2 Yutaka Gotanda

Overview

Gotanda is a ranged DPS with a simple yet satisfying playstyle. To quickly summarize it: hold secondary fire to laser beam enemies until his charge is maxed, then ult for an even bigger laser beam to finish off whatever’s still alive. Despite being a 2* character, Gotanda can output very high damage when properly built, but he does suffer from a few key weaknesses that keep him from being rated among the 3* DPS.

Charge

Gotanda’s unique meter is called Charge. It’s built using his primary or secondary attack, and spent by his strategy skill or ultimate. By default, you can have up to 40 charge (50 with his final dupe). Charge mainly empowers his ultimate, granting it a sizable crit rate boost, plus extra damage or team buffs from his passive skill 1/2.

Primary Attack

Gotanda fires orbs at the enemy. Holding down primary attack shoots them slightly faster, and he can drift around while doing so. It’s mostly filler when you’re out of stamina for his secondary. Builds 1 charge per hit.

Secondary Attack

Gotanda BEAM. After a brief wind up, he fires a laser while draining stamina. He can still move, and it auto-locks on the target, making it easy to kite or chase enemies. Damage is released in ticks. This is your main damage filler between ultimates, and the primary way to generate charge. Builds 2 charge per hit.

Counterattack

A dodge counterattack (works on any attack). Gotanda spins away while firing shots, adding some mobility around him. Decent enough for what it is.

Strategy Skill

Costs 20 charge (15 if you have dupe 1). Gotanda leaps at the enemy, slamming down. While not fully awful, it’s rarely great: it sacrifices his ranged safety for a small burst of damage and break. The big stamina cost makes it tough to reposition afterward, so timing is crucial.

Ultimate Skill

Costs 2 Tension Bars and all charge. After a quick animation, Gotanda fires a massive laser that ticks damage to enemies within its beam. If the initial target dies, it will automatically lock on the next nearest enemy. Each point of charge gives +1 crit rate, so at max charge (40 or 50) that’s 40/50% crit chance. While it won’t hit Miu-level highs or Iroha’s one-shot, Gotanda’s ultimate has a notable advantage in duration, AoE, and lock on, making him great at mobbing. Because he doesn’t need much ramp up time, he can quickly tear through weaker enemies.

Chain Skill

Gotanda charges forward, slamming the enemy with his laser arm. If an enemy is near breaking, they’re probably stunned long enough for you to keep beaming them anyway.

Combos (If Operating)

Simply hold secondary attack unless you run out of stamina, then switch to primary. Use ult to wipe out mobs or at full charge vs bosses. Positioning to hit multiple enemies is key. Otherwise, versus single targets, just do the usual beam spam.

Tips

1. Align yourself so your secondary or ultimate hits multiple enemies at once if possible.
2. Ultimate Skill Efficiency is important for back-to-back ult combos. Consider using your ult right before the enemy’s second break so you can chain ult twice, staying invulnerable.

Potential

• Fighting Instincts: +24% Primary, +48% Secondary, +10% Counter, +48% Strategy, +60% Ultimate, +240% Chain per rank.
• Survival Instincts: +10% HP, +10% Def, +100 Stamina per rank.
• Coordination: +20 support per point.
• Passive 1: Ult Skill Damage +1.2% per Charge stack each rank (up to +6%/rank). At max charge, that’s +48/60% at rank 1, +240/300% at rank 5.
• Passive 2: On ult use, entire team gains 0.25% Attack per charge stack each rank (up to +1.25%/rank). That’s +10/12.5% Attack at rank 1 or +50/62.5% at rank 5.

Fighting Instincts or Passive 1 are best. Fighting Instincts boosts overall damage, while Passive 1 massively increases ultimate damage based on your charge. For mobbing, Fighting Instincts wins (you’ll ult right away on ambush with no charge). For bossing, Passive 1 is better if you can stack charge. Passive 2 is fun for sub DPS or secondary spam builds, and extra ranks help with double ult setups or Bombard synergy.

Dupes

• T1 (Upper Hand): When using “Extensive,” reduce 5 [Charge] consumed. Not bad, but strategy skill usage remains situational.
• T2/T4: More Potential Gems, always good for a DPS.
• T3 (Saving Energy): When stamina ≤ 500, -50% stamina cost for secondary attack. Lets you laser longer.
• T5 (Charge Expansion): +10 max Charge. His best dupe by a lot, adding another +60% from Passive 1 or +12.5% Attack from Passive 2,
  plus +10% crit for his ultimate.

Operating Character

Gotanda’s AI is passable but not great; it spams secondary and strategy skill haphazardly, plus it kites with primary when stamina is low. Playing him manually is better, though it’s not horrible to let AI run him.

Conclusion

For a low-rarity DPS, Gotanda is surprisingly competent. He won’t out-DPS top 3* characters (aside from a weakly built Tsuruko), but his damage is solid.