Should You Pull? Prayer “Epic Friend Collection”

F1 Reimu Hakurei is an Attack-Class Friend who sets quite the benchmark for Epic Friends by bringing Sun and Wood elements, Burn, Paralyze and Freeze anomaly utility, great Killers and is just an all-round powerhouse.

Insane overall damage with Shots, Spell Cards, and Last Word

Any attack from F1 Reimu can practically be a strategic nuke in its own right. There’s almost countless benefits to them: Wood and Sun elemental access, great buffs that go off during both basic shots and spells 100% of the time, and crazy barrier break potential thanks to a Last Word that both inflicts and breaks Burn and Paralyze breaks at the same time!

Power generation is no problem with her Spell Cards and skills

Getting 2.00 Spirit Power on F1 Reimu’s Skill 3 and granting herself 3P access turn 1 without outside help wasn’t enough for Reimu. She decided that she needed to produce 1.50 Spirit Power upon using her First Spell Card as well, meaning F1 Reimu will almost always attack at her fullest boosts with ease.

Tanky due to her Passives and Skill 2

F1 Reimu’s defensive stats and buffs are good already, but what really seals the deal on her defensive utility is found on her Skill 2 and Passive 1. Her second skill provides a 50% damage reduction from Youkai enemies to the whole team for 2 turns, while her passive means any dweller of Gensokyo will deal 35% less damage to her. Both Youkai and Gensokyo are common tags in the game, so F1 Reimu takes great advantage of this.

Careless Team-wide Anomaly Infliction

F1 Reimu’s main mistake is applying 2 layers of Burn and Freeze to her whole team via her Skills 1 and 2 respectively. While F1 Reimu herself is unaffected by these anomalies and instead gets buffs, her team will often not be the same, and with an anomaly that is active for 4 turns, more often than not the team will have to Graze in order to remove the debuffs. That said, some allies will either be unaffected by these or even better, benefit from them, so this can actually be beneficial in the correct situations.

C3 Koishi Komeiji is an Attack-Class Friend who brings welcome offensive support, great Freeze Anomaly utility, and potentially some devastating power.

Strong Anomaly Breaks

While she may have a primary focus on Star elements, C3 Koishi’s barrier breaks are at their best when utilizing anomalies to break. With strong access to Freeze anomalies, she can fully break an enemy with ease on the first turn, assuming they are weak to one of her elements.

Powerful and Versatile Support

One powerful utility tool she has is her ability to provide the party with a large amount of Spirit Power. With her Skill 2 providing the party with 1.20 Spirit Power, she augments this further with her Spell Cards and Last Word providing more power, allowing her teammates to be more liberal with their boosts. On top of this, she goes very far to provide Yang ATK, Agility, CRIT ATK and CRIT Accuracy, with Yang ATK and CRIT ATK provided every other turn via Skill 3, albeit coming with only a 1T duration.

Disjointed Skills

While C3 Koishi functions as a Yang nuker and accordingly buffs Yang ATK, her DEF DOWN skill debuffs Yin DEF - this allows her to be able to function with Yin teammates, but will be less useful in Yang-oriented teams where she is stronger.

Hampered Damage Potential From Limited Killer Range

Despite her strong initial burst of damage, her lack of powerful Killers limits her growth on setup, with of her more reliable Killers being God, Religious, Beast, Older Sister and Youkai Mountain.

C3 Satori is a Defense-Class Friend who brings defensive support, additional utility and a rather wide Killer range.

Great Survivability for Herself and the Team

C3 Satori has a good deal of Yang DEF and can heal herself with Skill 1. Combined with her 3rd Passive reducing damage significantly at full HP, her Skill 3 outright nullifying damage from Liquid and Water bullets, and more Barrier Restoration, she can survive some brutal hits while helping the team take less damage with her own Focus UP.

Provides Lots of Barriers and DEF UP for her Team

C3 Satori also provides multiple teamwide barriers with Skill 2, her First Spell Card, and Last Word. At the same time, she can also provide more Yin DEF and Yang DEF UP (leans more toward the latter) via Skill 2, Spell Cards, and Last Word.

Awkward Barrier Breaking

One major problem that C3 Satori has would be her elements, or lack of focus on one specific element. With only a handful of Freeze inflicting and breaking via Second Spell Card to help supplement this, Satori fails to effectively strike what she wants to nuke easily.

Lacking Buffs for Herself

Her only source of Yang ATK UP comes from her 3rd Skill, not to mention that she has no source of CRIT ATK to take advantage of her damage. This results in her effective damage being weaker than anticipated without external support, which can be a shame given she actually has a great Killer range that includes Youkai, but that’s where team support could come in handy.

C3 Hecatia Lapislazuli is a Debuff-Class Friend who specializes in massive chunks of debuffing via means like Yin DEF, Yang DEF and CRIT DEF, breaks via Water and Earth elements and Freeze anomaly utility.

Watermelon Break

C3 Hecatia has very respectable breaking potential, bringing Water and Earth breaks. All of her spells have 3 breaks in both Water and Earth to make an easy 3 breaks for either element as long as Hecatia has Spirit Power, something her second skill gives her a good boost in thanks to 2.00 Spirit Power UP. To top that off, she can even apply many Freeze anomalies with her first skill and follow it up with Freeze breaks on her Focus Shot, First Spell Card, and Last Word. Her Last Word can break Paralyze anomalies as well for good measure.

Insane Yang DEF Debuff Potential

C3 Hecatia’s Yang DEF debuff potential comes from all of her spells, especially her second spell and Last Word, the former in which debuffs every Yin and Yang stat as well. Hecatia’s Skill 3 joins in the crippling as well, allowing C3 Hecatia to very easily total up to 10 levels of Yang DEF DOWN, the maximum debuffed value allowed.

Confusing Killer Distribution

This is a weird one. On paper, when you see C3 Hecatia’s Killers, she has a phenomenal Killers range, due to having the wide-ranged Gensokyo-Killer to work with. That said, you aren’t going to be seeing much mileage out of it due to appearing only once in later lines as opposed to the first and most powerful line. Unless you are fortunate enough to have enemies with tags pertaining to Outside World, Aquatic, Swimsuit or Summer, it will be tedious to be able to take advantage of these Killers.

Breaking potential can conflict with Yang DEF debuffs at times

C3 Hecatia is all about applying Yang DEF DOWN with some other DEF debuffs. However, when a foe is Fully Broken, all of Hecatia’s Yang DEF debuffs will be removed in favor of the penalty applied on Full Break. While her debuff potential is still great, this debuff removal makes it harder to use Hecatia in certain instances, especially when the situation she is in is all about Full Breaking. You do have situations though, where some enemies on their last gauge won’t have any barriers to break, making these concerns less of an issue in this particular situation.

Watermelons in One Basket

C3 Hecatia runs into a few more problems regarding her Yang DEF debuffs. For one, 10 levels of Yang DEF DOWN do add a lot more damage than compared to lower debuff values, but more Yang ATK UP would contribute even more damage than that, something that Hecatia cannot do alone, relying on allies or Story Cards instead. On top of that, many of her debuffs boast a long endurance of 4 or 5 turns. While this sounds great on paper, debuffs are removed at the end of a wave, when the target is Fully Broken or when the target loses their HP Gauge. On top of this, a key source of great DEF debuffing being Hecatia’s Skill 3 has a brutal 7 turn cooldown, something that can be potentially tough to work around.

F1 Koishi Komeiji is a Technical-Type Friend who brings so much to the table, including Wood and Metal elemental breaks, massive anomaly utility and ridiculous damage power.

Amazing Overall Damage

With F1 Koishi’s Last Word being augmented by amazing Story Cards like Little Sister and Sweets as well as a great deal of self buffs from the get-go, it’s no wonder that she can dish out insane amounts of damage both in the first turn as well as with setup. Her other Spell Cards are also no slouch as they also contain great Killers like Gensokyo.

Spontaneous Survivability

F1 Koishi can certainly tank a few hits here and there with the sheer amount of defensive buffs across her kit. Combined with her Skill 2 restoring her Barriers, she can sustain herself in more difficult content, assuming that she doesn’t get her grazes locked.

Anomalies and Elements Everywhere

While F1 Koishi has an insane amount of elemental breaks (and no non-elemental lines at that!) her true appeal would be her anomaly breaks, where she can inflict a load of Poison anomalies and break them by herself simply using Skills and Spell Cards.

Inflicts Poison Anomalies to the Party

Ultimately, the only true flaw this character would have is how she can affect her team with Poison anomalies, which can be somewhat detrimental if you can’t afford to graze and are using Yang attackers. It may be possible to also take advantage of this though, by using units benefiting from Poison anomalies.

C3 Reimu is here to spend her days playing games featuring her modified Yin-Yang Beach Ball to her heart’s content as a Speed-Class Friend that’s ready to rumble!

Amazing Wood and Water breaks, with 0P Water break on all Shots

Every bullet from this beachside shrine maiden features either Wood or Water elements, meaning you’ll have breaks for days. Couple this with her 0P Water breaks of both shots and you have a super soaker that any kid would love to get from the Patron Saint of Learning for Xmas!

Great Base Stats can go Towards High Slice Damage

C3 Reimu is naturally endowed with big guns, with a staggering 1940 Yang ATK and 1560 Agility at max. This works perfectly with a full Yang kit and strong Slice values especially on her Last Word!

Powerful and Non-Stop Yang ATK and Agility Support

C3 Reimu’s multiple sources of team enhancements culminates in a crazy 1 Turn Cooldown on Skill 3, which constantly boosts Yang ATK and Agility for her entire team.

Great Utility via Anomaly Breaks and Stun

C3 Reimu can break Freeze and Paralyze anomalies with her attacks, as well as guarantee a stun on a single enemy with a 3P Focus Shot.

Some Buffs will Freeze Allies, Impeding them

Her zealous dedication to gaming leaves her allies in the dust, inflicting Freeze barriers on them alongside other positive buffs. This can be turned around with a team that synergizes with Freeze anomalies instead!

Marisa is surfing into your lives as a Support-Class Friend that stands firm against all opposition, empowering almost everything under the Gensokyo sun!

Amazing Elemental Breaks

The Magician on Vacation packed a suitcase filled with Star and Water, with features on almost every single line of her attacks. The exception is her Spread Shot, which replaces Water with Earth Breaks instead.

Brings Vast Offensive Buffs for the Team as well as Waves of Spirit Power

Almost anything C3 Marisa does will provide a buff to her team. Using Skills? Using Spell Cards? Even Boosting and Grazing will endow her team with some form of Yang ATK, Yin ATK, CRIT ATK, Accuracy and/or Agility buff. This all comes with a bountiful source of Spirit Power, ensuring her team is ready for fun in the sun all day!

Tanking Potential with Team-wide Barriers and strong Personal HP Recovery.

C3 Marisa’s seemingly unstoppable drive to enjoy her holiday comes in the form of incredible HP Recovery from most Anomalies, as well as her attacks. She can also put up multiple sources of Barriers for her entire team, prolonging any session in the water as long as she wants.

Stun + Anomaly Utility is very handy.

Marisa can break Freeze and Paralysis anomalies with her attacks, as well as guarantee a Stun on a single enemy with a 3P Spread Shot.

Personal Damage is Lacking

Marisa unfortunately falls short on her offensive, lacking broad Killers that set her apart from the top of the chaff.

C3 Yukari Yakumo is a Heal-Class Friend who goes the extra mile with support via Yang ATK, CRIT ATK and Bind Removal as well as her own tanking potential Sun and Water breaks, Freeze anomalies and of course, devastating power!

Abundance in Breaks

With only 2 Non-Elemental bullet lines on C3 Yukari’s Spread Shot, every other line either consists of Water and Sun. With 2 of each on her Spread Shot, and 3 of each on her Focus Shot, and both Spell Cards as well as 6/6 lines of Water in her Last Word, you’ll be more than content with her immense Sun and Water breaking potential! On top of that, she also has some handy Freeze anomaly utility, being able to instantly inflict and break an enemy’s Freeze anomalies via Second Spell Card. While she doesn’t do a lot of this across all enemies at once, this is always a handy flavor to add to C3 Yukari’s powers.

Massive Damage Output

Simply put, C3 Yukari’s damage is incredible and cannot be underestimated. With Yang ATK and CRIT ATK buffs that can be easily maxed out as well as Yang DEF debuffs on all enemies all over her Last Word, not only will the Serene Summer Sage’s damage be consistent but will also be backed up greatly with massive Hard Scaling, contributing to a truly impactful Last Word! She can also gain +0.75 and +1.25 Spirit Power from her first and second skills respectively, meaning instant access to a fully powered Last Word. It’s also worth mentioning her Killer range being fantastic, with common ones like Youkai, God and Human which she can really take advantage of with her CRIT ATK buffs. Our carefree sage in question will not disappoint you!

Very Valuable Offensive Utility

The Yang ATK and CRIT ATK buffs mentioned earlier also extend to her teammates, also being maxed out for them as well as a fruitful 4 Turn Duration via Skill 3. We also have the ever so valuable team-wide Spirit Power UP being accessed in her first skill, adding +0.75 to everyone’s Spirit Power count. All in all, C3 Yukari is a fantastic option for Spirit Power and Yang-based buffs.

Boundary of Healthy and Unhealthy

As a Heal Class Friend, C3 Yukari excels at this very purpose! Starting with teamwide HP recovery, she can recover 80% of it via Skill 1 and her Last Word’s Post-ATK including a 100% HP recovery. Don’t forget that since C3 Yukari has the highest HP in the game at 9000, being able to also heal your teammates by that much HP isn’t to be overlooked! As for Barrier support, C3 Yukari’s Skill 3 and Second Spell Card grant the team Barriers. Finally, being able to cleanse multiple Binds/Stat Debuffs for the team is a very much loved trait, executed by her Skills 1 and 3, as well as a Last Word Post-ATK effect!

Boundary of Bind and Unbind

As incredible as it is to have 3 methods of removing Binds on her team, C3 Yukari unfortunately has a potential obstacle when it comes to specific Binds, like on her Skills and/or Spell Cards. Without a Passive that is sure to remove these binds, it will slow C3 Yukari down a bit should she face this issue.

Miyoi Okunoda (C3) is a Technical-Class Friend who debuffs enemy CRIT DEF and Evasion, breaks Freeze Anomalies after inflicting them and supports her Yang Attack teammates.

Long Duration CRIT Buffs and Debuffs

An experience with Miyoi is one to not be forgotten (ironic). She can inflict multiple sources of CRIT DEF and CRIT Evasion debuffs on enemy teams lasting up to 5 turns long. Her allies benefit the same, with Yang ATK and Crit ATK buffs going up to 4 turns long. These long lasting durations give her the flexibility of extending team strategies as needed.

B-B-Brain Freeze

Watch out for that Dr Eirin she’s serving up! Miyoi has multiple sources that inflict Freeze Anomalies on enemies via Skill 1’s inflictions, with her Second Spell Card both inflicting them and breaking them in a single breath.

Unfocused Elements

Although Water features heavily in her kit, she shares her other bullet lines with Moon and Star, with her Last Word holding all three elements. This lack of focus takes away from her breaking and damage potential, splitting it up with potential resistances that enemies may have.

Odd Killers

For such a beach focused character, Miyoi does a LOT of damage to her fellow beachgoers, with Aquatic, Swimsuit and Summer Killers all lined up in her bullets. Despite some decent ones like Human and Mistress in addition, these aren’t the farthest reaching Killers as a whole unfortunately.