Stats
Races
Element Type Chart
Character Shots
All | Gap of the Changing Seasons | x8 | Yin | ||
All | Autumn Bullet | x2 | Yin | 1 | |
All | Winter Bullet | x2 | Yin | 2 | |
All | Spring Bullet | x2 | Yang | 2 | |
All | Summer Bullet | x2 | Yang | 2 | |
All | Border of the Changing Seasons | x2 | Yang | 3 |
There is a theory that the custom of stacking stones came about because people wanted to create a boundary between life and death. The weight of the stones would seal the dead who were buried underground.
All | This World's Side of the Boundary | x4 | Yang | ||
All | Body Bullet | x1 | Yang | 1 | |
All | This World Bullet | x1 | Yang | 2 | |
All | Netherworld Bullet | x1 | Yin | 2 | |
All | Soul Bullet | x1 | Yin | 3 | |
All | The Netherworld's Side of the Boundary | x1 | Yin | 3 |
Character Spell Cards
All |
Human and Youkai Astral Bullet
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x18 | Yin | ||
All |
Paranormal Bullet
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x4 | Yin | 1 | |
All |
Youkai Bullet
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x4 | Yin | 2 | |
All |
Human Bullet
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x4 | Yang | 2 | |
All |
Normal Bullet
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x4 | Yang | 3 | |
All |
Human and Youkai Constellation Bullet
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x4 | Yang | 3 |
Solo |
Heat of Life Bullet
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x18 | Yang | ||
Solo |
Warmth of Life Bullet
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x4 | Yang | 1 | |
Solo |
Human World Boundary of Life and Death
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x4 | Yang | 2 | |
Solo |
Oni World Boundary of Life and Death
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x4 | Yin | 2 | |
Solo |
Chill of Death Bullet
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x4 | Yin | 3 | |
Solo |
Frost of Death Bullet
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x4 | Yin | 3 |
All |
Dream Blizzard
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x16 | Yin | ||
All |
Phantasm Blizzard
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x5 | Yin | 1 | |
All |
Foam Blizzard
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x5 | Yin | 2 | |
All |
Shadow Petals
|
x5 | Yang | 2 | |
All |
Life Petals
|
x5 | Yang | 2 | |
All |
Soul Petals
|
x5 | Yang | 3 |
Character Ability
Character Skills
Character Characteristics
Character Change Effect
When switching places with a front-guard unit, heals front-guard unit's Barrier Status.
Upgrade Costs
Rank | Coins | Materials |
---|---|---|
0 -> 1 | 1000 | |
1 -> 2 | 2,000 | |
2 -> 3 | 5,000 | |
3 -> 4 | 10,000 | |
4 -> 5 | 15,000 |
Character Analysis
Yukari Yakumo (Cherry Blossom) was released on May 13th, 2022 in "Festival Prayer: Perfect Boundary of Hibernation and Sleep." For more up-to-date analysis, be sure to visit the Official Discord Server.
Yukari Yakumo is one of the strongest, smartest and oldest youkai to exist in Gensokyo, and lacks no recognition for these facts. This powerful persona is cemented by her ability, “to manipulate gaps and boundaries”. This comes in many forms, such as being able to escape any situation, teleport at will, as well as teleport many other things outside of herself. “Manipulate” falls under the ability to create and pass through boundaries. She is one of the Sages of Gensokyo, and the person who originally proposed the Great Hakurei Barrier as well as aided in its creation. In the Spring Snow Incident, she was asked by Yuyuko Saigyouji to repair the border between the Netherworld and Gensokyo, and was accosted by Reimu, Marisa and Sakuya in the process, allowing them all to meet for the first time.
When it comes down to it, Yukari has 2 major things: tons of element breaks, and tons of damage. She has one of the few Shots in the game with full elements, that being her Spread Shot. Her Focus Shot isn’t too shabby either, with 4 out of 6 lines having elements. And then, of course, all 3 of her Spell Cards have full suites of element lines, making for a truly huge amount of elements, unparalleled by nearly any other Friend. The only caveat to her large elemental density is how varied it is, with her Spread Shot resembling something of Tenshi’s Spell Card 2, with earth/metal/water/wood/fire/earth lines. Her Spell Cards are more focused however, only including 2 or 3 different elements each. This level of variance is usually not a problem in CQ content, as enemies often have an array of elemental weaknesses rather than just one.
Solo Stage Farms: 2-7-1, 3-3-3, 3-11-1, Futue Story Card Stage
As for her viability in CQ content, Yukari shines brightly in basically everything except Elemental EX, due to her elemental variance clashing with the single weakness across each entire stage. Her damage is still quite good regardless, though. But as for everything else, she’s an incredibly versatile Friend who can be slotted into most teams. Her nearly right-down-the-middle split of Yin and Yang bullet lines on every Shot and Spell Card allows for her to benefit equally from Yin and Yang ATK support flexibly. Yukari also has Hard scaling across all of her Spell Cards, allowing her to benefit from Yin and Yang DEF support to further boost her damage. Yukari’s ability to soak up teamwide buffs so well along with applying a good few herself through her Spell Cards and Skills allows her to pair extremely well with someone like Codename: Azusa (B3 Sagume), who applies a large array of teamwide buffs, none of which fall flat on Yukari as they do with many other Friends who majorly focus in on a specific set of buffs like CRIT or Accuracy; not to mention that most Friends are almost entirely focused on either Yin or Yang.
Yukari really does dabble in a little bit of everything, with having every element, making good use of every stat, doing great damage, being a little tanky, and giving a significant amount of self and teamwide buffs. As such, you might say she doesn’t go above and beyond in any particular role, but that’s quite alright in her case; her flexibility makes her a good fill for most teams.
The chances for Yukari’s secondary effects are as follows:
Boundary of Winter and Spring:
Self Yin DEF UP (3T): 100/0/0/0/0/0
Target Yin ATK DOWN (2T): 0/50/0/0/0/0
Self Yin ATK UP (3T): 0/0/100/0/0/0
Boundary of This World and the Netherworld:
Hard: 40/40/50/50/0/0
Self Aggro UP (3T): 0/0/100/0/0/0
Boundary of Humans and Youkai:
Hard: 30/0/0/40/50/0
Self Aggro UP (3T): 100/0/0/0/0/100
Barrier: Boundary of Life and Death:
Hard: 70/0/70/70/0/0
Self Yin DEF UP (3T): 0/0/0/100/0/0
Profound Bullet Barrier - Phantasm, Foam, Shadow, and Life:
Hard: 100/150/125/0/0/0
Self Yin DEF UP (3T): 0/0/100/0/0/0
Story Card Recommendations
Spell Card
Yukari, like most Friends, appreciates Witch of Scarlet Dreams on her Spell Cards, especially since her self-Spirit Power generation is squarely average with only 1 UP on her 3rd Skill. Otherwise, she can really take advantage of all kinds of stat filler; nothing goes to complete waste on her.
Last Word
Since Yukari's Last Word is majority Yin, Anniversary at the SDM is the usual blowout card choice just because it's so strong. But if you don't have that max limit broken, Yukari’s Last Word has a large focus on Heavy Bullets, which is great since there is the excellent, easy-to-access farmable card Secret God of the Sky.
Character Skill Level Up Recommendations
First, it’s best to level up Self and Others as 1 Spirit Power UP is just a great universal effect, but it also comes with teamwide Yin ATK UP and Burn infliction. Second is honestly a toss up; Offense and Defense provides 3 effects instead of 2, but Reality and Fiction has teamwide 2 Accuracy UP which is a pretty strong effect, and its cooldown is slightly lower than Offense and Defense.
Character Strengths
+ Great overall damage
+ Very flexible due to ease of supporting
+ Has good teamwide Yin and Accuracy support
+ Incredible element density on Spell Cards and Shots alike
Character Weaknesses
- Elemental variety limits usefulness in Elemental EX
Yukari, like most Friends, appreciates Witch of Scarlet Dreams on her Spell Cards, especially since her self-Spirit Power generation is squarely average with only 1 UP on her 3rd Skill. Otherwise, she can really take advantage of all kinds of stat filler; nothing goes to complete waste on her.
Since Yukari's Last Word is majority Yin, Anniversary at the SDM is the usual blowout card choice just because it's so strong. But if you don't have that max limit broken, Yukari’s Last Word has a large focus on Heavy Bullets, which is great since there is the excellent, easy-to-access farmable card Secret God of the Sky.
First, it’s best to level up Self and Others as 1 Spirit Power UP is just a great universal effect, but it also comes with teamwide Yin ATK UP and Burn infliction. Second is honestly a toss up; Offense and Defense provides 3 effects instead of 2, but Reality and Fiction has teamwide 2 Accuracy UP which is a pretty strong effect, and its cooldown is slightly lower than Offense and Defense.
+ Great overall damage
+ Very flexible due to ease of supporting
+ Has good teamwide Yin and Accuracy support
+ Incredible element density on Spell Cards and Shots alike
- Elemental variety limits usefulness in Elemental EX