Bone Golem

Bone Golem
Group	Golems
Roles	Foe, Summon
Appearances	Epic Battle Fantasy 5

"Oh hey, it's a big guy. Never seen a golem like this before!"

―Matt being pleasantly chill with a new foe.

The Bone Golem is a foe and a summon in Epic Battle Fantasy 5 introduced in the v2 update. It is normally found in the Battle Arena, but the "Foe Remix" Custom Game mode allows the party to encounter it elsewhere in the overworld, with the first one appearing in the deserts of Hope Harbor on the way to Jotun.

Appearance

The Bone Golem is a hulking, barely-humanoid figure made of massive chunks of light brown rock, with Emerald crystals acting as joints and toes. Instead of hands, it has large, jagged blades of bone (similar to the blades summoned for Bone Pillar) at the end of each arm. More bones are visible on each shoulder; the skull of some unknown beast on the right and a pair of ribs on the left. It also has some white bandages draped over its head and left shoulder, giving the impression that it is blindfolded; despite this, it has normal Accuracy.

Overview

The Bone Golem's attacks are largely physical and non-elemental, though it does have some Earth and Wind attacks. While it can inflict Stagger, Weaken, and Shroud, its main threat comes from the sheer strength of its attacks. Unlike most Golems, its skills summon Stone Idols instead of Ores.

When encountered outside of the Battle Arena, the Bone Golem can use Sand Dune and Bone Pillar twice in a row to hit two players per attack (or the same player twice if they have Target status). These moves hit once if only one front-line player is alive.

The Bone Golem is fairly vulnerable to a Wet-infliction strategy; not only does it lack resistance to the status, it takes extra damage from both Water and Ice, with the latter being its biggest elemental weakness. It also has no resistance to Weaken, Tired, or Curse, allowing the player to wear down its stats and (in the case of the latter) boost the damage of one of its other elemental weaknesses. Its mediocre Evade makes it fairly easy to hit, despite the risk of Accuracy debuffs from Sand Dune; physical attacks will be more effective against it, due to its superior Magic Defence.

The Bone Golem absorbs Earth, is immune to Wind, has a weakness to Water, Holy, Bomb, and especially Ice, and resists all other elements. It is also immune to Stun, Chill, Freeze, Poison, Virus, Doom, and Instant Death, as well as slightly resisting all stat debuffs besides HP. With "More Foe Resistance" enabled, it loses the Water and Holy weaknesses, becomes immune to the elements it resisted (except for Dark), and gains a strong resistance to Attack and Magic Attack debuffs.

Statistics

	Bone Golem	EBF5
	While it does have some earth and wind spells, this golem's attacks are mostly non-elemental and physical.

Statistics
Base Statistics								Exp	AP	SP	Gold	Hit2HP	Catch
	535	4	4	4	5	4	3.2	100	12	12	75	20	8*
Elemental Resistance
	50%	50%	-80%	200%	50%	-50%	-50%	100%	-50%	50%
Status Resistance
	-	100%	100%	100%	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	100%
Debuff Resistance
	-	20%	20%	20%	20%	20%	20%

Item Drop Rate
Icon
Name	Razor Claw	Belt Buckle	Silk	Bone Spike	Emerald
Chance	60%	50%	40%	30%	20%

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
0.7% per stack, up to 6.3%	1.4% per stack, up to 12.6%	Immune	Immune	Immune	-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.

	Bone Golem	EBF5
	While it does have some earth and wind spells, this golem's attacks are mostly non-elemental and physical.

Statistics
Base Statistics								Exp	AP	SP	Gold	Hit2HP	Catch
	535	4	4	4	5	4	3.2	100	12	12	75	20	8*
Elemental Resistance
	100%	100%	-80%	200%	100%	-50%	-	100%	-	50%
Status Resistance
	-	100%	100%	100%	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	100%
Debuff Resistance
	-	60%	60%	20%	20%	20%	20%

Item Drop Rate
Icon
Name	Razor Claw	Belt Buckle	Silk	Bone Spike	Emerald
Chance	60%	50%	40%	30%	20%

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	0	Immune	Immune	Immune	-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
Triple Hit	Single	50/2 25		----	-- 33%	-- 1x	--	100% 125%	10%	10%
Ground Pound	All	35		50%	10%	1x		100%	10%	20%
Notes: Spawns one Stone Idol.
Sand Dune x2	Random	120/2		100%	100%	50%		100%	10%	10%
Notes: Will not target the same player twice in a row unless they have Target; second cast won't happen if there's only one player alive. Spawns one Stone Idol.
Bone Pillar x2	Random	190/2		----	50%	3x		150%	30%	10%
Notes: Will not target the same player twice in a row unless they have Target; second cast won't happen if there's only one player alive. Status chance increased to 100% on Hard or Epic difficulties. Spawns one Stone Idol.
Shrouding Breath	All	18		50%	100%	2x		200%	10%	10%
Notes: Status strength increased to 3x 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 or Berserked → Triple Hit (1/2), Ground Pound (1/2);
• If catch score >55 and all players are Lovable → Ground Pound (1/2), Shrouding Breath (1/2);
• <39% HP → Bone Pillar (1/3), Sand Dune (1/3), Shrouding Breath (1/3);
• <79% HP → Triple Hit (1/5), Ground Pound (1/5), Bone Pillar (1/5), Sand Dune (1/5), Shrouding Breath (1/5);
• Otherwise → Triple Hit (1/3), Ground Pound (1/3), Shrouding Breath (1/3).

Counter (only if Counter-Attacking Foes is enabled)

• 25% and not Syphoned → Bone Pillar (1/2), Sand Dune (1/2).

Summon

The Bone Golem can be captured and used as a summon. It casts a powered-up version of Bone Pillar on all foes.

	Bone Golem							SP
	Skewers all foes with powerful non-elemental attacks, and may weaken them.							85	Cured
Target	Power	Type	Element	Status Effect			Acc	Crit	RdF
All	300		----	50%	3x		100%	10%	10%