Final Fantasy V/Statuses

Statuses

This is a list of status effects found in Final Fantasy V. These are important in battle since you can use them partially or completely disable an enemy or help your own characters in various ways. Conversely, enemies may also use them in battle and you should try to remove them if they are serious enough. Generally, status effects can be classified as positive (buffs) or negative (debuffs or ailments), though there are a few, such as Berserk, which may be helpful or harmful depending on circumstances.

Silenced

• Effect: Unable to cast spells. Affects White, Black, Time, Sword, Summon, Song spells. Does not affect Blue, Dance, Terrain, Animal, or Monster spells.
• Caused by:
  • Silence (White spell)
  • Mage Slasher (Knife)
• Removed by:
  • Esuna (White spell)
• Grants immunity:
  • Poet Cap
  • Poet Robe
  • Ribbon (Headgear)
• Appears in Scan as "Silenced"
• Appears in Menu as "Silence"

Confuse

• Effect: Character attacks self or allies or casts helpful spells on enemies or allies. Some enemies cast spelld they ordinarily wouldn't.
• Caused by:
  • Confuse (White spell)
  • Tempting Tango (Dance)
• Removed by:
  • Esuna (White spell)
  • Physical attack
• Grants immunity:
  • Lamia's Tiara
  • Ribbon
• Appears in Scan as "Confused"
• Appears in Menu as "Muddle"

Poison

• Effect: During battle, poison inflicts damage equal to 1/16 of maximum HP at regular intervals. If your characters are poisoned at the end of a battle then they remain so afterward and lose about 1/60 of their maximum HP for every unit of movement.
• Caused by:
  • Poison (Black spell)
• Removed by:
  • Antidote (Item)
  • Poisona (White spell)
  • Esuna (White spell)
• Grants immunity:
  • Ribbon (Headgear)
• Appears in Scan as "Poisoned"

Sleep

• Effect: Disables the character until the status wears off or is removed. Character cannot evade physical attacks.
• Caused by:
  • Sleep (Black spell)
• Removed by:
  • End of battle
  • Physical attack
  • Esna (White spell)
• Grants immunity:
  • Winged Shoes (Relic)
  • Thornlet (Head)
• Appears in Scan as "Sleeping"

Singing

• Effect: Character is unable to act.
• Caused by:
  • Status increasing songs (on caster)
• Removed by:
  • End of battle
  • Physical attack

Toad

• Effect: Drastically reduces the power of attacks, unable to cast any spell except Toad
• Caused by:
  • Toad (Black spell)
  • Pond's Chorus (Blue spell)
• Removed by:
  • Maiden's Kiss (Item)
  • Toad (Black spell)
  • Esuna (White spell)
• Grants immunity:
  • Ribbon (Headgear)
• Not removed by death
• Appears in Scan as "Frogged"

Mini

• Effect: Drastically reduces the power of attacks, Defense reduced to 0 but Evade is doubled.
• Caused by:
  • Mini (White spell)
  • Lilliputian Lyric (Blue spell)
• Removed by:
  • Cornucopia (Item)
  • Mini (White spell)
  • Esuna (White spell)
• Appears in Scan as "Dwarfed"
• Appears in Menu as "Grow"

Regen

• Effect: Restore health equal to 1/16 of maximum HP at regular intervals. Unlike Cure, undead enemies are healed by this spell.
• Caused by:
  • Regen (Time spell)
  • Protect Ring (Relic)
• Removed by:
  • Dispel (White spell)

Reflect

• Effect: Magic spells are reflected and cast upon the opposition. Spells can only be reflected once, so even if the new target has Reflect then it will not be reflected again. Most, White, Black and Time spells can be reflected. Some spells such as Drain, Osmose, Doom, and Meteor cannot be reflected.
• Caused by:
  • Reflect (White spell)
  • Carbuncle (Summon)
  • Wall Ring (Relic)
• Removed by:
  • Dispel (White spell)

Protect

• Effect: Damage caused by most physical attacks is reduced by half.
• Caused by:
  • Protect (White spell), Mighty Guard (Blue spell)
• Removed by:
  • Dispel (White spell)

Shell

• Effect: Damage caused by most magical attacks is reduced by half.
• Caused by:
  • Shell (White spell), Mighty Guard (Blue spell)
• Removed by:
  • Dispel (White spell)

Blink

• Effect: A false image is created which causes the user to automatically dodge all physical attacks. Upon dodging, there is a 25% chance that Blink will be removed.
• Caused by:
  • Blink (White spell, creates two images)
  • Mirage Vest (Armor)
• Removed by:
  • Dispel (White spell)

Berserk

• Effect: Attack power increased by 50%. Character always attacks and can't be controlled. Immunity to Confuse.
• Caused by:
  • Berserk (White spell)
  • Berserk (Ability)
  • Berserker (Job)

Blind

• Effect: Unable to see. Physical attacks usually miss.
• Caused by:
  • Flash (Blue spell)
  • Skunk (Animal spell)
• Removed by:
  • Esuna (White spell)
  • Nightingale (Animal spell)
  • Eye Drops (Item)
• Grants immunity:
  • Silver Spectacles
  • Ribbon (Headgear)

HP Critical

• Effect: Trigger Magic Barrier if the character has the Magiwall ability. Allies with the Cover ability will intervene and take physical attacks for the HP Critical character.
• Caused by:
  • HP less than one eight of maximum.
  • Death Claw (Blue spell)
• Removed by:
  • Restore HP

Sap

• Effect: Character gradually loses HP. Differs from Poison in that loss in continual instead of periodic.
• Caused by:
  • Sap (Enemy ability)
• Removed by:
  • Wears off.

Doom

• Effect: Death after timer reaches 0.
• Caused by:
  • Doom (Blue Magic)
  • Cursed Ring (Relic)

Controlled

• Effect: Enemy acts according to command given by ally. Possible commands depend on the type of enemy.
• Caused by:
  • Control (Ability)
• Removed by:
  • Hit from physical attack.

Zombie

• Effect: HP reduced to 0, characters attack allies. Immunity to most attacks and other status effects.
• Caused by:
  • Zombie Breath (Enemy ability)
• Removed by:
  • Holy Water
• Grants Immunity
  • Angel Ring (Relic)
  • Ribbon

Float

• Effect: Immunity to ground based attacks. Immunity to damage from lava, poison spikes etc. when not in battle. Some enemies are automatically under this spell.
• Caused by:
  • Float (Time spell)
  • Mighty Guard (Blue spell)
• Removed by:
  • Dispel (White spell)

Break

• Character is turned to stone. HP remains the same but character is frozen and unable to act. Immediately kills enemies unless immune.
• Caused by:
  • Break (Black spell)
  • Catoblepas (Summon spell)
• Removed by:
  • Gold Needle (Item)
• Grants Immunity:
  • Aegis Shield (Shield)
  • Jeweled Ring

Dead

• Character is unconscious and unable to act. Most other status effects removed.
• Caused by:
  • HP 0
  • Death (Black spell)
  • Banish (Time spell)
• Removed by:
  • Phoenix Down (Item)
  • Raise (White spell)
  • Arise (White spell)

Paralysis

• Effect: Character is unable to act.
• Caused by:
  • Remora (Summon spell)
  • Tree Squirrel (Animal spell)
• Removed by:
  • Esuna (White spell)
• Grants immunity:
  • Hermes Sandals (Armor)

Old

• Effect: Reduces stats.
• Caused by:
  • Old (Time spell)
  • Time Slip (Blue spell)
  • Missile (Blue spell)
• Removed by:
  • Esuna (White spell)
• Grants Immunity
  • Angel Ring (Relic)

Haste

• Effect: Time between actions halved.
• Caused by:
  • Haste (Time spell)
  • Hastega (Time spell)
  • Hermes Sandals (Armor)
• Removed by:
  • Dispel (White spell)

Slow

• Effect: Time between actions doubled.
• Caused by:
  • Slow (Time spell)
  • Slowga (Time spell)
• Removed by:
  • Dispel (White spell)
• Grants immunity:
  • Winged Shoes (Armor)

Stop

• Effect: Character frozen and unable to act.
• Caused by:
  • Stop (Time spell)
• Removed by:
  • Dispel (White spell)
• Grants immunity:
  • Winged Shoes (Armor)

Hidden

• Effect: Character not in field of battle and can't be targeted.
• Caused by:
  • Hide (Ability)
• Removed by:
  • Show (Ability)

Enemy types

Certain enemies fall into types which make them different from normal monsters. These are permanent, unlike statuses which can be added or removed.

Undead

• Healing items and spells (Potion, Hi-Potion, Cure, Cura, Curaga, Raise, Arise) have the opposite effect, in other words they remove HP rather than restore it.
• Drain and Osmose have reverse effects, in other words HP/MP will be drawn from the caster and restored to the target.
• Raise and Phoenix Down can kill undead enemies instantly, though some are immune.
• If death is caused by Doom, Death, or similar abilities then the enemy springs back to life with full health.
• Regen and Poison have the usual effects.
• Take damage from the Song spell Requiem.
• To tell, use a Potion on the enemy; if it takes damage then it is undead type.

Heavy

• Immune to spells where damage depends on the HP of the target. This includes Gravity, Graviga (Time spells), Missile, Death Claw, Roulette (Blue spells), Falcon (Animal spell).
• Immune to spells that cause instant death such as Death and Doom. Immune to Raise and Phoenix down if both heavy and undead.
• To tell, cast Gravity or a death spell on the enemy; if there is no effect then then it is Heavy type.