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The Ice Golem is a foe in Epic Battle Fantasy 4. As its name suggests, it's an Ice-based enemy and is found in cold areas. It is a member of the Golem enemy class.

Outside of Battle Mountain, it appears only in three battles: near Crystal Caverns' ice block puzzle, in Waste Disposal Plant's cooling room, and in Temple of Godcat's ice cave; only the first one respawns.

Appearance

The Ice Golem is made out of large chunks of grey rock with huge shards of ice coming out of its shoulders. The opening in the middle of the body acts as its "mouth", and its arms are long blades made of ice. It has "feet" with additional ice sticking out of it, resembling toes.

Overview

The Ice Golem is a strong foe that is resistant to a more than half of all elements, absorbs Ice, and is weak to Fire and Bomb. It has a large health pool too, making it tricky to wear down. (Interestingly, the Ninja Gear male armor which boosts atttacking items can be found a few screens before the first encounter, and allows to beat it quicker with Hand Bombs, which would be stronger than any skills available at the time.)

The Ice Golem will use nothing but physical Ice-elemental attacks, but it is remarkably diverse in its manner of doing so. It has a whopping six attacks to choose from with varying levels of elemental degree. As such, it is impossible to just stack Ice resistance and laugh off all of its attacks (the resistance will help significantly though); since it has several moves which are 30% elemental, they will be able to deal damage regardless of resistances. Between its area-of-effect attacks (one of which packs an impressive 50% Freeze chance) and its three attacks with over 70 base power, the Ice Golem is a force to be reckoned with both offensively and defensively.

As a side note, Berserking or Syphoning the Ice Golem will result in it choosing between its two area-of-effect attacks and its most potent single-target attack.

Statistics

	Ice Golem	EBF4
	A powerful foe which uses ice attacks.

Statistics
Base Statistics								Exp	AP	SP	Gold	Hit2HP
Base Statistics	555	5	4	4	4	4	3.2	128	15	15	90	20
Elemental Resistance
Elemental Resistance	-80%	100%	200%	100%	100%	-80%	100%	100%	-	-
Status Resistance
Status Resistance	100%	70%	100%	-	100%	-	-	-	-	-	-	70%
Debuff Resistance
Debuff Resistance	-	-	-	-	-	-

Item Drop Rate
Icon						-	-
Name	Liquid Ice	Solid Water	Amethyst	Rainbow Gems	Mythril Shards	-	-
Chance	100%	100%	50%	50%	10%	-	-

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	10%	-13.(3)%
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
Double Stab	Single	50/2		30%	--	--	--	100%	10%	10%
6x Stab	Single	96/6		30%	--	--	--	100%	10%	10%
Iceberg	Single	75		50%	--	--	--	100%	10%	10%
Icicles	Single	80/2		50%	20%	--		85%	30%	70%
Crystal Shatter	All	40/2		100%	--	--	--	80%	20%	10%
Cold Breath	All	20		100%	50%	1x		120%	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.

Berserked or/and Syphoned → 6x Stab (1/3), Crystal Shatter (1/3), Cold Breath (1/3);
≥49% HP → Double Stab (2/10), 6x Stab (2/10), Iceberg (1/10), Icicles (1/10), Crystal Shatter (2/10), Cold Breath (2/10);
<49% HP → 6x Stab (1/5), Iceberg (1/5), Icicles (1/5), Crystal Shatter (1/5), Cold Breath (1/5).

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 |Roles = Foe
 |Appearances = Epic Battle Fantasy 4}}
-The '''Ice Golem''' is a foe that is introduced in {{EBF|4}}. As its name suggests, it's an {{e|Ice}}-based enemy and is found in cold area's, mainly in [[Crystal Caverns]]. It is one of three [[Golems]] in EBF4, and the second one to be encountered.
+The '''Ice Golem''' is a [[Foes|foe]] in {{EBF|4}}. As its name suggests, it's an {{e|Ice}}-based enemy and is found in cold areas. It is a member of the [[Golems|Golem]] enemy class.
+Outside of [[Battle Mountain]], it appears only in three battles: near [[Crystal Caverns]]' ice block puzzle, in [[Waste Disposal Plant]]'s cooling room, and in [[Temple of Godcat]]'s ice cave; only the first one respawns.
 == Appearance ==
-The Ice Golem is made out of large chunks of grey rock with ice coming out of its shoulders. The middle of the body acts as its mouth, and its arms are long blades made of ice.
+The Ice Golem is made out of large chunks of grey rock with huge shards of ice coming out of its shoulders. The opening in the middle of the body acts as its "mouth", and its arms are long blades made of ice. It has "feet" with additional ice sticking out of it, resembling toes.
 == Overview ==
-The Ice Golem is a strong foe that is resistant to a more than half of all elements, and is weak to {{e|Fire}} and {{e|Bomb}}. It has a large health pool and deals large physical damage, making it a tough foe to fight against.
+The Ice Golem is a strong foe that is resistant to a more than half of all elements, absorbs Ice, and is weak to {{e|Fire}} and {{e|Bomb}}. It has a large health pool too, making it tricky to wear down. (Interestingly, the [[Ninja Gear]] male armor which boosts atttacking items can be found a few screens before the first encounter, and allows to beat it quicker with [[Hand Bomb]]s, which would be stronger than any skills available at the time.)
+The Ice Golem will use nothing but physical Ice-elemental attacks, but it is remarkably diverse in its manner of doing so. It has a whopping six attacks to choose from with varying levels of elemental degree. As such, it is impossible to just stack Ice resistance and laugh off all of its attacks (the resistance will help significantly though); since it has several moves which are 30% elemental, they will be able to deal damage regardless of resistances. Between its area-of-effect attacks (one of which packs an impressive 50% {{s|Freeze}} chance) and its three attacks with over 70 base power, the Ice Golem is a force to be reckoned with both offensively and defensively.
+As a side note, {{s|Berserk}}ing or {{s|Syphon}}ing the Ice Golem will result in it choosing between its two area-of-effect attacks and its most potent single-target attack.
-The Ice Golems signature attack is its freeze breath, where it breaths out a breath that hits all players with ice damage and possibly freezes them.
 == Statistics ==
 {{FoeTableEBF4
 |Name = Ice Golem
-|Description = A powerful foe which uses ice attacks.
+|Description = A powerful foe which uses {{e|ice}} attacks.
 |HP = 555
 |Atk = 5
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 |SP = 15
 |Gold = 90
+|Hit2HP = 20
 |fire = -80%
 |thunder = 100%
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 |Attack2 = 6x Stab
 |Target2 = Single
-|Power2 = 100/6
+|Power2 = 96/6
 |Type2 = Physical
 |Element%2 = 30%
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 * Berserked or/and Syphoned → 6x Stab (1/3), Crystal Shatter (1/3), Cold Breath (1/3);
-* ≥50% HP → Double Stab (2/10), 6x Stab (2/10), Iceberg (1/10), Icicles (1/10), Crystal Shatter (2/10), Cold Breath (2/10);
+* ≥49% HP → Double Stab (2/10), 6x Stab (2/10), Iceberg (1/10), Icicles (1/10), Crystal Shatter (2/10), Cold Breath (2/10);
-* <50% HP → 6x Stab (1/5), Iceberg (1/5), Icicles (1/5), Crystal Shatter (1/5), Cold Breath (1/5).
+* <49% HP → 6x Stab (1/5), Iceberg (1/5), Icicles (1/5), Crystal Shatter (1/5), Cold Breath (1/5).
 [[Category:Foes]]
 [[Category:Epic Battle Fantasy 4]]