KO Status - Final Fantasy II (Famicom) - Guides

KO

Removes a character from battle; cured with Life or Phoenix Down

Spells Death, Teleport, Warp

Monsters Coeurl, Hecteyes

KO is a status that can be inflicted in two ways. Some spells, abilities, or monster attacks can inflict KO, and being reduced to 0 HP does the same. There are a number of ways to restore a character to life, though KO'd monsters are gone for good. The most obvious way is with the Life spell or Phoenix Down item, or a sanctuary in town. You can also restore a KO'd target to life with 1 HP with Esuna 6 outside of combat, or 7 inside of combat. Unfortunately, you can't restore multiple characters to life during combat, because multi-target spells do not actually hit KO'd characters. You'll need to bring them back one at a time. This restriction does not apply outside of combat.

Compare KO to other Status Ailments

Items: Which can cure KO – 1 shown

You can freely check these boxes and their status will be saved for the next time you visit the site	Rare items can only be found as treasure or won from monsters; unique items can only be found as treasure Name	The spell cast when this item is used in battle, and the level it is used at; specific details on the item's battle effect are found on individual item pages Spell	The target of items is preset and cannot be changed Target	Items may break after being used in battle; in some cases the item always breaks, and in other cases there is a random chance of the item breaking each time it is used Break	The cost to buy this item in a shop Price	The amount of gil received when selling this item in a shop Value
	Phoenix Down	Phoenix Down 1	Self	Yes	5,000 gil	2,500 gil

Spells: Which can cure KO – 2 shown

You can freely check these boxes and their status will be saved for the next time you visit the site	Rare spell tomes can only be found as treasure or won from monsters; unique spell tomes that only be found as treasure; special abilities are used by monsters or triggered by items or weapons and cannot be learned from tomes; bugged spells have either no effect or a much lesser effect than intended Name	Whether this spell is black magic, white magic, or a special ability; characters cannot learn to cast special abilities Type	For damaging or healing spells, each spell success causes or heals 1–2 times this amount of damage; non-damaging spells heal targets that absorb their element based on the spell's listed power Power	When cast by a character, the spell grants a bonus to magic accuracy; spells or abilities used by monsters use a preset base magic accuracy value instead of the usual spell magic accuracy Mag. Acc.	The status ailments inflicted or cured if the spell is successful, if any; if a number is shown, the spell requires that number of successes to cure the listed status ailment Status	The elemental or family nature of the spell; weakness to the element causes the spell to have maximum effect and doubles the damage dealt; resistance to the element causes the spell to have minimal effects and halves damage; if the target absorbs the element, the spell is treated like the Cure spell and other effects are ignored; monsters of the listed family take double damage Element/Family	The cost to buy this spell's tome in a shop Price	The amount of gil received when selling this spell's tome in a shop Value	When used as an items in battle, spell tomes cast their spell at a high level, but are lost in the process; view individual spell pages for the base magic accuracy and targets of the tome's battle effect Tome Effect
	Esuna	White	1	+50%	Darkness (1), Poison (2), Curse (3), Amnesia (4), Toad (5), Stone (6), KO (7)	-	800 gil	400 gil	Esuna 8
	Phoenix Down	Special	-	+100%	KO	-	-	-	-

Spells: Which inflict KO – 3 shown

You can freely check these boxes and their status will be saved for the next time you visit the site	Rare spell tomes can only be found as treasure or won from monsters; unique spell tomes that only be found as treasure; special abilities are used by monsters or triggered by items or weapons and cannot be learned from tomes; bugged spells have either no effect or a much lesser effect than intended Name	Whether this spell is black magic, white magic, or a special ability; characters cannot learn to cast special abilities Type	For damaging or healing spells, each spell success causes or heals 1–2 times this amount of damage; non-damaging spells heal targets that absorb their element based on the spell's listed power Power	When cast by a character, the spell grants a bonus to magic accuracy; spells or abilities used by monsters use a preset base magic accuracy value instead of the usual spell magic accuracy Mag. Acc.	The elemental or family nature of the spell; weakness to the element causes the spell to have maximum effect and doubles the damage dealt; resistance to the element causes the spell to have minimal effects and halves damage; if the target absorbs the element, the spell is treated like the Cure spell and other effects are ignored; monsters of the listed family take double damage Element/Family	The cost to buy this spell's tome in a shop Price	The amount of gil received when selling this spell's tome in a shop Value	When used as an items in battle, spell tomes cast their spell at a high level, but are lost in the process; view individual spell pages for the base magic accuracy and targets of the tome's battle effect Tome Effect
	Death	Black	5	+10%	Death	10,000 gil	5,000 gil	Death 6
	Warp	Black	5	+10%	Matter	1,500 gil	750 gil	Warp 6
	Teleport	White	5	+0%	Matter	1,500 gil	750 gil	Teleport 8

Monsters: With KO-inflicting Attacks – 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
	Hecteyes	6	1,140	300	85	7×90%	KO	70	1×70%	5×70%	−166%	1,800 gil	Flying, Earth	-	Matter, Mind, Death, Body, Fire, Lightning, Poison*, Ice
	Coeurl	6	1,000	300	40	7×75%	KO	60	1×70%	5×40%	−161%	1,450 gil	-	-	-