Thread: HBC's FKG 6* Tier List

Since I have Iono, let me start this one I have Daisy and Cattleya, but I care not for either of them, plus at that time I was burned out to write anything. Iono is an exception since she is a girl I ticket picked, not for stats but because how derpy adorbs she is. The fact she worked for Evasion team which I wanted to build at that time also helped.

The derpy derp, or also known as Ionocidium or Iono for short, is one of the first Evasion girls to come up with the Evasion Archetype and as such does suffer from power creep that has occurred late into the game.
Now what I am going to write here about Iono, also applies to Freesia down the line as these two have identical skill set, and only differ in their stat line.

Stats: wise Iono is pretty solid, overall her stats are on the upper side. Her awesome speed of 650 also helps balancing out slower girls in the team.

Active skill is the usual AoE 2.8 at usual proc rates so nothing to write about this.
The effect of the ultimate is pretty nice, and was cool looking back in the day. These days its not as impressive but still looks pretty especially since Iono grows tiny angel wings while in the air.

Abilities:
Dmg - the usual dmg buff, nothing special. Only note that its on the lower spectrum of 18%, 20% being the standard.
Skill act - the standard 1.2 always good always useful.
Skill damage - 10% not bad, not amazing. Less than the usual papercut the girls tend to get when buffed with no real vision (poor Aizoon and her 15%)
Evasion - 80%/50% again, the usual 6* Evasion. Against enemies who dont have increased Accuracy a unit of girls with Evasion, can last surprisingly long. A good skill in an of itself.
Re-Act: Iono being the First girl to have Re-Act, she was left with the sad 40%. Especially after girls like Bush Clover and Promoted King Prothea who rock insane 60% this feel very lack luster. While its still about 1/3 chance to act again, these days anything under 50% is just mehh...

As you can see Iono doesnt have a bad skill setup, but compared to other girls just in THE SAME ARCHETYPE she already falls behind.
If you want an amazing Re-Act girl go pick Bush Clover.
While she has synergy in between her Skill act and Skill dmg, and she is a endurance dps character, evading enemy shots and acting multiple times, the 40% is just to little to warrant any real reliabilty.

Personally unless you like her, I would not go with Iono (or Freesia for that matter) if building a Re-Act team.
This girl (both of them) needs some loving and hugging.
I dont see the devs improving upon her Evasion% chance, but its possible she will get one more ability. And since she already has Skill damage, it most likely will be some shit like "Weak X". Something that will not help her skin to a better tier, nor make her stronger of a girl.

Possible fixes ?
She would benefit the most from improving her %. To make her really good at Re-acting. Otherwise the few skills that are being added to girls after update, are Dmg related - either some sort of direct dmg type ability, Skill dmg, or Weakness damage buff.
In this case giving her dmg buff per # or dmg at the end turn would be fairly useful. Although I would love to see a girl other than Slash to get Pursuit and I think that would fit Iono with her Re-Act, to flesh her character as a "derpy, sleepy huntress".
Worst case of "buff" in Ionos case would be a "Weaknes X" thing. Unless they gave her at least two different types, like "Weakness M. & B." which would actually be of moderate use. I hope she can Evade (fu~fu~ get it? Evade? Evasion girl? .... right I will see myself out now~) that sort of crap and get something actually useful. It is not comletely impossible as Anemone did get full Crit bundle, and some other Girls did as well, so Iono getting an actual useful ability is possible.

Rating: Solid C
*You can use this exact comment to apply to Freesia when doing her review, once we get there, without me needing to double post and just change the names and few lines.

As she is now Iono is OK, but not amazing, and there is no real reson to pick her other than you wanting her.

Miscellaneous:
Iono has a washed out simplitic art style. Not many details or highlights are used, but it has a refreshing feel, because up to this point all the girls used high detail artwork. Her derpy derp sprite animation is much loved, and she also has a funny fairly adorable Xmass version which you can alter to. Sometimes less is more and in case of Iono I think it worked out just fine.