- This page contains major spoilers for EBF5. Read with caution.
- "This must be the main Cosmic Monolith, the one that's controlling all the others! Is it responsible for these space-time distortions?"
- ―Lance, Epic Battle Fantasy 5
The Cosmic Gigalith is the penultimate boss of Epic Battle Fantasy 5. While it is not antagonistic towards the party, it is responsible for the majority of the game's events, such as the Great Impact, formation of The Rapture, the rain of monoliths, and the warping of the time space continuum seen in The Beyond. And yet even in spite of this the Cosmic Gigalith is merely a vessel through which the true antagonist can come forth and complete its goals.
Appearance
The Cosmic Gigalith is a gigantic, jagged Cosmic Monolith. Coincidentally, it resembles the Adventure Story Cosmic Monoliths and Viking Monoliths more than the normal Cosmic Monoliths.
There are a series of symbols along the middle of the Gigalith, along with several other runes and markings depicting a cross-hair and an eye. It is possible that these are supposed to be representative of the Gigalith's "instructions", sort of like computer code.
Unlike most Monoliths which stand freely, the Cosmic Gigalith is connected to a giant brown rock of some sort.
Overview
- Main article: The Devourer/Strategy
Cosmic Gigalith is the first phase/wave of the final boss battle; the second wave has the player fighting The Devourer. It will randomly change its weakness, while being immune (or absorbent on Hard/Epic) to all other elements.
The attacks of the Cosmic Gigalith are not bound by its elemental affinity (e.g. it can use attacks such as Overgrowth and Iceberg while it is weak to Ice). Though it seems to specialize in physical attacks and inflicting Enchanted and Syphoning, it will usually cast its attacks on each party member except for when countering, in which case it will only attack one character.
Unlike most foes in the game, Cosmic Gigalith cannot be captured to be used as a summon unless playing a New Game Plus.
Statistics
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| The central control unit of all Cosmic Monoliths. It reshapes space-time to create pathways between different universes. | ||
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| 6267* | 4.5* | 4 | 4.5* | 4 | 4.2 | 5.5 | 800 | 80 | 80 | 1000 | 3 | N/A* | |
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| 100% | 100% | 100% | 100% | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 100% | ||
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| Name | Dark Rune | Dark Rune | Dark Rune | Dark Matter | Chili Pepper | ||
| Chance | 100% | 100% | 100% | 50% | 30% | ||
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| Immune | Immune | Immune | Immune | Immune | -2% |
| 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. | |||||
- Has -300% resistance to one randomly chosen element and 100% (150% on Hard/Epic and 200%) if More Foe Resistance is enabled) resistance to all other elements.
Before the v2 update, had 0% resistance to Burn/Scorch.
Cosmic Gigalith 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
Regular Attacks
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| Attack | Target | Power | Type | Element | Status Effect | Acc | Crit | RdF | ||
| Elemental Shift | Self | -- | -- | ---- | -- | 15% |
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| Notes: Switches the Gigalith's elemental weaknesses, and removes Tired, Weaken, Curse and Syphon. Buff strength increased to 25% on Hard or Epic difficulties. | ||||||||||
| Enchantment | All | -- | -- | ---- | -- | 4x | 
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Notes: Can't be dodged with Evade and bypasses  Bless.Before the v2 update, status strength was only 2x. | ||||||||||
| Syphon | All | -- | -- | ---- | 50% | 2x |
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| Notes: Status chance increases to 100% and status strength to 3x on Hard and Epic difficulties. | ||||||||||
| Overgrowth | All | 100/2 |
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40% | 3x |
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100% | 10% | 10% |
| Eruption | All | 120 |
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100%
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30% | 2x | 
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100% | 10% | 10% |
| Surge | All | 125 |
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100%
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30% | 1x | 
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100% | 10% | 10% |
| Tempest | All | 120 |
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100%
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50% | 2x | 
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100% | 10% | 10% |
| Iceberg | All | 120 |
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100%
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30% | 2x | 
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100% | 10% | 10% |
| Scorching Lasers | All | 120/10 |
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100% | 10% | 10% |
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| Doomsday | All | 150 |
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100% | 5x |
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300% | 10% | 10% |
| Notes: Used only upon death on Hard or Epic difficulties. Uses 1.2x of Gigalith's Magic Attack. Ignores any pre-death (de)buffs. Due to a bug, Doomsday scales with player Summon Attack instead if the Gigalith is killed by a summon. | ||||||||||
Counters
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| Enchantment | Single | -- | -- | ---- | -- | 4x |
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| Mute | Single | -- | -- | ---- | 100% | 3x |
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| Overgrowth | Single | 100/2 |
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40% | 3x |
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100% | 10% | 10% |
| Eruption | Single | 120 |
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30% | 2x |
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100% | 10% | 10% |
| Surge | Single | 125 |
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100%
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30% | 1x |
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100% | 10% | 10% |
| Tempest | Single | 120 |
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100%
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50% | 2x |
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100% | 10% | 10% |
| Iceberg | Single | 120 |
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100%
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30% | 2x |
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100% | 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.
Elemental Shift:
- If Syphoned, or Shift Counter ≥5 → Elemental Shift.
* Shift Counter increases by 1 every turn; if the Gigalith is inflicted with Curse, Weaken or Tired, Shift Counter also increases by 1 for each status present.
Action:
- If AoE Enchantment was used last turn → Syphon (1/7), Enchantment (1/7), Eruption (1/7), Iceberg (1/7), Overgrowth (1/7), Surge (1/7), Tempest (1/7);
- <24% HP → Scorching Lasers;
- <49% HP → Scorching Lasers (7/14), Syphon (1/14), Enchantment (1/14), Eruption (1/14), Iceberg (1/14), Overgrowth (1/14), Surge (1/14), Tempest (1/14);
- <74% HP → Scorching Lasers (7/28), Syphon (3/28), Enchantment (3/28), Eruption (3/28), Iceberg (3/28), Overgrowth (3/28), Surge (3/28), Tempest (3/28);
- Otherwise → Syphon (1/7), Enchantment (1/7), Eruption (1/7), Iceberg (1/7), Overgrowth (1/7), Surge (1/7), Tempest (1/7).
Counter:
- If target is Syphoned or Enchanted → 100% → Magic*;
- <24% HP → 100% → Syphon (4/9), Magic* (5/9);
- Otherwise → 100% → Syphon (2/9), Enchantment (2/9), Magic* (5/9).
*On Hard/Epic "Magic" chooses best elemental spell based on target's elemental resistance between Eruption, Surge, Iceberg, Tempest and Overgrowth; it otherwise randomly picks one of them to use.
Additionally, if playing on Hard/Epic, the Gigalith will use Doomsday when it's killed.
Strategy
- Main article: The Devourer/Strategy
Summon
The foe can be captured to be used as a summon, but only on a New Game Plus. It uses its Scorching Lasers attack to deal heavy Non-elemental magical damage to all foes and Scorch them.
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| Blasts all foes with powerful non-elemental magic, and severely scorches them, lowering their max HP over time. | 150 | Cured | |||||||
| Target | Power | Type | Element | Status Effect | Acc | Crit | RdF | ||
| All | 600/9 |
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Trivia
- The Cosmic Gigalith is the only final boss (though arguably The Devourer is the "proper" final boss) to have a non-unique battle theme, if only on a technicality. Prior to v0.9 of the public beta of the game, The Cosmic Gigalith's battle theme was also used by Lance/Neon Valkyrie as well as by most of the other instances of Cosmic Monoliths. After this update, it received a new theme, though it is still shared with The Devourer.