The Round Island - Your guide to Final Fantasy VIII

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Elemental Junction Chart
The Elemental chart below illustrates the elemental's strength and weakness. The Elemental Junction works for both spells and elemental junctions. Elements that oppose each other are weak against each other. Please note that curative magic can be considered as a Holy elemental magic.

Fire works well against Blizzard while Wind works against most flying enemies. Thunder works well on machinery such as robots and cannons as metal conduct electricty. Poison has no effect on machinery.

Elemental	Weak	Strong
Fire	Fire [Absorb / no effect]	Blizzard, Water, Poison
Blizzard	Blizzard [Absorb, no effect]	Fire, Poison
Thunder	Thunder (e.g. Raijin, Blitz) [Absorb]	Machinery
Wind	Wind (e.g. Fujin, Thrustaevis) [Absorb]	Flying creatures
Earth	Flying creatures [no effect]; Earth-based enemies	Standing monsters
Poison	Poison [absorb] / mechanical beasts [no effect]	Humans
Holy	Holy [Absorb/ no effect]	Undead
Water	Water [Absorb/ no effect]	Fire

Status Junction Chart
Status Magic can span a variety of effects such as disabling abilities thus making the fight tougher. Status ailments can be disturbing, as you may need to use status fixing items or abilities to fix the status back to normal. Since it create harvoc on your party, you can also make use of them to attack opposition by using ST-Atk-J and guard against a status with ST-Def-J.

Status Ailment	Description	Counter	Full Protection
Berserk	Red-hot character. Attack targets without using attack command.	Esuna, Treatment (Others)	ST-DEF Junction 100x Berserk.
Confuse	Character rotating in circles. Attack fellow allies and cast magic at random.	Esuna, Treatment (Others)	ST-DEF Junction 100x Confuse
Curse	Color of character darkens and is unable to use his/her Limit Breaks.	Esuna, Aura, Treatment	ST-DEF Junction 100x Aura
Death	KO Status. HP drops to zero. Character is only usable when revived.	Phoenix Down, Life, Full-life (Others)	ST-DEF Junction 100x Death
Darkness	A black cloud appears on character. Hit rate drops by half.	Eye drop, Esuna, Treatment	ST-DEF Junction 100x Blind
Poison	A green cloud appears on character, reduce HP every turn.	Antidote, Esuna, Treatment	ST-DEF Junction 100x Bio.
Silence	A speech bubble appears and the character is unable to use the basic commands - Magic, Draw, GF.	Echo Screen, Esuna, Treatment	ST-DEF Junction 100x Silence.
Sleep	Character fall into sleep and ATB freezes. Character can be awake upon being attacked by physical attacks.	Esuna, Treatment (Others)	ST-DEF Junction 100x Sleep.
Slow	ATB changes from orange to purple. Speed of ATB slows down.	Haste, Esuna, Treatment	ST- DEF Junction 100x Slow.
Stop	ATB stops moving and the character freezes.	Esuna, Treatment (Others)	ST-DEF Junction 100x Stop.
Undead	Characters turns dark green. The effected character becoms weak vs. Holy.	Treatment, Esuna	ST-DEF Junction 100x Zombie.