Final Fantasy VI statuses

The following is a list of statuses from Final Fantasy VI.

Regular Statuses
There are 32 different status in the game while not counting the specialized ailments. The following statuses are place in the order found within the game's data. Note that some of these statuses are left intentionally blank within the data because they are specific statuses and they cannot be cured except for Freeze. These statuses are Magitek, Dance, Interceptor Guard, Hidden, Chanting, Trance, Freeze, and Normal. Notice that while initially fighting Ymir, the character(s) will never be listed as being under the effect of Slow because Magitek takes precedence.

KO
The KO'd character can't do anything, and it counts as dead for game over purposes, and he/she is a valid target only for items, skills, and spells that remove this status. If enough damage is done to a character and his/her HP drops to 0, they'll be KO'd. Certain monsters are also incapacitated if their MP reaches 0. It can be removed with Phoenix Down, Tent, Raise spell, Arise spell, and the Phoenix's Flames of Rebirth. Can be prevented by the Reraise status.

Petrify
The petrified character cannot act, his/her ATB bar stops, cannot dodge, and counts as dead for game over purposes. The Ultima Weapon still deals 1 damage thanks to its unusual damage modifiers. Petrified monsters inflicted by Petrify will die immediately.

The status can be remove with the Gold Needle, Remedy, Sleeping Bag, Tent, Esuna spell, Unicorn's Healing Horn, Sabin's Soul Spiral, Strago's Transfusion, and the Dance's Forest Healing from Forest Nocturne, Tarpir from Love Serenade, along with Raccoon from Water Harmony.

Imp
All abilities except Attack, Magic, Dualcast, Item, and Shock are disabled. All magic except for the Imp spell are also disabled. All weapons except for the Impartisan provide only 1 attack power, and all armor except the Tortoise Shield, Saucer, and Reed Cloak provide only 1 defense power. However, those four items give their listed power instead of their usual 1. Most monsters use 1 as their attack power under Imp status, but some instead retain full attack power and always get critical hits.

Monsters in Imp status get a uglier sprite with a coloration based on the monster's palette. It can be removed with Green Cherry, Remedy, Sleeping Bag, Tent, Imp spell, Sabin's Soul Spiral, Mog's Tapir from Love Serenade.

Invisible
A character with the Invisible status will always evade all physical attacks, even those that are unblockable, but they will never evade magic spells. Due to a bug, this status negates Instant Death protection, leading to the infamous Vanish/Doom exploit. This status also prevents the user from activating his/her Desperation Attack.

It can be removed with anything the game considers magic, Sleeping Bag, and Tent.

Magitek
The first command slot is replaced with the Magitek command. All other commands except Magic, Dualcast, and Item are disabled. Terra gets more Magitek abilities than the others characters. It's impossible to have only part of the party with this status without cheating, but if it happens, everyone is shown on a Magitek Armor, even those who doesn't actually have the status. Those without it set retain their usual battle commands. This status cannot be inflicted or removed by the player, but events do inflict and remove it for the player.

Poison
A character will periodically be hit with Poison-elemental damage. The amount inflicted starts out relatively low, but has a multiplier that increments each time the damage occurs, up to a maximum of 8 times the base value. The amount has some random variation. The higher the stamina stat is, the more damage from poison, as does a higher max HP, up to a point (damage before variation and multiplier is capped at 255). Attackers have a 25% penalty to the hit rate versus those affected. Outside of battle, the poisoned character(s) will lose 1/32 of their max HP with each step, but will only go down to 1 HP.

The status can be removed with Antidote, Remedy, Sleeping Bag, Tent, Poisona spell, Esuna spell, Unicorn's Healing Horn, Sabin's Chakra and Soul Spiral, Mog's Forest Healing from Forest Nocturne, Tapir from Love Serenade, and Raccoon from Water Harmony, Stragos's Transfusion, Setzer's Mysidia Rabbit from Slots.

Because damage from Poison has the Poison trait, it is affected accordingly by resistance (Halves), absorption (Absorbs), immunity (Negates), or weakness (Increases). Immunity to the Poison-element additionally confers immunity to Poison status, rather than simply negating the damage, with two minor caveats. First, equipping a status immunity item when out of combat normally cures the affected status if afflicted with it, but equipping something with Poison trait immunity won't immediately cure Poison status. However, the status will be removed upon entering combat. Second, equipping a Poison-elemental immunity item such as the Hero's Shield during battle while afflicted with Poison status won't remove the status, but will cause it to deal zero damage.

Zombie
A character inflicted by Zombie will become uncontrollable, and counts as dead for Game Over purposes. The character will keep attacking even if HP is displayed as 0. May attack either enemies or allies, and has a 1/16 chance each of inflicting Blind or Poison on hit. Attackers have a 25% bonus to hit rate against those affected. This status also prevents the user from activating their Desperation Attacks. Getting inflicted by Zombie status removes Blind, Poison, Critical, Berserk, Confuse, and Sleep, regardless of the target is immune to any of these. Zombified monsters will die immediately.

It can be removed with Holy Water, Sleeping Bag, Tent, Sabin's Soul Spiral, Mog's Tapir from Love Serenade and Raccoon from Water Harmony, Strago's Transfusion.

Darkness
A character inflicted by Darkness will halving the affected's hit rate and giving attacks vs. the affected a 25% bonus to hit. This status also prevents Strago from learning Lore spells.

It can be removed with: Eyedrops, Remedy, Sleeping Bag, Tent, Esuna spell, Unicorn's Healing Horn, Sabin's Soul Spiral and Chakra, Mog's Forest Healing from Forest Nocturne, Tapir from Love Serenade, and Raccoon from Water Harmony, Strago's Transfusion, and Setzer's Mysidia Rabbit from Slots.

Sleep
The affected character(s) can't take any action or evade attacks, the character's ATB bar stops. It can be removed with any physical damage that hits the afflicted, Esuna spell, Unicorn's Healing Horn, Sabin's Soul Spiral, Strago's Transfusion, Setzer's Mysidia Rabbit from Slots, Mog's Forest Healing from Forest Nocturne, Tapir from Love Serenade, and Raccoon from Water Harmony. Additionally, if Sleep lasts long enough, a tapir will automatically appear and remove the status. The status is also removed at the end of battle.

Sap
A character will periodically take damage. This status inflicts damage more often than the Poison status, but the damage is non-elemental and doesn't increase over a period of time. The amount has some random variation. The higher stamina will increase damage taken, as will higher max HP, to a point (damage before variation is capped at 255). Attackers have a 25% penalty to hit rate against those affected.

It can be removed with Remedy, Poisona spell, Esuna spell, Unicorn's Healing Horn, Sabin's Chakra and Soul Spiral, Strago's Transfusion, Mog's Forest Healing from Forest Nocturne, Tapir from Love Serenade, and Raccoon from Water Harmony. The status is also removed at the end of battle.

Confuse
The affected acts at random with inverted targeting were he/she will attack allies and heal enemies. Confused characters will never use Item, Revert, Throw, Control, Slots, Leap, Defend, Summon, or Possess. Any commands entered but not yet executed before the status occured will continue normally, but with reversed targeting. Confused monsters use the command list that appears when Relm Controls them, which frequently includes abilities not in their normal battle script. Attackers will have a 25% bonus to hit rate against those affected. This status also prevents the user from activating his/her Desperation Attack.

It can be removed with any physical attack that hits the afflicted, Esuna spell, Unicorn's Healing Horn, Sabin's Soul Spiral, Strago's Transfusion, Mog's Forest Healing from Forest Nocturne, Tapir from Love Serenade, and Raccoon from Water Harmony. The status is also removed at the end of battle.

Berserk
A character affected with Berserk will attack enemies uncontrollably with a physical damage bonus of +50%. Affected enemies will always use normal physical attacks. Affected character(s) may use Attack or any of the following commands if available: Attack, Mug, Jump, Rage, or Magitek. Note that Attack appears twice; the first is always available, instance were it allows the character(s) without the command to use it, and increases the odds for everyone else. Adding Berserk status to the Rage status does not seem to affect the behavior as the character will continue to use whatever abilities the Rage makes available, but still provides the damage bonus. Adding Berserk status to the Dance status appears to have no effect at all. Any commands entered, but has yet to be executed before the status is inflicted will continue normally, with the damage bonus taking effect if applicable.

It can be removed with Dispel spell, Sabin's Soul Spiral, Strago's Transfusion, Mog's Tapir from Love Serenade and Raccoon from Water Harmony. The status is also removed at the end of battle.

Silence
A character inflicted by Magic, Dualcast, or Lore. It can be removed with Echo Herbs, Remedy, Esuna spell, Unicorn's Healing Horn, Sabin's Chakra and Soul Spiral, Strago's Transfusion, Mog's Forest Healing from Forest Nocturne, Tapir from Love Serenade, and Raccoon from Water Harmony. The status is also removed at the end of battle.

Image
A character with Image status will automatically evade physical attack, but each evade has a 25% chance of removing the status. However, a character will not evade while also under sleep, Petrify, Freeze, or Stop status. When attacked from the back, or when the attack is unblockable, but hits taken in these cases will never cancel the status either. This status also prevents the user from activating his/her Desperation Attack.

It can be removed with Dispel spell, randomly removed after evading. The status is also removed at the end of battle.

Critical
The Critical status can triggers some equipment special effects and gives a small chance of using the character's Desperation Attack instead of attacking with his/her equipped weapon when using the Attack command. Attackers will have a 25% penalty to hit rate against those affected.

Doom
The Doom status will inflicts KO when the timer runs out, so the status is harmless until the timer runs out. It can be removed with Sabin's Soul Spiral, Strago's Transfusion, Mog's Tapir from Love Serenade and Raccoon from Water Harmony. The status is also removed at the end of battle.

Reflect
Reflect will mostly, but not all, reflect back magic at half strength without discriminating between Attack, Effect, and Healing spells. Once reflected, a spell cannot be reflected back again. Only targets with the Reflect status are affected by Strago's Reflect???.

It can be removed with Dispel spell. This status also eventually wears off on its own, and it is also removed at the end of battle.

Protect
A character with the Protect status will have physical damage reduced by approximately 1/3, except for defense-ignoring attacks. This status can be removed with Dispel spell, and it is also removed at the end of battle.

Shell
A character with the Shell status will have magical damage reduced by approximately 1/3, except for defense-ignoring attacks. This status can be removed with Dispel spell, and it is also removed at the end of battle.

Stop
A character affected by Stop will have his/her ATB bar stop, the character will not act or evade attacks. It also pauses the timer on most effects that wear off over time such as the Reflect status.

It can be removed with Esuna spell, Dispel spell, Unicorn's Healing Horn, Sabin's Soul Spiral, Strago's Transfusion, Mog's Forest Healing from Forest Nocturne, Tapir from Love Serenade, and Raccoon from Water Harmony. This status also eventually wears off on its own, and it is also removed at the end of battle.

Haste
The ATB bar fills up more quickly which is nearly 1/3 faster than usual, so turns come more often. It also speeds time for the effects like the Poison status and causes effects that wear off on their own to do so more quickly. Attackers will have a 25% penalty to hit rate against those affected. Note that Haste and Slow are mutually exclusive status effects. Anything that sets Haste automatically cancels Slow in the process, and vice versa.

It can be removed with Slow spell, Slowga spell, and Dispel spell. This status is removed at the end of battle.

Slow
The ATB bar fills up more slowly which is half the normal speed, so turns come less often. It also slows time for effects like the Poison status and causes effects that wear off on their own to do so more slowly. Attackers will have a 25% bonus to hit rate against those affected. Note that Slow and Haste are mutually exclusive status effects. Anything that sets Slow automatically cancels Haste in the process, and vice versa.

It can be removed with Esuna spell, Haste spell, Hastega spell, Dispel spell, Unicorn's Healing Horn, Sabin's Soul Spiral, Strago's Transfusion, Mog's Forest Healing from Forest Nocturne, Tapir from Love Serenade, Meerkat from Desert Lullaby, and Raccoon from Water Harmony. This status is removed at the end of battle.

Regen
A character with the Regen status will periodic recover a small amount of HP. The effect is the opposite of the Sap status. The amount has some random variation. The higher the stamina stat is, the more HP the character will be healed, as will higher max HP, to a point (healing before variation is capped at 255).

It can be removed with Dispel spell, and the status is removed at the end of battle.

Dance
The status is not named in-game except as a battle command. This is the state entered by using the Dance command successfully. A character will automatically uses a random ability from the current dance set every turn.

It can be removed with Petrify status, KO status, and the Imp status will replace the dances with normal attacks, but it won't remove the status.

Float
Characters with the Float status will be protected from Earth-elemental attacks which will miss automatically, but they will become vulnerability to Locke's Hawkeye and Sniper weapons will increased. Flying enemies normally have this status permanently set.

It can be removed with Sleeping Bag, Tent, and Dispel spell.

Interceptor Guard
This status is not named in-game. This is an internal flag normally found on Shadow, except on the Floating Continent. Interceptor will randomly blocks physical attacks, even attacks from behind which are normally unblockable, for the character, and occasionally will counterattacking with Takedown or Wild Fang. There is a 50% chance of each being picked.

Shadow starts with this status, and normally keeps it for the entire game except for the brief interruption Floating Continent. However, Rippler can swap it, even though it's not supposed to, so Shadow can lose Interceptor's assistance permanently. It's best to keep Shadow away from enemies that can use Rippler.

Hidden
This status is not named in-game, there are several actions that gives the Hidden status, which makes the target un-selectable and renders the target un-hittable by neither physical attacks nor magical attacks. The target becomes hidden from sight and cannot be manually targeted. This status occurs when a character is taken out of the action, such as the Jump command, the esper Quetzalli's Sonic Dive, running away, Sabin's Spiral Soul, Strago's Transfusion, Humbaba's Humbaba Breath, and the ejection skill Snort used by certain monsters.

When all the party members are ejected (or some ejected and the others KO'd), the battle is considered a draw. Neither EXP is awarded nor there is a Game Over. If this happens in the Dragon's Neck Coliseum, the player retains the wager.

This status is removed at the end of battle.

Chanting
This status is not named in the game, this is the state Relm or Gogo enters when Controlling an enemy with the Control command. If a character enters this status by any other means like Rippler, the game is likely to freeze when it tries to show the battle menu for that character, it's best to avoid that.

It can be removed when the controlled monster is killed or any successful physical attack on the controlled monster. This status removed at the end of battle.

Trance
This status is not named in-game except as a battle command. This is the state Terra enters when using her Trance command, and her normal sprite will change into that of her Esper form. This status adds a +100% bonus to physical and magical damage except for defense-ignoring attacks, and halves magic damage taken except defense-ignoring attacks.

The status can be removed with when the duration expires, Terra's chooses the Revert command, or at the end of battle.

Reraise
If the character with the Reraise status enters KO status, either through an Instant Death attack or when his/her HP reaches 0, this status automatically casts the Raise spell on the affected and removes the Reraise status afterwards. However, Sabin's Soul Spiral and Strago's Transfusion removes the user from battle and this status will not work on them. Attackers will have a 25% bonus to hit rate versus those affected.

The status can be removed with Dispel spell, or when they are KO'd. The status is removed at the end of battle.

Freeze
The status is not named in-game, and those afflicted by this status will have their ATB bar halted. The affected can't act or evade attacks. It can be removed with any Fire-elemental attack or spells even though this will still causes damage as usual, Sabin's Soul Spiral, Mog's Raccoon from Water Harmony. This status will also eventually wears off on its own, though it takes nearly twice as long as Stop or Sleep status. The status is removed at the end of battle.

Normal
The status is not named in-game, but characters that are not afflicted by any statuses listed above will have this status by default. This status is removed when a character is afflicted by any of the above statuses.

Specialized Statuses
These status are not handled like the others and are problematic to cure, if not outright impossible without simply ending the battle. There is no immunity for most of these status either. These statuses are not name within the game and their names usually comes from the ability or command that grants the status or from similar status effects found in other Final Fantasy games.

Rage
This status is not named in-game except as a battle command, this is the state entered by using the Rage command. A character will automatically either attack or uses the ability associated with the current Rage. This status can be removed with the Petrify status, KO status. The Imp status will force normal attacks, but it will not remove the status.

Charm
This status is not named in-game, and this is a special status effect caused only by the Entice skill. This works similar to the Confuse status, but it's more complicated in how it is applied, and more insidious in that it can't be cured or prevented unless the characters evades the attack.

A single caster may have only one charmed victim at a time and the skill fails automatically if a current victim still exists. A successful use of Entice by a different caster on the same target will leave the target charmed, but it now counts as the second caster's victim, allowing the first caster to successfully use Entice on a different target or the same one, which again resets the victim's link and frees the second caster to use Entice on someone else.

The Charm status can also exist alongside the Confuse status. In this case, actions are randomized as usual, but targeting is inverted twice, so the affected will attack enemies and heal allies.

The status will be removed at the end of battle, it can also be removed when the caster dies, or the afflicted character becomes KO'd. Other than blocking or dodging the Entice skill, it cannot be prevented. Not even the bosses are immune to it.

HP Leak
This status is not named in-game, it is however similar to Poison and Sap statuses. HP Leak cannot be cured, and it overrides any current Regen status set on the character(s) including those from inherent sources like the Angel Ring relic. It can only be caused by the attack called Poltergeist, an attack used by both Chadarnook (Goddess) and Death Rider.

Heat
This status is not named in-game, but act the same way as the status called Heat which appears in Final Fantasy IX. The Heat status can only be caused by Edgar's Air Anchor. It will kill the target afflicted by Heat after it took an action. This is the only item or ability in the game that can inflict Heat. To prevent the target from becoming KO'd by Heat, it's best to not take any action with the afflicted target. It should be noted that this status can be prevented by being immune to instant death.

Runic
This status is not named in-game except as a battle command, this is the status granted by using the Runic command. Celes and Gogo are the only characters who can gain this status.

Once the status is granted, it will absorb the first spell no matter who cast it as long as it is not a spell that ignores Runic. The spell will be absorbed by the user instead of doing what it was supposed to do, and gives the user its MP cost. Runic isn't permanent. Once a spell has been absorbed, the player will have to chose the Runic command again to apply the status. Once the user enters another command, the Runic status is lost. However, a KO'd user will not remove the Runic status. So if the user does Runic, gets KO'd, is then revived, and then a spell is cast they'll still absorb it.

The enemy Bit has a permanent Runic status on it. The reason its permanent on it is because it has no AI script and it will do nothing during battle, so there's no way for it to lose the status.

Grab
This status is not named in-game except as a enemy ability, Grab is a ability used by the Tentacles boss found in Figaro's Basement.

The affected character goes in the clutches of the enemy, who is slowly draining a small amount of HP from the victim at regular intervals. The caster can release the character on its own via the Release ability, can be forced to release when the character dies from the HP drain, or can be forced to by being KO'ed.

Invincible
This status is not named in-game and its an enemy exclusive status, this status is granted on the Guardian. This status reduces all damage to 0, making the afflicted immune to all physical and magical attacks. There are three instances where the Guardian will have the Invincible status.

Cover
This status is not named in-game, Overture is a ability used by Goddess, Glutturn (Yellow), Vilia, and Coco.

The affected will cover for the caster, much like they would for a Critical character when wearing the Knight's Code relic. This can be broken by taking out either the original caster or the affected character with KO, Zombie, Petrify, or making that character run away. It is also broken if Overture is used by the original caster again on another target and successfully afflict the status.

Golem
This status is not named in-game, the summon Golem places this status on every party members in the party during battle. After he has been summoned, his hand will protect the party and block any physical attack the enemy makes against the party. This status will last until Golem's HP has been depleted, his HP is equal to the caster's HP when summoned.