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Cat Scratch Fever achievement in Yakuza 0

Cat Scratch Fever

Win ten bets on three-round tournaments at JCC.

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How to unlock the Cat Scratch Fever achievement

  • Lord Von ChimpLord Von Chimp
    21 Mar 2020 21 Mar 2020 21 Mar 2020
    This is a stressful achievement, be prepared to grind out and rage at some of the weird mechanics behind this game, it litereally can feel like playing rock paper scissors with someone who can read your mind...

    There's some prep work that seemed to help greatly while chasing this acheivement, which is part of the grind towards 100% and another achievement anyways, so I would strongly advise working the following out first.

    As Goro Majima, go to the Dragon and Tiger Sotenbori, you want to start doing Equipment Searches, to the Japanese Blacksmith Village, sending the Japanese Mercenary, giving him an additional 70,000,000Yen makes the timer 8 seconds, which is just enough time to get out of all the menus, then you can instantly turn it in to claim the rewards.

    What you're grinding out specifically will be the following.
    10 x Ruby
    5 x Diamond
    and a recipie for "Beads of Good Fortune"

    Once you have all that, craft it, this will make it avaiable for Kiryu to purchase from the equivalent shop in Kamurocho.

    Now, before starting the Cat Fighting, you want to equip Kiryu with some items that increase his finacial luck, I used the Beads of Good Fortune, the Secret Wallet and the Insulated Shirt.

    With all that equipped, it really did seem to increase my fortune at this annoying minigame. Although you won't be successful 100%, it still seemed to be much better odds to me. So onto catfighting.

    This will be similar to the other guide to this achievement, where as Jennifer is the go-to gal for betting on, and although I'm not sure it had any effect, betting the maximum every time just to be safe. Also read the ticker, more often than not it will read a negative statement for Jennifer, if that's the case, back out and go again. You want something positive, humming her own theme, students grades increasing, or had a choice steak were the stand out ones for me. Once you see one of those, then proceed to make you bet ad get cracking.

    The game itself is psuedo, rock-paper-scissors, except that it's more the AI needs to decide it's going to let you win, there is no rhyme or pattern here, it does what it does, so I found hedging bets to be the better course. I would pick whatever would lose to the opponents weakest hit, and beat their strongest, and this worked fairly well. So the following move set was what worked for me.

    Oppenent - Move
    Rei (Ninja) - Rock
    Sayuri (Nurse) - Paper
    Franchesca (Vixen) - Scissors
    Maria (Cop) - Scissors
    Yurie (Student) - Scissors
    Momoko (Hostess) - Scissors
    Yuiko (Diva) - Rock

    And just hope, there will be occasional rounds where the AI decides it's going to win and no matter what you pick, it will ALWAYS trump you, so be prepared for it to be a little unfair, also keep an eye on what colour the faceoff screen goes, if you see Rainbow colours, be prepared to spam the B button, this can sometimes win a round in a single move. If you don't see rainbow colours, feel free to skip the move to save some time.

    If you draw, and you will alot, there is a button bash faceoff, althouth this feels like it's really stacked in the AI's favour, i found letting the AI make 1 spot of ground before I started bashing the button helped some, but there will be plenty of times where no matter how fast you hit B, the AI WILL win no matter what. Just keep going and with a little luck, the odd loss won't matter too much.

    Finally, don't throw your controller at the screen when you think you've won, only for an opponent with the 'Comeback' perk to get up as Jennifer is celebrating on full health, only to have her arm broken and instantly lose, it's rare, but oh-so frustrating.

    Be patient, and do a few at a time, don't solely pour your efforts into grind these 10 wins back to back. it will feel easier to space out over a few days, there's alot of other stuff to grind out to fill the gaps.

    Good luck everyone, I hope this helps some :)

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    ChiflaGoodluckThat is just one match, not a tournament, so no.

    Edit: FYI to the trick above, it kinda works, but eventually it becomes a croc of shit and the opponent reads your hand till you’re dead anyway. How mahjong is so hated (which, for the record, is honestly a blast once you finally understand how to play it) yet this is seemingly not is fucking absurd. There is a trick in regards to the Comeback and Endurance perks however that does actually work, consistently too. Pay close attention to the cutscenes after the opponent is defeated. If you are unable to skip the second cutscene, spam cn_A ASAP. If you did it properly their perk won’t actually trigger and you’ll get the win; it can fail but I’ve only ever had it happen once.

    And also, the waiting on the draws is basically bullshit: it only ever works once in a blue moon, even if I press nothing in that initial window.

    And also also, be prepared for a LOT of Finals losses, that’s where at least 80% of my losses came from.
    Posted by ChiflaGoodluck on 23 Oct 23 at 06:20
    The S bot 9000Wasn't nearly as bad as the ratio and comments imply imo. I skipped all the optimization and just brute forced 10k bets with Jennifer; anecdotally didn't notice a strong difference except for the fact that I saved money and time by not waiting for "good rng" which didn't guarantee a dub. Took me roughly 2 hours to get the 10 wins from scratch
    Posted by The S bot 9000 on 19 Dec 23 at 20:02
    Daelus1With all the ridiculous Achievements in this game, this one isn't in the toughest 10. Yes the rock paper scissors is rng, but the screen shows you what your opponents strengths are so it's less luck than is described here. I had no luck gear at all; simply pick Jennifer, who is easily the dominant fighter, and she wins at least 1 out of 3 tourneys; each winning tourney takes between 5-10 minutes; and if you lose it might only take 1 minute and you start again.
    Posted by Daelus1 on 24 Mar at 19:50
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  • ArchDragonroseArchDragonrose
    04 Mar 2020 04 Mar 2020 04 Mar 2020
    The person you bet on has to win all 3 catfight matches in a row and win the tournament. You have to do this 10 times. It is recommended that you back out and save after each tournament win.

    Honestly, this is a heavily RNG dependent trophy to get and you will need to be patient to grind out the wins.
    This is the general strategy I adopted to get the achievement.

    1 - Bet on Jennifer only when her Info at the bottom of the screen reads as something positive. If not, back out of the JCC club and try again.

    2 - I always bet the maximum amount on her. I have no idea if it has any effect, but some people swear by it, so I did it anyway.

    3 - I always put the move to counter the enemy's strongest move instead of trying to go for a draw/win on a round by betting on the 2 most likely attacks. I found that if you're going into a tug-of-war button mashing, you're 80% of the time going to lose regardless.

    4 - Do not skip rainbow attacks, there is a phase within the attack animation where you can spam B to deal more damage. Sometimes it is the difference between winning the match right there and then, and having to go through one more win.

    That's all. It can feel like utter bullshit sometimes but that's how it is. I got this trophy while doing something else on my com so I didn't feel like I was completely wasting my time.

    Good Luck!
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    STOUTASSASSIN67What I did was bet the max amount on maria when she had a good comment on her and ONLY used rock for the entire tournament and won at a decent rate if you look at the numbers under the characters those are the chances of them winning those rounds and Maria consistently has the highest chances to win each round. here's a link to video that is the strategy I used exactly to win all 10
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PMRuPxZwt3s&t=327s
    Posted by STOUTASSASSIN67 on 23 May 20 at 23:20
    BillarghSimilar to what headXcrash said above, I read a trick on the Steam forums which seemed to help me immensely. Apparently when you both select the same option and have to battle it out, the computer matches your button mashing speed to begin with which is why you often lose. If you start tapping A slowly then after 2 seconds or so, start mashing at full speed you will likely win. After changing to that tactic I won around 90% of the battles.
    Posted by Billargh on 08 Jun 20 at 21:59
    FuzzyWuzzy28Great guide. I was always so frustrated that no matter how hard i mashed A, i still lost. Fuck this minigame for giving you hope. Your guide helped alot!
    Posted by FuzzyWuzzy28 on 10 Aug 21 at 15:49
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