Jinxed

Jinxed is a Basic Injury that permanently reduces a cat's Luck (LCK) by 1. It leaves a scar on the cat's head and subtly impacts every random roll the cat makes, from crit chance to loot drops to random proc chances.

Like all Basic Injuries, Jinxed is applied randomly when a cat is downed in combat or through House events such as Cat Fights. It is permanent and does not heal over time. While a single point of LCK loss may seem minor, Luck affects many hidden systems in Mewgenics, and stacking multiple Jinxed injuries can noticeably shift probability against the cat across many small interactions.

Cats with builds that lean heavily on random procs, crit-based damage, or the Primordial Dwarfism disorder (which trades all stats for massive LCK) feel Jinxed most acutely. For cats that rely on deterministic mechanics with no randomness, Jinxed is among the least impactful Basic Injuries. The more severe version is Cursed, which reduces LCK by 2 and is applied through specific status effect interactions rather than the standard injury pool.