Fuuma Kotarou

Assassin

Table of Contents

• Status
• Analysis
• Profile

Servant Skills

Class Skills

Noble Phantasm

Assorted Info

ID	117
Cost	7
Gender	Male
Growth	Reverse S
Inst. Death Chance	38.50%
Damage Distribution Quick	10,20,30,40
Damage Distribution Arts	10,20,30,40
Damage Distribution Buster	100
Damage Distribution Extra	9,18,27,46
Damage Distribution NP	6,13,20,26,35

Attack / HP Growth

Stat Ratings

Interlude Quests

Ascension Materials

Stage	Cost	Materials
2	30,000	x4 Assassin Piece
3	100,000	x8 Assassin Piece x15 Evil Bone
4	300,000	x4 Assassin Monument x13 Void's Dust x4 Octuplet Crystals
Max	900,000	x8 Assassin Monument x7 Octuplet Crystals x5 Black Beast Grease

Skill Enhancement Materials

Level	Cost	Materials
1 → 2	50,000	x4 Gem of Assassin
2 → 3	100,000	x8 Gem of Assassin
3 → 4	300,000	x4 Magic Gem of Assassin
4 → 5	400,000	x8 Magic Gem of Assassin x7 Void's Dust
5 → 6	1,000,000	x4 Secret Gem of Assassin x13 Void's Dust
6 → 7	1,250,000	x8 Secret Gem of Assassin x10 Evil Bone
7 → 8	2,500,000	x20 Evil Bone x5 Seed of Yggdrasil
8 → 9	3,000,000	x15 Seed of Yggdrasil x10 Claw of Chaos
9 → 10	5,000,000	x1 Crystallized Lore

Total Materials Required

Ascension
Skill
Total

Costume Dress Materials

Costume	Cost	Materials
April Fool's	0
Summer Attire	3,000,000	x1 Spiritron Dress "Shinobi Summer Attire" x10 Deadly Poisonous Needle x5 Shell of Reminiscence x5 Tearstone of Blood x5 Spirit Root

Bond CE

Table of Contents

• Status
• Analysis
• Profile

Overview

Once a leader of a group of a rogue ninja clan made up of pirates, thieves, burglars, and brigands, Fuuma has turned from his fiendish ways to help Masters in need. While not a strong damage dealer on his own, his kit comes loaded with an array of tools to harry enemies and ensure the best result for his teammates.

Kotarou’s main strength comes from his critical star generation capacity. The combination of high hit counts on his Quick, Extra, and Noble Phantasm cards, a naturally high star generation rate, and a Presence Concealment A+ passive can provide dozens of stars, especially if Fuuma casts Ninjutsu upon himself for an additional boost in Star Generation. In addition, he’s capable of mitigating enemy damage via a 10% reduction to an enemy’s attack and reducing their Critical hit chance with Sabotage , as well as decreasing their debuff resistance up to 100% with Suspicious Shadow. Most importantly, his Ninjutsu skill provides an on-demand targetable evasion to one ally, protecting them during a key turn.

When attacking on his own, however, Kotarou struggles to hurt enemies. His kit packs no steroids before his Interlude and no damage passives either, which when combined with his 0.9x Assassin modifier, results in one of the weakest hitting AoE Noble Phantasms in the game. In addition, his QQQAB deck will hinder any significant damage from basic Commands Cards and together with his NP makes Fuuma a poor choice against powerful Rider bosses. He also tends to lack durability in practice as his only survival skill is more often than not used on other Servants.

As a Servant, Fuuma fills his role best by generating Critical Stars and providing an on demand evasion for a party member. But damage-wise, his capability remains limited to clearing low health waves with his rather rare AoE NP.

Strengths

Weaknesses

Level Up Skill Recommendation

For most Masters, skill-wise, Fuuma acts mainly to provide an on-demand evasion and debuff the enemies while he’s at it. None of his skills scale particularly well, but both Sabotage and Ninjutsu benefit from additional cooldown reduction if Master use Fuuma frequently, and ought to be leveled to at least skill level 6. Suspicious Shadow will function well enough even at skill level 4, and can be left for last.

• Sabotage B+ is Fuuma’s primary Utility skill. This skill benefits a lot more from a cooldown reduction to 5 turns instead of its scaling, as its critical chance down only increases up to 20% at max while its attack down remains static. Masters should level this skill second.
• Ninjutsu A+++ is Fuuma’s primary skill, granting any single ally both evasion and a critical star buff. Typically used during an enemy Noble Phantasm turn, this skill can keep a pivotal ally alive on a 6-turn cooldown. Masters should level this skill first to reduce its cooldown if they like to use Fuuma, but it will work perfectly fine even at base.
• Suspicious Shadow C is Fuuma’s least important skill, lowering enemy debuff resistance by up to 100% for 1 turn. While useful in some applications such as hitting the enemy with low hit chance AoE Charms or Stuns, enemies with high debuff resistance are rather rare. Master can leave this skill for last as it will even allow some of the most inaccurate debuffs to land reliably at skill level 4.

Craft Essence Recommendation

Considering Fuuma’s low damage potential, he will want to use CEs that best support his team. The main way he ought to boost his Star Generation is through Quick Up CEs as they stack multiplicatively and boost his weak damage output. Yet the best way to provide a constant stream of Critical Stars is via Passive Critical Star per Turn. Alternatively, if Fuuma is used in combination with Order Change in order to shield a critical ally with an evasion, he will often end up immediately dying by the enemy Noble Phantasm. By providing allies with beneficial effects with Entry Effect CEs or Death Effect CEs he can ensure his sacrifice does not go in vain.

• Imaginary Around / Gandr:  Fuuma’s Quick cards will generate the most Critical Stars, so boosting this card type will increase his generation even further all the while improving his Quick damage and Quick NP Generation to boot.

• A Fragment of 2030 / His Rightful Place: If Fuuma acts as the Critical Star generator for the team, guaranteed passive stars each turn will end up boosting his star generation more than any Quick or Star Generation buff will. Masters can also continue to dish out criticals even when he is not attacking. 

• Golden Catches the Carp/Ox-Demon King: Fuuma is often swapped in during an enemy’s Noble Phantasm turn to provide his evasion to a critical ally, and providing a mass of critical stars or a Buster buff on entry will be sure to help his team.

• The Merciless One/Battle of Camlann/500-Year Obsession: As Fuuma often dies during a swap in turn, he can benefit his team upon his death by providing them with an NP gauge increase or sealing the Enemy’s NP.

Gameplay Tips

Fuuma’s targetable evasion makes him a prime candidate for use with the order Change skill from the Chaldea Combat Uniform. By slotting him on the backline, Masters can Order Change him just before the enemy’s Noble Phantasm with an important Servant, and then use his targettable evasion on a second key Servant.

By doing this, two servants of the three will survive the onslaught of damage. With the correct CEs with on-death effects, such as The Merciless One, Masters can also take advantage of both his entrance and/or his death to generate more benefits for the team.

Table of Contents

• Status
• Analysis
• Profile

Other Info

Release Date	6/14/2018
AKA/Alias/Nicknames
Country/Place of Origin
Illustrator	Sasaki Shonen
Seiyuu (CV)	Hanae Natsuki
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