Cactuar

Cactuar
Final Fantasy series
Japanese name	サボテンダー
Romaji	Sabotendā

The Cactuar is a recurring creature in the Final Fantasy series. It appears in Dragon Quest Tact as part of a collaboration event with War of the Visions: Final Fantasy Brave Exvius. Since their original appearance, they have become one of the mascots of the series, being known for their 1000 Needles attack.

Characteristics

Cactuars are green anthropomorphic cacti typically depicted with stiff arms and legs, three black holes that form a face, and three quills on top of their heads. This design has commonly appeared throughout the series, although some games such as Final Fantasy XI and Final Fantasy XII have introduced Cactuars with different designs. Despite having low HP and Defense, Cactuars are often fast and hard to hit, rewarding players with high amounts of experience and gil if defeated. They often counter most attacks with their 1000 Needles attack, which always deals 1000 points of unblockable damage that ignores the target's Defense. The attack can often be learned by Blue Mages, who specialize in using monster techniques.

An enormous variety of Cactuar, known as the Jumbo Cactuar or Gigantuar, first appeared in Final Fantasy VIII as an optional boss. It could be summoned as a Guardian Force after defeating it in battle. It towers over the party and it sports a curly mustache in order to differentiate it from other Cactuars. Instead of using the signature 1000 Needles technique, it will use 10000 Needles, which will deal approximately 10,000 HP worth of damage to one target.

Appearances

Final Fantasy series

Cactuars made their first appearance in the 1994 game Final Fantasy VI, being known as Cactrots in the original English translation on the SNES. They can be encountered in the World of Ruin, leaving behind 10,000 Gil and 10 Magic Points, which is the most of any common enemy that can be faced. Since then, Cactuars have gone on to make regular appearances as enemies in both main series and spinoff games, as well as crossover appearances.

Dragon Quest X

Players could earn a Cactuar mask and a pose during a collaboration event with Square Enix's MMORPG Final Fantasy XI. During another collaboration event with Final Fantasy XIV, Cactuars could be faced as bosses in the Magic Labyrinth by collecting Cactuar Coins. This variety of Cactuar featured the Roman numerals XIV on their heads as a reference to the game.

Players could obtain an emote to perform the Cactuar pose, a cactuar hat, and a cactuar pet which follows the player.

Dragon Quest Tact

Cactuar appears as an A-rank monster of the ??? family during the first part of the limited War of the Visions: Final Fantasy Brave Exvius event alongside Bahamut on his banner. It can participate in Mont Leonis's Battle Road as a party member. Cactuars will be summoned by Shiva during the Large Battle after she has taken enough damage. Players can also visit Cactuar Village by collecting Cactuar Village Passes from event stages, where they can earn Cactuar Cards that can be redeemed for awakening materials in the Swap Shop.

Cactuar (サボテンダー Sabotendā)

Image Attributes Role Max level HP MP Move Attack 120 837 303 4 Attack Defence Agility Wisdom Weight 300 528 445 141 35 Resistances Frizz Sizz Crack Woosh Bang Normal Normal Very Weak Half Res Very Weak Zap Zam Snooze Poison Physical Lock Normal Half REs Half Res Normal Normal Spell Lock Martial Lock Breath Lock Hobble * Stun * Normal Normal Normal Normal Super Weak Dazzle Curse Paralysis Confusion Charm Half Res Super Weak Immune Normal Normal Skills Basic skills Awakening skills Tackle Needle Bundle* 1000 Needles* Cactuar Dash / Stats Up Woosh Res +25 / Stats Up 1000 Needles Potency +5% / Stats Up Dodge Step: Raises evasion rate for 1 turn when attacking. Zam Res +25 / Stats Up 1000 Needles Potency +5% / Stats Up Max HP +30 Perks Basic perks Max HP +20 DEF +15 1000 Needles Potency +2% Leader perk Raises DEF of allies, including itself, by 10% in a 5x5 square around it. Awakening perk Cactuar Dash: Raises AGL and evasion rate for 3 turns at battle start.

Gallery

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  A Cactuar in War of the Visions: Final Fantasy Brave Exvius
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  A player character in X posing like a Cactuar
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  Cactuar in Tact
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  Cactuar and Bahamut in Tact

External Links

• Cactuar article on the Final Fantasy Wiki
• News article about Dragon Quest X's Final Fantasy XI event on Siliconera.