Cat Battles Abilities, Costs and Cooldowns

Cat Battles has no health bars. You win by being the last cat in the ring, so every push and grab counts. Your ability is the one special move you bring into a match, and the right one can save you at the edge.

This page lists all 11 abilities, what each costs, how long it lasts and how long you wait to use it again. It also shows how often each one can fire in a minute. Checked on October 23, 2026.

Quick answer. Dash is free and can fire more than twice as often as anything else. The best Coin buys are Nine Lives at 2,000 Coins, for a second life each match, and Hairball at 12,000. Shark Attack and Wind Shurikens only come in Robux bundles.

All 11 abilities

Buy abilities in the Abilities tab of your Inventory, then put one in your slot. Press Q to use it. The new one replaces whatever you had, Dash included.

Ability	Rarity	Cost	Active for	Cooldown	What it does
Dash	Common	Free	0.3 seconds	6 seconds	A quick dodge. Hits and grabs miss you while it is active.
Hiss	Common	750 Coins	0.1 seconds	14 seconds	Use it when you are grabbed and the cat holding you lets go.
Pounce	Common	750 Coins	1 seconds	14 seconds	Leaps you at the nearest cat.
Anchor	Rare	2,000 Coins	3 seconds	15 seconds	Dig in your claws so you are harder to push.
Nine Lives	Rare	2,000 Coins	1.5 seconds	25 seconds	Lets you come back once per match after being knocked out.
Stomp	Rare	2,000 Coins	0.6 seconds	16 seconds	Shakes the floor around you.
Catnip	Epic	5,000 Coins	3 seconds	16 seconds	Refills your stamina so you can keep zooming around.
Fluff Up	Epic	5,000 Coins	4 seconds	16 seconds	Puffs you up so your hits knock cats farther.
Hairball	Legendary	12,000 Coins	0.1 seconds	20 seconds	Leaves a hairball that makes cats slip when they step on it.
Shark Attack	Mythic	Robux bundle only	1.1 seconds	20 seconds	Calls a shark that rams everything in its path.
Wind Shurikens	Mythic	Robux bundle only	1.1 seconds	25 seconds	Throws two fans of wind shurikens.

The game page still lists 8 abilities. Nine Lives, Shark Attack and Wind Shurikens came later, which makes 11. Buying every ability sold for Coins costs 29,500 Coins.

How often you can use each one

The cooldown starts after the active time ends. So one full use takes the active time plus the cooldown. Here is how many times you can use each ability in one minute.

Ability	One full use	Uses per minute
Dash	6.3 seconds	9.5
Hiss	14.1 seconds	4.3
Pounce	15.0 seconds	4.0
Stomp	16.6 seconds	3.6
Anchor	18.0 seconds	3.3
Catnip	19.0 seconds	3.2
Fluff Up	20.0 seconds	3.0
Hairball	20.1 seconds	3.0
Shark Attack	21.1 seconds	2.8
Wind Shurikens	26.1 seconds	2.3
Nine Lives	26.5 seconds	2.3

The free Dash can go about 9.5 times a minute. The next best is Hiss at 4.3, so Dash fires more than twice as often as anything you can buy. That is why lots of players never swap it out.

Nine Lives can only bring you back once per match, no matter how often its cooldown resets. So for Nine Lives the cooldown hardly matters.

The buffs that last the longest

Three abilities stay on for a few seconds and help the whole time. Here is how much of the fight each one is switched on, if you use it every time it is ready.

Ability	Cost	Active for	Share of the time it is on
Fluff Up	5,000 Coins	4 seconds	20%
Anchor	2,000 Coins	3 seconds	17%
Catnip	5,000 Coins	3 seconds	16%

Fluff Up is on 20% of the time, the most of any ability. Anchor lasts 3 seconds, just like Catnip, but costs 2,000 Coins instead of 5,000. That is 40% of the price for the same active time.

Which ability should you buy?

Just starting: keep Dash. It is free and the fastest to come back.
Keep getting grabbed: Hiss, for 750 Coins. It makes the cat holding you let go.
Keep getting pushed out: Anchor, for 2,000. It makes you harder to move.
Want a second chance: Nine Lives, for 2,000. You come back once each match.
Saving up: Hairball, for 12,000. It makes cats slip, which sets up easy throws. It costs 6 times as much as Nine Lives.

Coin gamepasses

Double Coins costs 349 Robux and doubles the coins you earn. VIP costs 199 Robux and adds a quarter more. Double Coins gives 4 times the boost for less than twice the price, and the two passes stack.