Death is a status in Final Fantasy X-2. It is the basic "defeat" status, which counts toward Game Over if all of the player's active party members are defeated. The other defeat status is Petrification and sometimes Eject. A unit in battle falls to Death status when their HP is reduced to 0, either by losing too much HP, or by being inflicted by an instant death ability. Battle units can protect against the latter; for the player, this means that there are auto-abilities and equipment that protect against instant death abilities.
Abilities[]
The following are the instant death attacks the player has access to.
| Ability | Arsenic Knife (Paine's Mascot), Attack Reels (Lady Luck; roll Shin-Zantetsu), Death Flurry (Paine's Trainer), Death Missile (Machina Maw), Death Petals (Floral Fallal), Deeth (Full Throttle), Shin-Zantetsu (Samurai), Zantetsu (Samurai) |
|---|---|
| Accessory | Mortal Shock |
| Garment Grid | Bitter Farewell (Use Death spell) |
| Item | Farplane Shadow |
| Spells | Death |
| Support abilities | Deathtouch |
Enemy abilities[]
| Ability | Description | Enemy |
|---|---|---|
| Chicken Wing Lv.3 | Inflicts damage equal to 3/4 of remaining HP in the original version, as well as Instant Death in the HD Remaster version, to the party. | Rukh (Oversoul), Shantak (Oversoul), Zu (Oversoul) |
| Death | Inflicts Death to one target. | Precepts Guard |
| Death Blaster | Inflicts damage equal to remaining HP - 1 and Death to one target. | Queen Coeurl |
| Gun Payback | Inflicts major non-elemental damage and Death to a Gunner, Gun Mage, or Alchemist. | Critical Bug (Oversoul) |
| Killer Fang | Inflicts non-elemental damage and Death to one target. | Killer Hound, Lupus, Tindalos, White Fang |
| Mage Payback | Inflicts massive damage to a White Mage or Black Mage and inflicts Death. | Critical Bug (Oversoul), Elder Drake (Oversoul) |
| Russian Roulette | Inflicts non-elemental damage and either inflicts Death, Eject, Petrify, Silence, Curse, or Poison to one target. | Logos (Chateau Leblanc) |
| Shin-Zantetsu | Inflicts Death to the party. | Auron (Fiend Arena), Bahamut (Fiend Arena), Haizhe (Oversoul - Fiend Arena), Lucil (Fiend Arena) |
| Sword Payback | Inflicts major non-elemental damage and Death to a Warrior, Dark Knight, or Samurai. | Critical Bug (Oversoul) |
Protection[]
The following methods protect against instant death abilities.
| Accessory | Angel Earrings, Safety Bit, Shmooth Shailing |
|---|---|
| Garment Grid | Abominable (green gate), Bitter Farewell (green gate) |
| Support ability | Deathproof, Life Preserver, Super Ribbon |
Auto-Life status can be used to counteract Death, to be instantly revived.
Healing[]
| Ability | All-Life (Floral Fallal), Fantasy Phoenix (Alchemist), Final Phoenix (Alchemist), Item Reels (Lady Luck, roll Megalixir+), Mega Phoenix (Mix), Mega Phoenix (Stash), Moogle Life & Moogle Lifeja (Yuna's Mascot), Phoenix Down (Stash) |
|---|---|
| Item | Mega Phoenix, Phoenix Down |
| Spell | Full-Life & Life (White Mage) |
Enemies[]
The Samurai's Zantetsu is considered a separate immunity from normal instant death, and may work on enemies that are otherwise immune to instant death.
Bosses are immune to instant death, though some may be susceptible to Zantetsu (though have high resistance against it).
Ghost- and machina-type enemies are immune to normal instant death but not against Zantetsu.
The following normal enemies are immune to instant death attacks. Often enemies resist Zantetsu but are not outright immune. Critical Bug is something of an anomaly in not resisting instant death, but resisting Zantetsu (though Zantetsu may still rarely work against it).
- Adamantoise
- Adamantortoise
- Aeshma
- Aka Manah
- Amorphous Gel
- Aranea
- Assault Machina
- Battlesnake
- Behemoth
- Cactuar[note 1]
- Cephalotus
- Chocobo
- Claret Dragon
- Crimson Shadow
- Daeva
- Dolmen
- Drowsy Ochu
- Earth Worm
- Elder Drake
- Epitaph
- Flailing Ochu
- Flak Python
- Flan Azabache
- Gemini
- Great Haunt
- Great Malboro
- Guard Machina
- Gucumatz
- Gug
- Haunt
- Heavy Sallet
- Ironside
- Jahi
- Killer Machina
- Kukulcan
- Lacerta
- Lich
- Machina Hunter
- Machina Leader
- Machina Ranger
- Machina Soldier
- Machina Striker
- Malboro
- Mega Tonberry (also highly resistant to Zantetsu)
- Monolith
- Mushroom Cloud
- Omega Weapon (also highly resistant to Zantetsu)
- Phantom
- Pop Fry
- Protean Gel
- Recoil
- Rhyos
- Rukh
- Sahagin Chief
- Sand Worm
- Scout Machina
- Shell Shocker
- Stalwart
- Taromaiti
- Tomb
- Tonberry
- Ultima Weapon (also highly resistant to Zantetsu)
- Viper Sniper
- Wasp Queen
- Watcher-A
- Watcher-R
- Watcher-S
- Wight
- YAC-13
- YAC-62
- YAU-28
- YAU-71
- YSLS-99
- ↑ Cactuar has a very high resistance to both Death and Zantetsu, making it effectively immune.