Swap - Final Fantasy II (Famicom) - Guides

Swap

Sprite

Power 5 Accuracy +30%

Type White Magic

Effect Swaps the target's current HP and MP with the caster's (limited to their usual maximum values)

Element Matter

Tome Swap Tome

Effect Swap 8 (All enemies)

Value 4,000 gil

Sold In Mysidia (8,000 gil)

Known By Minwu

Used By Brain, Changer

Swap is an interesting little spell with a whole lot of uses. If the spell succeeds, the caster and the target switch current HP and MP scores with each other (both limited by normal maximums).

Casting Swap on multiple targets has a strange but relatively straightforward effect: it simply performs the swap on each target one at a time.

You can Swap with a monster that has much higher HP than your character in order to heal yourself and hurt the monster. You can do the same thing with MP, making Swap sort of the white magic version of Osmose. Or you can Swap with a party member to give or take HP or MP.

Compare Swap to other Spells

Shops: Where Swap is sold – 1 shown

You can freely check these boxes and their status will be saved for the next time you visit the site	The map this shop is located in Map	The type of shop this is; limited shops are closed off at a certain point in the plot; end game shops appear during the closing events of the game Shop
	Mysidia	Spells C

Characters: Who know Swap – 1 shown

You can freely check these boxes and their status will be saved for the next time you visit the site	Temporary characters join your party for limited periods of time; any equipment they are holding when they leave will be lost Name	The character's starting HP total (not all characters begin with full HP); maximum HP has a chance to increase based on the difference between the character's starting and ending HP totals during a single battle HP	The character's starting MP total; maximum MP has a chance to increase based on the difference between the character's starting and ending MP totals during a single battle MP	A character's full strength is added as a bonus to accuracy and ¼ of their strength is added to their weapon's attack; when fighting without a weapon/shield in their secondary hand (including fighting with bare hands), the bonus to attack is instead equal to ½ of the character's strength; strength is increased by attacking physically; any time a character gains a point of strength, they may lose a point of intelligence, and any time they gain a point of spirit, they may lose a point of strength Str	A character's agility determines their base evasion %, modified by the evasion % bonuses of weapons & shields and the evasion % penalties of armor; evasion % also influences turn order, and Firion's evasion % is used to determine whether there is an ambush; a character's agility will increase more quickly if their evasion % is higher Agi	Whenever a character gains HP after a battle, the amount of HP gained is equal to their stamina score; %frac12; of a character's stamina is added as a bonus to magic defense %; stamina has a chance to increase based on the difference between the character's starting and ending HP totals during a single battle; any time a character gains a point of intelligence, they may lose a point of stamina Sta	A character's full intelligence is added as a bonus to the magic accuracy of black magic spells and ¼ of their intelligence is added as a bonus to the power of those spells; intelligence is increased by casting black magic spells; any time a character gains a point of intelligence, they may lose a point of stamina, and any time they gain a point of strength, they may lose a point of intelligence Int	A character's full spirit is added as a bonus to the magic accuracy of white magic spells and ¼ of their spirit is added as a bonus to the power of those spells; spirit is increased by casting white magic spells; any time a character gains a point of spirit, they may lose a point of strength Spr	Whenever a character gains MP after a battle, the amount of MP gained is equal to their magic score; ½ of a character's magic is added as a bonus to magic defense %; magic has a chance to increase based on the difference between the character's starting and ending MP totals during a single battle Mag	Evasion is the number of attempts a character gets to avoid incoming physical attacks; each attempt has a success rate equal to their evasion % Eva	Magic defense is the number of attempts a character gets to mitigate offensive spells or abilities targeting them; each attempt has a success rate equal to their magic defense % Mag. Def.	Which hand is the character's dominant hand; weapons should be placed in this hand, and shields in the other hand Hand	The level of any skills a character has advanced to at least level 2; individual character pages show more precise leveling progress Advanced Skills	The equipment the character joins the party with; rare equipment can otherwise only be found as treasure or won from monsters; unique equipment can otherwise only be found as treasure Equipment	All of the character's known spells and their level when they first join the party; individual character pages show more precise leveling progress Spells
	Minwu	175	103	10	20	20	16	48	40	1×	2×	Right	-	Staff, Copper Cuirass, Conch Shell, Ether	Cure 7, Life 7, Basuna 6, Esuna 3, Barrier 7, Blink 5, Protect 5, Shell 6, Wall 5, Dispel 3, Silence 4, Sap 4, Fog 6, Swap 3, Fear 3, Teleport 1

Monsters: Which use Swap – 2 shown

You can freely check these boxes and their status will be saved for the next time you visit the site	Bosses must be defeated as part of the plot; rare monsters appear in trap rooms for the current map or area; the final boss must be defeated to complete the game; superbosses are the most dangerous monsters in the game, but are optional Name	The rank of the monster; the rank of any given encounter is determined by the lowest rank of any monster in that encounter; rank is used to determine how quickly skills progress toward the next level Rk	The monster's starting and maximum HP total HP	The monster's starting and maximum MP total MP	Each physical hit will deal between one and two times this amount of damage to the target, reduced by the target's defense Att	The number of attacks the monster makes when it attacks physically, and the accuracy of each of those attacks Acc	The status ailment or other effect, if any, that can be inflicted by this monster's attacks; if a monster inflicts multiple status ailments, all are inflicted at once; drain attacks always drain ¹⁄₁₆ of the target's total HP or MP per hit and have an opposite effect against Undead monsters Effect	Each physical hit the monster takes will have its damage reduced by this amount Def	The number of attempts a monster gets to avoid incoming physical attacks, and the evasion % for those attempts Eva	The number of attempts a monster gets to avoid mitigate the effects of offensive spells or abilities, and the magic defense % for those attempts Mag. Def.	The base chance a monster will flee from battle on its turn; this chance is increased when the party has more total HP than all remaining monsters Fear	The average gil value of the money or items this monster can drop when defeated Avg. Drop	The families this monster belongs to; Undead monsters are damaged by healing spells and reverse the effects of drain attacks used against them; some weapons get a +20 bonus to attack when used against certain monster families (this does not stack with the bonus for using an elemental weapon against a monster that is weak against that element) Family	The elements this monster is weak against; spells of these elements always have their maximum effect and deal double damage; elemental weapons get a +20 bonus to attack when used monsters weak against any of their elements (this does not stack with the bonus for using a weapon against a monster of a family it is especially effective against); a dagger (†) indicates that this monster also resists this element, so damage will not be doubled Weakness	The elements this monster resists or absorbs; absorbed elements are marked with an asterisk (*); spells of resisted elements are always fully resisted and deal half damage, whle spells of absorbed elements have no effect and heal the target; individual monster pages indicate which elements are resisted and which are absorbed Resists/Absorbs
	Changer	3	140	80	35	2×70%	-	25	1×50%	3×40%	−70%	200 gil	Werebeast	Mind	Death, Body
	Brain	5	240	100	40	4×75%	-	35	1×60%	3×50%	−85%	400 gil	Werebeast	Mind	Death, Body