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* '''Bad Breath''' from every Malboro variant ever. Causes all status ailments, potentially leaving your entire party paralyzed, bleeding to death, and attacking each other from a single attack.
** ''[[Final Fantasy X]]'' gives us Great Malboros that uses this as its opening gambit. Wouldn't be a problem if it didn't also get "Ambushed!" ''every single time''. With the characters now poisoned, confused, and blind, they will now constantly attempt to kill one-another only to miss and take poison damage. Frequently you will die without having been given a single chance to do anything. And if you take part in the Monster Arena sidequest, you'll have to face Malboro Menace, who has the more powerful Putrid Breath that deals damage in addition to inflicting status ailments.
** Bad Breath is significantly nerfed in ''[[Final Fantasy XII]]'', only inflicting poison, blind and slow, and the game's mechanics make it easier to avoid (you can spread out your characters so that only one will be hit by the attack, and change equipment mid-battle to resist the status ailments). However, this game has two more versions of the move. Cloying Breath isn't too bad, as it inflicts sleep and slow instead, but Putrid Breath is exceptionally dangerous as it inflicts many status ailments, including both Disable (prevents character from performing actions) and Immobilize (prevents character from moving).
* Any ''[[Final Fantasy]]'' game with 10<sup>x</sup> Needles, where x>4. [[One Hit KO]] that can't be blocked.
* [[Final Fantasy I]]. Astos. Rub. Instant death to a party member, in a game in which (in earlier versions at least) you cannot resurrect characters during battle, or even outside of a town (which is relevant because it's a long trek back to the elf village even if you win). Hope he didn't hit Fighter or White Mage.
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** Trance Kuja's move Flare Star is ''incredibly'' annoying. He can continuously use the move many times with others up his arsenal dealing heavy damage to the entire team, bound to have at least one party member killed from it. Even though the move itself is avoidable, it's still a very lethal attack.
** High levelled parties can take advantage of the long animations the strongest attacks (including your own) often have by [[Game Breaker|combining the Auto-Haste and Auto-Regen abilities]]. That way, even if the first attack leaves you hurting, the second will take so long to actually inflict its damage that you'll have healed (nearly) to full.
* In ''[[Final Fantasy X]]'': {{spoiler|Yunalesca}} has an attack called Hellbiter that does a good share of damage to each party member and causes mass zombie status. And what's your [[Revive Kills Zombie|first reaction upon seeing your entire party in a state of near death]]? For more fun, this attack is followed up later in the battle by an attack which
** {{spoiler|Seymour Flux's}} aptly named "Total Annihilation" will one-shot your party if you don't use Shell first. If you can't kill Anima in time, "Oblivion" will break you. Pretty much any attack that one-shots aeons is one of these, but if you're facing an enemy that does this, you're probably just using them for their Overdrives.
** Sin's Overdrive Giga-Graviton not only takes the party out, but it takes out the airship you're on for an automatic Game Over, putting a fixed round limit (16 rounds) on a battle
** Dark Yojimbo's Zanmato overdrive. Did you have a summon out? You live this time. Did you ''not'' have a summon out? Congratulations, your party's dead, and your Auto-Life crumbles like a biscuit hit with a hammer.
* Sporefall from ''[[Final Fantasy XII]]'''s Elder Wyrm. Inflicts on the order of 8 status ailments with a large area of effect, probably hitting your entire party unless you really know what you're doing. If you're not prepared, by the time you've recovered from these ailments, it's probably close to casting it again.
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*** Though as bad as that is, there is two small saving graces with that attack: 1)it can only hit each character in succession, even if it affects everyone in an area, and 2) the animation for curse precedes the actually status-inflicting attack. All you really need is one Ribbon, and once the game says the enemy used Curse, wait for the animation to start, [[Menu Time Lockout|jump into the inventory screen]] and [[Bag of Sharing|equip the Ribbon on the character about to get hit.]] Once the Immune message pops up on the character, give the Ribbon to the next victim. Granted, this still relies on finding even one horrifyingly-rare Ribbon, and setting the Gambits so the characters won't die while you watch the animations.
** Growing Threat is used by some bosses to double their level, and thus their damage output.
** Zalera's Kill. [[Exactly What It Says on the Tin|Three guesses on what it does]]. Spammed often if you don't understand how the battle is to be fought. In addition to Kill, Zalera seems to be the math instructor from hell.
** Zodiark's Darkja, which blinds and does an instant kill. You can absorb the darkness, block the blind status, but you will have nadda for the instant kill effect. Luck will almost never be on your side after it is cast.
** Chaos's Aeroja. It deals wind damage and confuses. Not so bad since your allies will snap out of it with a bonk to the head right? Normally so; except in Chaos's battle, you can't use physical attacks at all. So you can't snap yourself out of confusion if all three allies are confused in the fight.
** Ultima's Holyja. It deals holy damage and causes Reverse. Ultima then casts Renew on your team shortly after Holyja (no charge time required) causing an instant kill. If Reflect is on your team when it happens...
*** Speaking of Ultima, ''any attack that causes Reverse'', though Virus can be just as annoying. Reverse makes you a case of [[Revive Kills Zombie]], while Virus is a [[Won't Work On Me]] on healing.
** Yiazmat's Reflect and Renew strategy
** Any sort of barrier or paling that a boss may put up on himself. An impregnable defense that only goes down over the course of time? Enjoy your unnecessarily long boss fight.
* ''[[Final Fantasy XIII]]'' has Merciless Judgment, employed by the final boss, {{spoiler|Orphan}}. It's basically like Supernova, except it can kill you unless you have nearly full health or a sentinel on your team. Oh yeah, and it resets the boss' stagger meter.
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