Thunder Bird

Thunder Bird
Other Names	Thunderbird (EBF3)
Group	Birds
Roles	Foe
Appearances	Epic Battle Fantasy 3 Epic Battle Fantasy 4

The Thunder Bird, parsed as Thunderbird in Epic Battle Fantasy 3, is a recurring foe in Epic Battle Fantasy series. It appears primarily in areas associated with ruins and electricity, such as Kitten Kingdom Ruins (in EBF3), Waste Disposal Plant and Temple of Godcat (in Epic Battle Fantasy 4). It is a member of the Bird enemy class.

Appearance

The Thunder Bird, as its name suggests, is an avian creature with bright yellow, spiky feathers and a long pink beak. Two yellow strands hang from the back of the birds head. Both of the strands have ends that resemble lightning bolts.

Overview

The Thunderbird is a mid-tier foe who while not the most dangerous foe in the areas it is found can still pose a threat to the party. The Thunderbird typically uses a few non-elemental attacks, along with a Wind and a Thunder elemental skill. In all of its appearances, Thunderbirds can both debuff Accuracy of its targets and Stun them; due to their naturally high Evade stat, this makes them relatively difficult to hit and annoying to fight. While the player could use high-accuracy attacks such as Quick Slash to take care of them, it may be easier to handle groups simply by using several multi-target attacks (such as Shockwave) and refraining from using multi-hit attacks. Note that the EBF4 Thunderbird only uses single-target attacks, while the EBF3 version can use Thunderstorm. Curiously, when playing on easier difficulties in EBF4 Thunderbirds will use Thunder instead of Thunderbolt. This also leaves them without the ability to Stun players.

Defensively speaking, Thunderbirds have very similar resistances from game to game, though there are some noticeable variations. In both games they absorb Thunder and are immune to Earth, as well as being weak to both Poison and Wind. However, in EBF3 they are weak to Water while in EBF4 they are instead weak to Ice as well as Dark. In both games Thunderbirds lack status weaknesses and resistances, though they are vulnerable to Accuracy debuffs in EBF3 while in EBF4 they are vulnerable to Evade debuffs.

Statistics

Epic Battle Fantasy 3

	Thunderbird	Electric Bird	EBF3
	Crashes thunderbolts down upon your head.

Statistics
Base Statistics								Exp	AP	Gold
	120	4	4	5	4	4	5	25	3.5	25
Elemental Resistance
	-	200%	-	-100%	-70%	100%	-50%	-	-	-
Status Resistance
	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
Debuff Resistance
	-	-	-	-	-50%	-

Item Drop Rate
Icon				-	-	-	-
Name	Magnet	Light Feather	Solid Spike	-	-	-	-
Chance	100%	80%	40%	-	-	-	-

Epic Battle Fantasy 4

	Thunder Bird	EBF4
	A bird that uses thunder and wind attacks, and has high evade.

Statistics
Base Statistics								Exp	AP	SP	Gold	Hit2HP
	114	4	4	4	4	4	5	16	2	2	22	50
Elemental Resistance
	-	200%	-60%	100%	-60%	-	-80%	-	-	-60%
Status Resistance
	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
Debuff Resistance
	-	-	-	-	-	-50%

Item Drop Rate
Icon				-	-	-	-
Name	Red Feather	Plasma Ball	Gold Plate	-	-	-	-
Chance	70%	5%	3%	-	-	-	-

Status Damage
Damage taken from status effects, in % of maximum health (per turn), including elemental resistances:
Burn	Poison	Doom (if Death fails)	Regen
7%	4.8% per stack, up to 43.2%	25%	-33.(3)%
Final damage is randomized by ±5% (except for Doom) and rounded down.

Statistics with More Foe Resistance enabled.

	Thunder Bird	EBF4
	A bird that uses thunder and wind attacks, and has high evade.

Statistics
Base Statistics								Exp	AP	SP	Gold	Hit2HP
	114	4	4	4	4	4	5	16	2	2	22	50
Elemental Resistance
	-	200%	-60%	100%	-60%	-	200%	-	-	100%
Status Resistance
	-	50%	-	-	-	50%	-	50%	-	-	-	-
Debuff Resistance
	-	-	-	-	-	-50%

Item Drop Rate
Icon				-	-	-	-
Name	Red Feather	Plasma Ball	Gold Plate	-	-	-	-
Chance	70%	5%	3%	-	-	-	-

Status Damage
Damage taken from status effects, in % of maximum health (per turn), including elemental resistances:
Burn	Poison	Doom (if Death fails)	Regen
7%	4.8% per stack, up to 43.2%	25%	-33.(3)%
Final damage is randomized by ±5% (except for Doom) and rounded down.

Attacks and Abilities

Epic Battle Fantasy 3

Attack List
Attack	Target	Power	Type	Element	Status Effect			Acc	Crit	RdF
Skyfall	Single	18		----	--	--	--	100%	10%	10%
Barrage	Single	40/3		----	--	--	--	90%	10%	10%
Dust	Single	16		100%	80%	50%		110%	10%	10%
Thunderbolt	Single	40/3		100%	--	--	--	100%	10%	10%
Thunderstorm	All	25/5		100%	5%	1x		100%	10%	10%

Epic Battle Fantasy 4

Attack List
Attack	Target	Power	Type	Element	Status Effect			Acc	Crit	RdF
Skyfall	Single	18		----	--	--	--	100%	10%	10%
Barrage	Single	30/3		----	--	--	--	100%	10%	10%
Dust	Single	16		100%	100%	25%		100%	10%	20%
Thunder	Single	25		100%	--	--	--	115%	10%	10%
Notes: May be used only on Easy and Normal difficulties.
Thunderbolt	Single	40/3		100%	5%	1x		115%	10%	10%

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 3

• Berserked → Barrage;
• Syphoned → Skyfall (1/3), Barrage (1/3), Dust (1/3);
• Otherwise → Skyfall (1/5), Barrage (1/5), Dust (1/5), Thunderbolt (1/5), Thunderstorm (1/5).

Epic Battle Fantasy 4

• Berserked or/and Syphoned → Skyfall (1/3), Barrage (1/3), Dust (1/3);
• >49% HP and Easy/Normal difficulty → Skyfall (1/5), Barrage (1/5), Dust (1/5), Thunder (1/5), Thunderbolt (1/5).
• Otherwise → Skyfall (1/5), Barrage (1/5), Dust (1/5), Thunderbolt (2/5).

Trivia

• In a possibly unintentional Pokémon reference, the Thunder Bird's design is somewhat reminiscent of the Legendary Pokémon Zapdos.