Kogasa Tatara

Kogasa Tatara was released on June 19th, 2022 in Festival: Mountain God & Umbrella Surprise.

Kogasa Tatara is a karakasa obake who first appeared in Touhou 12: Undefined Fantastic Object. A karakasa obake is a kind of Tskumogami who are umbrellas with one eye and a massive tongue. Kogasa found herself in Gensokyo as a normal umbrella left deserted in the outside world and is known for her (mostly unsuccessful) attempts to scare and surprise others (mainly humans), and when they don’t work in her favor, it can be quite a downer for our turquoise haired friend. That being said, it may be just as saddening to her to know that her efforts in LostWord leave a bit to be desired as she lands in an unsurprising spot as a B-Tier Friend.

Kogasa unfortunately does not have any notable farming stages, however, she has some decent surprises up her sleeve, from Spirit P up on her Spell Card Pre-ATKs and a handy ability to boot, allowing her to benefit from anomaly inflictions, and with an anomaly breaking Last Word that can be boosted immensely by a farmable Story Card that boosts both Energy and Yin ATK (Kogasa’s Last Word uses both), this may make this karakasa actually successful in spooking an enemy in question for 1 turn.

Nonfarming  content, however, is where Kogasa can be utilized more. Kogasa has quite the handful of Water Breaks that can definitely compete with other Water Breakers, including her Spread Shot, Dripping Umbrella, having P0 Water. That being said, her Last Word, One-Eyed Dragon of Mt. Tado, has only 2 of Water and 2 of Metal breaks, with the latter only appearing in here. All in all, while only 2 Water Breaks in Kogasa’s strongest attack may not sound like the best thing in the world, there is more that Kogasa can do that isn’t just elements. As for anomalies, Kogasa’s Ability to scare humans means that she benefits from anomaly inflictions from Paralyse and Blind. When Kogasa is inflicted by the former, her Yang ATK, Yin ATK, Crit ATK and Crit Accuracy go up, and as for the latter, it boosts Agility, ACC and Evasion. However, Compared to other units who work similarly with anomaly inflictions, Kogasa doesn’t seem to take advantage of this much, as she can only give herself one of each through her Skills (more on Skills later). That being said, anomaly break potential does exist in One-Eyed Dragon of Mt. Tado, with the power to break any Paralyze and Blind anomalies of that target. It’s also important to note that the Killer accessibility is hardly there, with only Fairies and Humans being affected by some bullet lines overall. Kogasa is also very selfish and lacking a lot of team utility, as you’re about to see in the next paragraph…

As mentioned earlier, Kogasa can inflict anomalies on herself via skills. Her first skill, Storm Skipping, can Increase Kogasa’s Agility by 3 stages while giving herself a single layer of Paralyze with her second, Rain Forecast, being able to boost her Yin DEF, also by 3 stages while inflicting herself with a layer of Blind. Finally, her last skill, White Fox Protection, is probably her best one to have, as it boosts both Yang ATK and Yin ATK by 3 stages (the former isn’t that useful to Kogasa though). It’s also worth noting that all the effects in the first 2 Skills last for 3 Turns, but the effects from Skill 3 only last for 1 Turn. Unfortunately, Kogasa isn’t self sufficient with Spirit P gain from skills, but her Spirit P gain from her Pre-ATKs on her Spell Cards don’t disappoint, as both Umbrella Sign: Lightly Falling Large Raindrops and Halo: Karakasa Surprising Flash rack up +1.00 Spirit P, assuming she is fully Awakened. Her Last Word, One-Eyed Dragon of Mt. Tado, boosts both Yin DEF and Agility by 3 Stages (1T), regardless of Awakening level, and while Kogasa isn’t going to be known for Defense or Agility, these accumulated buffs of both are still handy for both her Hard and Slice Scaling, especially in 2 of her Last Word’s bullet lines at 100%. Overall, a very selfish unit as the above shows the lack of team support Kogasa has.

Overall, Kogasa doesn’t seem to offer a lot of new things to the table, especially for modern Friend standards. While she does have some serviceable benefits like accessible Water Breaks and not bad Scaling for both Hard and Slice, which are further boosted by the respective Yin DEF and Agility buffs she possesses, she is unfortunately very lacking overall. That being said, give this cute karakasa obake the setup time necessary and she will give a big scare to the target of her choice, especially with her Last Word!

The Hard and Slice scalings for Kogasa's attacks are as follows:

Dripping Umbrella:
Slice: 0%/0%/25%/0%/25%/0%

Instant Water-Shedding:
Hard: 0%/0%/0%/25%/0%/25%

Umbrella Sign: Lightly Falling Large Raindrops:
Slice: 25%/0%/0%/25%/0%/0%
Hard: 0%/25%/0%/0%/0%/25%

Halo: Karakasa Surprising Flash:
Hard: 25%/0%/0%/0%/25%/0%
Slice: 0%/0%/25%/0%/0%/25%

One-Eyed Dragon of Mt. Tado:
Slice: 0%/100%/100%/0%/0%/0%
Hard: 0%/100%/100%/0%/0%/0%