Holiday Yufine

(Updated 04/8/22)

With the new changes, she could be viable in the meta once more. Needs some testing.

These days H.Yufine’s place in the meta has all but fallen off. She’s made to be a Basar counter… and that’s it. She can’t really do that properly either whenever he’s paired with Politis, due to how she decreases the amount of Combat Readiness gain that the enemies get to receive. Although she has no non-attack skills in her kit (thankfully making her unable to trigger the other half of Politis’s s2), a large part of her kit is pushing her allies’ Combat Readiness, and Politis greatly limits that.

That’s not to say she’s a bad unit, though – she is pretty good, and her kit is nice, but she’s just not in the meta anymore. Due to her skills being all AoE, it’s incredibly easy for her to be countered in the current meta of anti-AoE and counterattacks. Angel of Light Angelica, Rem, Violet, etc. will easily eat her alive if she so much as breathes funny. There are still teams that she can do well against, but the primary teams in the arena right now definitely oppress her.

Her skill 3 attacks all enemies, cleanses 2 debuffs and increase combat readiness and attack of all allies. Her skill 2 passive is what makes her good against Basar. Since it increases evasion by 35% (and an additional 35% too), Basar is all but guaranteed to miss, allowing her to cleanse debuffs and counter push your own allies. The passive also reduces combat readiness pushback as well.

Her skill 1 is an AoE burn attack which ignores elemental disadvantage (but it is a single target when she dual attacks). Just like with Dizzy’s lack of single-target, this AoE attack is a double-edged sword; especially so in the meta of Rem + Violet.

Build Notes

When building H.Yufine, the best build for her will be the General Speed Build, of Speed + Immunity. She’s pretty stat-hungry as a unit, so to get her to the ideal H.Yufine build is going to be a bit difficult.

The ideal H.Yufine build looks to be about:

• 230+ Speed
• 13,000 HP
• 1,500 Defense
• 3,000+ ATK
• 100% Crit Rate
• 250%+ Crit DMG

If you’re going for a bulkier build that relies less on her Crit Rate and Crit Damage, you can definitely achieve higher stats for the first 4 stats (15,000+ HP, 3.5k+ ATK, etc.). However, do note that these are pretty end-game stats, and it won’t be very easy to achieve them immediately.

Having the limited artifact Junkyard Dog from Guilty Gear collab makes her skill 1 so much better. However, it is not available for everyone, as it’s a limited artifact. As of right now, Guide to a Decision is one of the best artifact choices for her. It’s obtainable, but needs to be +30’d to be reliable.