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Should You Pull? Festival: Dance of the Butterfly

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Should You Pull?

Yes. Yuyuko is still, five months after her introduction, one of the most powerful units of the game, and still has long lasting value. Be it events or challenge content, Yuyuko still does extremely well in every area of the game with her extremely powerful All Last Word. Additionally, she’s also a Festival unit, meaning that you can only pull her on banners which specifically have her available. You will have to wait for a rerun if you miss her. You simply can’t go wrong with this banner, unless ghosts scare you.

Quick Overview

+ Extremely powerful All Last Word which also scales exceptionally well with Power
+ Self reliant - provides massive self Yang Atk UP and Accuracy Up
+ P0 Wood on both Spell Cards
+Power Link is always nice

- Both Spell Cards are Solo
- Only 1 Wood Break at P0 for both Spell Cards, with only a second one at 2 and 3 P respectively.
- No team support
- Gets no benefit from Atk Up or Accuracy Up - must be supported with Def Down

Yuyuko Saigyouji

Yuyuko Saigyouji is the ghostly princess of the Netherworld, residing within Hakugyokurou, a Japanese mansion. In life, over a thousand years ago, Yuyuko was the mistress of the Saigyouji clan. A human girl with a terrifying ability, at first all Yuyuko could do was manipulate departed souls. As time went on, it grew more and more powerful, before she finally gained the ability to invite anyone to their own death. Terrified of her abilty, Yuyuko commited suicide, and her corpse was used to seal away a monsterous youkai tree that also invited others to their death - the Saigyou Ayakashi.

After she passed on, she was granted her current position in the Netherworld, due to the judges of the afterlife being impressed by her ability and unwillingness to hold grudges. This carefree attitude is reflected in the playful, cheery Yuyuko of today - with no memory of her past life, she carries on her death with the same gusto and enthusiasm as a hedonist might have for life. Gluttonous, and with a head seemingly full of only air, one could be forgiven for mistaking her to be a fool. But underneath it all lies a cunning and sharp mind,  and a terrifyingly powerful ghost princess who still possesses the same ability she had in life.

All this talk of power isn’t just for show. Yuyuko might not be able to instantly kill anyone in LostWord, but her All Last Word, Saigyouji Parinirvana, deals so much damage you’d be forgiven for assuming it simply inflicted instant death. That’s only at 1 Power as well - at 3, which her second skill Soul Torch helps her reach by providing her with 0.75 Power, this already strong Last Word nearly doubles in power, making her highly potent in longer fights. It wasn’t always meant to be this strong, but in the original Japanese release of the game, her Last Word was bugged to do too much damage. They compensated her by giving it five levels of Yang Atk UP, which combined with her first skill Spirit Service and her ability Capable of Manipulating Death allows her to reach a jaw dropping 9 Yang Atk UP on the very first turn. And if that wasn’t enough, her third skill Under the Flowers gives her a remarkable 3 Accuracy Up for 3 turns and 1 turn of Charge, making her both self-sufficient and able to work with just about any debuffer.

Yuyuko isn’t perfect. Her 9 Yang Atk UP and 3 Accuracy Up, while extremely potent, means that it can be difficult to find a Story Card which meaningfully upgrades her damage, and that the only team support she benefits from is Def Down. Additionally, her access to Elements is merely average, having only access to 1 Solo Wood Break on both of her spell cards without spending either 2 or 3 Power for the additional Break. Whilst her Last Word also has Wood, it deals so much damage for any type of fight that it’s almost never worth using to Break. 

Still, these issues are more technicalities that the writer feels obligated to mention, and not major concerns. Yuyuko is is one of the best Friends in the game, even though she is no longer the best, has stood the test of time, and will probably never be anything but outstanding. 

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