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    im on ff8 and i need to kill enough marlboros to get 6 tentacles only problem is as soon as i get in battle he uses bad breath and everyones sleep berserked darkness and poisin help NOW!!!!!

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    Junction 100 Confuses, and 100 Berserks to your status defense and you'll be fine. Make sure that person has the treatment ability and then use it on every character, and voila. All status effects removed.

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    it was an accident man im new here

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    Ok, first off, Marlboro's are one of the hardest, if not THE hardest random enemy encounter you'll meet on the world map. To defeat his "Bad Breath" attack, you need to appropriately junction magic so your defenses nullify the status changes caused by this attack. I'm not sure exactly what these were (the two most important ones to defened against are probably Berserk and Confuse), but during the course of the game you should have gained enough junctioning experience to know how to work the details of the system.

    Also, if you're going through the game normally, I wouldn't recommend fighting Marlboro's until you're at least on disc 3, and even then you will have had to learn enough abilities with your GF's to even have the option of junctioning magic to the appropriate places so that "Bad Breath" doesn't leave you helpless.

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    If you have x4status defense, junction 100 sleep and 100 slow too
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    If you have ST-Defx4 then junction 100 Confuse, Berserk, Pain and Sleep. If you just have ST-Defx2 then Confuse and Berserk are the main ones.

    An easy way to defeat Malboros is to have Quistis on critical health and the Initative ability. As soon as the battle begins use Degenerator (Black Hole. Refine a Gesper card). Pandemona, Tonberry and Cactuar learn Initiative.

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    Quote Originally Posted by ForestOwl
    If you have ST-Defx4 then junction 100 Confuse, Berserk, Pain and Sleep. If you just have ST-Defx2 then Confuse and Berserk are the main ones.

    An easy way to defeat Malboros is to have Quistis on critical health and the Initative ability. As soon as the battle begins use Degenerator (Black Hole. Refine a Gesper card). Pandemona, Tonberry and Cactuar learn Initiative.
    Thats exactly right

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    One word: Odin
    Get him from the centra ruins, wander around the island closest to heaven a bit and he'll randomly kill an enemy. after a while he killed a malboro and I got 8 malboro tentacles. It wasn't the first malboro he killed though.
    Giving initiative to the person with the mug ability is another stategy; try to mug once and run before he can use bad breath. I personally prefer the Odin strategy
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    Look, here's what I did.
    DON'T KILL THE MARLBORO! It's not worth the effort.

    1. Junction 100 berserks to status defense. this is the MOST important. If you're entire party is berserked AND confused, there's no hope.
    2. Junction confuse too if you can. if not just be sure you have berserk and wait until you are hit (if you make it that long)
    3. heal if you want
    4. MUG the marlboro for tentacles. You can get them by mugging, sometimes they don't even drop tentacles so its so much easier.

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    I usually kills them using Quistis' Detonator (learns from Black Hole). Just select to Quistis Initiative (Pandemona can mastered it) and put her HP to yellow. And now you are always the first one who attacts :D

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    Do you not read the previous posts?

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    Junction Ribbon if you can get one.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Christmas
    Junction Ribbon if you can get one.

    You can't get one
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    Too bad I got one the ability.

    EDIT: It is a rank A item in the chocobo world. You need a pocketstation or a PC version of the game that came with a pocketstation emulator to access it.
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