Cat Wizard

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

The Cat Wizard is a foe and a summon in Epic Battle Fantasy 5. It typically appears around the Mystic Woods, although more pop up later on.

Appearance

The Cat WIzard is a limbless cat armed with a brown wooden staff wrapped in tan rope and tipped with a red crystal; the crystal can be either spherical or pointed, with the latter giving the staff a similar appearance to the one wielded with the Book of Spells. It also carries a wooden shield in its off "hand", which can be a crude "heater shield" or a round slice of a log with a few stray twigs (resembling the Leaf Shield, minus the leaves).

Overview

As its name and weapon suggest, the Cat Wizard is essentially the magical counterpart of the Cat Warrior. While it can still smack a player with its staff, it prefers to cast a variety of elemental spells; most deal magic damage, with the exception of Ivy. While these attacks are not particularly strong and their associated status effects are either negligibly weak or unlikely to take hold, they do give the Cat Wizard a good amount of coverage (Fire, Thunder, Ice, Wind, and Bio).

The Cat Wizard can also use its magic to support the enemy wave, healing an ally or buffing their Magic Attack; as long as it has its shield, it can also give itself Defend status. Its support abilities are further enhanced on higher difficulty levels; Star Power grants Good Luck and Defend adds several stacks of Bless.

Between its surprisingly potent support magic and its wide range of elemental spells, the Cat Wizard can become rather annoying if not dealt with quickly. Fortunately, it has low HP, no resistances, and three easily-accessible elemental weaknesses. Furthermore, its shield can be knocked away with a powerful attack, halving its base defenses and disabling its Defend move; at this point, it can only fall back on its slightly above-average Evade.

Like many spellcasting foes, the Cat Wizard is crippled by Syphon, being reduced to its basic, effect-less physical attack for the duration of the status. On the other hand, Berserk will not disable the Wizard's magic, only preventing it from Defending itself if it still has its shield.

The Cat Wizard's main weaknesses are Fire and Bio, but it also takes extra damage from Water attacks. It has no resistances whatsoever, even with "More Foe Resistance" enabled; however, the challenge will remove its Fire weakness while reducing its Bio and Water weaknesses.

Statistics

	Cat Wizard	EBF5
	A cat that throws out a lot of different spells at random. It'll even heal its allies occasionally.

Statistics
Base Statistics								Exp	AP	SP	Gold	Hit2HP	Catch
	60	4	8*	4	8*	4	4.1	10	1.2	1.2	9	20*	55
Elemental Resistance
	-80%	-	-	-	-80%	-	-50%	-	-	-
Status Resistance
	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
Debuff Resistance
	-	-	-	-	-	-	-

Item Drop Rate
Icon					-
Name	Wool	Soft Wood	Cola	Sacred Rune	-
Chance	50%	15%	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
With a shield: 2.52% per stack, up to 22.68% Without: 6.3% / 56.7%	With a shield: 5.04% per stack, up to 45.36% Without: 12.6% / 113.4%	With a shield: 2.16% per stack, up to 19.44% Without: 5.4% / 48.6%	With a shield: 4.32% per stack, up to 38.88% Without: 10.8% / 97.2%	With a shield: 10% Without: 25%	With a shield: -13.(3)% Without: -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 Wizard	EBF5
	A cat that throws out a lot of different spells at random. It'll even heal its allies occasionally.

Statistics
Base Statistics								Exp	AP	SP	Gold	Hit2HP	Catch
	60	4	8*	4	8*	4	4.1	10	1.2	1.2	9	20*	55
Elemental Resistance
	-	-	-	-	-30%	-	-30%	-	-	-
Status Resistance
	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
Debuff Resistance
	-	-	-	-	-	-	-

Item Drop Rate
Icon					-
Name	Wool	Soft Wood	Cola	Sacred Rune	-
Chance	50%	15%	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
With a shield: 1.4% per stack, up to 12.6% Without: 3.5% / 31.5%	With a shield: 2.8% per stack, up to 25.2% Without: 7% / 63%	With a shield: 1.56% per stack, up to 14.04% Without: 3.9% / 35.1%	With a shield: 3.12% per stack, up to 28.08% Without: 7.8% / 70.2%	With a shield: 10% Without: 25%	With a shield: -13.(3)% Without: -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 shield if hurt by >20% of its max HP in a single hit.

Attacks and Abilities

Attack List
Attack	Target	Power	Type	Element	Status Effect			Acc	Crit	RdF
Hit	Single	10		----	--	--	--	100%	10%	10%
Heal	Ally	MaxHP * Hit2HP / 130	--	----	--	--	--	--	--	20%
Notes: Heal strength depends on target's stats, not user's. See the Hit2HP article for a list of foes' Hit2HP values.
Star Power	Ally	--	--	----	--	50%		--	--	--
Notes: Also gives 3x Good Luck on Hard or Epic difficulties.
Fire	Single	22		100%	10%	2x		100%	10%	10%
Thunder	Single	22/2		100%	5%	1x		115%	10%	10%
Ice	Single	22		100%	5%	2x		100%	10%	10%
Gust	Single	22		100%	20%	2x		100%	10%	10%
Ivy	Single	22		100%	50%	2x		100%	10%	10%
Defend	Self	--	--	----	--	--		--	--	--
Notes: Also gives 4x Bless on Hard or Epic difficulties (3x before the v2 update).

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 → Hit;
• If it's Berserked, it lost its shield, or it used Defend last turn → Star Power (5/15), Heal (5/15), Fire (1/15), Thunder (1/15), Ice (1/15), Gust (1/15), Ivy (1/15)
• Otherwise → Star Power (5/20), Heal (5/20), Fire (1/20), Thunder (1/20), Ice (1/20), Gust (1/20), Ivy (1/20),
  Defend (5/20).

*Heal will always target the most damaged foe.

Counter (only if Counter-Attacking Foes is enabled)

• 100% and not Syphoned → Fire (1/5), Thunder (1/5), Ice (1/5), Gust (1/5), Ivy (1/5).

Summon

The Cat Wizard can be captured and used as a summon; it can also be called between turns by the Cat Ears (female hat). It casts Heal on a single player, restoring some of their HP. Unlike Heal More being used on a single target, it is not hampered by cooldowns, so it can be summoned multiple times in one turn.

	Cat Wizard							SP
	Casts a simple healing spell, which heals an ally.							4	Kept
Target	Power	Type	Element	Status Effect			Acc	Crit	RdF
Ally	100		----	--	--	--	--	--	10%
Note: Heal scales off a half of Summon Attack.