And if you're thinking "why not just use Quistis' Degenerator?", well, the Tomberries are immune to it. I felt if I kept either Quistis or Linoa around, the Tomberries would have more HP and would take longer to kill and would be even more powerful (and trust me, even at low level, they're plenty powerful enough), thus making it more likely for Irvine to be taken out. The reason I also brought Zell along is to exploit the mechanic I mentioned early in the LP where the enemy's level is calculated based on your team's average. I also upgraded Irvine's weapon to his second best, ensuring it does even more damage. And conveniently, some of the enmies in the Centra ruins drop items which can be refined into that ammo!
As a result, even at a low level, it does massive damage on any enemy, making it very useful to take out the Tomberries quickly. However, there is an ammo type for Irvine's Limit Break called "Balles anti-char" (AP Ammo in English) which ignore defence. What does that have to do with the character switch? Well, part of the reason why Tomberries can be such a threat despite taking several turns to get to you is that they have very high defence, so even your strongest characters will have a hard time taking them out before they reach you.
In this game though, they ALSO have a very powerful ranged attack which is ALSO likely to insta-KO your characters. The FFVIII variant is especially dangerous and the attack is almost guaranteed to be an insta-KO, although you can get lucky and the Tomberry will trip and fall like he's possessed by the Shockmaster. Like in other games, they advance slowly towards a character and then unleash an extremely powerful attack. There's a good reason for this: the quest requires me to kill a certain number of Tomberries (not a typo, BTW, the French name replaces the N with an M due to grammatical rules) and as with every Final Fantasy games, they are quite resilient. We still have stuff to do in the Centra ruins and for this particular quest, I'm actually going to change my team, taking Irvine and Zell with me.
Alright, everything's et up and we can get back to business.
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