Thanks for checking out the guide, let us know if you get your Lionheart (and congrats if you do)! Don't forget to check out my full Final Fantasy 8 walkthrough here: kzfaq.info/get/bejne/i7uIl9aJsZnIepc.html

For whoever plans to do a high level run: High level T-Rexaurs drop dragon fangs. Also, the beach outside of Dollet has many adamantoise encounters. You can get the adamantine from them and you don't have to sacrifice the Minotaur card.

I did this way back in 2005-6. Would’ve been about 14, 15. I am so excited to play this game again, I feel this game was a big part of my love of gaming .

I've done it on disc one level 8 and have nearly 800 cards aswell, now I can play the game.

This guy puts out the best guids period. Been helpful in my nostalgic playthroughs of 7 8 9 10

In addition to the Lionheart you can get 4 out of the 5 top weapons for each other character on disc 1 without leveling up Quistis needs: 2 x malboro tentacles which you can get from modding 8 malboro cards 4 energy crystals - mod 40 Elnoyle cards 4 sharp spikes - dropped by Armadodos in the Tomb of the Unknown King - or mod from Death Claw cards Zell needs: 1 x adamantine which you'll get from the same place you get it for Squall's weapon 4 x dragon skin - which is dropped by low level Grendels which you'll also be fighting to get the Dragon Fangs for Squall's weapon so you can do that at the same time 1 x Fury Fragment - mod from 4 Blue Dragon cards Selphie needs: 1 x adamantine which you'll get from the same place you get it for Squall's weapon 3 x Star Fragments - mod 9 Iron Giant cards 2 x Curse Spikes - mod 2 Tri-Face cards You can get Irvine as far as the Bismark which is the best weapon available for him until disc 3 when Moon Fragments become available He needs: 2 Steel Pipes which you can either get from low level Wendigos in the same forest you go to to hunt Grendels for Dragon Fangs and Dragon Skin for Squall and Zell's top weapons - or mod from Elastoid cards 4 Dynamo Stones - mod 4 Blitz cards 18 Screws - dropped by Geezards on the plains around Deling city - or mod 4 Geezard cards Rinoa needs........ a little luck .... as well as some items. She needs: 1 Force Armlet which can only be gained without leveling up from the X-ATM092, and it doesn't always drop it when you destroy it. 2 Windmills - mod 2 Abyss Worm cards or dropped by Thrustaevis on the plains around Galbadia 1 Regen Ring - mod 10 Chimera cards or get from Vysage's pal "Lefty" on the foothills of the mountains south of Galbadia - (you can also get them from Chimeras in the Dingo Desert but the encounter rate is so low that it's not worth bothering) 2 Energy Crystals - mod 20 Elnoyle cards If you miss the Force armlet from X-ATM092 - you can level up and get them from level 30+ Forbiddens in the Tomb of the Unknown King, or level 30+ Ochus in the forest near Obel lake. Otherwise you'll have to settle for her next best weapon, The Cardinal. For that you need: 1x Cockatrice Pinion - mod from 1 Cockatrice card - or you can find them on the plains and forests around Galbadia 1 x Mesmerize blade - mod 1 Mesmerize card 1 x Sharp Spike - dropped by Armadodos in the Tomb of the Unknown King - or mod from Death Claw cards. You're welcome

The guy you get the quistis card from in the cafeteria has much more elnoyles

90 hours later... THANK YOU SO MUCH FuzzFinger, your guides are rally the best!!! I enjoyed FF8 so much thanks to you

The greatest thing about final fantasy viii being re-released in 2019 is that I now get to hear how the rest of the world pronounces galbadia and such.

One person I've noticed that plays a lot of Elnoyle cards is the "gatekeeper" at Balamb Garden. He's the one behind the glass on the screen with the literal gates (one has a blue light and one has a red light). He played an Elnoyle literally almost every time I played him (I played about 15 games, and think I got 12 Elnoyles). However, he did stop playing them after awhile, so I don't know if I was just just getting super lucky or what, but yeah.

For those who don't want to sacrifice the Minotaur Card: You will have to wait a little while longer, but you can get the Adamantine as a Mug/Steal from the BGH251F2 boss at FH... Although it's on Disc 2, it's actually fairly early into it and if you are a Triple Triad maniac like me you can still keep all your rare cards!

Dr .k in the infirmary in Balamb plays nearly every rare card you could need including elnoyle and abyss worm behemoth much more

Collected some of the strongest magics for junctioning, got squalls ultimate weapon, got some of the best cards... Okay now I can progress past disc one xD

Wow I just realized that the cursor in the menu is a gunblade.

Always found theses earlier Final Fantasy games so relaxing. Never got the Lionheart on disc1 myself, just never felt right getting it so early on in the game! Keep the Final Fantasy content coming FuzzfingerGaming.

The Elnoyle card shows up more often with the MiniMog in your hand playing with Cid, the guy in the back in the cafeteria and the two girls in the classroom, I have Diablos and had a hell of a time with him in my hand trying to get players to play Elnoyle. You can get the MiniMog card from the little boy in the blue shirt running downstairs from the elevator around the directory.

-Dragon Fang from T-Rexaurs -Admantine from Admantoise outside of Dollet on the beach -Play triple and get 20 Elnoyles (fairly common card; stick to playing anyone who you find has one) -> refine (Card Mod from Quezacotl) to energy crystals (10 cards = 1 energy crystal) -> refine 2 energy crystals (Ammo-RF from Ifrit) into 20 Pulse Ammo You now have all ingredients for the LionHeart on Disk One

Guy that gives you the quistis card in the cafeteria gives you the Elnoyle card way more frequently cause he only plays two levels of cards. Edit- want to give credit for this to a youtuber named Mike Bettencourt for this- his video pointed this out to me. kzfaq.info/get/bejne/hqpmjMVp0c6weWg.html

Lol, I love how there's all of these videos focusing on getting Squall's Lionheart early because it helps you have a chance of a finisher that deals more damage...meanwhile good ol' Zell can always deal out good damage, no weapon upgrade needed, and in a more interactive way than just tapping R1 imo

I got most of the cards needed from the two quistis trepies in the cafeteria. They aren't the most consistent but they do have almost all the cards you need for all the weapons. I have a video on my channel with everyone but Irvine's last weapon on disc 1

I managed to get Elnoyle cards from the Quistis groupie guy (The one in the back in the canteen), Dr Kadowaki in the infirmary, the gatekeeper (When you go through the barriers) and also a random guy who is sometimes to the left of the screen after going through the barrier. I had Lionheart in Deling City. The actual Lionheart limit didn't pop often, but because I had Tornado junctioned to strength on Squall I was dishing out a lot of punishment :)

I found that cid gives u the card way more frequently I got them in an hour

Found it easier to grind for adamantine from the beach around dollet.

To anyone who missed the chance to farm elnoyle cards in balamb garden there’s still hope!!!! You can still farm it from galbadia garden just go the corridor with stairs on the right sometimes empty others will spawn three dudes exercising, there will be a kid coming down from the stairs( if you don’t see him just walk in and out of the corridor) he will drop it for you not as much as the cafeteria dude in balamb but you can still do it... I got mine today

I mustn't do this as the game's already too easy...but....It's LIONHEART, the best limit break ever.

You can get dragon fangs off those grendal with the mug ability from diaoblos

Thank you so much. Just got my Lionheart on disk 1 following your guide. Keep up the good work 😀

I noticed I've been getting some Elynole cards from the guy at the Reception gate over at Balamb Garden. He plays some decent cards as well.

Just got it in Disc 2. Holy shit, what a grind. Thanks for the vid 😊 Btw for anyone viewing this comment and attempting this method: a better way to get Elnoyle cards is to play the guy sitting in the back of the cafeteria inside Balamb Garden. He plays that card a lot more than Zell’s mom in my experience.

I sweart that Old Man Admissiongate at Balamb Garden plays Elnoyles WAYYYYY more frequently than Zell's mom.

Playing the remastered version. I’ve never gotten further than just after the Timber mission before, and never really gave Triple Triad even a glance. So this the first time actually sitting down playing Trip. Tri. using the Refinement(I had no idea Trip. Tri. had any sort of relevance to the mechanics of the game. Boys points for making Draw a waste of time) and using the Junction system efficiently. It ridiculous how power you can become so early on but it takes a crap ton of work, time, and luck. Every minute doing it, although it doesn’t seem like it when you’re doing it, is absolutely worth it. Just need the last component for the LionHeart, and I’m fucking excited! Thanks for the help along the way. 👍

Bro I needed to get through ffviii quickly because I'm a grown-ass man with responsibilities and not a whole lot of time, so your videos helped a great deal. Subscribing for sure (also for anticipation of your ffvii remake videos) - keep up the excellent work!

You can get all the cards you need for the energy crystals as soon as you can play they back guy in the cafeteria. I got all twenty inside a half hour. It's actually the first requirement you can meet.

Trepie fan #1 in the cafe was where I got about 20 Enoyle cards. He doesn’t play it every round but he played it often enough (in my particular playthrough).

Hey super late here! But I’ve found by FAR the best card player to grind for these cards etc is CID himself! Just after the timber mission is briefed to you and he’s in his office. I was able to get like 50 of these and enough ruby dragons for 100 flare in around 7 hours. That’s a lot of time, but with all rule and literally only playing one player he’s really good for thus! He has abyss worms too if you’re in for tornado.

minor other recommendations are to keep squall and everyone else besides sefier at min level. You can do this simply by being on the dollet mission kill the other 2 members and level sefier to huge level pretty simple considering u can both draw cures from enemies and get potions so no worries about healing and free amount. Always keep cocobo world open if playing on steam just turn off event wait and let it run. You may also wanna keep a +1 or extra card then whats needed if you wanna be sure your going for all cards. Awesome video tho and is a huge help. Thanks.

If you wanna keep your cards just head to the beach near Dollet and farm the Adamantoises til you get one lol

I hope I'm off tomorrow because I have to work tonight. ☹

T-rexuar drops dragon fang over level 30, if your over level 30 before lunatic pandora dream sequence you can steal energy crystal off the pipe monster and also you can get adamantite off the turtles next to dollet ;) that will save your cards

T Rexaurs in the training center will drop 6 or 7 dragon fangs sometimes and the doctor in the infirmary has elnoyle cards that come up quite often.

I just wanna add that I was about level 64 with Squall when I got to this point and realized it really doesnt drop, so I switch Rinoa and Quistis in the party, they're both Lvl 17 and started doing the card strat. I got 35 Grendels before I got 4 Dragon Fangs... LOL. Thanks for the info.

The guy at the table in the back (vs guy talk to in front of cafeteria) has it a lot too. I saw your video too late but I managed to do everything but this card. So hopefully being on disc 2 I can do it. Got everything else. Thank you for the video!

A much easier way to get pulse ammo is to fight the belhelmel, they drop laser cannons which u can refine into pulse ammo! Much easier that playing cards, u can find them outside the garden by the forest where u get the dragon fangs. That's who I got my lionheart disc 1:)

Remembering only from way back in the original FFVIII and don't know about any changes to the Remaster, but back then the biggest bonus for getting the Lionheart is that if you *don't* get any of the weapons *between* Revolver and Lionheart, you won't have to deal with any of the Limit Breaks from them as part of your RNG. As a result, you end up procc'ing the LH limit quite a bit more often. And Zell's mom was always one of my favorite options for early game TT binges, though there are other NPCs mentioned in other comments.

If anyone misses this on disc 1 or needs to get energy crystals for rinoa or quistis, there is a guy at the beginning of disc 3 in garden who is on the first floor on the right side sitting on a bench near where zell is standing. He uses elynole cards a lot and drops more of those vs. zells mom. If you don’t see him on the bench, just keep leaving and re entering the area until he populates. I earned a lot of those really quick for rinoas ultimate weapon.

Getting Lionheart this early makes the rest of the game insultingly easy.

The one that has the Quistis card, he has a lot of Elnoyle cards, plays them very often

I did this on the ps1 back in the day. My disc was scratched on disc one right where you fall asleep and Laguna takes over. So I never got to the other side of that forest. I had the punishment or punisher when I finally rented the game to get passed. Then on the other side of the forest is the adamanstoise for the last piece I needed to make the lionheart.

Nice, I remember doing this waaaay back. And at the end I was briefly mistaken I had a call with the FF 7 victory fanfare :D

If you never acquire Squall's other weapons, am I right in saying that the game never has the other limit finishers they provide to randomly choose from? Having just the revolver (which is mandatory of course) and the Lionheart would give you the best possible chance of seeing that finisher most frequently?

Quite a few people drop elnoyle cards. I got them from zells mom, a dude in the library first screen, doctor in the infirmary, and the back quistis groupie in the cafeteria. It's nice battling different people, I feel like you get different cards to mod as well.

You can have punishment before the seed exam by grinding cards.

This guide is awesome dude keep it up. I never thought it was possible till I just now pulled it off lol

I like how strong I can get just from playing the card game, although it is tedious the reward for it is kinda worth imo

you can also get selphie/quistis/squall to level 30. and do that forest dream sequeence. encounter the level 30+ elastoid and its 100% chance of a laser cannon with ammo-rf into 5 pulse ammo. saves the card method and a lot of time

Actually you can get most characters' ultimate weapon before the end of disc one except Irvine's because it requires Moon Stone. Quistis's and Rinoa's will have you grind for loads Elnoyle Cards because they require Energy Crystal.

If you can't get the items you need or are too high a level at certain points you can always use Lv up & Lv down abilities.

thanx for the guides, currently working on OP characters now!

In the Remastered version for PC (Steam) I was able to get a good amount of Elnoyle cards from the gatekeeper at Balamb Garden.

To save grinding time I wait till just after brothers on disc two. You get 5 free ammo in FH. Half the card farming is huge

Been playing against Dr. Kadowaki early game in Balamb Infirmary. She almost always carries the Elnoyle card with her.

Pro tip, please don't do it if it's your first time playing the game, get the weapon later once the items required for it becomes available again(last third of the game if i remember correctly). Don't rush it! Getting the weapon early makes getting any other weapon for Squall worthless and unsatisfying. And since it unlocks the strongest limit break in the game it makes any other limit break useless, and makes the game horribly easy than it already is. You already have x3 speed, you can mindlessly level up whenever you need if you think the game got harder, without ruining the experience for yourself! Anyway, thats just what i think, do what u gotta do ^^

I remember figuring out how to get Lionheart on Disk One all the way back in 2003 when I was 15.5 years old!! Good memories. Also, geezo I was expecting to see VeghEsther in the comments section here.

2min intro on a 8min video is wild

thanks. cant wait til midnight tonight. gonna have fun playing this game

I dunno how more efficient this is but I seem to get more elnoyle cards from the head teacher in the school, also the best way to get most of the other cards you need early game

Just fight elastoids at the Laguna, Ward, Kiros dream sequence in the Emerald mines. In the forest before getting to Galbadia. Go to the pink emerald section and beat elastiods to get Laser Cannons. Make sure you have the Ammo-RF Ability to change one Laser Cannon into 5 Pulse Ammo. You don't have to play hours of card games for 20 Eloynes to get the same. At Dollet, go to the nearest beach to fight Adamantoise.

dang thanks man!!! I'm happy I found your videos!!!!

I brought this game only for the card game lol. Even though it is an App

If I remember right. There's another way to get pulse ammo. You can turn 1 power generator into 20 pulse ammo. You get it from Blitz on the centra continent. Using mug and level up will improve the odds of getting one.

Lunch lady in balamb gardens cafeteria gave me at least 4 elnoyle so far 👍

On the second floor outside the classroom 2 girls can spawn at the bottom of the screen. Sometimes they walk away and sometimes its a guy and a girl. Keep walking in and out until it 2 girls standing there talking. U want to play the one with her back to the screen, with the short brown hair. She plays not only elnoyle, but also snow lion, abyss worm, ruby dragon, and iron giant. Got 100 tornado and blizzaga for 2 chars, the 10 ruby dragon for quistiss limit, and the 20 elnoyle about the same time.

Love the soundtrack to this game

This is a good low level guide but if your goal is early lionheart then you can get JUST after you leave timber. You can get dragon fangs before leaving balamb by fighting T-rexs as it's a higher level drop so just farm a bit and boom you're good. Then when you leave timber run up to(or take the train to) dollet and the beach across from dolley has adamantoise which stop adamantite. This way you can get lionheart before the dream sequence after timber!

Hi fuzz. I was farming my Dragon Fangs for my LH ,just for fun,and i discover something really funny. I tried to use card on Grendel after squall hits him 2 Times (around 800 damage at lvl 8 with100 Tornados + STR 20/40%),and after 80 battles i never receive a dragon fang,i thought i was really unlucky,so i tried instead of that,hitting Grendel with Quistis 4/5 times (around 350 with 100 tornados) and i received everytime a dragon fang for each battle,i tried on 20 battles after that,and i always gain a dragon fang,so i think i manipulate the drop rate from the rare item. Gonna try on other battles to see how it works,but hope it helps for the future. And soz for my eng,good luck, and cool videos mate ^^

Technically, FF8 is by far the easiest of all the series, I've played it so many times, you can be already a God-like at the very beginning if your GF's abilities tactic is good enough. The bosses are weak af, and the monsters can be killed easily by physical attacks as you fear to spend magic against them as your stats gets lower.

I remember doing this on one of my playthroughs and never used it until I was to a point where I felt it was time. didn't want to be too op lol.

Got my Dragon Fangs from fighting T-Rexaur. Got my Adamantine from fighting Adamantoise. Got my Pulse Ammo by fighting Belhelmel for 4 Laser Cannons. Ammo refining 3 into 15 Pulse Ammo and giving the 4th to Quistis for her Homing Laser ability. As you may have guessed, this is all because i'm playing a high-level run of the game. So I didn't need to play cards to obtain the upgrade materials for Lionheart and still got it on disc 1. Right before going into the Tomb of the Unknown King, infact. But I can tell you right now...getting Belhelmel to drop those 4 Laser Cannons...worst part of the entire experience. That stupid monster was dropping one cannon per what felt like every 40-50 fights. So i'm sure it took around 150 encounters with the same one monster to obtain just 4 of the same one item. That was insanely boring/tedious lol.

i am playing this game for the first time. What i learned from my first playthrough. Use Quistis limit break Degenerator to kill nearly every monster and if that does not work use Squall Renzokuken and Irvine AP shot

I remembered grinding on this game back in the day. This remake is a pain, especially as I had forgotten how much of a grind the card game could be just to junction abilities.

i dont need this weapon earlier, i just wanna keep the char level as low as possible and start levelling when the stats bonus learned by GF, and make every single stats on char 255 when they reach lvl90 above. hunting dragon fang will make the char level very high

Between how enemies increase with your levels, how strong you can get the GFs, how OP you can get party stats, and the fact that you can get some 2nd best, even ULTIMATE weapons so very early.... It's like they want you to just avoid level grinding....

WOW! Got the Lionheart on disc 1 for the first time in over 20 years! I’ve only played the original game when it came out on PS1 & replayed it regularly until about the mid noughties when the then PS2 stopped, for some reason, being able to load from the 4 PS1 discs & haven’t played it in 15+ years! Was disappointed when the other FFI to IX came out on iOS that FFVIII was missing! Did periodically check if it would come out every year or so & then, kind of forgot about it so, only checked again in May 2022 & it had been out for about a year! Beenplaying it as I remembered in my usual long grinding, high level way & finished it in about 4 weeks! Now, for the first time ever I’m trying out a low level game & it’s a completely new way of playing for me & found it hard at first to get my head around it: never played much cards & once I noticed that carding gives no EXP I never used it! Low level play has been a challenge for me but, been able to get Squall’s, Rinoa’s, & Selphie’s ultimate weapons at Deling City before the end of disc 1! Could have gotten Quistis’ too if I’d been willing to pplay cards for another 20 Elnoyle, I call them E-nnoy, cards! But, had to replay over 6 & hours of play including card playing because the first time I couldn’t get Ammo-RF as Ifrit was only level 2 before Irvine was about to join the party! NEVER noticed before or knew that GF’s had to be at certain levels for certain abilities to be available to learn! Even posted on another of your videos briefly before I deleted it once I knew what the problem but, had already contacted the official website’s support via email about missing GF abikities! I just never noticed before because of my high levels that naturally levelled up the GF’s too! It’s a whole new challenge to learn how much much & how to inflict the right amount of damage to card enemies & use Seifer, haven’t gotten to Edea yet during this low level game, to level up the GF’s! It’s goes against over 20 years of the way I played, while not playing for all those 20+ years it WAS the only way I knew how play! Now I’m getting so much more stuff earlier on in the game that I just didn’t think was possible before! Thanks very much for these videos showing je a new way to play! :)

was way less time consuming mugging elastoids for laser cannons. (Lagunas dream) it is a rare steal but i got 5 in like 45 mins.

I just got it without playing triple triad by Deling City! Took me about 4hrs. Sweet guide nonetheless

Getting the admantine is the trickiest part, as triple triad enthusiasts (like myself) don't like sacrificing the Minotaur card and the only other way to get it is to fight Admantoise which will almost certainly result in your characters levelling up :(

Thank you very much for this. Helped out a lot. Subscribed and liked. Good videos

The “Trepe #2” in the classroom seems to play a fair amount of Elnoyal (however it’s spelled)

i only want to say it's just not needed to sacrfice the Minotaur or u can - whaterver ( :D ). U will keep it back at disc 4 :) after land from space. There are 2 way to get card back - play Queen near to one point on the map after land or go on ragnarok and get it back. All methods are good :) I gonna pass it trough for 1000000 times. Thank you yo remind me this game is still working !

With Zells mom you’ll need to leave town then come back if she stops playing elnoyle. Also in balamb if one npc stops then switch and they’ll play a few before they stop.

Thanks for that pal. I found the guy obsessed with Quistis in the cafeteria plays them every few games and and often plays them in quick succession

The gate keeper at the academy plays that card quite often more than zell’s mom

Personally, for the Elnoyle card, I always found that Trepie fan #1 (The one that's in the cafeteria) was the person that had the highest probability to play that card from my experience. That's where I always got mine on Disc 1 anyways.

Level 1-3 cards = Friend of Groupie 1 in Cafeteria (Tri-Face, !!Gayla!!, etc.) Level 4 Cards = Girl in the corner of Hallway on Floor 2 (Bomb if you don't card from Fire Cavern, Blitz) Level 5 Cards = Groupie #1 in Cafeteria (Elastoids, Malboro's, Ruby Dragons I don't recommend trying to get Flare from them since you need like 50 or something ridiculous but if someone is crazy enough or has time on their hands then by all means, Chimera, Behemoths, etc.) You could try card Glacial Eyes for a Jumbo Cactuar Rare Card, which is gonna be a great card for awhile to come. I had terrible luck getting this to drop. Took well over 100 battles for 2 copies.

Is there a way to get adamantine without losing the minotaur card, or a place to get another minotaur card? I don't like the idea of losing my cards unless I have a double.

Can't believe the kind of rumors players had been spreading in the old days about needing the weapon magazines in order to remodel weapons. I mean, the fact that the only copy of the 1st edition magazine is all the way at the lunatic pandora lab in disc 3 would invalidate this whole disc 1 lionheart thing if it was true If you don't want to play cards to get energy crystals, you could also level up to 30, then mug Elastoids at the centra excavation site during Laguna's 2nd flashback (while conveniently in the same forest area to get dragon fangs from grendels) After all, the earliest opportunity to remodel your weapon after getting everything is Deling City anyway

My method for after FH, is to head to Centra ruins and recruit Tonberry before getting Pandemona (and Pandmona card from hotel owner in Balamb)

I love this game for the same reason I love Star Ocean 2. It's just so breakable and fun. It's almost like they wanted you to break the game. I wish more games would do this. You can balance a game to make it work the way you want and still do this. There's nothing forcing people to actually go through the paces to break it this way.

Hello CID is known for playing those 20x card I had 1-2 hours better then Zell house

I did it by playing the guy that gives us the Quistis card in the Garden's cafeteria ("the guy in the back") because in addition to getting Elnoyle cards, the duels count towards the required number to start the Card Club quest and he also plays a lot of Malboro cards which I can Card Mod into Malboro tenticles for Quistis' ultimate weapon.