# Status Effects Some attacks leave behind a **lingering status effect**. **Burn** and **poison** deal **damage to the target every round** (damage over time, **DoT**). Other states make a target skip its turn, weaken it or protect your Mebulis. You see every active state directly on the unit in battle. ## Overview | Status | Trigger | Duration | Damage per round | Stacks | Trigger chance | |--------|---------|----------|------------------|--------|----------------| | Burn | Fire hits | 3 rounds | 25 % of attack value × type effectiveness | No (refreshes instead) | 35 % (primary) · 20 % (secondary) | | Poison | certain ultimates | 4 rounds | 5 % of the target's max HP | up to 3 stacks | ultimates only | ### Burn A successful Fire hit can **ignite** the target. For **3 rounds** it takes **25 % of the attacker's attack value** × type effectiveness each round. Burn **does not stack**: if the target is hit again, the **duration is simply refreshed**. - **35 %** trigger chance if **Fire is the attacker's primary type** - **20 %** if Fire is the secondary type - The **Ember** bond from the [Element Bond](https://mebulalegends.bitmeup.com/wiki/en/guide/element-bond/) raises the chance by up to 25 percentage points. Ultimates with burn, such as **Searing Burst** or **Ember Smash**, apply a **much stronger burn** that lasts one round longer. ### Poison Only **ultimates** apply poison, for example **Venom Jab**. It eats **5 % of the target's maximum HP** per round for **4 rounds** and stacks up to **3 times**. Once the maximum is reached, a new stack refreshes the oldest one. ## Defense and types - **Burn** uses **[type effectiveness](https://mebulalegends.bitmeup.com/wiki/en/guide/combat/#damage-calculation)** just like a normal hit. A target that is **highly resistant** to Fire (×0.1) therefore only takes a fraction of the burn damage. The target's defense also dampens the burn, for enemy Mebulis their **Ult Defense** counts. - **Poison** ignores defense and types entirely. - The **Swell** bond halves burn and poison damage against your team, the **Cleanse** ultimate removes both. ## What are status effects good for? - **Against tough enemies**: poison eats a fixed share of HP, no matter how well armored the target is. - To **end long fights**, the ticking damage adds up round after round, even when your direct hits barely get through. ## Which Mebulis can apply them? - ** Burn:** all Mebulis with the **Fire** type on normal hits, plus Mebulis with a burn ultimate. - **Poison:** Mebulis with a poison ultimate. The Mebuli window shows which ultimate a Mebuli has. ## Other states in battle | State | Effect | |---|---| | **Stunned** | The unit skips its next action and cannot dodge. At most two actions in a row can be lost this way. After that, stuns and freezes have no effect until the unit has acted once. | | **Frozen** | Works like a stun. Ultimates such as **Freeze** hit the whole enemy front row with it. | | **Armor broken** | Defense lowered by 40 %, usually for 3 rounds. | | **Defense up** | More defense for a few rounds, e.g. from **Aegis**. | | **Shield** | Absorbs damage before HP is lost. A shield never grows beyond max HP and fades by a third of its original value at the end of each round. | | **Attack up** | More attack for a few rounds, e.g. from **War Cry** or **Rally**. | | **Taunt** | The unit draws all normal enemy attacks. | | **Reflect** | Part of the damage taken goes back to the attacker. | ## Enemies use DoTs too Fire enemies can burn you **under the same rules**. However, at **reduced strength**: - **trigger chance × 0.6** - **one round shorter** than for your Mebulis Where you'll run into it: ** Fire enemies**, for example in [Chapter 4, Crystal Desert](https://mebulalegends.bitmeup.com/wiki/en/guide/chapter-4/) and in the Ember Chasm of the [Elemental Realms](https://mebulalegends.bitmeup.com/wiki/en/guide/realms/).