Wheel Cat

Rare

Description

Wheel Cat (Solar Cat) is a poor anti-Alien Melee attacker with the Massive Damage ability. It has 13.6k HP with 2 KBs, deals 7200 effective DPS to Aliens, stands at 170 range, has a cost of 1050, and a cooldown of 11s. Before True Form, Wheel Cat is generally not recommended for use. It works like a Bird Cat clone, which is to say you almost never use it as it lacks the range to safely attack all but the shortest ranged enemies. Its cooldown is too long given such poor survivability and ends up draining your cash for little gain. At most, it can see some use against melee-range Aliens like Cyberhorns and Nimoy Bores, though it will need support to work against the latter. It can also work against Crazed Cow and his variants as an extra Bird Cat-like unit to spam.

In True Form, Chill Cat becomes a much better anti-Alien Melee attacker, with its stats rising to 9500 effective DPS (13k with CotC treasures), 200 range and a 5s cooldown. While Chill Cat still does not outrange most regular Aliens, in Cats of the Cosmos there are many melee Starred Aliens such as Star Pengs or General GreGories which are well within Chill's reach. Chill's faster cooldown and higher damage output enables it to quickly stack up and deliver enough DPS to melt through swarms of these enemies even when heavily buffed. However, its low HP still makes it risky to use in the presence of longer-ranged Aliens or in late game mixed stages with e.g. LD/Wave enemies, and its high deploy cost and low recharge time can still lead to cash drain. However, Chill Cat remains valuable in late game advent stages like Royal Jelly Hell, Puffer Planet and Last of the Dead, where being able to quickly mow down melee Aliens is the key to victory. Chill Cat's Cost Down talent (to 750 at max level) can patch up its cash drain issue and let you use it to maximum effect in these situations. Its other talents aren't recommended to invest in, though, and the Knockback talent actively makes Chill Cat worse.

Useful to Own By: Into the Future chapter 2, for Cyberhorns
Useful to True Form By: Cats of the Cosmos chapter 1, for Star Pengs and General GreGories
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True Form Costs

×200000 ×2 ×1 ×3 ×2 ×2

Talents

See full talent priority information at Talent Priority.
Talent Priority Score/10
Knockback Do Not Unlock 0.11
Resist Weaken Low Priority 0.48
Defense Buff Low Priority 0.06
Attack Buff Low Priority 2.22
Cost Down Medium Priority 5.91

Hypermax Priority

See full hypermax priority information at Hypermax Priority.
Rare catseye
Wheel Cat is a Medium Priority for spending Rare Catseyes.

Combos

Midsummer Sun - Massive Damage Effect UP (Sm)
127 038

Paranormal Activity - Worker Cat Start Level UP (M)
038 128 080

Take Me Out - Unit Defense UP (Sm)
201 287 038

Minicyclone - Knockback Effect UP (Sm)
245 038

XP Cost Curve

Wheel 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