Annabelle

For the similar Epic Battle Fantasy 4 superboss, see Dark Anna.

Annabelle
Group	Evil Players
Roles	Boss, Summon
Appearances	Epic Battle Fantasy 5

"Ahahaha! Who's dropped into my lair this time?
A group of feeble mortals?

LET'S PLAY A GAME TO DECIDE WHICH OF YOU MAY LIVE!!"

―Annabelle, Epic Battle Fantasy 5

Annabelle is an optional boss in Epic Battle Fantasy 5. She is found in the Temple of Trials, together with other Evil Players — as such, she is currently exclusive to the paid Steam release of the game.

Appearance

Annabelle is a demonic version of Anna, with red skin, black hair and black eyes with glowing red pupils. She wears a modified Spider Gown with a shortened skirt (giving it a slight resemblance to the Ranger Skirt), revealing her black boots and black-and-orange stockings. She also wears an orange version of the Curly Horns - which could be actual horns, considering her demonic origins - and wields a variant of the Black Widow bow with brown leather wrapped around its red segments.

Personality

Annabelle is a foul demon who seems to be a perverse manifestation of Anna's "hunter" side, seeking to not merely hunt targets but sadistically inflict pain on them. As such, she treats the party like her prey, and toys with them for her own amusement instead of for the sake of anything as simple as victory. Annabelle also seems to represent Anna's childish, somewhat naive qualities, given that she treats the battle as some sort of game. She is indifferent to the outcome of the battle, simply expressing a desire to go back to hell if defeated.

Annabelle's personality changes little after being captured; she looks forward to finding new targets to torture and kill, commenting that "The hunt never ends" and treating the whole arrangement as a "deal" she made with the party. However, she also reminds the party that she will eventually come to hunt them again, potentially foreshadowing some sort of revenge plot.

Overview

As with other Evil Player battles, the players will be afflicted with a special unremovable status until the boss is defeated. Annabelle's is Brimstone (), which inverts all attempts to buff the party's stats; debuffs work normally. The exception to the rule is the Turtle Gi, which buffs the wearer depending on how hard he was hurt. All three Flybot summons also have no effect at all when used in this fight.

Annabelle's base offenses and defenses are slightly below-average, but her Accuracy and Evade are quite high. She primarily uses Dark and Wind-based physical attacks, along with a few Dark spells and a massive number of debuffs and status conditions. Contrary to what her flavor text implies, none of her arrow attacks are Bio-based; the text actually refers to the Poison that they can inflict upon the party. However, she does have a Bio skill which throws spiders at the party, hitting multiple times to inflict damage, Virus, and a Magic Defence debuff.

Annabelle is initially accompanied by a Zombie Hydra (a Blaze Hydra on Foe Remix) that is also 1 level above her, which can be seriously annoying due to it able to inflict even more statuses or kill the players with The Reaper and Tail Crush due to being unable to buff your Evade to dodge it. If defeated before Annabelle is gone, she will replace it 3 turns later with a Topaz Golem or Mutant Chomper, 2 levels above her. On Foe Remix, this will instead be any of the 3 different Hydras instead, which will also be 2 levels above, making it highly unadvisable to kill it before her.

After taking enough damage, like all the Evil Players, will unleash a Limit Break, for Annabelle, she will use Annihilate at high health, and Black Hole at low health. Annihilate, while it doesn't inflict Instant Death, it remedies this by substituting a highly accurate physical Non-elemental attack that will always critical, and will also inflict a 2-turn Disable to those who survive it. Black Hole, meanwhile, seems to have stolen Annihilate's tricks by inflicting Instant Death to all players in the front, while also dealing high Dark magic damage. It will also deal a sizable amount of damage to players in backup as well, albeit without the Instant Death chance.

Befitting her demonic nature, Annabelle absorbs Fire, Bio, and Dark while being extremely weak to Holy. She has lesser weaknesses to Ice and Wind while being immune to Bomb and many status effects. Additionally, she is very resistant to all stat debuffs, especially regarding her Attack and Magic Attack. If "More Foe Resistance" is enabled, she gains resistances to Thunder and Earth while turning her Wind weakness into an absorption.

Statistics

	Annabelle	EBF5
	A foul demonic beast from the underworld. She uses dark and wind attacks, and her arrows are very poisonous.

Statistics
Base Statistics								Exp	AP	SP	Gold	Hit2HP	Catch
	4856	3.6	3.5	3.6	3.5	4.5	4.5	1500	80	200	800	4	3
Elemental Resistance
	200%	-	-50%	-	200%	100%	-	-50%	-80%	200%
Status Resistance
	-	100%	100%	-	100%	100%	-	-	-	100%	50%	100%
Debuff Resistance
	50%	80%	80%	40%	40%	40%	40%

Item Drop Rate
Icon
Name	Razor Claw	Bone Spike	Satin	Dark Rune	Dark Matter
Chance	100%	100%	100%	100%	100%

Status Damage
Damage taken from status effects, in % of maximum health (per turn), including elemental resistances:
Burn	Scorch	Poison	Virus	Doom (if Death fails)	Regen
-0.28% per stack, up to -2.52%	-0.56% per stack, up to -5.04%	-0.24% per stack, up to -2.16%	-0.48% per stack, up to -4.32%	Immune	-2.(6)%
Damage taken from first four is decreased by 30% on Easy and 65% on Zero difficulties. Final damage is randomized by ±5% (except for Doom) and rounded down.

Statistics with More Foe Resistance enabled.

	Annabelle	EBF5
	A foul demonic beast from the underworld. She uses dark and wind attacks, and her arrows are very poisonous.

Statistics
Base Statistics								Exp	AP	SP	Gold	Hit2HP	Catch
	4856	3.6	3.5	3.6	3.5	4.5	4.5	1500	80	200	800	4	3
Elemental Resistance
	200%	50%	-50%	50%	200%	100%	-	200%	-80%	200%
Status Resistance
	-	100%	100%	-	100%	100%	-	-	-	100%	50%	100%
Debuff Resistance
	50%	80%	80%	40%	40%	40%	40%

Item Drop Rate
Icon
Name	Razor Claw	Bone Spike	Satin	Dark Rune	Dark Matter
Chance	100%	100%	100%	100%	100%

Status Damage
Damage taken from status effects, in % of maximum health (per turn), including elemental resistances:
Burn	Scorch	Poison	Virus	Doom (if Death fails)	Regen
-0.28% per stack, up to -2.52%	-0.56% per stack, up to -5.04%	-0.24% per stack, up to -2.16%	-0.48% per stack, up to -4.32%	Immune	-2.(6)%
Damage taken from first four is decreased by 30% on Easy and 65% on Zero difficulties. Final damage is randomized by ±5% (except for Doom) and rounded down.

Attacks and Abilities

Standard Skills

Attack List
Attack	Target	Power	Type	Element	Status Effect			Acc	Crit	RdF
Piercing Shot x2	Random	260/2		30%	100%	2x		200%	30%	10%
Notes: Unleashes Whirlwind on the second hit. Status strength increased to 4x on Hard or Epic difficulties. Will not target the same player twice in a row unless they have Target or no other targets are available. If catch score >55 and all players have Lovable, targets completely randomly instead.
Bow Whack	Single	60		----	100%	--		100%	10%	10%
Notes: Used first on the third turn and then every other turn. Does not take up Annabelle's action. Removes Invisible from the target before dealing damage (this effect ignores Bless and happens even if the attack misses).
Black Spikes x4	Random	600/12		50%	--	--	--	100%	10%	10%
Notes: Base spell is 3 hit, so retargeting and statuses happen on every third hit. On Hard or Epic difficulties, also has a 100% chance to inflict 3x Tired. Will not target the same player twice in a row unless they have Target or no other targets are available.
Tentacles x4	Random	520/12		----	100% 100%	3x 50%		100%	10%	10%
Notes: Base spell is 3 hit, so retargeting and statuses happen on every third hit. Will not target the same player twice in a row unless they have Target or no other targets are available.
Screamer	All	120		100%	100% 100%	2x 30%		200%	10%	10%
Tempest	All	180		100%	50%	2x		100%	10%	10%
Arrow Rain	All	70/3		30%	--	--	--	80%	20%	10%
Notes: Unleashes Hurricane. Due to an oversight, this attack will not consume stacks of status effects like Weaken or Stagger, cannot break Freeze, and can't inflict status effects (it was supposed to have 100% chance to inflict 2x Poison, increased to 4x on Hard/Epic).
Combo Shot	Single	220/3		30%	--	--	--	200%	20%	10%
Notes: Unleashes Whirlwind. Due to an oversight, this attack will not consume stacks of status effects like Weaken or Stagger, cannot break Freeze, and can't inflict status effects (it was supposed to have 100% chance to inflict 4x Poison, increased to 8x on Hard/Epic).
Syphon	All	--	--	----	50%	2x		100%	--	--
Notes: Status chance and strength increased to 100% and 3x respectively on Hard or Epic difficulties.
Throw Spiders	Random	180/3		100%	100% 100%	3x 20%		100%	10%	10%
Notes: Status and debuff strengths increased to 5x and 30% respectively on Hard or Epic difficulties. Status and debuff are applied on all hits. Will not target the same player twice in a row unless they have Target or no other targets are available. If catch score >55 and all players have Lovable, targets completely randomly instead.
Unholy Ritual	All	140		100%	100% 100%	6x 25%		100%	10%	10%
Equip & Defend	Allies	--	--	----	--	1x		--	--	--
Notes: Also gives 3x on Hard or Epic difficulties. Summons either a Topaz Golem or a Mutant Chomper; if Foe Remix is enabled, summons either a Zombie, Blaze or Crystal Hydra instead. Summoned foes will be 2 levels above Annabelle.
Annihilate	All	150		----	100%	2x		150%	100%	10%
Notes: Limit Break! Super high critical rate.
Black Hole	All Backup	220 120		100%	50% --	1x --	--	150%	10%	10%
Notes: Limit Break! Status chance for the front increased to 100% on Hard or Epic difficulties.

Unleashed Bonus Skills

Attack List
Attack	Target	Power	Type	Element	Status Effect			Acc	Crit	RdF
Whirlwind	Single	60/3		100%	10% 50%	3x 20%		100%	10%	10%
Notes: Will target a different player if the target of Piercing/Combo Shot already died. Before the v2 update, didn't inflict a Magic Defence debuff.
Hurricane	All	60		100%	100% 50%	2x 15%		100%	10%	10%

Battle Logic

The following describes general logic of the enemy and attack patterns, with chances of each attack to be used. Conditions are listed from highest to lowest priority unless specified otherwise.

Bow Whack

• 3rd turn, and every 2nd turn afterwards → Bow Whack;

* Bow Whack will always target the least damaged player.

Action

• Limit Break;
  • <32% HP → Black Hole;
  • Otherwise → Annihilate;
• If Summon Score ≥4 → Equip & Defend;
• <39% HP → Arrow Rain (1/7), Combo Shot (1/7), Tentacles (1/7), Tempest (1/7), Unholy Ritual (1/7), Syphon (1/7), Throw Spiders (1/7);
• <74% HP → Arrow Rain (1/5), Black Spikes (1/5), Tentacles (1/5), Tempest (1/5), Screamer (1/5);
• Otherwise → Piercing Shot (1/3), Black Spikes (1/3), Screamer (1/3).

* Annabelle's Limit Break becomes available every time she receives damage equal to 35% of her max HP.

* Summon score increases by 1 if no other foes are left (checked at the start of Annabelle's turn), and resets to 0 after summoning.

Before the v2 update, summon score reset when it reached ≥7 even if she couldn't summon due to using her Limit Break, which could delay her re-summoning.

Counter (only if Counter-Attacking Foes is enabled)

• 66% → Bow Whack.

Strategies

Note that all Virus, Poison and Burn based strategies will not work, as Annabelle absorbs those elements.

Dark and Wind immunity are recommended, since those will outright nullify a lot of Annabelle's attacks (such as Screamer, Tempest or Hurricane). Her most dangerous attack is Tentacles, which can inflict massive physical damage, and cannot be resisted due to being non-elemental. It's generally a good idea to set up a Target tank with high Defence to protect your party from Annabelle's random and single target attacks.

Annabelle will use Annihilate as her first Limit Break and Black Hole as her second. As both only hit once, they can be blocked with Morale and Auto-Revive (though the Demon and Angel Mirror summons respectively can also be used to block their damage). Do keep in mind that if Annabelle uses her Bow Whack on the same turn as her Limit Break, she may Dispel the protective statuses off her target, leaving them defenseless against her ultimate attacks.

Try to inflict Weaken and Tired on the Zombie Hydra to keep it debuffed, which will allow you to focus your attention on Annabelle.

As for offence, Ice, Wind (not applicable when More Foe Resistance is on) and especially Holy are your best bets. NoLegs with the Honjo Masamune in particular can deal tremendous damage with proper setup.

Quotes

• “Oh, you can run as far as you want - I know you’ll always be back in the end! You can’t resist me, teehee!” - Reentering battle after fleeing
• “What’s that, you don’t like the terms of my game? Maybe instead I can decorate my walls WITH YOUR FRESHLY FLAYED SKINS!!” - Third turn, ~89% HP
• “So far so good - you’ve managed to stick together well enough. But we can play this game all night - WE’RE JUST GETTING STARTED!!” - ~68% HP
• “Struggle as much as you like, the end result will always be the same... I’LL HUNT YOU DOWN AND TAKE MY TROPHIES!!” - ~48% HP
• “Oh my, you cling to your lives so strongly. I’LL SCRAPE YOUR FLESH FROM YOUR BONES!!“ - Using satanic ritual, ~29% HP
• “Oh, I’ve been defeated? The seven hells will welcome me back then. HahahahaHAHAHAHAHAHAAAAAAaaaaaaa-!!” - 0% HP.

Summon

"The hunt never ends, and I've spotted a new target! But remember, you've made a deal with a demon, and eventually I'll come for you again..."

―Annabelle, when summoned, Epic Battle Fantasy 5
The foe can be captured to be used as a summon. She casts a powered up version of Tempest on every foe.

	Annabelle							SP
	Cuts through all foes one by one with incredibly powerful wind attacks. High critical hit rate.							134	Cured
Target	Power	Type	Element	Status Effect			Acc	Crit	RdF
All	520		100%	--	--	--	150%	30%	10%
Note: Before the v2 update, cost 154 SP instead.

Trivia

• Like Anna, Annabelle's bangs will sway if the cursor is moved over them. Unlike Anna, her hair can only be swayed forwards.
• Annabelle's dialogue upon being summoned may be a reference to making a pact with a demon, a common subject in English folklore. In this case, Annabelle gives the party her power in combat, but she warns them that she'll be back for them.
• When Annabelle casts Annihilate, the kanji are mirrored.
• In the Evil Players' beta designs (seen on his deviantART page), Matt Roszak gave Annabelle the regular version of the Spider Gown (with the floor-length skirt), and her eyes were more similar to Anna's, but with red irises instead of green.