Here’s everything you need to know about status effects in Super Mario RPG and how to heal them.
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- Regular Status Effects, Explained
- Transformation Status Effects, Explained
Super Mario RPG features a classically inspired battle system most players love. It has all the best stuff: different attack types, elemental attacks, healing effects and more. Mix these with five well-designed characters and plenty of useful items, and you have all the components needed to have a good time.
But with the good must also come the bad. Fights would be boring if there wasn’t a way to lose, after all. Taking damage is one obvious bad, but another and often equally frustrating obstacle is the use of status effects. Read through this guide to learn what the status effects are and what they do.
Regular Status Effects, Explained
There are five main status effects in Super Mario RPG:
- Poison
- Silence
- Fear
- Sleep
- Down
Each of them affects Mario and his friends in unique and troublesome ways. Fortunately, there are simple methods to cure most of these conditions.
You can prevent a character from being affected by these effects at all by wearing certain gear, such as the Safety Badge, Antidote Pin and Fearless Pin.
|
Status |
Effect |
Treatments |
|---|---|---|
|
Poison |
Your character loses HP during each of your turns. |
Use a Cleansing Juice item, or wait a few turns for the effect to wear off on its own. |
|
Silence |
Your character cannot use their special moves. |
Use a Cleansing Juice item, or wait a few turns for the effect to wear off on its own. |
|
Fear |
Your character’s regular Attack and Defense and Magic Attack and Magic Defense are all reduced by half. |
Use a Cleansing Juice item, or wait a few turns for the effect to wear off on its own. |
|
Sleep |
Your character will be immobilized and unable to take any action. |
Use a Cleansing Juice item, or wait a few turns for the effect to wear off on its own. Your character will also wake up if an enemy attacks them. |
|
Down |
Your character will faint after their HP drops to zero and will be unable to take any action. |
Have another character use a Pick Me Up item on the fallen character, or use Peach’s Come Back special move. |
Transformation Status Effects, Explained
Aside from the five normal status effects, Super Mario RPG also has two special transformation effects. When an enemy targets one of your characters with one of these effects, their body will transform into either a Scarecrow or a Mushroom.
Similar to regular status effects, you can prevent a character from being affected by these effects at all by wearing certain gear, such as the Trueform Pin or the Safety Badge.
|
Name |
Effect |
Treatment |
|---|---|---|
|
Scarecrow |
Your character is transformed into a scarecrow and becomes unable to use items or regular attacks. |
Use a Cleansing Juice item, or wait a few turns for the effect to wear off on its own. |
|
Mushroom |
Your character is transformed into a mushroom and is unable to act. They will automatically regain health each turn. |
Use a Cleansing Juice item, or wait a few turns for the effect to wear off on its own. |
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