Brollow (Floating)

Brollow (ツバメンズ Tsubamenzu, Tuva men's) is a Floating enemy encountered in Legend Stages.

Enemy

Basically the enemy counterpart of Maglev Cat, Awakened Bahamut or Sanada Yukimura, Brollow flies at extreme speeds, has low health, and deals high damage that can easily break through your defenses in numbers.

Description

Enemy Unit # 209		Floating
Brollow
		DO YOU EVEN LIFT??? He's gluten-free, but never misses a chance to impress chicks with crumbs from the organic bakery. Brain the size of a cashew, but he's got game.

Enemy Unit # 209		Floating
ツバメンズ (Tsubamenzu)
		JP Script
		出会い頭系アイドルグループのメンバー。 食パンをくわえて登校すると出会えることで 人気沸騰中！すぐに記憶をなくす ドジっぷりも乙女心をくすぐる。
		EN Translation
		A member of a dating group idol group. It's getting popular due to meeting you when you go to school with bread in it! Tickle girls heartily as well as lots of lost memories soon.

Appearances

Stories of Legend

• Stage 26-4: I'm onto you (100% strength magnification)
• Stage 26-8: Revolving-door Floats (100% strength magnification)
• Stage 28-4: Beautiful Finale (100% strength magnification)
• Stage 28-6: Learned to Love (100% strength magnification)
• Stage 30-5: Subterranean Stalker (100% strength magnification)
• Stage 31-3: Surviving Herd (100% strength magnification)
• Stage 32-6: Trouble at the Mansion (100% strength magnification)
• Stage 33-1: Pecking Order (100% strength magnification)
• Stage 34-5: Ghostlight Gardens (100% strength magnification)
• Stage 36-4: 50 Degrees Hotter (100% strength magnification)
• Stage 40-2: Romantic Highway (100% strength magnification)
• Stage 40-6: Houses of the Holy (150% strength magnification)
• Stage 41-3: Throne of Phone (4000% strength magnification)
• Stage 42-1: Cubist Crimes (4000% strength magnification)
• Stage 45-4: Toasty Turnpike (150% strength magnification)
• Stage 47-4: Last Labyrinth (150% strength magnification)

Uncanny Legends

• Stage 14-2: A Private Rainforest (200% strength magnification)
• Stage 16-5: Bathtub of Whimsy (200% strength magnification)
• Stage 22-6: Smokestack to Heaven (200% strength magnification)

Other Stages

• Fish Maniac: Ogre Island (Deadly) (100% strength magnification)
• Queen's Coronation: Honey Trap (Deadly) (100% strength magnification)
• Growing Strange: Fear of Flying (Merciless) (150% strength magnification)
• Queen's Condemnation: Honey Drip (Deadly) (100% strength magnification)
• Heavenly Tower: Floor 22 (100% strength magnification)
• Heavenly Tower: Floor 29 (100% strength magnification)
• Heavenly Tower: Floor 47 (200% strength magnification)

Strategies

Their high knockback count and low health makes them more deadly, as a few hits from meatshields like Mohawk Cat and Manic Mohawk Cat can easily knock them back. Take note that they don't have an actual attack cooldown, they only have delayed attacks due to their backswing. Thus, the more they get knocked back, the more damage they cause to your defenses.

Avoid using the default Cat Cannon against Brollows, as it will cause them to all attack again (think of Awakened Bahamut or Yukimura being hit after they land a blow). High numbers of hits per second is very bad against them, but powerful single blows from semi-spammable, bulky and heavy-hitting cats like Jamiera Cat, Island Cat and Crazed Whale Cat work well against small flocks of Brollows. However, for large flocks of Brollows, more expensive Area Attackers will be required, such as Ururun Cat.

Incidentally, D'artanyan's blind spot does not include Brollows, who will rest at the 150 mark instead of 140. This means that, in theory, a D'artanyan can obliterate Brollows, though it is better to have meatshields take hits instead of D'artanyan.

Kotatsu Cat, Kai or Sodom can help a lot as walls to gather many Brollows in the same area to kill them all at once.

Stats

*In each stage, there is strength magnification, the value of health and attack power varies due to this value.

*Time between attacks is the time of the attack from the motion end until the next attack motion starts.

Trivia

• Part of his description, "DO YOU EVEN LIFT???" is a reference to a meme of the same name.
• Brollow outspeeds all cat units, including Bullet Train Cat.
• Brollow is the second fastest enemy in the game, beaten by Assassin Bear.
• Brollow takes inspiration from several different birds:
  • He is mainly based off of the swallow, a type of bird well known for its black coat and v-shaped tail. Swallows are also a symbol of good luck, fidelity in marriage and fertility in Japanese culture.
  • He closely resembles a gannet, known to be the "missile bird".
  • He is additionally based off of the common swift, the world's fastest bird in horizontal flight, which can be clearly seen as Brollow moves forward. It also has a shorter, smaller v-shaped tail, though it is still noticeable. Another similarity between Brollow and the swift: the wings are slightly more forward on the body than they are on a swallow.

• Brollow appears on the background of a spinoff game called "GO! GO! Pogo Cat!", along with Pigeon de Sable. and Ecto Doge
• Brollow is one of the only enemy units in The Battle Cats that has no variants.

Reference

• https://battlecats-db.com/enemy/209.html

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