MMM Mini - Regalia-Rocking Regent of Rher's Realm Relishes Reprisal of Role (Kishinami Hakuno)

First for the skill lineup is Sparks Root ∞. By all means this is a very abnormal and very cool skill. At the somewhat steep cost of 10% NP gauge to activate it, this skill provides a 15 star bomb (while below 50 stars) and shuffles the command card lineup.

This effect might seem fairly minor given the investment necessary, but with Hakuno’s focus as a Buster Servant with some inherent critical buffs, being able to rearrange the card order for an ideal chain while simultaneously netting critical stars is pretty strong, especially since the inherent NP5 they’ll have will open up the window to expend otherwise-wasted NP gauge that goes beyond 100% but doesn’t reach 200%.

The real power in this skill, however, is the cooldown. With the lowest base cooldown of any skill in the game at 2 turns, this skill becomes 0 cooldown at max skill level, meaning you can literally spam it indefinitely provided Hakuno has the NP gauge to spend. Obviously you usually won’t want to do that, but the capability to spend excess NP gauge to essentially hand-craft the perfect crit turn for any turn in a battle is superb, and bypasses many of the issues that come with such setups.

Funnily enough this also makes them the first Servant where you don’t need to max out the skill cooldown append skill on, since it does literally nothing for this skill.

Next is Checkmate Interceptor. This skill is the crystallisation of how Hakuno has managed to overcome countless nigh-impossible matchups in the Lunar Grail War, and it’s one hell of a skill to reflect it.

This skill provides Hakuno with a 30% Card Booster buff to every card type for 3 turns, as well as a unique on-attack buff for each card type for the same duration. For Buster, Hakuno gets a 20% Critical Damage Up buff for 3 turns before doing damage, for Arts, they get a 20% NP gauge charge, and for Quick they get a 1-turn Evasion buff, but this effect is limited to 2 times for the buff duration.

The damage boost alone is pretty great, but these other effects are also fantastic - the gauge charging on Arts charge allows Hakuno to spam their NP incredibly easily, the Critical Damage boosts on Busters build up very devastating crit turns, synergizing with Sparks Root, while the Quick effect is a little rougher to use, but offers a defensive option in a tight spot for the 3 turn duration.

It’s worth remembering that with Sparks Root in Hakuno’s toolkit, not only can you fish for the right cards for these bonus effects, but you can also break the typical rule of “only seeing a Servant’s 5 cards once every 3 turns” due to the turn cycle. On one turn you can do a QAA chain and get the Evasion buff and a bunch of NP gauge, then on the next use Sparks Root to reset the card order and do another QAA chain, theoretically.

Contrary to most effects tied to attacking with cards, this means Hakuno’s theoretical ceiling to abuse these buffs is incredibly high - the Critical Damage buff leaps from 40% to 120% theoretically, and similarly the gauge charges can provide as much as 120% gauge in value. It’s slightly unrealistic to expect this when you can’t always afford to spend the 10% NP gauge cost, but it’s certainly worth fishing for more Hakuno cards if you can, given the amount of payoff it offers.

The only issue to this skill is really the fact it’s not live all the time. With an 8-turn base cooldown, it will only be active half the time at max skill level, and the value of Hakuno’s focus on using Sparks Root will decrease as a result.

Last on the skill lineup is Ｃ³ Punishment. As the name might suggest, it’s based on Hakuno’s use of the Secret Gardens in CCC, using people’s psychological weakness to best break their defences. Even if it means kinkshaming every single person in Moon Cell over time.

To reflect, this skill does the devilish deed of testing YOUR knowledge of the game whenever you use it, forcing you to pick between a Man attribute, Earth Attribute, or Heaven attribute for an effective damage buff for 3 turns. The upside is in theory you’re almost always getting a significant boost to Hakuno’s damage output, but you also have to think about it every single time.

As a general rule for generic enemies, if it is a human or once was a human (like skeletons/zombies), it’s Man attribute, if it’s some kind of magical beast, mythological creature or something made by human hands, it’s Earth attribute, and if it’s something freaky, spiritual, or just made by divinity then it’s Heaven attribute.

For Servants it’s a bit rougher to get without wiki diving, but Man attribute Servants are usually individuals clearly recorded in actual real-world history who don’t have mythology or divinity tied into their legend extensively. Earth attribute Servants are those founded in folklore or mythology. If they’re demigods, they’re not particularly attributed to divinity, but basically if they’re not viewed to be real people by historians, they’re probably Earth attribute. As for Heaven attribute, if they’re a god, a demigod whose divine origin plays deeply into their identity (such as Gilgamesh or Heracles), or a spirit of some form, they’re Heaven attribute.

Naturally this is a strong effect, but it’s not the entirety of the skill. Hakuno also gets a 30% NP gauge charge on use, and a 10 critical star per turn buff for 3 turns. The gauge charge is a really key addition to the kit, as it allows Hakuno to perform Koyanskaya Oberon farming, a very premier capability for a Buster AOE Welfare Servant, but it’s a strong addition in general, improving Hakuno’s already-great NP gauge charging capabilities. Meanwhile the stargen is a neat piece of fuel to Hakuno’s good critical damage capabilities, though nothing major.

With the power in this skill, it’s unsurprising that it’s packaged with a 8-turn base cooldown, but it’s convenient it aligns with Hakuno’s other skill that, well, has an actual cooldown.