Yuki Onna

Yuki Onna (previously Snow Maiden) – 雪女

Stat Rating

Max Stat

Soul

Most players will use the Mimic because of the 3-hit mechanism of the Yuki Onna. The Mimic will be able to inflict a random debuff upon dealing damage, and hence the Yuki Onna has 3 chances of 25% rate to inflict a random debuff. When the Stun debuff is being inflicted, God has answered your prayers.

Similar to the Mimic, the Temptress deals confusion debuff instead of a random one. Enemies under the confusion status will attack any random target, including both the enemies and the allies.

As a crowd control Shikigami, most players will usually try to eliminate them or the healers first. Hence with Souls such as Jizo Statue and Boroboroton, the Yuki Onna can survive longer. With the Mirror Lady, enemies will think twice before attacking her.

Not really recommended for Yuki Onna, but only if your team cannot provide sufficient Orb throughout the entire battle.

Rating

Snowball

Ice Buffer

Blizzard

Sample Team

The Yuki Onna with a high chance of debuff can cause chaos for teams with pure pullers and DPSers.
Some example line-ups are as follows:

Arena PvP:
1. Kamaitachi/Yamausagi, Yuki Onna, Zashiki, Samurai X, Ubume/Ootengu/Blade

• Kamaitachi or Yamausagi will allow the Yuki Onna to debuff all the enemies firsthand and then giving other DPS Shikigamis to deal damage without being retaliated. To play safe, 2 crowd control Shikigamis can be used within a team such as the Samurai X.
• A disadvantage of this build is noticeable when enemies use more defensive Souls or use the Ame Onna to remove the debuffs. Another disadvantage is when the enemy team is faster and able to budge in and kill off the crowd controls before they can do anything.

2. Kamaitachi/Yamausagi, Yuki Onna, Aoandon, Zashiki, Momo/Ebisu

• The Yuki Onna debuffs your enemies, and the Aoandon serves as DPS dealing high damage while absorbing Orb from your enemy team. One of the best PvP builds if you have the speed advantage.

Soul Dungeon:
The Yuki Onna is never used in high-level Soul Dungeons.

Acquisition

Bounty

Shikigami Comparison

Samurai X – Samurai X’s active skill [Unbreakable] has a 60% chance to provoke all enemies. Under the provoke status, the enemies could only perform a normal attack and the target will only be on him.  The innate accuracy of 60% is much higher than that of Yuki Onnas, even though [Snow Storm] has 3 hits.  The upside is that, when frozen, the enemies could not perform any action. In addition, [Unbreakable] reduces the Samurai X’s HP. Without a decent level of defense and HP, he could be killed in a few attacks. Furthermore, if the enemy team has a Vampira, he can die very easily.

While facing enemies with Souls such as [Jizo Statue] and [Sea Sprite], Samurai X is better as it does not require inflicting damage to enemies in order to activate the provoke status. For Yuki Onna, the effect will not trigger if she doesn’t do damage to her opponents.

Hououga – The Hououga’s passive skill [Blaze] has a 50% chance to inflict Daze on enemies for 1 turn, given that the enemies are inflicted with at least 1 debuff. Hence, the Hououga is usually paired up with the Ame Onna. Daze is the best debuff in the game because the enemies will not be able to perform any action and the effect cannot be dispelled in any manner.

Similar to the Yuki Onna, the Hououga has to inflict damage to the enemies in order to trigger the Stun effect. Hence, it will be weak against enemies with the Souls [Jizo Statue] and [Claim Fairy] or any type of shields.

Tanuki – Tanuki is a unique Shikigami which relies on its normal attack to provoke the enemies. Hence most players would give it the Soul [Scarlet]. This provoke cannot be dispelled like the Samurai X’s skill, however, it can only target one single enemy. With the [Scarlet] Soul it will then be able to provoke more enemies.

Verdict

Being an SR Shikigami, her stats are naturally a little higher as compared to other R Shikigamis. However, this Shikigami’s primary role is not to deal damage but to perform crowd control.

Besides the normal attack, Yuki Onna has one passive skill and one special skill. [Ice Buffer] provides her with some damage reduction for higher survivability.  For the enemies who attack her, their speed will be reduced and hence giving more chances for your team to attack. [Blizzard] attacks the whole enemy team with 3 hits, with a certain chance to freeze all the enemies for 1 turn.  After a recent patch, the freeze effect was significantly reduced and was substituted as a slow effect instead.

At the lower levels, most players will prioritize resources on DPS Shikigamis for farming and level grinding. Hence, having a good crowd control Shikigami is definitely a great choice in terms of Arena PvP.  Before obtaining one of the better DPS Shikigamis for grinding, Yuki Onna functions decently as an AOE DPS unit.  Furthermore, before summoning crowd control Shikigamis that better suit your team, she is definitely the best candidate for that role.

The Yuki Onna performs decently at the initial game and is one of the best crowd control Shikigamis. However, there will be a future patch which nerfs her freezing ability to a slowing ability which made her less popular among high-level PvP players.