Ayaka

One of the few girls capable of using white magic from the Kingdom of Pharm. Though her and Sakura share a teacher-student relationship, with Ayaka trying to earn her master's favor with delicious candies every time they meet, Sakura things this is a bit much to deal with.

Role:Healing, Support

TMR: Pure White Blessing

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Materia, Heals the user for 1800HP w/ 1x Mod per turn, 10% MP Regen & Gain 2 LB Crystal per turn

Awesome TMR for a support/tank that needs extra MP regeneration, and the extra LB crystals such as Wilhelm. Who needs the extra healing when you have Ayaka herself?

Stats

Equipments

Magic Affinity

Limit Burst

Magic Spells

Active Abilities

Passive Abilities

BiS Build

Build for survivability, I basically gave her leftover crap in JP and she's survived all the fights up to date.

Strengths

Great innate passives

Ayaka has insane survivability as a healer, she comes with ~4.6K HP when max potted and has innate 80% SPR. White Mirage decrease the likeliness of her being targeted by 75%, which means she's only vulnerable to AoE Attacks. AoE Physical attacks are soaked up by EV/WoL, and AoE magical attacks most likely won't kill her with her high SPR.

Easy to gear

Throw some 10% HP materias and she'll easily reach 6K HP, that's insane for a healer any way you look at it. Throw some random leftover robe, staff and some accessories on her and she easily reaches 500-600 SPR as well.

The Perfect Healer

She has everything you'd possibly want on a healer. Along with Curaja & Reraise (we'll get into those later), she also has access to a plethora of powerful white magic spells including Dispelga & Esunaga. In terms of abilities, she covers AoE Revive (100%), Purify (Curaga Esunaga), Dedication (AoE 2500HP & 50MP recovery except self) and 45% buffs from Meditate (5 Turn MAG/SPR)/Embolden (5 Turn ATK/DEF).

Curaja

Shit, I'm never going to get used to the name change. But Curaja is basically the new godly healing skill that heals for 2500HP w/ 18x Modifier a pop. Assuming your Ayaka has 500 SPR & 200 MAG, you'll be looking at a nice ~7.3K HP recovery per use.

Oh, and you can Dual Cast it.

Speaking of Dual Cast.....

Reraise

Ayaka also has access to re-raise that's Dual Cast-able..... Coupled with her insanely powerful Curaja, she's essentially capable of fully healing the team, and casting a re-raise buff on one of your units in the same turn.

Imagine using her for Aigaion - no longer would you need to bring a deadweight re-raise unit like Rem/Vanille/whoever, Ayaka can just cast re-raise on whoever and fully heal your team at the same time.

Shit, that's awesome. Might have to go back and kick some robot ass one more time just to try this out.

Spoiler:

Stop Resistance (minor)

Sick of getting Blizzard Flasked to death by that one guy with 5 Noctis'? Look no further! Ayaka comes with innate Stop resistance, and is capable of removing Stop from all of your units.

Weaknesses

Ayaka is one of those rare units without any real weaknesses. I can name a couple of things that'd make her more perfect, but it's just nitpicking at that point.

Companions

Any Provoke Tank or AoE cover tank (depending on the fight) is a powerful combination with Ayaka's DC re-raise Curaja combo. This allows your tank to soak up most of the damage without dying and fully heal your team in the same turn.

Zargabaath

Ayaka is god tier as a healer, but she lacks a little bit on the support side. Her 45% buffs are good but not great, and lacks true support abilities such as elemental resist and damage mitigation. In situations where you need elemental resist, damage mitigation and more powerful buffs, Zarg will complement Ayaka very well.

Entrust users such as Tidus or Ling is a great companion next to Ayaka for her to reliably fire off her powerful LB off whenever needed in a fight. Her LB is basically a reset button when you screw up, and essentially resets the fight right by fully healing/reviving/cleansing your units.

Comparisons

Tilith is the only one that deserves to be compared to Ayaka as a healer (sorry Y'shtola/Refia/Luka), and even then she barely holds a candle.

Tilith does edge out in the support department with Rainbow Veil and Celestial Light is arguably better than Meditate/Embolden in certain situations, though its 2 turn duration is too short for it to be sustained throughout a fight. However, Ayaka's Curaja & Reraise is just way too powerful.

Imagine if Tilith, Y'shtola & Refia had a 3-way baby, and then injected that baby with some Super-Soldier Serum - that's what Ayaka is.

Yay no damage/chaining comparisons.

Overview

Absolutely amazing unit if you manage to pull her. If she wasn't already released in JP, this subreddit will be going apeshit at how OP Ayaka is. Search "Ayaka" in the search menu and look back at when she was released in JP and you'll see exactly what I mean. Multiple threads about how Ayaka is too OP for the game along with a bunch of 7 star conspiracies.

In terms of healing, she's still one of the top two healers in JP along with CG Fina. CG Fina has a bit more utility and support in her kit, but Ayaka is definitely still right up there with her.

Sidenote

Annnnnnd my credit card limit increase application just went through, yaaaaaayyyyyysigh.

Quest to Ayaka:

1x Delita 2x Lightning 1x Queen 2x Zarg 1x Onion Knight

makes Ziss whale moan