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How to beat Don Tonberry Tips and Guide

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Final Fantasy X How to beat Don Tonberry Don Tonberry Farming Trick

This is a walkthrough for the boss fight Don Tonberry from the game Final Fantasy X (FF 10, FF X). Read on for tips and strategy about how to beat Don Tonberry , including Don Tonberry's stats and other useful information.

Don Tonberry Information

Don Tonberry Basic Information

Name Don Tonberry
HP(Overkill) 480000 (10000) MP 120
AP(Overkill) 8000 (8000) Gil -
Drop
(7/8)
Farplane Shadow 3 (6) Drop
(1/8)
Dark Matter 1 (2)
steal
(3/4)
Candle of Life 2 Steal
(1/4)
Designer Wallet 1
Abilities
Chef's Knife Karma
Voodoo

Don Tonberry Stats

Srength 95 Agility 37
Defense 100 Luck 15
Magic 75 Evasion 0
Magic Defense 100 Accuracy 80

Don Tonberry Elemental Resistances

Fire Lightning Water Ice Holy
100% 100% 100% 100% 100%

Don Tonberry Status Resistances

Sleep Silence Darkness
GUARD GUARD GUARD
Poison Petrify Slow
GUARD GUARD GUARD
Zombie Power Break Magic Break
GUARD GUARD GUARD
Armor Break Mental Break Threaten
GUARD GUARD GUARD
Death Provoke Doom
GUARD GUARD 0
Distill Sensor Scan
0 GUARD GUARD
Gravity Delay Eject
GUARD GUARD GUARD
Zanmato Lv.
4

Don Tonberry Equipment Ability Drops

Weapon & Armor slots3-4
Weapon and Armor Ability Drops2-4
Weapon Ability Drops
Dark Strike Silence Strike
Sleep Strike Poison Strike
Stone Strike Death Strike
Zombie Strike Slow Strike
Armor Ability Drops
Dark Proof Silence Proof
Sleep Proof Poison Proof
Death Proof Zombie Proof
Slow Proof Stone Proof

Weapon & Armor Slots Drops depicts the amount of possible slots the enemy's equipment drops will have while the Ability Drops depicts the possible amount of abilities the dropped weapon may have.

Don Tonberry Boss Battle Guide

Preparation

Weapons Celestial Weapons
Armor Auto-Phoenix, Auto-Haste
Overdrive Mode Comrade

Moveset

FFX Don Tonberry

Karma Damages depends on the number of units that character has slain all throughout the game
Voodoo Instantly kills an Aeon.
Waddle Slowly walks nearer to the party.
Chef's Knife Stabs the target dealing sever damage.

Strategy

Keep launching offensive overdrives. The counterattack received from karma will fill up the other party member's overdrive gauges. Let Auto-Phoenix revive fallen party members and keep the offensive to win the battle.

Don Tonberry AP Farming Trick

Don Tonberry Trick Setup

Overdrive -> AP

Unlocking Catastrophe in the original creations by unlocking 6 area conquest monsters will net you 99 Doors to tomorrow.

Triple AP

Triple AP can be obtained as a Weapon drop from One-Eye. Aim to get a weapon with 3 slots to be able to customize Triple AP or Double AP and Overdrive->AP to the weapon.

Triple Overdrive

99 Winning Formula can be obtained by unlocking Neslug in the Monster Arena Original Creation. 30 of these can be customized in a weapon to obtain Triple Overdrive Auto-Ability.

Battle Preparation

Set the main attacker's overdrive mode to Stoic and your other character's Overdrive Mode to Comrade. This character will keep attacking don tonberry until it reaches the party. Revive the character and repeat this then flee the battle. All the damage taken will be converted to AP netting you massive amounts of AP after the battle.

Final Fantasy X Related Links

Main Story Bosses
Sinspawn: Ammes Geosgaeno
Klikk Tros
Kimahri Sin(Fin)
Sinspawn:Echuilles LordOchu
Sinspawn:Geneaux Oblitzerator
Chocobo Eater Sinspawn: Gui
Extractor Spherimorph
Crawler Seymour
Anima Wendigo
Evrae Altana Evrae
Seymour: Natus Defender X
Biran Ronso Yenke Ronso
Seymour Flux Sanctuary Keeper
Spectral Keeper Yunalesca
Sin Core Sin
Seymour Omnis Braska's Final Aeon
Yu Yevon
Arena Area Conquest Monsters
Stratoavis Malboro Menace
Kottos Coeurlregina
Jormungand Cactuar King
Espada Abyss Worm
Chimerageist Don Tonberry
Catoblepas Abaddon
Vorban
Omega Dungeon
Ultima Weapon Omega Weapon
Arena Species Conquest Monsters
Fenrir Ornitholestes
Pteryx Hornet
Vidatu One-Eye
Jumbo Flan Nega Elemental
Tanket Fafnir
Sleep Sprout Bomb King
Juggernaut Ironclad
Arena Original Monsters
Earth Eater Greater Sphere
Catastrophe Th'uban
Neslug Ultima Buster
Shinryu Nemesis
Dark Aeons and Penance
Dark Valefor Dark Ifrit
Dark Ixion Dark Shiva
Dark Bahamut Dark Yojimbo
Dark Anima Dark Cindy
Dark Sandy Dark Mindy
Penance

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1 Anonymous Anonymous over 5 years

We here to see tha ap farming trick but no mention about it.

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