Zell Dincht

“	Why don't you try to show a little more passion...? You know, like me!	„
	~ Zell Dincht

Summary

Zell Dincht is one of the main characters of Final Fantasy VIII. His loud and energetic personality is a foil to Squall's cold silence. Zell is a master of hand-to-hand combat and prefers to let his fists guide him out of situations his mouth cannot.

Powers and Abilities

Tier: High 6-A, higher with Limit Breaks | 4-A, higher with Limit Breaks | Low 2-C, higher with Limit Breaks | High 6-A to 4-A | At least 2-A

Key: Disc 1-2 | Disc 3 | Disc 4 | Summons | Dissidia

Name: Zell Dincht

Origin: Final Fantasy VIII

Gender: Male

Age: 18

Classification: Human

Powers and Abilities:

• Powers
• Resistances
• Dissidia

Superhuman Physical Characteristics, Non-Physical Interaction, Martial Arts, Magic, Regeneration (Mid-Low), Life Stealing (Via Drain and Junctioning it to his attacks), limited Sealing (Can draw out and Seal enemy summons, using its power for himself), Limited Reactive Evolution (Via Junctioning. Can change his resistances/damage types based on what his opponent is using), Summoning, Energy Manipulation (Can manipulate energy to replicate various spells normally only available naturally to a Sorceress), Elemental Manipulation (Of the Fire, Ice, Lightning, Holy Manipulation, Water, and Earth variety), Poison Manipulation, Status Effect Inducement, Limited Dimensional Travel/Pocket Reality Manipulation (Various summons can create/draw enemies into a pocket reality to attack them and transport them back again), Barrier Creation/Damage Reduction (Via Protect and Shell), Levitation, Telekinesis (Able to call down meteors), Petrification, Time Manipulation (In the variety of speeding himself up and slowing down his enemy) Time Stop (Via Stop), Gravity Manipulation, Transmutation (Via Zombie/Card ability), Invulnerability (Via Junctioning, Zell can gain 100% immunity to elemental damage and statistic effects and even further to the point of where some of these abilities would heal him/Defend ability), Biological Absorption (Via Devour ability), Power Mimicry (Via Draw), Power Nullification (Via Silence/Lvl Down/Dispel/Curses), Sense Manipulation (Via Darkness, massively reduces the targets vision), Healing, Self-Destruction (Via Kamikaze), Durability Negation (Via Junctioning Death to his physical strikes, he can give his blows a chance to instantly kill the target and various other spells), Information Analysis (Via Scan), Attack Reflection (via Reflect), Statistics Amplification (Can Junction Guardian Forces to increase his stats. Can expend 10% of his HP to triple the damage of his next strike), Statistics Reduction (Meltdown reduces opponents Physical/Magic defence stat to 0), Minor Mind Manipulation/Empathic Manipulation (Via Confuse/Berserk), limited Damage Transferal (While summoning all damage Zell takes is transferred to his Guardian Force), Spatial Manipulation (Via Eden), Resurrection (Via Phoenix), Absolute Zero (Via Shiva), BFR (Via Leviathan) | Same as before | Same as before and Self-Sustenance (type 2), Acausality (Type 2).

Via Junctioning, Zell can gain Resistances to Time Manipulation, Time Stop, Sleep Manipulation, Elemental Manipulation, Poison Manipulation, Durability Negation, Death Manipulation, Petrification, Power Nullification (To his magic and limit breaks), Status Effect Inducement, Sense Manipulation (Specifically sight), Curse Manipulation, Statistics Reduction (Specifically his Physical/magic defence), Necromancy/Zombification (Able to resist a spell that turns the target into a Zombie/Undead), Berserk Inducement, Mind Manipulation, Transmutation, and Limited BFR Resistance | Same as before | By the final battle the Party gains resistance to Space-time Manipulation, Existence Erasure and Absorption (Can resist the process of the entire timeline being absorbed)

• Abilites
• Resistances
• With Eidolons

All previous abilities enhanced, Immortality (Type 8, reliant on his Crystal which let him return from fading from existence after Cosmos' death) & Regeneration (Low-Godly), Summoning (Can summon various Eidolons from Summonstones and the World of Illusions), Willpower Manipulation (a person's will is power there and enables them to do a multitude of things the stronger their will), Reactive Power Level (the greater someone's will, the greater their power), Law Manipulation (Beings with strong wills can overwrite the laws of the world and bend them to their will), Creation (With a powerful enough will, once can create various things such as phone lines, airships and even entire countries and worlds), Sealing (Can seal off large areas and people with her will, such as Cecil sealing himself in Castle Baron or the cast sealing Kefka inside a Torsion), Dimensional Travel (Characters can open Torsions, rifts in space-time to travel various dimensions), and Immortality (Type 2) (Due to the crystal core of darkness's influence in the hands of Ardyn, warriors will not die no matter how injured they are)

Resistance to Mind Manipulation, Soul Manipulation (Via Zalera, the Death Serpah, who was going to absorb the souls of every living being on the planet), Corruption & Body Puppetry (Due to their light, Warriors of Materia can dispel attempts to control them), Empathic Manipulation, and Madness Manipulation (Type 3; Resistant to the effects of the True Moon, which is capable of affecting the hearts and minds of all living beings on the planet), Gravity Manipulation (Unaffected by the gravitational pull of the True Moon, which even the Lunar Whale couldn't escape from), Spatial Manipulation, Deconstruction, and BFR (Can withstand the attacks of Atomos, who manipulates space, crush enemies down to a molecular level, and can warp them into another dimension), Extreme Cold and Cosmic Radiations (Can fight and survive on the moon), Absolute Zero (Can survive Shiva's ice attacks, including Diamond Dust),

Hellfire Manipulation (Via Ifrit, Phoenix, Rubicante, and Marilith), Ice Manipulation and Absolute Zero and Duplication (Via Shiva who's Ice and aura are stated to reach Absolute Zero including her Diamond Dust, Shiva can duplicate herself), Water Manipulation (via Kraken, Cagnazzo, and Leviathan), Necromancy (Via Lich), Spatial Manipulation, Deconstruction, and BFR (via Atomos, who manipulates space, crush enemies down to a molecular level, and can warp them into another dimension), Death Manipulation and Space-Time Manipulation (Via Odin, who's Zantetsuken instantly kills an enemy and opens a rift in space time to take their remains), Matter Manipulation and Radiation Manipulation (via Megaflare, which is stated numerous times to be a nuclear power), Attack Reflection (via Carbuncle), Poison Manipulation and Corrosion Inducement (The Poison status effect, which is also stated to corrode the target), Darkness Manipulation and Perception Manipulation (The darkness status ailment via various equipment, which would render the target blind), Power Nullification (The Silence status, which would render the target's ability to use magic null), and Petrification (Via Malboro's Bad Breath), Resurrection (Phoenix can revive fallen party members), Light Manipulation and Holy Manipulation (Via Alexander), Explosion Manipulation and Self-Destruction (Via Bomb), Healing (Via Sylph and Asura), Earth Manipulation (Via Titan), BFR (via Typhon), Soul Manipulation (Via Zalera, the Death Seraph, who was going to abosrb all souls on the planet)

Attack Potency: Multi-Continent level (Should scale to above Ifrit), higher with Limit Breaks. Can ignore conventional durability with Junctioning | Multi-Solar System level (Should be a bit weaker then Eden), higher with Limit Breaks. Can ignore conventional durability with Junctioning. | Universe level+ (Is capable of fighting Ultimecia in all of her forms, defeating her alongside the rest of the party), higher with Limit Breaks. Can ignore conventional durability with Junctioning | Multi-Continent level (GFs on the level of Ifrit possess this kind of power) to Multi-Solar System level+ (With GFs like Eden, who is capable of this) | At least Multiverse level+ (Is comparable to the other Warriors of Materia and draws power from the gods of the cycle. Participated in the defeat of Shinryu)

Speed: Massively Hypersonic (Able to dodge attacks made of lightning) | Sub-Relativistic (Should scale to Gilgamesh) | FTL+ (Kept pace with Ultimecia) | Massively FTL+ (Can keep up with the other Warriors of Materia)

Lifting Strength: At least Class M (Should be comparable to the Brothers GF while Junctioned) | Immeasurable (Is superior to Neo Exdeath and Enuo)

Striking Strength: Multi-Continent level | Multi-Solar System level | Universal+ | Multi-Continent level to Unknown | At least Multiversal+

Durability: Multi-Continent level (Can take hit's from Ifrit) | Multi-Solar System level (Should scale to slightly less than Eden) | Universe level+ (Can tank attacks from Ultimecia in all forms) | At least Multiverse level+

Stamina: Very High

Range: Standard Melee Range, much higher with magic

Standard Equipment: Ehrgeiz

Intelligence: Skilled martial artist and soldier, was able to pass the SeeD exams on the first try.

Weaknesses: None notable

Notable Attacks/Techniques:

• Draw and Stock/Cast: Squall can absorb the energy from an opponent to recreate their magical powers. He can use this absorbed energy offensively to use the same ability on an opponent, or he can Junction it to become resistant/immune/strengthened by it.
• Junction: Able to increase his statistics via absorbing energy from his opponents. Can grant himself resistance/immunity/strength with said energy. Can also attach the power to his physical attacks applying whatever effect the original ability inflicts (Can steal an instant death ability from his opponent and attach it to his physical attacks as an example)
• Guardian Forces (GFs): Guardian Forces are mystical entities that claim dominion over the elements. Squall's superhuman abilities are a direct result of being Junction to multiple Guardian Forces, which he can temporarily manifest in a battle to assist him in combat. Squall's Guardian Forces are listed below:

• Limit Breaks
• Guardian Force
• Magic

-Duel: Zell unleashes a long series of punches and kicks before finishing it off with either Burning Rave, Meteor Barett, Different Beat, or My Final Heaven.

-Burning Rave: Zell charges up all his ki in a flaming globe around him and then punches the ground, sending shockwaves at the opponent(s) and throwing them into the air.

-Meteor Barett: Zell jumps into the air and collects his energy. Channeling the power into his fist, he dives at his opponent, passing straight through while the enemy is subject to many explosions.

-Different Beat: Zell runs at his opponent and backflips, knocking them into the air. He repeatedly backflips, sending them higher up. After a while, he jumps on them and stamps them into the ground, leaving a big crater.

-My Final Heaven: Zell charges up his ki in a similar way to Burning Rave and channels it into one fist. Zell then rushes past the opponents, sending them spinning around. Zell circles around the Earth once in a matter of seconds, and then rushes through them again before doing his finishing punch.

• Ifrit: Uses a Fire-elemental attack called "Hellfire
• Shiva: Uses a Ice-elemental attack called "Diamond Dust"
• Quetzalcoatl: Uses a Lightning-elemental attack called "Thunder Storm."
• Siren: Uses a Non-Elemental attack called Silent Voice. It also inflicts "Silence."
• Brothers: Uses an Earth-Elemental attack called "Brotherly Love."
• Diabolos: Uses a Gravity based attack that deals damage in relation to the enemies' maximum HP called "Dark Messenger."
• Carbuncle: Grants Reflect status to party
• Leviathan: Deals Water-Elemental Damage and attempts to Removes the enemy from the battlefield with a huge torrent of water.
• Pandemona: Uses a Wind-Elemental attack called "Tornado Zone"
• Cerberus: Enables the party to cast two or three magic spells in one turn
• Doomtrain: Uses a Poison-Elemental Attack called "Runaway Train," Inflicts every status ailment at the same time.
• Alexander: Uses a Holy-Elemental Attack called "Holy Judgment."
• Bahamut: Uses a Non-Elemental Attack called "Mega-Flare"
• Odin: Uses "Zantetsuken," which kills opponents instantly, this has a random chance to occur, and Squall has no Control over it.
• Phoenix: Uses a Fire-Elemental attack called Rebirth Flame. Can resurrect fallen party members should they die.
• Eden: Eden uses a Non-Elemental attack called "Eternal Breath"

• Doom: Cuts an opponent's thread of life, forcing them to live on borrowed time (16 seconds), causing instant and immediate death once it runs out.
• Death: Summons a reaper from a small void to strikes the foe with its scythe, instantly killing most of them.
• Drain: Drains a portion of the target's health, healing the caster for the same amount.
• Firaga: Launches an enormous fireball at an opponent.
• Thundaga: Launches a large lightning bolt at an opponent.
• Blizaga: Launches an enormous icicle at an opponent.
• Tornado: Creates a mighty tornado damaging all opponents.
• Quake: Creates a violent earthquake at an opponent's feet.
• Bio: Inflicts a virulent poison upon an opponent.
• Demi: Crushes the foe in an orb of gravity and reduces their HP by half.
• Holy: Blasts the target with holy damage.
• Meltdown: Shoots a powerful wave of energy at the target causing non-elemental damage, and reducing the enemies' physical/magical defense to 0.
• Meteor: Summons meteors to bombard her targets for a brief period.
• Flare: Blasts the target with non-elemental damage.
• Ultima:: Draws in large amounts of magical energy and unleashes it in a massive explosion upon the enemy, dealing non-elemental damage.
• Haste: Speeds up time around the target, raising their effective movement and combat speed.
• Slow: Slows down the time around an opponent and reducing their effective combat and movement speed.
• Aura: Status magic that increases the chance of the affected character getting a Limit Break and allows them to get Limit Breaks outside of being in HP Critical health. Being under the effects of Aura boosts the character's Crisis Level, enhancing their Limit Breaks as well.
• Silence: Prevents the foe from casting spells.
• Zombie: Transmutes the target into a zombie, making them take damage from restorative effects.
• Sleep: Puts the foe to sleep.
• Blind: Creates a dark cloud in front of her opponent's eyes, greatly reducing accuracy.
• Confuse: Greatly confuses the target causing them to use abilities/techniques at random.
• Berserk: Drives a target berserk making them wildly attack you physically instead of using magic/hax.
• Break: Turns a target to stone.
• Pain: Inflicts Darkness, Silence, and Poison on the target.
• Scan: Reveals strength, Defence, Weaknesses and detailed information on strategy and a personality on the target.
• Curaga: Restore a large amount of HP.
• Esuna: Removes harmful status effects.
• Reflect: Generates a barrier that reflects Magic Attacks.
• Shell: Greatly reduces magical damage taken by generating a barrier.
• Protect: Greatly reduces physical damage taken by generating a barrier.
• Triple: Enables triple spell-casting in a single turn.
• Float: Causes the target to float, allowing them to avoid ground-based effects.

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