Cater (Type-0 party member)

Cater is a playable character in Final Fantasy Type-0. She wields a magicite pistol that shoots magically-enhanced bullets that inflict various kinds of damage. Compared to King, Cater shoots quickly and does not require reloading, but has the lowest raw attack. She is fast and can dodge with ease due to a passive ability that allows her to quickly cancel her current action. Her attack patterns vary; she can either shoot constantly and finish with a charged shot, or she can remain idle, let her attack charge up, and fire the charged shot. One should take caution when choosing the former strategy: although Cater can get in more hits she cannot move and shoot simultaneously, thus requiring her to dodge often if attacks get in the way.
As a ranged character, Cater can easily exploit Killsight and Breaksight to take down enemies. She has good magic stats, though with her ability to fire bullets of all three elements one needs not equip her with offensive magic, and instead, equip her with Cure. Cater is a recommended character for beginners and can solo missions due to her fast movement speed, evasion, and attacks.
Cater is one of the fastest and evasive ranged characters, either better or on par with Ace. Her magic gun allows for automatic Charged Shot that lets her unleash a more potent blast of damage, but does not home in at targets. During normal attacks, Cater first shoots up to five rounds of small bullets that weakly home in at their target, but are fast. After five consecutive rounds she will briefly ready her stance as she unleashes the Charged Shot, which is larger but about half the range of the normal bullets. Recoil from the Charged Shot knocks her back, making her temporarily vulnerable especially by ranged attacks.
Her Charged Shot and finisher shot do not home like her normal bullets, and can miss fast enemies. Her normal bullets are comparatively weak, and have poor staggering power, but her Charged Shot deals up to six times more damage. While idle, or just moving or strafing around, she charges her shot up to three levels. With each level, the shot's power and knockback power rises, but the range shortens (for the second and third charge only).
==Stats==
Cater has mostly weak stats; she has the second-lowest HP and the lowest Strength among the party, so she should be supported with good HP-boosting accessories.
Level 	HP 	MP 	Strength	Defense	Flame Magic	Ice Magic	Lightning Magic	Defense Magic
9 	253 	278	51 	50 	57 	56 	56 	56
10 	264 	286	52 	50 	58 	57 	57 	57
20 	370 	329	62 	53 	63 	62 	62 	62
30 	466 	371	72 	55 	68 	67 	67 	67
40 	553 	413	82 	58 	73 	72 	72 	72
50 	631 	455	92 	60 	78 	77 	77 	77
60 	699 	497	102 	63 	83 	82 	82 	82
70 	758 	540	112 	65 	88 	87 	87 	87
80 	808 	582	122 	68 	93 	92 	92 	92
90 	848 	624	132 	70 	98 	97 	97 	97
99 	877 	658	141 	72 	102 	101 	101 	101
Ranking:	13th	6th	14th 	10th 	5th 	8th 	6th 	9th
==Abilities==
Her Explosive Shell is useful against large and slow enemies. She will toss a magic stone in the direction that will explode dealing heavy damage and Stuns enemies easily.
Cater's Elementillery is useful against elemental enemies, granting access to all three elements in one slot. With Flame Shot, she shoots homing fire bullets that Burn enemies, but in a manual fashion (similar to Fire MIS magic, slightly faster and longer range than default). With Frost Shot, she quickly shoots fast-traveling ice bullets that Freeze enemies in a rapid-fire fashion (similar to Blizzard RF magic, as fast as the highest level in Speed enhancement, but it easily misses as it has small projectiles). With Voltaic Shot, she shoots spray of electricity from her magic gun that Shocks enemies in a rapid-fire fashion (similar to Thunder SHG2 magic, but with the same range as Thunder SHG).
Her Land Mine is best used against slow and large enemies. It is highly stunning and heavily damaging. She can also manually detonate them if close enough.
Cater's Debuff Shot is useful against high-Defense enemies, such as the Flan and Strikers. When she shoots the bullet she will somersault to her right, making the ability an evasive skill as well. The Debuff Shot lowers enemy Defense considerably. She can shoot the bullet multiple times on the same enemies, and this exploitation is exceptional against Cater's low Attack power.
Cater's Stilling Shot is good, but has poor accuracy. Its bullet will travel at a point above the target before bursting, spraying Stop-inflicting bullets down on the target. It is more useful against sluggish or range-attacking enemies, such as the Colossus and Imperial Rocketeer, but Cater can still manipulate the point where she unleashes the shot.
Cater's Viral Spray lets her spray Poison-inflicting fluid from her magic gun. This is useful against mobbing enemies that attempt to corner her, but it has a short range, being point-blank. The Viral Spray is effective against Stopped enemies and good paired with the Stilling Shot ability.
Cater can learn the Hawkeye sniping ability, almost doubling her attack range. This is best used with Wall magic to avoid interception from ranged attacks. Like with Trey and King, Cater's Hawkeye headshots kill instantly.
Ability	Effect 	Obtained 	AP
() 	Increase movement speed. 	Level 10 	2
() 	Equip two spells at once. 	Level 19 	4
() 	Cast level II finishing magic. 	Learn Quick Draw. 	12
() 	Cast level III finishing magic. 	Level 45Learn Quick Draw II.	28
() 	Execute up to three dodges in succession. 	Level 12 	2
() 	Execute any number of dodges in succession. 	Learn Triple Slip. 	3
() 	Window for dodging increases. 	Level 26 	5
() 	Check status of locked-on targets. 	Default 	Default
) 	Dodge or attack even during other actions. 	Default 	Default
() 	Charges shots when gun is unholstered but not in use. 	Default 	Default
() 	Cast finishing magic after a max-level charged shot. 	Level 28 	6
() 	Reduce amount of time needed to charge a shot. 	Learn Bullet Boost. 	12
() 	Fire exploding shots with left analog stick up + normal attack. 	Default 	Default
() 	Increase stun rate of Explosive Shell. 	Level 14 	8
() 	Increase power of rapid-fire bullets used in normal attacks. 	Level 25 	8
() 	Fire shots imbued with elemental magic (defaults to Fire). 	Default 	Default
() 	Increase the power of Elementillery's Flame Shot. 	Level 15 	16
() 	Imbue shots with Ice magic with left analog stick up + ability button. 	Level 13 	8
() 	Increase critical hit rate of Elementillery's Frost Shot. 	Learn Frost Shot. 	16
() 	Imbue shots with Lightning magic with left analog stick down + ability button.	Level 13 	8
() 	Increase power of Elementillery's Voltaic Shot. 	Learn Voltaic Shot. 	16
() 	Set a bomb in the ground that can be detonated later. 	Level 20 	6
() 	Increase power of Land Mine. 	Learn Land Mine. 	8
() 	Reduce AG cost of Land Mine. 	Learn Land Mine. 	12
() 	Fire shots that lower enemies' Defense. 	Default 	2
() 	Increase effect of Debuff Shot. 	Learn Debuff Shot. 	3
() 	Reduce AG cost of Debuff Shot. 	Learn Debuff Shot. 	4
() 	Fire ammo that inflicts Stop. 	Level 10 	2
() 	Stilling Shot remains active for a longer time. 	Learn Stilling Shot. 	2
() 	Reduce AG cost of Stilling Shot. 	Learn Stilling Shot. 	5
() 	Aim and fire at distant enemies. 	Level 13 	8
() 	Reduce AG cost of Hawkeye. 	Learn Hawkeye. 	10
() 	Release a venomous gas that inflicts Poison. 	Level 12 	3
() 	Viral Spray remains active for a longer time. 	Learn Viral Spray. 	4
() 	Reduce AG cost of Viral Spray. 	Learn Viral Spray. 	4
Cater in Battle2.jpg|Charged Shot (PSP).
FF Type-0 -_Cater Attribute_Bullet Fire.jpg|Elementillery (Flame Shot) (PSP).
FF Type-0 - Cater Attribute_Bullet Ice.jpg|Elementillery (Frost Shot) (PSP).
Cater Attacking_Final Fantasy_Type 0.jpg|Elementillery (Voltaic Shot) (PSP).
FF Type-0 - Cater Toxic Bullet.jpg|Viral Spray (PSP).
Type 0 Cater In Battle.jpg|Land Mine (HD).
==Equipment==
Cater's exclusive accessory is the Mage's Knapsack that increases all magic stats by 50 and grants 40% resistance against impact attacks.
*Magicite Pistol
*MTek-II Pistol
*Magicite Blaster
*MTek-II Blaster
*Magicite Prime
*Riot Gun
*Draconic Pistol
*Erinyes' Pistol
*Mythril Pistol
*Rune Trigger
*MTek-II Prime
*Missing Score
*Shining Shot
*Tanegashima
*Marvelous Shout
*MTek-ZERO (ultimate weapon)
==Support Personnel==
Some Support Personnel in Final Fantasy Type-0 HD appear as Cater: Minori Chihara (Cater's Japanese VA), Satoko Funakubo (Facial Animator), and Noriko Inoue (Publicity Staff).
==Quotes==
Category:Character gameplay in Final Fantasy Type-0