How to Beat White Dragon

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

White Dragon Overview

White Dragon Location and Drops

White Dragon
Quest	Fire in the Sky
Location & Region	The Crystalline Dominion , Crystalline Dominion
Rewards	・1500 EXP ・200 AP ・3200 Gil ・ Sharp Fang ・ Bloody Hide ・ Whitewyrm Bone
Abilities	・Heavenly Host ・Holy Twinning ・Dragon Dance ・Emanation

How to Beat White Dragon

Step-by-Step Guide
Anticipate and Dodge AoE Attacks Focus on Damaging Its Head

Anticipate and Dodge AoE Attacks

The White Dragon utilizes the element of ice to launch a series of AoE offensive skills ranging from breathing out icicles in an area, doing 360 spin attacks, and can take up to the skies to plunge the battle zone with several forms of ice lasers.

Due to the large area of effect that these abilities can reach, it's advisable to use the Phoenix Shift Eikonic Feat to dash away aside from basic dodges to increase your chances of surviving these devastating attacks.

Use Phoenix Shift to Evade Elemental Orbs and Arrows

One of the dragon's unique skill is Heavenly Twinning which sees it casting out five ice orbs that will slowly drift towards you, followed by a hail of ice arrows.

You may not have enough time to evade the latter, so instead of using the basic dodge skill, use Phoenix Shift to get to a safer distance.

Avoid Stepping on the Lines During Holy Twinning

Once you see vertical lines forming up on the ground, avoid stepping on them as these will spring out ice-like flames after a short amount of time that can damage you when hit. You can either stay in-between two lines to avoid them or simply run away from the area of where it's forming up on.

Dodge Through the Ice Beams to Negate Damage

As soon as you bring the dragon's HP in half, it will begin summoning several spectral forms of ice that will shoot out beams in various directions. You can dodge through them as they approach you to avoid taking damage but do take note that you'll have to dodge a second time as these have the tendency to slowly rotate back at you.

Focus on Damaging Its Head

Try to focus all your efforts in damaging the White Dragon's head as this is its most vulnerable spot as seen by the yellow damage output when hitting it.

Reaching it can be a bit difficult so try utilizing Clive's abilities such as the Wicked Wheel or Eikonic Feats like the Deadly Embrace to get a short boost up in the air.

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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