Shaman Cat

Rare

Description

Shaman Cat, or Necromancer Cat in Evolved Form, is a stackable anti-Floating unit with a 20% chance to Freeze for 2s. He has 250 range, 5.87s of Cooldown and a 1.8s attack frequency. His low Freeze chance and Single Target make his CC inconsistent, though this can be worked around by stacking many copies of him. This can be of limited use in early-game if you lack better options, such as against Bun Bun and on the easier Cyclone stages. More importantly, Necromancer Cat is one half of the combo Bony Bone with Skelecat, which is a very important Research combo often paired with Biohazard (aka BioBone) to get two Research combos in 3 slots.

In True Form, Necro-Dancer Cat's range goes up to 300 and he gets an increase in Freeze duration to 3s. This would make him a somewhat useful anti-Floating CC unit but unfortunately, Sanzo Cat (Bishop True Form) completely overshadows Necro in this role. Despite Necro having more range, and Freeze being more powerful than Slow, Sanzo's higher uptime and Area Attack make it much more effective in practice. Necro's range advantage rarely makes a difference as there are very few additional Floating enemies that this lets him outrange. Wave talent looks good on paper but the chance of a Wave and Freeze on the same hit is too low. Typically, the only times you'll use Necro are against Mecha-Bun (who Sanzo barely outranges) and when you’re bringing Necro for the combo anyway, such as in Floor 34 of Heavenly Tower.

Useful to Own By: Mid-SoL where strats using Research combos become common and BioBone is handy to have
Useful to True Form By: Sol 49 for Mecha-Bun.
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True Form Costs

×200000 ×3 ×2 ×2 ×1 ×2

Talents

See full talent priority information at Talent Priority.
Talent Priority Score/10
Wave Attack Low Priority 1.86
Immune To Toxic Low Priority 0.61
Resist Freeze Low Priority 0.11
Defense Buff Low Priority 0.11
Attack Buff Low Priority 0.00

Hypermax Priority

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

Combos

Pulling Strings - Starting Money UP (Sm)
052 126

Bony Bone - Research Power UP (Sm)
052 019

XP Cost Curve

Shaman 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