Turtle

The Adamantoise has a truly ridiculous 60 defense that makes the one you find guarding the Goddess's Bell virtually immune to physical attacks. Fortunately, they have a weakness to Ice. Even later in the game, Blizzard is your best bet to pierce their defenses.

Adamantoise

HP 153

Level 12

Job Level 11

Gil 135 gil

Experience 200

Intelligence 6

Mind 6

Attack Power 31

Attacks/Accuracy 4×90% (3.6)

Defense 4

Evasion 2×50% (1.0)

Magic Defense 2

Magic Resistance 1×20% (0.2)

Stolen Items Gnomish Bread (43.8%), Antarctic Wind (37.5%), Potion (18.8%)

Dropped Items Antarctic Wind (2.3%), Gnomish Bread (1.2%), Potion (1.2%), Ottershroom (0.6%), Bacchus's Cider (0.6%), Arctic Wind (0.4%)

Elemental Vulnerability

Adamantoise

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Level 4

Element Earth

Type Monster

Card Mod 3 cards yield 1× Turtle Shell

Adamantoise

Description Its high defense ability makes it difficult to defeat. Owns rare items that make it worth the effort.

Base Experience 50

Experience Modifier 10

Ability Points 4

Boss No

Flying No

Undead No

Elemental Vulnerability

Adamantoise

Type Feral Creatures

Subtype Oretoises

HP 5,343,000

Level 13

Chain Resistance 100

Stagger Point 500.0%

Stagger Index 12,000

Strength 11,537

Magic 5,916

CP 40,000

Common Drop Platinum Ingot (25%)

Rare Drop Trapezohedron (1%)

Chapter 11

Note Never allows itself to be caught by preemptive strikes.

Note Delivers devastating physical attacks.

Note Executes powerful magic attacks.

Note Legs can be disabled if dealt enough damage.

Elemental Vulnerability

The Adamantoise has two main attacks, a physically-damaging stomp and a Quake spell. Both of these are Earth-elemental attacks, so your best bet to survive against them is to stock up on upgraded Clay, Siltstone, or Gaian Rings.

In order to defeat the Adamantoise, you will have to disable its legs. This can be done with standard Attacks, but performing any Summon will also immediately disable both legs. You can use this trick to give yourself a major advantage early in the fight, but it will be difficult to finish off the Adamantoise before it stands back up. All of the Adamantoise's resistances are lowered to Halved, its Chain Resistance drops to 30, and it becomes vulnerable to everything except Poison, Pain, and Fog when its legs have been disabled. Deprotect and Deshell are obviously important, but don't neglect Imperil to give your Ravagers a fair shot at dealing significant damage. Time is of the essence, because although the Adamantoise cannot attack while its legs are disabled, it will eventually stand back up.