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New Year's Shizuru

New Year's Shizuru Character Reference

I'll just leave this here

Shizuru blesses us with another alt, and she's a Tank again - Wind this time. She offers her support to both Physical and Magic teams, but seems more obviously useful for the Mages.

New Year's Shizuru uses both Physical and Magic Attack, as well as both Crit stats, so you aren't losing anything by running her in a Physical or Magic team. She has extra effects on S1 and S2, depending on whether she has a Physical Attack Buff, Magic Attack Buff, or both. Luckily for us, her UB gives everyone on your team both a Physical and Magic Attack Buff, meaning her own UB activates the full effect of her other Skills.

She does everything a modern Tank is expected to do: keeping your team alive and increasing their Damage output at the same time. On the defensive side, she directly Tanks, Heals, Taunts, resists Stuns, and reduces the Enemy's Physical and Magic Attack. As for offense, she shreds, increases Critical Damage Received, increases both Physical and Magic Attack, and gives TP to your whole team.

Since I got her so early, I was able to do some full Auto testing against the last 2 CB Bosses that were weak to Wind to see how she performed in comparison to other Characters. Overall, she's not as impressive as I had hoped, but definitely decent enough to have potential. Hover over each image to see the total Damage.

She only did better than X.Yori vs Algedi, which is a team where Wind Mages needed a Tank to survive. She did worse than Wakana on a Physical team vs Algedi. Finally, she did substantially worse against Goblin Rider than Sp.Suzume, where it was better to run a DPS in Position 1 since you didn't need a proper Tank.

I will note that since I skipped both S.Precia and S.Lia, I wasn't able to test both at the same time with New Year's Shizuru. Theoretically, she is a good partner with S.Precia, since she uses both Physical and Magic Attack for her Damage Calculations. Anemone is another Character New Year's Shizuru might be good with, since her Damage Calculation functions the same way.

She seems okay for now and appears to be a direct upgrade over X.Yori. I think New Year's Shizuru is the sort of Character that may be significantly better with a timeline, since she can overlap 2x S1 Debuffs and a UB fairly easily for very large shred and Critical Damage Received Debuffs on an Enemy. I think you could also still have her S2 Buffs active in this window for even more Damage. It's hard to say she's high priority; there's no singular thing about her that feels really broken. Still, she does at least have a useful role to fulfill for Wind Mages, and I think she might see some use on other teams too.

• Limited

Pros:

• Should be fairly easy to stack 2x S1 Buffs & UB
• S2 effects last 18s
• Can work in Physical and Magic
  • Most commonly will see use as the designated Tank for Wind Mages
  • Still kind of good everywhere else
• Dual Attack Buffs may make her a good partner for S.Precia and Anemone
• Good Shred
• Taunt on S2
• TP on S2
• UB alone activates her extra effects on S1 and S2 that require both Physical and Magic Attack Buffs

Cons:

• Tanking for Anemone means she won't gain TP from taking Damage
• In cases where a Tank isn't necessary, another DPS is much better

Recommendation: Medium-high priority. She seems like she is pretty clearly the best tank for Wind Mages when they absolutely need one, and may be a good partner for S.Precia/Anemone with her Physical and Magic Attack Buffs. I think Physical is still going to like Wakana most of the time, but New Year's Shizuru may be used in some situations.

New Year's Saren (UE Only)

New Year's Saren Character Reference

S1+ gains a fairly normal-sized selfish Magic Attack Buff and increases the Critical Damage Received Debuff from 5% to 8%. It's better than I was expecting, and that's probably because A.Akari (Perma) was starting to be a little too competitive with NY.Saren (Limited).

The stat gain isn't great, with even the increase to both defenses being low. It's safe to leave this one at UE30 for now.

UE Stats

• Magic Attack
• Physical Defense
• Magic Defense

New Year's Monika (UE Only)

New Year's Monika Character Reference

S1+ adds a small second Damage Calculation that is Multi-Target, and the shred becomes Multi-Target as well. It's going to be a nice little boost for when you use her against Multi-Target Bosses or in Deep Quest.

The UE stats might be useful for survivability, but the increase to Physical Attack is fairly small. Another one to park at UE30.

UE Stats

• Physical Attack
• Physical Defense
• Magic Defense

Medusa (UE Only)

Medusa Character Reference

S1+ gains slightly bigger numbers on its Damage and Debuffs, as well as adding a 3% Critical Damage Received Debuff. The boost from Evil Eye remains the same as before. It's not too much, but enough to be worth equipping.

UE only gives Physical Attack and not much at that. Park her booty at UE30.

UE Stats

• Physical Attack