- "That Matt doesn't look too bright... (Just like the real one!)"
- ―Natalie, Epic Battle Fantasy 4
Dark Matt is an optional boss featured in Epic Battle Fantasy 4. He appears in the final areas of Battle Mountain, along with the other Dark Players.
Appearance
Dark Matt resembles Matt, but with a grim, undead appearance. He has reddish-grey skin, black eyes, and red pupils characteristic of all Dark Players, and his hair is a dull black. He wears the Captain's Hat and a dark version of the Captain's Shirt, and wields the Anarchy sword.
Overview
Dark Matt has high health, attack and defence, but below-average magic defence and evasion. He uses many of Matt's Bushido skills, and scores critical hits very often. He is supported by various Monoliths, which can deal considerable magical damage (something that Dark Matt lacks on his own) and provide him with a variety of buffs.
Defeating Dark Matt on Epic difficulty will reward the player with the Captain of Death medal.
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Statistics
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Dark Matt | EBF4 |
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| Uses mostly non-elemental and debuffing attacks. Has high defence and very high critical hit rate. Summons Undying, Sky and Viking Monoliths. | ||
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| 5100 | 6 | 12 | 6 | 3 | 4 | 3.5 | 800 | 80 | 200 | 800 | 50 | |
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| - | 100% | 100% | 50% | - | 70% | - | 100% | - | 50% | 50% | 100% | |
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| Name | Mythril Shards | Bottled Darkness | - | - | - | - | - |
| Chance | 100% | 100% | - | - | - | - | - |
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| Damage taken from status effects, in % of maximum health (per turn), including elemental resistances: | |||
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 Doom(if Death fails) |
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| 7% | 3% per stack, up to 27% |
Immune | -33.(3)% |
| Final damage is randomized by ±5% (except for Doom) and rounded down. | |||
Attacks and Abilities
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| Attack | Target | Power | Type | Element | Status Effect | Acc | Crit | RdF | ||
| Quick Slash | Single | 120 |
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---- | 100% | 30% |
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150% | 100% | 10% |
| Wind Slash | All | 60 |
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---- | 100% | -- |
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90% | 50% | 10% |
| Revenge | Single | up to 149* |
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---- | 100% | -- |
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100% | 100% | 10% |
Notes: *Power is calculated by: 150 - CurrentHealthPercent. For the exact formula, see the corresponding article.
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| Legend | Single | 80/8 80 |
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90% 100% |
50% | 10% |
| Notes: The first line is for Legend's first 8 small attacks; the second line is for its final attack. | ||||||||||
| Iceberg | Single | 75 |
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50%
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-- | -- | -- | 100% | 10% | 10% |
| Eruption | Single | 65 |
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30% | 2x |
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100% | 10% | 10% |
| Cataclysm | Single | 75 |
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-- | -- | -- | 100% | 30% | 10% |
| Drill Time | Self | -- | -- | ---- | 100% | 50% 50% |
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| Notes: Dark Matt then switches to the Drill Lance sword, and uses Giga Drill in the same turn. | ||||||||||
| Giga Drill | Single | 36* |
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| Notes: *Can deal up to 17.7x damage, depending on target's buffs, possibly reaching 637.2 power. For the exact formula, see the corresponding article. | ||||||||||
| Eat Bat (Heal & Buff) |
Self | 1 / 15 MaxHP | -- | ---- | 100% | 50% 50% -- 5x |
 
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| Cleaver | Single | 500/5 |
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---- | -- | -- | -- | 100% | 100% | 10% |
| Notes: Limit Break! Re-targets upon target's death. | ||||||||||
| Annihilate | All | 150 |
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120% | 100% | 10% |
| Notes: Limit Break! | ||||||||||
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.
- Limit Break → Cleaver (1/2), Annihilate (1/2);
- ≥65% HP → Quick Slash (3/12), Wind Slash (3/12), Iceberg (1/12), Eruption (1/12), Cataclysm (1/12), Eat Bat (3/12);
- <65% to ≥32% HP → Quick Slash (3/15), Wind Slash (3/15), Iceberg (1/15), Eruption (1/15), Cataclysm (1/15), Revenge (3/15), Legend (3/15);
- First turn at <32% HP → Drill Time;
- <32% HP → Revenge (1/3), Legend (1/3), Giga Drill (1/3).
Eat Bat may be used no more often than once in four turns; meanwhile, an attempt to initiate said ability would result in Wind Slash instead.
Strategy
Equipment
Your gears should be based around high defence, HP, Dispel and Death resistance. Dark Matt is weak to Holy and Earth, and Burn and Poison will also work wonderfully considering his high health and that these status effects deal damage based on a percentage of victim's health.
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Battle
Treat the battle as if it has 2 phases: In the first phase, you will need to cast Protect and Reflex to withstand Dark Matt's damage output. It's recommended to use SP only to summon the Ancient Monolith to survive boss' Limit Breaks. On the second phase, when he pulls out his Drill Lance and begins using Giga Drill, Protect can turn against you, significantly increasing the worth of accuracy debuffs and evade buffs, along with Morale and Auto-Revive.
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Trivia
- Dark Matt may be partially inspired by Zombie Goku, the final boss of the first Epic Battle Fantasy. Other than being undead, they both wield the Anarchy sword and have somewhat similar movesets, especially the ability to dispel their opponents' buffs, and the ability to charge for an extremely strong attack.