Shuichi/Strategy
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(This page is for Shuichi strategy guide. For the standard Shuichi page, click here.)
Overview
Shuichi is an extremely powerful debuffing unit that massively increases the survivability of your team by debilitating the enemy's ability to deal damage. He can cause Dazzle, dramatically lowering enemy ATK for multiple turns, and his CS causes Possessed, causing enemies to attack each other rather than your team for one turn. Not only does this functionally negate damage to your team for one turn, but your enemies might kill each other for you while Possessed!
Highlights
Class: Disruptive Support
Gameplay Role: Debuffer
Pros
+ Can remove enemy buffs
+ Can mitigate enemy damage with Dazzle and Possessed
+ Greatly increases your team's damage output with Weakness and Possessed
Cons
- Low direct damage output
- Very reliant on skill activation percentages
- His utility is gutted in his ☆3 version due to having 
Slash range as opposed to 
Magic range, preventing him from debuffing long-range enemies and attenuating their damage
Gameplay Role
Example gameplay role breakdown.
Stats and Seed Usage
| Unit | (Effective) HP | Base ATK | ATK per square | CS ATK per square (SALV1) | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Unseeded | Seeded | Unseeded | Seeded | Unseeded | Seeded | Unseeded | Seeded | |
   |
6660 | 8721 | 3509 | 5070 | 1579 | 2282 | 1965 | 2839 |
   |
7265 | 9275 | 3926 | 5478 | 1099 | 1534 | 3298 | 4602 |
Skill Seeds increase the likelihood of Shuichi's potent debuffs proccing, which is by far the most important aspect of the character to maximize, so prioritize those first. After that, increasing his HP allows him to stay in the fight and debuff longer, making HP and Level Seeds the next best choice. Shuichi's direct damage is of minimal importance, really, so ATK Seeds are probably better spent on other characters instead.
Team Synergy
Characters with Insight
Characters who can apply Insight to Shuichi to increase the proc rate of his skills greatly increase his efficiency and reliability. The Starshine skill of Pollux, Shinya, or Taurus Mask can be perfect for this.
Characters with CP increase
Possibly Shuichi's most powerful tool is his CS, since Possessed is such a monstrously powerful debuff. Characters that can further increase Shuichi's rate of CP gain, such as Claude or Hanuman using Head of Festivities, are perfect companions for this reason.
Characters who can cure ailments
Because so much of Shuichi's power is tied to his skills, getting tagged with Bind makes him deadweight on a team. Having somebody like Taurus Mask or Makara who can remove Bind may be a good idea when running Shuichi in your team.
Duo
Duo's Spinner of Fate (3-Star) or Fount of Wisdom (5-Star) skills combine Insight and CP Increase into a single skill that can activate every time Duo attacks. This makes Duo the perfect unit to support and enable Shuichi's talents... much to Shuichi's delight and Duo's displeasure.
Checks and Counters
Example counter
Example description
Teambuilding Options
This section consists of user-submitted builds that may not necessarily be viable for high level quests.
Arbitrary Team Name
| Team Details (submitted by UserName) | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Shuichi 【Debuffer】 |
Shuichi 【Moveslut, CP Battery】 |
Shuichi 【Healer, Tank】 |
Shuichi 【Support unit】 |
 Licht 【example of variant call】 |
 Anyone / no one 【Flexible】 |
| Cost: ≥X | |||||
Example team function description.