Putrid Worm

Putrid Worm
Group	Worms
Roles	Foe, Summon
Appearances	Epic Battle Fantasy 5

The Putrid Worm is a foe and a summon in Epic Battle Fantasy 5. It is typically encountered in the Wild Tropics.

Appearance

The Putrid Worm is a small, caterpillar-like creature with a pale green underside and a lime green back. It has large emerald eyes, matching the color of the spots and stripes on its body. A pair of thick antennae with pink tips protrude from its head, and its back is dotted with thin white spines or hairs.

The Putrid Worm has several variants, distinguished by the teeth in their mouths:

1. Four small fangs protruding from the upper lip.
2. A single square tooth protruding from the middle of the lower lip.
3. One triangular fang protruding from the upper lip.
4. Two triangular fangs protruding from the lower lip.
5. One triangular fang protruding from the corner of the lower lip.

Overview

Putrid Worms have a few weak physical attacks (including one part-Bio attack), but are only really notable for their ability to sharply debuff Evade and inflict a bit of Poison. While they can give themselves Regen, their HP is too low for this to matter much, especially since their Evade is a bit below-average. All of their skills have a chance to summon more of their kind unless they're fighting alongside Anna in No Man's Land.

On higher difficulty levels, Putrid Worms gain stronger status infliction abilities; their Sting inflicts more Poison stacks, their Spider Web inflicts Bad Luck along with the Evade drop, and their Bite has a high chance to saddle the victim with Virus. Their defensive skill also buffs their Evade, and they begin battle with a few stacks of Poison on themselves, allowing them to passively regain HP for a while. The chance of their skills summoning backup also increases quite a bit.

Putrid Worms absorb Bio, but are weak to Earth and especially Fire. Multi-target Fire skills like Flame Burst and Fire Storm work exceptionally well, but a quick shot of Tremor or Magma will do the trick when they are first encountered. They're also very vulnerable to Poison and Virus, but this works in their favor, given their Bio absorption. If "More Foe Resistance" is enabled, they also absorb Water.

Statistics

	Putrid Worm	EBF5
	A pathetically weak enemy that nevertheless has a painful poisonous sting. Worms also attract more worms.

Statistics
Base Statistics								Exp	AP	SP	Gold	Hit2HP	Catch
	77	4	4	4	4	4	3.5	6	1	1	6	50	60
Elemental Resistance
	-80%	-	-	-50%	200%	-	-	-	-	-
Status Resistance
	-	-	-	-100%	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
Debuff Resistance
	-	-	-	-	-	-	-

Item Drop Rate
Icon			-	-	-
Name	Cactus	Silk	-	-	-
Chance	10%	5%	-	-	-

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
6.3% per stack, up to 56.7%	12.6% per stack, up to 113.4%	-3% per stack, up to -27%	-6% per stack, up to -54%	25%	-33.(3)%
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.

	Putrid Worm	EBF5
	A pathetically weak enemy that nevertheless has a painful poisonous sting. Worms also attract more worms.

Statistics
Base Statistics								Exp	AP	SP	Gold	Hit2HP	Catch
	77	4	4	4	4	4	3.5	6	1	1	6	50	60
Elemental Resistance
	-80%	-	-	-50%	200%	-	200%	-	-	-
Status Resistance
	-	-	-	-100%	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
Debuff Resistance
	-	-	-	-	-	-	-

Item Drop Rate
Icon			-	-	-
Name	Cactus	Silk	-	-	-
Chance	10%	5%	-	-	-

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
6.3% per stack, up to 56.7%	12.6% per stack, up to 113.4%	-3% per stack, up to -27%	-6% per stack, up to -54%	25%	-33.(3)%
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.

On Hard/Epic, enters the battle with 3x Poison on self.

Attacks and Abilities

Attack List
Attack	Target	Power	Type	Element	Status Effect			Acc	Crit	RdF
Sting	Single	10		50%	100%	3x		50%	10%	10%
Notes: Status strength increased to 5x on Hard or Epic difficulties,
Bite	Single	14		----	--	--	--	66%	10%	10%
Notes: Gets 66% chance of 3x Virus on Hard or Epic difficulties.
Spider Web	Single	10		----	100%	50%		150%	10%	10%
Notes: Also gets 100% chance of 3x Bad Luck on Hard or Epic difficulties.
Curl Up	Self	--	--	----	--	3x		--	--	--
Notes: Also gives a 25% Evade buff on Hard or Epic difficulties.

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 catch score >55 and all players are Lovable → Surrender;
• If Berserked → Bite;
• If Syphoned → Sting (1/2), Bite (1/2);
• Otherwise;
  • If the selected target has at least a 10% Evade debuff → Bite (1/2);
    • If the Putrid Worm has Regen → Sting (1/2);
    • Otherwise → Sting (1/4), Curl Up (1/4);
  • Otherwise → Bite (1/4), Spider Web (1/4);
    • If the Putrid Worm has Regen → Sting (1/2);
    • Otherwise → Sting (1/4), Curl Up (1/4).

Additionally, any action other than Surrender has a 15% (40% in Hard/Epic) chance to summon another Putrid Worm; it will be the same level as the user. This summoning is disabled during Anna's boss fight.

Counter (only if Counter-Attacking Foes is enabled)

• 25% and not Syphoned → Spider Web.

Summon

The Putrid Worm can be captured and used as a summon; in Equip Remix, the Alt Hobo Clothes can passively summon it between turns. It uses Spider Web to hit the targeted foe with a small amount of non-elemental physical damage while massively debuffing their Evade.

The Putrid Worm summon is a fantastic asset for capturing other foes, especially since it can be acquired very early on. Its pitiful damage minimizes the risk of killing the target and its enormous Evade debuff gives a good boost to their capture score. It has competition later in the game, where some foes are resistant to Evade debuffs and other capture-boosting options become available (including the Red Flybot and NoLegs Doll summons), but it remains a useful asset for most capturing scenarios.

	Putrid Worm							SP
	Uses a weak non-elemental web attack to drastically debuff a foe's evade.							16	Kept
Target	Power	Type	Element	Status Effect			Acc	Crit	RdF
Single	5		----	100%	80%		100%	10%	10%

Trivia

• On a NG++ and beyond, if the final boss has been previously captured, it will be replaced by an uncatchable Putrid Worm scaled to be 20 levels above the party. (see here)