Spells that debuff enemies in some way are among the strongest in DnD 5e. Debuff spells can grant disadvantage, make it harder for enemies to maneuver, or, most simply, apply a negative condition that makes life harder for your foes and easier for your friends.
Below I’ve put together a list of the 119 spells in DnD 5e that provide some kind of debuff:
| Spell Name | Level |
|---|---|
| Booming Blade | 0 (cantrip) |
| Chill Touch | 0 (cantrip) |
| Friends | 0 (cantrip) |
| Frostbite | 0 (cantrip) |
| Mind Sliver | 0 (cantrip) |
| Ray of Frost | 0 (cantrip) |
| Shocking Grasp | 0 (cantrip) |
| Vicious Mockery | 0 (cantrip) |
| Bane | 1st-level |
| Cause Fear | 1st-level |
| Charm Person | 1st-level |
| Color Spray | 1st-level |
| Compelled Duel | 1st-level |
| Dissonant Whispers | 1st-level |
| Ensnaring Strike | 1st-level |
| Entangle | 1st-level |
| Faerie Fire | 1st-level |
| Grease | 1st-level |
| Guiding Bolt | 1st-level |
| Hex | 1st-level |
| Hunter’s Mark | 1st-level |
| Ray of Sickness | 1st-level |
| Sleep | 1st-level |
| Snare | 1st-level |
| Tasha’s Hideous Laughter | 1st-level |
| Thunderous Smite | 1st-level |
| Wrathful Smite | 1st-level |
| Blindness/Deafness | 2nd-level |
| Branding Smite | 2nd-level |
| Crown of Madness | 2nd-level |
| Earthbind | 2nd-level |
| Enlarge/Reduce | 2nd-level |
| Enthrall | 2nd-level |
| Hold Person | 2nd-level |
| Levitate | 2nd-level |
| Maximilian’s Earthen Grasp | 2nd-level |
| Mind Spike | 2nd-level |
| Phantasmal Force | 2nd-level |
| Pyrotechnics | 2nd-level |
| Ray of Enfeeblement | 2nd-level |
| Silence | 2nd-level |
| Suggestion | 2nd-level |
| Tasha’s Mind Whip | 2nd-level |
| Web | 2nd-level |
| Zone of Truth | 2nd-level |
| Bestow Curse | 3rd-level |
| Blinding Smite | 3rd-level |
| Counterspell | 3rd-level |
| Enemies Abound | 3rd-level |
| Fear | 3rd-level |
| Hypnotic Pattern | 3rd-level |
| Magic Circle | 3rd-level |
| Phantom Steed | 3rd-level |
| Sleet Storm | 3rd-level |
| Slow | 3rd-level |
| Spirit Shroud | 3rd-level |
| Stinking Cloud | 3rd-level |
| Tidal Wave | 3rd-level |
| Wall of Sand | 3rd-level |
| Banishment | 4th-level |
| Charm Monster | 4th-level |
| Compulsion | 4th-level |
| Confusion | 4th-level |
| Control Water | 4th-level |
| Dominate Beast | 4th-level |
| Elemental Bane | 4th-level |
| Evard’s Black Tentacles | 4th-level |
| Grasping Vine | 4th-level |
| Otiluke’s Resilient Sphere | 4th-level |
| Phantasmal Killer | 4th-level |
| Polymorph | 4th-level |
| Sickening Radiance | 4th-level |
| Staggering Smite | 4th-level |
| Watery Sphere | 4th-level |
| Banishing Smite | 5th-level |
| Contagion | 5th-level |
| Control Winds | 5th-level |
| Destructive Wave | 5th-level |
| Dispel Evil and Good | 5th-level |
| Dominate Person | 5th-level |
| Geas | 5th-level |
| Hold Monster | 5th-level |
| Modify Memory | 5th-level |
| Planar Binding | 5th-level |
| Synaptic Static | 5th-level |
| Transmute Rock | 5th-level |
| Wall of Light | 5th-level |
| Wrath of Nature | 5th-level |
| Bones of the Earth | 6th-level |
| Eyebite | 6th-level |
| Flesh To Stone | 6th-level |
| Harm | 6th-level |
| Mass Suggestion | 6th-level |
| Mental Prison | 6th-level |
| Otiluke’s Freezing Sphere | 6th-level |
| Otto’s Irresistible Dance | 6th-level |
| Sunbeam | 6th-level |
| Divine Word | 7th-level |
| Forcecage | 7th-level |
| Power Word Pain | 7th-level |
| Prismatic Spray | 7th-level |
| Symbol | 7th-level |
| Whirlwind | 7th-level |
| Antipathy/Sympathy | 8th-level |
| Dominate Monster | 8th-level |
| Earthquake | 8th-level |
| Feeblemind | 8th-level |
| Holy Aura | 8th-level |
| Illusory Dragon | 8th-level |
| Maze | 8th-level |
| Power Word Stun | 8th-level |
| Sunburst | 8th-level |
| Tsunami | 8th-level |
| Imprisonment | 9th-level |
| Mass Polymorph | 9th-level |
| Prismatic Wall | 9th-level |
| Psychic Scream | 9th-level |
| Storm of Vengeance | 9th-level |
| Weird | 9th-level |