[WIKI] Cat Canon Concept

Vileblow Cannon 

The text below was taken from the drawing for a better reading, albeit with some changes/ additions to it.

Cannon effect: 30% Toxic + 100% Shield Piercer, same targetting and AoE as Breakerblast.

Style effect: -15% surge damage taken (switch Waterblast Style's effect with -15% knockback)

Foundation effect: -15% damage taken from Aku enemies

Concept and how it would work:

We got multiple cannons for multiple porpuses, including countering specific enemy traits, but we lack one for countering Aku, and we could also make one for general offense, so I've made one of my own to accomplish these roles: The Vileblow.

It would play out similarly to Breakerblast, controlling the frontline while countering a certain defensive ability, but now it fires a sweet blow of Mateki Elixir, adapted to intoxicate a wide variety of enemies, while retaining it's excellent anti-shield properties.

With guaranteed Shield Piercer, it would be the anti-Aku equivallent to Breakerblast against Starred Aliens, Maybe the only problem with it would be that the shield would likely immediatly regenerate due to the toxic knockbacking the enemy, preventing you from dealing a possibly devastating blow and skipping the next 29 shields, but that would still come with the Aku losing alot of health and opportunities to regenerate it's shield, so not that problematic. If Barrels and Researchers aren't doing the trick, give it a shot!

For general porpuse, it would handle tough pushers, like Bores and R.Osts, by taking away a chunk of their high health, crippling them and making them easier to handle, if not outright finishing them off. It wouldn't always be the perfect solution, as you would still need a proper setup to handle what's pushing your Cats or use a different cannon for what you're dealing with, but it would still would shine when it has the chance to.

For balancing measures, Zombies and Metals should be immune to Toxic by default, both to avoid competition with Holyblast and, specially, Waterblast, and because it simply fits them, Zombies are already dead and everyone who has or had contact with Pokemon knows that Steel-type pokemon are immune to poisoning and Poison-type moves (by a stretch, Zombies could be considered Poison-type). Certain bosses, like Zero Luza and Heavenly Herald Papuu, should also receive Toxic immunity, in order to prevent their battles from being trivialized (Papuu isn't that hard, but being able to skip her strengthened phase would be just too much on her).

Design choice:

For it's design, I chose to make it Aku related, as many units known for being anti-Aku are, ironically, wicked themselves. The Foundation comes from the Aku Altar, the Cannon's head mimics that of a Malevolent Cat, while the Style's purple liquid and the Cannon's top acessory are based off Lilin, the akuber Galaxy Gal, notorious for melting shields and captivating people with her Elixir.

Overall it would be a great addition to the game + a possible introduction to the Toxic ability for the Cat Arsenal, although it is not something you should handle to any Special/ Rare Cat, but rather only a few hard-to-acquire Cats

Original thread: https://battle-cats.fandom.com/f/p/4400000000000912332