Dark Knight

An even more powerful Warrior with very high physical and magical defenses, powerful attacks, and abilities that provide immunity to many status effects.

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Dark Knight Weapons
Lore

You may have caught it already, but Yuna wields a slightly recolored version of Tidus’ Caladbolg and Rikku wields Auron’s Masamune from Final Fantasy X, while Paine wields her own unique sword not seen in the previous game. This same pattern holds true for their Warrior weapons.

Overview

The Dark Knight Dressphere is one of the strongest Dresspheres in the game, and it’s easy to use. Unlike the Psychic Dressphere, which gains its strengths from using certain powerful abilities at the right time, the Dark Knight has strong defensive stats as soon as you start using it. Its high Defense and Magic Defense make it capable of surviving many of the more powerful attacks you’ll face towards the back half of the story.

Beyond that, though, it’s also one of the strongest attackers in the game. Right from the beginning, the Dark Knight’s regular Attack will give it a higher damage output than most other Dresspheres in the game, but then you add on powerful moves like Darkness, and you wind up with a role that is capable of doing everything.

Darkness has one downside, which is that it also deals some damage to the Dark Knight using it (¹⁄₈ HP), but the damage it deals to enemies is well worth the trade-off. This is especially true with multiple enemies on the battlefield because Darkness hits all enemies, and it’s a special attack that ignores high Defense and Magic Defense. It’ll just rip through strong enemy defenses.

Pair one or two Dark Knights with an Alchemist who can continuously heal all party members by using a Mega-Potion from their stash, and add in some of the additional defenses that a Dark Knight can learn, such as Poisonproof, Stoneproof, etc., and you’ve got an unstoppable tank that can carry you through the entire game.

In fact, many players and guides recommend two Dark Knights and an Alchemist as the strongest party combination (aside from using Mascots, of course).

How to Obtain It

You can pick up the Dark Knight Dressphere during the visit to Bevelle in Chapter 2, but there is a sequence of steps that you need to complete towards the end of the “Bevelle Underground” area before you’ll be able to grab the treasure chest that contains it. Check out the walkthrough section for more information:

28) Bevelle
Walkthrough

Bevelle in Chapter 2, with the Highbridge battles and a step-by-step solution to the tower and plate puzzle.

If you forgot to grab this Dressphere in Bevelle, you can still go back and grab it. The treasure chest will still be there when you return to the Bevelle Underground in a later chapters, and the same sequence of lifts and switches opens the way to it.

List of Abilities

Ability	AP	Prerequisites
Attack	0
Darkness	0
Drain	20
Demi	20
Confuse	30	Demi
Break	40	Confuse
Bio	30
Doom	20	Bio
Death	50	Doom
Black Sky	100	Death
Charon	20
Poisonproof	30
Stoneproof	30	Poisonproof
Confuseproof	30	Stoneproof
Curseproof	30
Deathproof	40	Curseproof

Stats

The Dark Knight’s stats are the same for Yuna, Rikku, and Paine. The table below shows how they grow at each level milestone.

Level	HP	MP	Strength	Magic	Defense	Magic Defense	Agility	Accuracy	Evasion	Luck
1	231	88	18	17	98	65	36	100	0	8
10	748	117	39	31	109	73	37	101	1	9
20	1311	147	60	44	118	80	38	102	2	10
30	1862	176	80	56	126	86	39	103	3	11
40	2402	203	99	67	133	91	40	104	3	11
50	2931	229	116	77	139	96	41	104	4	12
60	3448	254	131	86	144	99	41	105	4	12
70	3953	278	144	94	148	102	42	105	4	12
80	4448	300	156	100	150	104	42	105	4	12
90	4931	321	167	105	151	106	43	106	4	12
99	5355	338	175	109	151	105	42	105	3	11