"Super Rare Cats (激レアキャラ) are a type of Cat Unit. Most of them can be unlocked by playing the Rare Capsule (some of them appearing only in specific pools) while others are item drops from special stages."

- The Battle Cats Miraheze Wiki

Critical Note

This ranking does NOT use the same methodology that’s used throughout this document for ubers. The standard and balance is drastically different than ubers due to them being extremely easy to acquire.

It’s also worth saying that the letter grades for this tier list is not proportional to the uber lists. A unit ranking C tier on this list does NOT mean they rank C tier on the uber list, these cats are being distributed in a vacuum.

Methodology

The general idea of this tier list is that Gacha Super Rares will be ranked by their usefulness across the entire game. This includes all portions from Early to Post game.

Across earlier parts of the game, Gacha Super Rares will be evaluated at around level 30~40 with little to no talents and no stat talents. For late-end game, I assume level 50 units with key talents unlocked and stat talents if demanded. For post game content, I assume fully maxed cats. Units will not be evaluated with + levels as the game is specifically designed to be beatable without massive boosting.

Combos are accounted for. However, uber rare combos will not be accounted since Battle Cats is designed specifically to be played uberless.

Tier List

SS: Hip Hop, Nerd

S: Weightlifter, Figure Skaters, Sniper, Surfer, Vaulter

A: Sushi, Swimmer, Kotatsu, Cutter, Metal Cat

B: Fencer, Rich, Cat Jobs, Saw, Nypmh

C: Driller, Neneko

D: Apple, Juliet, Bath, Delinquent

E: Backhoe, Gold Cat, Piledriver, Bodhisattva

F: Toaster, Cat Base Mini

YouTube Ranking Video

The latest ranking video I uploaded to YouTube for these cats. The tier list above is the most accurate and recent ranking.

Unit Overviews

Bodhisattva

A mid-ranged support who weakens and slows Floating. Has poor stats and mediocre proc reliability. Outclassed by Sanzo.

https://battlecats.miraheze.org/wiki/Bodhisattva_Cat_(Super_Rare_Cat)

Delinquent

A mid-ranged attacker and support with mediocre stats and freeze against Floating and Relic. Poor proc reliability.

https://battlecats.miraheze.org/wiki/Delinquent_Cat_(Super_Rare_Cat)

Hip Hop

A melee attacker with high speed and huge single target damage. Slows Red and Alien, gains double cash from enemies.

https://battlecats.miraheze.org/wiki/Hip_Hop_Cat_(Super_Rare_Cat)

Kotatsu

A melee tank with resistance and weaken against Floating. Huge HP with cheap cost and good spammability. Blocks enemy wave attacks.

https://battlecats.miraheze.org/wiki/Kotatsu_Cat_(Super_Rare_Cat)

Nerd

A sniper with extreme range, but a huge blindspot. Chips enemies from afar and slows all traits for guaranteed control. Cost and cooldown built akin to an Uber.

https://battlecats.miraheze.org/wiki/Nerd_Cat_(Super_Rare_Cat)

Swimmer

A melee rusher with high speed and large single target damage. Rebounds for many bursts, massive damage against Floating.

https://battlecats.miraheze.org/wiki/Swimmer_Cat_(Super_Rare_Cat)

Apple

A debuffer with extremely low range but guaranteed area freeze against Reds. Has high speed.

https://battlecats.miraheze.org/wiki/Apple_Cat_(Super_Rare_Cat)

Bath

A backliner with high single target damage against Reds from massive damage. Cheap and stackable, similar to Dragon cat.

https://battlecats.miraheze.org/wiki/Bath_Cat_(Super_Rare_Cat)

Sushi

A melee tank with resistance and weaken against Reds. Huge HP with cheap cost and good spammability.

https://battlecats.miraheze.org/wiki/Sushi_Cat_(Super_Rare_Cat)

Gold Cat

A meatshield who is identical to Cat except with wave immunity.

https://battlecats.miraheze.org/wiki/Gold_Cat_(Super_Rare_Cat)

Neneko

A useless unit except for her small attack combo.

https://battlecats.miraheze.org/wiki/Neneko_(Super_Rare_Cat)

Cat Base Mini

A mid-ranged attacker with wave attacks to snipe and clear peons. Completely outclassed by Crazed Gross.

https://battlecats.miraheze.org/wiki/Cat_Base_Mini_(Super_Rare_Cat)

Juliet

A mid-ranged debuffer with freeze against Angels. Has decent offensive stats and good stackability, but sluggish foreswing.

https://battlecats.miraheze.org/wiki/Juliet_Cat_(Super_Rare_Cat)

Weightlifter

A mid-ranged attacker with massive damage against Dark. Has huge area damage and a chance to create a powerful wave attack. Stackable but strong individually.

https://battlecats.miraheze.org/wiki/Weightlifter_Cat_(Super_Rare_Cat)

Figure Skaters

A mid-ranger with high stats and strong against Relic. Stackable with good cost efficiency and favorable Relic matchups. Slow in movement speed.

https://battlecats.miraheze.org/wiki/Figure_Skating_Cats_(Super_Rare_Cat)

Toaster

A mid-ranged debuffer with slow against Angels and Alien. Weak on stats with poor spammability, strongly outclassed by Sanzo and Psychocat.

https://battlecats.miraheze.org/wiki/Cat_Toaster_(Super_Rare_Cat)

Surfer

A mid-ranged debuffer with freeze against Aliens. Extremely cost efficient with high stats and consistent freezes.

https://battlecats.miraheze.org/wiki/Surfer_Cat_(Super_Rare_Cat)

Metal Cat

A melee defensive unit with a unique Metal ability, taking only one damage but only has 12 HP. Excellent for stalling bosses but poor against spam.

https://battlecats.miraheze.org/wiki/Metal_Cat_(Super_Rare_Cat)

Cat Jobs

A melee debuffer with the unique ability to weaken enemies down to 1% but is limited by single target and an unreliable surge. Useful for cheese strats. Has a unique XP boost combo for farming.

https://battlecats.miraheze.org/wiki/Freshman_Cat_Jobs_(Super_Rare_Cat)

Rich Cat

A combo unit built primarily for his starting money up and worker level up combo to make rushing and farming easier.

https://battlecats.miraheze.org/wiki/Rich_Cat_III_(Super_Rare_Cat)

Sniper

A long-ranged debuffer that inflicts single target slows and knockbacks to all traits. Primarily known for supporting Cyberpunk to control and shut down many hard stages.

https://battlecats.miraheze.org/wiki/Sniper_the_Recruit_(Super_Rare_Cat)

Vaulter

A mid-ranged attacker and debuffer with high mobility and powerful LD savage blows. Slows Zombies with good reliance.

https://battlecats.miraheze.org/wiki/Vaulter_Cat_(Super_Rare_Cat)

Fencer

A mid-ranger with high bulk and high single target damage. Cheap and spammable, known for breaking starred Alien barriers.

https://battlecats.miraheze.org/wiki/Fencer_Cat_(Super_Rare_Cat)

Driller

A backline debuffer with the unique ability to debuff Traitless down to 10% attack power. Shuts down big Traitless enemies but LD and single target makes it easy to miss a crucial weaken for stalling.

https://battlecats.miraheze.org/wiki/Driller_Cat_(Super_Rare_Cat)

Piledriver

A mid-ranged tank with resistance and multi-hit knockbacks against Zombies. Extremely weak on stats and mostly outclassed by Welterweight for knockbacks.

https://battlecats.miraheze.org/wiki/Piledriver_Cat_(Super_Rare_Cat)

Cutter

A melee rusher with massive damage against Red, wave immune, survivor, and strengthen. Acts as an anti-Red version of Maglev with the perk of rebounding for high burst damage even as a generalist.

https://battlecats.miraheze.org/wiki/Cutter_Cat_(Super_Rare_Cat)

Backhoe

A mid-ranged anti-Metal that only targets Metal but has a chance to crit and surge. Outclassed by Catasaurus and other super rare cyclone units.

https://battlecats.miraheze.org/wiki/Backhoe_Cat_(Super_Rare_Cat)

Saw

A melee attacker with resistance and massive damage against Alien. Has rapid attacks with high DPS, great against certain Alien bosses and melee Aliens.

https://battlecats.miraheze.org/wiki/Miter_Saw_Cat_(Super_Rare_Cat)

Nymph

A mid-ranged attacker and debuffer with multi-hit LD attacks with strong DPS. Wields resistance and knockback to Aku and Angel for pushback. Mostly outclassed by Vaulter for pure stats/ generalist.

https://battlecats.miraheze.org/wiki/Nymph_Cat_(Super_Rare_Cat)

Frequently Asked Questions

"Why is Nymph so low? She's one of the best non-uber cats for Villainous Gods."

Villainous Gods remains to be Nymph's only true powerful stage. She is viable against Aku and Angel, but has her stats overshadowed by Vaulter. In this manner she isn't unique enough to warrant a higher rank.

"Why is Cyberpunk so high? He is slow and not fun to use."

Cyberpunk is one of the most versatile units in the game due to his range. You can use him as support on almost any stage as long as they don't have something insane like a wave enemy sniping to 1200 range. Cyberpunk's rank is more justified through his viability on the hardest stages which has been a historical strength of this unit. Cyberstacking is one of the most reliable ways to cancel out enemy comps that would've otherwise been unstallable. Ironically, Cyberstacking actually saves more time for the end user compared to fiddling and failing with a unique strategy on a difficult stage.

"Why is Sniper the Recruit so high? He is single target."

See above. Sniperpunk is the upgraded version of Cyberpunk to counter many modern hardest stages. Sniper doesn't get as high of a rank as Cyberpunk since Sniper is reliant on Cyber, but Cyber isn't in that he has strategies that work without Sniper. Cyber's AOE also gives more versatility on common stages.

"Kotatsu should be higher than Sushi/ Swimmer above Surfer/ Kotatsu above Surfer/ Vaulter below Swimmer/ Drama above Weightlifter/ etc. etc. etc"

Many of the high ranking super rares across S to A rank are EXTREMELY close in viability and usefulness to the point where you could argue any of these placements above the other depending on the scenario. This is because all of the high ranking super rares are excellent specialists built for their own respective usages. This makes ranking and comparing them abnormally more difficult compared to the gacha rare tier list. Your best takeaway from this is to acknowledge that they are built for their own usages and are effective as such.