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CobraGT posted...

Rare enemies but also rare moves and rare drops/steals.

Larva Eater from FF XII satisfies both: you have to kill 256 enemies while remaining the Great Crystal area before one spawns, then it can reappear again after beating another 30-255 enemies. It rarely drops the Danjuro, the most powerful dagger in the game, and this is the only way to get it (I can't seem to find the actual drop rate percentage, and the game's chaining mechanic further complicates this).

Apparently the Zodiac version alters this by giving you other options for obtaining the weapon (and calls it by a different name). I only ever got the Danjuro once, and it was one of the luckiest drops I've ever gotten in gaming. I couldn't get any of the 'shortcut' techniques to work and was frustrated as hell after hours of grinding, and I told myself 'I'm gonna try one more time and then I'm done with this shit forever;' sure enough, the last Larva Eater dropped one. I cherished the hell out of that dagger and built Ashe around using it; pretty sure either it or Vaan w/ Yagyu Darkblade got the killing blow on Yiazmat that playthrough.