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Few Tips for the Catfighting Arena achievement
By kirbo
This achievement is known for being heavily RNG based but i got a few tips to share that helped me get it almost flawlessly.
   
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The Basics
You know what you're here for, you probably read the description for the achievement "Cat Scratch Fever".
The achievement itself might confuse some. The requirement is to win TEN TOURNAMENTS, not just matches, which some people might confuse. Basically you bet for a girl and she must win all 3 rounds for a count to be added.

With that out of the way, lets get on to useful tips.
R, P or S?
You might have read this elsewhere but in case you don't know, the stars on the girl's stats represent how often or likely they will use a specific attack, though it doesnt mean they wil never use their weakest. I had plenty times where an opponent had 3+ starts on 2 of her stats and would use the third attack from time to time despite having only 2 stars.
Usually its safest to use the option that will either counter or tie their strongest attacks.
Try to alter in between 2 options, often times they will also switch around and you can land several succesful hits. When you get hit yourself, evaluate if its worth switching your past move or staying on it, its RNG at the end but on some situations using the same attack in a row can give succesful results.

Also, the color of the enemy attacks is important to pay attention to, if they only have a white aura initially, its worth to go for the most aggresive option, if they end up winning and only are able to do white-level damage, it'll be just a scratch, probably wont deal too much (unless you're low, hopefully it never comes to that)
Go Turbo, but not always!
Ok so beside the RPS RNG fest, button mashing is another part of the catfighting mode, its used on 2 situations:
  • When you tie on your attack
  • When you get a rainbow level attack for extra cheer damage

Having a turbo button can be useful here but BEWARE:
THE TIE ATTACK MASHING IS RIGGED, DONT USE A TURBO FOR IT
For real, its really dumb, I tried it myself and yeah its not worth it, actually what you wanna do is start mashing slowly and gradually increase, the AI seems to like to match your speed for these attacks, so if you configure a turbo button they will likely beat you every time.
After i turned that turbo off and i practiced a bit, I managed to find the perfect rythm of starting a slow mash to progressively increase to my maximum output, and I pretty much only lost 2 mashings from there onwards (thankfully they were white damage ones so i didn't suffer much).

Now on the contrary, you really, REALLY wanna get a turbo going on for the cheer button, after i enabled it i was doing consistenly so much more damage, in some situations where the opponent would still be left with some HP were i mashing manually, they would instead go down much quicker thanks to the aid of that turbo button, it will definitely make your life a lot easier.

I'll give credit where credit is due, thanks to this guide i learned how to enable the turbo, please check it out:
https://steamproxy.net/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2279316677
That's cool and all but WHO DO I CHOOSE???
Ah well if you hadn't guessed for now, the best bet is usually Jennifer.
She's the best pick because you are basically removing the best "stats" from the roster by having her yourself. It's very likely that if you do not chose her, you'll encounter her on a 2nd or 3rd round (asuming she isn't the first opponent). Also her ability is great, you get yourself 2-3k damage on your opponent for free, and it activated for me more than 50% of the times, even if it doesn't she's strong anyway.

Now keep in mind that on the little bar on the bottom of the screen there will be some information that also might reflect the performance of the girls. Usually negative comments means they will perform worse.

If Jennifer currently has a bad effect you have 2 choices, either:
  • Reload and it might be different, im not 100% of this because i remember before i was on Premium Adventure i reloaded my savefile like 4 times and lost always against Francisca on the 3rd round. However I was on PA when I actually got the achievement and I did a reload once after the one loss I got during the process and the whole tournament tree was different, so idk what's up with that
  • Pick Momoko, i think she's the 2nd best girl and I used her when Jennifer felt like a weak pick for the current standing. Plus she has a heal ability (that if you also combine with the turbo will recover even more) so she can be a bit more tanky.
Final thoughts
As said before you might need a streak of luck to achieve a full tournament victory, let alone 10, however they dont have to be in a row or anything, though you're free to reaload a save if you lose a match, if you care about the money.

Talking about money, ingame it says the higher your bet it might affect the winning odds, I have no idea if this is actually true but I would personally recommend you go for this when you're swimming on money either through business or after abusing Mr Shakedown for a couple of billions.

The max bet is 99 million so I'd say just bet all of that and then hope for the best using the tips I've described.

Hopefully you could find this guide useful and maybe with some of these tips more people might attempt to get the achiement lol, right now its sitting at 1% completion rate, tied at #4 for the least acquired achievement in the game, I can definitely see why.

If you got any feedback or stuff I might have wrong please comment bellow or let me know and I can fix it!

I'd say that with a lucky streak you can pull this off in about an hour to an hour and a half. I had 0 progress done and got only 1 loss on my process for getting it, and I got motivated to write this to share some of the little tips i developed.

Anyway, good luck and happy hunting!

14 Comments
kirbo  [author] 14 Jul, 2021 @ 11:11am 
thanks for the extra tips!
tynian87116 14 Jul, 2021 @ 10:12am 
Just a heads up if you REALLLY hate how rigged this minigame feels, cheat engine. The starting values of the fighters health is 9999. Each round just new scan for 9999 and then search by decreased or decreased by xxx where the x's are the exact amount of damage inflicted/received. If it's your fighter that took the hit, when you find the value for them change it back to 9999, I'd recommend not freezing that value because it can do funky things to the game like crash it. If it's the opponent that took damage and you have their value found, change it to 1.

Personally, I was thinking about going this route, but decided since I'd 1 billion yen I could throw 10k yen at it until I got the achievement. FYI, you don't get CP for winning 10 tournaments, you just get an achievement. If you DGAF about achievements, the CP's are earned by winning bets, aka, you could just bet high for one fight and back out for the next one.
tynian87116 14 Jul, 2021 @ 4:50am 
Just thought I'd add something I observed with the tie button mashing. I see that it's def one of those things where the AI matches/ups your mashing. I've found a trick I'm still testing but seems to be the trick for still using turbo to save your thumbs. Just map another button as A too and crank up the turbo to max. The idea is that you do what OP says for the first little bit and then if the AI starts to win and the battle shifts towards you increase tapping and hold down the turbo mapped button. There's some timing involved I'm still sorting out, but it's more or less consistent so far as I'm seeing. I think the AI matches your matching for a set period of time before it locks itself in which'd make sense imo, otherwise you'd never beat that sequence.
shit owl 28 May, 2021 @ 10:26am 
but honestly just get the encounter finder and beat up mr shakedown its alot faster and more fun
shit owl 28 May, 2021 @ 10:25am 
only tip you need is "savescum"
Aaron 27 May, 2021 @ 7:53pm 
tbh I found using Fransica a lot easier for some reason, probably just luck. Once I switched to her I was wining tournaments a lot easier and quicker. I think its because you DO NOT want to go against her because of her OP ability.
Marnick 15 May, 2021 @ 3:02am 
I've won like 12 tournaments and the achievement is still not unlocked :/
Csumbi 2 Mar, 2021 @ 12:03pm 
and right at this moment what happened that i beat the last opponent but the game decided that its time for a comeback and one shot my fighter, fuck this game man.
Csumbi 2 Mar, 2021 @ 11:52am 
thanks for the response, but the more i play this mini game the more i hate it, im losing money on it even if i win, granted i quit after the first fight, but still. Whats the point of a button mashing minigame if its fucking impossible to win in it?
kirbo  [author] 26 Feb, 2021 @ 1:02pm 
from what ive read, 0 is the most RNG dependent game, i am currently playing Kiwami and i see that most of the rng stuff is gone or slightly improved (there's some "cheating" items that improve your odds on winning minigames, though ive yet to use them)
0 probably gets so much praise because how full of stuff it is, and it did help the franchise thrive outside of japan