Status Effects
Status effects are quite the biggie in Fossil Battles. Some are good, and you can use them on your teammates. Some are bad and the enemy that you're battling can use on you. You can have more than one on your vivosaur at a time. There are specific icons for each one. There is a silver and a gold version of the icon for each status effect icon. Gold simply indicates more powerful than silver. Remember that status effects only work on vivosaurs in the AZ (Attack Zone). Here are the basics:
The Bad Ones:
Poison: This deals a whole lot of damage at the end of its turn. This one works especially well if the vivosaur that is poisoned, is also excited. This is my personal favorite.
Sleep: When applied to a vivosaur, that vivosaur cannot use skills or swap positions. If you attack a sleeping enemy, they'll wake right up.
Scare: This scares the vivosaur, making some of his skills unavailable. This is a good one to use on opponents that like to use specific attacks.
Excite: This excites the vivosaur, making him unable to swap positions. This is good if you want to keep an enemy from going into EZ.
Confuse: This confuses the vivosaur, making him uncontrollable. You never know what a confused vivosaur will do next.
Enrage: This one is tricky, because it raises attack but seriously drops accuracy. It makes it harder for a vivosaur to land a hit.
The Good Ones:
Counter: This lets the target do a little damage back after it gets hit. This effect can only be applied to the vivosaur that has it.
Enflame: This raises attack. Pretty simple, but quite effective.
Harden: This raises defense. This is good if you don't have a lot of LP on you.
Quicken: This makes it easier to dodge enemy attacks.
Of course, your opponent can use status effects, too. So when you get a bad status effect, what can you do? Well, you have two options. The first is always available, unless the status effect is Sleep. The second always works on anything, but you need to have a vivosaur that has that specific skill.
Number One: Swap. If you swap, the bad status effect goes away. Unfortunately, any good status effects will go away too.
Number Two: Use a skill that removes status effects. There aren't many, but some vivosaurs can remove all effects from the targeted vivosaur with a skill called Neutralize.
