Tohka YatogamiBuild and Guide

Tohka Yatogami, from Date a Live collaboration is a Chaotic Soul released in November 2024. She is a STR Warrior who primarily fulfills the role of an Off-tank/Bruiser with her guaranteed Critical Damage attacks paired with a plethora of defensive skills. Let's take a look at her skills first:

• Main - Don't Get in My Way! : An AoE skill that deals 50% Defense piercing, guarantees Critical Damage and grants 2 stacks of "Final Sword" on use.

• Ultimate - Final Sword - Halvanhelev: An AoE that deals guaranteed Critical Damage and consumes "Final Sword" stacks she has for additional damage. If Tohka has 4 "Final Sword" stacks at time of using this skill, multiply the skill damage by 1.5 for 1215% max.

• Sub 1 - I Shall Protect! : A mixed buff skill that increases allies Resistances by 40% but for only 4 seconds, after whose expiry she increases her own Attack and Defense by 30% for 18 seconds instead. She also gains a Shield for 15 seconds and recovers her own HP.

• Sub 2 - How Dare You?! : A single target skill that deals guaranteed Critical Damage and grants one stack of “Final Sword” on use.

• Passive - Adonai Melek : A simple passive that boosts damage dealt by her and reduces damage received by her by 20% each.

• Artifact/Special Skill – Princess: Increases her Physical and Magic Resistance and Crit DMG by 10~30%. Additionally restores 500 Mana on her Sub-Skills on use.

Our first collaboration soul, Tohka Yatogami serves as an Off-tank as mentioned earlier, as you might have noticed, her kit is very simple to understand and aligns with developers aim of making the collab units newbie focused/friendly.

Tohka is a frontliner who has guaranteed Critical Damage on all her attack skills without any conditionals making her the only soul to do so. Her Ultimate requires 4 “Final Sword” stacks to maximize damage, which fortunately is easy to get even on Auto, as she features an insanely fast rotation of AA -> S1 -> S2 -> AA -> S2 -> Repeat, thus 2 stacks from S2 and 2 stacks from her Main will ensure that she unleashes her Ultimate to maximum potential. 

As for her defensive utility, through her Sub 1 and Artifact defensive stat increases, she gains significant tanking ability and can hold her own not only in Battlefield/Depths but also in raids. Tohka can reliably act as Karma Shackles bait in Guild Raid Gaia, suffering little to no damage even when run alone, much less with support, and any damage she does take, she heals herself back quite easily. Similarly, with a Speed set on hand, Tohka can reliably proc her Shields on time in Guild Raid Charite serving as another Shield alternative there.

However, despite high multipliers and guaranteed Critical Damage, Tohka falls short in DPS department compared to well established bruisers such as Velanna due to her low offensive stats and reliance on Critical Damage, a stat hard to raise for STR users via keepsakes. Furthermore, while her Ultimate might give you a deja vu of Naomi/Linzy (Thanatos) Ultimate, it unfortunately falls flat as “Final Sword” stacks are capped out to be at 4, shattering the dream of a big Nuke at the end. While she handles Tanking great in Charite/Gaia, her DPS is of a Sub-DPS at best, and in other raids, she falls flat altogether.

Investment

• Collection:  Get at least 1 copy regardless of if you plan to use them or not.

• New / F2P / Casual Players: Tohka can function as a good Sub-DPS and Tank in one for second team/early game. In later stages of the game, she will be primarily utilized only for her defensive prowess if required. However, she can be a stop gap unit in various raids until you have proper teams. Get at least 1 copy for she is a limited Soul, aim for Origin if building, for Kurumi vs Tohka, refer to our section at bottom of review.

• Dolphins / Competitive Raid Players / Whales / Rankers:: As things stand, her highest use case is in Gaia as Karma Shackles bait which she tanks flawlessly, giving her an edge over characters such as Talia in the role. Beyond that, in the current Guild Raid meta she will be hard pressed to find a slot. Not the worst choice of soul to invest in, given you wont need additional Artifact Investment and Guild Raid S2 might propel her as DPS due to main piercing 50% Defense, aim for Origin to ensure she survives well.

Team Composition and Synergies

Tohka Yatogami primarily wants two types of allies, those who increase her Critical Damage - either by buffs or by debuffing enemies (such as Sigrid) to increase her effectiveness as DPS and those who grant her some additional defensive capabilities to increase her prowess as Tank, her major limitation as a Tank is lack of taunt, so characters that do it would pair well with her, Claire also works great as she penetrates the formation attacking backline, whereas Tohka can handle frontline Tanks/DPS allowing your DPS to go ham.

Conclusion

Tohka Yatogami is a soul primarily aimed at New Players, her major use case comes on early on in-game when she has just enough damage to work as a great secondary DPS along with tanking most of what is sent at you. For Day 1 players or players already with well established rosters, she can only provide utility as a great Off-tank should you need one. However, she might creep in Guild Raid Gaia meta for those who are always on lookout for min-maxing and ranking high.