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Final Fantasy Tactics Weather Effects Explained

Weather can have an impact on certain battles in Final Fantasy Tactics - The Ivalice Chronicles such as decreasing movement or increasing elemental damage. Check out a list of all weather effects in the game here!

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List of Weather Effects

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Weather Effect
Sunny None
Cloudy None
Rain • Increased Lightning damage
• Decreased Fire damage
• Decreased movement
Thunderstorm • Increased Lightning damage
• Increased Wind damage
• Decreased Fire damage
• Decreased movement
Snow • Increased Ice damage
• Decreased Fire damage
• Decreased movement

The Movement ability Ignore Weather will allow you to negate certain movement penalties caused by weather. Units can learn it from the Mystic job.

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Can Impact Performance in Battle

Rain Effect
The weather during battle can influence your party's damage output and movement. Once a battle begins, the map will gain a random weather effect that will last throughout the encounter.

Indoor battles, which primarily take place during the main story and in Midlight's Deep, do not have weather effects.

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