How To Complete Every Monster in FFT: The Ivalice Chronicles

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In Final Fantasy Tactics: The Ivalice Chronicles, monsters play a vital role beyond just battling; they are essential for recruiting new allies and earning valuable items. Whether you want to strengthen your team with rare creatures using the Entice or Tame skills from the Orator class, or you’re after special gear and trade goods through Poach, it’s important to know where these monsters can be found.

This guide includes a complete list of monster types and their common starting locations on the map and during story battles. Use it to find the monsters you need quickly, whether for completing your party, obtaining rare poachable items, or acquiring powerful equipment for your main characters.

While most monsters can be recruited by finding them in specific battles and using the Entice skill, there’s one exception. It’s much easier to recruit early versions of monsters as they appear in the story, since monsters lay eggs as you explore. These eggs may contain monsters of the same tier or a tier apart. For example, a Chocobo can hatch into a Chocobo or Black Chocobo, and a Black Chocobo can lay eggs of various Chocobo types.

Since traveling the world map without fighting random battles is simple, you can easily recruit a monster and walk around until you find the specific species you need. Below, we’ve listed the best early locations to find one member of each monster family.

Tier 1 Monsters	Tier 2 Monsters	Tier 3 Monsters
Chocobos	Black Chocobo	Red Chocobo
Available from Mandalia Plain early on.	Found as soon as Mandalia Plain is unlocked.	Same as Black Chocobos; often found in the same areas.
Goblins	Black Goblin	Gobbledygook
Easily found in Mandalia Plain and Siedge Weald once available.	Same locations as Goblins.	Occasionally appear in higher-level areas.
Bombs	Grenade	Exploder
Plentiful in Siedge Weald battles.	Found among Bombs in Siedge Weald.	Rare but can appear in advanced zones.
Big Cats	Coeurl	Vampire Cat
Red Panthers appear in Mandalia Plain.	Locations include Mandalia Plain encounters.	Higher-tier Big Cats may be seen in later areas.
Mindflayers	Squidkrakin	Mindflayer
Found at Fovoham Windflats after certain story battles, also Zierchele Falls.	Common at Zierchele Falls.	Same areas.
Skeletons	Bonesnatch	Skeletal Fiend
Abundant in Siedge Weald.	Same locations.	Available later in the game.
Ghosts	Ghoul	Ghast
From Chapter 2 onward, Araguay Woods is a good spot.	Same region.	Similar locations.
Ahriman	Floating Eye	Plague Horror
Usually found in Fovoham Windflats and Zierchele Falls.	Common in these areas.	Same.
Birds	Jura Aevis	Steelhawk
Early in Zeklaus Desert and Zierchele Falls.	Available in the desert.	Found in the same regions.
Pigs	Swine	Wild Boar
First guaranteed in Chapter 4 during a side story at Colliery Ridge.	Various rare encounters in Finnath Creek or Midlight’s Deep.	Mostly through eggs; less common.
Treants	Dyad	Elder Treant
Frequent in Araguay Woods.	Same locations.	Later areas.
Minotaurs	Wisenkin	Sekhret
From Chapter 1, found in Siedge Weald.	More reliably in Fovoham Windflats from Chapter 2.	Available in later zones.
Malboros	Ochu	Great Malboro
Possible in Araguay Woods from Chapter 2.	Same.	Throughout later game.
Behemoths	Behemoth King	Dark Behemoth
Very rare until Daguera Pass unlocks.	Available later.	Rare.
Hydras	Greater Hydra	Tiamat
Balias Swale and Mount Germinas are good spots.	Same.	Later map locations.
Dragons	Blue Dragon	Red Dragon
As early as Chapter 1 in Lenalian Plateau.	Found in the same area.	Same.