Muddy Bush

Muddy Bush
Group	Bushes
Roles	Foe, Summon
Appearances	Epic Battle Fantasy 4 Epic Battle Fantasy 5

The Muddy Bush is a foe in Epic Battle Fantasy 4 and 5, and a summon in the latter. In EBF4, it appears mostly in Lankyroot Jungle, while in EBF5 it can be found in the Mystic Woods. It is a member of the bush enemy class.

Appearance

The Muddy Bush looks like a blob of mud with a small amount of green leaves sticking out. In EBF5, they can have ferns, lily pads and cattails growing on them.

Overview

The Muddy Bush is a weak foe that can be easily taken out by pretty much anything. It can debuff either the party's Attack (EBF4) or Magic Attack (EBF5), but the party can basically ignore them. Due to their low threat levels, the party should just wipe them out through multi-target attacks.

The Muddy Bush absorbs Water, but has a variety of weaknesses. For the most part, any non-Water attack will take them out.

In EBF4, Muddy Bushes can also be summoned into battle by a Big Muddy Bush.

Statistics

Epic Battle Fantasy 4

	Muddy Bush	EBF4
	A slightly stronger version of the Green Bush.

Statistics
Base Statistics								Exp	AP	SP	Gold	Hit2HP
	75	4	4	4	4	4	4	7.5	1.2	1.1	5	50
Elemental Resistance
	-60%	-	-	-60%	-80%	-	-	150%	-	-
Status Resistance
	-	-	-	-	-	-	-100%	-	-	-	-	-
Debuff Resistance
	-	-	-	-	-	-

Item Drop Rate
Icon				-	-	-	-
Name	Lanky Root	Dirt Ball	Ogle Berries	-	-	-	-
Chance	10%	50%	35%	-	-	-	-

Status Damage
Damage taken from status effects, in % of maximum health (per turn), including elemental resistances:
Burn	Poison	Doom (if Death fails)	Regen
11.2%	5.4% per stack, up to 48.6%	25%	-33.(3)%
Final damage is randomized by ±5% (except for Doom) and rounded down.

Statistics with More Foe Resistance enabled.

	Muddy Bush	EBF4
	A slightly stronger version of the Green Bush.

Statistics
Base Statistics								Exp	AP	SP	Gold	Hit2HP
	75	4	4	4	4	4	4	7.5	1.2	1.1	5	50
Elemental Resistance
	-60%	-	-	150%	150%	-	-	150%	-	-
Status Resistance
	-	-	-	-	-	-	-100%	-	-	-	-	-
Debuff Resistance
	-	-	-	-	-	-

Item Drop Rate
Icon				-	-	-	-
Name	Lanky Root	Dirt Ball	Ogle Berries	-	-	-	-
Chance	10%	50%	35%	-	-	-	-

Status Damage
Damage taken from status effects, in % of maximum health (per turn), including elemental resistances:
Burn	Poison	Doom (if Death fails)	Regen
11.2%	-1.5% per stack, up to -13.5%	25%	-33.(3)%
Final damage is randomized by ±5% (except for Doom) and rounded down.

Epic Battle Fantasy 5

	Muddy Bush	EBF5
	You probably step on these guys all the time and don't even realize it. They live in the mud. What a sad existence.

Statistics
Base Statistics								Exp	AP	SP	Gold	Hit2HP	Catch
	65	4	4	4	4	4	4	6.5	1	1	4.5	50	80
Elemental Resistance
	-50%	-	-80%	-	-	-	150%	-	-	-
Status Resistance
	-	-	-	-	-	-	-100%	-	-	-	-	-
Debuff Resistance
	-	-	-	-	-	-	-

Item Drop Rate
Icon				-	-
Name	Gash Root	Earth Ball	An Herb	-	-
Chance	20%	10%	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
5.25% per stack, up to 47.25%	10.5% per stack, up to 94.5%	3% per stack, up to 27%	6% per stack, up to 54%	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.

	Muddy Bush	EBF5
	You probably step on these guys all the time and don't even realize it. They live in the mud. What a sad existence.

Statistics
Base Statistics								Exp	AP	SP	Gold	Hit2HP	Catch
	65	4	4	4	4	4	4	6.5	1	1	4.5	50	80
Elemental Resistance
	-	50%	-80%	50%	150%	-	150%	50%	-	-
Status Resistance
	-	-	-	-	-	-	-100%	-	-	-	-	-
Debuff Resistance
	-	-	-	-	-	-	-

Item Drop Rate
Icon				-	-
Name	Gash Root	Earth Ball	An Herb	-	-
Chance	20%	10%	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
3.5% per stack, up to 31.5%	7% per stack, up to 63%	-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
Leaf Stab	Single	15		----	--	--	--	100%	10%	10%
Bite	Single	26		----	--	--	--	100%	10%	10%
Scream	All	--	--	----	70%	20%		100%	--	--
Notes: On Hard and Epic difficulties, debuff strength is increased to 30%.

Epic Battle Fantasy 5

Attack List
Attack	Target	Power	Type	Element	Status Effect			Acc	Crit	RdF
Hit	Single	13		20%	--	--	--	100%	10%	10%
Bite	Single	18		----	--	--	--	100%	10%	10%
Ivy	Single	22		100%	50%	2x		100%	10%	10%
Scream	All	--	--	----	75%	15%		100%	--	--
Notes: Debuff strength increased to 25% 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.

Epic Battle Fantasy 4

• Berserked → Bite;
• Syphoned → Leaf Stab;
• Otherwise → Leaf Stab (1/3), Bite (1/3), Scream (1/3).

Epic Battle Fantasy 5

Action

• If catch score >55 and all players are Lovable → Surrender;
• If Syphoned or Berserked → Hit (1/2), Bite (1/2);
• Otherwise → Hit (1/4), Bite (1/4), Ivy (1/4), Scream (1/4).

Counter (only if Counter-Attacking Foes is enabled)

• 25% and not Syphoned → Ivy.

Additionally, if any front line player has equipment that scares Trees, the Muddy Bush will immediately Surrender and Flee on its turn.

Summon

In EBF5, the foe can be captured to be used as a summon.

	Muddy Bush							SP
	Screams at the enemies, debuffing their magic attack slightly.							15	Kept
Target	Power	Type	Element	Status Effect			Acc	Crit	RdF
All	--	--	----	100%	25%		100%	--	--