Elemental: Thunder

Location: Squall's Study Panel, Balamb Garden

Attack: Thunder Storm

Quezacotl's attack is elemental Thunder based. It's particularly good against any type of machinery/robotic enemy.

 

Shiva

Elemental: Ice

Location: Squall's Study Panel, Balamb Garden

Attack: Diamond Dust

Shiva's attack is elemental Ice based. The attack is very powerful against Fire elemental creatures.

 

Ifrit

Elemental: Fire

Location: Fire Cavern

Attack: Hell Fire

Ifrit's attack is Fire based. It's most effective against Ice elemental creatures.

 

Siren

Elemental: None (casts Silence)

Location: Draw from Elvoret, Dollet Communications Tower

Attack: Silent Voice

Siren's attack is non-elemental. This makes it safer to use than previous GFs, but its attack power is less than most other GFs. The attack does have a side effect in that it attempts to affect enemies with the Silence status.

 

Brothers

Elemental: Earth

Location: Tomb of the Unknown King

Attack: Brotherly Love

The Brothers' attack is elemental Earth based. This makes the attack worthless against flying creatures, because those types of creatures don't touch the ground.

 

Diablos

Elemental: None

Location: Magical Lamp from Cid

Attack: Dark Messenger

Diablos' non-elemental attack may not seem like much at the start. You can expect it to cause less than 100 points of damage to most creautres when you first get Diablos. After the GF gets some experience, its attack quickly becomes one of the most lethal attacks in the game. There are a lot of enemies that are immune to Diablos' attack.

 

Carbuncle

Elemental: None (casts Reflect)

Location: Draw from Iguions, Galbadia

Attack: Ruby Light

Carbuncle doesn't actually attack the enemy. Instead, it casts Reflect on your entire party. This is a handy defensive maneuver, and is usually available before Reflect or Triple magic begins to appear.

 

Leviathan

Elemental: Water

Location: Draw from NORG, Balamb Garden

Attack: Tsunami

Leviathan's attack is elemental Water based. This is by far the strongest Water attack you'll find, so it comes in handy fighting creatures with a weakness to Water magic.

 

Pandemona

Elemental: Wind

Location: Draw from Fujin, Balamb

Attack: Tornado Zone

Pandemona's attack is elemental Wind based. There are a lot of enemies with a weakness to Wind magic, and there's not much to choose from when it comes to Wind based magic. Pandemona's Tornado Zone is a welcome addition.

 

Cerberus

Elemental: None (casts Triple)

Location: Galbadia Garden

Attack: Counter Rockets

This isn't actually an attack, but it does cast Double and Triple magic on your entire party. This is handy, but you'll want to get the GF's compatibility up so that Cerberus arrives quickly at the beginning of a battle.

 

Alexander

Elemental: Holy

Location:Draw from Edea, Galbadia Garden

Attack: Holy Judgement

Alexander's attack is elemental Holy based. It's extremely effective against the undead or creatures affected with Zombie. This attack isn't very powerful at first, but if you put time into building up Alexander, you can make good use of its attack by Junctioning Zombie magic to a character's weapon using the Status Attack Junctioning ability. Basically, this enables you to force and elemental weakness onto an enemy.

 

Doomtrain

Elemental: Poison

Location: Solomon Ring

Attack: Runaway Train

Doomtrain's attack is elemental Poison based. This makes it particularly useful against human enemies, like Galbadian Soldiers. The attack also attempts to cause several abnormal status effects including Poison, Darkness, Silence, Berserk, Sleep, Doom, Curse, Petrify, Confuse and VIT 0. Sometimes it's worth casting even if an enemy is immune to or absorbs Poison damage just to inflict some of the abnormal statuses.

 

Bahamut

Elemental: None

Location: Deep Sea Research Center

Attack: Mega Flare

Bahamut's non-elemental attack isn't extremely powerful, however, the attack animation is long and enables you to Boost the GF close to the 250 maximum.

 

Cactuar

Elemental: None

Location: Cactuar Island

Attack: 1,000 Needles

Cactuar's attack is the second most poweful GF attack in the game. The damage inflicted is directly related to the Cactuar's level. 1,000 Needles causes 1,000 points of non-elemental damage for every 10 levels of Cactuar's experience. So at level 100, the attack causes 10,000 points of non-elemental damage. Also, the damage from Cactuar's attack cannot be reduced by a high defense or support magic, plus Boosting isn't necessary.

 

Tonberry King

Elemental: None

Location: Centra Ruins

Attack: Chef's Knife

Tonberry's attack targets a single creature at random. The attck isn't very powerful, but it becomes much more valuable over time. The animation for the attack is relatively short, so you won't be able to do much Boosting.

 

Eden

Elemental: None

Location: Draw from Ultima Weapon, Deep Sea Research Center

Attack: Eternal Breath

Eden's attack is simply the most powerful attack in the game. On its own, it can cause around 13,000 points of damage. The attack animation is very long and easilt allows for Boosting to a full 250. This tends to increase the damage to about 35,000 points of damage.