Balance changes (update version 2.60)

[Killerdog]

@Wendigo

Are this kasumi worth waking up now after buff?

Here’s what I had to say about the Kasumi buff…

@Killerdog

Kasumi moves from D → S in PvE, D → S in PvP and B → A in HP boost, this buff actually annoys me. Her moveset was always very strong but she was held back by the fact she adds two Jerbo next in line that were at high risk of being dead weight. Now they’re not dead weight at all, they’re literally a great help for your team almost guaranteed! And at the same time, Kasumi’s moveset got buffed by a large amount! I don’t know why she needs to be a super tanky sleep control / efficient TU sweeper that also adds extra sweepers into your team. The whole switching between idol form and back gimmick seems forgotten when literally every part of this moveset screams powerful. It’s stupid, ridiculous power creep and makes Mai look like an absolute joke by comparison. Hell, it makes a whole lot of other monsters look like a complete joke. I think the Devs made a big mistake here. They should have either made the moveset strong but kept the Jerbos being a risk or made the moveset much weaker and the jerbo synergy stronger.

Rant aside, you don’t need to use this with Mai at all any more nor do you need to worry about using it outside the front line. The jerbos will get a kill on their first turn guaranteed unless Kasumi has been knocked back. Kasumi can piercing sweep at 80TU with the sleep + dreamhunt or otherwise do sleep control or use the more generic sweeping moves. Having more reinforcements is fairly important for the defence buff, especially because you can heal up with the dreamhunt to tank like mad. Some battles you’ll want to go down the route of swapping forms to add lots of Jerbo into your team. I reckon that’s probably a smart move if you have the enemies temporarily disabled / under control. With all of this you do have to bear in mind that the enemies may become poisoned from the Jerbo poison revenge, but you can play around that and if you’ve switched form at all in the battle then the Jerbo can sacrifice themselves to avoid getting their revenge triggered (they couldn’t do this before - only if Mai had died).