Poach

Poach , also known as Morph , Metamorphose, Metamorph, Card or Transmute, is a recurring ability in the Final Fantasy series. Poach allows the player to kill low-HP enemies and receive an item. Normally, items received in this fashion are rare and often cannot be acquired by other means. Some stronger enemies and all bosses are immune to this technique.
==Appearances==
===Final Fantasy VI===
Metamorphose is the attack used by Ragnarok when summoned. Ragnarok has a chance to turn an enemy into one of four items with varying rates of success. Some enemies have a higher chance of being turned into one item than the others. For example, of the four items a Veil Dancer can be turned into, three of them are Potions and the fourth is Miracle Shoes, thus while there are only two items the Dancer can become, there is only a 25% chance of that item being Miracle Shoes.
Since an esper can be summoned only once per battle, the enemy must be killed normally and another of the same type encountered to try again. With Gogo's Mimic ability, a player can have unlimited summons per battle by having Gogo mimic the summon, passing the other characters' turns, and having Gogo repeat the mimic.
There are 27 possible morph patterns coded into the game that any enemy can use. IDs 0-31 are used to determine the morph pattern, though 26-31 are duplicates. Sets 12, 13, and 15 go unused.
===Final Fantasy VII===
The Command Materia Morph is found in the Temple of the Ancients. When used, it deals a small amount of damage equal to 1/8th of a normal attack, ignoring row, but if it kills the enemy it will be turned into an item. Yuffie's Conformer ignores the damage penalty. Morphed items are kept even if the player runs from the battle afterward. The player can morph the enemies at Battle Square. Morphing enemies into stat boosting sources is required for maxed stats.
====Final Fantasy VII Rebirth====
Morph works the same it did in Final Fantasy VII: defeating a low-health enemy with the ability transforms it into an item. This can be tricky to pull off before AI-controlled party members defeat the enemy first. Morph is bought from Chadley's materia development. There are no missable items from morphing enemies, and the player can use Assess to see what items each enemy has for morphing.
===Final Fantasy VIII===
The Card command turns enemies into Triple Triad cards, usually the card of the enemy itself. Some enemies have a 1/16 chance of rewarding a boss card instead. AP and item drops, including card drops, can still be earned, but no EXP is awarded for carded enemies. If the player already has 100 of a monster's card, all Card attempts will fail unless it procures the rare boss card.
Enemies may be affected by Card even at full HP, but the success chance is very low.
===Final Fantasy XII===
Poach is a technick used to kill enemies in HP Critical to acquire an item. Poached enemies give no EXP, LP, gil, CP, or loot. An easy way to get enemies to HP Critical to poach them is to use Sight Unseeing.
Enemies have two slots for Poach items, a common item (95% chance) and an uncommon item (5%). Some enemies have the same item in both slots. Poach items are unaffected by battle chain. Although enemies with the Safety augment can't usually be poached, the Lv.99 Red Chocobo is poachable into a Pebble.
In the original PlayStation 2 version, the Technick is bought for 7,000 gil in Rabanastre, Nalbina Fortress and Bhujerba and costs 30 License Points. In the Zodiac versions, it is sold in shops after the events in Ondore's Estate, and is also available in a treasure in Trial Mode Stage 16 with the Diamond Armlet.
In the Zodiac versions, Poach can be used by Uhlan, Machinist, Archer, Time Battlemage, and Black Mage. The Black Mage must first acquire the license for the Esper Zalera and the license in between them, the technick Steal. Fran, Balthier, and Vaan know Steal when they first join the party, so if they take the Black Mage job, they can learn Poach immediately. Any job with access to Steal can also bypass Zalera for Black Mage in the same way.
===Final Fantasy Tactics===
Poach is a support ability the Thief class learns for 200 JP. It allows the character to poach the remains of slain monsters. Once poached, the player can access Poachers' Dens at trade cities, where the poached objects will be made into items.
Luso's special job class, Game Hunter, and the Byblos have Poach as an innate ability. The player can tame and breed their own monsters and then poach them back in the battle, which is a requirement to poach enemies not normally encountered, such as Wild Boar.
There are two glitches of this skill: the Poach bug allows the player to repetitively poach certain monsters, and another glitch relates to the weapon equipped by the poacher; some weapons randomly burst the additional offensive magick to the target (for instance, Holy for Holy Lance). If the target monster does not die from the first weapon attack, but rather from the secondary magick effect, the monster will simply be KO'd rather than poached.
===Final Fantasy Tactics A2: Grimoire of the Rift===
Transmute is an Alchemist skill that allows the caster to transform HP Critical units into items. Similarly, the Hunter's Hunting skill attacks an enemy with little power, but awards the player an extra piece of loot if the attack kills the enemy.
===Pictlogica Final Fantasy===
===Final Fantasy Brave Exvius===
===Chocobo's Dungeon 2===
===Final Fantasy Fables: Chocobo Tales===
==Gallery==
FFVI Metamorphese.png|Final Fantasy VI (GBA).
Metaphorph from FFVI 2014.jpg|Final Fantasy VI (defunct mobile/Steam).
Metamorphose from FFVI Pixel Remaster.jpg|Final Fantasy VI (Pixel Remaster).
FFVII Aerith Morph.png|Aerith using Morph in Final Fantasy VII.
FFVII Barret Morph.png|Barret using Morph in Final Fantasy VII.
FFVII Cait Sith Morph.png|Cait Sith using Morph in Final Fantasy VII.
FFVII Cid Morph.png|Cid using Morph in Final Fantasy VII.
FFVII Cloud Morph.png|Cloud using Morph in Final Fantasy VII.
FFVII Red XIII Morph.png|Red XIII using Morph in Final Fantasy VII.
FFVII Tifa Morph.png|Tifa using Morph in Final Fantasy VII.
FFVII Vincent Morph.png|Vincent using Morph in Final Fantasy VII.
FFVII Yuffie Morph.png|Yuffie using Morph in Final Fantasy VII.
Ffxii poach.png|Final Fantasy XII.
FFTA2 Transmute.png|Final Fantasy Tactics A2: Grimoire of the Rift.
Ragnarok Metamorphose.png|Final Fantasy Fables: Chocobo Tales.
==Etymology==
The ability has been known as Metamorphose. 
==Citations==
Category:Recurring support abilities
Category:Recurring command abilities