Souleater



Souleater (ソウルイーター, Souru Ītā), also known as Soul Eater, Dark Wave, Darkness, Darkside (暗黒剣, Ankokuken), or Shadow Blade, is an ability where a character sacrifices a small amount of HP to deliver a strong Dark-elemental attack on all enemies. It is usually associated with the Dark Knight Job.

Final Fantasy III
Souleater is a Job command exclusive to the Nintendo DS version of the Dark Knight. It damages all enemies at the cost of 20% of the user's max HP. This is part of the reason (the other being their weaponry) that Dark Knights are good against enemies which multiply. The damage formula for Souleater is as follows:


 * $$Damage Inflicted = Weapon Attack x 5 + JobLv x 10 + CurrentHP x 0.9$$

Final Fantasy IV
Dark Wave is used by Dark Knight Cecil. It hits all enemies at the cost of his HP. It did not appear as a command in the game's North American SNES version. However, during Cecil's encounter with his Dark Knight copy during his Paladin trial, the copy still uses this move. In the Nintendo DS version, Dark Knight Cecil still has Darkness, however, it now has a different function; when used, the character enters the Darkness status casting a dark aura for three turns on its user. While in this state, the character's attack power doubles, and all of the character's attacks are of the darkness element, but they will lose 10% of their max HP for a successful hit. Any character can learn Darkness as an ability, provided the player had stolen the augment off Odin.

The damage formula for Souleater in non-DS versions are as follows.


 * $$Damage = Attack Multiplier * Attack Power * 1/2$$
 * Damage = Damage + ((Damage * random(100,150)/100) % 256)
 * $$HP Loss = Current HP * 1/8$$

If the target is undead.


 * $$Damage = Damage * 1/4$$

Flan monsters are immune to the attack.

Final Fantasy IV: The After Years
Known as Darkness, it is an enemy ability used by the Dark Knight in the Final Tale, located in the Depths.

Crisis Core -Final Fantasy VII-
Zack can use Darkness by equipping the appropriate Materia. By sacrificing 12.5% of his HP, the player may damage all enemies within a certain radius around Zack. The ability costs no AP to use.

Final Fantasy VIII
The Guardian Forces Diablos and Eden learn the Darkside Command ability. It is treated as though the user is using the Attack command, though damage will be tripled and the user will take damage equal to 1/10th of their max HP.

Final Fantasy IX
Steiner can use Darkside. It deals Shadow-elemental damage 1.4 times as strong as a normal attack, in exchange for 12.5% of Steiner's HP. Darkside will ignore Mini status if Steiner is afflicted, and also ignores the target's Protect status. The formula for Darkside is as follows:


 * $$Base  = [(Atk Pwr * 14) / 10] - Target's Defence$$
 * $$Bonus = Str ... [(Lv + Str) / 8] + Str$$
 * $$Damage = Base * Bonus$$

Final Fantasy X-2
Available to Dark Knights as a Job command called Darkness, the command takes at least 300 HP from the user to damage all enemies. Darkness is a non-elemental attack. A glitch exists that if the user were to equip the Ragnarok accessory, or make it so that spells cost 0 MP, Darkness will take no HP to use as well.

Final Fantasy XI
The Dark Knight Job class can use Soul Eater. It adds 10% of the player's HP to their next physical attack, making multi-hit weapon skills and certain weapons very formidable when used with Souleater.

Final Fantasy XII
The Souleater Technick is purchasable for 35 LP on the License Board. It can be bought in Rabanastre and Nalbina Fortress for 6,400 gil. In the Zodiac Job System version, the Technick is available for the White Mage, Red Mage, Knight, Monk, Mononofu, and Uhlan Job classes, although the White Mage and Mononofu must obtain the Esper Adrammelech, and Monk must obtain the Esper Exodus license first.

Final Fantasy XII: Revenant Wings
Souleater is learned by Ba'Gamnan at level 24 and consumes 25% of his HP.

Final Fantasy Tactics: The War of the Lions
Dark Knights have Darkness as a Job command. Its techniques vary from the traditional usage of inflicting massive damage at the cost of the user's HP to draining abilities which saps a foe's HP and MP to replenish one's own. The latter allows the unit to sustain its assault with the former.

Final Fantasy Tactics A2: Grimoire of the Rift
The Lanista class, exclusive to Seeq, have Souleater as an ability. It consumes 10% of the user's max HP to inflict Dark-elemental damage. Unfortunately, unless the enemy the character is using it on is weak to the Dark element, it is usually either of equal strength, or weaker then a standard attack.

Final Fantasy Crystal Chronicles
Shadow Blade is the Focus attack of the sword Ragnarok. The user rushes towards the enemy delivering a powerful slash that releases a dark crimson burst of energy on impact, delivering heavy damage at the cost of half of one of the users Hearts.

Final Fantasy Crystal Chronicles: My Life as a King
Shadow Blade is a level 20 Sword Skill, which caps at level 100. It allows the user to deal additional damage at the cost of sacrificing HP, and can only be used once per day.

Final Fantasy: The 4 Heroes of Light
When one of the heroes uses Dark Fencer Crown, they are able to use Darkside, as well as enhanced variations of this skill, which can attack one or multiple enemies but sacrifices HP in the process.

Dissidia Final Fantasy
Soul Eater is an HP attack available to Cecil and Bartz. When performed, Cecil or Bartz stabs forward with their sword, then slam an orb of dark energy into the opponent. Cecil's Brave attack, Dark Cannon, resembles the Dark Wave attack from Final Fantasy IV, in which Cecil charges and fires a swarm of dark energy orbs forward that swirl back towards him, knocking opponents closer. Also, if the player does not perfect Cecil's EX Burst, he will instead use Darkness, which closely resembles Dark Wave.