Momoyo Himemushi

Momoyo Himemushi is an oomukade, a youkai resembling a giant centipede that is powerful enough to eat dragons, or at least that’s what the rumors say. She made her first appearance in Unconnected Marketeers as an Extra Stage boss. With her carefree personality and immense power, she mines her way from the Rainbow Dragon Cave to Touhou LostWord where she solidifies her position as a Yin focused DEST Class SS-tier friend.

There’s plenty to love about her kit but let’s start with her Shots; Both of them are solo targeting, but they have great effects. Her spread shot, Golden Shovel, which at 1P can be used as a Poison anomaly breaker, and it has a chance to lower the enemy’s CRIT DEF by 1 with the rates being 35%,50% and 75% at 0P, 1P and 2P respectively. Now to her Focus shot, Golden pickaxe, giving her access to a guaranteed 0P Poison infliction and self accuracy buff as long as the attack lands. At 2P, we have a guaranteed buff to her own CRIT ATK and Accuracy alongside another Poison layer infliction, and lastly, another guaranteed self accuracy buff at 3p (of course as long as the bullet lands). One last thing to note aside from her killers, is how the sum of her Hard scaling on her Focus Shot is 150% which can build up some nice damage.

Then we move on to her skills; Her 1st and 3rd skills combined, Dig Up & Pick Up + Eccentric Gourmand, give her the ability to have a team wide debuff of -8 CRIT Evasion on turn 1, alongside +5 Yin ATK, 3 of those being party-wide, and a +2 party wide CRIT ATK, plus a bit of defensive support in the form of +3 Yin DEF. Her 2nd skill, Combat Mania, while simple, is potent. It provides 1.75 Spirit Power and Charge, so Momoyo can easily be set up to strike after her supporting teammates. Quickly going over her passives because they’re all rng-reliant, they’re still awesome when they work, as an 85% decrease can save her from rough attacks and if she’s at 25% HP or less, she has a 50% chance to take no damage. There’s also her last passive, the free 1.20 Spirit power that can trigger at the start of every turn with a chance of 25%. 

Her skills really highlight how much she loves combat, as she thrives when against powerful opponents. This is also really apparent in how every bullet line in her Spell Cards (including LastWord) is elastic. Meaning she has a higher chance to deal critical damage the higher the target’s attack is.

Let’s go over her spell cards in detail; Her first spell card has a pre-ATK effect that buffs her team’s Yin DEF and lowers her opponent’s CRIT evasion by 2 levels for 2 turns. We can notice that on turn one, with this SC coupled with her skills, she maxes out her Crit Evasion on her opponent easily, but this isn’t the only attack that allows her to do that on turn one. Now to the actual layout of the attack, it’s a fully Earth Yin Sharp bullet solo spell card with a backloaded layout (1/1/3) and a bit of Youkai & God killers and some Hard scaling (40% in total). A small detail to note here is that her crit rate progressively rises from the first bullet lines to the last 3, while her accuracy lowers a tiny bit.

Momoyo’s 2nd Spell Card, an All targeting attack with a pre-ATK effect which applies Poison to all enemies and it scales in regards to Boost levels for a max of 3 layers at max boost. It is 2 thirds Metal Slash bullets and a third Normal Earth bullets, and with a 1/2/2 layout, it is backloaded. But it comes with the post-ATK effect of gaining 1.5 SP. The interesting thing about this Spell Card is that the damage dealt is in relation to the enemies’ Yang DEF, which is lowered by the poison’s effect. That aside, this spell card can also act as an All targeting poison break at 2P. And we cannot forget that at the same boost level, it guarantees a self accuracy buff, with another being a coinflip.

Now to the star of the show, her Last Word, an All targeting Metal Yin Slash powerful finisher that also can break Poison anomalies. It comes with a pre-ATK effect consisting of Momoyo buffing her own Yin ATK and decreasing her opponents’ CRIT Evasion by 2 levels for 2 turns. While it is a backloaded attack, her 2nd skill should make it much easier to manage.
 

Armed with her golden pickaxe and shovel, you know she will mine through enemies and she’ll do it fast. And with her ability, her offensive strength is not to be underestimated.