SakuyoBuild and Guide

Our newest Beast unit, Sakuyo is a small but deadly warrior whose ramp-up type kit allows her to do significant damage in longer fights.

The main features of Sakuyo's kit are her passive, Blade Form, and the subskill Triple Heaven Sunder. Triple Heaven Sunder itself is her main source of damage - it is a three-part attack which is so long it doesn't even leave much time for auto attacks. It is also always followed up with her second subskill, "Merciless Heart".

Her passive, Blade Form, has 7 stages that are increased through various parts of her kit, and each one alters her subskill "Triple Heaven Sunder" in different ways. Ranks 1 and 4 apply to "Strike One: Phantom", adding a 3 second stun. Ranks 2 and 5 apply to "Strike Two: Lightrend", increasing her Crit Rate by 25% for 10 seconds. Ranks 3 and 6 apply to "Strike Three: Skytear", decreasing the defense of the target by 25% for 10 seconds. The second alteration always adds 100% of Sakuya's Atk to it's respective part of "Triple Heaven Sunder". The 7th and final stage of Blade Form makes all parts of the subskill guaranteed crits. It also adds a 10 second 50% Crit Damage buff to her second subskill "Merciless Heart".

Increasing the stages of Blade Form is done via a few methods: Equipping her artifact instantly gives 1 rank at the start of combat for free, 2 ranks if her artifact is Legendary+ or higher. She gets 1 rank for each cast of her main skill and her subskill "Merciless Heart". She also gets another rank from using her ultimate while the "Serene Heart" buff from her main skill is active.While Sakuyo's entire kit is based around dealing damage, her main skill doesn't actually do any. Casting "Cosmic Embrace" gives her the "Serene Heart" buff, raising her own attack by 50% and both her physical and magic resistance by 20% for 15 seconds.

Her ultimate is buffed by her main, as long as she casts it while the "Serene Heart" buff is active, it is guaranteed to crit. In combat against multiple enemies, using her ultimate to finish off a target will also silence all remaining enemies for 8 seconds.

Her artifact is mostly defensive, providing her with a decrease in total damage recieved with each ascension. It also gives her 500 mana when she uses each of her subskills.

With the way her kit functions, she works quite spectacularly when slotted in as a sub-DPS unit in raid content. Her 25% defense debuff has a very high uptime, allowing your team to deal more damage. Further, she doesn't need to use her ultimate, leaving it open for units who need their ults for DPS or buffs. Raid content also gives her the time to ramp up and utilize her kit to its full effect. Being a melee Beast unit is also a great boon, as she can slot into a Tasha-centric team perfectly.

Thanks to her artifact, she is also a capable 5v5 unit, as the damage reduction allows her to survive in melee range better than some of the squishier options. She also benefits from her ultimate targetting the enemy with the highest attack, allowing her to act as a pseudo-backline assassin type unit, though not quite as an effective one as units such as Aki.

Unfortunately for Sakuyo, her kit isn't revolutionary. While she does have excellent DPS, she's just one of many DPS options. She doesn't bring anything especially new or important to the team, making her not a very high priority unit to pull for, especially for F2P and low spenders.