Poison is a status in Final Fantasy VI that makes the afflicted take increasingly steep Poison-elemental damage up to a point passively, both in battle and when moving on the field. Afflicted party members have purple skin on their battle sprite, emitting green bubbles in battle. Outside of battle, a flask containing green liquid is shown in the menu. Immunity to poison element also makes one immune to poison status.
Mechanics[]
The afflicted will periodically be hit with poison-elemental damage. The amount inflicted starts out relatively low, but has a multiplier that increments each time the damage occurs, up to a maximum of 8 times the base value. The amount has some random variation. The higher the affected's stamina stat is, the more damage from poison, as does a higher max HP, up to a point (damage before variation and multiplier is capped at 255). Attackers have a 25% penalty to hit rate versus those affected. Outside of battle, the poisoned character(s) will lose 1/32 of their max HP with each step, but will only go down to 1 HP. The poisoned character does not lose HP when walking on stairs.
Because damage from poison is also poison-elemental, it is affected by resistance (halves), absorption (absorbs), immunity (negates), or weakness (increases). Immunity to the poison element additionally confers immunity to poison status, rather than simply negating the damage, with two minor caveats. First, equipping a status immunity item when out of combat normally cures the affected status if afflicted with it, but equipping something with poison trait immunity will not immediately cure poison status. However, the status will be removed upon entering combat. Second, equipping a poison-elemental immunity item, such as the Paladin's Shield, during battle while afflicted with the poison status will not remove it, but will cause poison to deal zero damage.
The damage done by poison is calculated as follows:
- (if this value is greater than 255, it is set to 255)
Abilities[]
Ability | Bioblaster (Tools), Bio Blast (Magitek), Poisonous Frog (Dance) |
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Spell | Bad Breath (Lore), Poison (Magic) |
Weapon | Poison Rod (can cast Poison spell), Venom Claws (can cast Poison spell) |
Enemy abilities[]
Ability | Description | Enemy |
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Bad Breath | Inflicts Darkness, Poison, Sap, Imp, Silence, and Confuse to one target. Can be learned as a Lore. | Malboro, Great Malboro, Dark Force, Malboro Menace |
Diabolic Whistle | Randomly inflicts Blind, Poison, Imp, Doom, Berserk, Confuse, Sap, and Slow to the party. | Glutturn (X-Ether), Pandora, Phantom Train, Malboro Menace |
Featherdust | Inflicts Poison to one target. | Venobennu, Aepyornis |
Feeler | Inflicts Poison to one target. | Crawler |
Imp Goo | Inflicts Poison to one target. | Typhon |
Mind Blast | Inflicts Darkness, Zombie, Poison, Imp, Petrify, Doom, Silence, Berserk, Confuse, Sap, Sleep, Slow, or Stop on four random targets. | Ultima Weapon, Kaiser Dragon, Omega Weapon |
Poison | Inflicts Poison-elemental damage and Poison to one target. | Hidon, Kefka, Level 50 Magic, Level 80 Magic, Magic, Tentacle, Tunnel Armor |
Poison Barb | Inflicts Poison to one target. | Cartagra |
Poison Claw | Inflicts Poison to one target. | Erebus (Bottom Right) |
Poison Kiss | Inflicts Poison to one target. | Still Life |
Poison Seed | Inflicts Poison to one target. | Rafflesia |
Poison Strike | Inflicts Poison to one target. | Destroyer |
Poison Tail | Inflicts Poison to one target. | Land Ray |
Poison Touch | Inflicts Poison to one target. | Trillium, Paraladia |
Rabies | Inflicts Poison to one target. | Bloodfang |
Remedy | Removes Darkness, Poison, Imp, Petrify, Silence, and Sap from one target. | Magic Urn |
Tentacle | Inflicts Poison to one target. | Seaflower |
Venom Claw | Inflicts Poison to one target. | Deathgaze |
Venom Claw | Inflicts Poison to one target. | Weredragon |
Venom Tusk | Inflicts Poison to one target. | Daedalus |
Venomist | Inflicts Poison-elemental damage and Poison to the party. | Daedalus, Exoray, Hidon, Kaiser Dragon, Weredragon |
Protection[]
Armor | Chocobo Suit, Moogle Suit, Tabby Suit |
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Relic | Amulet, Fairy Ring, Ribbon, Star Pendant |
Healing[]
Ability | Chakra (Blitz), Healing Forest (Dance), Mysidian Rabbit (Slot), Raccoon (Dance), Soul Spiral (Blitz), Tapir (Dance), Transfusion (Lore) |
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Item | Antidote, Remedy, Sleeping Bag, Tent |
Spell | Esuna, Poisona |
Summons | Unicorn (Healing Horn) |
Staying at an inn or using a healing spring also restores the party's status.
Enemies[]
The following are immune to poison:
- Abaddon
- Alluring Rider
- Amduscias
- Angel Whisper
- Armodullahan
- Armored Weapon
- Aspidochelon
- Baalzephon
- Behemoth
- Belzecue
- Birthday Suit
- Black Dragon
- Bomb
- Borghese
- Brainpan
- Briareus
- Cactuar
- Cadet
- Chaser
- Chimera
- Cloudwraith
- Coco
- Crawler
- Daedalus
- Darkside
- Death Machine
- Death Rider
- Death Warden
- Delta Beetle
- Dropper
- Duel Armor
- Enuo
- Eukaryote
- Figaro Lizard
- Flan
- Fortis
- Fossil Dragon
- Gamma
- Garm
- Ghost
- Gigantoad
- Gloomwind
- Glutturn
- Heavy Armor
- Humpty
- Illuyankas
- Imperial Elite
- InnoSent
- Io
- Junk
- Leap Frog
- Level 50 Magic
- Level 60 Magic
- Level 70 Magic
- Lich
- Litwor Chicken
- Living Dead
- Lunatys
- Magic Dragon
- Magic Urn
- Magna Roader (Yellow)
- Mahadeva
- Mandrake
- Medusa Chicken
- Mega Armor
- Merchant
- Metal Hitman
- Misfit
- Moonform
- Mousse
- Mugbear
- Muud Suud
- Necromancer
- Nightwalker
- Oceanus
- Onion Dasher
- Onion Knight
- Opinicus Fish
- Outcast
- Outsider
- Oversoul
- Pandora
- Parasite
- Peeper
- Pluto Armor
- Poplium
- Prometheus
- Proto Armor
- Provoker
- Psychos
- Rafflesia
- Satellite
- Schmidt
- Seaflower
- Sergeant
- Skeletal Horror
- Sky Armor
- Specter
- Spitfire
- Sprinter
- Spritzer
- Still Life
- Trapper
- Tumbleweed
- Twinscythe
- Tyrannosaur
- Vampire Thorn
- Vector Lythos
- Veil Dancer
- Vilia
- Wartpuck
- Zaghrem
- Zombie Dragon
- Zone Eater
- Zurvan
The following automatically have poison applied to them:
Bosses are immune to poison except the following:
- Angler Whelk
- Blue Dragon
- Crane (Right)
- Earth Dragon (Opera House)
- Erebus (Bottom Center & Bottom Left & Bottom Right)
- Gargantua
- Gold Dragon
- Hell's Rider
- Ice Dragon (Narshe)
- Laser Gun
- Magic
- Malboro Menace
- Master Tonberry
- Plague
- Red Dragon (Phoenix Cave)
- Samurai Soul
- Siegfried (Colosseum)
- Tentacle (Lower Right & Lower Left)
- Tiger