Pirate Cat

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Pirate Cat is an optional boss and party member who can be found near Catnip Bay in Chapter 2.

## Personality

Despite the name, Pirate Cat isn't actually a pirate, and is instead just a normal cat who really enjoys pretending to be one. As a result, when you first meet him, he talks in a fake "pirate voice" in order to keep up the act, only dropping it shortly after you unlock him as a party member. Additionally, it's implied that even when he's out at sea, he and his crew don't actually do much other than sail around, as after you fight him, it's revealed that none of them are at all connected to the pirates that have been regularly stealing from Catnip Bay. It's also revealed if you enter Southport with him in your party that he grew up there, but hasn't visited the place in several years.

## How to obtain

If the player talks to this NPC in Catnip Bay, he'll tell them all about how pirates have been raiding the village and stealing from its people recently, and ask for help. If you agree to help him, you'll be sent underwater into the Seabed Caverns dungeon, and have a minute and a half to find the Underwater Cat. Talk to her, and she'll agree to take you onto Pirate Cat's ship. Once you've gotten onto his ship, you can fight Pirate Cat, and after some cutscenes, you'll be warped back to Catnip Bay. Once this has happened, Pirate Cat will be standing in the place where the NPC from the start was before; talk to him, and you can unlock him as a party member.

## Battle/Strategy

While the Pirate Cat fight may seem simple at first, there's a few things the player should keep in mind during it, primarily during the start. On turn 2, the pirate enemy on the left will always use Critical Charge, increasing the enemy party's chance of landing a critical hit, and on turn 3, the one on the right will do the same. While normally status moves don't stack, in this particular case, the critical charges will, and the regular pirates are weak to fire, so it's strongly recommended that the player use this to defeat the one on the right before it can use Critical Charge. After this, the fight becomes easier to manage, as neither pirate enemy will use Critical Charge for the rest of the fight. As for preparations before the fight, Pirate Cat himself is weak to Earth, so it's recommended that the player buy Flame and Earth scrolls from the magic shop in Meowlbion Castle Town. Additionally, from turn 5 onwards, Pirate Cat has a low chance of using Rust Dagger, so the player may want to pick up some antidotes, although this isn't required.

### Battle stats

Little Grey Pirate Cat
 Fire
 100%

#### Skills

* Cutlass Fury
* Rust Dagger

#### Rewards

* 1000 EXP
* 100 Gold
* Cutlass Fury Scroll

## As a party member

Pirate Cat starts the game with three skills, those being Cutlass Fury, Rust Dagger, and Critical Charge. Cutlass Fury is just a decent physical skill that requires a dagger to be equipped, and that other party members can gain through skill scrolls later on in the game, but the other two are a bit more interesting, and completely unique to Pirate Cat. Rust Dagger is, like Cutlass Fury, a physical skill that requires a dagger, but it also has a 70% chance of poisoning the enemy it's used on. While the player can obtain a Poison scroll as early as Chapter 1, as well as buy items that inflict poison, this is the only skill in the game that can both inflict poison and cause damage up until the introduction of the Poison Dart scroll in Chapter 4, making Pirate Cat an incredibly useful party member for the part of the game you get him in. Critical Charge, on the other hand, increases the entire party's chances of getting a critical hit by 20%, which is already good on its own, but can be especially devastating when combined with equipment that further raises critical hit chance. In terms of stats, Pirate Cat has excellent speed and physical attack power, but is lacking in defense and magical attack power (although he can still use magic skills, which is rare for physical attack-focused party members).

### Battle stats

Starting stats (LV10)

Endgame stats (LV99)