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Evaluation

Maxing Damage Potential

Main damage comes from *Vermillion Spear skill series, and its tied to having her [Fox-Shrouded] state enabled. But [Vemrilion Spears] also remove this state. So need to re-enable [Fox-Shrouded] state after each [Vermilion Spear] with [Cloak of Tails] skill.

Basic rotation with 800% damage potential at (XL)

# Action	Skill	Modifier	Stacks
1	Cloak of Tails()	[160%]
2	Vermillion Spear [ 0 ]	[800%]	M
Repeat #1 and #2 skills to re-enable and do [800%]

Next, need to look at her Libation stacks: they greatly increase power of her [Vermilion Spear], but it doesn't change "being in [Fox-Shrouded]" requirement. Cloak of Tails skill stacks one Libation but only if she already has both Moonlight and Sakura stacks on herself. To help with it, her Basic Attack that turns into Okamizake skill once per fight stacks both stacks at the same time, so:

Better rotation with 2400% damage potential at (XL)

#Action	Skill	Modifier	Stacks
1	Okamizake	[160%]	M S
2	Cloak of Tails()	[160%]	❌ ❌ > 1
3	Vermillion Spear [ 1 ]	[2400%]	M
Repeat #2 and #3 skills to re-enable and do [2400%]

Stacking second Libation is harder because [Vermilion Spear] only stacks Moonlight, so to stack Sakura need to fit either one of buff skills: Hanamizake skill or Tsukimizake skill:

Max damage rotation with 4800% damage potential at (XL), requires to have 3 skill slots used on these skills specifically:

#Action	Skill	Modifier	Stacks
1	Okamizake	[160%]	M S
2	Cloak of Tails()	[160%]	❌ ❌ > 1
3-4: Spear skill and Buff skill in any order.
3-4	Vermillion Spear [ 1 ]	[2400%]	M
3-4 (any of 2)	Tsukimizake ()	[180%]	S
	Hanamizake ()	[120%]
5	Cloak of Tails ()	[160%]	❌ ❌ > 2
6	Vermillion Spear[ 2 ]	[4800%]	M
Repeat #5 and #6 skills to re-enable and do [4800%]

Support skills

Hozuki's team support abilities consist of:

• Deploy Pierce Zone skill with Weakness buff for party.
• 2 skills with big buffs (50-80%) that only last 1 turn.
• Passive that recharges 10% of Another Force Gauge after each use of Another Force.
• 3x Pierce Break on AOE skill

So there is some limits on her support capabilities:

• Values of 2 buff skills start from 50% and are tied to number of Libation stacks.
  • Can reach 65% Buff values only on 3rd action
  • Can reach 80% Buff values only on 6th action
  • Buffs only last 1 turn.
• Maxing number of Libation stacks to 2 is tied to equipping 3 skills, only 1 of those skills can be buff.
• Cant equip Deploy Pierce Zone skill and get 2 Libation stacks with just 3 skill slots.

Based on all above its becomes obvious that similar to Hozuki AS, this Hozuki is inclined towards Another Force teams.

• She needs few actions to setup max potential - AF can help with it.
• Can use her own 1 Turns buffs to buff herself only inside AF
• All her skills and buffs are attacking moves - to help keep AF going.
• AF gauge recharging passive to use next AF faster.
• BUT: Her skill rotation is very complex and can be hard to press in right order in the of Another Force rush.

Setups

As a result of stack limitations there are few options to setup her depending on having or not having 4th skill slot unlocked at 80 shadow:

With 3 Skills slots

Overall first 4800% setup is the best one: to have Hozuki at her max potential, and have other characters to deploy a Zone with additional skill from Spell: Piercing Flash and Spell: Raging Fire Grastas.

• 4800% damage setup, 1 Buff skill with +80%, No zone deploy
  • Pick 1 Buff skill. Buff skill is possible to max to +80%
  • Vermillion Spear damage skill
  • Cloak of Tails() with Awaken Zone
  • Tsukimizake () OR Hanamizake ()

Other setups are mostly to be used only for some specific use cases where its only possible to use Hozuki to deploy a Zone.

• 2400% damage setup, with Pierce Zone deploy and Awaken Zone
  • Cant equip any buff skill, only 1 Libation can be stacked
  • Vermillion Spear damage skill
  • Cloak of Tails() with Awaken Zone
  • Fox's Wedding Deploy Pierce Zone skill with Weakness buff

• NO damage setup, with Pierce Zone deploy, 1 Buff limited to 65% and Awaken Zone
  • Can't equip damage skill so only 1 Libation can be stacked. Pick 1 of 2 buffs.
  • Cloak of Tails() with Awaken Zone
  • Fox's Wedding Deploy Pierce Zone skill with Weakness buff
  • Tsukimizake () OR Hanamizake ()

• NO damage setup, 2 Buffs limited to +50%, with Pierce Zone deploy
  • Can't stack Libation without skill
  • Fox's Wedding Deploy Pierce Zone skill with Weakness buff
  • Tsukimizake ()
  • Hanamizake ()

With 4 Skills slots

Unlocking 4th skill slot at 80 shadow, loosens her setup limits of having Damage, Buffs and Zone at the same time, and with just 1 setup its possible to cover most of support and damage with maxed values at 2 Libation stacks, but still need to drop 1 buff skill, and in most cases that don't need speed buff specifically, skill Hanamizake () can be ignored.

• 4800% damage setup, 1 +80% Buffs skill, with Pierce Zone deploy and Awaken Zone
  • Fox's Wedding Deploy Pierce Zone skill with Weakness buff
  • Vermillion Spear damage skill
  • Cloak of Tails() with Awaken Zone
  • Tsukimizake ()
    • Or Hanamizake ()