Steal

Base Type Command
Attack Type Physical
Target One Foe
Hit Rate Always Hits
Used By Dadaluma, Harvester, Punisher, Ursus
The base success rate of Steal is 50% when stealing from a Monster of the same Level as the thief. Being higher or lower Level than the target will increase or decrease the chance by 1% per Level.

If you successfully Steal, there is a 1/8 chance you Steal from the rare Item slot; otherwise you Steal from the common Item slot. If that slot is empty, the Steal fails. You can only Steal one Item from each enemy.

When Monsters Steal, they will take large amounts of GP from your coffers. The full amount will be added to the rewards at the end of battle unless that enemy runs away before being defeated.
Compare Steal to other Abilities
Monsters: Which can use Steal – 4 shown
World of Ruin monsters cannot be found in the World of Balance; unique monsters are found as set encounters or treasure guardians, but never in a random battle; legendary dragons are unique monsters that are found in the World of Ruin; special bosses have unique music and immense power; the final bosses are the last creatures fought in the game
Name
The estimated average amount of damage this ability will deal to a target with 128 Mag.Def when used by this monster; actual damage will vary considerably based on the target's Defense or Mag.Def and other factors, but this is a good measure of the relative danger of this ability; a dagger (†) indicates that the ability ignores defense; fractional damage estimates are based on the maximum HP of characters of a similar level to the monster
Damage		 HP MP LV Exp. GP Elements
Most monsters have a special attack that is a modified basic attack; this attack is sometimes referred to as 'Special' regardless of its name
Special Attack
'Battle' refers to the effects of the monster's normal attack; HP draining, and MP draining attacks are indicated by their text color
Special Attack Effect		 Speed Stamina Mag.Pwr Bat.Pwr
The estimated average amount of damage this monster's attack will deal to a target with 128 Defense; actual damage will vary considerably based on the target's Defense and other factors, but this is a good measure of the relative danger of monster's attacks
Damage
The estimated average amount of damage this monster's special attack will deal to a target with 128 Defense; actual damage will vary considerably based on the target's Defense and other factors
S.A. Dmg.		 Defense
The percentage of base damage (based on 128 Defense) this monster takes from physical attacks due to its Defense score; a '1' indicates that the monster takes 1 damage from any physical attack
Phys. Vuln.
Evade % is listed in gray to indicate that, due to a bug, this value is not used; MBlock% is used to evade physical attacks instead
Evade %
 Mag.Def
The percentage of base damage (based on 128 Mag.Def) this monster takes from magic attacks due to its Mag.Def score; a '1' indicates that the monster takes 1 damage from any magic attack
Mag.. Vuln.
Due to a bug, MBlock% is used to evade physical attacks instead of Evade %
MBlock%		 Hit Rate
The items that can be stolen from this monster; even if a steal attempt would be successful, if no item is selected it will fail and can be attempted again
Steal
The items that can be dropped by this monster; there is always a chance of a drop if an item is listed
Win
Any special properties the monster has
Notes
Status effects that are always active on this monster as well as those it is immune to
Statuses
Harvester - 428 85 16 291 314 Weak pt: Poison Sickle Battle ×1.5 50 16 10 13 53 80 105 117% 0 150 82% 0 100 Goggles (7/8), DragoonBoots (1/8) Barrier Ring (1/8) Human Float, Haste
Prevent: Imp, Slow, Stop
Dadaluma - 3,270 1,005 22 - 1,210 Weak pt: Poison Sweep Battle/Seizure 30 22 3 12 96 96 85 133% 0 143 88% 10 100 Jewel Ring (7/8), Sneak Ring (1/8) ThiefKnife (7/8), Head Band (1/8) Critical Hits if Imp, Human Prevent: Zombie, Poison, Wound, Near Fatal, Berserk, Muddled, Seizure
Ursus - 2,409 74 34 882 2,000 Weak pt: Fire Scratch Battle ×1.5 34 20 10 15 252 378 165 70% 110 140 90% 0 100 Sneak Ring (1/8) - Critical Hits if Imp Prevent: Zombie, Poison, Mute, Muddled, Clear
Punisher - 2,191 136 35 1,242 3,000 Weak pt: Poison Pummel Battle ×2 35 20 10 28 382 764 100 121% 115 155 78% 0 100 Rising Sun (7/8), Bone Club (1/8) - Critical Hits if Imp, Human Haste
Prevent: Imp, Psyche, Slow, Stop
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Steal

Attack Type Physical
Target One Foe
Gogo can assign this command
Used By Dadaluma, Harvester, Punisher, Ursus
The base success rate of Steal is 50% when stealing from a Monster of the same Level as the thief. Being higher or lower Level than the target will increase or decrease the chance by 1% per Level.

If you successfully Steal, there is a 1/8 chance you Steal from the rare Item slot; otherwise you Steal from the common Item slot. If that slot is empty, the Steal fails. You can only Steal one Item from each enemy.

Steal

Steal

Description Steals an item from the target
Materia Steal, Master Command
A Character equipped with a Steal Materia can use this Command to try to take an Item from a Monster. Note that if you successfully Steal something, the Monster will not drop anything: you can only get one Item per Monster. The rate at which you might get any given item is listed on the Monster's card, but these rates are affected by the relative levels of the Character using Steal and the Monster. If you are the same Level as the Monster, the rates can be interpreted as written. You can see the base rates (which are based on being 10 Levels higher than the monster) of each Item by hovering over the percentage. The Steal rates are essentially modified by ±2% per Level: at +60 Levels (or when equipped with the Sneak Glove), the success rate is double the base rate.

If a Monster holds multiple Items, the Steal rates do not all multiply the same way. This is because each Item is checked in turn, and you only get the first one that succeeds. As a result, Items later in the list can actually become more difficult to Steal as your Level increases, if the rates become high enough that Steal always yields some Item.

Steal Materia

Type Command
Description Equips “Steal” command
Dexterity +2
Price 1,200 gil Master Value 84,000 gil
Level Ability AP
★ Steal -
★★ Mug 40,000
★★★ MASTER 50,000
Shops Kalm Materia Shop
Found in Midgar Sector 6

Steal

Type Physical
Attack% 5%
Target One enemy
Special Steals item
Used by Vice, Prowler

Steal (Lv1)

Description Activated with 10% success after defeating a monster in BMS. Works once per stage and guarantees you get the monster's item.
Type Reactive
CP 16
Subtype Probability
Learned With Thief's Tome

Steal (Lv2)

Description Activated with 20% success after defeating a monster in BMS. Works once per stage and guarantees you get the monster's item.
Type Reactive
CP 20
Subtype Probability

Steal (Lv3)

Description Activated with 30% success after defeating a monster in BMS. Works once per stage and guarantees you get the monster's item.
Type Reactive
CP 24
Subtype Probability