Laser Turret

For the Turret in EBF5 that resembles the older versions, see Cannon Turret.

Laser Turret
Other Names	Omega Lazor (EBF2)
Group	Turrets
Roles	Foe, Boss Helper
Appearances	Epic Battle Fantasy 2 Epic Battle Fantasy 4 Epic Battle Fantasy 5

"That laser turret is ready to SHOOP DA WHOOP!"

―Lance, Epic Battle Fantasy 4

The Laser Turret, also known as Omega Lazor in EBF2, is a recurring foe that appeared in Epic Battle Fantasy 2, 4 and 5. It is typically found in technological areas, such as the Waste Disposal Plant or the Iron Fortress.

Appearance

The Laser Turret is generally a large, high-tech energy cannon mounted on a pair of metallic grey hinges emerging from a square panel on the ground/a tank. Its appearance changes from game to game.

In EBF2 and EBF4, the Laser Turret is entirely the same metallic shade of grey as its hinges, save for some red lines and a red lens on the upper protrusion of its otherwise-cylindrical body. It has an extremely long barrel separated into three sections: a conical base with a vent along the side and a long bayonet along the bottom, a thin, trapezoidal barrel, and a smaller, cylindrical barrel directly above the other. It also has some wires between different parts of its body.

In EBF5, the Laser Turret was redesigned into a smaller rectangular cannon that's taller than it is long. Instead of a barrel, its entire front side is an opening that glows yellow with radiant energy. Most of its body is black with technological-looking red markings (reminiscent of a Cosmic Monolith), but it has several metallic grey accents, including around its barrel, a large plate along its upper edge, and a small vent with antennae and wires on top of it back corner. Its hinges are sleeker than its previous appearances, with the visible bolt replaced by red indentations.

Overview

The Laser Turret is one of the more offensively-inclined members of the Turret family, with its pre-EBF5 appearances forgoing support abilities in favor of powerful non-elemental beam attacks; EBF5 turned it into more of a supporting foe, but it retains the potential for significant damage output. It has always been weak to Bomb, with Earth, Thunder, and Water being common vulnerabilities.

Epic Battle Fantasy 2

The Omega Lazor is one of the two helpers summoned by the Valkyrie Tank at the start of its second phase. It serves as a secondary attacker, bombarding Matt and Natalie with non-elemental energy balls that hit multiple times for significant damage to them both. It can also use a laser beam that deals massive damage to one player, but this requires it to charge up for a turn; if it or the Valkyrie is sufficiently damaged, the player can finish it off before it fires its laser. If this isn't an option, setting up defensive buffs and Auto-Revive is the most that can be done.

On difficulty levels above Normal, the Omega Lazor will buff the Valkyrie Tank's Attack when destroyed; the buff becomes even greater on Epic.

The Omega Lazor is resistant to Fire and Poison damage, with a smaller resistance to Earth. It is completely immune to the Poison, Syphon, and Blind status effects, and greatly resists Stun, Dispel, and all stat debuffs. On the other hand, it is weak to Bomb and especially Thunder, and half of the damage it suffers will also be inflicted on the Valkyrie Tank.

Epic Battle Fantasy 4

The Laser Turret is an irritating foe that specializes in dealing non-elemental magic damage. Its basic attack is fairly weak, but hits the entire party multiple times and has a chance to mildly debuff their Accuracy. It can also Charge itself in order to use a powerful single-target laser.

The Laser Turret is more manageable to fight than its EBF2 counterpart. While it resists Stun, Freeze, Syphon, and Death, any of these status effects will render it completely helpless and effectively remove it from battle. It also has pitifully low Evade, guaranteeing any attack will hit.

In addition to its previously-mentioned status resistances, the Laser Turret is immune to Wind, Poison (both the element and the status), Burn, and Stagger. Conversely, it is weak to Earth and Water and severely weak to Thunder and Bomb.

Epic Battle Fantasy 5

The Laser Turret's role was redesigned to match its new look; while it still has fair damage output (hampered by a weak Magic Attack stat), it instead specializes in using a variety of secondary effects. It mainly uses Thunder-based magic attacks with high chances of Disable, Confuse, or Stun, but it also has a multi-target Holy laser that can inflict Weaken. Like most Turrets, it can also support allies with Lock On or invert buffs and debuffs with Recycle.

The Laser Turret can also be spawned by the Neon Valkyrie if its initial Cannon Turret is destroyed. In this case, it loses its Earth weakness and its base Magic Attack is doubled; its Status Ray also inflicts Dry instead of Weaken, which both Lance and the Neon Valkyrie can exploit.

Fortunately, the Laser Turret has a critical weakness in Syphon, which renders it completely helpless and forces it to Surrender on its next turn. It has no resistance to this and has poor Evade, making it easily dispatched.

On higher difficulties, the Laser Turret's Status Ray gains a chance to slightly lower the party's Accuracy, its Laser Shot becomes stronger and hits more times, and the Stun chance on Plasma Cage becomes much higher.

The Laser Turret is immune to Wind, Bio, Poison, Virus, Stagger, and Confuse, but it has significant weaknesses to Bomb, Water, and especially Dark. It is also severely weak to Earth expect on Neon Valkyrie, in which case it is neutral to it. If "More Foe Resistance" is enabled, it absorbs Dark and becomes immune to both Fire and Water; it also becomes resistant to Earth if deployed by the Neon Valkyrie, making it only be weak to Bomb.

Unlike most foes in EBF5, but like other Turrets, the Laser Turret cannot be captured or used as a summon.

Statistics

Epic Battle Fantasy 2

It should be noted that HP, Attack, and Magic Attack also will be multiplied by the wave modifier. Check Epic Battle Fantasy 2 Foe Waves to see the value of the modifier for a specified wave.

	Omega Lazor	Shoop Whooper	EBF2
	If it's charged attack hits you, you're in trouble!

Statistics
Base Statistics						Eva	S. Hit
	140000	1	1	1	1	1x	10000
Elemental Resistance
	50%	-80%	-	-	-	30%	50%	-	-	-50%
Status Resistance
	100%	100%	66.6%	66.6%	100%	66.6%	66.6%	66.6%	66.6%
(De)buff Cap	Buffs	Debuffs
	-	40%

Stealable Item
Icon
Name	Stunner

Half of all damage dealt to the Omega Lazor will also be dealt to the Valkyrie.

Epic Battle Fantasy 4

	Laser Turret	EBF4
	A turret that is designed to obliterate intruders. Uses powerful non-elemental attacks.

Statistics
Base Statistics								Exp	AP	SP	Gold	Hit2HP
	332	4	4	4	4	4	1	42	5.8	5.8	48	30
Elemental Resistance
	-	-80%	-	-50%	100%	-80%	100%	-50%	-	-
Status Resistance
	100%	50%	50%	-	100%	-	100%	50%	-	-	-	50%
Debuff Resistance
	-	-	-	-	-	-

Item Drop Rate
Icon							-
Name	Steel Plate	Red LED	Springy Spring	Blank CD	Plutonium Core	Titanium	-
Chance	100%	40%	60%	50%	3%	3%	-

Status Damage
Damage taken from status effects, in % of maximum health (per turn), including elemental resistances:
Burn	Poison	Doom (if Death fails)	Regen
Immune	Immune	15%	-20%
Final damage is randomized by ±5% (except for Doom) and rounded down.

Statistics with More Foe Resistance enabled.

	Laser Turret	EBF4
	A turret that is designed to obliterate intruders. Uses powerful non-elemental attacks.

Statistics
Base Statistics								Exp	AP	SP	Gold	Hit2HP
	332	4	4	4	4	4	1	42	5.8	5.8	48	30
Elemental Resistance
	-	-50%	-	-50%	100%	-50%	100%	-50%	-	-
Status Resistance
	100%	50%	50%	-	100%	-	100%	50%	-	-	-	50%
Debuff Resistance
	-	100%	-	-	-	-

Item Drop Rate
Icon							-
Name	Steel Plate	Red LED	Springy Spring	Blank CD	Plutonium Core	Titanium	-
Chance	100%	40%	60%	50%	3%	3%	-

Status Damage
Damage taken from status effects, in % of maximum health (per turn), including elemental resistances:
Burn	Poison	Doom (if Death fails)	Regen
Immune	Immune	15%	-20%
Final damage is randomized by ±5% (except for Doom) and rounded down.

Epic Battle Fantasy 5

	Laser Turret	EBF5
	An accurate turret which spams electric lasers and may stun players. It can also microwave targets to dry or weaken them.

Statistics
Base Statistics								Exp	AP	SP	Gold	Hit2HP	Catch
	302	4	4	2*	4	4	2	32	3.8	3.8	30	50	N/A*
Elemental Resistance
	-	-	-	-80%	100%	-50%	-50%	100%	-	-80%
Status Resistance
	-	-	-	100%	-	-	100%	-	-	-	-	-
Debuff Resistance
	-	-	-	-	-	-	-

Item Drop Rate
Icon				-	-
Name	Steel Plate	Metal Gear	Glass Shards	-	-
Chance	25%	50%	50%	-	-

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
3.5% per stack, up to 31.5%	7% per stack, up to 63%	Immune	Immune	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.

	Laser Turret	EBF5
	An accurate turret which spams electric lasers and may stun players. It can also microwave targets to dry or weaken them.

Statistics
Base Statistics								Exp	AP	SP	Gold	Hit2HP	Catch
	302	4	4	2*	4	4	2	32	3.8	3.8	30	50	N/A*
Elemental Resistance
	100%	-	-	-80%	100%	-50%	100%	100%	-	200%
Status Resistance
	-	-	-	100%	-	-	100%	-	-	-	-	-
Debuff Resistance
	-	-	-	-	-	-	-

Item Drop Rate
Icon				-	-
Name	Steel Plate	Metal Gear	Glass Shards	-	-
Chance	25%	50%	50%	-	-

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
0	0	Immune	Immune	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.

The turret is neutral to Earth when attached to the Neon Valkyrie (changed to 50% resistance when More Foe Resistance is enabled).

Attacks and Abilities

Epic Battle Fantasy 2

Attack List
Attack	Target	Power	Type	Element	Status Effect			Acc	RdF
Energy Ball	All	3000/3		----	--	--	--	100%	10%
Charge	Self	--	--	----	--	--	--	--	--
Notes: Charges to use SHOOP DA WHOOP.
SHOOP DA WHOOP	Single	12000		----	--	--	--	140%	10%
Notes: Requires Charge to have been used the turn before.
Buff	Valkyrie	--	--	----	--	20%		--	--
Notes: Triggered on death only on Hard or higher difficulties. Buff strength increased to 40% on Epic, 60% on Epic+, 80% on Epic++, and 100% on Epic+++ difficulties.

Epic Battle Fantasy 4

Attack List
Attack	Target	Power	Type	Element	Status Effect			Acc	Crit	RdF
Energy Ball	All	22		----	25%	15%		120%	10%	10%
Charge	Self	--	--	----	--	2x		--	--	--
Notes: Charges to use SHOOP DA WHOOP.
SHOOP DA WHOOP	Single	300		----	--	--	--	140%	20%	10%
Notes: Requires and expends Charge.

Epic Battle Fantasy 5

Attack List
Attack	Target	Power	Type	Element	Status Effect			Acc	Crit	RdF
Laser Shot	Random	144/4		50%	50%	1x		100%	10%	10%
Notes: Power increased to 180/5 on Hard or Epic difficulties.
Status Ray	All	33		100%	100%	2x		200%	0%	10%
Notes: Weaken changed to Dry instead when attached to the Neon Valkyrie. Also gets 100% chance of a 15% Accuracy debuff on Hard or Epic difficulties.
Recycle	Anyone	--	--	----	--	--	--	--	--	--
Notes: Inverts the target's buffs/debuffs, turning negatives into positives, and vice versa. Cannot miss and ignores Lovable.
Lock On	Ally	--	--	----	--	50%		--	--	--
Notes: Also gives 3x Good Luck on Hard or Epic difficulties.
Plasma Cage	Single	40		100%	50%	1x		150%	10%	10%
Notes: Status chance increased to 100% on Hard or Epic difficulties.
Electron Gun	Single	50/5		25%	100%	2x		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.

Epic Battle Fantasy 2

• Charged → SHOOP DA WHOOP;
• Otherwise → Energy Ball (2/3), Charge (1/3).

Additionally, if playing on Hard or higher difficulties, the Omega Lazor will use its Buff on the Valkyrie when it's defeated.

Epic Battle Fantasy 4

• Syphoned → Nothing;
• Charged → SHOOP DA WHOOP;
• Otherwise → Energy Ball (1/2), Charge (1/2).

Epic Battle Fantasy 5

• If Syphoned → Surrender;
• If catch score >55 and all players are Lovable → Status Ray;
• If Berserked → Laser Shot (1/2), Status Ray (1/2);
• If for any active player [sum of buffs - sum of debuffs] > 100%, or for any foe [sum of debuffs - sum of buffs] > 100% → Laser Shot (2/8), Status Ray (2/8), Recycle (1/8), Lock On (1/8), Plasma Cage (1/8), Electron Gun (1/8);
• Otherwise → Laser Shot (3/12), Status Ray (3/12), Lock On (2/12), Plasma Cage (2/12), Electron Gun (2/12).

* Recycle targets the best reverse target.

* If Lock On's selected target already has at least a 10% Accuracy buff, it retargets to a different foe, unless no other foes are alive (unless no other targets are available).

Unlike most other foes, the Laser Turret doesn't get a counter when Counter-Attacking Foes is enabled.

Trivia

• The Laser Turret's "SHOOP DA WHOOP" attack is a reference to the Shoop Da Whoop/I'm A Firin' Mah Lazer meme where something suddenly or unexpectedly shoots a giant laser. Lance comments on this in EBF4 the first time a Laser Turret charges up.