Etrian 1:Pooka

Pooka プーカ
EnglishJapanese A rarely-seen floating creature. It is quite shy, and flees from adventurers. 宙を浮遊する珍しい生物で遭遇することは極めて稀。プーカプカと迷宮をさまよい冒険者を見ては逃げる。
Information
Skills			Flight Instinct Go Away! Keep Up! Idle Float Help Me!
Monster Drops			Wandering Box White Potion
Monster Type			Normal
Size			1 tile
Movement Type			Flying
Weakness			None
Weakness +			None
Resistance			None
Resistance +			None
Immune			Cut, Stab, Bash, Fire, Ice, Volt
Stats
Experience			10
HP			40
1%	1%	1%	1%	1%	1%

Pooka (Japanese: プーカ) is a DOE in  Etrian Mystery Dungeon.

This DOE is the most special of the DOEs. It only takes one point of damage for all attacks, even if it is affected by an ailment that removes its DOE protection. It is therefore useless to inflict ailments on it to do more damage. It is however sensitive to fixed damage, Blowback Sigil damage can for example inflict 5 HP of damage easily. It is also very resistant to Binds and stat decrease.

In battle it acts twice per turn, but it can skip its turn because of Idle Float.

This monster tries to avoid combat, so you should try to corner it in a room or Leg Bind it. As it flies, this can make it impossible to fight in dungeons without walls, like Thunderous Cave or Torrential Ravine. Furthermore, its Help Me! skill makes the end of the fight complicated because it can teleport elsewhere as soon as it meets one of party member.

When it is in a dungeon, it can disappear without being killed and without having destroyed a fort. This makes it more difficult to find than other DOE. Unlike all other DOEs it does not have the skill Amber Lure, however it can still summon monsters with Help Me!.

Drops

• Wandering Box: Chest that disappears after about ten turns and that contains a random item from the dungeon, usually a piece of equipment.
• White Potion (Worth: 888 Ental): Secret salve that raises the user's level by 1. Has the same effect when thrown.

Skills

Name		Body Part	In-Game Description	Effects
English	Japanese
Flight Instinct	逃走の心	None	Runs away upon sighting an enemy because of its timid nature.	Passive skill that can be disabled with Skill Bind. This skill modifies the AI of the monster. This will make the Pooka try to run away from the player instead of approaching to fight. However, this only works in a room, so it is possible to fight it in a corridor without it running away (except with Help Me!).
Go Away!	あっちいけ	Head	Sends all nearby clingy enemies flying away and deals damage that ignores defense.	Damages are fixed damages according to the formula 2.5*x, with x the HP lost by the Pooka, rounded down. This attack also pushes the characters of 2 tiles. Used only after it has lost 20 HP.
Keep Up!	ついてこれる？	Head	Makes all enemies in the room move slower for 10 turns.	Used only after it has lost 12 HP.
Idle Float	ぷかぷか	Legs	Floats in place. It's unclear what this unit is thinking.	The monster misses its turn. It is then written "Pooka is floating."
Help Me!	たすけて魔物さん	Legs	Summons monsters due to feeling threatened, and runs away to a different room.	Summons between 1 and 4 monsters and teleports itself elsewhere in the floor. Used only when it has lost 32 HP and when a party member is on an adjacent tile.

Spawn Locations

Icon	Dungeon
	English	Japanese
	Muspelheim	火焔郷ムスペル
	Forest of Gates	大鳥居ノ森
	Thunderous Cave	雷鳴ノ洞窟
	Glacial Cave	氷嵐ノ洞窟
	Burning Cave	赤焔ノ洞窟
	Equinox Garden	彼岸ノ園
	Utopia	武陵桃源
	Emerald Copse (extended)	翠玉ノ華段
	Pristine Stream (extended)	清冽ノ渓流
	Haunted Woods (extended)	逢魔ノ樹海
	Crystalline Peak (extended)	氷晶ヶ岳
	Torrential Ravine (extended)	迅雷風烈峡谷

Gallery

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  Icon of Pooka in the Monster Tome.