Abyssion
From Aselia, the Tales wiki
Abyssion is a hidden boss in Tales of Symphonia. On first appearance he looks like a young, sickly man with black hair and a dark outfit. Upon absorbing dark energies from the Necromicon however, his look alters drastically, and he now has bright red spiky hair and tattoos underneath his eyes.
[edit] In Tales of Symphonia
Abyssion is the superboss of the Devil's Arms sub-quest. He appears after the player has gathered all nine Devil Arms, and upon his defeat, will unlock the weapons. Despite having the same statistics of their locked states, the Devil Arms will now increase in the amount of physical damage they do proportional to the amount of monsters the specific user has killed.
To start the quest, you must first find Soul Eater or Evil Eye (or both) and talk to Abyssion, who appears in Flanoir. There, he reveals that the Devil Arms are cursed, and gives you the Nebilim Blade and Nebilim Key, which is required to unlock chests that contain the remaining devil arms. On finding eight of the nine weapons, he tells you that he will meet the party in the Temple of Shadow, where he will seal them away for good. After collecting the ninth Devil Arm, the party meet Abyssion and hand him the Devil Arms. He then pulls out the Necromicon, a cursed tome containing forbidden knowledge, and absorbs the Devil Arms energies. The battle then commences.
He uses various Artes that include Spells with very little casting time that are copied from the party members (both Strike and Technical). He is very hard to stumble. He also has 120,000 HP (180,000 HP in Hard Mode and 240,000 HP in Mania Mode), in which he is the strongest boss aside from the Living Armor in Niflheim, the underworld. Since the Devil's Arms are activated by defeating Abyssion, this greatly increases the difficulty of fighting him (as compared to other bosses, e.g. Mithos or Maxwell)
[edit] Trivia
- In the PS2 version of Tales of Symphonia, Abyssion is immune to All-Divides.
- The copied Artes and Spells were probably additional effects from the absorption of the Devil's Arm weapons that represents each of the party members.
