Sakura Sonic (Uber Rare Cat)

Sakura Sonic is an Uber Rare Cat added in Version 6.8 that can be unlocked by playing the Rare Cat Capsule during the Metal Busters event. True Form added in Version 10.1 improves her toughness against Metal enemies and gains her own single-slot Combo, Ninjutsu Cute. Ultra Form added in Version 13.6 increases her health, damage, Critical Hit chance, Slow and Weaken time and also grants Omni Strike on top of another single-slot Cat Combo, #TopSecret. Talents were added in Version 11.0. In The Battle Cats Unite!, she appears through the SUPERFEST event in the JP Version and UBERFEST for SEA and WW versions.
==Evolution==
Evolves into Afterschool Sakura at level 10.
Evolves into Sacred Blade Sakura at level 30 using Catfruit and XP.
Evolves into Sacred Blade Sakura Z at level 60 using Catfruit, Behemoth Stones and XP.
==Performance==
+ Resistant to Metal enemies [Normal, Evolved]
+ 5% chance to perform a Critical Hit (8% chance in Ultra Form)
+ 100% chance to slow and weaken Metal enemies
+ Immune to Weaken and Slow
+ Insanely Tough against Metal enemies [True, Ultra]
+ Omni Strike (Effective range: -100~470) [Ultra]
===Pros===
*Long range
*High health
*Area Attack
===Cons===
*Low DPS
*Long recharge time
*Low critical hit chance
==Strategy/Usage==
Sakura Sonic's high damage makes her critical hits lethal to any metal, but the low activation chance makes that unreliable. She is intended to be the ultimate anti-Metal debuffer, with three anti-Metal abilities: slowing Metals down, weakening them to 50% at a 100% chance, and only taking 1/4~1/5 damage from them. This allows her to easily control Metal enemies to buy time for other Critical Hitters to finish them off. Sakura also has fantastic synergy with long ranged Critters, such as Hayabusa, Paladin Cat and E. Kubilan Pasalan, as she can prevent them from getting close for quite a while. However, Super Metal Hippoe is still troublesome as she isn't immune to his knockback, so other sources of support are still necessary.
===True Form===
Her True Form may look underwhelming, only improving her resistance to take 1/6~1/7 damage from Metals, but by putting her in the first row, she will activate a Cat Combo called Ninjutsu Cute, one of only three in the game that increase Critical chance. While it's only a 1% additive chance by itself, it's a single-slot combo, meaning it can be combined with the other two Crit-up combos, Miracle Performance and Whale Digger. Even that 1% chance can significantly increase the effectiveness of more spammable Critters like Catasaurus and Hurricat, making the True Form worth it for that alone.
===Ultra Form===
Sacred Blade Sakura Z's first and arguably most important buff is an extra second to her Slow and Weaken effects. This gives enemy Metals even less time to deal damage, which is especially useful when her critical hits don't proc. This improves her main niche substantially given her decently fast attack rate.
Also of great importance is her Omnistrike granting her 50 extra piercing range, allowing her to target peons and reach those enemies hiding just behind them. Metal Doge in particular goes from annoyance to stepping stone, as do mixed peons in Metal stages.
This new form also increases the critical hit rate from 5% to 8%, a solid increase in its own right while still being unreliable. However, on top of her existing Critical combo, she gains another one exclusive to her Ultra Form. This raises her own effective chance to 10% while also providing 2% to any other Cats in the lineup with a single slot.
===Talents===
Unfortunately, Sakura Sonic's Talents range from mediocre to situational. Defense Buff and Survives are probably the most worthwhile, since she can tank Metals better, and the Survive ability means she can continue to support your other anti-Metals for a fair amount of time, taking great advantage of her high range, though they are pretty expensive for what they do. Immune to Surges sees no use due to the rather uncommon combination of Metals and Surges which are better dealt with other units anyway, but Immune to Waves can potentially see limited use against Koronium/CyberFace, though again superior solutions exist to counter them already. Attack Buff is near-useless, because with her low Critical chance, she usually has no hopes of eliminating Metals on her own, and there are plenty of better damage-dealers for non-Metal enemies.
==Description==
==Cost==
*Chapter 1: 2,800¢
*Chapter 2: 4,200¢
*Chapter 3: 5,600¢
==Stats==
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==Catfruit Evolution==
==Talents==
*Immune to Waves (Cost: 100 NP)
*Immune to Surge (Cost: 100 NP)
*Survives: Adds a 28% chance to survive a lethal strike, improves by 8% per level up to 100% (Total Cost: 235 NP)
*Defense Buff: Upgrades health by 2% per level up to 20% (Total Cost: 175 NP)
*Attack Buff: Upgrades attack power by 2% per level up to 20% (Total Cost: 175 NP)
==Appearance==
*Normal Form: A young girl in a junior high school uniform with flower studded pigtails holding a flip phone in one hand and a katana in the other. She carries a guitar case, and has headphones around her neck.
*Evolved Form: Sakura now dons sports outfit, carries a sports bag and has a ponytail instead of pigtails. The flip phone is now a smartphone. The guitar case has lighter colours and she no longer has headphones.
*True Form: The guitar case is replaced with a black blade that has pink and white details. The sheath of her sword is now visible behind her, and her shoes turn into sandals. Her overall theme turns darker.
*Ultra Form: She's wearing more clothes with pink flowers all over them. Her big ponytail becomes a smaller ponytail with with two small braids on the side and she's now wearing a black crown looking object on her head. The blades she has on her back are a bit sharper. Her katana has a bigger pink flame on it and she replaced her mobile phone with a newer model which she keeps on a selfie stick. She now takes a selfie each time she finishes her attack.
==Existence Elsewhere==
===Princess Punt Sweets===
Sakura Sonic's outfit can be obtained as a 7★ dress in Princess Punt Sweets by rolling the collab's gacha. In addition, her guitar case also appears as a 3★ fancy goods item, and can be obtained as an achievement reward from the stage 風雲にゃんこ塔 (Battle Cats Tower).
 	 	
Dress Icon	Model	Fancy goods icon
===Shoumetsu Toshi===
Sakura Sonic and her evolution appear in Shoumetsu Toshi as a wood type unit introduced in the fourth collaboration between the two games. She appears in the collaboration gacha during the event duration and can only be obtained through it.
風隼さくら (Kazehaya Sakura, Sakura Kazehaya) 	風隼さくら (Kazehaya Sakura, Sakura Kazehaya) 	JK風隼さくら (JK Kazehaya Sakura, JK Sakura Kazehaya)
 	 	
Stats At Level 50 	Stats At Level 50 	Stats At Level 99
Rarity 	★5 	★6
Health 	1,722 	2,994
Attack 	1,221 	1,703
Recovery 	89 	151
Single Skill 	Attack power DOWN release & attack power x1.3 Shoot 10 times (Wood)	
Leadership Skill 	Increase the attack power of your ally's wood attribute soul by 2.5	Increase the attack power of your ally's wood attribute soul by 2.53.2 when HP is 80% or more
===Kyoutou Project===
Before Kyoutou Project was removed, Sakura Sonic appeared in it as obtainable collaboration unit. She appeared in the collaboration gacha during the event duration and could only be obtained through it. She was one of the few human characters to have no voice lines.
風隼さくら (Kazehaya Sakura, Sakura Kazehaya) 	風隼さくら (Kazehaya Sakura, Sakura Kazehaya)
 	
Stats 	Stats
Rarity 	Uber Super Rare
Cost 	4,200
Health 	6,750
Number of Attackers 	All
Range 	90
Style 	Short Distance
Attribute 	Divine SwordCat
Damage 	4,000
Number of Attacks 	1
Speed 	230
Description 	Translation
攻撃対象に鋼鉄体がいる場合100％の確率で発生全ての敵に1.5倍の攻撃力で攻撃しダメージを与えた鋼鉄体に6.66秒間スロウ効果を与える 	?
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==Trivia==
*She seems to be related to Hayabusa. Both are anti-Metal specialists with similarities in their attack animations, both hail from a ninja clan who opposes evil, their weapons are both described as taima no katana (退魔の刀, "sword of exorcism"), and the Japanese names of Oni Hayabusa and Sacred Blade Sakura both contain the word tenchū (天誅, "Heaven's punishment" or "divine retribution"). Furthermore, the second kanji in Sakura's Japanese surname (風隼, Kazehaya) is pronounced hayabusa on its own
*She is the second Uber Rare Cat to have an official animation shortly after her introduction, the first being Twinstars.
*Sakura, in Japanese, means cherry blossoms and is a very common name for Japanese girls.
*The "JK" in Afterschool Sakura's Japanese name, JK Sakura Kazehaya, is an acronym which stands for joshi kōsei (女子高生), meaning high school girl.
==Reference==
*https://battlecats-db.com/unit/398.html
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