Should You Pull?
Maybe, but do not be fooled. This event themed banner has 3 Festival Friends and a new general Friend on rate-up alongside an ascending Step-UP banner, the units are also top tier for the most part. The shiniest of them in order being Hecatia lapislazuli for her potent ability to farm, awesome elemental breaks, and astronomical damage. Yachie Kicchou, the 2nd festival unit here, is known for her big damage-dealing All Wood LW and some team support. Yamame Kurodani, the gen unit, a selfish nuker with many self agility buffs and amazing access to the Earth element. Last but not least, the star of the show, Jo'on. Although she is the lowest out of the bunch when it comes to kit evaluation and tier list ranking, she has useful team-wide buffs and Metal breaks. As usual, the FES units can be exchanged for 150 exchange points, and the GEN ones only require 100.
A big reason why it's hard to decide if you should pull is all the concurrent banners to consider; We have F1 Reimu's Epic Banner, B3 Sagume's UFES Banner, L1 Mystia + A8 Eirin's FES Banner, L1 Takane + L1 Misumaru's FES banner. To choose which banner to pull can be a very subjective matter, but at least it's always worth taking advantage of the first Step-Up step and to dip afterwards.
Since this banner is event themed, expect all these characters to play a role in the upcoming event, "Princess Joon the Chivalrous Phantom Thief," in addition to new costumes being available for them. So this banner is very useful if you want to get your Friends cute and cool clothes to wear.
Quick Overview
Strengths:
+ Great access to Earth Breaks including a fully Earth ALL targeting LW
+ Self sufficient Agility buffs
+ Good Slice scaling
Weaknesses:
-Lack of team utility
-Poison Break is awkward to use
-Only limited to Earth breaking and a little poison break
Strengths:
+Extremely high Turn 1 damage as well as set up damage.
+Good set of elemental access with Moon and Star being the predominant ones.
+Self-inflicts anomalies which allows her to counter fights which inflict anomalies
+Great spread of Killer bullets with Anti Gensokyo.
Weaknesses:
-No notable utility.
-Full auto will lower her damage greatly by using Barriers that she wants to have anomalies on.
Strengths:
+ P0 Water on Focus Shot.
+ Powerful Last Word, especially when paired with her best story card.
+ Useful Wood Breaks.
+ Very solid Yin DEF and Agility Support for the team.
Weaknesses:
- Somewhat lackluster break potential aside from Last Word.
- Low barrier restoration is problematic, especially when using Graze for Yin ATK.
Strengths:
+ Provides team-wide buffs using her second Spell Card
+ Can be used as a Metal Breaker
Weaknesses:
- Damage overall is on the lower end compared to newer units
- Both offensive Spell Cards are Solo
- Greedy buffer outside of Aid spell
