Interesting about Cactuars is that they have different versions of themselves in lore. Some provide tons of EXP along with some having insane speed in battle turns, you even have Cactuars that are super high in defense.
- There's the original classic Cactuar that occasionally have options to run away from battle and the ability to cast Haste on themselves. Their general attacks is usually 1000 needles and higher level versions have access to the magic called Slow, they even have a high evasion ratio that makes them hard as hell to hit.
- Another version to them are called Metal Cactuars, these guys usually take centuries to attack and they continuously buff their defense for literally no reason, but usually killing them grants tons of EXP and even rare drops in the new FFs. Taking too long to kill them will make them flee from battle. They are the newest edition to the series.
- Then there's the really huge ones called Gigantuar (they use to be called Cactuar Jumbo if i'm correct), these guys are huge with some having a curly mustache to legitimately troll you and they have TONS of health. Back then they were considered bosses and have access to HP breaking moves like 10,000 needles (old FFs had HP capped to 9999 so these guys can 1-shot a character in the team if they wanted). If I remember correctly, FFVIII had one as a boss within a nearby island in a desert, beating it gets you a Cactuar summon on your team.
