Darkness (Final Fantasy VIII)

Darkness is a status in Final Fantasy VIII. Darkness reduces a character's Hit Rate by 75%, making them miss their attacks frequently. Characters with base hit rate of 255% are unaffected, such as Squall and Seifer, although Darkness disables the gunblade's trigger, making them unable to deal additional damage. The sound effect of hitting the trigger will play, but the hit will lack the explosion around the enemy and damage will not be increased. The effect remains indefinitely until healed, even outside of battle. Spells and Limit Breaks never miss due to poor accuracy. The afflicted has a dark cloud over around head, shrouding their vision.
==Abilities==
Limit Break	Acid Crisis Level 2 (Blue Magic), Bad Breath (Blue Magic), Dark Shot (Shot)
Spell 	Blind, Pain (Magic, Slot, Angel Wing)
Summon 	Doomtrain
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Spell	Rating	Status Effects
Blind	100% 	Darkness
Pain 	100% 	Poison, Darkness, Silence
==Enemy abilities==
Ability 	Description 	Enemy
Bad Breath 	Inflicts Darkness, Confuse, Berserk, Poison, Sleep, Silence, Curse, Petrifying, and Slow on the entire party. Can be learned as a Blue Magic.	Malboro
Blind 	Inflicts Blind to one target. 	Abadon, Blood Soul, Blue Dragon, Cerberus, Forbidden, Fujin (2nd), Gesper, Imp, Lefty, Ochu, Propagator
"Brrawghh!"	Inflicts non-elemental magic damage as well as Slow, Curse, and Darkness to the party. 	Gerogero
Dark Mist 	Inflicts non-elemental magic damage as well as Darkness to the party. Only used at 50% or less HP. 	Anacondaur
Oil Shot 	Inflicts non-elemental physical damage and Darkness to one target. 	Oilboyle
Pain 	Inflicts Poison, Darkness, and Silence to one target. 	Elnoyle, Fujin (2nd), Griever
Sand Storm 	Inflicts non-elemental physical damage and Darkness to the party. 	Adamantoise
Stare 	Inflicts non-elemental magic damage as well as Poison, Confuse, Darkness, and Silence to one target. 	Vysage
==Protection==
Support ability	Ribbon
Status 	Invincible
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Spell 	Rating	Status Effects
Esuna 	20% 	Poison, Petrify, Petrifying, Darkness, Silence, Berserk, Sleep, Stop, Slow, Curse, Confuse
Reflect	25% 	Poison, Petrify, Petrifying, Darkness, Silence, Berserk, Sleep, Stop, Slow, Confuse
Blind 	100% 	Darkness
Pain 	100% 	Poison, Darkness, Silence, Curse
==Healing==
Ability 	Treatment
Item 	Cottage, Elixir, Eye Drops, Megalixir, Remedy, Remedy+, Tent
Limit Break	Full-cure
Mechanics 	Death, Petrify, Sleeping at a lodging like a hotel
Spell 	Esuna
==Enemies==
20% 	Abyss Worm, Adamantoise, Armadodo, Base Leader, Base Soldier, Belhelmel, Bite Bug, Blitz, Blobra, Bomb, Buel, Cactuar, Caterchipillar, Chimera, Cockatrice, Death Claw, Esthar Soldier, Esthar Soldier (Terminator), Elite Soldier, Fastitocalon, Fastitocalon-F, G-Soldier, Gayla, Geezard, Gesper, Glacial Eye, Grendel, Guard, Jelleye, Lefty, Mesmerize, Paratrooper, Righty, SAM08G, Slapper, Snow Lion, T-Rexaur, Biggs (D-District Prison), Thrustaevis, Turtapod, Vysage, Wendigo, Edea (2nd), Propagator, Red Giant, Rinoa, Sorceress (A), Sorceress (B), Wedge (D-District Prison)
30% 	Anacondaur, Behemoth, Blue Dragon
40% 	GIM47N, Iron Giant, Raldo, Catoblepas, Elvoret, Fujin (1st), Raijin (1st/2nd)
50% 	Bahamut, BGH251F2, Diablos
60% 	Tri-Face, Abadon, Fujin (2nd), Raijin (3rd)
80% 	Elnoyle, Torama
99% 	Seifer (2nd)
Immune	Blood Soul, Creeps, Elastoid, Forbidden, Funguar, Grand Mantis, Grat, Hexadragon, Imp, Malboro, Ochu, Oilboyle, PuPu, Red Bat, Ruby Dragon, Tonberry, UFO?, All bosses except Abadon, Bahamut, BGH251F2, Biggs (D-District Prison), Catoblepas, Diablos, Edea (2nd), Elvoret, Fujin, Propagator, Raijin, Red Giant, Rinoa, Seifer (2nd), Sorceress (A), Sorceress (B), Wedge (D-District Prison)
Category:Status effects in Final Fantasy VIII