Keiki Haniyasushin

Keiki Haniyasushin was released on June 10th, 2022 in Festival: Gods of Clay & Chickens.

Keiki Haniyasushin is commonly titled the Sculptor God for her ability to create idols and similar sculptures. Of course, a divine spirit’s power wouldn’t just end there, as she can animate her figures and make them fight for her own cause. During the incident in which animal spirits from Hell invaded Gensokyo, Keiki would use her powers to fight against the animal spirits and liberate the human spirits, creating the haniwa Mayumi Joutouguu in the process to serve as the head of her army. This doesn’t mean Keiki herself can’t fight back, which she shows when confronting the animal-possessed protagonists as the final hurdle in the conflict between the spirits of Hell. LostWord made sure to respect her power as well, as she stands very tall as an SS-Tier Friend.

In terms of raw power, Keiki has many tools to sculpt idols and devastating damage alike. Her Last Word, Transhumanize, may be backloaded with a 1-1-3 bullet spread to somewhat hurt her turn 1 damage output, but she more than makes up for it with the strength she gets upon setting up. With 2 levels of Yang ATK UP (3T) and 3 levels of Accuracy UP (3T) before activation, Keiki’s damage at 3P is just incredible, even more so when you are hitting her Killer bullets, which include the rather popular Human. It helps that Keiki does not need to rely on her Killers for great damage, and along with how easy Transhumanize is to support due to being Earth-only, Yang-only, and Heavy bullet-only, Keiki’s damage output can easily match the rest of the top tier competition.

When it comes to challenging content, Keiki has many more crafts to throw around. Her utility is already very high thanks to her barrier breaking potential. She starts off strong with a 0P Earth break on her Focus shot, Perfect Circle Sculpting, allowing her to spam Earth breaks whenever necessary. On top of that, all of her spells focus hard on being great Earth breakers with additional Star break utility, a very useful element. With 4 Earth/2 Star on her first spell, Haniwa: Horse-and-Rider Idol Sculpting Art, an even split of 3 Earth/3 Star on her second spell, Oni-Shaped Sculpting Art, and an Earth-only option in the form of Transhumanize, Keiki makes herself out as a wonderful Earth breaker with a niche in Star breaks as well. That isn’t the end of her breaking potential however, as Oni-Shaped Sculpting Art has Toxic and Incineration bullets at 2P and 3P respectively for both Poison and Burn anomaly breaking action. While her kit lacks real Burn infliction, Oni-Shaped Sculpting Art itself inflicts Poison anomalies: either 2 with no boosts or 3 when boosted. You want to boost to 2P to get to the anomaly break in the first place, so more often than not Keiki will get 3 breaks on all foes not immune to Poison at 3P, something that is very good for an All-targeting spell.

Outside of the breaks, Keiki provides some great team support as well. While she does have instances of greedy buffing, such as Haniwa: Horse-and-Rider Idol Sculpting Art’s 2 levels of Yang ATK UP (3T) and Transhumanize’s buffs, Oni-Shaped Sculpting Art does even more in terms of viability by debuffing all targets’ CRIT Evasion, either 1 or 2 levels (3T) just like the Poison anomalies’ boost-based chances. Her third skill, Idolization, has the same debuff but for 3 levels instead (1T) as well as 2 levels of teamwide Yin ATK UP (1T). It is unfortunate that these buffs last for a single turn, but they are on a skill with a 4-turn cooldown to slightly mitigate this. Her first skill, Planned Production, provides a bit more team support in the form of 3 levels of Yang DEF UP (3T), which also slightly helps Keiki’s Hard scaling. Her final team utility may appear to be the Yang ATK she provides from Grazing, but Transhumanize comes with a 100% chance to debuff Yang DEF at 1P and a 100% chance to debuff Evasion at 2P just for some extra assistance. Not like her support was lacking before this.

As expected for a sculptor god, Keiki has almost everything going for her. Amazing damage after setting up, many barrier breaks, team support…she even gets both 1.50 Spirit Power and a barrier from her second skill, Divine Authority, both increasing her survivability and access to more powerful attacks, especially considering the Yang ATK she gets from Grazing. Overall, you can definitely rely on Keiki to both Create…and Destroy!

The secondary effects and Hard scaling for Keiki’s attacks are as follows:

Square-Shaped Sculpting:
Hard: 50%/0%/50%/0%/0%/0%
Target Yang DEF DOWN: 50%/0%/0%/0%/0%/0%
Target Yin DEF DOWN: 0%/50%/0%/0%/0%/0%

Perfect Circle Sculpting:
Yang DEF UP: 50%/0%/100%/0%/0%/0%

Haniwa: Horse-and-Rider Idol Sculpting Art:
Hard: 0%/40%/0%/0%/50%/50%
Yang DEF UP: 50%/0%/50%/0%/0%/0%
Yin DEF UP: 0%/0%0%/50%/0%/0%

Oni-Shaped Sculpting Art:
Hard: 0%/0%/80%/0%80%/0%
Absorb: 20%/0%/0%/0%/0%/0%

Transhumanize:
Hard: 0%/125%/150%/0%/0%/0%
Target Yang DEF DOWN: 0%/100%/0%/0%/0%/0%
Target Evasion DOWN: 0%/0%/100%/0%/0%/0%