Weather

Weather is a gameplay mechanic introduced in Epic Battle Fantasy 5. These conditions affect both players and foes during battle in some manner, initiated at the start of the battle and during every foes-to-players turn transition.

List of Weather Conditions

Attacking weathers use one of the available spells on any player or foe on the screen, with same chance for each alive entity; for learnable spells special effects like statuses are always taken from its level 1 version, while power is individually set (and may be different when used by Foe or Player weather), accuracy is normal. Status-oriented weathers affect everyone, with 1000% accuracy.

Name	In-game description	Notes
Normal	Nothing out of the ordinary.	Same as Clear.
Clear	Temporarily calm.	Same as Normal.
Rain	Everyone gets wet between turns.	Players: 100% 2x Wet Foes: 100% 1x
Blizzard	There's a chance of freezing between turns.	Players: 20% 2x Freeze (10% on Easy, 6.(6)% on Zero) Foes: 25% 1x
Hot Ash	There's a chance of getting burned between turns.	Everyone: 66% 1x Burn
Sunny	There's a chance of getting brave or morale status between turns.	Ignores resistances and Evade Players: one of: 20% 1x Morale | 16% 1x Brave Foes: one of: 20% 2x | 16% 2x
Acid Rain	Everyone has a chance of getting poisoned between turns.	Everyone: 33% 2x Poison
Earthquake	Everyone has a chance of getting staggered between turns.	Players: 50% 2x Stagger Foes: 50% 1x
Huge Hail	Everyone gets chilled between turns.	Players: 100% 2x Chill Foes: 100% 1x
Cherry Blossom	Everyone has a chance of occasionally getting an extra turn.	Ignores resistances and Evade Everyone: 33% 1x Haste
Breezy	Everyone gets blessed between turns.	Ignores resistances and Evade Everyone: 1x Bless
Sandstorm	Everyone gets dry between turns.	Players: 100% 2x Dry Foes: 100% 1x
Stormy	Everyone has a chance of being dispelled between turns.	Everyone: 25% Dispel
Electric	Everyone has a chance of getting stunned between turns.	Everyone: 20% 1x Stun (Players: 10% on Easy, 6.(6)% on Zero)
Sacred Land	There's a chance of getting good luck or regenerating between turns.	Ignores resistances and Evade Players: one of: 25% 1x Good Luck | 9% 1x Regen Foes: one of: 25% 2x | 9% 1x
Cursed Land	There's a chance of getting doomed between turns. Also: Doom + Bad Luck = Death!	Players: 50% 5x Doom Foes:: 50% 3x
Low Gravity	Everyone gets lighter between turns.	Players: 100% 2x Light Foes: 100% 1x
High Gravity	Everyone gets heavier between turns.	Players: 100% 2x Heavy Foes: 100% 1x
Smog	Everyone has a chance of getting the shroud status between turns.	Everyone: 25% 2x Shroud Introduced in the v2 update.
Radiation	Everyone gets random defence-related debuffs between turns.	Ignores resistances and Evade Players: Debuffs either HP, Defence or Magic Defence by 25% Foes: Debuffs either Defence or Magic Defence by 25%
Energy	Everyone gets random offence-related buffs between turns.	Ignores resistances and Evade Everyone: Buffs either Accuracy, Attack or Magic Attack by 25%
Falling Stars	Stars fall from the sky between turns.	Spells available: Falling Star
Air Strikes	Bombs, missiles and medipacks fall from the sky between turns.	Spells available: Big Bomb (1/4), Air Strike (2/4), Medipack (1/4).
Eruption	Fiery volcanic rocks fall from the sky between turns.	Spells available: Fire Rock
Overgrowth	Poisonous vines burst out from the ground between turns.	Spells available: Ivy (2/3), Vines (1/3).
Geysers	Water gushes violently from the ground between turns.	Spells available: Geyser (2/4), Torrent (1/4), Scalding Fume (1/4).
Lava Flow	Lava and boiling water burst out from the ground between turns.	Spells available: Fiery Fume (2/3), Scalding Fume (1/3).
Restless Dead	Buried corpses attack between turns, with bones, daggers and spells.	Spells available: Bones (2/5), Bone Star (1/5), Undead Blade (2/5).
Thunderstorm	Lightning strikes violently between turns.	Spells available: Thunder (1/2), Thunderbolt (1/2).
Stalactites	Rocky stalactites fall from the ceiling between turns.	Spells available: Stalactite (3/4), Stalactites (1/4).
??--[[/@#,, (Glitchy)	//??_¬¬1<¬//+255	Like Shroud, it hides players' and foes' stats, their status effects and (de)buffs, but only with 33% chance for every player/foe, re-randomized every time status bars are updated (swapping players, getting hit, etc); note that this only happens when inside the 4 first Glitch areas, outside of them, this weather has no effect.
!!--[[/@#,, (Glitchy2)	//??_¬¬1<¬//+999	Same as Glitchy, but also makes action icons and dropped items appear garbled. (Actions' hover-over information and cursor-following icons are displayed normally.)

Weather spells

Some weather effects can be used as ordinary spells by certain foes or as auto spells from equipment, when cast by equipment, their stats are exactly the same as when used by weather; on the other hand, when used by foes, they generally inflict additional status stacks or have increased status chance.

• Rain: used by Seaweed Chompers, 100% chance of 2x Wet on everyone.
• Snow (Blizzard): used by Ice Sprites, 20% chance of 3x Freeze on players and 25% chance of 2x Freeze on foes.
• Hot Ash: used by Fire Sprites, 66% chance of 2x Burn on everyone.
• Stormy: used by Wind Sprites, same as weather.
• Electric: used by Thunder Sprites, same as weather.
• Earthquake: used by Rock Sprites, 50% chance of 2x Stagger on everyone.
• Acid Rain: used by Mutant Chompers, 66% chance of 3x Poison on everyone.

Changing weather

Only certain summons and Limit Breaks can temporarily change the battle's weather. Their weather lasts for 5 turns, except for the Nuke skill, whose weather only lasts 3 turns. Applying a temporary weather on top of another one will completely cancel the old one. Foes can't change weather, except when using Nuke.

The following table lists which skills and summons can be used to bring in a certain type of weather.

Weather	Options	Cost (SP/Limit)
Normal	N/A	N/A
Clear	The Creator Mother Earth	Limit Break Limit Break
Rain	Seaweed Chomper	48
Blizzard	Ice Sprite	38
Hot Ash	Fire Sprite	28
Sunny	Magma Chomper	32
Acid Rain	Mutant Chomper	34
Earthquake	Rock Sprite	36
Huge Hail	Pearl Golem	71
Cherry Blossom	Fabulous Gloop	17
Breezy	Leafy Chomper	52
Sandstorm	Burned Fallen	51
Stormy	Wind Sprite	30
Electric	Thunder Sprite	34
Sacred Land	N/A	N/A
Cursed Land	N/A	N/A
Low Gravity	N/A	N/A
High Gravity	N/A	N/A
Radiation	Nuke	Limit Break
Energy	N/A	N/A
Falling Stars	N/A	N/A
Air Strikes	N/A	N/A
Eruption	N/A	N/A
Overgrowth	N/A	N/A
Geysers	N/A	N/A
Lava Flow	N/A	N/A
Restless Dead	N/A	N/A
Thunderstorm	N/A	N/A
Stalactites	N/A	N/A
Glitchy	The Glitch	177
Glitchy2	N/A	N/A

In Calculations

To control strength and accuracy of weather attacks, two entities were made to provide necessary stats: Player weather and Foe weather. The latter scales with Matt's current level, and the former scales with his level - 1.

Player weather

Stats	Calculation (bold = base value)
Attack & Magic Attack	floor(8 * 1.159 ^ level)
Accuracy	floor(6 * 1.099(3) ^ level) * 2

Used by:

• Spells cast by weather aimed at foes.
• Acid Rain, Blizzard, Cursed Land, Earthquake, High Gravity, Hot Ash, Huge Hail, Low Gravity, Rain, Sandstorm and Stormy weathers, for both players and foes.
• Summons, including those randomly cast by equipment, but only for Accuracy — damage is up to Summon Attack.
• Bouncing at foes by Blue Creep, Green Creep and Red Creep.
• Supernova's recoil when cast by foes.

Foe weather

• Attack: 4
• Magic Attack: 4
• Accuracy: 4

All follow standard foe stats scaling, including difficulty.

Used by:

• Spells cast by weather aimed at players.
• The Pencil Stab spell used by the Sketch Bosses (GunKat-800XL, Papalotl, Xolotl and Glaurung).
• Black Hole's and Supernova's recoil when cast by players.
• Recoil from the final boss summon.

"Weather Storage"

There is a glitch in EBF5 where manually-changed weather will carry over to another battle if the foes in the first battle are defeated while the weather is still active. Upon further testing, players discovered the "Weather Storage" exploit; by winning a battle on the foes' turn (via counter, auto-skill, damage-over-time status, etc.) while the weather has been changed by the player, that weather's effect is guaranteed to trigger on the first turn of the next battle the players enter.

For an example of Weather Storage in action, this video shows it being used to facilitate a One-Turn Kill on Matteus. The process is as follows:

1. First, the player has Lance use Nuke in battle with Natalia, changing the weather to Radiation. The party then immediately flees the battle.
2. Next, the player battles a Hermit Creep in Hope Harbor; note that the weather is still Radiation. The party passes their turns, allowing the Gas Mask's Poison Gas auto-skill to kill the Creep on its turn; this activates the Weather Storage glitch.
3. Finally, the player returns to the Temple of Trials and battles Matteus. The weather is still Radiation, and thanks to Weather Storage, its effect activates immediately upon entering the battle.