Auto-Abilities for Weapons
A full list of the Auto-Abilities that you can add to your character’s weapons is included below. The Auto-Abilities that you can add to your armor are different and can be found in the Auto-Abilities for Armor section.
These Auto-Abilities are also different than the Abilities that characters can learn by progressing through the Sphere Grid. Head to the Abilities section to find those listings.
The Auto-Abilities are listed in the same order as they are within the game. Click on the “Alphabetical” tab to view them in alphabetical order instead.
Sensor
- Description:
- “View enemy data during battle.”
- Effect:
- Can be used during a battle to reveal the maximum HP, elemental characteristics and status effects.
- Customization:
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Ability Sphere (x2)
Piercing
- Description:
- “Deal normal damage to armored enemies.”
- Effect:
- Allows attacks to deal full damage to “Armored” enemies.
- Customization:
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Lv. 2 Key Sphere (x1)
First Strike
- Description:
- “Act first at beginning of battle.”
- Effect:
- Allows the character to have the first move in battle.
- Customization:
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Return Sphere (x1)
Initiative
- Description:
- “Raises party’s chances for a preemptive strike.”
- Effect:
- Removes the chance for an enemy to ambush your team and increases the likelihood of you initiating a preemptive strike to start the battle.
- Customization:
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Chocobo Feather (x6)
Firestrike
- Description:
- “Adds fire element to attacks and skills.”
- Effect:
- Causes regular attacks to include a Fire-element. This can have different a different effect depending on the enemy’s elemental alignment.
- Customization:
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Bomb Fragment (x4)
Lightningstrike
- Description:
- “Adds lightning element to attacks and skills.”
- Effect:
- Causes regular attacks to include a Thunder-element. This can have different a different effect depending on the enemy’s elemental alignment.
- Customization:
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Electro Marble (x4)
Waterstrike
- Description:
- “Adds water element to attacks and skills.”
- Effect:
- Causes regular attacks to include a Water-element. This can have different a different effect depending on the enemy’s elemental alignment.
- Customization:
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Fish Scale (x4)
Icestrike
- Description:
- “Adds ice element to attacks and skills.”
- Effect:
- Causes regular attacks to include a Ice-element. This can have different a different effect depending on the enemy’s elemental alignment.
- Customization:
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Antarctic Wind (x4)
Darktouch
- Description:
- “Sometimes adds darkness to attacks and skills.”
- Effect:
- Causes regular attacks to sometimes inflict the Darkness status effect. This will only work if the enemy is susceptible to Darkness.
- Customization:
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Eye Drops (x60)
Darkstrike
- Description:
- “Almost always adds darkness to attacks and skills.”
- Effect:
- Causes regular attacks to nearly always inflict the Darkness status effect. This will only work if the enemy is susceptible to Darkness.
- Customization:
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Smoke Bomb (x20)
Silencetouch
- Description:
- “Sometimes adds silence to attacks and skills.”
- Effect:
- Causes regular attacks to sometimes inflict the Silence status effect. This will only work if the enemy is susceptible to Silence.
- Customization:
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Echo Screen (x60)
Silencestrike
- Description:
- “Almost always adds silence to attacks and skills.”
- Effect:
- Causes regular attacks to nearly always inflict the Silence status effect. This will only work if the enemy is susceptible to Silence.
- Customization:
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Silence Grenade (x20)
Sleeptouch
- Description:
- “Sometimes adds sleep to attacks and skills.”
- Effect:
- Causes regular attacks to sometimes inflict the Sleep status effect. This will only work if the enemy is susceptible to Sleep.
- Customization:
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Sleeping Powder (x10)
Sleepstrike
- Description:
- “Almost always adds sleep to attacks and skills.”
- Effect:
- Causes regular attacks to nearly always inflict the Sleep status effect. This will only work if the enemy is susceptible to Sleep.
- Customization:
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Dream Powder (x16)
Poisontouch
- Description:
- “Sometimes adds poison to attacks and skills.”
- Effect:
- Causes regular attacks to sometimes inflict the Poison status effect. This will only work if the enemy is susceptible to Poison.
- Customization:
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Antidote (x99)
Poisonstrike
- Description:
- “Almost always adds poison to attacks and skills.”
- Effect:
- Causes regular attacks to nearly always inflict the Poison status effect. This will only work if the enemy is susceptible to Poison.
- Customization:
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Poison Fang (x24)
Stonetouch
- Description:
- “Sometimes adds petrification to attacks and skills.”
- Effect:
- Causes regular attacks to sometimes inflict the Petrification status effect. This will only work if the enemy is susceptible to Petrification.
- Customization:
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Petrify Grenade (x10)
Stonestrike
- Description:
- “Almost always adds petrification to attacks and skills.”
- Effect:
- Causes regular attacks to nearly always inflict the Petrification status effect. This will only work if the enemy is susceptible to Petrification.
- Customization:
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Petrify Grenade (x60)
Deathtouch
- Description:
- “Sometimes adds death to attacks and skills.”
- Effect:
- Causes regular attacks to sometimes instantly kill a target. This will only work if the enemy is susceptible to instant death.
- Customization:
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Farplane Shadow (x30)
Deathstrike
- Description:
- “Almost always adds death to attacks and skills.”
- Effect:
- Causes regular attacks to nearly always instantly kill the target. This will only work if the enemy is susceptible to instant death.
- Customization:
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Farplane Wind (x60)
Zombietouch
- Description:
- “Sometimes adds zombie to attacks and skills.”
- Effect:
- Causes regular attacks to sometimes inflict the Zombie status effect. This will only work if the enemy is susceptible to Zombie.
- Customization:
-
Holy Water (x70)
Zombiestrike
- Description:
- “Almost always adds zombie to attacks and skills.”
- Effect:
- Causes regular attacks to nearly always inflict the Zombie status effect. This will only work if the enemy is susceptible to Zombie.
- Customization:
-
Candle of Life (x30)
Slowtouch
- Description:
- “Sometimes adds slow to attacks and skills.”
- Effect:
- Causes regular attacks to sometimes inflict the Slow status effect. This will only work if the enemy is susceptible to Slow.
- Customization:
-
Silver Hourglass (x16)
Slowstrike
- Description:
- “Almost always adds slow to attacks and skills.”
- Effect:
- Causes regular attacks to nearly always inflict the Slow status effect. This will only work if the enemy is susceptible to Slow.
- Customization:
-
Gold Hourglass (x30)
Distill Power
- Description:
- “Adds Power Distiller effect to attacks and skills.”
- Effect:
-
Causes any defeated fiends to drop Power Spheres at the end of the battle.
- Customization:
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Power Sphere (x2)
Distill Mana
- Description:
- “Adds Mana Distiller effect to attacks and skills.”
- Effect:
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Causes any defeated fiends to drop Mana Spheres at the end of the battle.
- Customization:
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Mana Sphere (x2)
Distill Speed
- Description:
- “Adds Speed Distiller effect to attacks and skills.”
- Effect:
-
Causes any defeated fiends to drop Speed Spheres at the end of the battle.
- Customization:
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Speed Sphere (x2)
Distill Ability
- Description:
- “Adds Ability Distiller effect to attacks and skills.”
- Effect:
-
Causes any defeated fiends to drop Ability Spheres at the end of the battle.
- Customization:
-
Ability Sphere (x2)
Strength +3%, +5%, +10% and +20%
- Description:
- “Enhances physical attack power by X%.”
- Effect:
- Increases the physical attack damage done by regular attacks by either 3%, 5%, 10% and 20%.
- Customization:
-
3%: Power Sphere (x3)
5%:Stamina Spring (x2)
10%:
Skill Sphere (x1)
20%:Supreme Gem (x4)
Magic +3%, +5%, +10% and +20%
- Description:
- “Enhances magic attack power by X%.”
- Effect:
- Increases the magical attack damage done by regular attacks by either 3%, 5%, 10% and 20%.
- Customization:
-
3%: Mana Sphere (x3)
5%:Mana Spring (x2)
10%:Blk Magic Sphere (x1)
20%:Supreme Gem (x4)
Counterattack
- Description:
- “Strike back after being physically attacked.”
- Effect:
- Automatically causes the party member hit to retaliate with a physical attack.
- Customization:
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Friend Sphere (x1)
Evade & Counter
- Description:
- “Evade physical attack and strike back.”
- Effect:
- Allows the character to evade a physical attack and then counterattack the attacker.
- Customization:
-
Teleport Sphere (x1)
Magic Counter
- Description:
- “Strike back after being attacked with magic.”
- Effect:
- Allows the character to counterattack when hit by a magical attack.
- Customization:
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Shining Gem (x16)
Magic Booster
- Description:
- “Use more MP to heighten spell power.”
- Effect:
- Increases the attack power of magic by 50% while also increases the MP cost of magic spells by 100%.
- Customization:
-
Turbo Ether (x30)
Alchemy
- Description:
- “Doubles the potency of recovery items.”
- Effect:
- Increases the effect of recovery items by 100%.
- Customization:
-
Healing Water (x4)
Half MP Cost
- Description:
- “Reduces MP cost of spells by half.”
- Effect:
- Reduces the cost of magic spells by 50%.
- Customization:
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Twin Stars (x20)
One MP Cost
- Description:
- “Reduces MP cost of spells to 1.”
- Effect:
- Reduces the cost of magic spells to 1 MP per cast.
- Customization:
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Three Stars (x20)
Double AP
- Description:
- “Doubles amount of AP earned.”
- Effect:
- Increases the amount of AP earned after a battle has concluded by 100%.
- Customization:
-
Megalixir (x20)
Triple AP
- Description:
- “Triples amount of AP earned.”
- Effect:
- Increases the amount of AP earned after a battle has concluded by 200%.
- Customization:
-
Wings to Discovery (x50)
Overdrive → AP
- Description:
- “Earn more AP instead of charging Overdrive gauge.”
- Effect:
- Increases the AP that you gain after a battle rather than having the character charge their Overdrive gauge.
- Customization:
-
Door to Tomorrow (x10)
SOS Overdrive
- Description:
- “Charges Overdrive at double speed when HP is low.”
- Effect:
- Causes the character’s Overdrive gauge to fill at twice the speed when the character has low HP.
- Customization:
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Gambler’s Spirit (x20)
Double Overdrive
- Description:
- “Charges Overdrive at double speed.”
- Effect:
- Causes the character’s Overdrive gauge to fill at twice the speed at all times.
- Customization:
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Underdog’s Secret (x30)
Triple Overdrive
- Description:
- “Charges Overdrive at triple speed.”
- Effect:
- Causes the character’s Overdrive gauge to fill at three times the speed at all times.
- Customization:
-
Winning Formula (x30)
Gillionaire
- Description:
- “Doubles amount of Gil earned.”
- Effect:
- Increases the amount of Gil earned at the conclusion of a battle by 100%.
- Customization:
-
Designer Wallet (x30)
Break Damage Limit
- Description:
- “Allows max damage to exceed 9999.”
- Effect:
- Increases the amount of damage that a character can deal with an attack from 9,999 to 99,999. This affects attacks, magic and healing spells.
- Customization:
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Dark Matter (x60)
Capture
- Effect:
- Allows characters to capture fiends in order to complete the Monster Arena side quests.
- Customization:
- -
No AP
- Effect:
- No AP is gained at the conclusion of a battle.
- Customization:
- -
Alchemy
- Description:
- “Doubles the potency of recovery items.”
- Effect:
- Increases the effect of recovery items by 100%.
- Customization:
-
Healing Water (x4)
Break Damage Limit
- Description:
- “Allows max damage to exceed 9999.”
- Effect:
- Increases the amount of damage that a character can deal with an attack from 9,999 to 99,999. This affects attacks, magic and healing spells.
- Customization:
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Dark Matter (x60)
Capture
- Effect:
- Allows characters to capture fiends in order to complete the Monster Arena side quests.
- Customization:
- -
Counterattack
- Description:
- “Strike back after being physically attacked.”
- Effect:
- Automatically causes the party member hit to retaliate with a physical attack.
- Customization:
-
Friend Sphere (x1)
Darkstrike
- Description:
- “Almost always adds darkness to attacks and skills.”
- Effect:
- Causes regular attacks to nearly always inflict the Darkness status effect. This will only work if the enemy is susceptible to Darkness.
- Customization:
-
Smoke Bomb (x20)
Darktouch
- Description:
- “Sometimes adds darkness to attacks and skills.”
- Effect:
- Causes regular attacks to sometimes inflict the Darkness status effect. This will only work if the enemy is susceptible to Darkness.
- Customization:
-
Eye Drops (x60)
Deathstrike
- Description:
- “Almost always adds death to attacks and skills.”
- Effect:
- Causes regular attacks to nearly always instantly kill the target. This will only work if the enemy is susceptible to instant death.
- Customization:
-
Farplane Wind (x60)
Deathtouch
- Description:
- “Sometimes adds death to attacks and skills.”
- Effect:
- Causes regular attacks to sometimes instantly kill a target. This will only work if the enemy is susceptible to instant death.
- Customization:
-
Farplane Shadow (x30)
Distill Ability
- Description:
- “Adds Ability Distiller effect to attacks and skills.”
- Effect:
-
Causes any defeated fiends to drop Ability Spheres at the end of the battle.
- Customization:
-
Ability Sphere (x2)
Distill Mana
- Description:
- “Adds Mana Distiller effect to attacks and skills.”
- Effect:
-
Causes any defeated fiends to drop Mana Spheres at the end of the battle.
- Customization:
-
Mana Sphere (x2)
Distill Power
- Description:
- “Adds Power Distiller effect to attacks and skills.”
- Effect:
-
Causes any defeated fiends to drop Power Spheres at the end of the battle.
- Customization:
-
Power Sphere (x2)
Distill Speed
- Description:
- “Adds Speed Distiller effect to attacks and skills.”
- Effect:
-
Causes any defeated fiends to drop Speed Spheres at the end of the battle.
- Customization:
-
Speed Sphere (x2)
Double AP
- Description:
- “Doubles amount of AP earned.”
- Effect:
- Increases the amount of AP earned after a battle has concluded by 100%.
- Customization:
-
Megalixir (x20)
Double Overdrive
- Description:
- “Charges Overdrive at double speed.”
- Effect:
- Causes the character’s Overdrive gauge to fill at twice the speed at all times.
- Customization:
-
Underdog’s Secret (x30)
Evade & Counter
- Description:
- “Evade physical attack and strike back.”
- Effect:
- Allows the character to evade a physical attack and then counterattack the attacker.
- Customization:
-
Teleport Sphere (x1)
Firestrike
- Description:
- “Adds fire element to attacks and skills.”
- Effect:
- Causes regular attacks to include a Fire-element. This can have different a different effect depending on the enemy’s elemental alignment.
- Customization:
-
Bomb Fragment (x4)
First Strike
- Description:
- “Act first at beginning of battle.”
- Effect:
- Allows the character to have the first move in battle.
- Customization:
-
Return Sphere (x1)
Gillionaire
- Description:
- “Doubles amount of Gil earned.”
- Effect:
- Increases the amount of Gil earned at the conclusion of a battle by 100%.
- Customization:
-
Designer Wallet (x30)
Half MP Cost
- Description:
- “Reduces MP cost of spells by half.”
- Effect:
- Reduces the cost of magic spells by 50%.
- Customization:
-
Twin Stars (x20)
Icestrike
- Description:
- “Adds ice element to attacks and skills.”
- Effect:
- Causes regular attacks to include a Ice-element. This can have different a different effect depending on the enemy’s elemental alignment.
- Customization:
-
Antarctic Wind (x4)
Initiative
- Description:
- “Raises party’s chances for a preemptive strike.”
- Effect:
- Removes the chance for an enemy to ambush your team and increases the likelihood of you initiating a preemptive strike to start the battle.
- Customization:
-
Chocobo Feather (x6)
Lightningstrike
- Description:
- “Adds lightning element to attacks and skills.”
- Effect:
- Causes regular attacks to include a Thunder-element. This can have different a different effect depending on the enemy’s elemental alignment.
- Customization:
-
Electro Marble (x4)
Magic +3%, +5%, +10% and +20%
- Description:
- “Enhances magic attack power by X%.”
- Effect:
- Increases the magical attack damage done by regular attacks by either 3%, 5%, 10% and 20%.
- Customization:
-
3%: Mana Sphere (x3)
5%:Mana Spring (x2)
10%:Blk Magic Sphere (x1)
20%:Supreme Gem (x4)
Magic Booster
- Description:
- “Use more MP to heighten spell power.”
- Effect:
- Increases the attack power of magic by 50% while also increases the MP cost of magic spells by 100%.
- Customization:
-
Turbo Ether (x30)
Magic Counter
- Description:
- “Strike back after being attacked with magic.”
- Effect:
- Allows the character to counterattack when hit by a magical attack.
- Customization:
-
Shining Gem (x16)
No AP
- Effect:
- No AP is gained at the conclusion of a battle.
- Customization:
- -
One MP Cost
- Description:
- “Reduces MP cost of spells to 1.”
- Effect:
- Reduces the cost of magic spells to 1 MP per cast.
- Customization:
-
Three Stars (x20)
Overdrive → AP
- Description:
- “Earn more AP instead of charging Overdrive gauge.”
- Effect:
- Increases the AP that you gain after a battle rather than having the character charge their Overdrive gauge.
- Customization:
-
Door to Tomorrow (x10)
Piercing
- Description:
- “Deal normal damage to armored enemies.”
- Effect:
- Allows attacks to deal full damage to “Armored” enemies.
- Customization:
-
Lv. 2 Key Sphere (x1)
Poisonstrike
- Description:
- “Almost always adds poison to attacks and skills.”
- Effect:
- Causes regular attacks to nearly always inflict the Poison status effect. This will only work if the enemy is susceptible to Poison.
- Customization:
-
Poison Fang (x24)
Poisontouch
- Description:
- “Sometimes adds poison to attacks and skills.”
- Effect:
- Causes regular attacks to sometimes inflict the Poison status effect. This will only work if the enemy is susceptible to Poison.
- Customization:
-
Antidote (x99)
Sensor
- Description:
- “View enemy data during battle.”
- Effect:
- Can be used during a battle to reveal the maximum HP, elemental characteristics and status effects.
- Customization:
-
Ability Sphere (x2)
Silencestrike
- Description:
- “Almost always adds silence to attacks and skills.”
- Effect:
- Causes regular attacks to nearly always inflict the Silence status effect. This will only work if the enemy is susceptible to Silence.
- Customization:
-
Silence Grenade (x20)
Silencetouch
- Description:
- “Sometimes adds silence to attacks and skills.”
- Effect:
- Causes regular attacks to sometimes inflict the Silence status effect. This will only work if the enemy is susceptible to Silence.
- Customization:
-
Echo Screen (x60)
Sleepstrike
- Description:
- “Almost always adds sleep to attacks and skills.”
- Effect:
- Causes regular attacks to nearly always inflict the Sleep status effect. This will only work if the enemy is susceptible to Sleep.
- Customization:
-
Dream Powder (x16)
Sleeptouch
- Description:
- “Sometimes adds sleep to attacks and skills.”
- Effect:
- Causes regular attacks to sometimes inflict the Sleep status effect. This will only work if the enemy is susceptible to Sleep.
- Customization:
-
Sleeping Powder (x10)
Slowstrike
- Description:
- “Almost always adds slow to attacks and skills.”
- Effect:
- Causes regular attacks to nearly always inflict the Slow status effect. This will only work if the enemy is susceptible to Slow.
- Customization:
-
Gold Hourglass (x30)
Slowtouch
- Description:
- “Sometimes adds slow to attacks and skills.”
- Effect:
- Causes regular attacks to sometimes inflict the Slow status effect. This will only work if the enemy is susceptible to Slow.
- Customization:
-
Silver Hourglass (x16)
SOS Overdrive
- Description:
- “Charges Overdrive at double speed when HP is low.”
- Effect:
- Causes the character’s Overdrive gauge to fill at twice the speed when the character has low HP.
- Customization:
-
Gambler’s Spirit (x20)
Stonestrike
- Description:
- “Almost always adds petrification to attacks and skills.”
- Effect:
- Causes regular attacks to nearly always inflict the Petrification status effect. This will only work if the enemy is susceptible to Petrification.
- Customization:
-
Petrify Grenade (x60)
Stonetouch
- Description:
- “Sometimes adds petrification to attacks and skills.”
- Effect:
- Causes regular attacks to sometimes inflict the Petrification status effect. This will only work if the enemy is susceptible to Petrification.
- Customization:
-
Petrify Grenade (x10)
Strength +3%, +5%, +10% and +20%
- Description:
- “Enhances physical attack power by X%.”
- Effect:
- Increases the physical attack damage done by regular attacks by either 3%, 5%, 10% and 20%.
- Customization:
-
3%: Power Sphere (x3)
5%:Stamina Spring (x2)
10%:Skill Sphere (x1)
20%:Supreme Gem (x4)
Triple AP
- Description:
- “Triples amount of AP earned.”
- Effect:
- Increases the amount of AP earned after a battle has concluded by 200%.
- Customization:
-
Wings to Discovery (x50)
Triple Overdrive
- Description:
- “Charges Overdrive at triple speed.”
- Effect:
- Causes the character’s Overdrive gauge to fill at three times the speed at all times.
- Customization:
-
Winning Formula (x30)
Waterstrike
- Description:
- “Adds water element to attacks and skills.”
- Effect:
- Causes regular attacks to include a Water-element. This can have different a different effect depending on the enemy’s elemental alignment.
- Customization:
-
Fish Scale (x4)
Zombiestrike
- Description:
- “Almost always adds zombie to attacks and skills.”
- Effect:
- Causes regular attacks to nearly always inflict the Zombie status effect. This will only work if the enemy is susceptible to Zombie.
- Customization:
-
Candle of Life (x30)
Zombietouch
- Description:
- “Sometimes adds zombie to attacks and skills.”
- Effect:
- Causes regular attacks to sometimes inflict the Zombie status effect. This will only work if the enemy is susceptible to Zombie.
- Customization:
-
Holy Water (x70)