Poison (Final Fantasy VIII status)

Poison is a status in Final Fantasy VIII. When an afflicted combatant takes an action, they take damage equal to 5 to 7% of their maximum HP. The damage is non-elemental, thus even if the player junctions the afflicted to absorb Poison damage, they still take damage. The effect remains indefinitely until healed, even outside of battle. The afflicted has green bubbles above their head. Poison status is effectively the opposite of Regen in many ways, but the two are not mutually exclusive.

Abilities[]

Limit Break	Acid (Blue Magic), Bad Breath (Blue Magic), Dark Shot (Shot)
Spell	Bio, Pain (Magic, Slot, Angel Wing)
Summon	Doomtrain

ST-Atk-J[]

Spell	Rating	Status Effects
Bio	100%	Poison
Pain	100%	Poison, Darkness, Silence

Enemy abilities[]

Ability	Description	Enemy
Bad Breath	Inflicts Darkness, Confuse, Berserk, Poison, Sleep, Silence, Curse, Petrifying, and Slow on the party. Can be learned as a Blue Magic.	Malboro
Bio	Inflicts Poison-elemental magic damage and Poison to one target. Can be used by the player via Magic.	Blue Dragon, Funguar, Left Orb, Torama, Ultimecia (1st)
Gastric Juice	Inflicts non-elemental damage and Poison to one target.	Grat
Needle	Inflicts non-elemental physical damage and Poison to one target.	Bite Bug
Pain	Inflicts Poison, Darkness, and Silence to one target. Can be used by the player via Magic.	Elnoyle, Fujin (2nd), Griever
Poison Gas	Inflicts non-elemental magic damage and Poison/Confuse to one target.	Tri-Face
Poison Mist	Inflicts non-elemental magic damage and Poison to the party. Only used at 50% or less HP.	Anacondaur
Stare	Inflicts non-elemental magic damage as well as Poison, Confuse, Darkness, and Silence to one target.	Vysage
Tentacle	Inflicts non-elemental physical damage and Poison to one target.	Ochu

Protection[]

Support ability	Ribbon
Status	Invincible

ST-Def-J[]

Spell	Rating	Status Effects
Esuna	20%	Poison, Petrify, Petrifying, Darkness, Silence, Berserk, Sleep, Slow, Stop, Curse, Confuse
Reflect	25%	Poison, Petrify, Petrifying, Darkness, Silence, Berserk, Sleep, Slow, Stop, Confuse
Holy	40%	Death, Poison, Berserk, Zombie, Sleep, Curse, Confuse, Drain
Pain	100%	Poison, Darkness, Silence, Curse
Bio	100%	Poison

Healing[]

Ability	Treatment
Item	Antidote, Cottage, Elixir, Megalixir, Remedy, Remedy+, Tent
Limit Break	Full-cure
Mechanics	Death, Petrify, Sleeping at a lodging (such as a hotel)
Spell	Esuna

Enemies[]

20%	Abyss Worm, Armadodo, Base Soldier, Belhelmel, Bite Bug, Blitz, Blobra, Bomb, Buel, Caterchipillar, Death Claw, Esthar Soldier, Fastitocalon, Fastitocalon-F, Funguar, G-Soldier, Gayla, Geezard, Gesper, Glacial Eye, Grand Mantis, Guard, Jelleye, Lefty, Mesmerize, Red Bat, Righty, SAM08G, Slapper, T-Rexaur, Thrustaevis, Turtapod, Vysage, Wendigo, Biggs (D-District Prison), Propagator, Rinoa, Sorceress (A), Sorceress (B), Wedge (D-District Prison)
40%	Elite Soldier
50%	Grat, Oilboyle
60%	Behemoth, Raldo
70%	Elnoyle
Immune	Adamantoise, Anacondaur, Base Leader, Blood Soul, Blue Dragon, Chimera, Cockatrice, Creeps, Esthar Soldier (Terminator), Elastoid, Forbidden, GIM47N, Grendel, Hexadragon, Imp, Iron Giant, Malboro, Ochu, PuPu, Ruby Dragon, Snow Lion, Tonberry, Torama, Tri-Face, UFO?, All bosses except Biggs (D-District Prison), Propagator, Rinoa, Sorceress (A), Sorceress (B), Wedge (D-District Prison)

Use[]

Poison can be used offensively to deal some damage whenever the afflicted acts in battle, but the damage is fairly minor and most bosses are immune. It can be good bonus when using abilities that inflict multiple ailments at once, such as ailment-inducing Limit Breaks and even Pain, but enemies that are vulnerable to statuses are best inflicted with ailments that disable them or instantly defeat them.