Slow is a negative status in Final Fantasy VI. The afflicted's ATB bar fills up at half the normal speed, so turns come less often. It also slows time for effects like the poison status and causes effects that wear off on their own to do so more slowly. It has no effect on Terra's Trance gauge, however. Attackers will have a 25% bonus to hit rate against those affected. Slow and haste are mutually exclusive status effects: anything that sets slow automatically cancels haste and vice versa. Slow will affect the doom status, decreasing the countdown timer on the afflicted. Slow status is removed at the end of battle. Those affected have a white outline to their battle sprite.
Abilities[]
| Spell | Reflect ??? (Lore), Slow & Slowga (Magic) |
|---|
Enemy abilities[]
| Ability | Description | Enemy |
|---|---|---|
| Cling | Inflicts Slow to one target. | Poplium, Eukaryote, Spritzer |
| Diabolic Whistle | Inflicts Darkness, Poison, Imp, Doom, Berserk, Confuse, Sap, and Slow to the party. | Glutturn (X-Ether), Pandora, Phantom Train, Malboro Menace |
| Entangle | Inflicts Slow to one target. | Leviathan |
| Entwine | Inflicts Slow to the party. | Guardian, Tentacle |
| Evil Eye | Inflicts Slow to one target. | Gargantua |
| Gunk | Inflicts Slow to one target. | Mousse |
| 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 |
| Reflect??? | Inflicts Darkness, Silence, and Slow to all targets with Reflect. | Dark Force, Dullahan, Kaiser Dragon, Zurvan, Daedalus |
| Slime | Inflicts Slow to one target. | Enuo, Ymir |
| Slow | Inflicts Slow to one target. | Blue Dragon, Curlax, Level 10 Magic, Level 50 Magic, Abaddon |
| Slowga | Inflicts Slow to the party. | Level 60 Magic, Magic, Neslug |
| Sticky Goo | Inflicts Slow to one target. | Cruller, Flan, Gigantoad, Neslug |
| Stun | Inflicts Slow to one target. | Tentacle |
| Tongue Bath | Inflicts Slow to one target. | Neslug |
| Venom | Inflicts Slow to one target. | Figaro Lizard |
Protection[]
The player cannot protect against slow other than with Auto-Haste from Hermes Sandals.
Healing[]
| Ability | Forest Healing (Dance), Meerkat (Dance), Raccoon (Dance), Soul Spiral (Blitz), Tapir (Dance) |
|---|---|
| Spell | Dispel, Esuna, Haste, Hastega, Transfusion (Lore) |
| Summon | Unicorn |
Enemies[]
The following are immune to slow:
All bosses are immune to slow except the following:
- Abyss Worm
- Angler Whelk
- Behemoth King (Living)
- Bit
- Blue Dragon
- Chadarnook
- Dadaluma
- Demon
- Dullahan
- Earth Dragon (Opera House)
- Earth Eater
- Erebus (Bottom Center & Upper Right & Bottom Right)
- Fiend
- Flan Princess
- Gargantua
- Guard Leader
- Guardian
- Hell's Rider
- Hidon
- Holy Dragon (Fanatic's Tower)
- Ice Dragon (Narshe)
- Ifrit
- Inferno
- Ipooh
- Kefka
- Ketu
- Lady
- Laragorn
- Laser Gun
- Machine
- Magitek Armor
- Malboro Menace
- Missile Bay
- Number 128
- Plague
- Power
- Rahu
- Red Dragon (Phoenix Cave)
- Rest
- Rhizopas
- Shiva
- Short Arm
- Siegfried (Colosseum)
- Soul Saver
- Tentacle (Lower Right & Upper Right & Lower Left & Upper Left)
- Typhon
- Ultima Buster
- Ultima Weapon
- Ultros
- Vargas
- Yeti
- Ymir