Musketeer Tom

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### Counterparts

Tom
Mouseketeer Jerry
Mouseketeer Tuffy
Cowboy Tom
Guard Tom
Mouseketeer Lilli
Angel Tom
Devil Tom

**Musketeer Tom** is a playable cat character that can be selected in a match. He can be purchased or drawn in Shops.

A famous fencer, Musketeer Tom is a hero in the hearts of thousands of French girls.

***Note: Underlined words are information translated to English from the Chinese server, and they are currently unreleased or released content without translations in other servers. As they are not official, they may be changed in the future.***

## Background Story

### Developer Post (Chinese Server)

#### "A master of superb swordsmanship."

Musketeer Tom wears a red knight cassock and a d'Artagnan hat. His dedication and love for swordsmanship is unparalleled. In order to further improve his fencing skills, whenever he meets his opponent who is also a musketeer (in most cases, a mouseketeer), he would fight them without mercy. Because Musketeer Tom likes to duel, "En garde!" has become his catchphrase.

### Cartoon Origin

Musketeer Tom first appeared in the cartoon short "The Two Mouseketeers", but chronologically from "Touché, Pussy Cat!".

In "Royal Cat Nap", we can see more of Musketeer Tom's assiduous and indefatigable personality. After the King had been woken up by the two mousekeers, he ordered Musketeer Tom to guard his bedroom. He went great lengths to ensure that the King can sleep peacefully, while enduring all of the mouseketeers' antics.

## Ability Setting

### Attributes

 **Resistance** | HP 10
 **Technique** | Skill Strength 8

### Skills

#### Active Skill: **Knight's Assault** (Cooldown time: 28/18/18)

 Lv. 2
 Lv. 3

#### Passive Skill: **Knight's Rapier** (Cooldown time: 0/0/0)

 Lv. 2
 Lv. 3

#### Weapon Skill: **Rapier Parry** (Cooldown time: 20/12/12)

 Lv. 2
 Lv. 3

## Character Strategy

### Attribute Analysis

* Musketeer Tom's overall attributes are at the upper-middle level among all cats. His attack rate and HP are more prominent than most cats, and his claw attack cooldown is quick when it misses a mouse, but becomes longer if it lands. His HP can be regarded as the top rank in most cats.

### Skill Analysis

#### **Active Skill: Rapier's Assault**

* Musketeer Tom is invincible when he is releasing the first phase of his active skill. If used properly, he can resist most damage and control (but he cannot be immune to Spike)! In the third stage of the active skill's slash, not only can it apply the Intimidated effect to the enemy who has been launched up, but also to nearby opponents in the slashing range, so you can try to wait for the launched mouse to fall to his teammates, and then perform the third slashing phase.

* When Musketeer Tom's active skill is Lv. 2, it is more advantageous when it comes to tying mice onto rockets. As long as the Intimidated effect is successfully applied to any mouse opponents, the efficiency to tie any mouse to the rockets will be greatly improved in the next period of time.

* Under normal circumstances, if the mice are in Weakened state, Musketeer Tom cannot trigger the second stage after using the active skill to hit the mouse, but as long as the active skill has been used to attack a mouse to a Weakened state or the active skill has hit a mouse to trigger Blood of Iron, you can trigger the second stage to any mice (even if they are Weakened now).

* Another thing to note is that after the active skill has been released, Musketeer Tom will lunge forward for a long distance and cannot adjust the direction. If there is a mouse, they will most likely take this opportunity to escape in the opposite direction. At that time, you can click the active skill again to interrupt the dash.

#### **Passive Skill: Knight's Rapier**

* Musketeer Tom's Lv. 1 passive increases the distance of your claw attacks and adds a light effect, but the damage of the claw attack and the light effect are calculated separately: the general attack area is the claw attack area, and can trigger perks such as Long Claw; the light effect will apply a short-term stun to the hit mouse and reduces small amount of HP.

* When the cat takes a fly swatter, and since the fly swatter provides a certain additional attack distance, there will be an overlapping area of ​​the claw attack and the light effect at this time, and the mouse that is hit in the overlapping area will receive two stages of the claw attack and the light effect damage, but will only be affected by the perk card equipped.

#### **Weapon Skill: Rapier Parry**

* Musketeer Tom's Rapier Parry can push most of the items and NPCs on the map, including cheese, fruit platters, Spike, Quacker, etc..

* Rapier Parry is actually very practical. Not only can you use it in mid-air and avoid being attacked by items when you can't move fast, the rapier can also be released on some specific relatively high terrain or narrow terrain, which can restrict the movement of mice to a large extent.

* The Rapier Parry can be used as an offensive skill which could deal damage to the mice. If an item is flying towards you, you can easily deflect the items by quickly double tapping the Rapier Parry or just simply click it once when you are already using it and if the mice is in the way, they'll get damaged.

## Skill Upgrade Analysis

#### **Active** + **Passive** + **Active** + **Weapon** + **Any**

* Give priority to learning active skill, which can make up for lack of damage at critical moments, and can also quickly create Intimidated effects when the mice have stepped on a mousetrap in early-game. When character reaches Lv. 4, it is recommended that you should upgrade Lv. 2 active skill, mainly to reduce the cooldown time, so as to have more opportunities to trigger Intimidated. At Lv. 5, learn Lv. 1 weapon skill, which can allow you to push and hinder items and mice in late-game.
	+ Of course, the specific addition scheme can also be flexibly changed according to the scenario.

## Recommended Perks

### Fast Dispatching Perk Deck

#### S Class **Charged Blow** + A Class **Burning Wild** + A Class **Cautious** + A Class **Fire It Up** + C Class **Flexible Cat**

* The general-purpose perk deck among all cats, which can make up for the lack of damage. But in the case that the mice don't equip Blood of Iron,, the Intimidated effect cannot be achieved. There are advantages and disadvantages of this deck.

### Control Perk Deck

#### S Class **Stunning Strike** + A Class **Burning Wild** + A Class **Cautious** + C Class **Flexible Cat**

* Stunning Strike can provide control and better allow you to slash Intimidated effect on mice. Combing Burning Wild with Intimidated effect can quickly dispatch the mouse.

### Late-game Deck

#### S Class **Knowledgeable** + S Class **Rage** + A Class **Wall of Steel**

* Knowledgeable provides more EXP when it comes to upgrading, active skill in the late-game can trigger Rage, weapon skill can push items and fruit platters. The combination of Rage + Wall of Steel can have a greater ability to turn the tables in the late-game.

## In-game Strategy

### Scouting Phase

* During the Scouting Phase, Musketeer Tom only needs to clean up items and layout mousetraps. If he has Knowledgeable equipped, he can learn active skill at the beginning, because the active skill can cause damage to the robot mice easily, which gives me a proper pursuit ability.

### Cheese Phase

* During the Cheese Phase, Musketeer Tom can try to catch the mice with Intimidated effect, which can speed up his dispatch efficiency.

* After catching a mouse, in order to prevent being intercepted by other mice, you can raise the weapon skill Rapier Parry and slowly approach the rocket, while defending, you can also increase your field of vision to obtain more information.

* Don't worry after the mouse on the rocket has been rescued, we can wait for the mouse to get stunned after Fearless state, and use the large range attack of ​​the active skill to damage the weakened mouse, then, you can slash Intimidated effect before tying onto the rocket.

### Wall Crack Phase

* After arriving near the Wall Crack, Musketeer Tom can give priority to push away items, like fruit platters have shooting range to the Wall Crack.

## Advanced Strategy

The key to judging the strength of a Musketeer Tom user's skills lies in whether he can perform the three-stage Knight's Assault. Here are a few tips for you to perform the chain strike:

### 1. Strike Combo (Difficulty: ★★★★★)

* Upon seeing a mouse, use Knight's Assault to approach the mouse, click the active skill again the moment you touch the mouse, and directly complete the chain strike combo, but the striking speed of this combo is quite fast and the mouse can move freely, which is relatively difficult to be accurate when it comes to judging when to click.

### 2. Control Strike (Difficulty: ★★★☆☆)

* First you must have equipped Stunning Strike and upgraded passive's light effect or use an item to stun the mouse, then use the first part of Knight's Assault to hit the mouse, and immediately use the second part of the active skill to directly complete the chain strike. This set of control combo's success rate will be higher, but your hand must be fast to perform the actions.

### 3. Slow Strike (Difficulty: ★★★★☆)

* First use the first part of the active skill to hit the mouse, because the second part of the skill can be used for a period of time after activation. At this time, you can use the Stunning Strike perk, light effect or item to stun the mouse, and then chain strike the mouse. If you want to complete this set of operations, you must ensure that the mouse has been stunned within the duration of the second stage of the skill, but once the mouse has been stunned, you can almost 100% sure to Intimidate them.

### 4. Weakened / Blood of Iron Strike (Difficulty: ★★☆☆☆)

* Because after the active skill weakened the mouse, or in Blood of Iron state, it can trigger the second phase of Knight's Assault. Therefore, when the mouse has been weakened or in Blood of Iron state, we can first use the active skill to hit the mouse, wait for them to enter a weakened state before completing the chain strike.

### 5. Fearless Strike (Difficulty: ★★★★☆)

* When the mouse jump-rescues a teammate on a rocket, we can directly use Knight's Assault and chain strike. At this time, even if the mouse is in Fearless state, they'll be picked up by Musketeer Tom and get Intimidated. This can delay their escape in Fearless state to the greatest extent. After the stun of the Fearless state, you can easily weaken the mouse.

## Character Evaluation

Musketeer Tom's role is mainly a Quick Dispatch + Defend. After the active skill hits a mouse, tying the mouse to the rocket can instantly reduce a large amount of rocket fuse time. The weapon skill can block the mice's items and can reflect back to them, which can allow Musketeer Tom to avoid certain damage from mice.

## Skins

Beside equipping skins, he can also equip a rocket skin to gain more Fashion Points, same with Footprints.

***Note: As the skin obtaining methods vary between servers, they will not be listed below. Players can check in the game to see their current obtaining methods.***

### S Class

**Ruler of Diamonds*** Skin Series: **Court of Four**

**Wavebreaker**

**Knight's Soul*** Skin Series: **Continental Court**

* To protect the weak and helpless, to fight for the happiness of all.

### AP Class

* No matter how time changes, my "little cuties" will always be with me.

### A Class

 **Knight of Roses**
 **Wild Cherry Warrior*** Skin Series: **Sakura and Sword**

 **Serene Swordmaster*** Skin Series: **Martial Matters**

 **Knight's Honor**
* For honor and glory! Musketeer Tom is the mightiest knight in the whole kingdom!

## Extra

### Quotes from **Firework Show**

* *Tonight, the Knight's rapier shall protect the joy and tranquility of this firework show.*

## Trivia

* Musketeer Tom's model is shorter than all the Tom characters, this is likely to be an oversight.

* Musketeer Tom is the first Tom character to have completely changed in-game sprites. While before, they have reused the same base designs for all the other Tom characters.

* The octopus on Musketeer Tom hat in his S class skin Wavebreaker is a reference to the episode Calamari Jerry.

* You can see a wanted poster of Mouseketeer Jerry's S class skin Unnamed Champion in Musketeer Tom's S Skin Knight's Soul Poster.

* Knight's Soul was already revealed in Mouseketeer Lilli's S class skin Lady Rose's trailer 3 months before his skin actually arrived in the Chinese Server.

* Musketeer Tom, his variants, Butch, Lightning, Meathead, and Cooper are the only characters that are not trapped inside of an ice cube after getting frozen.

## Gallery

### In-game Sprites

Drinking MilkEating CakeConsuming DrinkWalkingJumping & FallingSlidingChasingClaw AttackOpening DoorClosing DoorThrowing ItemSetting MousetrapPushed OverScaldedThawingBlastedKnight's AssaultRapier Parry