Kuro Mujou

Stat Rating

Max Stat

Soul

Discussion:

The most popular Soul used for Kuro Mujou would be the Shadow Soul. Coupling with various factors such as critical damage, attack buffs, defense reduction on enemies, hitting a triple or quadruple damage is definitely possible!

Another way of building him would be using the Watcher Soul. This would balance out his weakness when enemies have <60% HP because the Soul deals additional damage with lower HP.

Rating

Punishment

Necrosis

Death Sentence

Sample Team

When the enemy reaches <60% HP, Kuro Mujou will still do additional damage with Shadow Soul if a full HP puppet is linked to it.

Arena PvP:

1. Kamaitachi, Yamausagi, Ushi no Toki, Zashiki/Kaguya, Kuro Mujou [Dual Action Bar Pull]

• Having Kamaitachi and Yamausagi functioning as dual pull units will ensure that you have the first chance of attack. However, that is assuming that your Kamaitachi and Yamausagi have higher speed compared to your opponent.
• Having linked a target with Ushi no Toki’s [Straw Doll], if your Kuro Mujou is strong enough the target usually dies while others are severely crippled. With his [Take Life] ability, if you have extra Orb you could perform another [Death Sentence] but its damage would not be as high since they are now most likely lower than 60% HP.
• A disadvantage of this build is that it is prone to crowd control build or enemies who use the Mirror Lady Soul (reflecting damage).

2. Kamaitachi/Yamausagi, Ushi no Toki, Zashiki, Kuro Mujou, Ebisu

• This build is similar to the above build, but it has more support with Ebisu who can regenerate Orb at times and heal with his Fish Flag.Disadvantage of the build would
• A disadvantage of the build would be Dual Action Bar Pull teams which can devastate your team’s lineup in an instant.  The key is to have high enough defense and hp to survival the first wave of attacks.
• We cannot use Ushi no Toki with Ebisu since there is only one spot for summoned units. Straw Doll and Fish Flag cannot exist at the same time.

Soul Dungeon:

Kuro Mujou is rarely used in the Orochi Soul dungeons as he is essentially useless when Hydra (Orochi) has less than 60% HP.  However, a well-equipped one can still perform fairly well if you can keep the battle short.

Acquisition

Bounty

Shikigami Comparison

Ibara Douji – To make an insanely strong Ibara Douji, you need to have a good set of the Shadow Soul achieving max Critical Rate while having Critical Damage Increase on Soul Pos 6. With similar Soul used on Kuro Mujou, he can deal insane damage as well but probably less. The weakness for Ibara Douji is that when attacking enemies linked by Shuzu, he has hard time finishing an enemy off.  Therefore, it is hard for him to unleash his splash damage from killing a target.  Kuro Mujou would not have this issue.

Aoandon – There are many builds revolving around Blue Latern, but one of the more common ones is using the Shadow Soul. Her skills revolving around absorbing Orb from the enemy. Hence, with a good Shadow Soul she can be a good DPS while making the enemies unable to fight effectively. Damage wise Hell Agent black would be better.

Jorogumo, Momiji, Karasu Tengu – If you are really down on luck getting an Ubume or Kuro Mujou, you can choose to use these Shikigamis temporarily as they provide decent AOE DPS with the Shadow Soul.

Verdict

His special skill [Death Sentence ] is a single hit AOE attack, which deals 50% additional damage on enemies with >40% HP but 50% less damage on enemies with <=40% HP. With the Soul Shadow that adds 40% additional damage on enemies with >70% HP, this means that Kuro Mujou can deal almost twice the damage when the enemies have >70% HP!!

His passive skill [Take Life] grants him an additional turn when he successfully kills a target, and this is highly possible especially when he deals insane damage at the start of the battle.

Kuro Mujou is a great SR Shikigami to train to a high level, as it performs so well clearing the mobs. Some things to note for the Shikigami are:

When it is in the Auto mode, he will not use his [Death Sentence] when the enemies have HP below 40%. This may be a bit of a hassle when the active skill still does more damage than a single target normal attack.

For him to be effective in Soul dungeons, he needs to have higher speed compared to the other DPS Shikigamis. His base speed is rather low as compared to other DPS Shikigamis and hence you need some speed on his Souls. If not, both his skill and the Shadow Soul would not be performing at full potential.

Because it is a single hit attack, Seimei’s shield skill can ward off his attack completely. This goes for all Shikigami’s with a single hit attack.

He can do insane damage in the beginning of a battle, but if he cannot kill his enemies with one hit, his damage would be extremely low after (with the latest upgrade, he is much better with a threshold at 40% instead of 60%). This would be solved with using the Watcher Soul but his initial outburst would suffer a great hit. Another way would be having the Ushi no Toki to offer one Shadow Soul bonus and attempt to one-hit kill everything.