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Y’know, this was supposed to be the week where I started making serious progress on the damage dealer revamp for leader skills, but then my home internet decided to go largely comatose…. Reddit was also down half of yesterday, so that’s basically my excuse for why I was busy playing Omori instead of getting this thread up.
maybe I was the lady potato all along.....

Lady Shantotto

You guys wanted a… 4th(?) version of the small angry lady right? This one basically boils down to a dark magic SLB that’s a solid 490x after her CD boost and has a 150% amp and 40% rod imperil attached, giving a respectable 73.6t burst for a score of 31.5. Boring, but effective enough, especially with the two upcoming dark leaders. She appears to have plenty of other elemental options, but even in the best case of quadcasting her V-level spells at max chain with all their modboosts (which alone requires waiting til after the SLB) only does around ⅓ of her dark burst, or a bit over half with a really good external amp for the right element, and is very awkward to line everything up with the low uptime of Manafont and the need to stack them first. Probably best to just ignore them.

Lion

Lion’s another iteration of the JP 160% Imperil-breakers that we’ve grown accustomed to, this time in Light. She’s a bit better than most of the others on the offensive side with having 89% to both DEF and SPR breaks instead of 89 88, and has two AoE 150% killers instead of one. Her weapon imperil is also a bit stronger at 40%, but dagger isn’t a particularly meta weapon type. Unfortunately, her best ATK/MAG is lower than most of the others at 83% instead of 85% , So overall she didn’t feel like enough of a boost over the others in the series to be rated higher. She gets the same rating as Emperor, Kuja, Lulu, Gilgamesh, etc. at 30.0

Aphmau Crowns

Crowned Aphmau is a bit of a weird one. Previously she was seen as more of a tank who could also break, but her crowns did much less to improve her tanking compared to her breaking, so now she’s more of a breaker who might be able to tank occasionally. On the tank side, her mits and thus final bulk are now very subpar for the modern standard, having only 50% general/physical AoE and 75% general for herself when 75/75 AoE is really the minimum expectation now. The one exception is if the enemy is a pure machine, her 75% machine mitigation brings her up to acceptable levels. For breaking, she can now maintain 88% AoE fullbreaks, 145% imperils for 6 elements, and semi-frequent perfect dispels, all AoE. While not quite as specialized as some of the others, overall this is actually pretty strong compared to a lot of the pack. With the small boon of being able to occasionally tank too (if say, evade cover is all you really need) we figured she was a bit better overall than the niche specialists, and have sat her at 30.5, Alongside Kaktiria but just below Kaito.