What makes Kiriko valuable on Xiang Mei teams is her active is stronger than Gadius  as she makes a tri-colour board and is statistically likely to spawn 6+ fire orbs and 9+ heal orbs for a full Xiang Mei activation. This cuts down on the need to use a supplemental active (aka Uriel ) to remove the light orbs, but you still retain that option. However, with the introduction of Skill Inheritance, Kiriko has a diminished value as an assistant due to Saria  possessing a superior active due to the haste component. Thus, you will most likely only be using Kiriko as a sub on Xiang Mei.

Overall, Kiriko is a powerful roll, but will have little value for players who do not plan on running a Xiang Mei team.

Looking at her awakenings, Shinrabansho Sakuya has a little bit of every kind of defensive utility and this is nice, but you are still most likely to be hit with those abilities and thus having them go to waste (they have a 20% chance to block them). Therefore, we need to look at her viability as a sub or as an assistant for skill inheritance. As a sub, she is okay. Not amazing, nor weak as her active skill is quite unique, but relatively situational. However, as an assistant for skill inheritance, I can see her having some potential. Combining both gravity AND a one turn delay is unique and to the best of my knowledge, the only one who can do that. This is Fantastic when navigating bosses with resolve or specific HP threshold execution abilities as you can circumnavigate them much easier than either component could alone. You may not need her in every situation, but is something to strongly consider.

Overall, Shinrabansho Sakuya is a disappointing 8-star Collab REM roll. Outside of her unique and niche active as an assistant, you will probably not have much value out of her. Also, Awoken Sakuya’s art is far prettier.

Shinrabansho Athena does have large potential as the highest base ATK card when it comes to Coop mode and a TPA activation due to her Multiplayer Bonus  awakening. Unfortunately, outside of a coop setting, her value is diminished because you most likely have stronger options for damage enhancement. Even though her base CD is modestly low, it may be hard to justify her usage on mid-end game teams outside of multiplayer.

Overall Shinrabansho Athena is a rare roll and may just disappoint you as she is not the more common Kiriko if you do not plan to play coop.

The power of Shinrabansho Sonia’s active is quite impressive as you traded a single turn of cooldown for a turn of haste. This can be quite powerful for skill inheritance (for fire and dark teams) or as a sub on Raoh  teams. Outside of Kiriko, Sonia may have the most usage in terms of viable placements on higher tier teams due to her newly granted SBR  awakening.

Overall, Shinrabansho Sonia is a reasonably powerful and helpful roll from this Collab, but is not truly worth chasing considering the other cards that can come out of the dragon’s belly.

 

 

Looking at Saiga’s awakenings, his bind immunity goes somewhat to waste as he has no bind recover awakening nor heart generating active to help those who do. At least the presence of a SBR  means you do not need to bring specific subs to easily achieve 100% immunity.

Overall, Saiga is an okay sub on mono wood teams, but is easily outclassed by most other current options.

Outside of a sub role, Asmodeus is essentially a dark form of Hathor . Granted a 20.25x ATK rainbow leader is not very impressive, but the tankiness component is powerful as you are able to stall out bad boards or survive dangerous mechanics. Furthermore, having each of your leaders possessing a full board changer is fantastic and helps alleviate sub constraints.

Overall, Asmodeus has more value than meets the eye and is a reasonably rewarding gold egg from the Shinrabansho Collab REM.

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I would be surprised if you found a viable sub placement for Balancile as their lack of awakenings plus underwhelming active will diminish their value and uses. I guess their largest asset is their assets, but that will mostly regulate them to a cheerleader role in your monster box.

Overall, Balancile is an okay leader for a early-mid game player, but will heavily fall off once you start acquiring awoken gods.