Cat Ninja

Cat Ninja
Group	Kitten Army
Roles	Foe, Summon
Appearances	Epic Battle Fantasy 5

The Cat Ninja is a foe and a summon in Epic Battle Fantasy 5. They can be found stealthily lounging about the Mystic Woods and surrounding areas accompanied by other cats.

Appearance

The Cat Ninja is a small, fluffy limbless cat. It wears a black headband with a golden plate at the front, and wields a blade and a shuriken as weapons. The former can be either a small katana (similar to the Honjo Masamune) or a black kunai with a brown handle; the latter can be a silver shuriken with eight straight points (similar to the Shuriken item) or a black shuriken with four curved blades.

Overview

Unlike most Cats, the Cat Ninja doesn't have a shield to increase its defenses; instead, its shuriken is used for a one-time attack early into the battle. It will throw its shuriken in the first two turns of battle, and can Defend itself to apply Morale (as well as Brave on higher difficulty levels). The shuriken attack can be prevented entirely by hitting the Cat Ninja with a powerful blow.

Once the Cat Ninja has lost its shuriken, it uses Earth, Bio, and non-elemental attacks that can inflict Poison or Stagger. It can also throw a non-damaging smoke bomb that inflicts Shroud; this skill is literally unavoidable, ignoring both Evade and Bless. It uses skills with higher base power than most Cats, but has lower offensive stats. It also has a high chance to focus on the player with the lowest HP, allowing it to pick off weakened party members.

Although the Cat Ninja's great Evade can make it tough to hit, it has low HP and no resistances whatsoever (even with "More Foe Resistance" enabled). It is weak to Fire, Thunder, Water, and especially Bio; with More Foe Resistance, it has a mild weakness to Water and Bio.

Statistics

	Cat Ninja	EBF5
	These very evasive cats will coordinate their efforts to poison and assassinate the weakest player.

Statistics
Base Statistics								Exp	AP	SP	Gold	Hit2HP	Catch
	60	3.6	4	3.6	4	4	5.5	10	1.2	1.2	9	50	55
Elemental Resistance
	-50%	-50%	-	-	-80%	-	-50%	-	-	-
Status Resistance
	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
Debuff Resistance
	-	-	-	-	-	-	-

Item Drop Rate
Icon					-
Name	Wool	Shuriken	Energy Drink	Bio Virus	-
Chance	50%	50%	33%	5%	-

Status Damage
Damage taken from status effects, in % of maximum health (per turn), including elemental resistances:
Burn	Scorch	Poison	Virus	Doom (if Death fails)	Regen
5.25% per stack, up to 47.25%	10.5% per stack, up to 94.5%	5.4% per stack, up to 48.6%	10.8% per stack, up to 97.2%	25%	-33.(3)%
Damage taken from first four is decreased by 30% on Easy and 65% on Zero difficulties. Final damage is randomized by ±5% (except for Doom) and rounded down.

Statistics with More Foe Resistance enabled.

	Cat Ninja	EBF5
	These very evasive cats will coordinate their efforts to poison and assassinate the weakest player.

Statistics
Base Statistics								Exp	AP	SP	Gold	Hit2HP	Catch
	60	3.6	4	3.6	4	4	5.5	10	1.2	1.2	9	50	55
Elemental Resistance
	-	-	-	-	-30%	-	-30%	-	-	-
Status Resistance
	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
Debuff Resistance
	-	-	-	-	-	-	-

Item Drop Rate
Icon					-
Name	Wool	Shuriken	Energy Drink	Bio Virus	-
Chance	50%	50%	33%	5%	-

Status Damage
Damage taken from status effects, in % of maximum health (per turn), including elemental resistances:
Burn	Scorch	Poison	Virus	Doom (if Death fails)	Regen
3.5% per stack, up to 31.5%	7% per stack, up to 63%	3.9% per stack, up to 35.1%	7.8% per stack, up to 70.2%	25%	-33.(3)%
Damage taken from first four is decreased by 30% on Easy and 65% on Zero difficulties. Final damage is randomized by ±5% (except for Doom) and rounded down.

Loses the shuriken if hurt for >50% of its max HP in a single hit (or if thrown by its Shuriken attack).

Attacks and Abilities

Attack List
Attack	Target	Power	Type	Element	Status Effect			Acc	Crit	RdF
Backstab	Single	26		----	--	--	--	9999%	10%	10%
Notes: Gets 33% chance of 1x Stagger on Hard or Epic difficulties.
Shuriken	Single	40		25%	100%	2x		100%	30%	10%
Notes: Can only be used once. Loses the Shuriken on use.
Bamboo	Single	40/2		50%	20%	2x		100%	10%	10%
Log	Single	28		100%	50%	1x		100%	20%	10%
Smoke Puff	Single	--	--	----	--	3x		--	--	--
Notes: Can't be dodged with Evade and bypasses Bless.
Defend	Self	--	--	----	--	2x		--	--	--
Notes: Also gives 2x Brave on Hard or Epic difficulties.

Battle Logic

The following describes general logic of the enemy and attack patterns, with chances of each attack to be used. Conditions are listed from highest to lowest priority unless specified otherwise.

Action

• If catch score >55 and all players are Lovable → Surrender;
• If Syphoned and it lost its Shuriken, or Berserked → Backstab;
• If it lost its Shuriken → Backstab (3/6), Smoke Puff (1/6), Bamboo (1/6), Log (1/6);
• If it used Defend on the last turn → Shuriken;
• Otherwise → Defend (1/2), Shuriken (1/2).

Additionally, the Cat Ninja has a 75% chance to target the most damaged player with its attacks.

Counter (only if Counter-Attacking Foes is enabled)

• 100% → Backstab.

Summon

The foe can be captured to be used as a summon. It essentially has the same effect as the Encore skill.

	Cat Ninja							SP
	Gives an extra turn to an ally.							27	Kept
Target	Power	Type	Element	Status Effect			Acc	Crit	RdF
Ally	--	--	----	--	1x		--	--	--
Note: Before the v2 update, cost 19 SP and changed the Weather to Cherry Blossom for 5 turns instead.