Kaguya Houraisan (Love Temple of Benevolence and Conscience)

B3 Kaguya Houraisan was released on June 3rd, 2022 in Ultra Festival: Love With a Hidden Agenda.

B3 Kaguya Houraisan, Code: Nayotake, and the Love Temple of Benevolence and Conscience, is one of the Four Temples and leader of the group trying to fight back the Kaiju and save the Lunar Capital. Her sense of humor and brightly shining positive attitude permeates the group, raising morale and inspiring hope against the seemingly endless waves of Kaiju. But she’s not just some cheerleader; her ability, “to manipulate eternity and the instantaneous”, is extremely powerful when used with the right amount of knowledge in a given situation, which Kaguya also tends to usually have, being a long-living immortal who has drank the Hourai Elixir. And like her fellow Temples, she is undoubtedly an SS-Tier Friend.

For farming and raw damage, Kaguya is able to prove herself as an Ultra Festival Friend since she is able to solo farm a good amount of stages. Her Yang-only Last Word, Hourai Medicine Tank, is powerful in its own right as it has an abundance of Killers (most notably Youkai and Fairy) that will guarantee critical hits to a wide range of enemies. Since attack buffs and defense debuffs are effectively multiplicative, the combination of 4 Yang ATK UP (1T) from her Pre-ATK effect plus 2 Yang ATK UP (3T) and solo target 2 Yang DEF DOWN debuff (2T) from her Last Word at 1.00P boost further enhances her damage potential. It does not end there though, as a combination of her skills and ability creates more avenues for damage potential growth through agility scaling.
Solo Story Card Farms: 3-3-3, 3-11-1, Hifuu Code E9

For difficult content, she is able to sustain and prolong the survivability of the party while providing decent Agility support. Her defensive niche is all about evasion tanking for her party. As the manipulator of eternity and the instantaneous, she provides the party with at least 8 levels of effective Evasion on the 1st turn, which can then be extended for a long time using her skills and spell cards. This allows her to work in conjunction with Focus-based Friends for prolonged party survivability. However, note that this niche’s effectiveness is usually seen for contents like Elemental EX and Tower.

Kaguya will not miss out in the barrier breaking field as she provides good elemental access and an acceptable amount of anomaly breaks. Starting off with elemental breaks, her Spread Shot, Love and Laser, allows you to access the Moon element at 0P, with a total of 3 when it reaches max boost. She also has 3 Fire elements in this shot which are all accessible in just one boost. Her 2nd Spell Card, New Impossible Request: Mysterium, also provides Moon at 0P but it is more accessible as you only need 2.00P to use all 3 of it. Additionally, she has a total of 3 Star elements which are accessible starting from 1.00P. Lastly, her Last Word, Hourai Medicine Tank, primarily gives access to 3 Star elements and then 3 Moon elements as you boost further. There is also her Focus Shot, Charity Grenades and Spell Card 1, Divine Treasure: Jeweled Branch of Hourai -Dreamlike Paradise-, that gives access to the Moon element at 0P and provides a multitude of elements as you boost further. However, do note that a multitude of elements in an attack is hard to utilize especially when the enemies have only a few elements that they are weak towards. Her anomaly breaks consist of Melting (breaks Freeze barriers) and Toxic (breaks Poison barriers) which is prevalent when you use her Last Word at 2.00P.

When it comes to her passive, she has two that have a 100% chance of success rate. Her first passive, Anti-Kaiju Defense, provides 35% DMG DOWN from Youkai enemies allowing her to survive longer. Her 3rd passive, End of Imperishable Night, gives 0.25P per turn allowing her to have an easier time to access most of her elemental breaks.

Overall, Kaguya is a one of a kind Ultra Festival Friend to have if you are in need of what she offers. While she may not have common party utility such as attack buffs, she makes up for it by allowing your Friends to survive better through the use of evasion-related effects while also doing her best to deal high damage from her Last Word.

The Slice scaling and secondary effects for Kaguya’s attacks are as follows:

Love and Laser:
1 Agility UP (3T): 50%/75%/0%/0%/100%/0%
Absorb: 25%/0%/0%/0%/0%/0%

Charity Grenades:
Slice: 30%/40%/0%/50%/50%/0%
1 Evasion UP (3T): 50%/75%/0%/0%/100%/0%

Divine Treasure: Jeweled Branch of Hourai -Dreamlike Paradise-:
Slice: 0%/30%/40%/0%/50%/50%
Blind barrier to self (1T): 100%/0%/0%/0%/0%/0%
Paralyze barrier to self (1T): 100%/0%/0%/0%/0%/0%

New Impossible Request: Mysterium:
Slice: 70%/90%/0%/90%/0%/100%
2 Evasion UP (3T): 0%/0%/0%/0%/0%/100%
Blind barrier to self (1T): 0%/0%/100%/0%/100%/0%

Hourai Medicine Tank:
Slice: 160%/140%/140%/150%/0%/160%
2 Yang ATK UP (3T): 0%/0%/100%/0%/0%/0%
Target 2 Yang DEF DOWN (2T): 0%/100%/0%/0%/0%/0%