Youmu Konpaku (Lunar War Gardener)

B3 Youmu Konpaku was released on December 26th, 2021 in Ultra Festival: Lunar War Gardener.

Hailing from a desperate world where _____ was sealed away, Youmu Konpaku, the Lunar War Gardener, fights a desperate fight for me and you. She’s got perhaps the worst of it of the various Lunar War combatants - her phantom half had to be virtualized just to keep it around (...does that make her a half digital ghost?) , and the blades of her heritage lost all of their power. Still, she’s hardly about to let that keep her down - and since she’s still an incredibly talented swordsman due to her training, this fighter of the Lunar War will deliver decisive, cinematic strikes as an SS-Tier Friend.

For farming, this samurai is a cut above. Thanks to her utterly tremendous damage output that can be bolstered even further if need be with a two turn setup, there are few if any one-wave event stages she cannot farm (bar those absurd ones that nobody can). Unfortunately her ability to farm Story Cards by herself in the main story is somewhat lacking, currently being only able to farm Chapter 3 Act 1’s Story Card alone and thus keeping her from truly being a top tier farmer.
Solo Stage Farms: 3-3-3, Future Story Card Stage

For harder fights, Youmu’s job is fairly simple - slice down anyone in her way with her legally distinct not!lightsabers. Her All targeting Last Word, Spirit Power Dual Wave Cut, has dual secondary scaling - 50%/50%/0%/50%/0%/50% Slice and 90%/100%/100%/150%/150%/150% Hard, as befitting a swordsman with two swords. The plethora of Yang DEF and Yang ATK in her kit further compliments this, alongside a large portion of it being teamwide - including even teamwide accuracy support. Additionally, she can force her way through enemy barriers with a plethora of Breaks - most notably P0 access to Water with Phantom Half and Sun with Bizarreness of Six Realms. Otherwise, Sword Skill: Cherry Blossom Flashing features 1/2/2/3 All-targeting Water Breaks for 0/1/2/3 Spirit Power (and one Sun break, though just one will rarely ever be useful), and Reincarnation Sword: Slash of Circular Vicissitude (try saying that six times fast) features 3 Sun and 2 Water Solo targeting Breaks in total at 3 Spirit Power - making it a somewhat flexible option, though typically it’ll be best used for the 3 Sun breaks it has at 2 Spirit Power. Lastly on the rare few fights it doesn’t cut down immediately, Spirit Power Dual Wave Cut inflicts a cool 4 Sun and 2 Water All targeting Breaks for 3 Spirit Power in total.  

In addition to this, Youmu’s Spell Cards pack incredible damage, thanks to the abundance of Hard and to a lesser extent Slice on them, as well as the built-in evasion down from Paralyze. Additionally, thanks to her unusually good passive, Ghost Assist, she gains .25 Spirit Power per turn, for free. Finally, she has some Paralyze infliction ability on her Spell Cards, but they’re not really in high enough values to take advantage of in a meaningful way for Breaks between low amounts of infliction and low duration. They sure do help her Spell Card output though, and serve as a form of Accuracy support in extended fights.

All in all, this stylish samurai won’t let you down, so long as you can afford the ridiculous cost of upgrading her flashlight swords. 

Gardener's secondary scalings are as follows;

Phantom Half:
Hard: 30%/30%/40%/40%/40%/0%

Bizarreness of Six Realms: 
Hard: 30%/30%/40%/40%/40%/0%

Sword Skill: Cherry Blossom Flashing:
Hard: 40%/50%/50%/0%/60%/60%
Slice: 0%/0%/0%/0%/40%/40%

Reincarnation Sword: Slash of Circular Vicissitude:
Hard: 40%/50%/50%/0%/60%/60%
Slice: 0%/0%/0%/0%/40%/40%

Spirit Power Dual Wave Cut: 
Hard: 90%/100%/100%/150%/150%/150% 
Slice: 50%/50%/0%/50%/0%/50%