Rabbit's Reviews #246: Okita J Souji (4* Assassin)

Okita finally gets a summer version! While this kills off yet another Koha-Ace joke (after Guda4 ended the “Nagayoshi when” and “SSR Nobu when” equivalents). She has a lot going for her in the abstract, from loaded skills to high NP damage to excellent bases, but in exchange she’s quite fragile and can’t reliably Skadi loop. She’s not valuable for farming, but she’s a potentially workable CQ counter with the right enabling.

Okita has the fourth-highest attack and the lowest HP of the SR Assassins. Assassin attack tends to be low-ish in general, and it’s hurt further by Assassins’ innate damage multiplier, so Okita is left both fragile and somewhat weak offensively—but her offense lean is nonetheless a plus, at least relatively speaking. Okita also brings excellent internals, with star gen stats that are nearly identical to Jack’s, very strong Arts card NP gain, and three fantastic Quicks. She won’t have any trouble building meter, and she can flood the field with stars pretty easily. For passives, she has unique versions of both Presence Concealment and Magic Resistance that (on top of their usual effects) make Okita more vulnerable to instant death. This is mostly a flavor thing, but for certain gimmicky fights the demerit might be annoying. Okita also gets the excellent signature Foreigner passive Existence Outside the Domain, which gives her a baseline two stars passively each turn.

Ascension Materials

Stage	Cost	Materials
2	50,000	x4 Assassin Piece Open Assassin Piece configuration options
3	150,000	x10 Assassin Piece Open Assassin Piece configuration options x4 Black Beast Grease Open Black Beast Grease configuration options
4	500,000	x4 Assassin Monument Open Assassin Monument configuration options x8 Shell of Reminiscence Open Shell of Reminiscence configuration options x3 Claw of Chaos Open Claw of Chaos configuration options
Max	1,500,000	x10 Assassin Monument Open Assassin Monument configuration options x5 Claw of Chaos Open Claw of Chaos configuration options x4 Heart of the Foreign God Open Heart of the Foreign God configuration options

Skill Enhancement Materials

Level	Cost	Materials
1 → 2	100,000	x4 Gem of Assassin Open Gem of Assassin configuration options
2 → 3	200,000	x10 Gem of Assassin Open Gem of Assassin configuration options
3 → 4	600,000	x4 Magic Gem of Assassin Open Magic Gem of Assassin configuration options
4 → 5	800,000	x10 Magic Gem of Assassin Open Magic Gem of Assassin configuration options x4 Shell of Reminiscence Open Shell of Reminiscence configuration options
5 → 6	2,000,000	x4 Secret Gem of Assassin Open Secret Gem of Assassin configuration options x8 Shell of Reminiscence Open Shell of Reminiscence configuration options
6 → 7	2,500,000	x10 Secret Gem of Assassin Open Secret Gem of Assassin configuration options x3 Black Beast Grease Open Black Beast Grease configuration options
7 → 8	5,000,000	x5 Black Beast Grease Open Black Beast Grease configuration options x10 Great Knight Medal Open Great Knight Medal configuration options
8 → 9	6,000,000	x30 Great Knight Medal Open Great Knight Medal configuration options x12 Dawn Core Open Dawn Core configuration options
9 → 10	10,000,000	x1 Crystallized Lore Open Crystallized Lore configuration options

Okita’s skills are all very strong in a vacuum, though they don’t quite play together as nicely as she would like. Recommended skill order is 3>1>2.

Asclepius is Okita’s best friend. His heal provides enough of a debuff resistance buff to negate the demerit on her NP, and he can help her get started with a Kaleid and loosen her looping requirements. Okita won’t be able to loop off her NP alone, but her cards are so good she should be able to refill her NP enough for Skadi to let her loop so long as she draws any card that isn’t a Buster. The Asclepius requirement and Okita’s lack of Interlude will make Okita loop setups somewhat underwhelming relative to many other Quick loopers (even ignoring the fact that the card requirement introduces RNG and precludes farm looping), so if you’re already capable of Quick looping Okita won’t hold much appeal unless you just like the character enough to use her anyway. The defense down on her NP will let her snowball a bit, at least.

It’s also worth noting that Reines can actually sub in for Asclepius. She doesn’t boost Okita’s NP gain and she leaves Okita with a very small chance of getting stunned (making her a less complete RNG-avoider), but in exchange she actually buffs Okita’s damage and she serves the same role as Asclepius in that she can let Okita NP immediately.

I do think, however, that Okita is intended to function as a partner for Quick semi-supports, and particularly Carmilla. She has a lot of the tools those types of teams look for in a DPS: she can flood the field with stars and increase her own star weight, solving Carmilla’s star weight issue, and Okita’s NP damage buff and hefty Quick buff stack well with the existing Quick semi-supports (who typically skew in the direction of attack and crit damage buffs). NP looping setups will of course be stronger if you can enable them, but Okita might still be a functional CQ-oriented DPS in these sorts of low-to-mid-range Quick setups. She’d be much better in that role if she had an extra Buster, though. Oh well.

Looping setups will, of course, want starting NP CEs so Okita can get going immediately. This probably means Kaleid so Asclepius can push Okita to an immediate NP. If you’re more focused on card damage, though, Golden Sumo is likely your best bet, as Okita can make good use of both the raw attack stats and the attack buff.

Assassins don’t get all that much from grails and Okita is not a particularly impressive Assassin. I’d skip this one unless you love the character.

Okita’s attack holds her back, her NP demerit keeps her from being a great Quick loop servant, and her deck limits her crit damage potential, but her bases are so high and her skills and NP are so loaded that she’s a workable CQ DPS regardless. She’s highly fragile, though, which means she’ll struggle in anything but fastplay contexts. Using her is generally speaking going to be more trouble than it’s worth, and she’s pretty much completely dead when it comes to farming, but if you’re dedicated enough and you have the right tools she can be functional for harder content.

Overall: 7/10
Single-Target DPS: 6/10
AoE DPS: 8/10
Survivability: 3/10
Offensive Utility: 6/10
Defensive Utility: N/A
Farming Usefulness: 3/10
Sincerity: 10/10