Status Icons

How to read an icon

The frame shows which side an icon helps. A gold frame with a red up arrow is a buff, a blue frame with a purple down arrow is a debuff, and a red icon is an ailment. Shields are resistances, marked with the element or ailment they cover.

Each icon here was matched to its effect through the skills that use it in the game’s data. A few rare icons aren’t listed; tap the unit in battle to read those. The Technical Guide explains how to use them when a fight goes wrong.

Ailments

What each ailment stops a unit doing. “The source” is Monokhrome’s Grand Summoners Technical Guide, which the Technical Guide adapts.

Ailment	Main problem	Useful distinction
Burn	Damage over time.	The source describes ordinary Burn as stopping at 1 HP, with Burn and Freeze canceling each other.
Poison	Damage over time.	Ordinary Poison stops at 1 HP in the source; Envenom is a separate, lethal variant that cannot be cleansed normally.
Blind	Attacks can miss.	The source gives ordinary Blind a 30% miss chance. Damage buffs do not solve missed attacks.
Freeze / Paralyze	Prevents acting and using equips; can interrupt an attack.	Protect against the specific ailment. Ultimate Freeze also lowers critical resistance in the source.
Disease	Severely reduces healing received.	The source gives an 80% reduction. Check that your cleanse includes Disease.
Curse	Prevents equipment use.	A cleanse equip on the cursed unit cannot solve the problem while it is unusable.
Seal	Prevents Skills and Arts.	Equipment may still provide an answer.
Faint	Stops actions and equipment use.	Ordinary resistance and cleanse effects generally exclude it; plan around the attack that causes it.

Read exceptions such as “except Faint” and “except Disease”. A cleanse that removes one problem may leave the other in place. Likewise, do not assume every HP-drain effect obeys ordinary Burn or Poison’s nonlethal rule.

Stats and damage dealt

Icon	Effect	What it changes
	Max HP UP / DOWN	Maximum HP. Monokhrome’s guide says Max HP UP also heals by the amount added.
	ATK UP / DOWN	The ATK stat, which is separate from DMG UP. Damage grows more slowly than ATK does.
	DEF UP / DOWN	The DEF stat, which is separate from DMG taken DOWN.
	Action speed UP / DOWN	How quickly the unit attacks and moves.
	Break power UP / DOWN	How quickly hits drain a Break gauge.
	CRI rate UP / DOWN	The chance a hit is critical.
	CRI resistance DOWN	On an enemy: your hits become critical more often.
	Accuracy UP / DOWN	The chance a hit connects.
	Evasion UP / DOWN	The chance to dodge a hit.
	DMG UP / DOWN	Damage dealt by every attack.
	Physical DMG UP	Physical damage only.
	Magic DMG UP / DOWN	Magic damage only.
	Skill DMG UP	Damage from Skills.
	Arts DMG UP	Damage from Arts.
	Equip DMG UP	Damage from equipment.
	Additional DMG	A fixed amount added to each hit.
	Ignore DEF	Hits skip part or all of the target’s DEF.

Damage taken and protection

Icon	Effect	What it changes
	DMG taken DOWN / UP	Damage taken from every source. On an enemy, the up icon means it takes more from you.
	Physical DMG taken DOWN / UP	Physical damage taken.
	Magic DMG taken DOWN	Magic damage taken.
	Weak-element DMG taken UP	On an enemy: more damage from the element it’s weak to.
	DMG negation	Blocks damage up to a set amount, then ends.
	HP from DMG taken	Recovers HP as a share of damage of the stated kind.

Elemental resistance

Icon	Effect	What it changes
	Fire RES UP / DOWN	Damage taken from Fire hits.
	Water RES UP / DOWN	Damage taken from Water hits.
	Earth RES UP / DOWN	Damage taken from Earth hits.
	Light RES UP / DOWN	Damage taken from Light hits.
	Dark RES UP / DOWN	Damage taken from Dark hits.

Ailment resistance

Icon	Effect	What it changes
	Faint RES UP / DOWN	The chance Faint lands on the unit.
	Poison RES UP / DOWN	The chance Poison lands on the unit.
	Paralyze RES UP / DOWN	The chance Paralyze lands on the unit.
	Seal RES UP / DOWN	The chance Seal lands on the unit.
	Blind RES UP / DOWN	The chance Blind lands on the unit.
	Disease RES UP / DOWN	The chance Disease lands on the unit.
	Curse RES UP / DOWN	The chance Curse lands on the unit.
	Freeze RES UP / DOWN	The chance Freeze lands on the unit.
	Burn RES UP / DOWN	The chance Burn lands on the unit.
	Status RES UP / DOWN	The chance any ailment lands on the unit.

Arts, cooldowns and support

Icon	Effect	What it changes
	Arts auto-fill / drain	Arts gained, or lost, every second. Some effects invert Arts generation, which turns a generation buff into a drain.
	Skill CT speed UP	The Skill cooldown runs faster.
	Equip CT speed UP	Equipment cooldowns run faster.
	HP regen	Recovers HP over time.
	Auto-revive	Revives the unit once if it falls while the effect lasts. The fall can still count as a death for a no-deaths mission.
	Cover	The unit takes hits meant for its allies.
	Attacks inflict Paralyze / Freeze / Burn	Each hit can inflict that ailment.
	Nightmare	On an enemy: damage over time.

Read the label

Some effects have no icon of their own, or share one with effects that work differently. Read the skill text for these.

• Bleed raises damage taken for each stack, as Monokhrome’s guide describes it. It isn’t ordinary Poison.
• Survive lethal damage is a different effect from a revive. Check which one a unit gives before you plan around it.
• Outgoing healing, healing received, self-healing and lifesteal are four separate things, and a bonus to one doesn’t improve the others. Monokhrome’s healing table mixes some of them, so check the actual skill text.