Bad Luck (status)

"Luck is decreased in status effects, critical hits, accuracy, and foe catching. Speeds up doom."

―Bad Luck's unspecific hover-over tip, Epic Battle Fantasy 5

Bad Luck is a negative status effect in Epic Battle Fantasy 5, and the opposite of the Good Luck status. It is associated with the Dark element, and its icon is a black and red horseshoe pointing down. It affects many aspects (and always multiplicatively), but none drain the status' length.

Random status has a 5% chance to become 9 stacks of Bad Luck.

Epic Battle Fantasy 5

Bad Luck makes its first appearance in EBF5.

• Cancels out Good Luck.
• The afflicted's attacks have 20% less accuracy.
• The afflicted's attacks have 20% less critical hit chance, calculated after Brave's bonus but prior to Stagger's.
• The afflicted's attacks have 20% less chance to cause status effects and debuffs.
• Incoming attacks have 10% more accuracy.
• Incoming attacks have 30% more critical hit chance, calculated prior to Stagger's bonus.
• Incoming attacks have 25% more chance to cause status effects (debuff chances are unaffected).
• When inflicted on somebody who already had Doom, its timer jumps to 1, killing them after their turn.
• Incoming Doom becomes Instant Death; infliction chance stays the same.
• For its effects on foe catching/capturing, see the capture formula.

Sources of Bad Luck

Player Skills and Equipment

• Bubbly Strike/Water Whirl (up to 75%, 4 stacks)
• Firecrackers (up to 100%, 2 stacks)
• Spider Swarm (100%, 3 stacks)
• Spider Web (100%, 3 stacks)
• Surprise Present (100%, 2 stacks)
• Dead Pixel summon (100%, 5 stacks)
• GLOB summon's Bad Breath attack (100%, 5 stacks, fifth hit only)
• NoLegs Doll summon (100%, 3 stacks)
• Skeleton Cat summon (200%, 9 stacks)
• TREAGURE summon's Water gems (100%, 3 stacks)
• Accelerator's weapon-elemental skills (up to 100%, 3 stacks)
• Eagle Eye's weapon-elemental skills (up to 100%, 3 stacks) (v2 only, does not inflict Bad Luck pre-v2)
• Elven Shield's weapon-elemental skills (up to 100%, 3 stacks)
• Godly Book's weapon-elemental skills (up to 100%, 5 stacks)
• Golden Axe's weapon-elemental skills (up to 100%, 3 stacks)
• Human Skull's weapon-elemental skills (up to 100%, 3 stacks)
• The Alt Deceased's weapon-elemental skills (up to 100%, 3 stacks)
• Alt Godly Book's weapon-elemental skills (up to 100%, 3 stacks)
• Alt Spine Snapper (300%, 1 stack, self-inflicted)
• Alt Royal Crown (66%, 1 stack, self-inflicted)

Foe Skills

• Breaking any of the Mirrors (2 stacks; increases to 3 stacks on Hard or Epic Difficulty)
• Dead Pixel's Bad Luck Tackle (33%, 3 stacks; increases to 66% on Hard or Epic difficulty)
• NoLegs Doll's Bubbly Strike (20% 3 stacks)
• Putrid Worm and Telperion's Spider Web (100%, 3 stacks; Hard or Epic only)
• Skeleton Cat's Backstab (50%, 2 stacks; increases to 100% on Hard or Epic difficulty)

Resisting/Curing Bad Luck

Cures

Inflicting Good Luck will remove the status, and the status can also be removed through standard means (Garlic, Purify, Cleanse, etc.).

Equipment

The following equipment offers resistance to the Bad Luck status:

• Alchemy Set (up to 100%, normal and Alt versions)
• Black Fang (up to 100%)
• Black Widow (up to 100%, normal and Alt versions)
• Club of Withering (up to 100%, normal and Alt versions)
• Dark Tooth (up to 100%)
• The Deceased (up to 100%, normal and Alt versions)
• Godly Book (up to 100%, pre-v2 update only)
• Human Skull (up to 100%)
• Kaladanda (up to 100%, normal and Alt versions)
• King's Guard (up to 100%, normal and Alt versions)
• The Knife (up to 100%, normal and Alt versions)
• Cat Ears (up to 100%, normal and Alt versions)
• Coat of Teeth (up to 100%)
• Magical Skirt (up to 100%, normal and Alt versions)
• Pope Hat (up to 100%)
• Pope Dress (up to 100%)
• Pumpkin Head (up to 100%)
• School Uniform (up to 100%, normal and Alt versions)
• Silver Cross (up to 100%)
• Slime Bunny (hat) (up to 100%)
• Spider Bobble (up to 100%)
• Crossbone Pin (up to 50%)
• Alt Eagle Eye (up to 100%)
• Alt Fairy Bow (up to 100%)
• Alt Golden Axe (up to 100%)
• Alt Heaven's Gate (up to 100%)
• Alt Love Blade (up to 100%)
• Alt Regal Turtle (up to 100%)
• Alt Shooting Star (up to 100%)
• Alt Officer's Hat (up to 100%)
• Alt Slime Bunny (hat) (-30%)