Andean Mountain Cat

Leopardus jacobitaGreen

The Andean Mountain Cat is a small, thick-furred cat of high, wind-scoured Andean slopes, with ash-gray fur marked by fine spots and a long tail for balance on scree. It is among the least often seen felines, adapted to puna, dry shrub, and the thin air above the treeline, when researchers find it at all.

RareAndean Mountain Cat

HP 2650ATK 2500DEF 2500Level 0/10

In battle

HP: 2,650
ATK: 2,500
DEF: 2,500
Energy cost: 2

Passive Skills

During the first 5 rounds, damage reduction +25%
After 4 hits received in the combat, DEF +80%
Give DEF +15% to allies in the rotation from the Mountain biome
For each energy point attached to the animal, ATK and DEF +10%

Attack Effects

Inflicts bleeding (8% of attack value) • Stuns enemy (the remainder of the combat)
Self: ATK +25% (9 rounds)

Overview

The animal behind the card

It preys on viscachas, small rodents, and ground birds, using stealth, patience, and short rushes over broken ground at dawn and dusk. Camera traps, scat, and a handful of field encounters confirm a tight elevational band, but much of its social life, home-range size, and true population remain only partly known.

Hunting, habitat loss, and expanding dogs and herded animals all squeeze a rare population that is now endangered. The Andean Mountain Cat is a high-altitude ghost, beautiful and hard to know, and a call to keep cold grassland, scree, and rock corridors intact for a cat almost never met face to face.