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"Ouch, that attack takes a lot out of my back! (I need to lift more weights...)"
- ―Lance, Epic Battle Fantasy 5

Lance crushing a Flame Sprite, EBF4.
Armor Crush, known simply as Crush before EBF5, is a weapon-elemental skill available for Lance since Epic Battle Fantasy 3.
Description[]
Upon casting Lance pulls out his gun, lunges at a foe and slams them with the gun. This deals weapon-elemental damage, and causes the target to lose defensive buffs in EBF3, or inflict Dispel in other games.
Foe Users[]
Epic Battle Fantasy 4[]
Epic Battle Fantasy 3[]
Crush only removes target's Defence and Magic Defence buffs, other stats and status effects remain unaffected. This effect will work even if the attack itself misses.
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Crush | |||||
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Attack that cancels the target's defence and magic defence buffs. | ||||||
Target | Type | Element | Status Effect | Acc | Crit | RdF |
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95% | 10% | 10% |
Level | Power | Status Chance | Status Strength | MP | AP Cost | |
1 | 50 | (100%) | (100%) | 10 | 300 | |
2 | 75 | (100%) | (100%) | 15 | 1000 | |
3 | 100 | (100%) | (100%) | 20 | 3000 | |
Requirement(s) |
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Note: Has 2 separate instances of 50% chance to activate bonus skills; for Red Vulcan's Flameshot specifically, both can activate at once, with first one having 100% of host skill's power and second one having 70%. For all other guns, only one can activate at once (and always with the second initiator's power), averaging 75% chance to trigger bonus skills at 70% of host skill's base power. |
Epic Battle Fantasy 4[]
Crush now properly inflicts Dispel on the target, and is the only weapon-elemental skill in the game to not have its status effect/debuff dictated by the user's weapon. Its prerequisite has been changed to Snipe, making it available earlier on in the game.
Epic Battle Fantasy 5[]
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"Do you even lift, bro? You'll break your back if you swing it like that!"
- ―Matt, Epic Battle Fantasy 5
Renamed Armor Crush, the skill now allows for the application of debuffs at the same time as Dispel. Status effects are still overwritten by Dispel.
It's 200% status chance at max level is especially useful against buffed foes with partial Dispel resistance.
Trivia[]
- Armor Crush is the only Weapon-elemental skill to overwrite the inflicted status effect with another status.