Ninja Cat

Special

Description

Ninja Cat (Ninja Frog Cat) is a terrible Melee attacker and meatshield with Strong against Red. It is essentially a better Axe Cat, coming with 4100 HP with 3 KBs, 700 multihit DPS, 150 Range, 13 Speed, 300 cost and 2s Cooldown. These stats make it a very powerful spammable attacker in EoC, especially against Red (8200 HP / 1000 DPS), but render it useless for the rest of the game as Axe Cat variants sharply fall out of relevance, and attackers with higher stats or more range become available. Ninja Cat does however have decent combos, notably Cool Japan and Frog Prince. Its True Form, Flying Ninja Cat, gets a cost reduction from 300 to 225, goes down to 10 Speed, and loses multihit (though with no change to DPS). The True Form is also part of the Aerial Recon combo,a 4 slot Research Up M Combo, which can be nice if lacking better alternatives. With no major stat improvements, it remains useless other than as a combo slave.

Flying Ninja Cat's talents include the regular 80% stat boosts, Target Black, Speed Up (to 20), and a 20% chance to Dodge attacks for 2s. With treasures and an 80% HP buff it can reach 18.4k HP, comparable in both health and speed to a Manic Eraser. However, this is only against its traits, and at a 50% higher cost. Its offensive stats are also unusably poor even with the Attack talent. It thus has no general value as either a Meatshield or Attacker. This leaves its only potential value as a Specialist meatshield vs Red (and Black if unlocked) via its Dodge ability, which despite a low chance can trigger regularly thanks to Ninja's spammability. At full investment it is then essentially an expensive Eraser clone with a bonus Dodge, but it fails to perform sufficiently better than general meatshields to justify the huge NP cost of this, even in pure Red/Black stages. Other defensive options such as Stone Cat provide more reliable stalling than an unreliable Dodge, and for Reds especially Roe Cat is much better at effectively stalling them.

Useful to Own By: EoC 1
Useful to Unlock Talents By: Never
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Talents

See full talent priority information at Talent Priority.
Talent Priority Score/10
Target Black Low Priority <+> 3.06
Dodge Attack Low Priority < ! > 4.73
Move Speed Up Low Priority 3.16
Defense Buff Low Priority <+> 1.91
Attack Buff Low Priority 0.20

Hypermax Priority

See full hypermax priority information at Hypermax Priority.
Special catseye
Ninja Cat is a Low Priority for spending Special Catseyes.

Combos

Cool Japan - Unit Attack UP (M)
018 021 020 061

Frog Prince - Strong Effect UP (Sm)
150 018

Enter The Ninja - Unit Speed UP (M)
018 261

Aerial Recon - Research Power UP (M)
005 096 018 260

Secret Agency - Worker Cat Max UP (Sm)
018 134

Dreams of Flying - Knockback Effect UP (Sm)
135 018

XP Cost Curve

Ninja Cat uses the Ninja Cat Curve

Level XP Level XP Level XP Level XP Level XP
1 50 11 600 XP 21 900 XP 31 1,050 XP 41 1,200 XP
2 500 XP 12 1,000 XP 22 1,500 XP 32 1,750 XP 42 2,000 XP
3 1,400 XP 13 2,800 XP 23 4,200 XP 33 4,900 XP 43 5,600 XP
4 2,600 XP 14 5,200 XP 24 7,800 XP 34 9,100 XP 44 10,400 XP
5 4,100 XP 15 8,200 XP 25 12,300 XP 35 14,350 XP 45 16,400 XP
6 5,900 XP 16 11,800 XP 26 17,700 XP 36 20,650 XP 46 23,600 XP
7 8,000 XP 17 16,000 XP 27 24,000 XP 37 28,000 XP 47 32,000 XP
8 10,400 XP 18 20,800 XP 28 31,200 XP 38 36,400 XP 48 41,600 XP
9 13,100 XP 19 26,200 XP 29 39,300 XP 39 45,850 XP 49 52,400 XP
10 16,100 XP 20 32,200 XP 30 48,300 XP 40 56,350 XP 50 64,400 XP
1 - 10 62,150 XP 11 - 20 124,800 XP 21 - 30 187,200 XP 31 - 40 218,400 XP 41 - 50 249,600 XP
1 - 10 62,150 XP 1 - 20 186,950 XP 1 - 30 374,150 XP 1 - 40 592,550 XP 1 - 50 842,150 XP