• When one Gargoyle is dead, the other Gargoyle will revive it on its next turn using Separate.

Beware of the never ending cycle of Transfusion and Separate. You can either disable them with Sleep/Stop or kill them fast with AoE.

Recommended abilities: AoE, Halting Rumba
Recommended RW: SG/SS2, Scream

Attack: Deal physical damage to one target.
Thundaga: Deal heavy lightning damage to one target.
Quake: Deal earth damage to all targets.
Tornado: Deal heavy wind damage to all targets.
Aero: Deal wind damage to one target.
Dispel: Remove buffs from one target.
Berserk: Berserk one target.
Blind: Blind one target.
Silence: Silence one target.

Gorkii, Shake, Chekov, Staniv

Attack: Deal physical damage to one target.
Gravira: Deal damage to one target proportional to HP.
Barrier: Grant Protect to one target.
Reflect: Grant Reflect to one target.
Regen: Grant Regen to one target.

► Shake

Attack: Deal physical damage to one target.
Rage Bomber: Deal heavy physical damage to one target.

► Chekov

Stare Down: Paralyze one target.
Absorb: Deal physical damage and steal HP from one target.

► Staniv

Iron Ball: Deal physical damage to one target.
Iron Attack: Deal heavy physical damage to one target.

(from left to right)

Mandragora Prince, Alraune King, Onion Queen, Topstalk, Pumpkin Star

Attack: Deal physical damage and Sleep one target.
Cura: Restores a moderate amount of HP to one target.
Esuna: Remove debuffs from one target.
Pollen: Sleep, Poison, and Slow all targets.
Ram: Deal physical damage to one target.
Warsong: Increase ATK of all allies temporarily.

► Alraune King

Attack: Deal physical damage and Sap one target.
Pollen: Sleep, Poison, and Slow all targets.
Ram: Deal physical damage to one target.
Mystery Waltz: Increase stats of all allies temporarily.

► Onion Queen

Attack: Deal physical damage and Silence one target.
Curaga: Restores a large amount of HP to one target.
Protect: Grant Protect to one target.
Shell: Grant Shell to one target.
Vespersong: Increase MAG of all allies temporarily.
Pollen: Sleep, Poison, and Slow all targets.
Ram: Deal physical damage to one target.

► Pumpkin Star

Attack: Deal physical damage and Confuse one target.
Bleed: Sap one target.
Blind: Blind one target.
Silence: Silence one target.
Sleep: Sleep one target.
Toxify: Poison all targets.
Ram: Deal physical damage to one target.
Scream (Blind): Deal moderate ranged physical damage and Blind all targets.
Scream (Silence): Deal moderate ranged physical damage and Silence all targets.
Mystery Waltz: Increase stats of all allies temporarily.

► Topstalk

Attack: Deal physical damage and Stop one target.
Scream (Blind): Deal moderate ranged physical damage and Blind all targets.
Scream (Silence): Deal moderate ranged physical damage and Silence all targets.
Mystery Waltz: Increase stats of all allies temporarily.

• The Mandragoras start the battle Hasted.

They can be overwhelming if you don’t set up your first few turns well. I highly recommend Tauntaliate. Otherwise, use AoEs to quickly take them down.

Recommended abilities: Draw Fire + Retaliate, AoE
Recommended RW: SG/SS2, Scream, Medica II

► Tonberry King

Chef’s Knife: Deal special physical damage to one target. (ignores DEF)
Chaotic Chef’s Knife: Deal special physical damage 4 times randomly to one target. (ignores DEF)

► Tonberry (Phase 2)

Chef’s Knife: Deal special physical damage to one target. (ignores DEF)
Chaotic Chef’s Knife: Deal special physical damage 4 times randomly to one target. (ignores DEF)
Nightmare Chef’s Knife: Deal special physical damage to one target (ignores DEF)

► Tonberry

It’s Sharp!: Deal special physical damage to one target.
Junk: Deal special moderate ranged physical damage to all targets.

Note that the Tonberries have only 5 MND, meaning a white mage with a decent MND stat (Tyro) can keep Tonberry Stop-locked for quite a long duration.

PHASE 1

In this phase, you will fight a lone Tonberry:

Every turn Tonberry will take a step forward and attack a party member. Defeating this lone Tonberry will begin Phase 2. Stop him if you have to. He can also be Slowed and Interrupted (and also Paralyze but only for this phase)

PHASE 2

When Phase 2 begins, three Tonberries will spawn:

You will immediately notice the colored circular tiles under the Tonberries. These colours correspond to different statuses: Red is Stop, White is Slow, Blue is Interrupt.

The significance of these coloured circles is that whichever circle a Tonberry is standing on, the corresponding status effect will have double hit rate. As the Tonberries start on the Red circles, it is highly recommended that you use Halting Rumba to effectively land Stop on all three. From there it’s all about dealing as much damage as possible. AoEs are highly recommended.

Other than being Stopped, the Tonberries can actually do some damage if left uncontrolled. Each turn before attacking, a Tonberry will move half a step forward. Other than at the beginning of Phase 2, If all three Tonberries are aligned vertically, your party will be hit by Nightmare Chef’s Knife.

When the three Tonberries are defeated, a second wave of three Tonberries will spawn:

You will notice that the coloured circles have swapped places and that the Tonberries are not perfectly aligned at the start.

The strategy does not change, control them and deal as much damage as you can. Do note that since there are no longer red circles (or rather none of them are on a red circle), Stop will not gain boosted hit rate.

Defeating this second wave will begin the last phase.

PHASE 3

Finally you face Tonberry King!

There are no gimmicks in this last phase, kill him before he kills you. He is pretty fast and since he’s immune to Slow and Stop, your only way of controlling him is by Interrupt.

Video #1: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eIuGSlPe_GM
Video #2: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yVIVe5PhMnY
Video #3: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xZd3QZpLMLQ
Video #4: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r99bDP_PTV4 (3 man mastery)
Video #5: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PstKsePmbO0

Recommended abilities: Halting Rumba, Dismissal, Tempo Flurry, AoE (Tornado Strike, Bladeblitz, etc)
Recommended RW: Scream