Shokat

The Shokat is an organic enemy in CrossWorlds. They can be found in Gaia's Garden and Grand Krys'kajo.

Appearance
Shokats are feline creatures of roughly the size of real world cats. They have pink fur and a white tail. Close examination will show, that the tail is actually an arc of electric energy and their entire fur is surrounded by an electrostatic aura.

Wild specimen are known to close up to passersby, even when they are completely stranger to them. They like to purr and pretend to be harmless, but getting close is highly discouraged, as their fur is of a strong electric charge and harmful on direct contact. Even the sound of their purr is accompanied by a static crackle.

Combat
Shokats fight with quick dashes and electric discharges. As they are harmful even by mere contact they tend to leap directly on top of combatants, delivering a hard hitting blow and then stay in close quarters to maximize damage through their passively damaging fur.

As the fight progresses they can also use electromagnetic attraction to pull their opponents into themselves. While channeling, the effectiveness of their electric aura is vastly increased. Careless opponents who get trapped by the attraction can be destroyed in seconds.

Strategies
Shokats are extremely fast in combat. This and the fact that body contact is harmful makes melee combat almost impossible. It is best to keep your distance.

While in combat Shokats can execute a channeled skill that attracts combatants towards it involuntarily. The force of attraction can be outrun or out-dashed. When outside the attraction radius the Shokat can be fired at with throw arts at relatively low risk.

Another strategy requires a high defense and pin body. Once a Shokat starts pulling, the player must summon their shield and guard its static aura, dealing massive damage to Shokat while taking little to none himself. However one must be wary that the shield doesn't break while doing this. One can also utilize the neutral guard art Guard Sphere as a substitute for the normal shield so it won't break. The level 2 cold guard art Icy Bastion can also be used as a substitute for the normal shield.

If conditions are such that the player cannot keep their distance, perfect guarding against Shokat charges renders them vulnerable without taking any damage, and this vulnerability is briefly contagious to other Shokats within a short range.

Location(s)
Gaia's Garden

Trivia

 * "Shokat" is a portmanteau between the words shock and cat. Possibly also a reference to Schrödinger's Cat.