Weaken is a status effect that temporarily weakens random equipment. The value of Weaken indicates how much equipment will be weakened by the status effect. The effect completely wears off after the weakened user's turn ends.
The effect varies per equipment. Some pieces of equipment will have more strict requirements, others will have effects or uses removed.
In most cases, upgraded equipment is downgraded directly to weakened equipment. However, in rare pieces of equipment, like Dire Wolf Howl and Savings Account, upgraded equipment can have a different weakened effect. Broken Sword actually does more damage when weakened while upgraded thanks to its effect.
In the Parallel Universe episodes, Weaken is changed to Weaken?. This effect does not affect the enemy's equipment. Instead, inflicting Weaken? will cause the enemy to take extra damage from each attack, equal to the amount of Weaken? inflicted. This means that an attack that would deal 6 damage will deal 7 if the enemy was Weaken?ed once.
This effect lasts until the end of the Weakened? user's turn, meaning that self-damage from unshocking Shocked? equipment will also deal more damage.
These pieces of equipment inflict Weaken:
These pieces of equipment have a chance to inflict Weaken:
The gadgets Mumble, Burrower, Scream, and Dial Up Sounds will also inflict Weaken. The gadget Stardust has a 1/7 chance to inflict Weaken.
The Drain Monster Bonus Round rule inflicts 1 Weaken when a fighter takes Poison damage.
These extra pieces of Reunion equipment also have a chance to inflict Weaken:
Additionally, this workout inflicts Weaken:
The CAW status adds 1 Weaken every time a piece of equipment is used, until the CAW status is fully removed.