Cleansing Materia (VII Rebirth)

Cleansing materia is a in Final Fantasy VII Rebirth. It provides the user spells that heal negative status effects. Two of these remove negative statuses, while applies the effect which prevents statuses being added.
==Obtained==
The earliest cleansing materia is found in the windmill during the "Where the Wind Blows" odd job on the Grasslands Region.
Cleansing materia is sold in shops that sell materia for 1500 gil apiece from chapter 6, "Fool's Paradise", onward.
A level 2 cleansing materia is rewarded for completing "Junon Region Intel: Level 2" in the combat simulator, from chapter 12 "A Golden Key".
==Stats==
===Growth===
Level	AP required	Effect
1 	0 	Poisona
2 	300 	Esuna
3 	900 	Resist
===Abilities===
Magic	MP	Effect
 	3 	Cure .
 	12	Cure negative status effects.
 	8 	Grant the status effect, providing resistance to negative status effects.
==Use==
Cleansing materia grants three spells to cure negative statuses. Poisona, the cheapest spell to cast at only 3 MP, removes . Esuna is more expensive to cast, but cures all negative status effects. Resist can be cast to prevent negative statuses being applied, but does not remove existing ones.
The materia can be crucial against enemies that cast devastating statuses. These can be crippling statuses like , , or , but also nuisances such as poison and . Resist, in particular, is important to cast on party members who get close toward enemies.
There are other ways to resist and cure negative statuses: some items can cure them, the can be used to resist against them, and accessories can protect them from particular ailments. However, sometimes these options are not available or not preferable, especially when accessory and materia slots become precious.
It is still ideal for the party member with cleansing materia equipped to have some resistance against status effects equipped themselves, so that they cannot be prevented from using cleansing spells. Otherwise, the only consideration for who equips a cleansing materia is who has spare slots and whose MP pool can cope with it, as none of the spells are affected by a attribute.
Cleansing materia can be paired with to cure all party members of a status at once, or apply Resist to all at once. This can be useful in certain fights, but magnify materia are rare. can reduce the costs of cleansing materia's spells, but the costs are not too high and thus this may be better paired with other materia. can increase the length of the resist status, but this is a niche use meaning the support materia is best saved for other cases.
Category:Magic materia in Final Fantasy VII Rebirth