How to Beat Flame Lizard

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

Flame Lizard Overview

Flame Lizard Location and Drops

Flame Lizard
Quest	Fire and Ice
Location & Region	Drake's Breath , Iron Kingdom
Rewards	・220 EXP ・150 AP ・1500 Gil ・ Sharp Fang ・ Gnarled Scale
Abilities	・Incense ・Firewater ・Overdrive

How to Beat Flame Lizard

Step-by-Step Guide
Focus on Evading When Incense is Active Prioritize Attacking Its Head

Focus on Evading When Incense is Active

The Flame Lizard shares the same moves and mechanics as Fafnir as it can also rollover, swing its tail, and curl up like a ball and leap through the skies. The only thing that separates the two is that the Flame Lizard can activate Incense, which makes all of its attacks faster and a lot more painful.

Keep an eye out when flames emerge out of its body as this means the ability is active. Dodge every swing and only strike back when it stops to recover after finishing up its deadly sequence of combos.

Spam Dodge When it Performs the Overdrive Ability

Overdrive is one of its unique abilities during Incense where in it will shoot out fire beams from its mouth, followed by a series of claw attacks that ends with a body slam. Be sure to time your dodges to avoid getting fatally wounded.

Prioritize Attacking Its Head

Shift your attention to its head as this is the boss's weak point, and you can dish out more damage than usual as opposed to attacking its other body parts.

If it's looking in a different direction, use Phoenix Shift to quickly get in front of it and don't forget to also dodge away after landing a few hits to avoid getting caught in one of its attacks.

Stagger it to Prevent it From Moving

Attack and damage it by spamming your abilities until you completely drain the Flame Lizard's Will Gauge to stagger and knock it out, allowing you to freely pummel its head with your combos.

It can also be partially staggered for a short amount of time once you reduce its gauge in half. You can prolong this by using Deadly Embrace to topple it and spare you a few more seconds in its dazed state.

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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