Ragnarok in EBF3
Catastrophe in EBF1
- "Check out my sword collection! All unique. All stolen."
- ―Matt, Epic Battle Fantasy 4
Ragnarok also called Catastrophe in Epic Battle Fantasy (and renamed Calamity in the Epic Battle Fantasy Collection), is a summon for Natalie in Epic Battle Fantasy, and a Limit Break for Matt since Epic Battle Fantasy 3.
Description
In EBF1, a large, winged knight with claws, horns, and a mass of chains for a lower body will appear above the battlefield. It summons a collection of massive swords, spears and axes to drop on the battlefield, finishing off with a massive version of the Heaven's Gate which will deal significantly more damage than the other weapons. Most of them will rain down at the enemy, but one of them is guarantee to hit Natalie, dealing massive recoil damage. The weapons then glow white before disappearing.
Since its rework into a Limit Break in EBF3, the weapons are merely spawned in mid-air before freefalling. The weapons also no longer deal recoil damage to the caster, and will burn bright red before disappearing.
Foe Users
Epic Battle Fantasy 5
Epic Battle Fantasy 1
Catastrophe hits all enemies 4 times for massive non-elemental damage, but deals heavy recoil damage to Natalie. This is often very dangerous, since Natalie always goes last in battle, so Matt cannot heal her before the enemies act.
As with all summons in EBF, it doesn't scale with Natalie's offensive stats but will still be affected by target defenses. This also applies to the recoil damage.
| Catastrophe | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Hits all foes for extreme Physical damage. Damages the user too. | ||||||
| Target | Type | Element | Status Effect | MP | RdF | |
| All Self |
-- | 
|
---- | -- | 300 | 10% |
| Power | Status Chance | Status Strength | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 40000/4* 8000 |
-- | -- | |
| Note: *First 3 hits have 5000 power each while last one has 25000 power. | |||
Epic Battle Fantasy 3
Ragnarok is now a Limit Break available to Matt. Despite its in-game description of it being 25% Holy, it is actually a non-elemental skill.
 |
Ragnarok | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Limit break! Giant swords strike all foes. | ||||||
| Target | Type | Element | Status Effect | Acc | Crit | RdF |
| All | 
|
---- | -- | 100% | 20% 40% |
10% |
| Level | Power | Status Chance | Status Strength | MP | AP Cost | |
| 1 | 50/4 50 |
-- | -- | -- | 1000 | |
| 2 | 70/4 70 |
-- | -- | -- | 2000 | |
| 3 | 90/4 90 |
-- | -- | -- | 4000 | |
| 4 | 130/4 130 |
-- | -- | -- | 8000 | |
| 5 | 190/4 190 |
-- | -- | -- | 16000 | |
| Requirement(s) |
| |||||
| Note: The 2 set of numbers belong to the first 4 hits and the Heaven's Gate finisher, respectively. | ||||||
Epic Battle Fantasy 4
Ragnarok gained a slight power boost and greatly increased Accuracy.
 |
Ragnarok | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Limit break! Targets all foes. Hits 5 times. | ||||||
| Target | Type | Element | Status Effect | Acc | Crit | RdF |
| All |
|
---- | -- | 150% | 10% | 10% |
| Level | Power | Status Chance | Status Strength | MP | AP Cost | |
| 1 | 40/4 60 |
-- | -- | -- | 300 | |
| 2 | 68/4 102 |
-- | -- | -- | 900 | |
| 3 | 104/4 156 |
-- | -- | -- | 2000 | |
| 4 | 140/4 210 |
-- | -- | -- | 4000 | |
| 5 | 180/4 270 |
-- | -- | -- | 12000 | |
| Requirement(s) |
| |||||
| Note: The 2 set of numbers belong to the first 4 hits and the Heaven's Gate finisher, respectively. Forces the players to jump off the screen, curing  Freeze.
| ||||||
Epic Battle Fantasy 5
On top of dealing damage, Ragnarok now also essentially casts Temper on the whole party, giving a sizable Attack buff and the Brave status for several turns.
 |
Ragnarok | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Limit Break! Hits all foes with massive non-elemental physical damage.
| ||||||
| Target | Type | Element | Status Effect | Acc | Crit | RdF |
| All Allies+B |
-- |
---- | --
|
150% -- |
10% -- |
10% -- |
| Level | Power | Status Chance | Status Strength | AP Cost | ||
| 1 | 48/4 72 -- |
-- | -- 40% |
100 | ||
| 2 | 80/4 120 -- |
-- | -- 50% |
300 | ||
| 3 | 120/4 180 -- |
-- | -- 60% |
1000 | ||
| 4 | 168/4 252 -- |
-- | -- 70% |
3000 | ||
| 5 | 224/4 336 -- |
-- | -- 80% |
10000 | ||
| Note: The 2 set of numbers belong to the first 4 hits and the Heaven's Gate finisher, respectively. Forces the players to jump off the screen, curing  Freeze.Also gives all players 5x  Brave. Before the v2 update, the Attack buff and Brave didn't affect the backup players. | ||||||
Trivia
- The Black Fang, Sol Spear, and Heaven's Gate can be seen in the Catastrophe animation, while the same Heaven's Gate, plus the Thunder Spear and Silver Blade, can be seen in the Ragnarok version.
- The name of Catastrophe and Ragnarok are based off of abilities in the game Golden Sun. They are based off of a summon and a spell respectively.
- While Ragnarok is an appropriate name for the Limit Break, given that it amounts to summoned swords raining down on the opponent, the Limit Break's animation (especially the original one) is specifically inspired by the summon.
- The inscription on the blade of the Heaven's Gate is the word "heaven" displayed in the Symbol font, which contains Greek letters for the code points of Latin letters. Since the two alphabets don't exactly match, the Greek inscription would read as "ēeapen".
- This inscription is not visible on the equipment version of the Heaven's Gate.