Red Flybot

"Flying drones only exist to take up-skirt photos and other perverted spying! Let's smash them!"

―Natalie's angry, mature remark, Epic Battle Fantasy 5

The Red Flybot is a foe and a summon in Epic Battle Fantasy 5. Red Flybots are typically found in the Iron Fortress but go on to appear in several other locations. It is a member of the Flybots enemy group.

Appearance

The Red Flybot is reminiscent of the Drill Bot from the previous games. The main body of the Red Flybot is a roughly spherical black robot with red lines running through it, while the body keeps itself aloft with a propeller. It has a central red orb for its "eye", along with two smaller ones towards the top of it. It has two arms which are capable of extending a blade out of them or firing lasers.

Judging by the color scheme it appears to be made out of reverse-engineered Cosmic Monolith technology.

Overview

Red Flybots are the non-elemental member of the Flybot family, and as such are low level foes capable of some very annoying tactics.

The Red Flybot only has two offensive attacks, both non-elemental, but is capable of inflicting Syphon on the party, applying the Target status and most notably can invert buffs. While generally speaking the Red Flybot is not a foe that requires buffs to be put in place, if it is paired with a stronger foe (such as the Defender Mk III), it can become a major irritant. While it cannot do much alone, the Red Flybot should be swiftly taken care of when teamed up with stronger foes.

In terms of resistances, the Red Flybot resists Bio and is immune to Earth, but is weak to Water, Thunder and especially Bomb. It resists the Stun, Syphon, Death, and Doom statuses, and due to being a robot is completely immune to Virus and Poison.

Statistics

	Red Flybot	EBF5
	A bulky maintenance robot. It uses non-elemental attacks and carries out a mix of utility functions, like reversing buffs.

Statistics
Base Statistics								Exp	AP	SP	Gold	Hit2HP	Catch
	201	4	4	4	4	4	4.1	37	2.8	2.8	16	40	16
Elemental Resistance
	-	-50%	-	100%	50%	-80%	-50%	-	-	-
Status Resistance
	-	50%	-	100%	50%	-	-	-	-	-	-	50%
Debuff Resistance
	-	-	-	-	-	-

Item Drop Rate
Icon
Name	Spring	Plastic	Iron Plate	Floppy	Dark Rune
Chance	50%	50%	50%	50%	5%

Status Damage
Damage taken from status effects, in % of maximum health (per turn), including elemental resistances:
Burn	Poison	Virus	Doom (if Death fails)	Regen
2.8% per stack, up to 25.2%	Immune	Immune	20%	-26.(6)%
Damage taken from first three 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
Stab	Single	33		----	--	--	--	100%	10%	10%
Laser	Single	38		----	--	--	--	100%	10%	10%
Notes: Gets 33% chance of 1x Confuse on Hard or Epic difficulties.
Syphoning Signal	All	--	--	----	25%	1x		150%	--	--
Notes: Status chance increased to 50% on Hard or Epic difficulties Also gives 2x Brave to allies on Hard or Epic difficulties.
Recycle	Anyone	--	--	----	--	--	--	--	--	--
Notes: Inverts the target's buffs/debuffs, turning negatives into positives, and vice versa. Cannot miss and ignores Lovable.
Set Target	Single	--	--	----	100%	3x		--	--	--
Notes: Can't be dodged with Evade and bypasses Bless.

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.

• If Syphoned, catch score >55 and all players are Lovable → Surrender;
• If catch score >55 and all players are Lovable → Recycle on a random player;
• If Syphoned → Stab (1/2), Laser (1/2);
• If Berserked → Syphoning Signal;
• If a randomly selected foe doesn't have Brave and two randomly selected players aren't Syphoned → Syphoning Signal (1/5);
  • If a player has more than 100% buffs in total, or if a foe has more than 100% debuffs in total → Recycle (6/25);
    • If the selected target doesn't have Target → Set Target (38/500), Stab (121/500), Laser (121/500);
    • Otherwise → Stab (7/25), Laser (7/25);
  • Otherwise;
    • If the selected target doesn't have Target → Set Target (2/25), Stab (9/25), Laser (9/25);
    • Otherwise → Stab (2/5), Laser (2/5);
• Otherwise;
  • If a player has more than 100% buffs in total, or if a foe has more than 100% debuffs in total → Recycle (3/10);
    • If the selected target doesn't have Target → Set Target (14/200), Stab (63/200), Laser (63/200);
    • Otherwise → Shot (7/20), Laser (7/20);
  • Otherwise;
    • If the selected target doesn't have Target → Set Target (2/20), Stab (9/20), Laser (9/20);
    • Otherwise → Stab (1/2), Laser (1/2).

Due to an oversight, the Red Flybot may use Recycle's targeting AI to select a target only to switch to a different attack afterwards, leading to situations where it'll attack its own allies or itself with its Stab, Laser and Set Target attacks.

Summon

The foe can be captured to be used as a summon.

	Red Flybot							SP
	Inverts the buffs of a single foe or ally, turning negatives into positives, and vice versa.							22	Kept
Target	Power	Type	Element	Status Effect			Acc	Crit	RdF
Anyone	--	--	----	--	--	--	--	--	--