Statuses & Keywords

The 7 Statuses

Statuses tick each checkup (the end-of-turn resolution). Five are negative, two are positive.

Status	Type	Effect
Poisoned	Negative	Damage over time, up to 5 stacks (about 0.5 per stack each checkup). Bypasses the overshield.
Withered	Negative	ATK reduced ("wilt"), up to a cap.
Bound	Negative	Can't retreat; ticks down on its own.
Dormant	Negative	Skips its next attack.
Blighted	Negative	Cannot be healed for a few checkups.
Warded	Positive	Blocks new above-ground statuses (poison, blight, dormant) for 2 checkups. From a Cloche.
Staked	Positive	Bind immunity for 2 checkups. From a Stake.

A key trap: poison bypasses the overshield entirely, so a plant behind a full shield can still be poisoned to death.

The 4 Trait Keywords

Keywords are baked into a species and are always on.

• Toxic — attacks force a poison rider, and the plant triggers the invasive toxic guardrail (see below).
• Thorns — deals recoil damage (~8) back to any attacker that hits it.
• Carnivory — attacks lifesteal ~50% of damage dealt (the sundew family).
• Succulence — regenerates ~1.5% max HP each checkup in any weather, metered against Sun (the aloe, cactus, and agave families).

Status immunities (a separate kind of resistance)

Apart from the damage type chart (the succession wheel), a few effects grant immunity to specific statuses:

• Warded (Cloche) blocks new above-ground statuses.
• Staked (Stake) grants Bind immunity.
• Sulfur (field gear) grants spore/spore-drift immunity.
• Blighted denies the target's own healing — a kind of anti-resistance you inflict.

Native vs Invasive

Toxic interacts directly with nativity: an invasive plant normally hits at ×1.75 ATK, but a toxic invasive is dialed back to ×1.4 as a guardrail. Statuses themselves are nativity-blind — anyone can be poisoned, withered, or warded.

	Toxic ATK multiplier
Invasive (non-toxic)	×1.75
Invasive (toxic)	×1.4
Native	no attacker bonus

Related

See Moves for which attacks apply these statuses, Abilities for passives like spores and allelopathy that inflict them, and Categories for which pools carry each keyword.