Cactuar (Mario Sports Mix)

Background

Cactuar, along with the other Final Fantasy characters, returned in the game Mario Sports Mix. Here, it is the only character to have a stat amount over the max of 5 . Cactuar is unlocked by winning 60 games or beating it on a secret route of the Star Cup. It has the highest speed stat, but its other stats are at their lowest level. However, Cactuar's high speed comes with a high drawback in that it ends up skidding whenever it has to quickly change direction. When Cactuar makes a special move, it will send spikes all over everybody (sometimes including its own teammate(s)) making them shocked and unable to move

Statistics

Tier: 2-C

Name: Cactuar

Origin: Mario Sports Mix, Originally from Final Fantasy

Sex: Unknown

Age: Unknown

Classification: Cactuar

Attack Potency: Complex Universe level (Scale to other Final Fantasy characters like Ninja)

Dimensionality: 3-D

Travel Speed: Massively FTL

Combat Speed: Massively FTL (Can keep up with Mario and friends in Sports)

Reaction Speed: Massively FTL

Lifting Strength: Unknown

Striking Strength: Complex Universal

Durability: Complex Universe level (Can tank attacks from Mario and friends)

Stamina: Unknown

Range: Standard Melee Range, Extended melee range with equipment, powers and items

Powers and Abilities:

Superhuman Physical Characteristics, Self-Sustenance (Type 1, can breath in sapce), Human Achievements (Talented in multiple sports), Dimensional Storage (Can store items for later use) Weapon Creation (The cast of mario sport mix can create energy based hockey sticks), Paralysis Inducement (Can paralysis people by fireing its neddles everywhere), Paint (Like everyone else can use paint which gives the following: Conceptual Manipulation (Like every other character Cactuar can remove paint from anyone with any attack. The next set of the abilities are what paint makes up, and thus Cactuar can remove them. See notes for extra information on paint), Life Manipulation & Death Manipulation (Paint makes up all of life), Mind Erasure & Memory Erasure (Paint makes up the mind and memory), Soul Destruction (Paint makes up the souls), Empathic Manipulation (Paint can inflict anger, sadness, self-consciousness, and remove motivation. It can also remove said emotions), Poison Manipulation (Paint can inflict poison), Blood Manipulation (Paint makes up blood), Power Nullification (Paint can nullify abilities and forces you to use an ability that's the same color as the paint)), Resistance to Conceptual Manipulation (Can survive attacks from Mario which every one of his attacks are conceptual attacks that take away paint

Explosion Manipulation (Via Bob-bombs and Bombs), Damage Boost (Via Coins), Size Manipulation (Via Mini-Mushroom and Lighting), Homing Attack (Via Red shell and Spiny shell), Statistics Amplification (via Super star and Mushroom), Ice Manipulation (Via Freezy), Statistics Reduction (Via Poison mushroom), Near Invincibility (Via Super star)

Standard Equipment: Depends on the current sport they are participating in, otherwise none.

Optional Equipment: Various items

Intelligence: Gifted (The Cactuar is talented multiple sports)

Weaknesses: Its high speed makes it slide when switching directions

Note 1 : Concerning Paint, even goombas can remove paint from attack without anything special.

Note 2 : In Paper Mario Color Splash, the main point of the game is paint. Paint is a concept. As shown in the game, paint encompasses everything. And I mean everything. Paint is shown to be all of land, liquid, life (Once bringing Toad back via paint, Huey states that paint gives life. Additionally, paint can return the blood, organs, and skin to an old fossil that's been dead years ago), mind (Paint can speak to your mind by coloring your thoughts. Paint was able to take over Bowser's body and freely act on their own. Big Paint Stars are also shown to be alive), memory (Toad couldn't remember anything with the loss of paint on his head. Returning paint gave his memories back), emotions, space (even simple holes require paint to function as holes) and souls. Removing any paint would stop making anything work. It's everything.

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