Malboro!

[Social Moon Firesky]

I hate those damn things. They're so creepy and they're almost impossible to kill. Plus, they almost always end up killing you! Any tips on how to kill them easily?

[NM]

Junction against Confuse and Berserk status, have someone with the treatment command, learnt from GF Siren, and you should be alright. If you have the ST-Junction x 4 then even better.

[Ultima Shadow]

Junction against Confuse and Berserk status

And if you have the space, junction against Sleep as well. But Confuse and Berserk are more important.

Also... remember that you should have 100 Confuse and 100 Berserk junctioned to your status defense. If you just junction a few, then it won't help at all. You have to junction 100 Confuse and Berserks to your status defense.

[Kami]

ah.. i was about to make a malboro post too. btw... where do you draw beserk and confuse?

[rubah]

I think you could probably get berserk from the bloodsouls that are around galbadia garden's old hangout. They cast it a lot anyways-_-

My favorite way to kill marlboros is to smack them with demi about 17 times, then have rinoa devour them for the spirit boost eventually I'll make a dent in her spr stat then I can have someone else devour. You can draw demi from them, so you don't have to worry about running out or having to equip the Magic command.

If you don't have berserk and confuse junctioned, do NOT junction against sleep. Having a character confused and berseked but wide awake and poisoned is *NOT* a good thing.

[Ultima Shadow]

If you don't have berserk and confuse junctioned, do NOT junction against sleep. Having a character confused and berseked but wide awake and poisoned is *NOT* a good thing.

Having a character Berserked, Confused and Asleep is not that good either. If all the characters have Berserk and Confusion, then the best option is to simply run from the battle.

Anyway... yes, you can draw Berserk from Bloodsouls. And you can get Confusion from Forbiddens... I think. Atleast the item that forbiddens drop can be refined into 20 Confuse spells. Forbiddens are those skeletons with swords.

[BG-57]

It's very handy to junction 100 Pain to Stat-Def, since it protects you against three status ailments at once.

[rubah]

Having a character Berserked, Confused and Asleep is not that good either.

If it's just one character, that's fine. If they're asleep, they might be trying to beat up on the two other characters, who might just accidentally be at really really low hp (like if you were using limits to kill monsters quickly and didn't want ot bother with aura) or if you're within devouring range of that stupid malboro and the berserked character goes and kills it-_-

I'd rather them be asleep.

[Ultima Shadow]

If it's just one character, that's fine. If they're asleep, they might be trying to beat up on the two other characters, who might just accidentally be at really really low hp (like if you were using limits to kill monsters quickly and didn't want ot bother with aura) or if you're within devouring range of that stupid malboro and the berserked character goes and kills it-_-

I'd rather them be asleep.

True. And I never said that it was better to not have them asleep. I just said that it's never good to have a character berserked and confused. Even though almost anyone but Squall will miss because of the "Blind" status.

Ah, whatever. Just junction Confusion and Berserk to your status defense and you'll do fine!

[rubah]

Not when they've got a million triples junctioned to hit-_- Like rinoa likes to have.

Of course if you're levelling up the first time you don't quite have *these* troubles^_^

[Skyblade]

I usually junction Confuse, Berserk, Sleep, and Pain when dealing with Malboros. Another effective combo is Holy, Esuna, Reflect, and Pain. If you get 100 of each, you have 85% protection from Confuse and Berserk (which is usually enough), and have a wide range of resistances to the other effects as well. You can of course substitute Pain for Berserk or Confuse if you like.

Facing Malboros is one of the times when I get really upset at Square for not releasing the Pocketstation in the US...

[Ultima Shadow]

Not when they've got a million triples junctioned to hit-_-

Which none who makes sense would have. Tripple belongs to the Speed status.

But WHATEVER!

[Social Moon Firesky]

Thanks guys! Those Malboros aren't gonna know what hit 'em. Oh, and is it just me, or are they really freaky? The noise they make, the way they look, ugh. *Cold shivers* Mind you, I thought they looked scarier in FF7.

[YukiKiro]

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

[Ultima Shadow]

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.