Ruby Ore

Ruby Ore
Group	Ores
Roles	Foe, Summon
Appearances	Epic Battle Fantasy 5

The Ruby Ore is a foe and a summon in Epic Battle Fantasy 5. It is largely found in The Rapture.

Appearance

The Ruby Ore is a floating black stone dotted with red-orange crystals, including four particularly large ones that stick out in a slightly off-centered cross formation. Like all Ores, it has two small eye holes with glowing lights for eyes; in this case, the lights are orange.

Overview

The Ruby Ore acts similarly to the Fire Bit from previous games, sacrificing itself to perform a Fire attack on the players. It has two options to choose from, both having a chance to inflict a Burn; the physical Fire Crystals has higher Base Power, hits three times, and has a better Burn chance on top of debuffing the victim's Defence, but the magic-based Flame Blast has a higher elemental degree, runs off of a fairly high Magic Attack stat, and hits all active players (although only the initial target will take significant damage).

Like most Ores, the Ruby Ore is crippled by Syphon or Berserk, both of which prevent it from self-destructing and limit it to a weak physical attack that deals non-elemental damage to one player with no special effects. On Hard and Epic difficulty, it may use this move instead of its suicide tactics if the party's Fire resistance is high enough; however, it will still have at least a 30% chance to use its regular sacrificial skills. Morale can be used to negate the Defence debuff from Fire Crystals, but it's typically easier to neutralize the foe or just kill it outright; it has several elemental weaknesses and low HP.

The Ruby Ore absorbs Fire, is immune to Earth, Poison, and Virus, and resists Bio and Thunder. On the other hand, it's weak to Ice, Wind, Bomb, and especially Water, giving every party member (especially Matt, Anna, and NoLegs) at least one option to hit it hard with their natural skills. "More Foe Resistance" removes its Ice, Wind, and Bomb weaknesses; curiously, it also makes it neutral to Bio despite retaining its usual Poison/Virus immunity.

Statistics

	Ruby Ore	EBF5
	A magical ruby ore. It'll self destruct in a fiery explosion as soon as it has the chance. Keep it away from yourself.

Statistics
Base Statistics								Exp	AP	SP	Gold	Hit2HP	Catch
	101	4	4	4.5	4	4	4	12	1.2	1.2	5	50	33
Elemental Resistance
	200%	50%	-50%	100%	50%	-50%	-80%	-50%	-	-
Status Resistance
	-	-	-	100%	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
Debuff Resistance
	-	-	-	-	-	-	-

Item Drop Rate
Icon			-	-	-
Name	Magma Chunk	Rainbow Ore	-	-	-
Chance	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
-3.5% per stack, up to -31.5%	-7% per stack, up to -63%	Immune	Immune	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.

Statistics with More Foe Resistance enabled.

	Ruby Ore	EBF5
	A magical ruby ore. It'll self destruct in a fiery explosion as soon as it has the chance. Keep it away from yourself.

Statistics
Base Statistics								Exp	AP	SP	Gold	Hit2HP	Catch
	101	4	4	4.5	4	4	4	12	1.2	1.2	5	50	33
Elemental Resistance
	200%	50%	-	100%	-	-	-80%	-	-	-
Status Resistance
	-	-	-	100%	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
Debuff Resistance
	-	-	-	-	-	-	-

Item Drop Rate
Icon			-	-	-
Name	Magma Chunk	Rainbow Ore	-	-	-
Chance	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
-3.5% per stack, up to -31.5%	-7% per stack, up to -63%	Immune	Immune	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

Attack List
Attack	Target	Power	Type	Element	Status Effect			Acc	Crit	RdF
Bash	Single	32		----	--	--	--	100%	10%	10%
Fire Crystals	Single	45/3		50%	50% 100%	3x 25%		100%	10%	10%
Notes: Kills the user.
Flame Blast	Centered	38		100%	25%	2x		100%	10%	10%
Notes: Kills the user.

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 → Surrender;
• If Syphoned or Berserked → Bash;
• Otherwise → Fire Crystals (1/2), Flame Blast (1/2).

* On Hard/Epic, Fire Crystals and Flame Blast have up to a 70% chance to be replaced by Bash depending on active party Fire resistance.

Counter (only if Counter-Attacking Foes is enabled)

• 33% and not Syphoned → Fire Crystals.

Summon

The Ruby Ore can be captured and used as a summon. It sacrifices itself to cast Fire Crystals on a single foe, inflicting modest physical Fire damage that halves the target's Defence and has a fair chance of inflicting Burn.

	Ruby Ore							SP
	Assaults a foe with a fire attack, which debuffs their defence and may burn them.							16	Kept
Target	Power	Type	Element	Status Effect			Acc	Crit	RdF
Single	90/3		100%	60% 100%	3x 50%		100%	10%	10%