R.Ost

R.Ost (ダチョウ同好会, Dachō Dōkō-kai, Ostrich Club) is a Traitless enemy that appears in The Aku Realms and Legend Stages.
==Enemy==
R.Ost is among the most well-equipped pushers in the game. He has fast movement speed, high health, enough range to hide behind most peons, and rapid Area Attacks that will shred your cats. The icing on the cake is his 10% Critical Hit chance which makes fighting him much more inconsistent. Fortunately, he has five knockbacks which reduces his heavy pushing power.
At high strength magnifications (200% or above) R.Ost will out-perform similar bosses like Bores and Bun Buns, as there are very few consistent traitless counters working against them. On mixed stages he will disrupt whatever strategy you are using to take down the traited enemies. The bottom line is that if there is a R.Ost on a stage, you need to account for it.
==Strategy==
Long-ranged attackers such as Crazed Bahamut Cat, (Crazed) Dragon Cat, Paris Cat and/or Drama Cats will do fine against R.Ost in earlier stages. However, in much later encounters, you may need the use of more crowd-control against R.Ost. Tourist Cat and/or Glass Cat can be good at this, as long as using crowd-control is not exploitable by the other enemies in the stage. Another, less applicable strategy for R.Ost is to use Awakened Bahamut Cat. When used correctly, he can chip off an R.Ost by being timed to strike during R.Ost's backswing animation (the second peck), then let the R.Ost be finished by the rest of your attackers if Awakened Bahamut Cat did not kill said R.Ost. For this to work, Awakened Bahamut Cat must approach while R.Ost is frozen or during R.Ost's backswing and there can't be any other enemies in front of R.Ost. Freeze effects, such as the Thunderbolt Cannon and Tourist Cat, can make this easier to time and give more chances. Unfortunately, this tactic becomes less and less viable at higher magnifications where R.Ost could destroy Bahamut in two hits (or instantly with a critical hit) and has enough health to avoid being knocked back in even one, so you should mostly rely on your usual counters.
Some units exclusive to the EPICFEST event will do very well against this avian atrocity, and Jagando can deal with them in the late game. The weaken effect helps a lot too, so don't be afraid to save an extra slot for Thaumaturge Cat. Overall, this enemy is not very difficult when alone, but can be a real pain in numbers (e.g. in The Bathroom, Procrastinator Parade, and Caliban's Keeper) or with enemies that take advantage of his many knockbacks, such as Hannya in River Styx.
A strategy for stalling groups of R.Osts is to use Suntan Cat, as the fast attacks will make it so that Suntan Cat will get at least one dodge off, allowing your defenses to stay alive longer.
==Description==
==Variants==
==Encounters==
===The Aku Realms===
*Stage 42: Easter Island (200%)
===Stories of Legend===
*Stage 17-4: Villains Jungle (100%)
*Stage 18-1: Sin and Punishment (100%)
*Stage 18-6: The Great Escaper (100%)
*Stage 21-1: Safe and Not Sorry (200%)
*Stage 22-2: The Bathroom (100%)
*Stage 25-3: Kugel Schreiber (100%)
*Stage 29-3: Birdwatching (100%)
*Stage 30-1: Hungry Forest (100%)
*Stage 37-3: Beverly Hills Scoop (200%)
*Stage 38-4: Procrastinator Parade (100%)
*Stage 41-1: Caliban's Keeper (200%)
*Stage 44-6: Heaven's Oasis (200%)
*Stage 46-4: 8K Fertilizer (200%)
*Stage 47-4: Last Labyrinth (200%)
*Stage 48-7: Twilight Zephyr (200%)
===Uncanny Legends===
*Stage 16-2: Fainting Porch (250%)
*Stage 21-4: Stars in the Sewers (250%)
*Stage 24-1: Authority and Gravity (300%)
*Stage 27-4: Glass Slippers (200%)
*Stage 32-6: A Pile of Guts (300%)
*Stage 35-5: Cloned Farmers (300%)
*Stage 38-1: The Great Sufferer (300%)
*Stage 42-6: Roast Meat, Not Cities (300%)
===Zero Legends===
*Stage 3-1: Choco Highlands (300%)
*Stage 4-1: Extra Natives (300%)
*Stage 14-1: Pre-Fab Cathedral (300%)
===Event Stages===
*River Styx: Realm of Carnage (Deadly) (100%)
*River Acheron: Wrath of Carnage (Deadly) (100%)
*Duel at the Lava Fields: Commander (Deadly) (100%)
*Wafer Cat Advent: Vanilla Flavor Last Sheet (200%)
*The Proving Grounds: 4th Round: Dusk (Deadly) (100%)
*The Angel & The Demon: Realm of Carnage (Deadly) (100%)
*Machines in Revolt: Hard Restart Lv.8 (200%)
*The Malevolent Lizard: Spitting Death (Insane) (250%)
*River City Relay: 1600m Relay: Second Fastest (100%)
*Traitless Citadel: Floor 8 (100%)
*Duel Stages Challenge: Duel at the Lava Fields (Commander) (100%)
*Underground Labyrinth: Stage 101 (200%)
===Catclaw Dojo===
*Hall of Initiates: Wanderer's Trial (Stage 1) (100%, 150%, 200%, 250%, 300%)
*Arena of Honor:
**Five Year Plan (100%, 150%, 200%, 250%, 300%)
**Six Years Strong (100%, 150%, 200%, 250%, 300%)
**Lucky Number 7 (100%, 150%, 200%, 250%, 300%)
**8 Ain't Enough (100%, 150%, 200%, 250%, 300%)
**Feeling Fine at 9 (100%, 150%, 200%, 250%, 300%)
**10-Year Plan (100%, 150%, 200%, 250%, 300%)
*Arena of Power: Tearful Tournament (150%, 250%, 400%, 550%)
*ランキングの間: 11周年記念大会 (100%, 150%, 200%, 250%, 300%)
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==Stats==
==Gallery==
R. Ost(bcp).png|R.Ost's Enemy Guide entry in The Battle Cats POP!
032 e.png|R.Ost's spritesheet
R.Ost.gif|R.Ost's attack animation
IdleROst.gif|R.Ost's walking animation
==Trivia==
*His English name R.Ost is a pun on the word Ostrich.
*The joke with his Japanese name and description is that he belongs to an ostrich club whose members are all named Ostrich Club; it's also a reference to the Dachō Club, a Japanese comedy trio.
*If you pay attention to R.Ost's attack animation, you'll notice he doesn't have multi-hit, and as such only one attack does damage while the other's his backswing. This allows you to time units easier in stages such as Realm of Carnage.
*He is one of the few Battle Cats characters to change genders depending on the language, with him being referred as female in his spanish description, which says that his first name is "Angelita" (Note that angelita is a female spanish name) but as male in some other places.
==Reference==
*https://battlecats-db.com/enemy/034.html
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Category:Enemy Units
Category:Stories of Legend Enemies
Category:Traitless Enemies
Category:Area Attack Enemies
Category:Critical Hit Enemies