Big Icecream Slime

Big Icecream Slime
Group	Big Slimes
Roles	Foe
Appearances	Epic Battle Fantasy 5

"*ice cream sandwich?!*"

―NoLegs,, Epic Battle Fantasy 5

The Big Icecream Slime is a foe and a summon in Epic Battle Fantasy 5. It is primarily found in the Frozen Valley.

Appearance

The Big Icecream Slime appears to be a large dollop of light blue ice cream with blue eyes, a cat-like smile, and a large ice cream sandwich embedded in its head. Like most Big Slimes, it is surrounded by a trio of smaller, similarly-colored blobs; each has a small wafer roll or cinnamon stick embedded in its top.

Despite appearances, the Big Icecream Slime is apparently inedible; according to its bestiary entry, pieces of its body will linger in the digestive tract for several years after being consumed.

Overview

The Big Icecream Slime uses the standard jumping tackles and Earth-shaking stomps of its brethren (the latter of which can inflict Stagger and summon Icecream Slime reinforcements) and can also cast Wafer for slightly higher multi-target damage, but its main tactic is immobilizing players with status effects. Its Leap attack has a decent chance to make the victim Hungry, forcing them to waste turns eating food, and one of its Ice spells can Chill the entire party, leaving them vulnerable to Freeze-inducing follow-ups. It has two options for Freezing players; Deep Freeze has a much higher chance of inflicting the status, but Icy Breath can hit the whole party at once, potentially immobilizing all of them unless they have good Freeze resistance. Its offensive stats are fairly high, but its attacks have low to moderate base power to balance it out.

The Big Icecream Slime is weak to Dark, Bomb, and especially Fire, while only resisting Wind and absorbing Ice. It has no resistances to status effects or stat debuffs, and is incredibly vulnerable to Instant Death, like most Slimes. With "More Foe Resistance", it loses the Dark and Bomb weaknesses, lessens its Fire weakness, and becomes immune to Wind, Earth, and having its defenses debuffed.

Unlike the other Big Slimes in EBF5, the Big Icecream Slime only drops Snowballs, making it nigh-useless to farm. That being said, it's easily the best source of Snowballs in the game, being guaranteed to drop five of them when defeated; combined with Matt's full stealing build, you can farm nine Snowballs from a single Big Icecream Slime.

Statistics

	Big Icecream Slime	EBF5
	Do not try to eat it, as it will be stuck in your digestive system for years. It can set up icy combos with the chill and freeze status effects.

Statistics
Base Statistics								Exp	AP	SP	Gold	Hit2HP	Catch
	470	5	4	5	4	4	2.5	55	8.5	9	52	20	7
Elemental Resistance
	-80%	-	200%	-	-	-50%	-	50%	-	-50%
Status Resistance
	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-100%
Debuff Resistance
	-	-	-	-	-	-	-

Item Drop Rate
Icon
Name	Snowball	Snowball	Snowball	Snowball	Snowball
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
2.52% per stack, up to 22.68%	5.04% per stack, up to 45.36%	1.2% per stack, up to 10.8%	2.4% per stack, up to 21.6%	10%	-13.(3)%
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.

	Big Icecream Slime	EBF5
	Do not try to eat it, as it will be stuck in your digestive system for years. It can set up icy combos with the chill and freeze status effects.

Statistics
Base Statistics								Exp	AP	SP	Gold	Hit2HP	Catch
	470	5	4	5	4	4	2.5	55	8.5	9	52	20	7
Elemental Resistance
	-50%	-	200%	100%	-	-	-	100%	-	-
Status Resistance
	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-100%
Debuff Resistance
	-	-	-	80%	80%	-	-

Item Drop Rate
Icon
Name	Snowball	Snowball	Snowball	Snowball	Snowball
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
2.1% per stack, up to 18.9%	4.2% per stack, up to 37.8%	1.2% per stack, up to 10.8%	2.4% per stack, up to 21.6%	10%	-13.(3)%
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

Attack List
Attack	Target	Power	Type	Element	Status Effect			Acc	Crit	RdF
Leap	Single	40		20%	50%	2x		100%	10%	10%
Notes: Status chance increased to 100% on Hard or Epic difficulties.
Ground Pound	All	22		50%	10%	1x		100%	10%	20%
Notes: Spawns one Icecream Slime. 50% chance of spawning an extra Icecream Slime on Hard or Epic difficulties.
Double Ground Pound	All	28/2		50%	10%	1x		100%	10%	20%
Notes: 60% chance of spawning one Icecream Slime. Changes to 54% chance of spawning one Icecream Slime and 18% chance of spawning two Icecream Slimes on Hard or Epic difficulties.
Wafer	All	30/2		----	--	--	--	100%	10%	10%
Sudden Frost	All	25		100%	100%	2x		100%	10%	10%
Deep Freeze	Single	60		100%	50%	3x		100%	10%	10%
Notes: The v2 update increases status chance to 200% on Hard or Epic difficulties.
Icy Breath	All	20		100%	5%	2x		100%	10%	20%
Notes: Status chance increased to 20% on Hard or Epic difficulties.

Summoned foes will be at the same level as the user.

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.

Action

• If Syphoned, catch score >55, and all players are Lovable → Ground Pound*;
• If catch score >55 and all players are Lovable → Icy Breath (2/6), Ground Pound (2/6), Wafer (1/6), Sudden Frost (1/6);
• If Syphoned or Berserked → Leap (1/2), Ground Pound* (1/2);
• Otherwise → Leap (1/6), Deep Freeze (1/6), Icy Breath (1/6), Wafer (1/6), Sudden Frost (1/6), Ground Pound* (1/6).

* Ground Pound becomes Double Ground Pound when <49% HP.

Counter (only if Counter-Attacking Foes is enabled)

• 100% and not Syphoned → Wafer (1/2), Sudden Frost (1/2).

Additionally, if any front line player has equipment that scares Slimes, the Big Icecream Slime will inflict 2x Berserk on themselves at the start of their turn (this does not take up their action).

Summon

The Big Icecream Slime can be captured and used as a summon; it can also be called between turns by the Alt Icecream Sandwich. It uses its Icy Breath to hit all foes for weak magical Ice damage, with an excellent chance of inflicting three stacks of Chill. In addition to boosting Ice and Water follow-ups or setting up Freeze combos, it has some capturing utility, being able to easily set up a Catch Rate-boosting Freeze when paired with a reliable source of Wet.

	Big Icecream Slime							SP
	Chills all foes with weak ice magic, setting up water and ice combos.							32	Cured
Target	Power	Type	Element	Status Effect			Acc	Crit	RdF
All	25		100%	100%	3x		100%	10%	10%

Trivia

• Given that Icecream Slimes are bubblegum-flavored, the Big Icecream Slime's flavor text is a reference to an urban legend of how eating bubblegum will result in it remaining in your digestive tract for several years. This is not true, but the myth has persisted for decades.