7 Hardest Random Encounters That Made You Regret Not Saving [Commenter Edition]

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Its tradition for every new player to be hit with Bad Breath at some point and question what they are even doing with their lives.

I always thought it was hilarious that a Dinosaur could cast Meteor 🌝

Sees title, immediately remembers the great malboro inside the omega ruins

The Malboro in FF VIII used to scare the crap outta me. Unprepared that thing would screw you right from the start leaving you to watch your party endure a slow and painful death. Plus that laugh was creepy as all hell.

FFX-2 via infinito floor 81. That basilisk that can petrify you THROUGH RIBBON was a double take

Farming Brachiosaurs back in the day for Economizers is among my favorite FF memories!

Feels like a stretch to claim Midgar Zolom is a random encounter - It literally wasn’t random at all, and fully broadcasted that you would run into it

Yan the sheep in FF9 is the cutest, cruelest, and unexpected encounter I have ever had in FF9.

It wasn't the T-rex in the Garden training area that always got me, it was the one in the forest just outside the Garden that did.

The mindflair from tactics was a pain in my ass as a child

The dragon from ff9, when you climb up the ladder after saving the mog stuck under a bell. If you were unlucky enough it would use thundara on its first turn and wipe your whole party.

I'll never forget the feeling of panic the first time I met a Tonberry in ff7

I've been caught by surprise by a Malboro in FFVII at Gaea, since then i always wear ribbon when possible... The T-Rexaurs got me the first time i've played FFVIII but ever since i always grind Triple Traid ( i love that mini game so much 😍😍😍) combined with Diablos abilities i make a joke of this monster everytime i replay FFVIII; Mental Attack Death 100% or the more amusing one Pain 100%. I love seeing kill itself by the poison while it can't attack you anymore because of blind. 🤩🤩🤩 Change it into a card before he dies and that's 10 AP without leveling up your characters. 😉

Trying to guess 5 of them before watching the Video 1-Warmech/Death Machine (FFI) 2-T-Rex (Thanks thumbnail because I'd have went for Ruby Dragon Island closest to hell for FFVIII) 3-Yan (FFIX) 4-Malborro... any really but let's say FFX because if they ambushed you, you're dead. 5-Hill Gigas (FFVI) Edit: Darn, after 10 seconds of the Video, I'm reminded of the Brachiosaurus from VI, I don't think I'll do too well. Edit 2 : I wouldn't call the Midgar Zolom and "Random" encounter Edit 3 : Got only 2 (and one of them is the Thumbnail monster...)

The T Rexaur fight used to frustrate me as a kid, until I learn to cast blind. Went from immensely difficult to cake.

Looking forward to see how they translate Midgar Zolum in FFVII Rebirth.

For me, a surprising enemy that frustrated me were the Dorky Faces in Final Fantasy VII. Found in the ShinRa Manor in Nibelheim, these floating pumpkin heads could inflict Confuse on the entire party at once. This makes them frustrating, as anti-Confusion equipment is rare the first time you go through the Manor. One particular encounter with them, however, left me chilled: I'd ordered Tifa to cast Aqualung, but she got confused before the spell went off. She proceeded to cast the spell... on my party. Cue me running like a panicked chicken.

I remember cheesing Brachiosaurs in FF6 with vanish and x-zone 😂

For FF8, I think the TRex may be the one most people remember because it happens so early in the game, but the one that scares me every time even when I'm prepared for it is a Marbbro. The ability to preemptively douse status effects for those who are not ready will almost guarantee a game over before you even have a chance to react