Weapon abilities are special attributes that grant positive (or negative) effects to Weapons in Dark Cloud and Dark Cloud 2. Some abilities are natural opposites, meaning they will cancel each other out. Certain weapons naturally include special abilities, regardless of whether the weapon is found or created through Building up. Built up weapons will retain any abilities from the weapon it was Built up from. SynthSpheres (created with a Status Break) will also retain any abilities from the weapon it came from. In Dark Cloud 2, Coins can be Synthesized and fused to weapons to add an ability.