Mita Santaro

Rarity: 2 character
Roles: BUFFER

Rating

B

Support role

B

Reroll target

N/A

XB
Available since version: 1.0
Mita Santaro

Mita Santaro

CV: Mutsumi Tamura

Profile

A flamboyant show-off who loves to joke and call himself a popular guy. Beneath his conceited exterior, Mita Santaro is deeply loyal to his friends and driven by a strong sense of duty. Determined to reunite his scattered allies, he aspires to become a renowned Xbox player in Neo Tokyo.

Battle style

Excelling in group battles, Mita boosts his teammates' attack power with his support abilities. His unique skill, 'Evade Tank', draws enemy attention and allows him to dodge counterattacks, giving his team a crucial advantage.

Review

Build and guide

A buffer with an evasion tank spin, Mita is a decent option as a support.

He is unfortunately held back due to superior options existing on all fronts, but his unique ability to buff the Attack and Support stats allow him a niche use case for very specific teams.

Unfortunately, these teams don't actually need buffs, or a tank, to function properly.

To even access his buffing capabilities requires him to apply the debuff [Illusion] to the enemy, which allows him to automatically dodge an attack from them and gain a stack of [Energize].

With 3 stacks of [Energize], his next secondary attack will instead launch his buff to the closest ally.

However, the buff decays over time, losing a stack every 5 seconds.

With all these conditional and positional requirements, the question of whether it's worth all that effort certainly comes to mind..

Pros

Highlighting this character’s strengths
Role Compressor: Acts as both a tank and a buffer, which is good role compression.
Unique and Strong Buff: Provides a sizeable Attack buff to one (or two with his Shooting Star dupe). If you level his second passive he can also boost the Support stat.

Cons

Pointing out this character’s weaknesses
Conditional Buffer: Needs to perform 3 auto evades via the debuff his strategy skill applies, on top of the character you want buffed to be closer to him than the other teammate, to access.
Outclassed: While his buff has theoretically great synergy with Tsuruko and Iroha, the amount of hoops and time required to access them combined with the lack of necessity of buffers in general makes one wonder if Mita deserves a team slot.