Hippoe (カバちゃん Kaba-chan, Hippo-chan) is a Traitless enemy that appears in the Main Chapters and Legend Stages.
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Enemy
Hippoe is the first "boss" enemy the player will encounter. It is similar to a 500% Those Guys with area attack, having one knockback, five times the health and damage of Those Guys, but has a slower attack rate and speed than Those Guys. Take caution when fighting it early on in the game, as it can easily kill most of your cats. Hippoe is an easy enemy to defeat later on when your cats are stronger, but when Hippoe first makes its appearance in Japan/Fukuoka, expect your cats to take a beating. Make sure to use Gross Cat when fighting Hippoe for the first time, because Gross Cat's range is more than double of Hippoe and can deal good damage to Hippoe at the same time.
Strategy
Hippoe is a very strong enemy early on, being able to withstand multiple hits from Gross Cat. It will take about 10 hits from Gross Cat to kill Hippoe. However, Hippoe has a big disadvantage: it has low range, and that means Gross Cat will easily be able to land at least 2-3 hits on it. Don't forget to spawn lots of Tank Cats and Cats to keep it from moving. You will also need to make sure there's nothing next to Hippoe, as Gross Cat will probably hit it instead; letting the peons stack up and then firing the Cat Cannon is the best way to achieve this.
Overall, when you are fighting Hippoe at first, use Cat or Tank Cat to protect Gross Cat. Axe Cat can also deal damage if you time it well. Using this, Hippoe should die pretty easily.
In later stages, Hippoe is far easier to defeat. All it takes is one or two shots from Lizard Cat to easily get rid of Hippoe (unless it is buffed 120,000%, as in The Noble Tribe).
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Hippoe
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| This dangerous hippo has confidence in its stamina and power. | ||||||||
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力バちゃん (Kaba-chan, Hippo-chan)
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| 力持ちで体力にも自信があるカバ。 一度に複数体をまとめて攻撃してくる危険なやつ。 | ||||||||
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| Hippopotamus who is both strong and confident in its physical strength. A dangerous guy who attacks multiple bodies at once. | ||||||||
Variants
Metal Hippoe
Hippoe's Metal variant, and the first Metal enemy encountered in the game. It has very low health and attack power, but its Metal trait allows it to take only 1 damage from all attacks except Critical Hits.
Super Metal Hippoe
A much faster and stronger version of Metal Hippoe that only appears in Legend Stages. Knocks back cats on every hit.
Lione Hippoe
An enemy introduced in the Happy New Year? event (January event).
Heavenly Hippoe
Hippoe's Angel variant. He has a faster attack rate and far more health and attack power.
Hyppoh
Alien version of Hippoe. She is much stronger, can knockback cats, and has longer range than Hippoe
Zomboe
Zombie variant of Hippoe. It has 40x as much health and damage as Hippoe, slightly longer range, and a chance to slow down cats. Like most Zombies, it can also burrow under cats and revive once with 50% HP.
Sir Hippoe
An enemy that only appears in The Midas Touch, with increased health, damage, range, and movement speed. He can slow down cats, and drops a lot of money when killed.
Super Hyppoh
Supersized variant of Hyppoh. Weaker than Hyppoh when first encountered in Horrorpotamus, but receives massive buffs in later stages and has more knockbacks, longer reach, and a 100% chance to slow cats.
Stats
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| 1,000 HP | 100 damage (45 DPS) |
160 (Area Attack) |
67f (2.23 seconds) | 4 | 1 time | 8f 0.27s (10f 0.33s backswing) | |||||
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| - | Traitless | ||||||||||
Existence Elsewhere
Nyanko Daibōsō
Hippoe appeared as a regular enemy in Nyanko Daibōsō.
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Trivia
- It is the first enemy to appear as a boss and the first enemy to have Area Attack.
- Hippoe's Japanese name has a double meaning: while kaba (カバ) is Japanese for "hippopotamus", Kaba-chan is also the name of a transgender actress and choreographer.
- Although Hippoe's gender was unspecified, the original Battle Cats game stated that it is a transgender entity.
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