Ice Sprite

Ice Sprite
Group	Sprites
Roles	Foe, Summon
Appearances	Epic Battle Fantasy 4 Epic Battle Fantasy 5

The Ice Sprite (also known as Frost Sprite) is a foe and a summon in Epic Battle Fantasy 4 and 5. It is typically found in cold areas, such as the Frozen Valley or the Crystal Caverns.

Appearance

The Ice Sprite resembles a small blue humanoid with a "skirt" made of ice crystals. Other crystals protrude from its back and around its head.

In EBF4, the Frost Sprite has small white eyes and a mouth that only appears when it uses certain attacks. When it became the Ice Sprite in EBF5, it gained blue eyes, a mouth that is visible at all times, and a small grey diamond in its forehead.

Overview

True to its name and appearance, the Ice Sprite specializes in Ice attacks; many of them can Freeze their victims, but it also carries a relatively powerful skill with another status effect (Instant Death in EBF4, Weaken in EBF5). Most of its skills are single-target, but it can also summon a snowstorm to potentially Freeze the entire party at once - however, this also has a chance to Freeze other foes as well. In EBF4, this attack also did light magical Ice damage, slightly healing the Sprite along with any other Ice-absorbing foes.

Since most of the Ice Sprite's skills are pure Ice-elemental, high Ice resistance will negate most of their damage. Syphon and Berserk can lock the Ice Sprite out of its Freezing skills, but it will become more likely to use its strongest attacks to compensate.

The Ice Sprite absorbs both Ice and Water while being immune to Freeze, but it has no other resistances and a plethora of weaknesses. It is vulnerable to Bio, Dark, Thunder, and especially Fire and Earth. It is also susceptible to Poison, which accentuates its Bio weakness.

In EBF5, the Ice Sprite gains an additional weakness to Virus, which can quickly cut it down without the party even attacking it directly. However, if "More Foe Resistance" is enabled, its Bio and Dark weaknesses becomes resistances and its Fire and Earth weaknesses are significantly reduced, leaving Thunder as the most effective element. It also gains resistances to Stun, Syphon, Doom, and Instant Death.

Statistics

Epic Battle Fantasy 4

	Frost Sprite	EBF4
	A creature that embodies the spirit of ice. Uses ice attacks.

Statistics
Base Statistics								Exp	AP	SP	Gold	Hit2HP
	146	4	4	3	4	4	4	21	3	2.2	20	50
Elemental Resistance
	-80%	-50%	200%	-80%	-50%	-	-	200%	-	-50%
Status Resistance
	-	-	100%	-	-50%	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
Debuff Resistance
	-	-	-	-	-	-

Item Drop Rate
Icon					-	-	-
Name	Snowball	Liquid Ice	Solid Water	Bubble Stone	-	-	-
Chance	60%	20%	20%	10%	-	-	-

Status Damage
Damage taken from status effects, in % of maximum health (per turn), including elemental resistances:
Burn	Poison	Doom (if Death fails)	Regen
12.6%	4.5% per stack, up to 40.5%	25%	-33.(3)%
Final damage is randomized by ±5% (except for Doom) and rounded down.

Statistics with More Foe Resistance enabled.

	Frost Sprite	EBF4
	A creature that embodies the spirit of ice. Uses ice attacks.

Statistics
Base Statistics								Exp	AP	SP	Gold	Hit2HP
	146	4	4	3	4	4	4	21	3	2.2	20	50
Elemental Resistance
	-80%	-	200%	-80%	-50%	-	-	200%	-	-
Status Resistance
	-	50%	100%	-	-50%	50%	-	50%	-	-	-	-
Debuff Resistance
	-	-	-	-	-	-

Item Drop Rate
Icon					-	-	-
Name	Snowball	Liquid Ice	Solid Water	Bubble Stone	-	-	-
Chance	60%	20%	20%	10%	-	-	-

Status Damage
Damage taken from status effects, in % of maximum health (per turn), including elemental resistances:
Burn	Poison	Doom (if Death fails)	Regen
12.6%	4.5% per stack, up to 40.5%	25%	-33.(3)%
Final damage is randomized by ±5% (except for Doom) and rounded down.

Epic Battle Fantasy 5

	Ice Sprite	EBF5
	A fairy-like creature that embodies the essence of ice. It's not very strong, but can freeze enemies and allies alike.

Statistics
Base Statistics								Exp	AP	SP	Gold	Hit2HP	Catch
	146	5	4	5	4	4	4	21	3	2.2	20	50	42
Elemental Resistance
	-80%	-50%	200%	-80%	-50%	-	200%	-	-	-50%
Status Resistance
	-	-	100%	-50%	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
Debuff Resistance
	-	-	-	-	-	-	-

Item Drop Rate
Icon			-	-	-
Name	Blueberries	Solid Water	-	-	-
Chance	15%	10%	-	-	-

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
6.3% per stack, up to 56.7%	12.6% per stack, up to 113.4%	4.5% per stack, up to 40.5%	9% per stack, up to 81%	25%	-33.(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.

	Ice Sprite	EBF5
	A fairy-like creature that embodies the essence of ice. It's not very strong, but can freeze enemies and allies alike.

Statistics
Base Statistics								Exp	AP	SP	Gold	Hit2HP	Catch
	146	5	4	5	4	4	4	21	3	2.2	20	50	42
Elemental Resistance
	-30%	-50%	200%	-30%	50%	-	200%	-	-	50%
Status Resistance
	-	50%	100%	-50%	50%	-	-	-	-	-	-	50%
Debuff Resistance
	-	-	-	-	-	-	-

Item Drop Rate
Icon			-	-	-
Name	Blueberries	Solid Water	-	-	-
Chance	15%	10%	-	-	-

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
4.55% per stack, up to 40.95%	9.1% per stack, up to 81.9%	1.5% per stack, up to 13.5%	3% per stack, up to 27%	25%	-33.(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

Epic Battle Fantasy 4

Attack List
Attack	Target	Power	Type	Element	Status Effect			Acc	Crit	RdF
Head Bash	Single	18		30%	--	--	--	100%	10%	10%
Ice Spike	Single	40		100%	25%	--		80%	10%	10%
Freezing Breath	Single	30		100%	25%	1x		100%	10%	10%
Snow	Everyone	12		100%	20%	1x		100%	10%	10%

Epic Battle Fantasy 5

Attack List
Attack	Target	Power	Type	Element	Status Effect			Acc	Crit	RdF
Head Bash	Single	18		25%	--	--	--	100%	10%	10%
Freezing Breath	Single	30		100%	25%	1x		100%	10%	10%
Avalanche	Single	60/3		100%	33%	3x		80%	10%	60%
Snow	All Allies	--	--	----	20% 25%	3x 2x		1000%	--	--

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.

Epic Battle Fantasy 4

• Berserked and/or Syphoned → Head Bash (1/2), Ice Spike (1/2);
• Otherwise → Head Bash (1/4), Ice Spike (1/4), Freezing Breath (1/4), Snow (1/4).

Epic Battle Fantasy 5

Action

• If Syphoned, catch score >55, and all players are Lovable → Flee;
• If catch score >55 and all players are Lovable → Blizzard;
• If Berserked → Avalanche;
• If Syphoned → Head Bash;
• Otherwise → Head Bash (1/4), Freezing Breath (1/4), Avalanche (1/4), Blizzard (1/4).

Before the v2 update, the Ice Sprite had the same behaviour for Syphon and Berserk: Head Bash (1/2), Avalanche (1/2).

Counter (only if Counter-Attacking Foes is enabled)

• 25% and not Syphoned → Avalanche.

Summon

Epic Battle Fantasy 4

The Frost Sprite summon can be obtained from a chest on the Crystal Caverns' Slime Cat screen, after lighting up all torches to open the gates. When used, a Frost Sprite will spew frost at the foes, dealing minor Ice-elemental damage with a high chance to inflict a turn of Freeze and a moderate Evade debuff. It is best used in combination with the Cloudburst skill or the Giant Squid summon for over 100% area-of-effect Freeze chance.

	Frost Sprite							SP
	Targets all foes. High chance of freezing and debuffing evade.							32	Kept
Target	Power	Type	Element	Status Effect			Acc	Crit	RdF
All	20		100%	70% 100%	1x 30%		120%	10%	10%

Epic Battle Fantasy 5

The Ice Sprite can be captured and used as a summon. It is the only method through which the party can manually cause the Blizzard weather.

	Ice Sprite							SP
	Replaces the current weather with a blizzard for 5 turns.							29	Kept
Target	Power	Type	Element	Status Effect			Acc	Crit	RdF
Weather	--	--	----	--	5x	Blizzard	--	--	--
Note: Before the v2 update, cost 38 SP instead.