Gray Pixel

Gray Pixel
Group	Pixels
Roles	Foe, Summon
Appearances	Epic Battle Fantasy 5

The Gray Pixel is a foe and a summon in Epic Battle Fantasy 5. It is found in the Glitch Area of No Man's Land.

Appearance

Like the rest of the Pixels, this foe looks like a retro version of another foe in the game; in this case, it appears as a Metal Idol, complete with the same visual variants. It has very minimalistic animations reminiscent of early RPGs.

Overview

The Gray Pixel's base HP is easily the lowest of any foe in the game, but it compensates with absurdly high Defence and Magic Defence; its defenses are just under 250 times higher than the average foe, causing most of the party's attacks to deal single-digit damage when it is first encountered. It also has sizable offensive stats, making its attacks surprisingly strong if not dealt with appropriately.

Offensively, the Gray Pixel has 3 attacks: a weak but extremely accurate multi-target shockwave that's fully Thunder-elemental and has a chance to debuff their Magic Defence, a random-targeted physical Bomb attack that may inflict Stagger, and a partly Thunder-based magic attack that's slightly more accurate and has a fairly high chance to Confuse the victim for 2 turns on Hard or Epic difficulty. If the party has Magic Defence debuffs, the Gray Pixel will cease using its shockwave attack in favor of its Thunder Strike; this deals a lot of damage if the victim is debuffed, so maintaining Magic Defence and/or Morale support is handy to reduce damage.

Aside from its ridiculously high defenses, the Gray Pixel's resistances aren't too great; it's only resistant to Bio and immune to Stun, Doom and Instant Death. On the other hand, it's very weak to Fire and slightly less weak to Water; it is also very easy to Stagger. With the "More Foe Resistance" challenge enabled, it becomes neutral to Water, absorbs Bomb and Thunder, and gains significant resistance to all non-HP stat debuffs.

Statistics

	Gray Pixel	EBF5
	This thing looks pretty weak - and it's barely got any HP! You can probably kill it in one hit, right?

Statistics
Base Statistics								Exp	AP	SP	Gold	Hit2HP	Catch
	1.11	8	999	8	999	4	4.2	22	2.1	2.1	16	40	15
Elemental Resistance
	-80%	-	-	-	50%	-	-50%	-	-	-
Status Resistance
	-	100%	-	-	-	-	-100%	-	-	-	-	100%
Debuff Resistance
	-	-	-	-	-	-	-

Item Drop Rate
Icon					-
Name	Steel Plate	Shuriken	Floppy	P2 Processor	-
Chance	20%	25%	10%	2%	-

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
5.04% per stack, up to 45.36%	10.08% per stack, up to 90.72%	1.2% per stack, up to 10.8%	2.4% per stack, up to 21.6%	Immune	-26.(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.

	Gray Pixel	EBF5
	This thing looks pretty weak - and it's barely got any HP! You can probably kill it in one hit, right?

Statistics
Base Statistics								Exp	AP	SP	Gold	Hit2HP	Catch
	1.11	8	999	8	999	4	4.2	22	2.1	2.1	16	40	15
Elemental Resistance
	-80%	200%	-	-	50%	150%	-	-	-	-
Status Resistance
	-	100%	-	-	-	-	-100%	-	-	-	-	100%
Debuff Resistance
	-	50%	50%	50%	50%	50%	50%

Item Drop Rate
Icon					-
Name	Steel Plate	Shuriken	Floppy	P2 Processor	-
Chance	20%	25%	10%	2%	-

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
5.04% per stack, up to 45.36%	10.08% per stack, up to 90.72%	1.2% per stack, up to 10.8%	2.4% per stack, up to 21.6%	Immune	-26.(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

Attack List
Attack	Target	Power	Type	Element	Status Effect			Acc	Crit	RdF
Thunder Strike	Single	27		50%	--	--	--	150%	10%	10%
Notes: Gets 66% chance of 2x Confuse on Hard or Epic difficulties.
Bomb Barrage	Random	48/3		100%	10%	1x		100%	10%	10%
Notes: Status chance increased to 33% on Hard or Epic difficulties.
Shockwave	All	8		100%	33%	20%		300%	10%	10%
Notes: Debuff chance and strength increased to 66% and 30% respectively on Hard or Epic difficulties.

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 catch score >55 and all players are Lovable → Surrender;
• If Syphoned or Berserked → Bomb Barrage;
• If a randomly selected player has at least a 10% Magic Defence debuff → Thunder Strike (2/3), Bomb Barrage (1/3);
• Otherwise → Bomb Barrage (1/3), Thunder Strike (1/3), Shockwave (1/3).

Counter (only if Counter-Attacking Foes is enabled)

• 50% → Bomb Barrage.

Summon

The Gray Pixel can be captured and used as a summon; it can also be called between turns by the Power Paw. It uses a modified version of Bomb Barrage on a single foe, dealing three hits of very weak physical Bomb damage with a high chance to inflict five stacks of Weaken. While it's far from the only source of the status, its low damage and SP cost make it a cost-efficient option until the Peace Badge is acquired late in the game (especially against Holy-resistant foes that would benefit from Blessed Barrage or Holy Light.

	Gray Pixel							SP
	Hits a foe with some weak bomb attacks, making them very weakened.							9	Kept
Target	Power	Type	Element	Status Effect			Acc	Crit	RdF
Single	20/3		100%	100%	5x		100%	10%	10%