Final Fantasy X-2 Creature Creator Guide

Author: KADFC (Fabian Chang)
Copyright KADFC 2014
Version: 1.11
Email: New_KADFC@hotmail.com

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Introduction

I've already typed a Creature Creator guide for the International/Last Mission. However, when I went back to use it myself for the HD version, I find it to be lacking in many areas. Okay, it's crapy. I admit. All the things that I wanted wasn't in there. It does have some of the things that are great for referencing, but that's all. It doesn't really guide you from point A to point B. In other words, I couldn't really use it myself at the very beginniing. Helpful, yes, but not something I can solely rely on to get me to the end.

So with that said, I'm using many different sources to bring you this guide. It may seem that I'm just copying them and someways, in fact, I am. However, that will be the same thing as for what I did for the Item Database for FFX. On top of that, I'm confirming this myself, so you should know without a doubt, what you see here and is what I actually get. However, there one exception. I'm not going to confirm the all the capturable creatures by each chapter list. I have the Chapter By Chapter Guide and I'm doing that myself; meaning I'm personally writing it as I go.

NOTE: This guide will contain spoiler names. I'll try my best to use the spoiler tags, but still, do be warned that it will contain spoiler names. This shouldn't affect you since it has nothing to do with the storyline.

General Overview

The Creature Creator/Create is one of the most obvious additions to Final Fantasy X-2 HD. It was not included in the original FFX-2 (for PS2). It mainly serves to add replay value, but it doesn't add much story to the main storyline. There are 3 Pieces to this addition. They can be thought as seperately or combined. They can have connections if you make use of them. So from this, 3 parts

1. Fiend Capturing on Map
2. Fiend History + Bestiary
3. Fiend Arena (aka Coliseum)

Fiend Capturing on Map: Under certain conditions, you are given items called Trap Pods. You can not buy or sell Trap Pods, they are given you to under certain conditions explained later on. On a map, which is the same as the list of location you see when you talk to Buddy, you can place these Trap Pods in order to capture fiends. You can place 1 Pod at each location at a time, then you "Round Up" to see if you have captured any fiends or not. Fiends that are captured can be sent to battle for you. They will replace YRP if so. There is a direct connection between fiends captured and Fiend History and Bestiary. The bottom of the map represents the number of pods you currently have to use. The top right corner of the map indicated by the word "Completion" represents your progress in terms of finishing all the fiends' endings (which is based upon how much of the Bestiary is filled up). It can range from 0% to 100% when you're fully done.

Fiend History + Bestiary: Fiend History, the name doesn't do this any justice. It should be called Fiend Viewer. Another way you can think of it is, you are looking at the Fiends' current storyline progression (history works, I guess). Fiend History lets you see ALL the fiends that you currently have in your team. You can hold up to 8. Fiends have storyline (up to 5 or none at all). If a fiend's storyline is complete and release them (letting them go into back into the wild), they will be added to your Bestiary. The Bestiary is basiscally a collection of fiends who you have released. You can simply view their history as well as their ending. Before I forget. A majority of all the fiends that you can capture has a story. It's all text with little to none dialogue, except for 1 exception. The beginning chapters is short and all text. The endings are scenes with text. These scenes can contain just about anything. Some are interesting, some aren't.

Fiend Arena (aka Coliseum): There's 2 parts. The tournament part and the battle simulator part. The tournament is just that. You compete is bracketed competition against other teams/fiends. Unlike FFX's Monster Arena, you are not fighting only 1 enemy at a time. It can vary between 1 enemy to 4 enemies. There's no fee for entering and the teams you'll be facing will be randomly generated. There are prizes for winning each match and a final prize for winning it all. The battle simulator lets you battle teams/fiends by selection. There are no prizes or rewards, but you still get the enemy's drops/exp/etc... Losing in either the tournament or the battle simulator does NOT equal a Game Over, but you simply return back to the menu screen.

Accessbility

The creature creator is available to you as soon as you are introduced to Shinra (or when you're done with the events at Luca/Concert); when you get passed the intro and arrive at the airship. Certain storyline events will make this option not available, but afterwards, you can use it again. When you talk to Shinra, it's always the first option on the list (it's highlighted in a different color than the rest). Besides talking to Shinra, there is no other way to access it.

Purpose/Advantages

The most basic question is, what's the purpose of Creature Creator? From a negative light, it's quite pointless. There's only 1 Trophy associated with this section and it's very, very optional. So basically, you can ignore this completely and still finish the game. So what's the point?

From a positive light, the purpose is 3 things.

1. To give you more replay value.
2. To make your life easier when you went to become godly and finish everything that there is to do.
3. To defeat the most powerful of foes!

To be more specific in the details:

1. You can and use fiends that you've captured to fight your foes.
2. You can increase these fiends/human's stats with accessories and you can teach them new abilities via Items.
3. Charm Bangle/Lure Bracer. Equipping these on fiends that are not in the active party works. Thus, saving yourself an extra accessory slot.
4. A lof the MAIN characters of FFX will be available for you to capture and use. To give a few Lulu, Kimarhi, Seymour, Auron, Tidus
5. IF done right, you get an automatic win without you ever needing to fight yourself.
6. The End Garment Grid: You can fight the same types of enemies over and over again in order to Oversoul them. Thus, no need to grind/farm them out in Via Infinito.
7. Blue Magic: A lot of the one-time-only enemies that gave you Blue Magics also appear here. So if you missed out before, you can easily get them now. On top of that, no need to randomly encounter them on the field. You can just call them up.
8. Rare Accessories: Iron Dukes. In the OLD version, you can only get 1 Iron Dukes per playthrough. In the HD/International version, you can get Infinite Numbers of them. However, it's all based on your luck. The same goes for Key to Success, Force of Nature, AP Egg, etc...
9. Dress Spheres: There's 3 Dress Sphere you can get. All of them one time of course, but the most important one is the Mascot. It only requires you to win the Youth League once and this isn't even the hardest Cup in the game. So if you missed Mission Complete in all areas for Chapter 5, this is your next best hope for Mascot. The other 2 Dress Spheres are Psychic and Festivalist.
10. Most Powerful of Foes: Major Numerous (MN) is the NEW hardest enemy in the game. So if you want a challenge, there ya go. On top of that Trema will be there as well, if you want some rematches. Trema is the same as always.

Disadvantage

Even though there's some good things about this, there are some disappointments that goes along with it:

1. You can't control any of these captured fiends/humans. They automatically use their abilities and attack as they feel like. You have NO control whatsoever. You can control the mood with the stars, but that's about it.
2. The AI can be quite stupid. Healing when they are not suppose to and not healing when it's needed. Among other things of course.
3. Only enemies that you've faced in Cups/Tournments or the ones that are specially released appears on your list to fight for the Battle Simulator matches. So if you haven't fought them before, even though you see them listed, you don't get them until then. RNG plays a role.
4. Not all Blue Magic using fiends/enemies appear in the Fiend Arena
5. There are some missable Fiends/Humans that's forever lost, until NG+, if not careful
6. You can NOT capture 1 Main Character from FFX: Wakka

Basics of Capturing

The game's tutorial gives you a fine overview of how the system works, but if you don't remember, I'm here to give a recap; plus some that they didn't tell you. If you already know what you're doing, feel free to skip this section completely.

Trap Pods

There are 4 Types of Trap Pods

1. Trap Pod S = Traps (S)mall size enemies. The pod is yellow. Smallest size in comparison to others.
2. Trap Pod M = Traps (M)edium size enemies. This pod is green. Bigger than Small, but smaller than Large.
3. Trap Pod L = Traps (L)arge size enemies. This pod is blue. It's big, lol.
4. Trap Pod SP = Traps (SP)ecial Form of Enemy. This can capture many types of fiends, but not all. Biggest, purple, and it has there weird design wrapped around it. NOTE: Another way to interpret this is (SP)ecies because you are selecting the type of species you want to capture.
5. SP Example: If you want to capture Yellow Elemental. Pick Elemental when using an SP Trap Pod.
6. When you first begin, you're given a Trap Pod S
7. Sometimes a fiend can be captured by both 2 different types of Trap Pods. This is normal.

Facts on Pods

So to give a small summarization of how to capture a fiend: 1) Press Up/Down to select a location you want to capture in. Confirm (Press X) 2) Press Left/Right to select the pod you want to capture with. Press Confirm to use the Pod. 3) NOTE: If you used an SP pod, you also need to select the type of enemy you want to capture. Only use SP Pods if you know the type of fiend you are capturing.

• NOTE: Best to save your SP Pods for Human type characters and the fiends that require SP Pods. But of course, if you have too many SP pods, feel free to spam them.

• If Shinra Shows up, no fiends meet that criteria, so no fiends are captured.
  • You can only hold 8 Fiends at a time, regardless of the fiend's size.
  • If you already have 8 Fiends in your possession, you either release a fiend you currently hold to replace the new one coming in or ignore the new one and continue on.

Basics of Fiend History

You may read the following as fact nuggest if you like. It does go in order, so do read them one at a time.

Basics of Bestiary

There's not much to really say here. Whatever fiends you've released, as long as it's completed, will listed here along with their picture. Meaning as long as their story is complete that is or there were no story to begin with. I will list the Bestiary in a later section. How indepth it will be is undecided at this point in time. You can, if you want, re-watch their ending again as well as look through their text-based chapter (what you would've seen if the fiend was level up 5 times).

• Captured Creatures DO transfer to NG+
  • Creatures' Level will reset to 1 (Easier to level up for monster story)
  • Creatures keep their abilities
  • Bestiary Data DO transfer to NG+ (As well as Fiend Storyline Completition Percentage)

Chapter By Chapter Guide (NG+)

The purpose of this section is provide a small guide of what monsters you can capture at the earliest time. To be honest, I did this for myself. So I'm going to put this from my perspective. I just started a NG+ and I have 3% as Fiend Story Completion. That's not a whole lot because I knew I was going to start and complete this via NG+. I also advise others to do the same, but it can be done from New Game, if you want. You just don't have to worry about the storyline completion percentage and you probably have everything already. So we are just soley concentrating on the Creature Create (CC) part of the game.

NOTE: In Chapter 3, there are a few Fiends that I missed, but they are still available to be captured in Chapter 5. This pertains to some of the fiends at Gagazet and maybe Bevelle as well. Regardless, following the guide will get you to 100%, rest assured.

NOTE: If you have unlocked and finished Den of Woe in your previous playthrough, you don't need to unlock it again in order to capture the special characters. Den of Woe is probably (maybe) the only place that has some CC carry value. Which is kind of weird.

Chapter 1

Fiend Notes:

• Flame Dragon (Besaid), when released, unlocks Ifrit. Part of the Aeon Cup.
• Yellow Elemental (Gagazet), has no storyline. May release as soon as you capture it.
• Chocobo (Mi'hen), most likely will be the very last fiend you will catch after you've completed everyone else in Mi'hen's storyline
• Shinra Cup Related: There's a specific order of fiends that you need to capture, level up, and release as part of this STORY
  1. Killer Hound (Bikanel)
  2. YSLZ-Zero (Zanarkand)
  3. Machina Panzer (Thunder Plains)
• Random Sequence: Specific Order, not Cup related
  1. Haizhe (Macalania)
  2. Deep Haizhe (Macalania)

Chapter 1 Checker

As stated before in the beginning paragraph, use this to check to see if you're up-to-date with this guide

Chapter 2

Fiend Notes:

• Flan Blanco (Moonflow), when released, unlocks Shiva. Aeon Cup related.
• Vespa (Calm Lands), for insanity purposes, use SP pod

Storyline Notes:

• MUST Side with Youth League, no exception; unless you plan to restart later on.

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Chapter 3

Fiend Notes:

• Barbuta (Besaid): Doesn't have a story
• Balivarha (Moonflow): May need to finish Spine Drake's (Mushroom Rock) Fiend Tales before you can capture Balivarha.
• Zurvan (Calm Lands): Used 3 S Pods, never god Zurvan. Used SP, got it instantly.
• Mycotoxin (Mi'hen), when released, unlocks Valefor. Aeon Cup related.
• Fiend World Cup: 1 Fiend evolves/transforms into others after you release them. You do need to level it up before releasing.
  • You do not need to capture them because they'll just be replaced (it evolves). You do not get any Trap Pods for their release/evolution.
  • After Jahi is released, you do need to capture Tomb from Djose to continue the story.
  • Daeva (Kilika) -> Evolves into "Aka Manah"
  • Aka Mana -> Evolves into "Aeshma"
  • Aeshma -> Evolves into "Jahi"
  • Jahi -> Mission Time: Capture the Fiend Traitor!
  • Tomb (Djose) -> To Be Continued in Chapter 5

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Chapter 4

There is only ONE fiend/character to capture and it can't be missed (Garik), so I'm just going to save it for Chapter 5. Meaning, no captures in this chapter.

Chapter 5

CAUTION: Unlike other chapters, the order that you do things (unlock new areas, progress in the storyline), matters... A LOT. When an area has a Secret/New Dungeon, there are 2 types of fiends. Type A, Fiends that can be captured BEFORE the Secret/New Dungeon is opened. Type B, Fiends that can be captured AFTER the Secret/New Dungeon is opened. So for this section, I'm giving you two options. 1, Figure it out yourself; 2, Follow my list. If you picked number 1, just read the fine notes and hopefully, you won't lock yourself out of missables. If you're using my list, note that Capture also means level them up for the storyline and release as well.

• Lich (Djose): Was informed that Lich was not available once you enter the Farplane. I have not verified this myself, but do take notice. Straight Bestiary Reference already has this fixed though.
• Zalamander (Thunder Plains): Missable. Capture before unlocking the New Dungeon in the Thunder Plains.
• Den of Woe: I started Ch 5, in NG+, and captured Nooj without unlocking Den of Woe. Nooj was in Mushroom Rock and Gippal was in Djose.
  • Nooj (Mushroom Rock): Before Den of Woe
  • Gippal (Djose): Before Den of Woe
• Dark Elemental (Besaid): Could not capture it with SP Pod (Shrina comes out); use S instead
• Demon's Cup: Continued
  1. Dolmen (Kilika): Level Up, Release it
  2. Monolith (Djose): Enter Farplane first, exit, Capture Monolith in Djose, Level Up, Release it -> Evolved into Ultima Weapon
  3. Ultima Weapon: Level Up, Release it -> Mission Time: Fiend Deathmatch! -> "Fiend portal" Unlocked in Fiend Arena's Tournment section
  4. Fiend Portal: Go to the Finals and Defeat Ultima Weapon
  5. Given option to pick between Ultima or Omega; Pick Omega Weapon, 2nd Option
  6. Omega Weapon: Level Up, Release it -> Mission Time: Almighty Shinra Cup!
  7. Almighty Shinra Cup: Go and Defeat Almighty Shinra -> Let Almighty Shinra Join -> Almighty Shinra Cup reverts back to Fiend World Cup, 3) Almighty Shinra -> Level, Up, Release
• Tindalos (Besaid): Release it, they have no storyline
• Hexapod (Mi'hen): Release it, they have no storyline

• Machina Striker (Thunder Plains): Level Up, Release, Aeon Cup Related
• Azi Dahaka (Bevelle): Level Up, Release, Aeon Cup Related
• Critical Bug (Bevelle): Level Up, Release, Aeon Cup Related
• Jumbo Cactuar (Bikanel): Level Up, Release, Aeon Cup Related
• Aranea (Bevelle): Level Up, Release, Aeon Cup Related
  • If done correct and all Aeons has been entered, Aeon Cup should be unlocked
• NOTE: If you win All Cups at least once, Farplane Cup will be Unlocked
• Farplane Cup Unlocked
  • Win the Cup while at the same time, defeat Auron, Seymour, Tidus in the process
  • Have each of these 3 join Gullwings

NOTE: Shinra will only be added after all other Bestiary entries has been entered

Chapter 5 Checker Ender

This might be a no-brainer since we should be done, but previous checkers never calculated the total because empty slots are not taken into consideration. For this section though, empty slots are taken into consideration and they are indicated by the letter E (for Empty, of course)

With that said, Pages 1-13, 15, and 17 are all 9s; Page 14 and 16 are 8s; Page 18 is a 7

Basics of Fiend Arena

Just a few things you should know. Actually, it might be everything that you should know and then some more.

Facts

1. HP/MP/Status if fully healed after each battle. Unless it's the Fiend Portal, Fiend World Cup, or Almighty Shinra Cup
2. There's 2 Modes: Tournment and Battle Simulator
3. Trap Pods are rewarded for competing in the Cups/Tournment; Not for the Battle Simulator
4. Losing in these battles doesn't result in a Game Over. Unless it's the Fiend Portal

Battle Simulator

• The Battle Simulator will initially have the 1st page filled up. The 1st page will always be filled up.
  • The Battle Simulator's list will be updated for every single battle that you got into while playing in the Tournament
  • The Battle Simulator's list of fights/teams do NOT carry over to NG+
• You can learn Blue Magic in the Battle Simulator.
• Unlike FFX's monster arena, it doesn't cost any gil to battle these teams/fiends repeatidly
• It's normal to have unfilled teams in the list; since all battle are randomly given plus some teams are unlocked only after you've completed/released a specific fiend. So overall, you'll have to go through each Cup A LOT of times and hope that you get lucky.

Tournament

• When you first begin, only the Standard Cup is unlocked.
• Each Slot that you see represents a Cup that you have yet to unlock.
• Tournment Data (what Cups you've unlocked, times won, etc...) DO carry over to NG+
• The conditions to unlock each Cup varies.

How Cups Are Unlocked

A majority of the cups are unlocked by winning the cups before them a certain number of times. However, the last few cups are based on a chain of events. So a few words aren't enough to explain the entire process. The Chapter by Chapter guide does states this, but we shall state it here as well; since some may not find the need to use the Chapter by Chapter guide.

Chocobo and Cactuar Cup

Even though you can easily unlock these 2 Cups, meeting the requirements to participate in the them in a different matter. Both the Chocobo and Cactuar makes great fiends to battle with, if you set them up properly. With this duo, I managed to defeat all storyline bosses with ease.

Aeon Cup

To put it simply, you have to obtain certain fiends, increase their level by 5, and release them. Each of these fiends will have "Fragment of Fayth" associated with their story. So when release, an Aeon enters the Fiend Arena. You can fight these Aeons in the Battle Simulator; before the Aeon Cup is unlocked. The earliest you can unlock this Cup is Chapter 5; assuming New Game.

NOTE: I will include Luca, but be warned, chances of you getting it from Luca is really LOW.

Fiend Notes

• Flame Dragon: Looking at the chapters, this fiend is MISSABLE unless you want to try Luca. If so, have fun.
• Flan Blanco: Not missable. Flan Type. If from Bevelle, S is done before Via Infinito. If after VI starts, use SP. If from Calm Lands, do it before Secret Dungeon is opened.
• Mycotoxin: Not missable. If doing it Mi'hen, use SP before the New Dungeon is unlocked. Use S after new dungeon is unlocked
• Machina Striker: New Dungeon in Thunder Plains needs to be unlocked. Only possible in Chapter 5.
• Azi Dahaka: Is available before and after Via Infinito is unlocked. Only possible in Chapter 5.
• Critical Bug: Is available after Via Infinito is unlocked. Only possible in Chapter 5.
• Aranea: Via Infinito's Level 20 boss must be defeated. Only possible in Chapter 5.
• Jumbo Cactuar: Bikanel's Cactuar Hollow must be unlocked. Only possible in Chapter 5.

After the last fiend is released and the last aeon enters the Fiend Arena, the Aeon Cup will be unlocked. If not, you messed up somewhere.

Fiend World Cup

Both Fiend Portal and Almighty Shinra Cup (ASC) will eventually turn into Fiend World Cup at the very end. So basically, Fiend Portal and the Almighty Shinra Cup are actually Fiend World Cup is disguise. They are unlocked just for the Storyline Mission associated with it. They end when the storyline part of it is complete. Then it shifts to the next cup. The order goes like this:

1. Fiend Portal (Cup)
2. Almighty Shinra Cup
3. Fiend World Cup

NOTE: Fiend Portal = Almighty Shinra Cup = Fiend World Cup

• Unlike previous tournaments, the music will differ.
• NOTE: On top of that, your party's HP/MP will NOT be fully restored after each battle.
• NOTE: If you lose even 1 match, you will get a Game Over screen and be sent to the opening menu

Fiend Portal (Cup)

You need to capture 1 Fiend and it evolves/transforms into others after you release them. You do need to level it up before releasing (evolving) it. Remember, increase their level by 5 before releasing.

• You do not need to recapture them because they'll just be replaced (it evolved).
• You do not get any Trap Pods for their release/evolution.
• After Jahi is released, you do need to capture Tomb from Djose to continue the story.

1. Daeva (Kilika) -> Evolves into "Aka Manah"
2. Aka Mana -> Evolves into "Aeshma"
3. Aeshma -> Evolves into "Jahi"
4. Jahi -> Mission Time: Capture the Fiend Traitor!
5. Tomb (Djose) -> To Be Continued in Chapter 5
6. Dolmen (Kilika): Capture, Level Up, Release
7. Monolith (Djose): Capture, Level Up, Release -> Evolves into Ultima Weapon
8. Ultima Weapon: Level Up, Release it -> Mission Time: Fiend Deathmatch! -> "Fiend portal" Unlocked in Fiend Arena's Tournment section
9. Fiend Portal (Cup): Go to the Finals and Defeat Ultima Weapon (Ultima Weapon will always be the very last opponent that you will face; at the finals.)
10. When given the option to pick between Ultima or Omega; Pick Omega Weapon, 2nd Option
11. Omega Weapon: Level Up, Release it -> Mission Time: Almighty Shinra Cup!

Almighty Shinra Cup

In continuation from the Fiend Portal (Cup). The next few steps are simple.

• Almighty Shinra will always be the very last opponent that you will face; at the finals.

Farplane Cup

To unlock the final Cup, the Farplane Cup, you have to win every single Cup at least ONCE. Overall, there can be 3 main issues along with 4 minor issues. If you look at the bigger picture though, all of these can be solved if you take the right steps. If not, there is always NG+ where none of these issues exist anymore.

Main Issues

 Solution: Get 8 Trap Pod Ls, empty out your fiend party, save your game. Use all 8 L Pods in Luca and have all fiends join your party until you get Flame Dragon. After using all 8, if you still don't have it yet, reload and try again. Luca only has 12 Large Sized Fiends. If erany of these Large Sized Fiends story is not complete, you should complete them first. 8/12 = 66% Chance

 Solution: Once again, we can use Luca. However, unlike the Flame Dragon and their "okay" amount of Large Type Fiends, there's a lot of S Types in Luca. 38 Small Sized Fiends to be exact. 8/38 = 21% Chance. So as you can see, even with the solution, this is still a major issue. Possible, but be ready to roll many, many dices. In other words, catch a chocobo with a Trap Pod before unlocking those 2 dungeons is your best option.

 Solution: Start a New Game +; no exception.

1. Tonberry the Ripper, aka Mega Tonberry: Appears in Grand Cup: Hard. Only differences is that it is by itself instead of having a Tonberry accompaning it. You might want use Bribe/Congrats to bypass this, hope that you won't get him in the tournament, or simply have enough power to take down Trema himself, so this guy is no issue. Either way, if you're not prepared, you'll die easily. He can throw 20K+ worth of damage in a moment's notice. In more ways than one, this guy is harder than all storyline bosses. This guy can be stunlocked to death btw.
2. Shady Duo: Appears in Grand Cup: Hard and can appear in the Farplane Cup as well. This team consist of Black Elemental, the Via Infinito Floor 40 Boss, and Mushroom Cloud, an enemy that shows up at Via Infinito at Floor 80+. They are basically end game bosses. Not as hard as Mega Tonberry, but near it. The reason is their Ultima attack that can hit 9999 easily. However, if you have a high offensive force, this battle will be over before you know it.
3. Nooj/Ex-Crimson Squad: Appears in Youth League. Not as hard as Mega Tonberry, but there's just something hard when fighting him. Lightfall is one of those reasons, but as long as you keeping healing every turn, this isn't an issue. Now, the Ex-Crimson Squad, that's an issue. Hope that you don't get this. It feels like fighting 3 Hard Storyline bosses at once. Not just that, their attack animation is long, so it will be a long fight if you plan to win.
4. Almighty Shinra: Appears in Almighty Shinra Cup, which is apart of the Fiend World Cup sequence. What to say about this guy? Treat this battle like you're fighting Trema and you should be fine. Yes, I would put him in the same category as Trema. If you can defeat Trema, you can defeat Almighty Shinra, and vice versa.

Fiend Arena Cups

There is a lot of info to disclose, but the format of how I want to present it is clear as mud. I hope this works. If not, I failed and I don't plan to start over unless I get a clear concise format that is perfect. As in, no more redos.

The first part are the Prizes for being the Champion; meaning you won the very last battle at the end. Just to be sure, # Wins means the number of wins or the number of times you have become Champion. For example, in the Farplane Cup, if you win for the 4th time, you get a Iron Duke. If you win the 5th time, the reward is randomly picked from the prizes between 1 to 4; in other words, you can get Ragnarok, Key to Success, Force of Nature, OR Iron Duke.

The last part lists the teams that competiting in them. Do be warned about one thing though. This is NOT a comprehensive list. I played each Cup about 12+ times (I won them) and I basically recorded what I got and the teams that I had faced. At that same time, not all of the teams were unlocked. Regardless, the Team List section is probably more extensive than this. I just included this because I personally worked on this myself and I don't want it to go to waste.

On a different note, if there is an asterik (*) by the teams name, that means these are the Black Horses. Meaning 2 things. You have a very high chance to face them in the finals. They are also tough opponents if your levels are low compared. And some can be very, very dangerous. If you run into one of them, kiss your championship goodbye.

Standard Cup

Prizes:
 Hi Potion x2, x3
 Ether x8
 X-Potion 1, x4

Teams:
 Elementrio
 Flying Circus
 Forest Watch
 Machinegunners
 Moonfang
 No Fear
 Shell Squad
 Squishy Brother
 Ugly Jam

 NOTE: None of these teams are actually hard. So if you want to train/level up at Chapter 1, go right ahead. The EXP given is not that great later on.

Standard Cup: Hard

Prizes:
 Hi Potion x2, x3

Teams:
 Ancient Power             No Apologies
 Black Chandelier          No Limit
 Boom Squad                No Mercy
 Brigade Newcomer          No Tears
 Clear Aqua Squad          Ragin River
 Empty Heart               Redstar & Darkstar
 Flan Flan Flan            Sleepy Sneaky
 Funky Divas               Superpants
 Heavy Metal               Terrible Sky
 Hellbreeders              Underwater Gang
 Hitmen                    Ushie Family
 Lizard Squad              Zanarkand Guard

 NOTE: Out of all the teams here, you might want to watch out for Zanarkand Guard and Ancient Power. Zanarkand Guard is a storyline boss and it's only unlocked via releasing Guardian Beast. Thus, chances are you won't get him until later on in the game. Ancient Power (Adamantorise), is a battle you want to end very fast. Else it will take forever to end (high defense). Also, Black Chandelier (Dark Elemental), is what I use to level up my level 2 and level 3 fiends to get to the needed level 8 for storyline completion; but that's through the Battle Simulator.

Grand Cup

Prizes:
 X-Potion x1, x2
 Elixir x2

Teams:
 Bad Boys                  No Apologies
 Black Chandelier          No Tears
 Boom Squad                Raging River
 Empty Heart               Silver Brothers
 Fisticuff Twins *         Terrible Sky
 Flan Flan Flan            Ugly Jam
 Flying Circus
 Funky Divas
 Heavy Metal
 Hitmen
 Lizard Squad
 Moonfang

 NOTE: Fisticuff Twins tend to make it to the finals more often than not, but that doesn't mean they are hard whatsover. Same note to Black Chandelier as before.

Grand Cup: Hard

Prizes:
 X Potion x1, x2

 Ancient Power             Elephant Eater              Queen Bee               Underwater Gang
 Areg & Arroja             Fisticuff Twins             Raging River            Ushie Family
 Ark Legend                God Wife                    Redstar & Darkstar      Wild Bird
 Bad Boys                  Hard Rock                   Roughneck               Zanarkand Guard
 Big Justice               Hellbreeders                Shady Duo *
 Black Chandelier          Iron Stomach                Sharp Order
 Boom Squad                Lady Tarantula              Sleepy Sneaky
 Brigade Newcomer          Lonely Tentacles            Soul Quake
 Calm Avengers             No Limit                    Stowaways
 Clear Aqua Squad          No Mercy                    Superpants
 Dragon King               Papa Eaters                 Tonberry the Ripper *
 Dragon King Jr.           Peacekeeper                 Total Eclipse

NOTE: In someways, there are a lot of hard teams in this cup, but you do need to be aware of the two teams that I have marked down. They are extremely dangerous.

Chocobo Cup

Prizes:
 Ether x1, x2

Teams:
 3rd Chocobo Unit
 Beauaty of Nature
 Chocobo & Pals
 Chocobo Kings *
 Fish & Chips
 Fortune Alliance
 Gysahl Hunters
 Today's Friends *
 Wild Bird

NOTE: Chocobo Kings has a high chance to make it to the finals, but they are pretty weak. You just have to watch out for their Meteor. It can be dangerous if they decided to spam it, but that's rare. As for Today's Friends (Anything Eater), this is a Post-Game Dungeon boss. It can be pretty tough if your levels are low and your not prepared. Nothing extremely hard in this Cup.

Cactuar Cup

Prizes
 Mega-Potion x2, x3

Teams:
 Areg & Arroja
 Bartschella's Love
 Chiapa & Friends
 Erio & Brother
 Frailea Gang *
 Jumbo Cactuar *
 Mushroom Toumeya
 Team Islaya
 Team Lobeira

NOTE: What I said about the Chocobo Cup also applies to here as well. Frailea Gang replaces Chocobo Kings and Jumbo Cactuar replaces Today's Friends.

Youth League Cup

Prizes:
 Mega Phoenix x1, x2

Teams:
 Baralai                   Nooj *
 Elma                      Old Guard
 Ex-Crimson Squad *        Ronso Hardliners
 Gippal                    Weak Squad
 Gullwing Guys             Yaibal
 Kimarhi
 Lucil
 Lucil Squad
 Lulu

NOTE: In actual battle, just about everyone is dangerous (except probably 4 or 5 teams). The ones that I put emphasis on, you should really watch out for. Nooj is tricky and can be hard if you don't heal often. Ex-Crimson Squad is something you should really hope to not run into, but I'm pretty sure that you'll have to win the Cup a few times before it starts showing up. You probably won't get it in your first few attempts.

Aeon Cup

Prizes:
 Turbo Ether x1, x2

Teams:
 Anima
 Bahamut *
 Ifrit
 Ixion
 Magus *
 Shiva
 Valefor
 Yojimbo

NOTE: These 2 just seems to be harder than the rest and they do tend to make it to the finals more often than not. I did get a little bit too uncomfortable with Bahamut, but the next time was a lot easier.

Fiend World Cup

Prizes:
 X-Potion x3, x4

Teams:
 Abyssal Judge *           Return to Nothing
 Almighty Shinra *         Shadow Envoy *
 Chaos Vessel              Silent Prophet
 Curse Lifter              Tonberry the Ripper *
 Dark Seal                 Underworld Spirit
 Elephant Eater
 Eternal Prison
 Fiend World Cleric
 Lady Tarantula
 Lost in the Dark
 Moonflow Guardian *
 Omega Weapon *
 
 Omega Weapon **: If you're doing the Fiend Portal quest, Omega Weapon will always be listed as the last opponent and eventually, the last opponent that you'll face.
 Almighty Shinra **: The same as Omega Weapon, but this will apply only if you're doing Almighty Shinra Cup quest
 - "Allow into Gullwings?"

NOTE: Both Shinra and Omega Weapon can still appear in the Fiend World Cup later on. They are not limited by the quest itself
NOTE: Tonberry the Ripper (Mega Tonberry), is still an opponent you should watch out for.
NOTE: Abyssal Judge, Moonflow Guardian, and Shadow Envoy. I put this team in here because of Aeshma, a fiend that is immune to physical attacks. Be wary if your team relies solely on physical attacks.

Farplane Cup

When you've won every single Cup at least ONCE, you'll get this: "Farplane Cup now being held at the Arena!"

Prizes:
 Elixir + Elixir x2

Teams: 
 ???? (Tidus)
 Abyss Crawler (Insect Matriarch)
 Auron
 Fire Dragon God (Elder Drake)
 Hell's Gatekeeper (Azi Dahaka)
 Master of Spira (Paragon)
 Outer Plane Envoy (Major Numerus) *
 Seymour
 Shady Duo
 Slimy Boss (Concherer)
 Trema *

NOTE: Major Numerus, aka Outer Plane Envoy, is the Ultimate Boss of FFX-2. If you want a challenge, look no further. It can be a pain if you are trying to recruit the FFX characters and this guy is in your way. Strategies will be provided later on. It can be defeated by YRP, but it's a lot faster if you use fiends.
My Spoilage/Drops from Major Numerus from 1 Battle:
   10 Iron Dukes        (I did have Key to Success Equipped for more than 1 fiend)
    1 Invincible
    1 Enterprise

NOTE: Trema, the previous Ultimate Boss, is also here as well. There's no big difference between this verison and the Via Infinito version.

NOTE: After you win the Farplane Cup and get all your prizes/rewards, the camera will zoom into one of FFX's main characters (assuming you did fight and defeated them). A message "Allow into Gullwings?" pops up with 2 options, Yes and No. Pick Yes if you want them to join.

NOTE: If you decide to release these characters (Auron, Tidus, Seymour), you can still get them again by doing the same thing. There is a known glitch that they can not rejoin. So be warned.

Team List

SC:Hard = Standard Cup: Hard
GC:Hard = Grand Cup: Hard

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NOTE: Calm Avengers - Spine Drake's Fiend Tale needs to be done before capturing Balivarha

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Watch All 6 Goon Endings: Means to level up and release the 3 Male-Goons and the 3 Fem-Goons

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Bestiary

• NOTE: Shinra, the very last entry on Page 21, will only appear after you have filled up ALL other entries. You do not ever capture this Shinra. Also, this is NOT Almighty Shinra, which is something completely different.

• NOTE: Brother will always join YRP if you have no other fiends in your party.
• NOTE: When there's a "(Empty)" sign, that means no fiends take up this space.

The majority of the fiends here are obtained by using a Trap Pod. However, there is a handful of fiends/characters that are obtained through other means. These other means include evolution and winning at the Fiend Cup/Farplane Cup with other restrctions. Refer to the Chapter by Chapter guide for further details.

• If you really want to know, spoilers Fiend Portal, aka Fiend World Cup, requires the evolution of certain fiends. These fiends are not captured. Also, Omega Weapon, joins at the end of that mission. FFX Characters (Tidus, Auron, and Seymour) are in the Farplane Cup. They will join if you defeat them and win the Cup at the very end. Thus, they also don't require a Trap Pod to be obtained.

Straight Bestiary Reference

First off, I take no credit in the info contained in the following chart. I'm simply taking the bestiary order, which I have typed so I do take credit in that, and I pasted the data from the excel file created by SieKensou (and fellow contributors). Then I formatted/re-coded so that it will look normal under GF's Formatted Markups (which I do claim credit for since I did use over 9 hours). As for the content itself, I don't hold responsible for because I didn't it all one by one. In some cases, I did fix a few errors/translation, etc...

Top 10 Fiend

There are a total of 184 Fiends/Characters you can get into your fighting party (excluding Shinra). Testing every single one of these fiends will take quite a long time. So with that said, people on the board and including myself has decided to bring to you a few suggestions of what might want to do. You can simply copy and use it yourself, or you can do your own little experimentations. It's up to you. I'm just here to bring to you some of the best creations people has come up with.