Darkness (Final Fantasy IX status)

Darkness is a status in Final Fantasy IX that halves the current accuracy of the affected party member or enemy and makes them unable to evade attacks themselves. Darkness (or any other status abnormality) does not affect Zidane's Steal success. Darkness persists after battle, unless with Guardian Mog in effect. The afflicted has a dark cloud on their face.
==Abilities==
Spell 	Bad Breath ~40% (Blu Mag), Blind ~75% (Wht Mag)
Weapon	Rune Blade 25% (Add Status), Rune Claws 30% (Add Status), Trident 20% (Add Status)
Item 	Tent (in battle, random chance)
==Enemy abilities==
Ability 	Description 	Enemy
Bad Breath 	Inflicts Confuse, Poison, Slow, Darkness, and/or Mini to a single target. Can be learned as a Blu Mag. 	Malboro
Blind 	Inflicts Blind to one target. 	Quale, Ring Leader
Blind Tail 	Inflicts Blind to one target. 	Yeti
Curse 	Inflicts non-elemental damage and Confuse, Poison, Slow, Mini, and Darkness to the party. 	Hades, Ozma
Darkness 	Inflicts Blind to one target. 	Seeker Bat
Grand Cross	Inflicts Berserk, Doom, Petrify, Stop, Freeze, Heat, Confuse, Poison, Trouble, Silence, Zombie, Darkness, Instant Death, Mini, Sleep, and HP is reduce to 1-10. Each one of them has a 1/8 chance of being inflicted.	Necron
Ink 	Inflicts non-elemental damage and Blind to one target. 	Gigan Octopus, Kraken, Kraken (Crystal)
Pollen 	Inflicts non-elemental damage and Blind to the party. 	Plant Brain
Spore 	Inflicts Blind to the party. 	Myconid
==Protection==
Support ability	Bright Eyes
==Healing==
Darkness is removed with Eye Drops, Remedy, Angel's Snack, and Esuna. Using an inn or a healing spring also fully restores the party. Entering Trance purges most currently active ailments as well.
==Enemies==
The following enemies are immune to Darkness:
*Abadon (boss)
*Bomb (boss)
*Core
*Grand Dragon
*Maliris (Crystal)
*Mover
*Ragtime Mouse & True & False
*Tonberry
*Amdusias (boss)
*Beatrix
*Hades
*Hilgigars
*Kraken & Left tentacle & Right tentacle
*Kuja
*Lich
*Maliris
*Prison Cage
*Quale
*Sealion
*Taharka
==Use==
Darkness is a fairly benign status, but works against many enemies. It making one unable to evade ensures the player's attacks do not go wasted due to missing. However, the player should simply use Accuracy+ for this purpose for all physical attackers as soon as it can be learned. To stop enemies hitting the player party, the player can also use Vanish.
Category:Status effects in Final Fantasy IX