Should You Pull? Festival: Dreams, Illusions, and Sake

Yes. Absolutely yes. Suika is a rare instance of a unit being the full package - packing both great damage and fantastic utility, pretty much any roster will benefit from adding this oni. She will also have future value down in the line in the form of a farmable Story Card that will just about double her damage.

+ Extremely damaging All targeting Last Word at 1 Power that scales well with additional Spirit Power.
+ All Last Word inflicts 2 Levels of Yin & Yang DEF Down for 3 Turns
+ Graze provides 1 Level of Yin ATK Up for 1 Turn for entire team
+ Second Spell Card provides 3 Levels of Accuracy Up for 3 Turns for Suika’s entire team

-LW is entirely metal at 1 Power, so she might run into some problems with Metal resistant foes for farming.

Based off of the legendary Shuten-dōji, Suika Ibuki is an extremely atypical oni. Whilst most of her kind favor brawn alone and being upfront, the joyous, often immature and playful Suika is not below trickery - to use a western mythology example, one could consider her the Loki to the average oni’s Thor. Perhaps it should come as no surprise that she knows two of the Sages of Gensokyo, Yukari Yakumo and Kasen Ibaraki, quite well. Still, in spite of her ability to plot and cause mischief, like most oni Suika prefers to party the days away instead, and get drunk. So drunk that she claims hasn’t been sober for hundreds of years - the purple Ibuki Gourd she carries with her helps her stay drunk too, being an infinite source of alcohol.

In combat, Suika has the typical oni super strength and speed, but packs something else too: the ability to manipulate density and sparseness. In other words, she can make something heavy and hot, or cool, light, and eventually cause it to dissipate into mist. On top of this, she can make numerous copies of herself, as well as shrink to the size of a marble or expand to the size of a giant - her petite frame is not to be underestimated, because she could quite easily crush anyone underfoot.

In LostWord, Suika’s cunning and raw strength manifests in a unit who excels in every area. To start off, her All targeting Last Word, Renewed Bloodsucker Doujigiri, both deals wonderful damage at 1 Power, making her a top tier farmer, but scales upwards with additional Power to deal nearly twice the damage. If that’s not enough for you, Suika’s Last Word is also blessed with Anti-Youkai and Human Bullets (meaning they will always crit if used on a Youkai or Human) - many enemies in the game are Youkai or Human, meaning Suika will often find herself dealing double damage just for free. If that’s still not somehow enough, it also inflicts 2 Levels of both Yin and Yang DEF Down for 3 turns against all enemies, providing exceptional team support.

That’s not all the oni has in store though. Her skills keep the trend up - her passive, Capable of manipulating density, allows her to provide her team with 1 Level of Yin ATK Up for 1 Turn each time she grazes. This is complimented well by her extremely defensive set of skills - all said, she’ll be getting 3 Levels of Dodge up, 2 levels of Yin DEF Up, and 2 self Barrier restorations - ensuring she'll always be able to use her Graze to support her team as needed, without having to worry so much about staying alive. Said skills also give her a total of 1 Level of Agility Up, which makes sure her Last Word will almost always go first, so her team can get the full benefit out of the DEF Down it provides. Finally, her second Spell Card, Night Parade of a Million Demons, also provides 3 Levels of Accuracy Up for 3 Turns for her entire team.

She’s no slouch when it comes to Barrier Breaking either. Her Spread Shot, Kishin's Will-o'-Wisp Art, has 1 Fire Break at 0 Power, which combined with her defensive skill set allows her to provide an everlasting source of Fire breaks, useful in the Scarlet Devil Tower where refreshing your Spell Cards is a limited resource. Her second Spell Card also provides an above-average 1/2/3 Fire Breaks for 0/1/2 Power, freeing up Spirit Power and Story Card slots for other purposes. Unfortunately she requires 3 Power for her other two Elements, Wood and Water, but them both being on her All targeting Spread Shot does mean she’ll often at least get 2 Breaks for her trouble.

In conclusion, the worst thing you could say about Suika is that her Barrier Break potential is merely solid and not amazing. She excels in virtually every other area, and on top of that there will be a farmable story card released at some point within the next year that will double her already incredible damage output, making her go from ‘extremely good’ to ‘please calm down Suika.’ You can’t go wrong pulling for the oni.