For it's weapon, use the F Silverwind Star. This is the optimal boomerang bomb cat designed for raw damage and abusing the bombing forte's increased gauge for all actions (bombs give no gauge, sadly, so the bonus is wasted.) while in combat with a large monster. If you really want an illegal bomb cat that works, use the one I attached here. You can't just slap any skills/support actions on the cat and expect it to work. Skills and support action have specific patterns they must follow on the Learned lists. The adept evade implies this may well be an intended strategy for Bomb cats.Ĭlick to expand.Same as all the others that have this issue, the game detected your palico as illegal. Bombing gets an adept evade, though, letting you keep up your DPS without worrying about getting hit as much.Īs a side note: Bombing also gets ridiculous gauge gain from successful hits with bombs in GenU/XX (it gave zero gauge on hit in Gen/X), so if you master the melee combo -> mini barrel bombay cancel (support actions can cancel the endlag of the combo finishers and mini barrel bombay is fast and lets you move again faster than even barrel bombay) you can potentially build gauge stupid fast and repeatedly nuke monsters with Giga Barrel bombays every 15-30ish seconds for insane flat damage, taking down G rank monsters faster than boomerang builds can. Assist, Gathering, and Healing are technically better for elemental and status effects due to the motion values on the third boomerangs. GenU reworked a fair bit of the gauge gain mechanics so only a few points actively stand out as better in specific cases on certain biases. The only remaining way to 'cheat' cats that works across all games is to apply the DLC flag to a cat (add 80 to byte 0圎0 after the first letter in the cat's name - which also indicates whether the cat is selected as prowler) and switch the first 'B' tier skill with a DLC skill.īombing was technically better than Assist for gauge gain in combat mainly due to EVERY action getting increased gauge when fighting a large monster (Assist only benefited from rangs) - at least in Gen.

Everything else I optimized on my cats was was possible legitimately by getting the right skill/action patterns. My loopholed bomb cat in Gen only added Piercing rangs in addition to being taught Emergency Escape - which is legitimately possible in GenU via the second learn slot. 'Ideal' cheated Gen builds ultimately looked a lot like GenU/XX builds (without the increased memory slots or the new skills/actions) - since typically you could only fit and use 1 extra good skill/action, which became officially possible in GenU/XX via the second learn slot. Forte-specific actions cheated onto cats would never be used by the AI anyway, making 99% of potential applications of the loophole pointless. There was a way in Gen/X, but it doesn't work in GenU/XX.

Mh gen good bomber cat