How to Beat Dragon Aevis

Dragon Aevis is a boss that appears during the Fanning Embers quest in Final Fantasy 16 (FF16). See the best strategies for how to beat Dragon Aevis, how to counter its attacks and abilities, as well as its location, quest appearance, spoils, and drops.

Dragon Aevis Overview

Dragon Aevis Location and Drops

Dragon Aevis
Level	11
Quest	Fanning Embers
Location & Region	The Greatwood , Holy Empire of Sanbreque
Rewards	・12 EXP ・30 AP ・500 Gil ・ Sharp Fang ・ Dragon Talon

How to Beat Dragon Aevis

Step-by-Step Guide
Time Your Dodges Against its High Mobility Lunge When it Leaps Away Utilize Ranged Attacks When it Uses Fireballs Use Burning Blade After Staggering It

Time Your Dodges Against its High Mobility

The Dragon Aevis is equipped with high mobility and quick movement, often leaping around and changing its position. However, despite its incredible speed, its attacks are predictable and can easily be avoided with Precision Dodging.

A key thing to note here is that each time the dragon is changing its position, it's usually preparing for an attack so ready up your dodge button whenever you see this!

Lunge When it Leaps Away

When the dragon leaps away from you, use Lunge to catch it off guard and spam your combos at it. Once you break its will, make use of the powerful Rising Flames plus Scarlet Cyclone combination to maximize your damage output.

Utilize Ranged Attacks When it Uses Fireballs

If you're keeping your distance from the dragon, it will start breathing out fireballs at you. You can also fight back by using ranged attacks as its quite effective on this boss due to its low amount of Health Points (HP).

Use Burning Blade After Staggering It

Once you learn Burning Blade for Clive, use it on the dragon upon staggering as this ability takes time to charge up, then unleash a combination of basic attacks and other Phoenix Abilities to deal massive damage to it!

Overall this should be a quick battle and staggering it once and landing all your attacks will surely drain its HP in half.

Final Fantasy XVI (FF16) Related Guides

List of Bosses and Formidable Foes

All Formidable Foes

All Formidable Foes
Gigas	Morbol	Knight of the Blinding Dawn
Eikon of Fire	Shiva's Dominant	Tiamat
Dragon Aevis	Fafnir	Midnight Raven
Chirada	Suparna and Chirada	Benedikta
Garuda	Knight of the Dying Sun	Iron Giant
Infernal Eikon	Infernal Shadow	Imperial Cannonier
Akashic Dragon	Typhon	Republican War Panther
Akashic Morbol	Flame Lizard	Liquid Flame
Coeurl	Hugo	Undertaker
Titan	White Dragon	Necrophobe
Bahamut	Sleipnir	Barnabas (First Encounter)
Control Node	Aurum Giant	Barnabas (Second Encounter)
Behemoth	Ultima (First Encounter)	Ultimalius