Spikey Tentacle

Spikey Tentacle
Roles	Final boss helper/appendage
Appearances	Epic Battle Fantasy 5

The Spikey Tentacle is a foe in Epic Battle Fantasy 5. It is one of The Devourer's appendages that can assist it in the final battle.

Appearance

The Spikey Tentacle is an enormous, fleshy tendril with its upper and lower sides separated by a thin, sickly yellow stripe. The upper side is red, with a lightly segmented appearance; the lower side is dull pink and dotted with octopus-like suckers. It has a large, disc-like growth at the tip which is lined with large bone spikes.

Overview

The Spikey Tentacle acts as a "fighter" for The Devourer, with a simplistic but powerful moveset that takes advantage of its incredibly high Attack stat. Its main attack is a single-target physical skill that deals heavy, slightly Earth-based damage with a chance to Stagger. It also uses a multi-target physical attack that deals slightly Wind-based damage; while weaker than the single-target attack, it's still quite powerful and able to hit the entire active party.

The Spikey Tentacle can be severed by taking significant damage; losing its old moves in favor of a magic-based attack that deals moderate Bio damage to all players and poisons them. On harder difficulties, it inflicts Virus instead of Poison; while this may not be a problem for the players (though the Devourer's ability to deal major damage begs to differ), all of the foes found in the Devourer fight are healed by Bio, meaning that this attack will give the Devourer free healing after a few turns. As such, a cut Spikey Tentacle must be killed as soon as possible on Hard or Epic difficulties.

Defensively, the Spikey Tentacle absorbs Bio, but is severely weak to Fire, Thunder, and Ice. Since it has no resistance to Wet or Dry, the party can apply these statuses and follow up with moves like Bullet Hell, Surge and Thunder Storm for heavy damage. It is immune to Chill and Freeze and resists Stun, Curse, Bad Luck, Tired, Weaken, and Instant Death; however, its resistances can be overcome with status-boosting gear.

The Devourer enters the battle with one Spikey Tentacle on the last slot. Like the Evil Eye and Slimy Tentacle spawns, these can be defeated and then regenerated as the battle progresses - they also cannot be captured.

Statistics

	Spikey Tentacle	EBF5
	The Devourer's bone-crushing arm. You can probably guess that it smacks you really hard with physical attacks.

Statistics
Base Statistics								Exp	AP	SP	Gold	Hit2HP	Catch
	656	8	4	8	4	4.1	5.5	90	6	6	20	15	N/A*
Elemental Resistance
	-80%	-80%	-80%	-	150%	-	-	-	-	-
Status Resistance
	-	50%	100%	-	-	50%	-	-	-	50%	-	50%
Debuff Resistance
	30%	20%	20%	20%	20%	20%	-

Item Drop Rate
Icon		-	-	-	-
Name	Bone Spike	-	-	-	-
Chance	25%	-	-	-	-

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
1.89% per stack, up to 17.01%	3.78% per stack, up to 34.02%	-0.45% per stack, up to -4.05%	-0.9% per stack, up to -8.1%	7.5%	-10%
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.

	Spikey Tentacle	EBF5
	The Devourer's bone-crushing arm. You can probably guess that it smacks you really hard with physical attacks.

Statistics
Base Statistics								Exp	AP	SP	Gold	Hit2HP	Catch
	656	8	4	8	4	4.1	5.5	90	6	6	20	15	N/A*
Elemental Resistance
	-80%	-80%	-80%	-	150%	150%	150%	-	-	-
Status Resistance
	-	50%	100%	-	-	100%	-	-	-	50%	-	50%
Debuff Resistance
	30%	20%	20%	20%	20%	20%	-

Item Drop Rate
Icon		-	-	-	-
Name	Bone Spike	-	-	-	-
Chance	25%	-	-	-	-

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
1.89% per stack, up to 17.01%	3.78% per stack, up to 34.02%	-0.45% per stack, up to -4.05%	-0.9% per stack, up to -8.1%	7.5%	-10%
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.

The tentacle is cut when hurt for >50% of maximum health or >5% when it's below 32% HP in a single hit, which increases its base Evade by 10%.

Spikey Tentacle gains up to 24% extra Attack, Magic Attack, HP and Accuracy depending on how many optional bosses have been killed, medals awarded and monster cards obtained:

• +1% for each of the 13 optional bosses (counting the Sketch bosses as a single boss) for a 13% total. Bosses included are: ??.@'¬?]-?e??255, Snowflake, The Sketch Boss Rush, Sól and Skadi, Neon Valhalla, Telperion, Vulcan, Crystal Hydra, Matteus, Natalia, Lancelot, Annabelle and God.
• +1% at the 50, 65, 80, and 100 medals thresholds, for a 4% total.
• +0.04% for each of the 50 Monster Cards obtained, for a 2% total.
• +0.2% for each of the 12 Arcade bosses, the 8 Data Bunker simulations, and the 5 1P Challenges in the Battle Arena; for a 5% total.
• Before the v2 update, the boost maxed out at 15%. In the web/free version the maximum possible increase is limited to 5% only, due to unavailability of all the optional content.

Attacks and Abilities

Attack List
Attack	Target	Power	Type	Element	Status Effect			Acc	Crit	RdF
Swipe	All	50		30%	--	--	--	80%	10%	10%
Slam	Single	120		30%	100%	2x		80%	10%	10%
Spray Acid	All	30		100%	100%	1x		100%	10%	10%
Notes: Poison changed to Virus instead on Hard or Epic difficulties. Can only be used when cut. Before the v2 update, the attack was Physical.

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 cut → Spray Acid;
• If Syphoned or Berserked → Slam;
• Otherwise → Slam (1/5), Swipe (4/5).

Counter (only if Counter-Attacking Foes is enabled)

• 25%;
  • If cut → Spray Acid;
  • Otherwise → Slam.