The Batter

“	That’s what I did. This cradle is the home of my father. The guardians have fallen. You are Queen of a kingdom that no longer exists. You’ve never been here to do such a thing. Your role was to take care of him, and you have failed your task. And because of you, I must now complete my sacred mission. Lost in preparing the birthday party, you forgot who it was for. …Queen of the flies, it is time for you to join your disciples. Nothing went right, we must forget it all and dream sweet dreams now. However, his shows fear.	„
	~ The Batter to the Queen before and after the battle

Background

The Batter is the main protagonist of OFF. When starting the game, The Player is assigned to the Batter and told that he has a special mission to fulfill. The Batter is aware that the Player is controlling him and that he has a purpose, but is relatively uninformed about the nature of the Zones and the world he is in. The Batter fights with different types of baseball bats and utilizes competences that are usually named after baseball terms. He acts as the savior of the world. Embarked on a holy mission, he plans to fulfill this task with the help of his puppeteer who controls his movements. In many ways, the Batter's relationship with the Player resembles that of a solemn religious crusader whose every deed, action and decision is justifiable purely on behalf of his Higher Power.

If the Player chooses to align with the Judge in the game's final battle, the Batter spontaneously takes on a much more disturbing appearance. He is now seen as a depraved, crocodilian creature with soulless white eyes, a mouth filled with serrated teeth and a pair of enormous claws. It is confirmed by Mortis Ghost that this is not a different form of the Batter, but simply a different perspective of him since at that point in the game the player would perceive him as the enemy.

Powers and Stats

Tier: 6-C | At least 4-C, likely far higher. Possibly Low 2-C via the Switch

Name: The Batter, Le Batteur (Original French name)

Origin: OFF

Gender: Male

Age: Unknown

Classification: Inhuman, Creation of Hugo, Savior, Physical Embodiment of the Concept of Purity

Attack Potency: Island level (Can fight and defeat both of the Zone Guardians Japhet and Dedan, who created their zones which are described as islets and draw “infinite power from the sun”) | At least Star level (Could defeat The Queen in battle, who created the world of OFF, which contains a sun), likely far higher (The Room, which is also a creation of The Queen has multiple pocket dimensions). Possibly Macrocosmic level+ via the Switch (Flipping the Switch off destroys all of reality, though due to the far smaller size of reality in OFF it’s unknown if it’s comparable to our real life universe)

Dimensionality: 3-D

Travel Speed: Speed of Light (Stated to be able to travel in the nothingness at the speed of light)

Combat Speed: Extra-Temporal

Reaction Speed: Extra-Temporal (Can naturally move in the nothingness, a void outside of space and time)

Lifting Strength: Unknown | Unknown

Striking Strength: Island Class | At least Star Class, likely far higher

Durability: Island level | At least Star level, likely far higher

Stamina: Very High (Traveled through all four zones and The Room all the while fighting countless Spectres and Zone Guardians with no real breaks in between)

Range: Extended Melee Range with Bat, likely higher with Competences, Kilometers with Purification (Can purify entire zones, which are islets)

Powers and Abilities:

Superhuman Physical Characteristics, Genius Intelligence, Weapon Mastery (Wields an assortment of bats), 4th Wall Awareness (Is completely aware of his existence as a game character to the point that he explains to the player how to move him), Stealth Mastery (The Batter is stated by a NPC to walk unnaturally silently), Enhanced Senses (Can still attack enemies while under the blinded status effect), Extrasensory Perception (Could tell the Specters were near before they appeared to him), Cosmic Awareness (Is aware that he is in a game and of The Player's existence. Is led by the player who can see and hear everything), Self-Sustenance (Type 1 & 2. Can travel in the nothingness, is not affected by the loss of the meat element), Abstract Existence (Type 4. Is the physical embodiment of the concept of purification), Non-Corporeal (Batter is described by Judge as one not off physical matter. Is an imaginary construct of Hugo's rather than any sort of traditional living being), Non-Physical Interaction, Soul Manipulation, Immortality Negation (Type 7. Can harm and kill specters, undead ghost. Can bind Add-Ons, which Judge describes as spiritual entities, to him making them join his team, to where Judge describes Add-Ons being binded by Batter as a “metaphysical reaction”. Can harm nonexistent enemies within purified zones), Conceptual Manipulation & Linguistic Manipulation (Can harm and kill abstract specters embodies the concept of purification, can attack speech bubbles, can imbue his attacks with abstract ideas, can wear days of the week as equipment. Upon purifying zones he erases to them to an extent that the names for areas get re-named “???”, along with books, and posters becoming unreadable. It is even noted that the color and everything is gone), Perception Manipulation (Seemingly passive. The Batter’s form is based on the perceptions of how those view him, for example The Judge in the beginning sees the batter as a baseball hero and someone able to make the world a better place. Though by the end of the game The Judge & The Player sees him a demented villain), Void Manipulation (Upon defeating the Zone guardians The Batter makes the all of the inhabitants fall into nothingness), Purification (Various items can heal status ailments. He “purifies” zones by sending all to nothingness), Text Manipulation & Information Manipulation (Purification of the zones erase all prior information about the areas replacing them with “???”, along with making the text in areas unreadable), Information Analysis (With “Wide Angle”, analyzes the enemies' characteristics, With “eye”, a general item that does the same effect as Wide Angle), Healing & Resurrection (With “Save The First Base”, “Save the Second Base”, “Save the Third Base”, “Save the Fourth Base”, & “Save the Secret Base”. Heals allies or revives them with Fourth Base|. With various healing and revival items), Elemental Manipulation, Spatial Manipulation (With the plastic element, described that without plastic the world would be limitless, and people would keep walking forever and ever without stopping. Specifically has it with “Run With Grace”), Organic Manipulation (With the meat element, specifically has it with “Run With Belief”), Smoke Manipulation & Air Manipulation (With the smoke element, described that without smoke, no one would be able to breathe in OFF. Specifically has it with “Run With Dementia”), Metal Manipulation (With the metal element, specifically has it with “Run With Courage”), Statistics Amplification (With Saturday, increases evasion), Evasion Negation (Can hit an opponent regardless of their evasion with Ashley Bat), Power Nullification (Only The Batter is able to flee, with The Player and other party members being unable to do so. He will also choose when or when not to flee), Resistance to Mind Manipulation, Madness Manipulation, & Empathic Manipulation (With the Thursday equipment, has a 30% resistance to the furious and madness status effect), Soul Manipulation (Can take attacks from Dedan, and Spectres who all attack the soul), Spatial Manipulation (Can take attacks under the plastic element), Void Manipulation, Conceptual Manipulation, Linguistic Manipulation, Information Manipulation, Text Manipulation, & Purification (Can travel in the nothingness, a non-existent realm outside of space-time, can travel in the purified zones, which are zones that are conceptually erased), Possession (The Batter at times will refuse to go to areas or do actions, overriding the Player’s control over him), Metal Manipulation (Can take attacks from the metal attribute. Can walk around in a purified zone where metal no longer exists, which it was stated without metal there would be no way to walk without sinking into the ground), Organic Manipulation (Can take attacks from the meat attribute), Earth Manipulation (With Wednesday, he prevents terrain damage), Power Nullification, Sense Manipulation, & Poison Manipulation (With Friday, gets a 50% resistance to the mute status effect. With Secret day prevents poison, blindness, and muted status effects)

Alpha: Status Effect Inducement, Poison Manipulation (Can inflict poison with “Expected Bracket”), Sense Manipulation (Can inflict blind with “Requisite Bracket”), Power Nullification (Can inflict mute with “Open Bracket”), Paralysis Inducement (Can inflict palsy, a status that freezes one’s competence, making them unable to attack with “Impossible Bracket”)

Omega: Purification (Type 3. Can cure the status ailments: blind, mute, poison, sleep, fury, madness, and palsy with “Inverse Perspective”, “Overdone Perspective”, and “Frontal Perspective”), Durability Negation (With “Photographic Blur”, does an attack that ignores the enemies defense), Resurrection (With “Multiple Perspective”, it revives a dead party member), Statistics Reduction (With “Radial Blur”, decreases defense, and “Gaussian Blur”, decreases competence)

Epsilon: Statistics Amplification (With “Classic Drama” increases attack, “Baroque Drama” increases defense, “Experienced Drama” increases esprit, and “Unrevokable Drama” increases agility)

Standard Equipment:

*Harold Bat: Batter’s beginning bat which has a hit probability of 90. It increases offense by 5.

• Masashi Bat: Batter’s second bat which has a hit probability of 90. It increases offense by 9.
• Emmanuel Bat: Batter’s third bat which has a hit probability of 90. It increases offense by 12.
• Michael Bat: Batter’s fourth bat which has a hit probability of 95. It increases offense by 15.
• Yoshihiro Bat: Batter’s fifth bat which has a hit probability of 90. It increases offense by 20.
• Lewis Bat: Batter’s sixth bat which has a hit probability of 90. It increases offense by 26.
• Katsuhiro Bat: Batter’s seventh bat which has a hit probability of 90. It has a critical bonus of 9, and increases offense by 32. It also adds the plastic attribute to all attacks.
• Ashley Bat: Batter’s ultimate weapon which has a hit probability of 100. It has a critical bonus of 100, and increases offense by 21, however it allows Batter to hit twice in one turn. The bat also completely ignores enemy evasion.

*Nicolas Tunic: It raises defense by 4.

David Tunic: It raises defense by 6.

Min-Woo Tunic: It raises defense by 8.

Canepa Tunic: It raises defense by 12.

Taiyou Tunic : It raises defense by 16.

Neil Tunic: It raises defense by 22.

*Audacious Symbol: Add-On’s beginning symbol which has a hit probability of 90. It increases offense by 3.

Persistent Symbol: Add-On’s second symbol which has a hit probability of 95. It increases offense by 5.

Choleric Symbol: Add-On’s third symbol which has a hit probability of 90. It increases offense by 7. It adds the special attribute to all attacks.

Battlesome Symbol: Add-On’s fourth symbol which has a hit probability of 90. It increases offense by 9.

Loyal Symbol: Add-On’s fifth symbol which has a hit probability of 90. It increases offense by 11. It adds the special attribute to all attacks.

Solid Symbol: Add-On’s sixth symbol which has a hit probability of 90. It increases offense by 13. It adds the special attribute to all attacks.

Vengeful Symbol: Add-On’s seventh symbol which has a hit probability of 90. It increases offense by 14.

Hidden Symbol: Add-On’s eight symbol which has a hit probability of 95. It increases offense by 16. It adds the metal attribute to all attacks.

Fast Symbol: Add-On’s ninth symbol which has a hit probability of 90. It increases offense by 18. It adds the special attribute to all attacks.

Aggressive Symbol: Add-On’s tenth symbol which has a hit probability of 90. It increases offense by 20.

Silent Symbol: Add-On’s eleventh symbol which has a hit probability of 90. It increases offense by 23.

Luminous Symbol: Add-On’s twelfth symbol which has a hit probability of 90. It increases offense by 25.

Boastful Symbol: Add-On’s thirteenth symbol which has a hit probability of 90. It increases offense by 27. It adds the special attribute to all attacks.

Mysterious Symbol: Add-On’s fourteenth symbol which has a hit probability of 95. It increases offense by 30. It adds the metal attribute to all attacks.

Jumpy Symbol: Add-On’s fifteenth symbol which has a hit probability of 90. It increases offense by 32.

Bleeding Symbol: Add-On’s sixteenth symbol which has a hit probability of 90. It increases offense by 35.

Perfect Symbol: Add-On’s ultimate weapon which has a hit probability of 95. It increases offense by 40. It adds the smoke and plastic attribute to all attacks.

*Radius Epidermis: It raises defense by 4.

Ulna Epidermis: It raises defense by 6.

Humerus Epidermis: It raises defense by 9.

Tibia Epidermis: It raises defense by 11.

Fibula Epidermis: It raises defense by 17.

Femur Epidermis: It raises defense by 21.

*Aura of Justice: It raises defense by 3.

Aura of Fear : It raises defense by 3.

Aura of Perception: It raises defense by 4.

Aura of Greatness: It raises defense by 10.

Aura of Clairvoyance: It raises defense by 18.

Aura of Tenacity: It raises defense by 25.

Aura of Lunacy: It raises defense by 41.

Aura of Power: It raises defense by 59.

*Colour of Wrath: It raises defense by 2.

Colour of Pain: It raises defense by 3.

Colour of Sadness: It raises defense by 5.

Colour of Hatred: It raises defense by 10.

Colour of Force: It raises defense by 18.

Colour of Defeat: It raises defense by 29.

Colour of Neglect: It raises defense by 32.

The Eighth Colour: It raises defense by 50. It cannot be unequipped.

*Monday: Equipment that protects Batter from critical hits, essentially preventing critical hits from occurring.

Tuesday: Equipment that reduces the consumption of competence, essentially halving competence consumption.

Wednesday: Equipment that protects Batter from harmful ground, essentially prevents terrain damage.

Thursday: Equipment that is beneficial to physical attacks. It grants 30% resistance to the Furious and Madness conditions. It also increases offense by 5.

Friday: Equipment that is beneficial to competences. It grants 50% resistance to the Muted condition. It also increases Esprit by 7.

Saturday: Equipment that increases agility, along with increasing evasion. It increases agility by 15.

Sunday: Equipment that protects from poison, essentially preventing the Poison condition.

Secret Day: Equipment preventing poison, mute, and blindness, essentially preventing the Poison, Blindness, and Muted conditions.

*Luck ticket: Recovers a moderate amount of HP (100 HP).

Fortune ticket: Recovers a large amount of HP (1000 HP).

Silver flesh: Recovers a moderate amount of competence (50 CP).

Golden flesh: Recovers a large amount of Competence (100 CP).

Joker: Revives a character (Revives and restores 25% max HP).

Moloch’s meat: Cures the Poison condition.

Belial’s meat: Cures all negative status alterations except Death.

Abaddon’s meat: Fully restores the team’s HP and competence out of combat and cures all status conditions. Unusable in battle.

Inspiration: Object that’s utilizable in combat. Deals 75 base damage to a single enemy, increasing with Attack and Esprit.

Expiration: Object that’s utilizable in combat. Deals 400 base damage to a single enemy, increasing with Attack and Esprit.

Eye: Analyses the enemies’ characteristics. Equivalent to using Wide Angle.

*Taurus-orb: Increases Batter and co.’s max HP by 50.

Libra-orb: Increases Batter and co.’s max competence by 15.

Scorpio-orb: Increases Batter and co.’s max offense by 5.

Gemini-orb: Increases a Batter and co.’s max defense by 5

Capricorn-orb: Increases a Batter and co.'s esprit by 5.

Virgo-orb: Increases Batter and co.’s agility by 5.

Intelligence: Genius (Batter was someone who could apparently solve all of the puzzles in the game easily but chose to have The Player figure it out themselves. These puzzles include puzzles that require one to read the Read Me or find hidden numbers and meanings behind various locations. This also include puzzles like finding the entrance to Dedan’s office, which according to a Elsen has never been found. The Batter is also capable of telling when he’s fighting a losing battle and will immediately adapt by finding the opponent’s weakness and using it against them in order to defeat them as he did to Enoch. The Judge notes Batter’s mastery of battle borders on brilliancy)

Standard Tactics: The Batter will attack with whatever the Player chooses for him, if he’s not under the control of The Player he will undergo his own strategies which normally revolves around standard attacks and uses competences. The Batter’s main goal is to purify so he’ll likely lead with that too.

Weaknesses: He cannot purify a Zone if an entity's life force is flowing through/powering it.

Notable Attacks/Techniques:

*Wide Angle: Analyzes the enemies' characteristics.

• Save First Base: Heals an ally.
• Run with Courage: Deals Metal damage.
• Furious Homerun: Special attack with low impact.
• Save Second Base: Heals an ally, restoring a lot of health.
• Run with Grace: Deals Plastic damage.
• Special Homerun: Special Attack with average impact.
• Save Third Base: Heals an ally, restoring all health.
• Run with Dementia: Deals Smoke damage.
• Magic Homerun: Special attack with considerable impact.
• Save Fourth Base: Revives and heals an ally.
• Run with Belief: Deals Meat damage.
• Save Secret Base: Heals the entire party.
• Ultimate Homerun: Special attack with incredible impact.

*Saturated String: Special attack with low impact.

Expected Bracket: Can inflict Poison.

Converted String: Special attack with average impact.

Requisite Bracket: Can inflict Blind.

Long String: Special attack with considerable impact.

Open Bracket: Can inflict Mute.

Complete String: Special attack with incredible impact.

Impossible Bracket: Can inflict Palsy.

*Inverse Perspective: Cures Blind and Mute.

Optimized Blur: Attack with random impact.

Overdone Perspective: Cures Poison and Sleep.

Photographic Blur: Ignores enemy Defense.

Frontal Perspective: Cures Fury, Madness, and Palsy.

Gaussian Blur: Decreases the enemies competence.

Multiple Perspective: Revives an ally.

Radial Blur: Decreases the enemies defense.

*Classic Drama: Increases an allies offense.

Surrealist Tragedy: Hits all enemies with a special attack of low impact.

Baroque Drama: Increases an allies defense.

Abstract Tragedy: Hits all enemies with a special attack of average impact.

Experienced Drama: Increases an allies esprit.

Cubist Tragedy: Hits all enemies with a special attack of considerable impact.

Unrevokable Drama: Increases an allies agility.

Fauvestic Tragedy: Hits all enemies with a special attack of incredible impact.

Key: Pre Zone 3 | Post Zone 3

Note: A lot of OFF’s explanations and concepts are very limited and require many different interpretations, thus making it difficult to completely ascertain what certain elements mean, thus using what one can piece together in game along with Mortis’ statements, we have supplied the following profile.

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