Kurokumo Rodion a priority pull?

[Chester]

With her banner ending soon, I thought I'd ask about Kurokumo Rodion. I guess I'm looking for someone to sell me on her/not sell me on her. To me, looking at her kit she seems decent but not amazing (as opposed to the concurrent Grippy Faust banner).

Am I misjudging her or missing something? Poise is okay, but I never see it as great (and I don't entirely understand the percentages around it); the bleed and clash on her second skill is solid; and her third skill is majorly powerful but based around one coin, so vulnerable to the unforgiving tails. Her passive which turns her Counter into her third skill is ridiculous but seems very situational. Should I be selling out trying to get her? Or should I just save for more high priority targets and try to get her on shards?

[Birp]

If you have Kurokumo Ryoshu, then yeah, I'd say she's a decently high prio pull. Otherwise pass. She's great but not gamebreakingly great.

Or if you have N Corp Rodion, then probably pass. She's only maybe a slight upgrade over n corp.

I think your underselling the value of poise on her though. Poise is garbage in general, but not for her, she makes use of it quite well.

[Skatrzoo]

"decent but not amazing" is definitely a good description. I pulled her from the faust banner funnily enough, and I can't say I use her much outside of trying to get some variety in MDs. With the current endgame content mostly requiring blunt damage, her N Corp variant gets much more use imo.

[Nyxtus]

These responses are weird. With the bleed team she's busted. Not as busted as Ryoshu or Hong Lu, but she's the best third to the team by a wide margin. She makes good use of poise, has insane numbers on her s3, contributes bleed. All around insane unit if specializing in bleed.

[JhonnySkeiner]

N Rodion is better than her, and that's a 00, lol

[Bishop]

Originally posted by Skatrzoo:

"decent but not amazing" is definitely a good description. I pulled her from the faust banner funnily enough, and I can't say I use her much outside of trying to get some variety in MDs. With the current endgame content mostly requiring blunt damage, her N Corp variant gets much more use imo.

This is about what I found out. I used her id a lot early days before n corp was introduced, she is not bad character just.. not amazing and doesn't provide much for ncorp faust centered teams.

Same goes for blade lineage egos tbh, I've noticed that I tend to use both Yu sang and Sinclair less and less as they just don't have a spot in more optimized bleed setups.

My goto faust combo these days is R corp hearth, kuro ryushu and hong lu, n corp merc and faust. They just have everything in terms of synergy and it feels hard to replace something without negative gain.

[Reptiloid]

Only if you have other Kurokumo gang, and even then mostly for aesthetic reason, as she is arguably the weakest of the group. She doesn't apply sufficient bleed and her skills use poise, which is underwhelming right now. Like, her passive never works bc it is impossible to get her to 5+ poise bc no skills give poise count.

[SmallGespenst]

poise is pretty dire for any ID to be built around since all it does is make a single coin of a skill somewhat stronger. it doesn't help in clashes, has next to no synergy and decays way to fast. if you're checking what an ID offers, just ignore the Poise.

[teekay15]

8/10
You dont play her for poise, you play her because she has great all-round stats and doesnt need any help, a 'plug and play' piece. 172 health, 2-5 speed, 35 off 33 def is VERY solid.
If you have an overall team focus maybe not but in MD for example where you are given just 3 choices you pick her up all the time and you never regret it.
No way would i use my nominable shard boxes to buy her but i am very very happy that i pulled her. Dont sell out for her imho.