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Proposal for revising the coding of enemies in Final Fantasy V, to create a deeper and more strategic game. Two Types would be expanded significantly, and more weapons would gain power to do extra damage based on Type.

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Monster Types with Populations in FFV vanilla game

| • Abductor (Castle Exdeath) • Alchymia • Alte Roite • Berserker • Bio Soldier • Black Warlock • Calofisteri • Cherie • Covert • Death Dealer • Dragon Pod • Drippy • Druid • Dueling Knight • Elm Gigas • Enkidu • Exdeath (Great Forest of Moore) • Exdeath (tree form) • Exdeath's Soul • Famed Mimic Gogo • Executor • Farfarello • Flaremancer | • Forza • Gargoyle • Gigas • Gilgamesh (all but 1st battle) • Gobbledygook • Grand Mummy • Gravitator • Ice Commander • Ice Soldier • Iron Fist • Iron Muscles • Jackanapes (Castle Exdeath) • Lamia Queen • Lemure • Magissa • Mani Wizard • Metamorph • Mini Magician • Minotaur • Mummy • Mykale • Neo Exdeath (back) • Numb Blade | • Odin • Parthenope • Ra Mage • Ramuh • Reflect Knight • Reflect Mage • Ricard Mage • Ronkan Knight • Sekhmet • Sergeant • Shadow Dancer • Shiva • Siren (humanoid form) • Siren (undead form) • Sorcerer • Steel Fist • Sword Dancer • Titan • Tonberry • Traveler • Triffid • Vilia • Yojimbo • Zephyrus • Ziggurat Gigas | | --- | --- | --- |

#2 Humans

  1. vanilla game enemy count: 70
  2. vulnerable to:
    1. ManEater knife
  3. proposed new vulnerabilities:
    1. Poison/Dark
    2. make these otherwise exotic weapons much more useful, all game (just give them the same bit flag as ManEater, will need to buff that weapon as a result tho):
      1. Axes
      2. Ninja Swords

| • Abductor (Castle Exdeath) • Apanda • Bandercoeurl • Bandersnatch • Belphegor • Big Horn • Blind Wolf • Byblos • Calofisteri • Carbuncle • Catoblepas • Chimera Brain • Cray Claw • Cur Nakk • The Damned • Dechirer • Devilfish • Dhorme Chimera • Frost Bull | • Garula (boss only) • Gatling • Gobbledygook • Hedgehog • Hellraiser • Imp • Ironback • Istory Lythos • Kuza Beast • Jackanapes (Castle Exdeath) • Lamia • Lamia Queen • Landcrawler • Lycaon • Magic Dragon • Mecha Head • Moss Fungus • Neo Exdeath (middle) | • Neo Garula • Nutkin • Oiseaurare • Pantera • Rajiformes • Sand Bear • Sekhmet • Shell Bear • Skull Eater • Spizzner • Stray Cat • Tatou • Tunneller • Twin Lizard • Twintania • Wild Nakk • Wyrm • Zephyrus | | --- | --- | --- |

#3 Magic Beasts

  1. vanilla game enemy count: 57
  2. vulnerable to:
    1. Whips (cause Stun more often)
    2. Artemis Bow
  3. proposed new vulnerability:
    1. Earth
    2. Whips (also more damage)
    3. Katana (Samurai vs yokai concept)

| • Archeosaur • Aspis • Big Boss • Bone Dragon • Calcruthl • The Damned • Desert Killer • Exdeath's Soul • Ghidra | • Gil Turtle • Grand Mummy • Lamia Queen • Mandrake • Mindflusher • Mover • Mummy • Necromancer • Nereid | • Phobos • Poltergeist • Rajiformes • Red Dragon • Siren (Undead form) • Skeleton • Triton • Tyrannosaur • Undead Husk • Unknown • Zombie Dragon | | --- | --- | --- |

#4 Undead (would become #5)

  1. vanilla game enemy count: 29
  2. exemptions to normal game mechanics
    1. immune to instant death (not Killer Bow, tho!!)
    2. fully healed by Doom
    3. harmed by healing
    4. killed by PhoenixDown