Should You Pull? Rerun Festival: Most Destitute and Poorest God

Whilst this is a rerun banner, Shion Yorigami remains an extremely competent debuffer and solo target nuker. Other Friends have caught up to her Solo targeting Last Word's output or exceeded it, but she still brings a highly useful amount of DEF DOWN to the table, and will continue to have value as a force multiplier. Not to mention, it's still a highly damaging Last Word that's great for farming and hard fights alike, when the fight calls for a single target nuke. 

This is a Festival banner, and as such Shion will not be added to the general pool when it's over - grab her now, or wait for another rerun. 

+Extremely potent DEF DOWN support, especially for Yin attackers
+2 layers of Burn to all enemies, on a skill to boot
+Extremely strong, front-loaded Last Word useful for harder fights and farming alike

-Poor breaking ability, possessing only Fire

Shion Yorigami is a poverty god. That sounds impressive, but in eastern mythology the concept of a ‘god’ is much more loose and fast than in western religion. You don’t have to be an omnipotent deity, or a force of creation to be a god - even an object could become a god, if people believe in it to be one. They still have the former, of course - you can look to Kanako Yasaka for a more immediate example of a high and mighty god demanding worship, and if you’re looking for a creator myth, there’s gods like Amateratsu or Iizanami. But Shion falls firmly into the latter camp - more a force of nature that’s believed in by humans than any sort of mighty force of creation. 

For the longest time, she and her sister, Joon Yorigami, embarked on a litany of petty schemes to make wealth fast. Unfortunately, in spite of being a misfortune goddess capable of spreading bad luck herself, Shion wasn’t immune to her powers - if anything she was far more unlucky than the average being, to the point where she’d build up explosions of bad luck to herself and those around her. For a time, she was complacent with this life, not really caring about anything (why bother when she lost any wealth she got her hands on?), until one day she and her sister hatched a scheme to steal from a Prismriver concert. This led to the events of Antimony of Common flowers, and then Shion met Tenshi Hinanawi, a celestial who was blessed with unending luck. Luck that directly counteracted Shion’s misfortune, and the two became fast friends, leading to Shion beginning to slowly take a more positive outlook on life and becoming more independent.

In LostWord, Shion is a fantastic debuffer and devastating attacker all at once. The highlight of her kit is definitely her extremely powerful skills: Hi no Kuruma applies 2 layers of the potent Burn Barrier Status to all foes for 2 turns, Default on Debt shackles them them with 2 levels of Yang DEF & Yin DEF DOWN for 2 turns, and then Aura of Bad Luck bankrupts your enemies with 2 levels of Evasion DOWN for 2 turns (plus another 2 levels to the primary target!). Combined, these debuffs allow you to completely skip going for a Full Break in many cases, especially if you field Yin attackers. 

That’s not all she has on offer, as all of her Spell Cards are highly valuable too. Poor Sign: Super Poverty Bomb gives her a whopping 1 Spirit Power UP as well as a slightly above average 1/1/3 Solo targeting Fire Breaks for 0/1/2 Spirit Power. Then, Mischance Scatter can apply 2 levels of Evasion DOWN for 2 turns (as well as 2 levels of Accuracy DOWN if you like defensive strats), plus a slightly above average 1/1/3 Fire Breaks for 0/1/2 Spirit Power. Finally, if they still have any health (or cash) left, her Solo targeting Last Word, The Lost 20 Years, will completely obliterate a single target. This is due to a combination of the Yin DEF DOWN & Burn from her skills, alongside the 3 further levels of Yin DEF DOWN the Last Word applies. It doesn’t even matter if they resist Fire, since her Character Ability, Capable of making people unlucky, including herself, makes her do another 40% damage to resistances. This makes her fantastic both for farming as well as assassinating a priority target with a devastating burst that doesn’t even need setup time, although using it immediately does mean sacrificing the Breaks and utility from her Spell Cards. 

Overall, perhaps the worst you could say about Shion is that Solo targeting Last Words are more niche than All targeting Last Words. She’s fantastic in just about every other field, and more than pulls her weight even on fights with multiple targets, even if sometimes all you’ll do is use her skills then tag her out for someone else.