Battle Cats - Z-Onel Resurrected!
0:00 - The Final Corpse (Merciless)
Restriction: 1500 cost or less only
This stage plays pretty much identically to the original stage if you didn't use Ubers there. Just stack Chadbears on the Pengs and let them tear the Z-Onels apart.
Reward: 1,000,000 XP
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1:29 - With Sympathy (Merciless)
This stage starts with a Z-Onel as a boss and there are 2 more Z-Onels at 95% and 90% HP. Note that the Z-Onels are not actually the boss enemy. Instead, a Gabriel takes its place as the boss enemy. Be careful to not let a Z-Onel get knocked back behind the base before you've finished it off.
The first wave is a Z-Onel with Doge Darks and Gabriels. This is a good wave to build up your wallet due to its low threat. Chadbear isn't actually useful here since you're leaving the Z-Onels for last anyways. Shigong is perfectly capable of handling a lone Z-Onel.
The second wave starts has Doge Darks and Gabriels throughout, with a Z-Onel and Angelic Gory immediately and a Shadow Boxer K after another 26 seconds. Make sure Angelic Gory and Shadow Boxer K aren't stacking together and deal with the wave efficiently as to not get chip damage on your base by Z-Onel sniping it.
The third wave is the one that will kill your run. Z-Onel and St. Dober spawn immediately, followed by a Chibinel and some Gabriels after about 25 seconds. You NEED to have efficient DPS here and some good luck with Sanzo procs on St. Dober. Try to have 1 KB dealt to Dober with Abaha before the Chibinel comes in. From there, hope your attackers are effective enough to deal with the rest of St. Dober before Z-Onel gets too close to the base for you to fight back against. I used Can Can, Dumpling, Fiend, Pizza, Mushroom, Dark Lazer, and Abaha all as DPS against St. Dober. If you have Cafeteria or Soractes, they help immensely for dealing with St. Dober quickly. Once St. Dober is down and Z-Onel is safely far away from your base, you win.
Reward: Phantom Cat's True Form
Recommended Ubers:
Anti-Angel DPS (Ex: Kalisa, Issun, Jizo, Ushiwakamaru)
Balrog
Thunder Jack
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With its TF unlocked, Phantom Cat becomes Bubble Cat!
Stat Improvements (Lv. 50):
HP - 9,720 to 12,420 (+27.78%)
Damage - 5,670 to 15,660 (+176.19%)
DPS - 1,189 to 3,285 (+176.19%)
Cooldown - 14.53 sec to 11.2 sec (-3.33 sec)
Backswing - 0.67 sec to 1.33 sec (+.66 sec)
New Targets: Angel/FLOATING
New Immunity: Curse
Phantom Cat was a very underwhelming unit with very poor stats, but its LD range and ability always had potential. Bubble Cat realizes this potential and then goes even further beyond. Although Bubble is still a frail unit, it now actually survives weaker hits from enemies. Additionally, its longer backswing makes it less likely to walk into danger after attacking and its lowered cooldown makes it significantly more spammable.
Bubble's main improvement, however, is its absolutely monstrous Atk boost. At level 50, its effective damage went from 22,680 to 62,640. That's almost TRIPLE what it was before. To put that damage value in perspective, Gabriel at standard ZL magnification has 65,000 HP. With an Atk Sm combo, Bubble can now 1-shot Gabriels. This obviously translates well against the rest of the Angel enemies that Miasma could work against before and transforms it into possibly the strongest non-Uber Angel attacker.
If it ended here, Bubble would already be a valuable unit, but it gains another buff, Floating target. Floating has many frontliners and backliners alike that Bubble can now shred. Bun Bun variants, Mooths, Faces, Owlbrows, and Brollows are all fair game. Even against highly boosted Floating enemies, Bubble only needs a few shots to take them down. For a unit this spammable and this cheap, it gives even Fishman a run for his money sometimes. Non-uber doesn't have too many anti-Floatings and Bubble is more than capable of filling that gap as an anti-Floating attacker.
Additionally, the stat improvements Bubble gets actually put its DPS at a high number, a bit more than talentless Housewife Cat. You can absolutely use Bubble as a generalist midrange LD attacker in 4-crown now which is crazy to say considering it was worthless against non-Angel before this TF.
Overall, Bubble is an absolutely massive improvement to the unit that makes it completely meta shifting. Its absurd stat boosts and additional Floating target make its old niche extremely valuable and provide a new niche where it is just as, if not more effective than it is against Angel. It also gains Curse Immune, but this is a very minor improvement that only really helps against a few Relics such as Othom and Loris and gives it usage on Doge Curseblast stages. GET THIS UNIT AS SOON AS YOU CAN IT IS WORTH EVERYTHING.
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Music Used:
Battle Hymn of the Soul - Persona 3 Reload