Darkness (Final Fantasy X-2 status)

Darkness is a status in Final Fantasy X-2 that makes the afflicted's physical attacks more likely to miss. It does not wear off on its own. The player has various means of inflicting it, helping the player avoid physical damage. Visually, it appears as a black cloud on the affected character's head.

Abilities[]

Ability	Abaddon Flame (Alchemist), Blind Mask (Paine's Festivalist), Brimstone (Alchemist), Darkness Dance (Songstress), Ghiki Gouge (Rikku's Trainer), Kogoro Blaze (Yuna's Trainer), Silent White (Floral Fallal)
Garment Grid	Disaster in Bloom, Still of Night
Item	Dark Grenade
Spell	Bad Breath (Gun Mage), Blind (Blind Shock or the Still of Night Garment Grid)
Auto-ability	Darktouch

Enemy abilities[]

Ability	Description	Enemy
Bad Breath	Inflicts Poison, Darkness, Silence, Curse, and Slow to the party.	Malboro
Blackout	Inflicts non-elemental damage and Darkness to one target.	Scout Machina
Blind	Inflicts Darkness to one target.	Aka Manah, Daeva, Duo, Garik Ronso, King Takouba (Oversoul), Right Redoubt
Blinding Meridian	Inflicts 100 HP damage and Darkness to one target.	Cactuar (Oversoul)
Bloody Breath	Inflicts non-elemental damage as well as Poison, Darkness, Silence, and Confusion to the party.	Tawrich
Ebon Powder	Inflicts Darkness to the party.	Bully Cap
Flash Bomb	Inflicts non-elemental damage and Darkness to the party.	Elma (Chapter 5), Gippal, League Slasher, Leblanc (Final)
Flash Grenade	Inflicts non-elemental damage and Darkness to the party.	Logos (Djose Highroad)
Futile Resistance	Inflicts non-elemental damage as well as Silence, Confusion, Darkness, and Poison to one target.	Gigas (Oversoul)
Mors Certa	Inflicts non-elemental damage to the party as well as Silence, Poison, and Darkness.	Vegnagun (head)
Night Game	Inflicts non-elemental damage and Darkness to one target.	Machina Striker, Pop Fry
Pain	Inflict non-elemental damage as well as Silence, Darkness, Itchy and reducing Strength, Defense, Magic, Magic Defense, Accuracy, and Evasion by 1 level.	Anima
Pernicious Powder	Inflicts Petrify, Sleep, Darkness, Silence, Poison, Confusion, Itchy (always), Berserk, and Stop as well as reducing Magic and Strength levels by 10 (both always) on the party.	Mushroom Cloud
Poison Smog	Inflicts non-elemental damage as well as Darkness and Poison to the party.	Taromaiti
Radular Grudge	Inflicts non-elemental damage as well as Poison, Silence, Darkness, and Confusion.	Concherer (Oversoul)
Really Bad Breath	Inflicts Poison, Darkness, Silence, Confusion, Berserk, Slow, and Curse to the party.	Great Malboro
Scum Spray	Inflicts Water-elemental damage and Darkness to one target.	Sahagin (Oversoul)
Sludge Spray	Inflicts Water-elemental damage as well as Darkness and Poison to one target.	Sahagin Prince (Oversoul)
Triple Shock	Inflicts non-elemental damage as well as Poison, Darkness, and Sleep to one target.	Bahamut (Fiend Arena), Ebony Goon (Fiend Arena), Wasp Queen
Umbral Gaze	Inflicts non-elemental damage and Darkness to one target.	Ahriman

Protection[]

Accessory	Beaded Brooch, Ribbon, Shmooth Shailing, Silver Glasses
Garment Grid	Abominable, Scourgebane, Still of Night
Support abilities	Darkproof, Ribbon, Sense Preserver, Ailment Def.

Healing[]

Ability	Clean Slate (Samurai), Final Elixir (Alchemist), Moogle Cure & Moogle Cureja (Yuna's Mascot), Panacea (Alchemist), Remedy (Mix), Remedy (Stash), Twinkler (Festivalist), Ultra Cure (Alchemist)
Item	Eye Drops, Remedy
Spell	Esuna & Full-Cure (White Mage), White Wind (Gun Mage)

Enemies[]

Bosses are generally immune to Darkness, the exceptions being Baralai in Bevelle Underground, Boris, Flame Dragon, Garik Ronso, Guardian Beast, Leblanc, Logos, Ormi, Paine, Rikku, Ronso Youth, YSLS-Zero, and Zalamander.

Darkness often works on machina enemies that tend to be immune to other statuses. Darkness often works on magic-using enemies, like elementals, but will not have an effect in practice as magic accuracy will not be affected. Ghost-type enemies are immune to Darkness.

The following regular enemies are immune to Darkness: