The removal of her two awakenings will actually lower her team’s damage output as fewer orbs will be enhanced and each enhanced orb will deal less damage.This becomes relevant during periods of skill lock or when you need to save an active for a different floor Leader skill is not reliant on using a skill to trigger a higher multiplier.Gains uses as a sub and is no longer restricted to a lead.

This essentially removes Metatron from the team lineup

This completely removes the need to bring a bind clear sub as Sakuya’s upgraded active can deal damage and remove 3 turns of binds.

Unbindable along with bind recovery awakening and active.

Fulfills blue slot and thus opens up new sub options.

Leader Skill starts at 25x for basic four-colour match and increases by 1.2x at 6 combos and an additional 0.2x per combo beyond 6, and caps at 2x at 10 combos for a combined 100x damage.

As such, can now reach 100x damage at 10 combos provided her four colours -red, blue, green, and light are triggered. However, Awoken Sakuya now rejoins the ranks of top tier leads as her leader skill now scales with each additional combo starting at 6.

(I go into more detail on the strengths and weakness of rainbow teams in a previous Guide I wrote.) But the long and short of the matter is rainbow teams with the exception of Ra and Ra Dragon are currently underwhelming in terms of their damage potential due to relatively low multipliers and colour restrictions. Mono-colour leads such as Shiva provide almost the same multiplier, but are able to focus on one colour and utilize TPA and numerous orb changers. Sakuya has always historically been one of the top tier leaders and only began to fall out of favour within the last 6-8 months due to powercreep and the advent of TPA mono-colour teams.

She has carried me through countless descends and I still choose to use her in my most challenging encounters. Sakuya was my first real REM god (I semi-started with a Gabriel ) and it completely changed my playstyle and enjoyment of PAD.

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