The Face

The Face (カオル君, Kaoru-kun) is a Floating enemy first seen as the boss of the Moon in Empire of Cats Chapter 1.
==Enemy==
The boss of the first Chapter's final stage, The Face has extremely high health and attack but is the slowest enemy in the game. Additionally, he attacks very infrequently, rendering his highly devastating attacks useless in the presence of meatshields and 350+ range cats.
Later on in the game, this enemy becomes more defensively-focused, as his 1 speed keeps him from straying too far away from the enemy base, along with late-game buffs making his high health and high attack power skyrocket to where he can destroy most of your units with a single chomp.
==Strategy==
Use long-ranged units such as Lizard Cat and/or Gross Cat to hit him from a distance, while dealing constant damage.
It is recommended to only use crowd-controllers that can outrange him, but even then, because of his 1 movement speed, there is not much reason to use any effect other than Weaken or Freeze. Uber Rare Cats that work especially well against The Face include, but are not limited to: Saber, Super Galaxy Cosmo, Empress Chronos, Megidora, M. Bison, Madoka Kaname, Shining Amaterasu, Catman, and virtually any other generalist or anti-Floating Uber.
You can also take advantage of his long interval between attacks by using units such as Swimmer Cat, Express Cat, Hip Hop Cat and/or Awakened Bahamut Cat, to get some quick damage off. Otherwise, he should not be the main focus for your lineup in many of the stages he appears in.
==Description==
==Variants==
==Encounters==
===Empire of Cats===
Strength magnifications are 100% in Chapter 1, 150% in Chapter 2, and 400% in Chapter 3.
*Stage 1-48: Moon
===Into the Future===
*Stage 1-33: Easter Island (300%)
*Stage 2-33: Easter Island (600%)
*Stage 3-33: Easter Island (800%)
===Into the Future Outbreaks===
*Stage 1-33: Easter Island (600%)
*Stage 2-33: Easter Island (800%)
*Stage 3-4: Mongolia (1,000%)
*Stage 3-33: Easter Island (1,000%)
===The Aku Realms===
*Stage 10: Maldives (600%)
===Stories of Legend===
*Stage 5-5: Twin Peaks (400%)
*Stage 14-5: Crunchy Pillar (1,200%)
*Stage 17-5: Chicken Game (1,000%)
*Stage 18-5: Pitfall Zone (2,000%)
*Stage 20-3: Godiego Pass (1,000%)
*Stage 21-2: Claustronyctophobia (1,000%)
*Stage 22-6: Satan's Bedroom (800%)
*Stage 23-5: Agape's Cage (600%)
*Stage 26-6: Benzene Field (200%)
*Stage 28-2: Knights of the Round (1,600%)
*Stage 35-1: Virus Smugglers (1,600%)
*Stage 41-6: Broadband Omens (2,000%)
*Stage 45-4: Toasty Turnpike (2,000%)
===Uncanny Legends===
*Stage 10-5: Shocking Exile (500%)
*Stage 13-3: Lost Sailors (1,000%)
*Stage 15-4: Cracked Column (2,000%)
*Stage 19-4: Nighttime Lure (1,600%)
*Stage 44-2: Night of the Hustler (500%)
===Zero Legends===
*Stage 12-5: Cookie Cutter Ruins (3,000%)
===Event Stages===
*Challenge Battle: Higher Score (100%)
*Friday Stage: Helpful Cat (Hard) (200%)
*Loving Labour: Pay without Leave (100%)
*Jingle Cat Bell: Happy Merry X-mas (100%)
*Happy New Year?: Blackout (100%)
*Ritual Happiness:
**My Pet Werewolf (100%)
**Sunbathing Mummies (100%)
**Soul Leasing (100%)
*Bears be Bare: Going Bipolar (200%)
*Teacher! It's Spring!: 100 Cat Dates (200%)
*Love is Sickness: Read but No Reply (100%)
*Ghostly Houseguests: I'm not here anymore. (100%)
*Autumn = Sports Day!: Dad, No Videos! (100%)
*The Battle Cats POP!:
**No I-A-P! (100%)
**But the App's Fun Too :) (100%)
*Mon. Blitz Stage: Rich Cat (Veteran) (400%)
*Salaryman Awakes!: Nine to Five Fever (Expert) (500%)
*Growing Green: Green Envy (Hard) (400%)
*Spring Sprang Sprung: Most Ancient (400%)
*Strait of Wings: Ancient Ruins (Veteran) (400%)
*Growing Strange: Fear of Flying (Merciless) (2,000%)
*Worker's Revolution: Late Nite Shake-Up (1,200%)
*Another New Year: I Hope It's an Uber (600%)
*The Battle Cats Together!: Minigames Galore! (300%)
*Duel at Sunset: Elite (Normal) (100%)
*The Proving Grounds: Last Round: Dawn (Veteran) (300%)
*Servant of Darkness: Sinister Wasteland (600%)
*Q1. What's in the Box? Quiz: Commemorating... what? (100%)
*Season 2: Heartbeat Festival: Hands on the Check (100%)
*Pt. 5: Musical Parade: Deployment (200%)
*Resident Undead: Mutation Lv.3 (100%)
*#02 Banquet of Terror: Crazy Uncle's Toast (200%)
*River City Relay: 400m Relay: Anchor Leg (200%)
*Heavenly Tower: Floor 18 (600%)
*Mega Menace: Summit Wilderness (Merciless) (1,600%)
*Season 1: School Days: Classroom Daydream (100%)
*Duel Stages Challenge: Duel at Sunset (Elite) (100%)
*Island of Hidden Treasure: Cheerful Apex (3,000%)
*Pt. 1: A Decade of Memories:
**2014 Part 1 (110%)
**2015 Part 2 (100%)
*Night 2: Christmas Eve Delivery:
**Delivery Lv.1 (200%)
**Delivery Lv.2 (300%)
**Delivery Lv.3 (400%)
**Delivery Lv.4 (500%)
**Delivery Lv.5 (600%)
*Chapter 1 The Cats' Journey:
**Home Village Destroyed! (100%)
**Equipment is Stuck from a Curse (200%)
*Anomaly in the Wan Wan Kingdom: Cloudy Sky (200%)
*Underground Labyrinth:
**Stage 25 (600%)
**Stage 51 (1,000%)
===Collaboration Stages===
*Hometown Self-Defense Force: Intense Chief of Staff (800%)
*Kaohsiung Rapid Transit Red Line: Olympia (600%)
*Be a Magical Girl: I Can Make It Come True (100%)
*Witch's Labyrinth: Dessert Witch: With Such Joy (400%)
*New Challenger: VS LUKE (Expert) (400%)
*Rescue! Kamen Rider Cat: Defending Dignity (400%)
*Rescue! Ultraman Cat: Expectation for Humankind (200%)
*Shin Cat Heroes: Come and See, The King of Monsters! (200%)
*Battle with Madhead!: Perfect Power (400%)
===Enigma Stages===
*Sky Summit: Summit Shrine (Merciless) (3,000%)
*Hunter's Map II: Red Stone Forest II (2,000%)
===Catclaw Dojo===
*Hall of Initiates: Wanderer's Trial (Stage 1) (100%, 400%, 1,000%, 1,200%, 1,500%, 1,800%, 2,100%)
*Arena of Honor:
**Phoenix Trial (100%, 400%, 600%, 800%, 1,000%)
**Five Year Plan (100%, 400%, 1,000%, 1,200%, 1,500%, 1,800%, 2,100%)
**Six Years Strong (100%, 400%, 1,000%, 1,200%, 1,500%, 1,800%, 2,100%)
**Lucky Number 7 (100%, 400%, 1,000%, 1,200%, 1,500%, 1,800%, 2,100%)
**8 Ain't Enough (100%, 400%, 1,000%, 1,200%, 1,500%, 1,800%, 2,100%)
**Feeling Fine at 9 (100%, 400%, 1,000%, 1,200%, 1,500%, 1,800%, 2,100%)
**10-Year Plan (100%, 400%, 1,000%, 1,200%, 1,500%, 1,800%, 2,100%)
*Tales of Honor: Phoenix Trial (100%, 400%, 600%, 800%, 1,000%)
*ランキングの間: 11周年記念大会 (100%, 400%, 1,000%, 1,200%, 1,500%, 1,800%, 2,100%)
===Removed Stages===
*Autumn Sports Day: Anti Halloween (100%)
*Puella Magi Madoka Magica: I Don't Understand You (100%)
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==Stats==
==Existence Elsewhere==
===Shoumetsu Toshi===
The Face appears in Shoumetsu Toshi as a fire type unit introduced in the fourth collaboration between the two games. It appears in the collaboration gacha during the event duration and can only be obtained through it.
カオル君 (Kaoru-kun) 	カオル君 (Kaoru-kun) 	カオル君 (Kaoru-kun)
 	 	
Stats At Level 30 	Stats At Level 30 	
Rarity 	★3 	
Health 	1,001 	
Attack 	501 	
Recovery 	12 	
Single Skill 	Enemy delay 5 seconds & attack power x1 (fire) 2 times 	
Leadership Skill 	When HP is MAX,attack power of ally fire elemental souls is doubled	
===Nyanko Defence Force===
The Face made a cameo appearance as a bust sculpted into the side of a mountain in one of the backgrounds.
Bust of The Face	Bust of The Face
 	
===The Face===
In Heads Off, The Face is one of the larger playable characters in the game and makes a lower-pitched screaming sound compared to the other characters.
===No Longer MOMOTARO===
Oni The Face appeared as a regular enemy in No Longer MOMOTARO.
オ二カオル君 (Oni Kaoru-kun, Oni The Face) 	オ二カオル君 (Oni Kaoru-kun, Oni The Face)
 	
Type 	Close Range
Skill 	None
Description 	Translation
オニダンゴを食べてオ二化したカオル君。ツノが生えたせいでバランスが崩れ以前よりも浮かぶのに苦労しているがおかげでインナーマッスルが鍛えられている。 	Kaoru-kun became an Oni by eating Onidango.Because of the horn, his balance is offand has a harder time floating than beforebut thanks to this, his inner muscles are getting a good workout.
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==Trivia==
*His real name is "Kaoru Hikao" or "Kaoru Higao" (飛顔かおる), as shown at the bottom of the screen with other enemy names in a commercial for the Final Boss Strikes?! Collaboration Event. Hikao/Higao is not an actual surname that anyone has in real life, but a pun using the kanji for "fly" (飛) and "face" (顔). Kaoru is a real name, but is also being used as a pun: kao means "face".
*His appearance is a close match for the profile of Masaoka Shiki, a poet and essayist in Meiji period Japan.
*He may take inspiration from Ōkubi, a floating head yōkai whose name literally means "giant head".
*I.M. Phace's Japanese description suggests that the smaller Phace inside his mouth is actually The Face himself, somehow shrunken down and using the larger Phace as a mobile villa.
*In Teacher Cybear's Japanese description, it's stated that he freeloaded at The Face's house for 6 years without going outside.
*The Face can be considered the first Floating enemy in the series, as he's been present since Ganso!! Nyanko Daisensou whereas Mooth was introduced in Kumanchu Royale.
*He has a higher ID than Shy Boy and Assassin Bear despite appearing earlier.
*The Face, Dark Emperor Nyandam and Teacher Bun Bun all share the same amount of health: 99,999. However, Nyandam only has one unbuffed appearance, and Teacher Bun Bun has always been fought at 400% or more.
*He is the slowest non-stationary enemy in the game.
*The game Heads Off may be based entirely off of him, since it features floating heads. He even makes an appearance in it as one of the unlockable characters.
==Reference==
*https://battlecats-db.com/enemy/020.html
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<< Shy Boy | Ms. Sign >>
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Category:Empire of Cats Enemies
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Category:Area Attack Enemies
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