Hardy Gloop

Hardy Gloop
Group	Gloops
Roles	Foe, Summon
Appearances	Epic Battle Fantasy 5

The Hardy Gloop (known as Crystal Gloop in several demos) is a foe and a summon in Epic Battle Fantasy 5. It is typically found in the Ice Cave and other cavernous areas.

Appearance

The Hardy Gloop resembles a gray stone split in half horizontally with crystals on top, stubby legs on the bottom, and a black blob in the middle. The black blob has two arms and a pair of white dot eyes. The largest crystals on its shell emit a faint glow, likely from ambient light being reflected through their surfaces.

There are two variants of Hardy Gloop:

1. Large eyes and four visible crystals on its shell: two blue, one pink, and one purple.
2. Small eyes and five visible crystals on its shell: two blue, two teal, and one green.

Overview

The Hardy Gloop is a mid-tier foe that primarily uses several Ice attacks, along with the mildly Dark-elemental physical skills common to all Gloops. It is capable of inflicting Freeze (and Heavy on harder difficulties), but the chances of this are generally insignificant. It can also strike a player with Invisible, ramping up other magical attacks used that turn. The Hardy Gloop is most notable for being able to give itself Enchanted and a sizable Defence buff at the same time - while the Defence buff simply counteracts the Enchanted effect, this gives the Hardy Gloop immunity to magic for a bit with a small downside, potentially forcing the player to shift tactics if they can't Dispel it.

The Hardy Gloop is weak to Holy and especially Bomb. It resists Fire, Thunder and Wind, and absorbs both Dark and Ice. With "More Foe Resistance" in effect, it absorbs Earth and Water, is immune to Wind, and becomes less weak to Bomb. It is also extremely susceptible to Wet and Dry; while the former is minimally useful, the latter can increase the damage of Bomb attacks against it.

Statistics

	Hardy Gloop	EBF5
	A defensive foe that can enchant itself, making it immune to magical attacks. It uses mostly ice attacks.

Statistics
Base Statistics								Exp	AP	SP	Gold	Hit2HP	Catch
	158	4	4	4	4	4	3.8	23	2.2	2.2	16	40	36
Elemental Resistance
	50%	50%	200%	-	-	-80%	-	50%	-50%	200%
Status Resistance
	-	-	100%	-	-	-	-	-100%	-	-	-	-
Debuff Resistance
	-	-	-	-	-	-	-

Item Drop Rate
Icon				-	-
Name	Glass Shards	Rainbow Ore	Sacred Rune	-	-
Chance	25%	75%	15%	-	-

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
1.4% per stack, up to 12.6%	2.8% per stack, up to 25.2%	2.4% per stack, up to 21.6%	4.8% per stack, up to 43.2%	20%	-26.(6)%
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.

	Hardy Gloop	EBF5
	A defensive foe that can enchant itself, making it immune to magical attacks. It uses mostly ice attacks.

Statistics
Base Statistics								Exp	AP	SP	Gold	Hit2HP	Catch
	158	4	4	4	4	4	3.8	23	2.2	2.2	16	40	36
Elemental Resistance
	50%	50%	200%	150%	-	-30%	150%	100%	-50%	200%
Status Resistance
	-	-	100%	-	-	-	-	-100%	-	-	-	-
Debuff Resistance
	-	-	-	30%	30%	-	-

Item Drop Rate
Icon				-	-
Name	Glass Shards	Rainbow Ore	Sacred Rune	-	-
Chance	25%	75%	15%	-	-

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
1.4% per stack, up to 12.6%	2.8% per stack, up to 25.2%	2.4% per stack, up to 21.6%	4.8% per stack, up to 43.2%	20%	-26.(6)%
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.

Attacks and Abilities

Attack List
Attack	Target	Power	Type	Element	Status Effect			Acc	Crit	RdF
Hit	Single	20		25%	--	--	--	100%	10%	10%
Notes: Gets 20% chance of 2x Heavy on Hard or Epic difficulties.
Arm Flail	Single	40/4		25%	--	--	--	100%	10%	10%
Notes: Gets 20% chance of 2x Heavy on Hard or Epic difficulties.
Head Bash	Single	31		25%	--	--	--	100%	10%	10%
Invisibility	Single	--	--	----	--	4x		--	--	--
Notes: Can't be dodged with Evade and bypasses Bless. Before the v2 update, status strength was only 2x.
Iceshard	Single	40		100%	10%	2x		100%	10%	10%
Iceshard Volley	Random	72/4		100%	--	--	--	100%	10%	10%
Notes: Can target dead players, leading to a chance to waste hits.
Defend	Self	--	--	----	--	50% 5x		--	--	--
Notes: Buff strength increased to 100% 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 Syphoned, catch score >55, and all players are Lovable → Surrender;
• If catch score >55 and all players are Lovable → Defend (2/3), Iceshard Volley (1/3);
• If Berserked or Syphoned → Arm Flail (1/2), Head Bash (1/2);
• If selected target is Invisible → Iceshard;
• Otherwise → Hit (1/5), Iceshard Volley (1/5);
  • If it used Defend last turn → Head Bash (2/5);
    • If playing on Hard/Epic and the selected target isn't Invisible → Invisibility (1/10), Iceshard (1/10);
    • Otherwise → Iceshard (1/5);
  • Otherwise → Head Bash (1/5), Defend (1/5);
    • If playing on Hard/Epic and the selected target isn't Invisible → Invisibility (1/10), Iceshard (1/10);
    • Otherwise → Iceshard (1/5);

*Hit becomes Arm Flail when <49% HP.

Counter (only if Counter-Attacking Foes is enabled)

• 25%;
  • If Syphoned → Head Bash;
  • If playing on Hard/Epic and the selected target isn't Invisible → Invisibility (1/2), Iceshard (1/2);
  • Otherwise → Iceshard.

Summon

The Hardy Gloop can be captured and used as a summon. It casts Enchantment on a single foe, doubling any physical damage and nullifying any magical damage they receive.

	Hardy Gloop							SP
	Gives enchanted status to one foe, making them take double damage from physical attacks.							70	Kept
Target	Power	Type	Element	Status Effect			Acc	Crit	RdF
Single	--	--	----	--	2x		--	--	--
Note: Before the v2 update, status strength was only 1x. Ignores Bless and Evade.