Is Valkyrie Cat good? A 2000+ word definitive guide

In one word – absolutely. Valkyrie Cat is hands down one of the most powerful early game units in Battle Cats, capable of demolishing enemies with her astronomical DPS and wave blocking ability. However, her reign of destruction falls off in late Stories of Legend and Into the Future stages as longer ranged Ubers overtake her. This guide covers everything you need to know about Valkyrie Cat to maximize her devastating potential.

Valkyrie Cat‘s Strengths

Valkyrie Cat starts off almost overpowered, dominating Empire of Cats and early Stories of Legend with a killer combination of high speed, ridiculous damage output and wave immunity letting her shred through peons and chunk down enemy bases with impunity.

Some key strengths that establish Valkyrie as an S-tier early game unit:

Extreme Burst Damage

Her chief claim to fame is her burst damage output. At 16,000 damage per hit (level 30), she can erase most early enemies in 1-2 hits. Even late game enemies and bosses tend to fall surprisingly quickly to a stacked volley of Valkyrie Cats.

This monstrous base damage even left some players speculating that Valkyrie Cat has a hidden "Massive Damage" ability. While unconfirmed, she certainly hits like a runaway freight train.

Blazing Movement Speed

With a movement speed of 12, Valkyrie can keep pace with ‘fast‘ units like Island Cat (15 speed), outrunning slow lumbering tanks. This allows her to quickly penetrate enemy frontlines to unleash her deadly barrages.

Cost-effectiveness

At $450 cost (level 30), Valkyrie Cat is cheap to deploy even in bulk stacks. Her lethal damage-to-cost ratio steamrolls enemies in early game, even without any Cat combos or unit synergies.

Wave Blocker

Valkyrie Cat flat out nullifies wave attacks, immune to all knockbacks. This renders her impervious to one of the deadliest mechanics in early Battle Cats stages. She nonchalantly strolls through waves that decimate meatshields, before obliterating wave attackers like Bun Bun.

Surprising Bulk

While no Tanuki, Valkyrie Cat sports a respectable HP pool (20k at level 30). Coupled with wave immunity, she endures reasonably well on suicide bombing runs to enemy backlines.

Ideal Early Game Usage

Valkyrie Cat dominates the early game, clearing Empire of Cats with ease while packing a punch even against deadly early Stories of Legend enemies like Bun Bun, Teacher Bear and Big Sal.

vs Red Enemies

With merely 1/2 damage taken from Reds, Valkyrie shreds through levels like EoC Ch1 featuring One Horn and Red enemies. Sniping the base with Valkyries trivially clears these levels.

vs Floating Enemies

Similarly, Valentines enemies and later floating threats like Teacher Bear melt before her wave-immune assaults in Ch2 Moon. She also makes a great substitute for Dragon Cat if you haven‘t unlocked True Forms.

Bun Bun Annihilator

Against dreaded wave attackers like Bun Bun, rain down Valkyrie Cats like literal missiles of the valkyries. They blast Bun Bun to pieces while ignoring his waves, clearing missions likes Ch3 Bamboo Island with ease.

General Purpose Attacker

Beyond countering waves and Reds, Valkyrie can serve as a general attacker blasting any enemy in her path. She is especially effective clearing peons to make way for heavy tanks or stacking up knockbacks on larger enemies.

Her great speed lets her function almost like a ‘fast meatshield‘ – while meatshields tank, Valkyries damage race to the front to land quick blows before retreating.

Best Cat Combos

While powerful individually, Valkyrie truly soars when amplified by Cat Combos providing damage and speed boosts:

Lethal Lance Combo

Sporting Lion Cat and Onmyoji Cat gives +10% damage and defense – makes Valkyrie dangerously deadly.

Biohazard Combo

With Ninja Frog Cat, biohazard supplies a +10% movement speed boost to better leverage Valkyrie Cat‘s already blazing speed.

There are a number of other offensive combos projecting splash damage that can stack for absolutely nuclear attacks.

Stage-by-stage Progression

Here is a stage-by-stage overview of where Valkyrie dominates and later falls off:

Empire of Cats (complete domination)
Red enemies, Valentines, Bun Bun – Valk stomps them all with wave immunity, insane DPS and cost-efficiency

Early Stories of Legend (excellent)
Cannon fodder for peons while delivering punishing attacks on bosses. Melts enemies like Teacher Bear. Wave blocker lets her blitz past Bun Bun and Owlbrow unharmed.

Mid game Stories of Legend (viable)
Starts to get outranged by Lemurrs, Dogumaru etc. Can still quickly snipe base and chunk bosses. But needs support from longer ranged attackers now.

Into the Future (situational)
Outclassed by gacha Ubers with higher damage, range and abilities. Still usable against Reds and Floatings. Wave blocking retains situational value.

Late Stories of Legend (support at best)
Past Jail Break Tunnel, nearly all enemies outrange Valkyrie Cat putting her at a fatal disadvantage. Still usable for sniping base but best used only against select Reds/Floatings rather than general purpose.

Outclassed by…

While she terrorizes early game, Valkyrie Cat inevitably gets overtaken by Ultra Souls and other Uber Rares boasting higher firepower, range and durability.

Bahamut Cat

The first TRUE FORM cat players unlock, and with good reason. Bahamut quintuples Valkyrie‘s range with much higher DPS to boot. His omni-strike ability deals massive damage to any trait.

Ururun Cat

Another wave blocker but with way higher attack range and ability to slow enemies via knockbacks. Removes Valkyrie‘s niche advantage.

Cat Unit	Damage	Range	Ability
Valkyrie	16K	300	Wave Blocker
Bahamut	94K	450	–
Ururun	188K	480	Wave Blocker/Knockback

While Valkyrie Cat falls off later on, she still retains some niche value against Red enemies, in 4-star restriction levels, and when you need wave blocking ability. But for general purpose, Ubers outclass her in the late game.

Closing Thoughts

Valkyrie Cat is an absolute early game powerhouse, dominating Empire of Cats and early Stories of Legend stages with her oppressive damage and wave immunity shutting down major threats like Bun Bun. She falters later on as enemies start significantly outranging her, but remains situationally useful against Reds and Floatings when you need her wave blocking niche. Valkyrie Cat will always hold a special place for carrying new players through the early game maelstrom.

So in summary:

Is Valkyrie Cat good?

• Extremely powerful early game unit
• Falls off late game as Ubers overtake her
• Retains situational value as wave blocker

When is Valkyrie Cat most useful?

• Wrecking Empire of Cats
• Countering deadly early SOL enemies like Bun Bun
• Level restriction stages needing her niche ability

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