Thread: HBC's FKG 6* Tier List

Mei Plumblossom, Japanese Appricot and Ume in JP.

Mei was the first girl in FKG whom I considered waifu, and even up to this point she is one of my favorites. Even so, considering I am able to separate my preferences from my objective review It should not impact my overall rating. So lets get to it.

Stat wise she is solid and holds the candle to the stronger girls. Her attack is her dominant stat Peaking at 8.2K once Affection is maxed, without ampies, this certainly plays into her role as single target nuker and team finisher. She has higher than average defense when compared to such as BB, Denbro and similar girls. Her HP is normal for what you would have expected.
Speed of 550 allows to you put her into any team as she is right in the middle of things, not dragging the team down, nor running them up front far from others.

For a long time her active skill was the highest in the game, boasting a massive damage multiplier of 5.4, outperforming even Sakura who was at that point sitting at 5.0. Now they are the same, but its pretty strong improvement considering Mei started at 4.0 when she was launched, so she has received a lot of love.
Her trigger chance is the usual 26% - 34% so she isnt as beastly as Cactus, triggering the skill over and over again. But that makes her far from bad.
The graphics are more tame, her being one of the early knights in the game, but still look good even to this day. Her ultimate animation emphasizes on her speed and dueling proves where she jumps around her target striking each individual vital spot. Very cool agility based combat acrobatics from this seemingly fragile lady !

Skill wise, she is almost perfect and were it not for the one retarded hiccup in her setup she would by ease burst into the S tier. So what do we have here ?

Once bloomed Mei offers the standard damage for the whole team buff, set at the usual neutral 22%. Since this is pretty much the standard thats nothing amazing, but nothing horribly bad either. Moving on.

Skill activation of 1.2... Yes this beatiful, gentle, well posed yet warmingly fluffy doll like lady has the universally amazing static skill activation. While not as good as the one RG has, this one is the standard for most 6* and as such is always welcome.
Considering her botch standard trigger % chance for her ultimate this by itself makes her suddenly much better. But wait, it gets better.

Playing into her role as Sakura`s rival and best friend, and also the strong single target nuker, the devs outfitted her with very good Critical setup.
Offering a slightly above avarage Critical chance of 20% and 30% Crit Damage, Mei can be at home in any Crit based team as the closing jab aimed at the enemy.
What makes her ever so valuable is the actual combination of Chance AND Damage for your Crits combined with her massive single target damage, that allows her to outperform many other Crit Girls thus giving you more incentive to pick her up when constructing your Teams setup.

As far as well balance standard girls go she is absolutely amazing, and were it not for the last thing in her setup she would be able to break into the S tier. Not as broken as Kerria or Saffron, but if it was literally anything else, then what I am to talk about next she would be able to step up to S- tier at least.
Soo ... what is this horrible pieco of shit that plagues my waifu as well as some of the early designed girls ?

The horrible shitty retarded skill known as Solar Blast...

Yeas the last skill in her repertoire is the oh so hated Solar Blast. Now these days SB is not as worthless as it was, but the problem is, if you want a SB girl she needs to be tailored for the role having multiple skills that bolster it.
For Mei this skill starts you with 50% Light Gauge filled.
Yes.... absolutely useless. The problem is, the pure gimmick nonsense this skill is when looking at her overall setup. Since Blooming was introduced much later into the game, she was stuck with this skill for a long time and unfortunately Devs do not redesign the older Knights to fit better with their post Bloom skill setup.
As such just this one hiccup bars Mei from breaching from the tier of "Amazing" into "Mildly Broken".

There are many things she could have benefited from other than SB, but thinking about what could have been is not the point of this review.

As such I rate her at A+
She is a very solid girl in every single aspect, and will fit into any crit team. She can hold her own as well if put into a different setup, and while I am complaining about the SB skill, the fact is that starting the gauge 1/2 filled is much better than some other skills like for example Cattleyas Crystal Drop and such.

Now with the objective review done and concluded, lets move on to more pleasing part... the Waifu factor mofu :3

Mei has 3 distinctive artworks for each of her forms, plus later in the day she also received a 5* yukata version which is also very pretty.
So lets talk about the art, theme and overall design and level of details.

Her Basic form is absolutely top notch, and as far as not just all her forms but also many other knights go, its absolutely spot on and I think my favorite in the game.

So lets dive into it why - Unlike other girls, Meis basic form Impersonates the meaning of the title of the game.
That being Flower KNIGHT Girls. Emphasis on the word Knight.
She is wearing a segmented plate breastplate (not boob plate mind you), with additional hip guards attached. Her beautiful slender legs are protected by armored leggings, shielding her feet, shins and knees. She also sports a simplistic yet semi functional set of bracers to protect her forearm. Plus her hands are covered with gloves, which makes sense since wielding a weapon in a combat creates sweat and leather gloves make sure the handle stays nicely placed in her palm, not slipping out.
Her weapon is a long bladed rapier, which is pretty stylish and does add a more of a duelist look to her.
As far as protection goes she has plenty of it, while also maintaining that battle maiden eye candy look.
Her dress is also nicely done and fitting with the theme. A huge plus for me is the lingerie's which are showing just enough from underneath her protective gear to tickle your fantasy ~mmmm~

It is needless to say that her slender doll like look might not appeal to some, mostly those who like their ladies nice and thick with big tiddeees but to me personally this appearance is the epitome of a fantasy beauty and is very attractive . Also I am a sucker for long hair, and find it amusing that her hair is slightly wavy rather than the usual straight one that most other girls have.

Now I will jump here slightly forward - Her second artwork is from the generation where it was trend to slutty up the girls once Evolved and as such all the epic battlemaiden feeling is gone, leaving us with half naked chick instead. Still its done fairly well and still has enough clothes with frills etc to add plenty of details to her artwork and not completely discredit her as just another bikiny model walking around the battlefield. Still though, there is some strange magic going on, how else would that sort of revealing dress hold onto her is a mystery
Despite it being lightened up an quite revealing there is still good amount of details present. Something I always appreciate since it shows much more effort and skill on the side of the painter rather then just simply the job by stripping the girl.

Her Bloomed artwork.... is utter rubbish. Shit even. Shocking coming from the person who has been praising this girl so far, but I am not joking here unfortunately T__T
It seems like they gave he job to someone else and that person COMPLETELY messed up her mono-thematic color setup by introducing a lot of blue, black and dark brown into an already established mix.... What the fuck dude ? Are you color blind ?
NOT ONLY do these colors NOT mesh up well togather, the contrast is all over the place and the overall nice fluid look of one color being dominant with bunch of small details, and highlights serving as the contrast, the overall visual has been ruined and broken into an incoherent mess of not well mixed themes that fight with each other. Plus I think she has gotten uglier in the face. Whomever did this is due to an ass kicking for doing this to my Mei!

As for the Yukata skins, they are all pretty, but I will not comment on them here, since its a separate unit in game.

Now the last, most distinct thing about Mei look is - you`ve guessed it - her closed eyes.
Soo is she actually blind ? This comment is already growing fairly long, so the short answer is: NO. Do not fear the Waifus eyesight is still present and working.
During her H scene you will get the chance to see her eyes, and they are very pretty even give her a bit of a sharp look. Certain fierceness you would not expect from her usual gentle expression.

Her Voice Actress is fairly nice, though I believe the voice actress could have gone for slightly more lively voice over. I get the stoic, intelligent beatiful ladylike setting but I personally dont really like it that much for Mei. There have been multiple occassions when hearing the voice overs from the other girls where I thought that "this voice would be much more fitting instead."
So while the voice actress is doing nice job on the persona, I think that persona is not completely in line what Mei has going on, and a more soothing voice that would fit the gentle expression she wears would be in order.

So with all that said I`ll wrap it up here. Its been long enough, and there is a limit to how much a husbando can write regardless how much he feels about his waifu
Also it is needless to say by this point but for me Mei will always be the FIRST WAIFU, and this title belongs to her rightfully so, even if I talk about few other girls in the future as waifus as well.