Malboro!

[rubah]

142000 hp takes a long to kill with just physical attacks, imho.

The doom timer doesn't run out by then?

[Ultima Shadow]

142000 hp takes a long to kill with just physical attacks, imho.

The doom timer doesn't run out by then?

Not if you hit for 9999 each time and have enough in speed.

[Masamune·1600]

get odin. he's really the only one who can kill them, otherwise run for your life!

You obiviously didn't read the above posts, did you? Also, even without everything mentioned above, it's possible to beat them in 1 hit with Quistis Degenerator. You just need to do it before the Malboro uses Bad Breath.

Degenerator, as suggested, is a common Island Closest to Hell strategy. Since every monster is at Level 100 regardless of the characters' levels, one can level up very quickly from a low level. Thus, by using the GF abilities that give bonuses to stats at level ups, one can add massive bonuses to the overall statistic. Degenerator is important because it always works on these monsters, destroying the target regardless of HP (obviously an issue when one starts at low levels). That is the generally accepted strategy for this method of stat-raising.

Of course, at higher levels, you have more options open to you. Of course, as previously pointed out, proper status defense junctioning should make Bad Breath much less of an issue.

[rubah]

Not if you hit for 9999 each time and have enough in speed.

If you're hitting for 9999 why are you still levelling up?

(unless you're dorky like I am and are wittling their health down to devour but that's a stupid devour strategy, because devour misses and your timer might go 'plink!' and you get petrified or killed or whatever:P)

[HunterFlamebrow]

Hee hee . . . silly peoples with your fancy status protections!

FFVIII was the only FF where I bothered to get all my characters up to Level 100, so at the end of the game Malboros were never a problem for me . . . Squall could hit even when blinded, so I just left him on Beserk (he had Auto-Haste too . . . yay). Everyone else I just let die -- a hasted Squall dealing 9999/hit even with poison could pretty easily be victorious. And before the 4th disc? Mug, then RUN AWAY.

And yes, I found the Malboro's laugh to be one of the creepiest things I've heard . . . on my first battle with one I ran away just cause it was SCARY. EEK. :o

[Cuchulainn]

FFVIII was the quickest game to get ur chtrs up to 100, you could probably get thereabouts in normal gameplay. With Malboro's the only status' you need to SERIOUSLY worry about are those with which you lose control, ie. Sleep, Berzerk & Confuse, the rest can either ignored if you have High Magic Stats & take him down that way or cured & physically brought down, I favoured the former, just Draw or Refine 100 Bezerks, Sleeps & Confuses & equip them to status defence, you'll beat that Tina Turner Lookin Mofo in no time. If your strength is high enough & your HP can take the poison you could of course, as someone has stated, chose to leave Bezerk alone.