Should You Pull?
Maybe. The banner may not have the strongest friends for someone to use, but it can provide some powerful characters like L1 Hecatia Lapislazuli who still holds impressive damage or A8 Reisen Udongein Inaba who can farm some good story cards like Unknown Barrier Team. L1 Sagume Kishin, while she may have some good debuffs, doesn’t necessarily hold up well due to the nature of debuffs being lackluster as well as her weak breaks.
Additionally, there is also B3 Reisen Udongein Inaba, an Ultra Festival character who can do a variety of things but does not scale well overall
Beginner Tips
For a beginner banner, this banner can be very useful. In particular, L1 Hecatia Lapislazuli is the best character to start off with as she can help kickstart both Fire EX stage farms, as well as contribute to Moon EX stage farms. With Fire EX, she can duo this stage with a variety of characters, with L1 Kasen Ibaraki being the most notable one due to her being a recent addition to the General pool. As Fire EX’s card drop, Worlds in Hand, can both double as a great damage booster and as a great support card, it proves to be one of the best cards you can get in the game.
A8 Reisen is also a great starter option as she can farm some notable cards in the entirety of Chapter 3, aside from Act 1. While her farms may not be the most optimal routes to farm these cards efficiently, she is a great friend to have as a way to start farming powerful story cards such as Puppeteer and Necromancer as well as Unknown Barrier Team.
Once you have an account with either Hecatia or both her and A8 Reisen, you can opt to save for some other characters that can be really powerful in the future!
Quick Overview
Lunar War Soldier, like her Gardener comrade, is a more balanced fighter of the six Lunar War fighters; not outright excelling in one field of combat but instead doing very well in most of them. Reisen can guide everyone well in the front lines of battle.
Very good turn 1 Last Word damage
While not a frontloaded attack, her Last Word can still do heavy damage right off the bat at 2P thanks to an incredible 5 levels of Yang ATK UP upon use. She even gets 5 levels of Yang DEF UP to support the huge Hard scaling on the attack. Furthermore, she debuffs the targets' Evasion to serve as great accuracy support and hit even more bullets. With already good turn 1 damage, her set-up damage only makes her stronger.
Provides good attack and defense support
Many parts of Reisen's kit are able to provide good team utility. Grazing gives the party Yang ATK UP, she can give the party Yin DEF through Boosting or her third skill, and the Evasion debuffs on her spells indirectly serve as accuracy support to everyone. To top things off, she can even restore a barrier via her third skill and heal the party for 25% of her HP through her first skill.
Accuracy debuffs are situational
Reisen's spells and skills obsess a bit over debuffing the opponents' Accuracy. While it can definitely get you through some tight scenarios, the debuffs are definitely not as globally useful as what the rest of her kit boasts.
Mediocre Killers
Reisen's Killer bullets only target Moon-related entities, something that not a lot of Lost Word foes can say they have. In order to optimize her CRIT damage, she will need support in the form of CRIT ATK and CRIT Accuracy.
Eternal Reisen fixates herself on her ability that allows her to deal a lot of damage in a very short amount of time to enemies weak against the elements she applies. Because of this, she is very useful for farming and at the same time, harder fights that could make use of her breaks and high damage output.
Breaks at anomalies on P2 of Spell Card 1
Reisen can break any anomaly with her first spell…provide you find a way to inflict them beyond Paralyze and Blind on her kit. Bring other Anomaly inflicting Friends for the ride
Very high damage for both hard levels and farming
Reisen's Last Word damage is simply very good, giving herself 4 levels of Yin ATK UP before beginning and having some great Slice to pair up with her Agility buffs.
Great team-wide Agility buffs
Reisen may not do much teamwide support, but she can at least raise the party's Agility a fair bit with her second spell and third skill. Granted, not everyone might need these buffs, but Friends with Slice scaling that need more Agility will appreciate it.
Doesn’t scale nearly as well as other top tier units for longer fights
While Reisen can easily max out her own Yin ATK, she lacks Crit related buffs to capitalize on. Crit Evasion debuffs will only go so far. Bring some Crit ATK support to keep her doing healthy damage.
The Goddess of Hell is an absolute force to be reckoned with. With hard hitting Spell Cards, a good Elemental layout, and bending the power of anomalies for her own benefit, and In terms of raw stats, she has the one of the highest Yin attacks, only beaten by some Ultra Festival Friends. So if you're ever in a pinch, relying on her is the right thing to do.
Good Elemental access
Alongside having a 0p Star Spread Shot, every Spell Card of hers has an element. She mainly has Star and Moon breaks, with a few Sun and Fire breaks on her 1st Spell Card and Last Word respectively.
Extremely high Turn 1 damage as well as set up damage
Due to her having so many Gensokyo Killer bullets and buffing herself greatly in addition to her amazing raw stats, she deals extraordinary damage on turn one. She also has amazing damage output with a setup, which is made easier because of her ability.
Self-inflicts anomalies which allows her to counter fights which inflict anomalies
Due to her Ability, Freeze anomaly attacks grant her +0.20P, and every layer of poison grants her 1 level up of Yang ATK, Yin ATK, CRIT ATK, and CRIT Accuracy. Beside giving her easy buffs, Poison also protects her against other anomalies when all her barriers have an anomaly inflicted.
Good Barrier Management is needed to use her full potential
Knowing when to graze and when to activate her Skills is important to maximize what she can do with all the benefits of the anomalies. This can prove difficult to manage at times.
No notable Utility
Her only Party buffs are Yin ATK and CRIT Accuracy, which are on her 2nd Spell Card and 3rd Skill respectively. This isn't bad, but when higher tier units do more, she can be underwhelming relative to them.
Solo Stage Farms: 3-6-3(!), 3-11-1, E9(!), 3-18-3, Future Story Card Stage (as part of a duo)
Sagume Kishin is a great Yang attacker support. Featuring an incredible 5 levels of Yang DEF DOWN against all targets in total, combined with some accuracy support, she gives Yang teams effectively half a Full Break - which is more than enough to take down any fight. Otherwise, she’s got great personal damage, and she’s a fine farmer to boot, if limited mostly to event stages and needing 2 or 3 turns to handle single-target stages. .
Great damage in short and long fights alike
Sagume gets good damage off by herself, mainly due to her many Yang DEF debuffs she applies on foes. Otherwise, even with a Last Word with mixed elements, being only composed of Yang and Sharp bullets makes it easy to support for even better damage.p>
Incredible support for Yang attackers
Featuring an incredible 5 levels of Yang DEF DOWN against all targets in total, combined with some accuracy support, she gives Yang teams effectively half a Full Break - which is more than enough to take down any fight.
Good Accuracy Support
Sagume's can debuff Evasion to give indirect accuracy support to her team.
Best Yang DEF DOWN debuff only lasts one turn
You will need to be careful with how you apply your debuffs, or else find a way to extend her duration with other supports.
Slightly lacking break potential
Sagume just has an average breaking potential when it comes to elemental breaks. Her Moon access is decent, with 3 breaks on each spell. Her Last Word also has 3 Moon with 3 Star mixed in, so she's not the worst at breaking; she just has nothing impressive going for her.
