What Does Sonya's K.A.T. Do?

[Shiori]

I summon my little robot buddy only to have him sit there and watch me fight. If that's all he's gonna do I might replace my KAT with a CAT.

Is it supposed to keep me from being lonely? Can it do my taxes? WTF is the purpose of its existence?

And it takes up 2 slots! Though to be honest she doesn't really have the best things to chose from. Not like Skarlet where you can add things like healing and teleportation.

[Creed Bratton]

You can check movelist to see what it does

[Shiori]

Originally posted by Creed Bratton:

You can check movelist to see what it does

"Summon's the K.A.T. to assist in battle"

*summons K.A.T.*
...
*does not assist in battle*

?

Edit: Oh I see, it has a moveset of its own. Honestly I'd rather just do my own moves. They are more effective. I kinda thought it had its own AI

[Creed Bratton]

I have a turret with an augment that makes the summon last for 2 seconds more and another that has a 9% defense buff and 4% overall damage buff, so i summon it to get those bonus

The turret it self is more to do set ups on knockdown but sonya is already very good without it

[Shiori]

Without those buffs though you are only giving up things like air blast and charged blast. Nothing is being offered. When I fought Sonya a few times I saw that thing attack while I was landing attacks and it kept interrupting my moves and throws, so I was expecting it to do the same for me. I guess only the COM is allowed to pull that crap.

[FightzoneITA]

Long story short the KAT by itself has 2 commands: Self Destruct and Overhead. The useful one is the Self destruct since it has BS range so in kasual you could teoretically create some unblockable set-ups with the KAT self destruct. On the other hand the "Overhead" it gives you also forces sonya to sit still while he does his job so essentially it doesn't do much.
I never tested the turret itself but i'm gonna immagine it has a pretty slow start up to boot making it useless.
It ain't a problem for sonya though since to make her own damage she has all her main stuff by default with no variation needed to build said damage. Quite ironically competitively speaking the only essential move in the main variation people choose is the Charged Ring for the charge cancel and the Krushing blow. I barely see anyone use the Air Shot since her max damage is done on the ground and not in the air and the drop droid is more like a novelty to force someone to eat a mid projectile and that's it.

[Shiori]

Originally posted by FightzoneITA:

Quite ironically competitively speaking the only essential move in the main variation people choose is the Charged Ring for the charge cancel and the Krushing blow. I barely see anyone use the Air Shot since her max damage is done on the ground and not in the air and the drop droid is more like a novelty to force someone to eat a mid projectile and that's it.

More ironically is that the current Scorpion boss was falling for most of my air blasts and that air-kick. This was literally the whole point of me asking. It would have been mighty convenient to have a robot attacking for me when I am getting hit, like it did for the AI Sonya when I fought her, but since only the AI com does this, I will remove all traces of this pointless robot and keep an air arsenal on the ready.