Cala Maria

Cala Maria (イカ天, Ika Ten) is an Angel variant of Calamary that appears in Legend Stages and The Aku Realms.
==Enemy==
Cala Maria is a powerful enemy that has a very different attack than her Alien/Floating variant. To attack, she slams the ground three times in succession, dealing very high damage, enough to kill or severely damage most units. However, to balance this, she has Single Target with two knockbacks before death. Not many good attackers outrange her, which, despite her single target, still means that frail units will easily be in her reach, ready to be hit as soon as there is an opening.
Like other Angels, she is not considered a Floating enemy.
==Strategy==
Her weakness is that her three consecutive attacks are all Single Target, which means she can only hit up to three Cat Units per attack animation (the three frontmost units) in a stack of many. This allows your damage dealers to survive easily if protected by a horde of meatshields. The important thing is maintaining that horde, for a gap in the meatshield line might easily result in a precious backliner losing most, if not all of its health.
Cala Maria makes up for Single Target by delivering very high damage, causing cats with resistance to Angel enemies, such as Ramen Cat and Guardian Gamereon, to rarely be worth as much as a group of cheaper, one-off meatshields. When paired with Area Attack foes or even other Single Target attackers (e.g., Berserkory in Steamed to Death and Capy in Drunken Backrub), however, tanking the damage might still be the better option, so don't rule out Ramen if you see her!
==Description==
==Encounters==
===The Aku Realms===
*Stage 36: Bermuda (100%)
===Stories of Legend===
*Stage 39-6: Steamed to Death (100%)
*Stage 40-3: Drunken Backrub (100%)
*Stage 41-2: Dial-Up Dreams (100%)
*Stage 45-4: Toasty Turnpike (100%)
*Stage 48-4: A Moment of Serenity (100%)
===Uncanny Legends===
*Stage 9-2: Project Walrus (100%)
*Stage 14-5: Spa of Ascension (100%)
*Stage 32-4: Darkened House (100%)
*Stage 34-6: Fish-Legged Beauty (100%)
*Stage 37-2: Disaster Cycle (100%)
*Stage 37-4: Pulled Punch Bout (100%)
===Zero Legends===
*Stage 6-3: Ominous Fin Alert (100%)
*Stage 14-3: Weedy Garden (100%)
===Event Stages===
*Growing Strange: Holy Wrath (Merciless) (100%)
*The Proving Grounds: 4th Round: Dusk (Merciless) (100%)
*Empress' Report 4: Aku Studies 401: Inquiry (100%)
*Angel Citadel: Top Floor (100%)
*Baron Seal Strikes:
**Red Alert 11 (130%)
**Red Alert 12 (143%)
**Red Alert 13 (156%)
**Red Alert 14 (169%)
**Red Alert 15 (182%)
**Red Alert 16 (195%)
**Red Alert 17 (208%)
**Red Alert 18 (221%)
**Red Alert 19 (234%)
**Red Alert MAX (250%)
*Island of Hidden Treasure: Holy Refuge (100%)
*Jinfore Volcano: Infernal Crater Area 12 (100%)
*Underground Labyrinth: Stage 72 (100%)
===Enigma Stages===
*Holy Frontier: Frontier Shrine (Merciless) (100%)
===Removed Stages===
*Baron Seal Strikes!!!:
**Red Alert 41 (100%)
**Red Alert 42 (110%)
**Red Alert 43 (120%)
**Red Alert 44 (130%)
**Red Alert 45 (130%)
**Red Alert 46 (140%)
**Red Alert 47 (150%)
**Red Alert 48 (160%)
**Red Alert 49 (170%)
**Red Alert 50 (190%)
**Red Alert 51 (190%)
**Red Alert 52 (200%)
**Red Alert 53 (210%)
**Red Alert 54 (220%)
**Red Alert 55 (220%)
**Red Alert 56 (220%)
**Red Alert 57 (230%)
**Red Alert 58 (240%)
**Red Alert 59 (250%)
**Red Alert 60 (250%)
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==Stats==
==Gallery==
340 e.png|Cala Maria's spritesheet
IdleCalaMaria.gif|Cala Maria's moving animation
==Trivia==
*Cala Maria may be based on the squid species Ancistroteuthis lichtensteinii, commonly known as the angel clubhook squid or simply angel squid.
*Like Calamary, Cala Maria's name is a pun on the word calamari, meaning fried squid.
*Cala Maria's description stating that she was sent by The Cat God could be a nod to Christianity, originated from her name.
**It's unclear how Cat God could have sent Cala Maria, as Stories of Legend takes place before he was born. Note that Cala Maria's Japanese description doesn't mention Cat God at all, making this paradox specific to BCEN.
**Cala Maria could also be a play on "Beata Maria", or Blessed Mary, the mother of Jesus.
*Her Japanese name, Ika Ten (イカ天), literally means "squid heaven" and is short for "ika tempura" (イカ天ぷら, squid tempura).
*The line "翼のイカれたエンジェル" (tsubasa no ikareta angel) in her Japanese description can be taken to mean either "squid-winged angel" or "crazy-winged angel", while also being a pun on the song "Tsubasa no Oreta Angel" (翼の折れたエンジェル, "Broken-Winged Angel") by Ayumi Nakamura.
*The term used to describe Cala Maria's attack in her Japanese description is 肩たたき katatataki, meaning a shoulder massage performed by tapotement (a massage technique involving rapid and repeated striking of the body).
**Drunken Backrub's Japanese name, Drunk Massager, directly alludes to this.
*Cala Maria is the first enemy to have had multi-hit from the start rather than gaining it retroactively.
*Cala Maria and Heracrist are the only Angels to have single-target attacks.
==Reference==
*https://battlecats-db.com/enemy/342.html
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Category:Enemy Units
Category:Stories of Legend Enemies
Category:Angel Enemies
Category:Single Attack Enemies
Category:Multi-Hit Enemies