Mad Cactus

For the crafting item in EBF4 and 5, see Cactus.

Mad Cactus
Group	Trees
Roles	Foe, Summon
Appearances	Epic Battle Fantasy 4 Adventure Story

The Mad Cactus is a foe in Epic Battle Fantasy 4 and Adventure Story, also available as a summon in the former. It appears primarily in desert areas, such as in Goldenbrick Resort (in EBF4).

Appearance

The Mad Cactus is a semi-sentient plant similar to the Evil Mushroom and Haunted Tree. It appears as a small green cactus with two "arms" and a pink flower on top. Holes in its front create a simple face consisting of two eyes and a mouth; the eyes are slightly mismatched, and the mouth has small protrusions resembling teeth.

Overview

Much like its fellow Evil Plants, the Mad Cactus is a low to moderate threat that mainly exists to hamper players while they try to deal with more dangerous foes. It uses Bio attacks with varying elemental degrees; they aren't very strong, but some of them can Stun and Poison their targets.

The Mad Cactus can be largely neutralized as a threat by inflicting Syphon or Berserk upon it; either status restricts it to its basic Emerge attack, which has no special effects. Fire, Ice, Earth, and Wind attacks will kill it quickly, but pretty much anything else will work outside of Water, which it absorbs. Its defensive issues are further compounded by its low Evade and mediocre HP.

"More Foe Resistance" allows the Mad Cactus to absorb Earth, Bio, and Dark while making it immune to Curse, Doom, and Instant Death.

Statistics

	Mad Cactus	EBF4
	An angry cactus which uses poison attacks. Has low evade.

Statistics
Base Statistics								Exp	AP	SP	Gold	Hit2HP
	135	4	4	4	4	4	3	22	2.5	2.5	12	50
Elemental Resistance
	-80%	-	-80%	-80%	-	-	-80%	200%	-	-
Status Resistance
	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
Debuff Resistance
	-	-	-	-	-	-

Item Drop Rate
Icon				-	-	-	-
Name	Cactus	Gash Nut	Lanky Root	-	-	-	-
Chance	100%	25%	25%	-	-	-	-

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%	3% per stack, up to 27%	25%	-33.(3)%
Final damage is randomized by ±5% (except for Doom) and rounded down.

Prior to the v2 update, its description incorrectly claimed it could use Earth-elemental attacks.

Statistics with More Foe Resistance enabled.

	Mad Cactus	EBF4
	An angry cactus which uses poison attacks. Has low evade.

Statistics
Base Statistics								Exp	AP	SP	Gold	Hit2HP
	135	4	4	4	4	4	3	22	2.5	2.5	12	50
Elemental Resistance
	-80%	-	-80%	200%	200%	-	-80%	200%	-	200%
Status Resistance
	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	100%	100%
Debuff Resistance
	-	-	-	-	-	-

Item Drop Rate
Icon				-	-	-	-
Name	Cactus	Gash Nut	Lanky Root	-	-	-	-
Chance	100%	25%	25%	-	-	-	-

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%	-3% per stack, up to -27%	Immune	-33.(3)%
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
Emerge	Single	30		50%	--	--	--	100%	10%	10%
Cacti	Single	50/3		80%	33.33%	1x		90%	10%	10%
Notes: Prior to the v2 update, this attack had 48/3 power and 33% status chance per hit.
Pink Spores	All	12		100%	50%	2x		100%	10%	30%

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.

• Berserked or/and Syphoned → Emerge;
• Otherwise → Emerge (1/3), Pink Spores (1/3), Cacti (1/3).

Summon

The Mad Cactus summon is given to the player after completing a quest for Cactussa, a cactus-loving girl found in the northern part of the Greenwood Village. When used, a Mad Cactus will cast Cacti on a single foe, dealing three hits of mostly Bio-based physical damage with slightly increased Accuracy and a high chance to Stun the target.

	Mad Cactus							SP
	May stun targets. Hits 3 times.							30	Kept
Target	Power	Type	Element	Status Effect			Acc	Crit	RdF
Single	150/3		80%	66.66%	1x		110%	10%	10%
Note: Prior to the v2 update, the summon had 66% status chance per hit.