Hoop Cat

Rare

Description

Hoop Cat (Showoff Cat) is a poor anti-Metal CC unit. He has 11.4k HP with 3 KBs, 190 range, Single Target attacks every 2.93s, 9 speed, 660 cost and a 10.53s cooldown. His ability is a 20% chance to Freeze a Metal enemy for 2s. Freeze is a very powerful CC effect and while a high 68% uptime may look great, his low proc chance hurts him badly. His low survivability and somewhat long cooldown make it tricky to build a large enough stack to make him work well. Single Target further harms him in swarm stages where attacks may be wasted on insignificant peons. This means he is at most situationally useful for his chance to hard-control a single dangerous but relatively unprotected Metal enemy like Sir Metal Seal, but generally should be used as a bonus in addition to other Cyclone drops and not counted on as your main CC. Hoop's range is sufficient for all common Metal enemies, but can be on the risky side in mixed stages.

In True Form, Hoopmaster Cat's stats are boosted to 14.8k HP and 215 range, a doubled 40% proc chance, and a doubled 4s Freeze. Hoopmaster's CC performance is vastly improved with uptime now significantly over 100%, making him reliably able to completely shut down standalone Metal threats, even with a small stack. The extra range and HP are great for keeping Hoopmaster alive long enough to sustain that stack, but the problem of dying easily in mixed stages remains.

Useful to Own By: SoL 18, for first appearance of Sir Metal Seal
Useful to True Form By: SoL 35, for Bionic Seaweed
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Rare catseye
Hoop Cat is a Low Priority for spending Rare Catseyes.

Combos

Eye of the Storm - Unit Defense UP (M)
060 088 078 126 154

Showoffs - Worker Cat Max UP (Sm)
017 154

XP Cost Curve

Hoop Cat uses the Regular Rare Cat Curve

Level XP Level XP Level XP Level XP Level XP
1 0 11 10,000 XP 21 15,000 XP 31 17,500 XP 41 20,000 XP
2 8,000 XP 12 16,000 XP 22 24,000 XP 32 28,000 XP 42 32,000 XP
3 12,200 XP 13 24,400 XP 23 36,600 XP 33 42,700 XP 43 48,800 XP
4 17,800 XP 14 35,600 XP 24 53,400 XP 34 62,300 XP 44 71,200 XP
5 24,800 XP 15 49,600 XP 25 74,400 XP 35 86,800 XP 45 99,200 XP
6 33,200 XP 16 66,400 XP 26 99,600 XP 36 116,200 XP 46 132,800 XP
7 43,000 XP 17 86,000 XP 27 129,000 XP 37 150,500 XP 47 172,000 XP
8 54,200 XP 18 108,400 XP 28 162,600 XP 38 189,700 XP 48 216,800 XP
9 66,800 XP 19 133,600 XP 29 200,400 XP 39 233,800 XP 49 267,200 XP
10 80,800 XP 20 161,600 XP 30 242,400 XP 40 282,800 XP 50 323,200 XP
1 - 10 340,800 XP 11 - 20 691,600 XP 21 - 30 1,037,400 XP 31 - 40 1,210,300 XP 41 - 50 1,383,200 XP
1 - 10 340,800 XP 1 - 20 1,032,400 XP 1 - 30 2,069,800 XP 1 - 40 3,280,100 XP 1 - 50 4,663,300 XP