Prototype 9X

Prototype 9X
Group	Defenders
Roles	Foe, Summon
Appearances	Epic Battle Fantasy 5

"I haven't seen this Defender model in a long time... What's it doing here?"

―Lance being surprised at the return of an old friend(?) in an unexpected place

The Prototype 9X is a foe and a summon in Epic Battle Fantasy 5 introduced in the v2 update. It is found in the Battle Arena as the unique foe of Lance's solo challenge, but it appears in other places if "Foe Remix" is enabled; notably, a single unit appears as one of the waves in NoLegs's solo challenge.

Appearance

The Prototype 9X is a black and silver Defender with red crystals at the tips of its legs, just above its wheels. In addition to its machine guns and mortar cannon, it is armed with a pair of pincer-like "wave cannons" containing orbs of red light. The machine's legs and main cannons are adorned with red markings similar to that of a Cosmic Monolith, suggesting it was developed with technology reverse-engineered from them.

Overview

The Prototype 9X is a powerful foe with potent Dark and Bomb attacks. It can microwave all active members for high Non-Elemental magic damage and inflicts Dry to improve its Bomb-based damage output, has extremely high critical hit rates with its Dark attacks that can inflict Disable on Hard/Epic, or it can reduce the Accuracy of all active members with Flare to support its slightly above average evade. If encountered outside of the Battle Arena, Brave may be useful to stop critical hits. Note that while it has exceptional Magic Attack, this only serves to even out the power of its Drying Ray and Energy Barrage abilities.

Prototype 9X is resistant to many elements, but it is weak to Water, Thunder, and (to a lesser extent) Bomb; additionally, it absorbs Dark and is neutral to Holy. In terms of status effects, it is immune to Stun, Chill, Freeze, Poison, Virus, Syphon, Doom, and Instant Death; it also has a modest resistance to non-HP stat drops. If "More Foe Resistance" is active, it loses its Bomb weakness and becomes immune to all of the elements it previously resisted, while increasing their non-HP debuff resistances by varying amounts. (+10% for Defences, +20% for Attacks, and +30% resistance for Accuracy and Evade.)

Statistics

	Prototype 9X	EBF5
	This prototype Defender has a powerful wave weapon: It always scores critical hits and is slightly dark-elemental.

Statistics
Base Statistics								Exp	AP	SP	Gold	Hit2HP	Catch
	900	4	4	6	4	4	4.1	210	23	23	220	33	6*
Elemental Resistance
	50%	-80%	50%	50%	50%	-50%	-80%	50%	-	200%
Status Resistance
	-	100%	100%	100%	100%	-	-	-	-	-	-	100%
Debuff Resistance
	-	20%	20%	20%	20%	20%	20%

Item Drop Rate
Icon
Name	Steel Plate	P2 Processor	Nano Fibre	Dark Rune	Plutonium Core
Chance	100%	50%	50%	25%	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
1.155% per stack, up to 10.395%	2.31% per stack, up to 20.79%	Immune	Immune	Immune	-22%
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.

	Prototype 9X	EBF5
	This prototype Defender has a powerful wave weapon: It always scores critical hits and is slightly dark-elemental.

Statistics
Base Statistics								Exp	AP	SP	Gold	Hit2HP	Catch
	900	4	4	6	4	4	4.1	210	23	23	220	33	6*
Elemental Resistance
	100%	-80%	100%	100%	100%	-	-80%	100%	-	200%
Status Resistance
	100%	100%	100%	100%	100%	-	-	-	-	-	-	100%
Debuff Resistance
	-	40%	40%	30%	30%	50%	50%

Item Drop Rate
Icon
Name	Steel Plate	P2 Processor	Nano Fibre	Dark Rune	Plutonium Core
Chance	100%	50%	50%	25%	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
Immune	Immune	Immune	Immune	Immune	-22%
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
Wave Guns	Single	120		50%	--	--	--	150%	110%	10%
Notes: Gets 100% chance of 3x Disable on Hard or Epic difficulties.
Wave Guns Burst	All	60/3		50%	--	--	--	150%	110%	10%
Notes: Gets 100% chance of 2x Disable on Hard or Epic difficulties.
Machine Guns	Random	200/18		50%	--	--	--	100%	10%	10%
Notes: Instead of targeting completely randomly, after each hit there's a 25% chance to swap to a different target.
Drying Ray	All	70		----	50%	3x		100%	10%	10%
Notes: Status chance increased to 100% on Hard or Epic difficulties.
Energy Barrage	All	50		100%	--	--	--	100%	30%	10%
Flare	All	--	--	----	80%	50%		150%	--	--

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 → Wave Guns Burst (1/5), Machine Guns (1/5), Drying Ray (1/5);
  • If a randomly selected player has at least a 10% Accuracy debuff → Energy Barrage (2/5);
  • Otherwise → Energy Barrage (4/15), Flare (2/15);
• Otherwise → Wave Guns (1/5), Wave Guns Burst (1/5), Machine Guns (1/5), Drying Ray (1/5);
  • If a randomly selected player has at least a 10% Accuracy debuff → Energy Barrage (1/5);
  • Otherwise → Energy Barrage (2/15), Flare (1/15).

Counter (only if Counter-Attacking Foes is enabled)

• 25% → Machine Guns.

Summon

Prototype 9X can be captured and used as a summon; in Equip Remix, it also has a low chance of being called between turns by the Alt Shadow Blaster. It uses a powered-up version of its Wave Guns Burst to hit all foes for physical Dark damage; unlike the foe's version, it has normal Accuracy and no associated status effect in exchange for pure elemental damage, higher power, and an even better critical hit chance.

Relative to its cost, Prototype 9X is one of the most powerful multi-target summons in EBF5 due to its huge critical rate; unless the targets have Brave, it's effectively guaranteed to score a double critical hit for twice as much damage as its base power suggests. Applying effects such as Bad Luck and Stagger can further amplify its crit chance, potentially letting it inflict triple criticals; in fact, this is one of the easiest ways to earn the "Critical Condition" Medal.

	Prototype 9X							SP
	Blast all foes with powerful shockwaves, dealing physical dark damage. Always scores critical hits.							101	Cured
Target	Power	Type	Element	Status Effect			Acc	Crit	RdF
All	260/3		100%	--	--	--	100%	210%	10%