Cat Battles ships 11 abilities, and the full Cat Battles abilities list — every rarity, coin price and cooldown — sits in one tab of your lobby inventory. You can hold one equipped at a time and fire it with Q in any mode.
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The Cat Battles Abilities List by Rarity
| Ability | Rarity | Price | Cooldown | What it does |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Dash | Common | Free, owned from the start | 6s | 0.3s dash that makes incoming hits miss. |
Pounce | Common | 750 coins | 14s | Leaps at the nearest cat. |
Hiss | Common | 750 coins | 14s | Forces a cat holding you to let go. |
Anchor | Rare | 2,000 coins | 15s | Dig in so you are far harder to grab, lift or knock back. |
Stomp | Rare | 2,000 coins | 16s | Shakes the ground for 0.6s in a small radius, disrupting anyone mid-move nearby. |
Nine Lives | Rare | 2,000 coins | 25s | Springs you back into the bout after an elimination. |
Catnip | Epic | 5,000 coins | 16s | Three seconds of extra stamina and speed. |
Fluff Up | Epic | 5,000 coins | 16s | Four seconds of hits that knock cats much farther. |
Hairball | Legendary | 12,000 coins | 20s | Drops a hairball that makes the floor around it a slip zone. |
Shark Attack | Mythic | Robux bundle only | — | Sends a shark down the ring that rams every cat in its path. |
Wind Shurikens | Mythic | Robux bundle only | — | Throws two fans of wind shurikens for wide coverage. |
The last three — Nine Lives, Shark Attack and Wind Shurikens — arrived with the Alien Invasion update. Shark Attack and Wind Shurikens cannot be bought with coins at all: they only come from Robux bundles, which also carry trails, emotes, furs and finishers.
How to Buy and Equip an Ability
Open the inventory
Open the lobby Inventory from the bag icon.
Open the tab
Switch to the Abilities tab.
Pick one
Pick the ability you want.
Pay
Pay the listed coin price.
Equip it
Equip it from the same tab.
Coin prices are identical in every mode and on every arena, so there is no cheaper route to an ability through a specific map. Press Q in a bout to fire whatever you have equipped.
What a New Account Already Has
Dash is Common, free, and already owned and equipped when you start, so the ability slot costs nothing to learn. It is a 0.3s repositioning burst on a 6s cooldown — the default escape tool, and the ability you will use most until you replace it.
Which Coin Ability to Buy First
Dash costs nothing, so the real decision is which coin ability to save for. The Cat Battles best ability ranking breaks all 11 into tiers and names the cheapest top-tier pick, which is a different question from what each ability does.