Petrification is a status in Final Fantasy X-2 that turns the target to gray stone and immobilizes them. The character will shatter if physically attacked and is removed from the fight. Petrification does not wear off after battle. Petrification is a lose condition, i.e. if all of the player's party members get petrified, it will result in Game Over. It can be considered a more dangerous lose condition than Death as if a character is shattered, they cannot be revived in that same battle. Likewise, if a character fighting Chac is using a special dressphere and she is hit with Chac's unblockable Stony Glare attack, a Game Over will also occur. The special dressphere's supporting components will also simultaneously receive the Petrification status.
Any enemy that receives Petrification will be instantly removed from battle. If four enemies are petrified at once (e.g. with a Petrify Grenade), only up to three petrified enemies will explode at a time with the fourth one exploding shortly after. As with Final Fantasy X, any aerial enemies that get petrified will instantly fall to the ground before shattering.
Abilities[]
| Ability | Ash Floralysis (Floral Fallal), Cait Blizzard & Cait Fire & Cait Thunder & Cait Water (Rikku's Mascot), Magic Reels (Lady Luck), Petro Mask (Paine's Festivalist), Rock Wing (Full Throttle), Stone Breath (Gun Mage), Stone Flurry (Paine's Trainer), Stone Knife (Paine's Mascot) |
|---|---|
| Accessory | Stone Shock (Gives Stonetouch) |
| Garment Grid | Disaster in Bloom (all gates), Mortal Coil (yellow gate) |
| Item | Petrify Grenade |
| Spell | Break (Dark Knight) |
| Support ability | Stonetouch |
Enemy abilities[]
| Ability | Description | Enemy |
|---|---|---|
| Break | Inflicts Petrification to one target. | Aka Manah, Duo, Left Bulwark, Right Redoubt, Seymour (Fiend Arena), Ultima Weapon, Vegnagun (leg) |
| Breath of the Gorgon | Inflicts damage equal to 50% of remaining HP and Petrification to the party. | Adamantoise (Oversoul), Adamantortoise (Oversoul) |
| Karma | Inflicts damage equal to 50% of remaining HP/MP as well as Petrification, Confusion (always), and Poison to one target. | Mega Tonberry |
| Pernicious Powder | Inflicts Petrification, 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 |
| Petrify Grenade | Inflicts non-elemental damage and Petrification to the party. | Yaibal (Fiend Arena) |
| Russian Roulette | Inflicts non-elemental damage and either inflicts Death, Eject, Petrification, Silence, Curse, or Poison. | Logos (Chateau Leblanc) |
| Stone Breath | Inflicts Petrification to all party members in a 120 degree angle in front of the user. | Dolmen, Epitaph, Monolith, Tomb |
| Stone Fang | Inflicts non-elemental damage and Petrification to one target. | Archaeothyris |
| Stony Glare | Inflicts non-elemental damage and Petrification to one target. Chac's version always inflicts Petrification regardless of immunities. | Chac, Gucumatz, Kukulcan |
Protection[]
| Accessory | Gold Anklet, Ribbon, Safety Bit, Shmooth Shailing |
|---|---|
| Garment Grid | Abominable (green gate/all gates for YRP; equip for captured creatures), Mortal Coil (red gate) |
| Support ability | Life Preserver, Ribbon, Stoneproof, Super Ribbon, Ailment Def. |
Healing[]
| Ability | Final Elixir (Alchemist), Moogle Cure & Moogle Cureja (Yuna's Mascot), Panacea (Alchemist), Remedy (Alchemist; Mix), Remedy (Alchemist; Stash), Ultra Cure (Alchemist) |
|---|---|
| Item | Remedy, Soft |
| Spell | Esuna (White Mage) |
Enemies[]
Machina, stone enemies, undead, and elementals are immune to Petrification. Almost all bosses are immune to petrification, with the exceptions being the early game bosses, Boris, Leblanc, Logos, and Ormi in Luca.
The following normal enemies are immune to Petrification:
- Adamantoise
- Adamantortoise
- Aeshma
- Aka Manah
- Amorphous Gel
- Aranea
- Assault Machina
- Big Bully Cap
- Blue Elemental
- Bully Cap
- Cactuar
- Chocobo
- Claret Dragon
- Coeurl
- Crimson Shadow
- Daeva
- Dark Elemental
- Deep Haizhe
- Dinictus
- Dolmen
- Drowsy Ochu
- Earth Worm
- Elder Drake
- Epitaph
- Flailing Ochu
- Flak Python
- Flan Azabache
- Gemini
- Gold Elemental
- Great Haunt
- Great Malboro
- Guard Machina
- Gucumatz
- Haizhe
- Haunt
- Heavy Sallet
- Iron Giant
- Ironside
- Jahi
- Killer Machina
- King Takouba
- Kukulcan
- Lacerta
- Lich
- Machina Hunter
- Machina Leader
- Machina Ranger
- Machina Soldier
- Machina Striker
- Malboro
- Mega Tonberry
- Monolith
- Mushroom Cloud
- Ochu
- Omega Weapon
- Pairika
- Phantom
- Pop Fry
- Protean Gel
- Queen Coeurl
- Recoil
- Red Elemental
- Rukh
- Sand Worm
- Scout Machina
- Shantak
- Shell Shocker
- Taromaiti
- Tentacles
- Tomb
- Tonberry
- Ultima Weapon
- Viper Sniper
- Wasp Queen
- Watcher-A
- Watcher-R
- Watcher-S
- White Elemental
- Wight
- Xiphactinus
- YAC-13
- YAC-62
- YAU-28
- YAU-71
- Yellow Elemental
- YSLS-99
- Zu
- Zurvan