Silence (Final Fantasy X-2 status)

Silence is a status ailment in Final Fantasy X-2 that disables White Magic, Black Magic, and Sing skillsets. For enemies, it also disables various of their abilities. Silenced party members do not speak during battle, or say their victory lines if the battle was ended silenced. Those affected by Silence have a speech bubble with an ellipsis above their head or body.

Abilities[]

Ability	Aqua Toxin (Alchemist), Blaster Mine (Alchemist), Brainstorm (Psychic), Dark Rain (Alchemist), Ghiki Gag (Rikku's Trainer), Hazardous Shell (Alchemist), Mute Wing (Full Throttle), Samba of Silence (Songstress), Silence Knife (Paine's Mascot), Silence Mask (Paine's Festivalist), Silence Shell (Machina Maw), Ultima Sandals (Yuna's Festivalist)
Accessory	Mute Shock (adds Silencetouch to Attack)
Garment Grid	Disaster in Bloom (red gate adds Silencetouch to Attack), Still of Night (red & green adds Silencetouch to Attack)
Item	Silence Grenade
Spell	Bad Breath (Gun Mage), Silence (equipment)
Support ability	Silencetouch

Enemy abilities[]

Ability	Description	Enemy
Bad Breath	Inflicts Poison, Darkness, Silence, Curse, and Slow to the party.	Malboro
Bite the Bullet	Inflicts non-elemental damage and Silence to one target.	Machina Striker, Pop Fry
Bloody Breath	Inflicts non-elemental damage as well as Poison, Darkness, Silence, and Confusion to the party.	Tawrich
Futile Resistance	Inflicts non-elemental damage as well as Silence, Confusion, Darkness, and Poison to one target.	Gigas (Oversoul)
Hush Grenade	Inflicts non-elemental damage and Silence to the party.	Elma (Chapter 5), Gippal, Leblanc (Final), Logos (Djose Highroad)
Mors Certa	Inflicts non-elemental damage as well as Silence, Poison, and Darkness to the party.	Vegnagun (head)
Mute	Inflicts non-elemental damage and Silence to one target.	Guard Machina
Pain	Inflicts 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 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
Quiet Meridian	Inflicts 100 HP and Silence to one target.	Cactuar (Oversoul)
Radular Grudge	Inflicts non-elemental damage as well as Poison, Silence, Darkness, and Confusion to one target.	Concherer (Oversoul)
Really Bad Breath	Inflicts Poison, Darkness, Silence, Confusion, Berserk, Slow, and Curse to the party.	Great Malboro
Russian Roulette	Inflicts non-elemental damage and either Death, Eject, Petrify, Silence, Curse, or Poison to one target.	Logos (Chateau Leblanc)
Silence	Inflicts Silence to one target.	Aka Manah, Baralai (Pyrefly Form), Blue Elemental, Daeva, Duo, King Takouba (Oversoul)
Silence Punch	Reduces HP by ⅛ Max HP and inflicts Silence to one target.	YSLS-99 (Oversoul), YSLS-Zero (Oversoul)
Silent Wing	Inflicts non-elemental damage and Silence to one target.	Peregrine (Oversoul)

Protection[]

Accessory	Beaded Brooch, Ribbon, Shmooth Shailing, White Cape
Garment Grid	Abominable (blue gate/all gates for Silenceproof/Ribbon), Scourgebane (red gate for Silenceproof), Still of Night (green gate for Silenceproof)
Support ability	Ribbon, Sense Preserver, Silenceproof, Super Ribbon, Ailment Def.

Healing[]

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

Enemies[]

Most bosses are immune to Silence, the exceptions being Auron, Boris, Chocobo Eater, and Leblanc in Luca. Machina, doomstones, phantoms, worms, hermits, and tonberries are immune to Silence. However, Silence may not have any effect on the afflicted enemy if they lack any magic attacks that Silence may disable.

The following normal enemies are immune to Silence: