Red Bush

The Red Bush is a recurring foe in the Epic Battle Fantasy series, first appearing in Epic Battle Fantasy 3, and a summon in Epic Battle Fantasy 5. It is found mostly around nature-themed areas, such as Vegetable Forest (in EBF3), Ashwood Forest and Lankyroot Jungle (in EBF4). On the other hand, they frequent Redpine Town in EBF5. It is one of many members of the Bushes enemy class.

Appearance

It is an orange bush which has brown shiny eyes and a leaf on the top. In EBF3, it is the only bush whose appearance doesn't vary.

Overview

The Red Bush is mostly identical to the Green Bush, except for a slight health boost in EBF3 and having slightly more powerful skills in EBF4 and 5. Sharing elemental resistances/weaknesses and other statistics with most small Bushes, the Red Bush will likely die to a single effective attack or a strong neutral attack.

Its only somewhat threatening ability is to inflict a slight Defence debuff on players, increasing physical damage dealt by the bush's stronger allies; in EBF5, the Red Bush also gains a skill with a small Stun chance. Other than that, the foe lacks any special traits and can be either ignored or easily killed before it gets a chance to use any of these attacks.

Statistics

Epic Battle Fantasy 3

	Red Bush	Small Shrub	EBF3
	A rare variety of Bush, with better defensive skills.

Statistics
Base Statistics								Exp	AP	Gold
	75	4	4	4	4	4	4	8	1	4
Elemental Resistance
	-70%	-	-	200%	-40%	-50%	-	-	-	-
Status Resistance
	-	-	-	-	-100%	-	-
Debuff Resistance
	-	-	-	-	-	-

Item Drop Rate
Icon			-	-	-	-	-
Name	Ragged Cloth	Mushroom	-	-	-	-	-
Chance	20%	5%	-	-	-	-	-

Epic Battle Fantasy 4

	Red Bush	EBF4
	A timid creature which uses non-elemental attacks and can lower the party's defence.

Statistics
Base Statistics								Exp	AP	SP	Gold	Hit2HP
	60	4	4	4	4	4	4	6	1	1	4	50
Elemental Resistance
	-100%	-	-	-60%	-80%	-	-80%	150%	-	-
Status Resistance
	-200%	-	-	-	-	-	-100%	-	-	-	-	-
Debuff Resistance
	-	-	-	-	-	-

Item Drop Rate
Icon				-	-	-	-
Name	Lanky Root	Kiwi	Ogle Berries	-	-	-	-
Chance	10%	15%	25%	-	-	-	-

Status Damage
Damage taken from status effects, in % of maximum health (per turn), including elemental resistances:
Burn	Poison	Doom (if Death fails)	Regen
14%	5.4% per stack, up to 48.6%	25%	-33.(3)%
Final damage is randomized by ±5% (except for Doom) and rounded down.

Epic Battle Fantasy 5

	Red Bush	EBF5
	A bush that's angry about growing older. It's slightly more aggressive than the green variety.

Statistics
Base Statistics								Exp	AP	SP	Gold	Hit2HP	Catch
	65	4	4	4	4	4	4	6.5	1	1	4.5	50	80
Elemental Resistance
	-80%	-	-	-50%	-80%	-	150%	-50%	-	-
Status Resistance
	-100%	-	-	-	-	-	-100%	-100%	-	-	-	-
Debuff Resistance
	-	-	-	-	-	-	-

Item Drop Rate
Icon				-	-
Name	Gash Root	Soft Wood	An Herb	-	-
Chance	20%	10%	10%	-	-

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
6.3% per stack, up to 56.7%	12.6% per stack, up to 113.4%	5.4% per stack, up to 48.6%	10.8% per stack, up to 97.2%	25%	-33.(3)%
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

Epic Battle Fantasy 3

Attack List
Attack	Target	Power	Type	Element	Status Effect			Acc	Crit	RdF
Leaf Stab	Single	14		----	--	--	--	100%	10%	10%
Bite	Single	22		----	--	--	--	90%	30%	10%
Thin Tone Scream	Single	10		100%	100%	20%		100%	0%	10%
Deep Tone Scream	Self	--	--	----	--	30%		--	--	--

Epic Battle Fantasy 4

Attack List
Attack	Target	Power	Type	Element	Status Effect			Acc	Crit	RdF
Leaf Stab	Single	12		----	--	--	--	100%	10%	10%
Bite	Single	18		----	--	--	--	100%	10%	10%
Scream	All	--	--	----	70%	20%		100%	--	--
Notes: On Hard and Epic difficulties, debuff strength is increased to 30%.

Epic Battle Fantasy 5

Attack List
Attack	Target	Power	Type	Element	Status Effect			Acc	Crit	RdF
Hit	Single	13		20%	--	--	--	100%	10%	10%
Bite	Single	18		----	--	--	--	100%	10%	10%
Mushroom	Single	25		50%	20%	1x		100%	10%	10%
Notes: Status strength increased to 2x on Hard or Epic difficulties.
Scream	All	--	--	----	75%	15%		100%	--	--
Notes: Debuff strength increased to 25% 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.

Epic Battle Fantasy 3

• Anything → Leaf Stab (2/6), Bite (2/6), Thin Tone Scream (1/6), Deep Tone Scream (1/6).

Epic Battle Fantasy 4

• Berserked → Bite;
• Syphoned → Leaf Stab;
• Otherwise → Leaf Stab (1/3), Bite (1/3), Scream (1/3).

Epic Battle Fantasy 5

Action

• If catch score >55 and all players are Lovable → Surrender;
• If Syphoned or Berserked → Hit (1/2), Bite (1/2);
• Otherwise → Hit (1/5), Bite (1/5), Mushroom (2/5), Scream (1/5).

Counter (only if Counter-Attacking Foes is enabled)

• 25% and not Syphoned → Mushroom.

Additionally, if any front line player has equipment that scares Trees, the Red Bush will immediately Surrender and Flee on their turn.

Summon

In EBF5, the foe can be captured to be used as a summon.

	Red Bush							SP
	Screams at the enemies, debuffing their defence slightly.							15	Kept
Target	Power	Type	Element	Status Effect			Acc	Crit	RdF
All	--	--	----	100%	25%		100%	--	--

Trivia

• EBF3 Bestiary displays the foe as resistant to Blind, which doesn't appear in that game.