Assassin job assigned to them. The character is also known by the Messa codename and their persona is Harpyia.
To learn more about Kira Kitazato check the sections below. Use the tabs to quickly switch to the kind of information you're looking for.
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Teams
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Skills
All Character information about Skills, Passives, Dupes etc. has been translated from Chinese to English by us. We will update them with Official Translation as soon as it's available.
All Skill Values are shown at Level 10 for Characters as the majority of the players will be using their characters with said levels. Said values do not include additional bonuses from outside sources such as Mental Images. Also, characters do not have 1 More, Basic Attack and Gun skills listed as the latter two are barely used, and 1 More is a generic follow-up primarily used to down enemies weak to certain elements.
Moonlit Scalpel (Doctor)
Cost: 21 SP
Target: Single
Type: Physical
Deal Physical damage to 1 foe equal to 47.3% of Attack (4 hits) and inflict 1 Bleed stack.
Crimson Operation (Doctor)
Cost: 22 SP
Target: Single
Type: Physical
Deal Physical damage to 1 foe equal to 84.2% of Attack (2 hits). At the same time, activate Bleed damage and reset the turn duration of the target's Bleed stacks 1 time.
Midnight Surgery (Ripper)
Cost: 11% HP
Target: Single
Type: Physical
Deal Physical damage to 1 foe equal to 251.7% of Attack, then remove 2Bleed stacks from the target (can activate Rending effects).
Pathology (Ripper)
Cost: 12% HP
Target: Single
Type: Physical
Deal Physical damage to 1 foe equal to 251.7% of Attack. For each Bleed stack on the target, increase the damage of Rending activated by them and this skill by 2%, then remove all Bleed stacks from the target (can activate Rending effects).
Nightfall
Cost: 15 SP
Target: Single
Type: Buff
Switch to Ripper mode and change Kitazato's skills (can be activated when any foe has 7 or more Bleed stacks).
When using skills in this mode, for every 3Bleed stacks on the target, inflict 1Rending stack (Physical damage equal to 66.7% of Attack).
After using this skill, Kitazato can use other skills and switches to Doctor mode at the end of the turn.
Thief Tactics
Cost: -
Target: Single
Type: Physical
[HIGHLIGHT]: Switch to Doctor mode and immediately inflict 5Bleed stacks on 1 foe.
Then, immediately switch to Ripper mode and deal Physical damage to the target equal to 492.8% of Attack (can activate Rending effects).
Hideous Mask
Cost: -
Target: -
Type: Passive
For every 30% of the user's ailment accuracy, increase Physical damage dealt from Bleed by 4% of the user's Attack (up to 90% of ailment accuracy).
Drawn Blade
Cost: -
Target: -
Type: Passive
When in Doctor mode, increase ailment accuracy by 36%.
When in Ripper mode, increase pierce rate by 21%.
Awareness
A0
Mortal Responsibility
Awareness 0
Kitazato has 2 modes, Doctor and Ripper, and the properties of his skills change depending on the mode. He starts in Doctor mode.
Doctor: Each time Kitazato deals damage with a skill, there is a 70% chance to inflict 1Bleed stack on the target. When a foe with Bleed is defeated, its Bleed stacks are passed on to the foe with the highest HP. He can also spend SP to use Physical skills.
Ripper: When Kitazato uses a skill, inflict 1Rending stack for every 3Bleed stacks on the target.
Bleed: Each turn, deal Almighty damage equal to 1% of the target's max HP + Physical damage equal to 4% of Kitazato's Attack. This effect lasts for 4 turns and stacks up to 10 times.
Rending: Deal Physical damage based on Kitazato's Attack and Nightfall's skill level (this damage cannot deal critical hits or Down Point damage).
A1
Abdominal Incisions
Awareness 1
In Doctor mode, the first time skill damage is dealt to each foe, inflict 5 more Bleed stacks on the target.
In Ripper mode, when using a skill on a foe, increase that skill's damage based on the number of debuffs on the target. When they are inflicted with 10 or more debuffs, maximize this effect and increase skill damage up to 80%.
Also, multiply Bleed's Almighty damage by 1.5.
A2
Forbidden Transfusion
Awareness 2
Increase the Attack multiplier of Rending by 35% of Kitazato's Attack. Restore Kitazato's HP by 2% of Rending damage dealt (up to Kitazato's Lv. × 15 + 300 each turn).
A3
Master of the Scalpel
Awareness 3
Increase the skill levels of Moonlit Scalpel / Midnight Surgery and Thief Tactics by 3.
A4
Bloody Bacchanal
Awareness 4
Highlight Enhanced: Increase Highlight damage by 8% for each Bleed stack inflicted on the target.
A5
Razor-Sharp Focus
Awareness 5
Increase the skill levels of Crimson Operation / Pathology and Nightfall by 3.
A6
Great Doctor
Awareness 6
Increase the maximum stacks of Bleed to 13. Also, each foe will always be inflicted with 3 stacks of Bleed.
When using Midnight Surgery in Ripper mode, do not remove the target's Bleed stacks. Also evolve Rending effects to Killing Frenzy, increase damage by 100%, and deal 50% damage to all other foes. Killing Frenzy can activate effects from Rending with all skills.
Review
Ratings
T0.5
General (Global)
T0
Bossing (Global)
T1
General (CN)
T5
Bossing (CN)
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Character Function and Summary
Messa is a Physical Assassin with 2 modes, where one is mostly limited to Awareness 6.
At Awareness 0, Messa performs a lot better when focusing on his Doctor mode (Mode that deals foes’ Max HP damage from Bleed Damage Over Time), his Ripper mode (Mode that deals Physical damage from Rending) is not recommended for non-Awareness 6, as most of Ripper mode’s strength comes from his Awareness 6 effects.
Damage Over Time Messa is very self-sufficient, needing 0 support to deal good damage. Each turn, he can deal damage equal to 10% of foes’ Max HP, making him an excellent cheese DPS as long as the game doesn't ban him by giving the enemies a huge Percentage Damage Down buff.
However, this is also where the crippling issue lies. Messa can suddenly deal no damage if the game puts that Percentage Damage Down buff in a fight, which is already present in Global, even in the very first Sea of Souls season. This effectively neuters all of his low Awareness Bleed damage and cheese value. Even if Messa is at Awareness 6, he also has another core issue of his high Awareness Rending damage cannot deal Critical Hits, this effectively means he is playing down a major damage multiplier in the form of Critical Damage and not working well with any Critical buffing support, in every end game mode there is also a modifier that converts a character’s Critical Rate and Critical Damage into Final Damage, this means Messa is playing down that modifier as well.
Between the game banning him in endgame modes, and his dated mechanics of not playing with Critical, Messa is one of, if not the worst, designed DPS they have ever made.
Character Synergies
Seaside Moko: Seaside Moko can provide Messa with Ailment Accuracy buffs, making sure Messa can consistently inflict his Bleed early.
Important Awareness / Weapon Value
Awareness 6: This Awareness unlocks his Ripper mode playstyle; however, he still has many issues even with this.
Weapon: This weapon does very little when playing him in Doctor mode; it gives some Ailment Accuracy is the only thing that helps with that game plan. Only get this when you are trying to use his Ripper mode.
Pros & Cons
Pros
Can ignore foe’s affinities as Bleed deals foe’s Max HP damage.
Cons
Gets banned in every endgame mode.
Terrible Awareness value and growth, even at Awareness 6.
Build
Recommended Cards
Suggested Card Setup
Wisdom
Oppression: Increase Physical DMG and Effect Hit Rate by 20% when [Resentment] is not less than 5 stacks.
Pleasure: Increase DMG Bonus up to 30% based on 50% of your Effect Hit Rate.
Virtue: When using HIGHLIGHT, increases ATK by 30% and DMG Dealt by 25%.
Pleasure
2 set effect: Increase Psy DMG by 10%.
4 set effect: Increase ATK by 15% when dealing Psy damage. Additionally increase ATK by 15%.
Best Stats
Moon
Attack Mult.
Star
Attack
Sky
Attack
Substats:
Attack Mult. > Ailment Accuracy > Attack
Build Comments
Get to 90% Ailment Accuracy in battle.
Only use Wisdom + Oppression when using him in Ripper mode at Awareness 6.
If that is the case, look for Pierce Rate > Attack Mult. = Attack substats.
Other information
Awareness Priority
A6 > A1 > A2 > A4
Skill Priority
Skill 2 > Thief Tactics > Skill 1 > Skill 3
Skill Rotation
A0: Doctor Skill 1 > HIGHLIGHT + Doctor S2.
A6: Doctor Skill 1 (Use this for turn 1 Bleed setup only) > Skill 3 + Ripper Skill 1 (Use Ripper Skill 2 on last turn).
Weapons
4✯
Undying Embers
Increase Attack by 12.0%/12.0%/16.0%/16.0%/20.0%/20.0%/24.0%. Whenever inflicting Bleed on foes, increase Attack by 1.8%/2.4%/2.4%/3.0%/3.0%/3.6%/3.6% more. This effect is permanent and stacks up to 10 times.
5✯
Bloodletter
Increase Attack by 30.0%/30.0%/39.0%/39.0%/48.0%/48.0%/57.0%. Increase ailment accuracy by 15%. Increase pierce rate of Rending damage by 25.0%/32.5%/32.5%/40.0%/40.0%/47.5%/47.5%. Increase damage dealt to foes inflicted with Bleed by 25.0%/32.5%/32.5%/40.0%/40.0%/47.5%/47.5%.
Teams
Best Teams
Messa + Chord + Vino + Wind
Standard Messa team where you bring Chord for more Messa HIGHLIGHT and Vino for Single Target Defense Down and Damage Taken debuffs.
Best Wonder Personas:
Lilith - Almighty Ex Machina trigger, must use as a starter
Dominion - Attack Up, Damage Up
Jikokuten - Attack Up
Janosik - Defense Down
Wonder Dagger - Ex Machina
Sepia + Messa + Seaside Moko + Wind
A double Damage Over Time team where you bring many multi-hit characters to generate many stacks for Sepia. Seaside Moko should use her Ailment Accuracy buff on Sepia as he is actually the focus of the team.
Best Wonder Personas:
Lilith - Almighty Ex Machina trigger, must use as a starter
