Yuugi Hoshiguma

Yuugi Hoshiguma was released on November 26th, 2021 in "Festival Prayer: Bosses of Strength & Subtlety." She was initially a Festival on release and later added to the general pool. For more up-to-date analysis, be sure to visit the  Official Discord Server.

The Spoken-of Unexplainable Phenomena, Yuugi Hoshiguma is everything you would expect of when you think ‘oni.’ She loves to fight, loves to drink, loves to party, and loves the brave and the strong. Whilst she spends most of her days in the underground with her fellow oni, from time to time she’ll venture up to the surface looking for a good fight. 

For farming, Yuugi is decent, thanks to her Solo targeting Last Word Miss Unchained’s 2-1-2 layout and a solid Youkai & Human Killer, combined with a solid amount of Yin and Yang ATK UP. However, it has some major failings - Yuugi’s kit entirely lacks native Accuracy, and the mixed elements upon it leave Yuugi facing resistances more often than usual. To an extent, her character ability can mitigate this, but her somewhat middle-of-the-road damage can only go so far. Auto Replay at least helps out somewhat in this regard, giving her access to her tremendously powerful fifth and sixth bullets in farming situation, though she will have accuracy woes at that point unless you’re willing to spend three turns. 

In harder fights, Yuugi’s role is rather much the same - she punches one person with Miss Unchained really hard, especially if they’re a Youkai or Human. She has a major benefit compared to other CRIT attackers in that she brings 2 Levels of CRIT ATK & Accuracy UP for 2 turns to her whole party with her skills - generally though this is better on Killer attackers, who tend to lack CRIT ATK and thus massively benefit from it. In this regard, you can almost consider her a better Hieda no Akyuu.  Otherwise, her Breaks are solid, but nothing too special - One-Horned Lightning gives 0P access to All targeting Star on a Basic Shot, Oni Sign: Anomalies, Strength, Disorder, and Spirits grants 2 All targeting Star and Earth Breaks at 3 Spirit Power, Big Four Arcanum: Knock Out In Three Steps provides 2 Solo targeting Metal and Earth Breaks for 2 Spirit Power, and Miss Unchained if you choose to use it for breaks give 3 Solo targeting Metal and Star Breaks for 3 Spirit Power. As mixed Solo targeting attacks can rarely hit more than one weakness, this effectively means two of her spell cards will only have one element most of the time for the sake of Breaking and thus half the listed total number of breaks, albeit with flexibility in who they can target. 

Yuugi also has some notable downsides. Her access to self buffs are somewhat lacking, but that’s not a huge issue when her damage output in two turns is sufficient to take down most targets (if somewhat annoyingly prone to whiffing due to her inability to ensure perfect accuracy on Miss Unchained without being given three turns or external accuracy support). She also somewhat lags behind the competition, as it’s very difficult to practically scale her due to a mixed Last Word.