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"What the hell, NoLegs? Where did you find such creepy equipment?"

―Natalie, Epic Battle Fantasy 5

The Human Skull is a non-elemental cat toy available for NoLegs in Epic Battle Fantasy 5.

Description

The Human Skull set is composed of the haunted bones of a human child. The weapon is a broken femur bone, with two splinters forming a crude crossguard; the offhand item is the eponymous human skull, with two feeble red lights burning in its empty eye cavities. The eye lights are white in the weapon's menu icon.

Normal

The Human Skull is a support weapon focused around its ability to spread Bad Luck and Defence debuffs. It provides a mediocre boost to both Attack and Magic Attack, but compensates with strong boosts to all of Defence, Magic Defence, and Evade. While the weapon also improves the strength of debuffs (which affects the Defence debuff the weapon itself inflicts), this effect is somewhat minor; NoLegs is arguably the worst debuffer of the party, due to being unable to learn any of the major debuff skills.

On the other hand, NoLegs can make good use of the Human Skull's increased chance of inflicting status effects, which can help him land the status effects from his elemental slashes or his weapon-elemental skills. The weapon inflicts Bad Luck by default, but a status-replacing flair can give NoLegs a wide variety of ailment options. It can also summon The Reaper between turns, which has low accuracy but a high chance of inflicting Instant Death. This also benefits from the Human Skull's status boost; in fact, The Reaper is guaranteed to kill non-resistant foes if it connects.

Overall, the Human Skull is most notable for its good chance of inflicting a solid Defence debuff and reliably applying Bad Luck at the same time. As such, the player can use Swift Slash to easily spread these statuses; however, they may prefer a more versatile weapon for this role. Its massive Bio resistance can also be useful if the player is expecting to contend with Virus (either from enemies or as part of a Virus-infliction strategy).

The Human Skull resists Bio, Curse, Bad Luck, and Dark. All but the last become a full immunity at Level 5.

Equip Remix

The Alt Human Skull has dreadful offenses and no other stats, and NoLegs is poorly suited to make use of the debuff boost. It also boasts a variety of summons - Zombie Hydra, Skeleton Cat, and Skeleton Hand - which can allow for some Instant Death and luck shenanigans, but they're inconsistent enough to be outclassed by a Fat Fly status build with Firecrackers support.

However, the Alt Human Skull has one valuable asset; with three pieces of debuff-boosting gear (including itself), its weapon-elemental skills can reduce the victims' Magic Defence by 80%. This effectively turns Swift Slash into a damaging Enfeeble with a 1-turn cooldown, providing excellent support for a magically offensive Lance or Natalie build. In this respect, the Alt Human Skull should be treated like the Alt Club of Withering or the normal version of the Kaladanda; instead of direct damage, it should be used to open gaping holes in the foes' defenses for other party members to exploit. Giving NoLegs the appropriate status Flairs can further boost elemental magic damage.

The Alt Human Skull resists Bio, Earth, and Dark, becoming immune to none of them at Level 5.

Epic Battle Fantasy 5

Found inside a chest in the Mystic Woods, on the same screen you obtain the Stepladder, the chest is hidden behind the trees.

	Human Skull
	The cursed skull of a young human child. Increases the effect of debuff skills used. Level 3: Randomly casts The Reaper between turns. Level 5: Increases the chance of inflicting status effects.

Statistics
Stat Bonus												Resistance
	LV1	LV2	LV3	LV4	LV5		LV1	LV2	LV3	LV4	LV5		LV1	LV2	LV3	LV4	LV5
	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-		20%	40%	60%	80%	100%
	-	10%	20%	30%	40%		-	5%[0%]	10%[0%]	20%[0%]	30%[0%]		10%	20%	30%	40%	50%
	-	5%	10%	20%	30%		-	-	10%[5%]	20%[10%]	30%[10%]		20%	40%	60%	80%	100%
	-	-	-	-	-		-	5%[0%]	10%[0%]	20%[0%]	30%[0%]	Element		----
Spells & Statuses
			Power					Chance Modifier				Attack Status
Auto Skill			100					(100%)					30%	50%	70%	85%	100%
Bonus Skill			--					--					2x	2x	2x	2x	3x
Auto Status			--					--					30%	40%	50%	60%	70%
Defend Status			--					--					20%	20%	25%	25%	30%
Note: Stats in brackets (below/right from actual) are for its pre-v2 update version. Before the v2 update, resisted Death/Doom instead of Bio and had no special effect at level 1 (with the debuff boost at level 5 instead).

Forging Information
Lvl	Requirements			Lvl	Requirements
2	x 1	--	--	3	x 3	--	--
4	x 4	x 4	--	5	x 1	x 3	--

Statistics with Equip Remix enabled.

	Human Skull
	The cursed skull of a young human child. Increases the effect of debuff skills used. Level 3: Randomly casts Skeleton Cat between turns. Level 4: Randomly casts Skeleton Hand between turns. Level 5: Randomly casts Zombie Hydra between turns.

Statistics
Stat Bonus												Resistance
	LV1	LV2	LV3	LV4	LV5		LV1	LV2	LV3	LV4	LV5		LV1	LV2	LV3	LV4	LV5
	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-		10%	20%	30%	40%	50%
	-	5%	10%	15%	20%		-	-	-	-	-		10%	20%	30%	40%	50%
	-	5%	10%	20%	30%		-	-	-	-	-		10%	20%	30%	40%	50%
	-	-	-	-	-		-	-	-	-	-	Element		----
Spells & Statuses
			Power					Chance Modifier				Attack Status
Auto Skill			--					(40%) (30%) (15%)					60%	70%	80%	90%	100%
Bonus Skill			--					--					30%	35%	40%	45%	50%
Auto Status			--					--				-	-	-	-	-	-
Defend Status			--					--				-	-	-	-	-	-

Forging Information
Lvl	Requirements			Lvl	Requirements
2	x 1	--	--	3	x 3	--	--
4	x 1	x 4	--	5	x 1	x 3	--

Trivia

The Human Skull can be considered part of a subset of bone-themed weapons in EBF5, along with The Deceased, Kaladanda, Club of Withering and Spine Snapper. Other than their visual appearance, their common themes include being focused around debuffs, being able to inflict either Instant Death or Doom (be it directly or through bonus/auto skills), and being Non-elemental (except for the Spine Snapper).

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 On the other hand, NoLegs can make good use of the Human Skull's increased chance of inflicting status effects, which can help him land the status effects from his elemental slashes or his weapon-elemental skills. The weapon inflicts {{S|Bad Luck}} by default, but a status-replacing [[Flairs|flair]] can give NoLegs a wide variety of ailment options. It can also summon [[The Reaper]] between turns, which has low accuracy but a high chance of inflicting {{s|Instant Death}}. This also benefits from the Human Skull's status boost; in fact, The Reaper is guaranteed to kill non-resistant foes if it connects.
-Overall, the Human Skull is most notable for its good chance of inflicting a solid Defence debuff and reliably applying Bad Luck at the same time. As such, the player can use [[Swift Slash]] to easily spread these statuses; however, they may prefer a more versatile weapon for this role.
+Overall, the Human Skull is most notable for its good chance of inflicting a solid Defence debuff and reliably applying Bad Luck at the same time. As such, the player can use [[Swift Slash]] to easily spread these statuses; however, they may prefer a more versatile weapon for this role. Its massive {{e|Bio}} resistance can also be useful if the player is expecting to contend with {{S|Virus}} (either from enemies or as part of a Virus-infliction strategy).
-The Human Skull resists {{e|Bio}}, {{S|Curse}}, {{S|Bad Luck}}, and {{E|Dark}}. All of these except for Dark become immunities at Level 5.
+The Human Skull resists {{e|Bio}}, {{S|Curse}}, {{S|Bad Luck}}, and {{E|Dark}}. All but the last become a full immunity at Level 5.
 === Equip Remix ===
-The Alt Human Skull has dreadful offenses and no other stats, and NoLegs is poorly suited to make use of the debuff boost. It also a variety of summons - [[Zombie Hydra]], [[Skeleton Cat]] and [[Skeleton Hand]] - which can allow for some Instant Death and luck shenanigans, though their inconsistent nature means it is generally easier to just run a status build with [[Fat Fly]] equipped, and then cast [[Firecrackers]] every so often.
+The Alt Human Skull has dreadful offenses and no other stats, and NoLegs is poorly suited to make use of the debuff boost. It also boasts a variety of summons - [[Zombie Hydra]], [[Skeleton Cat]], and [[Skeleton Hand]] - which can allow for some {{S|Instant Death}} and luck shenanigans, but they're inconsistent enough to be outclassed by a [[Fat Fly]] status build with [[Firecrackers]] support.
-However, the Alt Human Skull has one valuable asset;  with three pieces of debuff-boosting gear (including itself), it can inflict an 80% {{S|Magic Defence}} debuff with weapon-elemental skills. This effectively turns [[Swift Slash]] into [[Enfeeble]] with a 1-turn {{S|cooldown}}, providing excellent support for a magically offensive [[Lance]] or [[Natalie]] build. In this respect, the Alt Human Skull should be treated like the normal version of the [[Kaladanda]], being used to open gaping holes in the foes' defenses instead of direct damage. Giving NoLegs the appropriate status [[Flairs]] can further boost elemental magic damage.
+However, the Alt Human Skull has one valuable asset; with three pieces of debuff-boosting gear (including itself), its [[weapon-elemental]] skills can reduce the victims' {{S|Magic Defence}} by ''80%''. This effectively turns [[Swift Slash]] into a damaging [[Enfeeble]] with a 1-turn {{S|cooldown}}, providing excellent support for a magically offensive [[Lance]] or [[Natalie]] build. In this respect, the Alt Human Skull should be treated like the Alt [[Club of Withering]] or the normal version of the [[Kaladanda]]; instead of direct damage, it should be used to open gaping holes in the foes' defenses for other party members to exploit. Giving NoLegs the appropriate status [[Flairs]] can further boost elemental magic damage.
-The Alt Human Skull resists {{e|Bio}}, {{e|Earth}}, and {{E|Dark}}. None of them become immunities at Level 5.
+The Alt Human Skull resists {{e|Bio}}, {{e|Earth}}, and {{E|Dark}}, becoming immune to none of them at Level 5.
 == {{EBF|5}} ==