a magicite—by the time the player obtains it, they have defeated the most powerful boss and it is likely that every party member can inflict massive damage to all enemies every turn on their own. Its level up bonus is not very impressive, as the party members are likely at a high level already with several thousand HP, and a few extra hundred points with Diabolos would not make much of a difference.
However, Diabolos is useful in a low level challenge, because fractional damage does not depend on the player's level, and Dark Messenger ignores instant death immunity.
===Spells===
As with Diabolos itself, the spells it teaches are not very useful outside of a low level challenge. An Ultima spell, which all characters can easily have learned by the time they acquire Diabolos, will do just as much or more damage than either gravity spell at any reasonable level.
*Graviga x5
*Gravija x3
==Gallery==
FFVI Dark Messenger.png|Dark Messenger (GBA).
Final Fantasy VI Advance Esper － Diablos|Dark Messenger (GBA; video).
==Etymology==
de:Diabolos (FFVI)
Category:Espers in Final Fantasy VI
Category:Magicite in Final Fantasy VI