Kikoru Shinomiya (Guiding Light of the Future) is a Slash Attacker who focuses on action-based damage scaling and team-wide damage amplification through debuffs. Her strength lies in carefully building buffs before unleashing her Ultimate for maximum impact.
Kikoru gains stacks of Tip-Top Shape each time she uses a skill other than her Ultimate. These stacks significantly increase her ATK and CRIT DMG, with a particularly strong emphasis on CRIT DMG, allowing her damage to ramp up steadily as she continues to act.
Once she reaches three stacks of Tip-Top Shape, Kikoru’s Ultimate applies a DEF debuff to enemies, boosting not only her own damage but also the entire team’s damage output. However, using her Ultimate consumes all Tip-Top Shape stacks, making timing crucial. Activating it too early results in losing valuable buffs without gaining the debuff benefit.
Because of this, Kikoru performs best when players carefully manage her rotation, building stacks before committing to her Ultimate even if the gauge is already full. When used correctly, she provides both strong personal DPS and meaningful team support.
