Thread: HBC's FKG 6* Tier List

Ok so about Sakura

Most of the things have been said.
The thing I want to focus on is the BOSS FIGHT and VS BOSS damage amplifiers.

Wutan rated this B, because of in his words those stats are to small.

I have done pretty deep research into all girls who have this skill (before last update, thus the newest one are not included), so let me share some stats with you:

Sakura adds 35% for Boss fights > meaning this affects all enemy units in that Boss fight. So yeas those pesky little minions that hang around the big guys ? They get their fair share of damage buffed up ass kickery.
Next she adds 12% Against the boss itself.

Now this is where I need to point out for the skill that is written as "Against BOSSES" (thus not the Boss fights) 12% is pretty standard deal.
The girl with the lowest stat in this skill I found was Peach Blossom (A.K.A. Mace Loli chan), who has Boss Fight 15% and Boss ONLY 8%.

There are some girls like Pumpkin and Serisa who have 20% and 30% on this skill, but then on the other side, lack the Boss FIGHT skill, which means their extra damage applies ONLY to the Boss monster itself, not the minions.

Then there are some exceptions for girls (mostly Promoted ones) who have higher % of this skill, but:
Either apply it only to limited number of party member (example: Blood Iris 35% but only herself and +2 more knights)
or
Have it much higher, but apply it ONLY to themselves, (Example Cyclamen Radiant, who applies 20% vs Boss to self, and then additional 18 vs Boss to the party, and she has Boss fight skill as well).

Then the remaining majority has around 15% for Boss only.

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What I am trying to say with all of this is - while 12% isnt that impressive, you need to account for both of those skills and the fact that the "higher standard" is 15% but there out of those girls who have 15%, only small portion of them also has Boss FIGHT as well as VS Boss. Which admittedly is not as good. The 12% is the basic, and only time it deviates is due to different skil setup combination on the girls herself.

Now it makes sense you bring a boss killer to kill .... Bosses. You wont bring a Solar Blast / Evasion girl if you need to nuke the boss hard. Thus arguing that Sakura is worse then other girls because she has only one role she fits in is kinda stupid.
Loquat is an amazing Crit girl, but all her skill revolve around that, sure you can put her in other teams and she will work there fine, just like Sakura, but her main strengths are shown when used correctly.

As such I would say Sakura is a A Tier girl. Her stats are solid, her skill setup is well tailored for what she needs to accomplish. Her speed leaves something to be desired but occasionally its good to have a girl like that, if you need to tone down super fast teams like Rabbit chan and Red Ginger.

Now about the usual stuff: Aesthetics.
Sakura is like a balm on a soar wound. Her artwork is highly detailed, and finely drawn. She is by far one of the best drawn girls out there due to the shee amount of details that are present in her artwork.
Her ultimate, being one of the earliest in the game, even to this day looks absolutely amazing > I mean you cant go wrong with a gun shooting a giant KAME-HAME-HAAAAA beam
She is also one of the very few girls who have a separate basic attack and basic attack crit. animations. Might even be the only one, but I doubt that. Still that makes her a bit more unique.
Her dual colored irises are a bit off putting but I guess the artist really tried to push the chyunibuu edgyness hard, so... eh ? *Shrug :-)

As for personality, Sakura is a proper Kudere. She is nice and warm and fluffy, and her Ara Araaa ~ is just adorable. She doesnt mind a bit of teasing, but its all in good fun.
Also she has nice long hair and her pony tail is alive (refer to her ingame Sprite) which is much adorbs.

Overall Sakura is a very solid A tier girl, that can work in any team thanks to her skill act and damage buffs, but really shines when put into the role of a Finisher and Boss killer. Not mandatory, but definitely nice to have. (If she had Crit as well i would gladly take her instead of Rainbow Rose for my second Crit/Boss killer team.).
"Ara araa ~ Maybe I should train a little bit with Mei chan then, what do you think Danchou san ?"
"S-Sakura ?! Wha.. What are you doing here ?"
"I baked you a pie and when I came to bring it to you I noticed you are talking about me ufufufu ~"
*Yes Sakura has a nice Waifu mode skin : Waifu Baker Sakura, which is always nice to have !*
"Ah, yes well I was just talking about how good of a girl you are and..."
" Ara Araa ! Danchou san is so sweet, ufufuf ~ Let me give you a little reward .... Dan-chou-san ~ Chuu ~"
"No thats not neces.. mmmm !....mmm....mmmmm ~~~"
*Sakuras arms wrap around you as she kisses you deeply pushing her weight onto you, both of you slowly sink behind the writing table as the screen fades to black*
"Ara Araa ~ ufufufu ~"