Dance (Final Fantasy VI)

Once selected, these commands are used continuously until the end of battle.

Dance and Rage, Adventuring School

Dance is Mog's special ability in Final Fantasy VI, where he learns different dances by battling on the terrains of different battlefields. When a Dance is selected, Mog will from then on randomly perform one of its four possibile abilities for the duration of the battle.

The Dance command resembles the Final Fantasy V Gaia battle command with characteristics in common with the Dance commands from the same title. Each Dance has a 1 in 16 chance of summoning an animal that resembles the Final Fantasy V Ranger's Animals command.

Mechanics[]

When Mog selects a Dance, he will randomly perform one of four abilities. The odds that he will perform a certain ability are not equal. When Mog dances, control over him is lost for the remainder of the battle, or until Mog is KO'd or petrified. Each Dance is associated with a terrain, or set of backgrounds. If the Dance performed is of a terrain different from the current terrain the party is fighting on, there is a 50% chance the Dance will succeed and the terrain will change to that of the Dance, or Mog will "stumble" and waste his turn.

Mog learns new Dances by fighting on different backgrounds. If Mog wins a battle that currently has a background he does not know the Dance of, he will learn it. Mog will not learn a Dance if the unknown background changes due to performing a known Dance during the battle. For example, successfully dancing Earth Blues in a desert will change the desert to a mountain, but because the terrain has been changed, Mog will not learn Desert Lullaby at the end of the battle.

Except in the Pixel Remaster, counterattacks with Black Belt do not activate mid-Dance.

Gogo may also use the Dance command, but cannot learn new Dances. Gogo only knows the current Dances that Mog knows.

The chances of using a particular ability from a Dance varies. Below is a chart of the Dances, abilities, and chances of using said ability.

Dances[]

Abilities are listed in their order of frequency.

Name	Learn	Description	Abilities
Wind Rhapsody (Wind Song)	See here	Calls upon the power of the wind to attack enemies and heal allies.	Wind Slash - 7 in 16 Sunbath - 6 in 16 Plasma - 2 in 16 Cockatrice - 1 in 16
Forest Nocturne (Forest Suite)	See here	Calls upon the power of the forest to attack enemies and cure allies' status ailments.	Leaf Swirl - 7 in 16 Forest Healing - 6 in 16 Will o' the Wisp - 2 in 16 Wombat - 1 in 16
Desert Lullaby (Desert Aria)	See here	Calls upon the power of the desert to attack enemies and cast Hastega on allies.	Sandstorm - 7 in 16 Antlion - 6 in 16 Wind Slash - 2 in 16 Meerkat - 1 in 16
Love Serenade (Love Sonata)	See here	Calls upon the power of love to attack enemies and cure allies' status ailments.	Will o' the Wisp - 7 in 16 Apparition - 6 in 16 Snare - 2 in 16 Tapir - 1 in 16
Earth Blues	See here	Calls upon the power of the earth to attack enemies and heal allies.	Rock Slide - 7 in 16 Sonic Boom - 6 in 16 Sunbath - 2 in 16 Boar Brigade - 1 in 16
Water Harmony (Water Rondo)	See here	Calls upon the power of the sea to heal allies and cure them of status ailments.	El Niño - 7 in 16 Plasma - 6 in 16 Apparition - 2 in 16 Raccoon - 1 in 16
Twilight Requiem (Dusk Requium)	See here	Calls upon the power of darkness to attack enemies.	Cave In - 7 in 16 Snare - 6 in 16 Will o' the Wisp - 2 in 16 Poisonous Frog - 1 in 16
Snowman Rondo (Snowman Jazz)	See here	Calls upon the power of winter to attack enmies and heal allies.	Snowball - 7 in 16 Avalanche - 6 in 16 Snare - 2 in 16 Arctic Hare - 1 in 16

Abilities[]

Each Dance has four effects: three of them are exclusive to that Dance, whereas the fourth one (which has a 2 in 16 chance of appearing) is taken from a different Dance. All Dance abilities are considered magical.

Name	Dances	Description
Wind Slash	Wind Rhapsody Desert Lullaby	Deals wind-elemental damage to all opponents. Its spell power is 48, it is unblockable and it ignores split damage.
Sunbath (Sun Bath)	Wind Rhapsody Earth Blues	Restores HP to all allies. Its spell power is 50.
Cockatrice (Cokatrice)	Wind Rhapsody	Deals non-elemental magic damage and inflicts petrify on one opponent. Its spell power is 50 and its Hit Rate is 96. It fails on targets immune to death.
Sandstorm	Desert Lullaby	Deals wind-elemental damage to all opponents. Its spell power is 45 and its Hit Rate is 100, ignores split damage.
Antlion	Desert Lullaby	Causes Death to one opponent. Its Hit Rate is 100 and will fail on targets immune to death.
Meerkat (Kitty)	Desert Lullaby	Casts haste on all allies.
Leaf Swirl (Rage)	Forest Nocturne	Deals non-elemental magic damage to all opponents. Its spell power is 50, it is unblockable, and it ignores split damage.
Forest Healing (Harvester)	Forest Nocturne	Recovers from darkness, poison, petrify, silence, confuse, sap, sleep, slow, and stop.
Wombat	Forest Nocturne	Deals non-elemental magic damage to one opponent. Its spell power is 88, it is unblockable and it ignores defense. It will not hit flying targets.
Rock Slide (Land Slide)	Earth Blues	Deals non-elemental magic damage to one opponent. Its spell power is 65, it is unblockable and it ignores defense.
Sonic Boom	Earth Blues	Reduces one enemy's HP by 5/8 of its max HP, inflicts sap and is unblockable, but fails on targets immune to Death.
Boar Brigade (Whump)	Earth Blues	Deals non-elemental magic damage to one opponent. Its spell power is 53, it is unblockable, and it ignores defense. It will not hit flying targets.
Will o' the Wisp (Elf Fire)	Love Serenade Forest Nocturne Twilight Requiem	Deals fire-elemental damage to one opponent. Its spell power is 72 and it is unblockable.
Apparition (Specter)	Love Serenade Water Harmony	Causes confuse on one opponent. Its Hit Rate is 120, and it fails on targets immune to confusion.
Tapir	Love Serenade	Recovers from darkness, zombie, poison, imp, petrify, doom, silence, berserk, confuse, sap, sleep, slow, and stop. Sleeping targets will have their HP and MP fully restored, even if the target is undead.
Cave In	Twilight Requiem	Reduces one target's HP by 3/4 of its current amount and causes sap. It is unblockable, but it will fail on targets immune to Death.
Snare	Twilight Requiem Love Serenade Snowman Rondo	Causes Death to one opponent. Its Hit Rate is 100, and it will fail on targets immune to Death. It works against the undead, and stalls final attacks for one turn.
Poisonous Frog (Pois. Frog)	Twilight Requiem	Deals poison-elemental damage and inflicts poison on one opponent. Its spell power is 56 and it is unblockable.
El Niño (El Nino)	Water Harmony	Deals water-elemental damage to all opponents. Its spell power is 61, it is unblockable, and it ignores split damage.
Plasma	Water Harmony Wind Rhapsody	Deals lightning-elemental damage to one opponent. Its spell power is 70 and it is unblockable.
Raccoon (Wild Bear)	Water Harmony	Restores HP to all allies and recovers from darkness, zombie, poison, petrify, doom, silence, berserk, confuse, sap, sleep, slow, stop, and frozen. Its spell power is 100.
Snowball	Snowman Rondo	Reduces a target's HP by 1/2. Its Hit Rate is 100, and it will fail on targets immune to Death.
Avalanche (Surge)	Snowman Rondo	Deals ice-elemental damage to all opponents. Its spell power is 55, it is unblockable, and it ignores split damage.
Arctic Hare (Ice Rabbit)	Snowman Rondo	Restore HP to allies. Its spell power is 45.

Battle backgrounds[]

Each set of backgrounds is assigned to a specific Dance. Mog learns a new Dance when he fights on a background from a particular set for the first time.

Name	Terrain	Location
Wind Rhapsody (Wind Song)		World of Balance World of Ruin Veldt Air Force Phantom Train Dragon's Neck Coliseum Thamasa Blackjack Falcon Kefka
Forest Nocturne (Forest Suite)		Forest Phantom Forest Phantom Train Bomb forest Dinosaur forest
Desert Lullaby (Desert Aria)		Desert Imperial Camp
Love Serenade (Love Sonata)		South Figaro Zozo Phantom Train Opera House Vector Imperial Observation Post Magitek Research Facility Burning Home Figaro Castle Ancient Castle Imperial Palace Owzer's Mansion Cultists' Tower Dreamscape Narshe Kefka's Tower Soul Shrine
Earth Blues		Mt. Kolts Esper Caves Mt. Zozo Floating Continent Kefka's Tower
Water Harmony (Water Rondo)		Lethe River Baren Falls Serpent Trench Leviathan (GBA/2014 version)
Twilight Requiem (Dusk Requium)		Narshe Mines South Figaro Cave Mt. Kolts Cave to the Sealed Gate Esper Caves Mt. Zozo Cave on the Veldt Phoenix Cave Yeti's Cave Ancient Castle Darill's Tomb Doma Castle Kefka's Tower Magitek Research Facility Statue of the Gods
Snowman Rondo (Snowman Jazz)		Narshe Cliffs (WoR)