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New Impressions
Summer Louise-Marie 
Release Date: July 3, 2026
Summer Louise-Marie Character Reference
Time to tease the deer again. Louise-Marie graces us with her summer alt, and that is a nice homescreen. Gameplay-wise, she looks like a hybrid between Alchemist Nozomi and Summer Ameth. She also seems to be stepping on Summer Ameth's toes quite a bit, so maybe Cygames is cooking up her replacement?
On paper, the crux of whether we should pull looks like it depends on what is going to happen to Summer Ameth. Summer Louise-Marie has Harmony and a Physical/Magic Nullification Barrier, neither of which will stack with Summer Ameth, since she has the same things in her kit. However, I'm a bit hesitant to say this will actually be that detrimental in practice (compare my Arachne misinfo with reality). Summer Ameth and Louise-Marie's TP generation will stack, along with Alpha Laby's TP Boost, Alchemist Nozomi's TP, and Sono's TP. Apparently a Whale was able to use all of them to one-shot one of the the Abyss bosses this month. Don't underestimate the power of stacking TP. I did that with Fire Physical and ended up massively undervaluing Arachne because of it.
Summer Louise-Marie also has very strong Magic Attack and Magic Critical Damage Buffs, which get stronger each time she uses her Skills, maxing out after 4 uses of UB, 4 uses of S1, and 2 uses of S2 (each one is tracked separately). She's also a Buffer, so Buff Potency from Role Mastery powers up her already good Buffs even further. Her Damage output isn't bad, with her slightly outperforming Alchemist Nozomi in that whale team I mentioned previously.
In all honesty, you probably don't care about how she performs in-game, do you? You just want her on your homescreen.
- Limited
Pros:
- Should be able to consistently cancel one basic attack per Loop with only minor TP support (Summer Ameth should be enough)
- Really good Buffs after maxing out her Counters and with Buff Potency from Role Mastery factored in
- Should still be great for your team despite her overlap with other Water Mages
- Homescreen core
Cons:
- Harmony doesn't stack and Summer Ameth already has it
- Physical and Magic Damage Barrier is the same as Summer Ameth and doesn't stack
- At least she had the decency to use Latin instead of Greek for her Skill names
Recommendation: Medium-high priority. She looks strong and Water Mages might not be bothered by her overlap with its other members. If Summer Ameth is here to stay, Summer Louise-Marie might be a bit less important, but still really strong because of Water Mages' ability to TP stack. If Summer Ameth is replaced, she'll probably be a bit more important. If you have a comfortable amount of Jimmes, I'd say hedge your bets and pull. If you have less, maybe wait until we get the Summer Creditta announcement and have a basic idea of what she does.
As for the rerun banner, that really depends on your box. I don't have X.Yui or X.Misora, but never really felt like I missed them. S.Precia still gets used a lot, and so does S.Shefi. S.Eris feels like she fell off a bit, but is still somewhat useful. I'd say you might want to consider the rerun banner if you're missing 2 of S.Precia/S.Shefi/S.Eris, but it's still down to luck to ensure you get one or more and are able to spark the other. You've got a 75.46% chance of pulling the rate up character at least once in 200 pulls.
Summer Precia (UE Update) 
Release Date: ?
Summer Precia Character Reference
Summer Precia's S1+ increases the Physical Attack Buff and adds Ally scaling to her Damage. If it works the way I think it does (remember, Precia = fraud and Yukari Notes = drunk), then it looks like it might actually be a decent Damage boost on teams where you have more than 5 Allies. Using Shinatsu and Wakana will get you up to 7, which looks like around a 40% Damage boost over S1 if I'm interpreting things correctly. Unfortunately I don't have her, so I can't test.
UE adds Magic Attack and a small amount of Magic Critical. Leave at UE30, even the Crit Rate is pretty low.
UE Stats:
- +1751 Magic Attack
- +195 Magic Critical
Summer Shefi (UE Update) 
Release Date: ?
Summer Shefi Character Reference
Summer Shefi's S1+ adds a slight amount of Damage, slightly increases the Physical Attack Buff, and adds a 3% Critical Damage Received Debuff. Another case of a weak UE for a Character who still sees use.
Her UE adds a small amount of Physical Attack and some Physical Critical as well. It also has the useless TP Regen stat. Leave at UE30 for now, as always.
UE Stats:
- +973 Physical Attack
- +389 Physical Critical
- +584 TP Regen
Summer Eris (UE Update)
Release Date: ?
Summer Eris Character Reference
Summer Eris' S1+ adds a 6% Magic Critical Damage Buff after [Crown of Thorns] is removed, which is reduced to 0.6% while it's still active. Meh, but this is expected.
UE just adds Magic Attack and Magic Critical. The Magic Critical is the most helpful thing here, but leave at UE30 for now.
UE Stats:
- +1556 Magic Attack
- +389 Magic Critical
Older Impressions
Leaving these up a bit longer than usual since I was late on both.
Wahrer Drache Shefi 
Release Date: June 30, 2026
Wahrer Drache Shefi Character Reference
Our imouto gets her new PriFes to join with the rest of the gang. Wahrer Drache Shefi is extremely strong and will be a staple in all Dark Physical teams. There isn't too much to say, so this one will be relatively short.
Think of her like a Dark version of Isla. Wahrer Drache Shefi deals big Damage against both Single-Target and Multi-Target thanks to great scaling, multiple Damage Calculations, and a mix of Multi-Target and Single-Target Damage. to make things even better, she gains extra effects after her first and fourth UBs. The first time she uses UB, she gets a 20% Damage boost that caps at 1 million extra Damage. The fourth UB gives her [Ice Dragon Overcoming]. The first time she uses S2 after gaining this effect, it adds a 50% stackable Action Speed boost and gives her the new Physical Damage Follow-up state. This state adds 10% extra Damage as a separate Damage Calculation to each attack. It's basically just free extra Damage that is usually low enough to ignore log barrier.
Moving away from Damage for a second, she has a few utility skills worth noting. At the start of the fight, Wahrer Drache Shefi will activate Flight, like the Alter Maidens. She also has a selfish Physical Attack buff and TP on S2 that increase with each use, up to 4x their base amount. The Physical Attack Buff gets quite big, and TP will start fully charging her after only 2 uses, due to her TP Boost. Unfortunately, she only uses S2 1/6 Actions in her Loop, so she will appreciate having TP support to cancel some basic attacks.
I don't have much else to say. Sheffers is clearly extremely strong, and your Dark box will miss her if you skip. Still, we should get a Prize PriFes in 2 months for the half anniversary, so plan accordingly.
- PriFes
Pros:
- Big Damage
- Has Flight like the Alter Maidens
- Single-Target and Multi-Target
- Self full TP charge on S2 after 2 uses
- Self Physical Attack Buff on S2 for 18s that grows with each use up to 4x the base amount
- Self permanent stackable Action Speed Boost on S2 after her 4th UB
- New Physical Damage Follow-up gives her 10% extra Damage for free when using S2 after her 4th UB
- PriFes has higher rates for permas you skipped
Cons:
- Only selfish Buffs
- Summer is coming up soon
- You could skip and try to roll again in 2 months at the half anniversary Prize PriFes
Recommendation: High priority. Wahrer Drache Shefi will be a core in all Dark Physical teams moving forward, and PriFes is always a good place to pull to try to get spooked by all those permas I told you to skip (I got two spooks myself). I wouldn't say she's a must pull, since she doesn't have obvious uses outside of Dark, unless she's way stronger than I'm giving her credit for. The only reason to skip is if you plan to pick her up at the next Prize PriFes and want to save Jimmies for the summer girls, mostly for non-gameplay reasons...
Update: I was living in misinfo land, and Anon reminded me that PriFes happens every 2 months, not 3. Updated accordingly.
Homare (UE Only) 
Release Date: October 31, 2021
It's about time. Our patience has paid off and Cygames rewarded Wide Hips' hard work re-entering top 1000 by finally giving Homare her UE. It's a good one, as are all PriFes UEs.
Homare's SP and S1 used to apply [Dragon's Eye] and a 12% Magic Damage Received Debuff to the Enemy with the highest Magic Attack. S1+ now applies both to all Enemies, if at least one already has [Dragon's Eyes]. Since every Enemy will now have [Dragon's Eyes], her shred is Multi-Target, along with the newly added Damage (it's small though).
The more important art of S1+ is that it adds [Sleeping Dragon Awakening] to Homare herself, which adds percent based Damage to her UB that scales with the number of Enemies. At 4 Enemies, it will deal 100% of a Target's Max HP as Damage, up to 2,000,000. I thought this might be a PvP wipe after her second Action, but those pesky Barriers and Damage Cut effects ruined my fun. She's going to be very strong against Multi-Target Bosses and in Deep Quests.
Stats-wide, her UE is fairly typical, adding offensive stats and w little defense as well. I don't think you need to go above UE30 until you see a timeline that needs it.
As an aside, if for whatever reason no Enemy has [Dragon's Eyes] when Homare uses her first S1+ (Homare got stunned or the Enemy with it died), you will have to wait until her second use of S1+ to activate [Sleeping Dragon Awakening].
UE Stats:
- +973 Magic Attack
- +389 Magic Critical
- +98 Physical Defense
- +98 Magic Defense