Strike (weapon ability)

Strike is a series of abilities in the series which refers to weapon or support abilities that allow a character to attack with a specific element or status ailment, mostly found on weapons. Strike abilities for elements adds that element to any physical attack done by the character, while Strike abilities for statuses have a 75% chance of being inflicted on a target when attacking physically.

The list of strikes are as follows:

Elemental Strikes

• Firestrike - Fire elemental.
• Icestrike - Ice elemental.
• Lightningstrike - Lightning elemental.
• Waterstrike - Water elemental.
• Galestrike - Wind elemental.
• Gravitystrike - Gravity elemental.
• Holystrike - Holy elemental.
• Tetrastrike - Fire, Ice, Lightning, and Water elemental. Only appears in Final Fantasy X-2.
• Omnistrike - Fire, Ice, Lightning, Water, Holy, and Gravity elemental. Only appears in Final Fantasy X-2.

The following are not named in any game, but are given these names to keep in line with the current names:

• Earthstrike - Earth elemental.
• Shadowstrike - Dark elemental.

Status Strikes

• Poisonstrike - Inflicts Poison.
• Darkstrike - Inflicts Blind.
• Sleepstrike - Inflicts Sleep.
• Silencestrike - Inflicts Silence.
• Stonestrike - Inflicts Petrify.
• Zombiestrike - Inflicts Zombie. Only appears in Final Fantasy X.
• Deathstrike - Inflicts Instant Death.
• Slowstrike - Inflicts Slow.

The following are Touch abilities in Final Fantasy X-2, but act the same way a Strike ability would:

• Berserktouch - Inflicts Berserk.
• Stoptouch - Inflicts Stop.
• Confusetouch - Inflicts Confusion.

There are numerous other Strike abilities, since there is essentially a strike for just about any status ability.

Appearances[]

Final Fantasy[]

Elemental Strikes don't function as they should due to a bug. The Strikes Firestrike, Icestrike, and Lightningstrike are properties of specific weapons. They cannot be applied during battle via abilities, or granted to weapons other than those that already have the property.

Final Fantasy II[]

Elemental Strikes are properties of specific weapons, with the addition of Holystrike.

Final Fantasy III[]

Elemental Strikes are properties of specific weapons, with the addition of Windstrike. Status Strikes also appear as properties of specific weapons.

Final Fantasy IV[]

Elemental Strikes appear on specific weapons, though Throw is a attribute only available on Bows and Spears. Status Strikes are available on certain weapons. Enemies can also can use elemental strikes, but the developers didn't make use of them and they go unused.

Final Fantasy IV -Interlude-[]

Elemental Strikes and Status Strikes appear on certain weapons.

Final Fantasy IV: The After Years[]

Elemental Strikes and Status Strikes appear on certain weapons.

Final Fantasy V[]

Elemental Strikes appear on specific weapons for the fire, ice, lightning, wind, earth and holy elements. Status Strikes appear rarely on weapons, though Deathstrike is common.

The Mystic Knight job allows players to grant Elemental Strikes and Status Strikes to their weapon. Elemental Strikes used by Mystic Knights have multiple tiers, such as Fire Sword, Fira Sword and Firaga Sword, each tier dealing more damage to elementally weak foes. The strongest tier of Elemental Strikes will instantly kill any non-heavy enemy that is weak to the element. Status Strikes used by Mystic Knights have a 100% success rate and are capable of inflicting silence, sleep and petrify.

Final Fantasy VI[]

Elemental and Status Strikes are available as properties of specific weapons.

Final Fantasy VII[]

Elemental and Status Strikes can be applied to attacks if a player equips a materia that causes a status or deals elemental damage, such as Fire, Lightning, Destruct, or Hades, into a character's weapon with a linked slot next to an Added Effect materia (for statuses) or Elemental materia (for Elements). The level of the materia has no effect.

Final Fantasy VIII[]

Elemental and Status Strikes can be granted to a character by junctioning the appropriate spells into a character's Elemental Attack or Status Attack slot, if available. The more spells of the chosen spell that is in stock when equipped, the higher chance it will inflict that status or the more elemental damage the character will do.

Elemental physical damage formula:

${\displaystyle DamageBonus = Damage * ElemAtt * (800 - ElemDef) / 10000}$

${\displaystyle Damage = Damage + DamageBonus}$

Elemental attack can be anything between 0 and 100%. Elemental Defense starts at 800 (0%), 900 nullifies damage and 1000 absorbs the damage. If an enemy is shown to be weak against an element, its Elemental Defense is below 800. If damage becomes negative (due to high Elemental Defense), the target is healed by that amount.

Status Infliction for physical attacks:

Inflicting enemies with statuses via physical attacks uses the following formula:

If ${\displaystyle (StatusDefense >= 200)}$ Target doesn't get the status

else: ${\displaystyle Infliction\%=AttackerStr/4-TargetVit/4}$

${\displaystyle Infliction\%=Infliction\%-StatusDefense+StatusAttack}$

StatusDefense and StatusAttack start at 100 (0%) and the cap is 200 (100%).

Final Fantasy IX[]

Status Strikes can be accessed via through either the Add Status support ability or by using Zidane's Soul Blade ability while equipped with a thief sword that has a status effect.

Elemental Strikes are properties of specific weapons:

• Firestrike: Flame Staff, Flame Saber
• Icestrike: Ice Staff, Icebrand, Ice Lance
• Lightningstrike: Coral Sword, Lightning Staff
• Windstrike: All Rackets, Kaiser Knuckles
• Waterstrike: Dragon's Claws
• Holystrike: Excalibur, Excalibur II, Holy Lance, Asura's Rod

Final Fantasy X[]

Strike abilities can be found on weapons dropped from enemies or customized directly onto them. There are both elemental strikes and status strikes, with the latter all having a respective "Touch" ability as well, which only inflicts the status with a 50% base chance, as opposed to the 100% offered by a Strike.

When a weapon has two or more elemental strikes and an enemy with various elemental affinities is attacked, the most favorable element will be used when calculating damage. Elemental weaknesses can stack, but resistances do not.

• The Firestrike auto-ability makes a weapon fire-elemental, and can be customized to a weapon with x4 Bomb Fragment.
• The Lightningstrike auto-ability makes a weapon lightning-elemental, and can be customized to weapon with x4 Electro Marble.
• The Waterstrike auto-ability makes a weapon water-elemental, and can be customized to a weapon with x4 Fish Scale.
• The Icestrike auto-ability makes a weapon ice-elemental, and can be customized to a weapon with x4 Antarctic Wind.

Status strikes do not bypass status immunities, but they can be stacked with their Touch equivalents if the latter is already applied to a weapon, increasing their effectiveness against enemies with status resistances.

• The Darkstrike auto-ability makes a weapon inflict the Darkness status, and can be customized to a weapon with x20 Smoke Bomb.
• The Silencestrike auto-ability makes a weapon inflict the Silence status, and can be customized to a weapon with x20 Silence Grenade.
• The Sleepstrike auto-ability makes a weapon inflict the Sleep status, and can be customized to a weapon with x20 Dream Powder.
• The Poisonstrike auto-ability makes a weapon inflict the Poison status, and can be customized to a weapon with x24 Poison Fang.
• The Stonestrike auto-ability makes a weapon inflict the Petrify status, and can be customized to a weapon with x60 Petrify Grenade.
• The Deathstrike auto-ability makes a weapon cause Instant Death, and can be customized to a weapon with x60 Farplane Wind.
• The Zombiestrike auto-ability makes a weapon inflict the Zombie status, and can be customized to a weapon with x30 Candle of Life.
• The Slowstrike auto-ability makes a weapon inflict the Slow status, and can be customized to a weapon with x30 Gold Hourglass.

Final Fantasy X-2[]

All of the Strike abilities except Zombiestrike appear, and it marks the first appearance of Gravity, Tetra, and Omnistrike. All of the Status Strikes are Touch abilities, but work the same way as a Strike ability does.

Several accessories, such as Lag Shock and System Shock, allow for Status Strikes, while other accessories such as Fiery Gleam and Icy Gleam, allow for Elemental Strikes. In addition, all Strike abilities can be used through Garment Grids.

Final Fantasy XIII[]

Flamestrike, Froststrike, Sparkstrike and Aquastrike appear as Ravager abilities. These abilities perform a single attack that deals elemental physical damage, rather than granting the effect for the rest of the battle.

Enfire, Enfrost, Enthunder and Enwater appear as Synergist abilities. These abilities grant one character an Elemental Strike buff that causes all attacks to deal elemental damage until the buff wears off.

Using one of the Ravager's elemental strikes while buffed by the Synergist's Enspell ability of the same element will display a cosmetic effect matching the corresponding -ra spell.

Strikes are effective in short battles against enemies with elemental weaknesses that are strong against magic-type damage, where taking time to buff with Enspells and having to perform Paradigm shifts would slow the fight down. If no Enspells are available, a Strike is more effective than a Commando's Attack when targeting a physical elemental weakness, due to its chaining potential.

Lightning Strike is Eidolon-exclusive ability usable by Odin in non-gestalt mode.

Final Fantasy XIII-2[]

The Ravager role's strike abilities appear. The water element has been removed, so Aquastrike has been replaced by Galestrike. Both Serah and Noel are able to learn all strike abilities, and some monster Ravagers are able to learn strikes as well.

The Synergist role's enspell abilities also appear. The water element has been removed, so Enwater has been replaced by Enaero.

Dissidia 012 Final Fantasy[]

Lightning Strike is an HP attack for Lightning. Lightning Strike is also a part of her EX Burst due to its nature of being based on Odin's Gestalt Mode from Final Fantasy XIII.

Final Fantasy Airborne Brigade[]

The basic strike abilities appear.

Final Fantasy Record Keeper[]

Behind the scenes[]

In Final Fantasy XIII-2's Brain Blast quiz, "Waterstrike" is a name given to the water sport that requires athletes to wear floats on their legs as they fight over a flag.