Kitten

The Kitten is a feral cat enemy found in The Alley, The Junkyard, The Sewers, and The Lab. With 5 Hit Points and a 3-damage melee attack, it is a modest early-game threat — but its defining behavior creates an unusual tactical problem. Whenever a Kitten takes damage, it immediately turns and flees away from the attacker rather than pressing the fight.

This hit-and-run mechanic means wounding a Kitten without killing it sends it scrambling across the map, potentially repositioning it deeper into hazardous areas or simply dragging out the encounter. The standard advice is direct: try to kill it in one hit. Abilities that guarantee a kill — whether through burst damage, Reap-type instant kills, or high single-hit output — are significantly more effective than chipping it down over multiple turns.

Champions have 10 HP and deal 4 damage. The Kitten is the base form of a wide family of variants encountered across the game's chapters — Water Kitten, Infested Kitten, Atomic Kitten, Spider Kitten, Mammoth Kitten, Sabertooth Kitten, Raptor Kitten, and Angelic Kitten all share roots in this base enemy and carry variations of the same evasive behavior.