3 Miu Jujo

Overview

Miu is a high-damaging DPS with solid output and possibly the strongest ultimate in the game once charged. To charge her ultimate, she first uses her strategy skill Vertical Crystal to drop a turret. Enemies hit within its AOE build charge with every instance of damage. Although it may take some time to fully charge her ultimate, her chain attack can quickly generate a large charge. While Miu is mostly flawless, she suffers from poor break values on her primary and secondary attacks, and her turret does no break damage at all. As such, she relies on teammates to provide the break needed to fund her ultimate and help her gain charge. However, this downside is easily negated as bosses melt once hit by her fully charged ultimate, which costs only one bar to activate and delivers up to 20 hits of high damage, further boosted by levelling her second passive.

Resonance

As this is a vital part of her kit, let’s cover this mechanic at the start (this seems familiar). Miu’s Strategy Skill places a Luminous Crystal (hereafter referred to as Crystal) that will automatically fire a beam at a nearby enemy. ANY DAMAGE your team deals to enemies within its range will build up Resonance, her unique charge mechanic. There is a small indicator line near the bottom that indicates level 2, and the top of the bar indicates level 3. Depending on the level of Resonance you are at, Miu’s next ultimate will deal 1/5/20 hits of damage. Unsurprisingly, you want to reach 20 hits to maximize its damage output.

Primary Attack

A fairly quick 3 hit attack series. The first two attacks are line attacks, while the third is an AOE swirl. Six hits total, fairly generic overall.

Secondary Attack

After a short delay Miu fires a beam at the target. Deals nine hits, making it the superior option to charge her Resonance at the cost of a significant chunk of stamina.

Counterattack

Deflect counterattack (will not work on projectiles or other ranged attacks like all of Destroyer’s attacks). Miu does a leaping kick to stylishly deflect an attack. Typical deflect attack that leaves her mostly in place.

Strategy Skill

If a Crystal isn’t currently on the field, Miu places a Crystal directly on top of her target. If one is already placed, Miu relocates the Crystal directly on top of herself. This Crystal will fire a two hit beam at nearby enemies every few seconds. As described in the Resonance section, ANY DAMAGE ENEMIES TAKE within its field will build Resonance. The crystal itself doesn’t do too much damage unless you put some points in her passive 1.

Ultimate Skill

Costs 1 Tension Bar. After a cinematic pose Miu detonates her crystal and creates a small field that deals 1/5/20 hits to everything within the area. From a raw numbers perspective, this is currently the highest damage attack in the game thanks to her passive 2, dealing up to a whopping 20000% damage multiplier. It’s also one of currently two 1 bar ultimates in the game, a very important niche for certain card strategies.

Chain Skill

A mostly normal chain skill, but if her Crystal is out it also gives Miu a massive 30 Resonance charge. Since you’ll likely ult immediately after the first break, that 30 Resonance will likely put you at max if you weren’t quite there.

Combos (If Operating)

Miu is a very simple character to play. Drop her Crystal, alternate between primary attack (to recover stamina) or secondary attack (for more damage and Resonance gain at the cost of stamina). Once her Resonance is full, look for an opportunity to use her ultimate (usually after a break when the enemy is stunned in place). Her counterattack is good to use when possible to help break faster as her own break speed is mediocre.

Tips

1. ABC: Always Be Charging (your Resonance). Start every fight by dropping the Crystal! After you ult, drop the Crystal!
2. Her resonance can be charged extremely quickly when paired with the right teammates.
3. Due to her simplicity, letting the AI use her is likely better than controlling her yourself. There’s not a lot of optimization the player can do that the AI won’t do as well.
4. If you’re running Bombard (you probably are) you can activate it yourself by simply doing two ultimates back to back. As there is a bit of a delay before you can ult again, your ult won’t fully benefit from Bombard if you do this.
5. Alternatively, if you have a character with a 2 tension bar cost ultimate running ultimate skill efficiency (or if you sacrifice some personal stats on Miu to run it on her, although I’d advise against superfluous substats on your main DPS), you can technically activate this after the first break by ulting with them, then ulting with Miu. Note that this will disable any phase 1 cards if you do this (most notably, Full Party). You can remove this problem if you run passive 1 Iroha though (who is a great teammate for her anyway), ensuring EX tension off the first break vs Red Series bosses.

Potential

Max passive 2, it’s her primary source of damage output and because it increases each individual hit's action damage she can reach an unmatchable 20000% action damage off her ult. Spare points can go into either Fighting Instinct to further increase her ult’s multiplier while slightly increasing her other skill’s damage or her passive 1 to greatly boost her Crystal’s damage.

Dupes

Good dupes all around.

• Transcend 1 gives extra crit rate on her secondary attack, which is fine until your gear/cards give you 100% anyways.
• Transcend 3 is extremely powerful, doubling her resonance gain from her attacks allowing for more max charge ults.
• Potential Gems from T2/T4 are obviously useful to further improve her Fighting Instinct.
• Transcend 5 upgrades her crystal to not only build up resonance even faster but also make it deal a respectable amount of additional DPS.

Operating Character

While you can manual her, letting the AI use her is generally better. She’s ranged and fairly safe with little optimization from manual play. Main benefits would be being able to counter attack or spam her secondary to break a smidge faster, but you’re better off manualing a breaker at that point.

Conclusion

With just a bit of ramp up time Miu can deal absolutely ludicrous damage off her ultimate. She also has solid personal DPS, is pretty safe to use, is very fast on the field, and is AI friendly. A perfectly powerful DPS that can easily make a case for being one of the best characters in the game.