Details on the Onion Knight in Final Fantasy Tactics: The Lion War

in past ff games, onion _____ have always been the weakest characters and denotes a “beginning” character. perhaps this is just meant to be a toy class and not have any other abilities then being able to use equipment?

Actually, Onion Knights usually start off weak and seemingly useless but end up being the best classes with a bit of work, at least in FFIII. Regardless, perhaps in FFT they’ll end up having incredible abilities to learn while having less than stellar stats, or something similar.

It was also the most powerful doll in FFX.

“usually”
I was under the impression they were only in ff3.(and as lulus doll)
comparing the stats to the knight it looks like a starter class.
the knight is lvl10 with 5-move 3-jump and the onion knight is lvl 16 and has 3-move 3-jump.

In Final Fantasy Tactics classes have set movement. Thief move and jump 4, Knight move and jump 3, Geomancer move 4 and jump 3, Monk move 3 and jump 4.

However diffferent classes can learn different movement abilities. Thief learns Move +2, Squire Move +1, Bard (male only) Move +3.

The Knight to get move 5 must have Move +2 set, or Move +1 and battle boots (+1 movement).

the proper translation is onion swordsman jsuk

i think the onion knight was meant to be made stuff like a archer with heavy armor but i have the game and the onion knight has no abilities and cant assign any and has no job levels.

For every two classes you master the onion knight goes up one level

If you master enough other jobs, the onion knight becomes an Tru onion knight-which is possibly most powerful class

They’re called Onion KNIGHTS and they gain a Job Level for every 2 classes they master. They start weak, but when you master 16 classes (so that Job level is they are godly.

Uh yeah they’re not godly. They have no abilities and can’t assign any, which means all they have is the regular “attack” command. There is ridiculously good onion gear available in the multiplayer mode that can buff them up a lot, (ie the armor gives +250hp and permanent reraise, regen, protect, and shell—and the sword has an atk power of 50)

However, since they still don’t have any abilities, and they can only use the regular attack command, they are easily dealt with by shirahadori (”blade grasp”) or First Strike (”Hamedo”)

Kind of sucky. Sword Techniques are way better, so you’d be better off getting Meliadoul, Orlandu, and Agrias leveled up with some dark knight support.