Sakura (Brave Exvius)/Gameplay

Sakura is a playable character in Final Fantasy Brave Exvius. Her initial class is as a Sage, focused on dealing magic damage centered on the Lightning element and providing support to the party. She currently has five variants: the story unit (obtained during Chapter VII), the limited-time "Grim Lord Sakura" (available during the Global-exclusive Return to the Halloween Castle event), the Japanese-exclusive "Hunter Sakura" (obtainable during the collaboration with ), "Maiden Sakura" (a reward unit for Seoul Fan Festa 2017 attendees), her Season Two variant "Blossom Sage Sakura" and her Season Three variant "Sakura of the Delta Star".
==Sakura==
Sakura's job is listed as Sage. A 3-5★ story unit, Sakura is obtained after clearing Magic Library - Showdown of Destiny in Magi Nation Mysidia (during Chapter VII). Her roles are Physical Damage, Magic Damage and Support. She has no particular element or status ailment resistances. As with the rest of the story units, she has no Trust Master reward.
Sakura is one of the best story units. She can cover a several elements such as Dark, Light and Lightning, although she shines the most on the latter element. Her abilities include other effects like resistance to status ailments, reduced the damage taken by the party, and boost their resistance to Light/Dark/Lightning attacks. Her main means of offense are Dual Black Magic and Thundaja allowing her to build up damage quickly. Nonetheless, Sakura only reaches 5★ at most, so her potential is limited, lacking enough stats and being rather frail.
Her awakening materials are the following:
* 4★: Pearl of Wisdom x20, Esper Cryst x10, Mystic Ore x8, Scripture of Time x3, Sacred Crystal x3
* 5★: Mystic Ore x15, Scripture of Time x8, Sacred Crystal x5, Esper's Tear x3, Holy Crystal x3
=== Stats ===
Sakura's stats at her highest levels are as follows (with no passive abilities taken into account), along with the maximum amount of stat points that can be increased through pot-enhancements:
Rarity	Level	HP 	MP 	ATK 	DEF 	MAG 	SPR 	Drop Check
3★ 	40 	1527 (+180)	81 (+30) 	60 (+12) 	50 (+12)	60 (+12) 	53 (+12)	3
4★ 	60 	1986 (+240)	106 (+40)	79 (+16) 	65 (+16)	79 (+16) 	70 (+16)	4
5★ 	80 	2583 (+300)	139 (+50)	103 (+20)	85 (+20)	103 (+20)	92 (+20)	5
=== Abilities ===
Depending on her rarity, Sakura has two (3★), three (4★) or four (5★) ability slots. She also has affinity to White (Lvl 2-4), Black Magic (Lvl 5-7) and Green Magic (Lvl 3-5).
Rarity 3★ 	Rarity 3★ 	Rarity 3★
Ability 	Lv. Learned	
Thunder 	1 	
Dual Black Magic	1 	
Protect 	10 	
Shell 	10 	
HP +10% 	25 	
Shock Blade 	35 	
Light Blade 	35 	
Rarity 4★ 	Rarity 4★ 	Rarity 4★
Ability 	Lv. Learned	
MP +20% 	21 	
Dark Blade 	42 	
Thundara 	51 	
Thunder's Light 	60 	
Rarity 5★ 	Rarity 5★ 	Rarity 5★
Ability 	Lv. Learned	
ATK +20% 	28 	
MAG +20% 	28 	
Thundaga 	55 	
Bright Flash 	66 	
Blighted Gloom 	66 	
Thunder's Protection	72 	
Defensive Barrier 	80 	
Thundaja 	80 	
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Sakura has two abilities that can be enhanced: Thunder's Protection and Defensive Barrier.
=== Equipment ===
Sakura can equip the following weapons: daggers, staves, rods, axes, spears and maces.
She can equip the following armors: hats, clothes and robes.
She can equip accessories.
=== Limit Burst ===
Sakura's Limit Burst is a damage-type ability. It deals hybrid damage to all enemies, though the number of hits depends on her rarity: it hits five (3★), seven (4★) or nine (5★) times accordingly.
Its damage modifier depends on Sakura's Limit Burst level:
Rarity	Name 	Effect 	Effect 	Cost
3★ 	Griever's Fang	Base (Lv. 1)	Damage dealt (4.3x) 	10
3★ 	Griever's Fang	Max (Lv. 10)	Damage dealt (4.75x)	10
4★ 	Turbulent Edge	Base (Lv. 1)	Damage dealt (4.5x) 	12
4★ 	Turbulent Edge	Max (Lv. 15)	Damage dealt (5.2x) 	12
5★ 	Eternal Pain 	Base (Lv. 1)	Damage dealt (4.7x) 	14
5★ 	Eternal Pain 	Max (Lv. 20)	Damage dealt (5.65x)	14
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Rarity	Summoned	Fused 	Awoken
3★ 	- 	Oh, my power is coming back. It would be nice to get some exercise after so long. 	-
4★ 	- 	So I am to be strengthened by the power of these visions.... How times have changed.	It's been a long time since I lost my power. It seems to be coming back, now.
5★ 	- 	I won't use this power to fight, but to protect you all. 	With all this power flowing out of me... I can remember my time as a warrior.
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FFBE 464 Sakura.png|No. 0464 Sakura (3★).
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== Grim Lord Sakura ==
Grim Lord Sakura is a limited-time 5-6★ Rare Summon available during the Global-exclusive event Return to the Halloween Castle. Her job is listed as Grim Lord and her roles are Magic Damage and Support. She has innate elemental resistance to Fire and Light (+50%), but is weak to Dark (-50%). She has a Trust Master reward: the Reaver, a two-handed dual-element (Fire/Dark) weapon that increases stats (HP+666, MP+66, ATK+33, MAG+100, SPR+36) and has an exclusive effect (Death Awaits) for Grim Lord Sakura herself.
Sakura's Halloween variant is a very powerful attacker and supporting unit. She, like her story variant, can cover the same elements, and adds Fire into the mix. Her "Grim" abilities give her great coverage and can inflict status ailments on enemies. Most notably are "Soul Barrage" and "Eldritch Flames". The former is a powerful, albeit costly magic chaining move (with a decent modifier) against all enemies, and being neutral damage is unlikely to face resistance (yet at the same time it cannot take advantage of elemental chains or weaknesses). "Eldritch Flames" counters that problem as a single target, but powerful chain move with Fire/Dark damage and imperils. On top of that Grim Lord Sakura can double cast any of these abilities.
While her support abilities cannot be dualcasted, they are serviceable, offering resistance to stat breaks, status ailment immunity, elemental protection, Reraise, and massive increases to DEF/SPR at the cost of most of her HP.
Her awakening materials are the following: Divine Crystal x15, Fairies' Writ x10, Rainbow Bloom x10, Prismatic Horn x10, Calamity Writ x5
=== Stats ===
Grim Lord Sakura's highest base stats are her MAG and SPR. Furthermore, her passives traits greatly increase her MAG and HP in particular, making her the off-case of a mage unit who is potentially bulky. Sakura's stats at her highest levels are as follows (with no passive abilities taken into account), along with the maximum amount of stat points that can be increased through pot-enhancements:
Rarity	Level	HP 	MP 	ATK 	DEF 	MAG 	SPR 	Drop Check
5★ 	80 	2492 (+300)	147 (+50)	77 (+20) 	85 (+20) 	122 (+20)	120 (+20)	5
6★ 	100 	3240 (+450)	191 (+75)	100 (+30)	110 (+30)	158 (+30)	156 (+30)	6
=== Abilities ===
Grim Lord Sakura has four (5-6★) ability slots and affinity to Black (Lvl 7-8) and Green Magic (Lvl 5-6).
While she has no innate status ailment resistances, her traits give her immunity to Poison, Sleep, and Disease, as well as increased magic damage against humans, demons, and undead-type enemies.
Rarity 5★ 	Rarity 5★ 	Rarity 5★
Ability 	Lv. Learned	
Dark Spirit 	1 	
Thundara 	5 	
Dual Black Magic 	13 	
Thundaga 	17 	
Grim - Shock Blade 	20 	
Grim - Light Blade 	20 	
Grim - Dark Blade 	24 	
Grim - Fire Blade 	24 	
Heart of Darkness 	30 	
Undying Fervor 	45 	
MAG +30% 	61 	
Thunder's Protection	66 	
Grim - Soul Barrage 	80 	
Rarity 6★ 	Rarity 6★ 	Rarity 6★
Ability 	Lv. Learned	
Overlord 	1 	
Grim - Siphon 	19 	
Enigmatic 	27 	
Rise Again 	33 	
Thundaja 	40 	
Supremacy 	50 	
Grim - Eldritch Flames	70 	
Vicious 	81 	
Sacrificial Barrier 	88 	
Grim Lord 	100 	
=== Equipment ===
Grim Lord Sakura can equip the following weapons: daggers, rods, bows, spears, whips and maces.
She can equip the following armors: hats, clothes and robes.
She can equip accessories.
Like the other Halloween units, Grim Lord Sakura has access to two unit-exclusive ability materias: Chilling Aura (increases HP and MP by 13%) and Spooky Aura (increases ATK and MAG by 13%). They were available for purchase at King Mog's reward shop during the Night of the Pumpkin event, and as mission rewards during Return to the Halloween Castle.
=== Limit Burst ===
Phantom Fury is Grim Lord Sakura's Limit Burst and a damage-type ability with a buff-type secondary effect. The skill is a 9-hit attack that deals great magic damage to all enemies, and increases the MAG strength of one of her moves for the next turn by values above 100%. However, only one move will get boosted – if more than one attack is involved in the next turn (e.g. if she dualcasts Grim - Soul Barrage), only the first attack would receive the MAG increase).
The damage modifier and the next attack's increase percentage will depend on Sakura's Limit Burst level:
Rarity	Name 	Effect 	Effect 	Cost
5★ 	Phantom Fury	Base (Lv. 1)	Damage dealt (3.2x); attack increase (100%)	14
5★ 	Phantom Fury	Max (Lv. 20)	Damage dealt (5.1x); attack increase (195%)	14
6★ 	Phantom Fury	Base (Lv. 1)	Damage dealt (4.2x); attack increase (150%)	16
6★ 	Phantom Fury	Max (Lv. 25)	Damage dealt (6.6x); attack increase (270%)	16
;Quotes
Rarity	Summoned 	Fused 	Awoken
5★ 	I am the ruler of all fears. Hand over your candy, or fall victim to my tricks.	Hand over more of them delicious candies! 	-
6★ 	I am the ruler of all fears. Hand over your candy, or fall victim to my tricks.	In the end, nothing beats getting candies. Mmm... So delicious.	He he he... With this power, all is at my command! ...Hey, you know I'm not being serious.
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FFBE 8082 Sakura.png|No. 8082 Grim Lord Sakura (5★).
FFBE 8083 Sakura.png|No. 8083 Grim Lord Sakura (6★).
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==Hunter Sakura==
Hunter Sakura is a limited-time 4-6★ Rare Summon, obtainable during the collaboration event with . Hunter Sakura's job is listed as and her Trust Master reward is the Assault Axe. She is currently exclusive to the JP version.
FFBE 631 Hunter Sakura.png|No. 631 Hunter Sakura (4★).
FFBE 632 Hunter Sakura.png|No. 632 Hunter Sakura (5★).
FFBE 633 Hunter Sakura.png|No. 633 Hunter Sakura (6★).
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==Maiden Sakura==
Maiden Sakura is a 4-5★ unit that was given to all Seoul Fan Festa 2017 attendees, and which is set to be obtainable during the game's second anniversary celebrations. Her job is listed as Maiden, and her role are Magic Damage and Support. She has a Trust Master reward: the Hibiscus Hairpin, a hat that increases stats (DEF+10, MP +15%, MAG +20%).
Her awakening materials are the following: Mystic Ore x15, Scripture of Time x8, Esper's Tear x3, Sacred Crystal x5, Holy Crystal x3
=== Stats ===
Maiden Sakura's stats at her highest levels are as follows (with no passive abilities taken into account), along with the maximum amount of stat points that can be increased through pot-enhancements:
Rarity	Level	HP 	MP 	ATK 	DEF 	MAG 	SPR 	Drop Check
4★ 	60 	1848 (+210)	118 (+35)	68 (+14)	65 (+14)	71 (+18) 	80 (+14) 	4
5★ 	80 	2402 (+240)	154 (+40)	88 (+16)	84 (+16)	118 (+24)	104 (+16)	5
=== Abilities ===
Depending on her rarity, Maiden Sakura has three (4★) or four (5★) ability slots. Like her story counterpart, she also has affinity all types of magic: White (Lvl 3-4), Black Magic (Lvl 7-8) and Green Magic (Lvl 5-6).
Rarity 4★ 	Rarity 4★ 	Rarity 4★
Ability 	Lv. Learned	
Flying Petals 	1 	
Lightning Edge 	3 	
HP +10% 	12 	
Solar Eclipse 	24 	
Lunar Eclipse 	36 	
Osmose 	52 	
MAG +10% 	56 	
Magical Awakening	60 	
Rarity 5★ 	Rarity 5★ 	Rarity 5★
Ability 	Lv. Learned	
Moonlight Fragment 	25 	
MP +20% 	34 	
Spring Haze 	45 	
MAG +20% 	54 	
Thunder's Protection	68 	
Defensive Barrier 	75 	
Starlight Shower 	80 	
=== Equipment ===
Maiden Sakura can equip the following weapons: daggers, rods, staves, rods, axes, spears and maces.
She can equip the following armors: hats, clothes and robes.
She can equip accessories.
=== Limit Burst ===
Arirang is Maiden Sakura's Limit Burst. A damage-type ability, it is an attack that deals Lightning, Light and Dark damage to all enemies. Depending on her rarity, it will consist of seven (4★) or nine (5★) hits.
The damage modifier will depen on Maiden Sakura's LB level:
Rarity	Name 	Effect 	Effect 	Cost
4★ 	Arirang	Base (Lv. 1)	Damage dealt (2.2x) 	12
4★ 	Arirang	Max (Lv. 15)	Damage dealt (2.9x) 	12
5★ 	Arirang	Base (Lv. 1)	Damage dealt (2.4x) 	14
5★ 	Arirang	Max (Lv. 20)	Damage dealt (3.35x)	14
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Rarity	Summoned 	Fused 	Awoken
4★ 	It must be destiny that we meet on this moonlit night. How may I aid you?	So I am to be strengthened by the power of these visions.... How times have changed.	-
5★ 	It must be destiny that we meet on this moonlit night. How may I aid you?	I won't use this power to fight, but to protect you all. 	With all this power flowing out of me... I can remember my time as a warrior.
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FFBE 8091 Maiden Sakura.png|No. 8091 Maiden Sakura (4★).
FFBE 8092 Sakura.png|No. 8092 Maiden Sakura (5★).
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== Blossom Sage Sakura ==
Blossom Sage Sakura is Sakura's variant for Season Two. A 5-7★ Rare Summon, she has been available since the event The White Sage and the Magic Cane. Her job is listed as Sage and her roles are Magic Damage and Support. Her Trust Master reward is the Sage of Mysidia passive ability, which boosts the equipped unit's MP by 20% and MAG by 40%, and increases 2 burst stones per turn. Her Super Trust Master reward is Sakura's Robe.
Sakura's Season Two variant a potent Magic Finisher and a great utilitarian unit as well. Her Quick abilities can all be dualcasted and they offer several elemental attacks (Light/Dark/Lightning) for moderate damage, being able to decrease the enemies' resitance to these elements. What makes her a great finisher are her two strongest abilities, "Quick Rebel Intention" (which deals massive non elemental damage to all enemies) and "Quick Final Thunder" (which can build up power for a significant damage modifier at full strength), two abilities that coupled with dualcasting, can reach their maximum value incredibly fast.
Noteworthy is that she can also dualcast supportive abilities that greatly increase ATK and MAG to all units, or regenerate MP. The downside to Blossom Sage Sakura is that her abilities can consume MP at a very fast rate if not careful. She is also capable of countering attacks with a major Lightning imperil on a single enemy, or restore a fixed amount of 30 MP to the entire party.
Her awakening materials are the following: Fairies' Gem x20, Rainbow Bloom x10, Calamity Writ x10, Prismatic Horn x5, Divine Crystal x5
=== Stats ===
Blossom Sage Sakura's stats at his highest levels are as follows (with no passive abilities taken into account), along with the maximum amount of stat points that can be increased through pot-enhancements:
Rarity	Level	HP 	MP 	ATK 	DEF 	MAG 	SPR 	Drop Check
5★ 	80 	2673 (+300)	156 (+50) 	75 (+20) 	96 (+20) 	118 (+20)	116 (+20)	10
6★ 	100 	3476 (+450)	211 (+75) 	101 (+30)	130 (+30)	160 (+30)	146 (+30)	12
7★ 	120 	4518 (+600)	274 (+100)	131 (+50)	177 (+50)	204 (+50)	193 (+50)	12
=== Abilities ===
Blossom Sage Sakura has four (5-6★) ability slots and affinity to the three types of magic: White (Lvl 6-7), Black (Lvl 7-8) and Green Magic (Lvl 5-6).
While she has no innate status ailment resistances, her traits give her immunity to Silence, Paralyze, and Confuse.
Rarity 5★ 	Rarity 5★ 	Rarity 5★
Ability 	Lv. Learned	
Quick Combo 	1 	
White Light's Protection	10 	
Quick Shock Blade 	18 	
MAG +30% 	31 	
Quick Light Blade 	35 	
Quick Dark Blade 	42 	
Quick Final Thunder 	50 	
Auto-Refresh 	52 	
MP +30% 	68 	
Thunder's Protection 	72 	
Defensive Barrier 	80 	
Rod Mastery 	80 	
Rarity 6★ 	Rarity 6★ 	Rarity 6★
Ability 	Lv. Learned 	
Quick Thunder's Light	23 	
Quick Bright Flash 	39 	
Shocking Revenge 	45 	
SPR +30% 	48 	
Quick Blighted Gloom 	59 	
Quick Offensive 	62 	
Quick Magic 	76 	
Energy Change 	83 	
HP +20% 	86 	
Status Reset 	91 	
Quick Refresh 	96 	
Quick Rebel Intention	100 	
Rarity 7★ (JP-only) 	Rarity 7★ (JP-only)	Rarity 7★ (JP-only)
Ability 	Lv. Learned 	
 	101 	
 	105 	
 	105 	
(CD) 	105 	
 	110 	
(Cooldown) 	110 	
MP +20% 	115 	
 	120 	
=== Equipment ===
Blossom Sage Sakura can equip the following weapons: daggers, staves, rods, axes, spears and maces.
She can equip the following armors: hats, clothes and robes.
She can equip accessories.
=== Limit Burst ===
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 is Blossom Sage Sakura's Limit Burst. As one of the so-called "CG units", Sakura's Limit Burst is a powerful ability preceded by FMV-like movie that lasts about 0:06 seconds. In it, Sakura (surrounded by cherry blossom petals) stands in a rose-coloured circle, smiles at the camera, and raises her cane to throw a burst of white energy at the sky. The energy shot transforms into a mandala and a myriad of javelin-like beams pierce the enemies.
Eternal Ray is a simple, but effective damage-type ability, being a 40-hit attack that deals magic damage to all enemies with a high modifier (even if unleveled).
Its damage modifier will depend on Blossom Sage Sakura's LB level:
Rarity	Name 	Change in Effect	Change in Effect 	Cost
5★ 	Eternal Ray	Base (Lv. 1) 	Damage dealt (8x) 	20
5★ 	Eternal Ray	Max (Lv. 20) 	Damage dealt (11.8x)	20
6★ 	Eternal Ray	Base (Lv. 1) 	Damage dealt (10x) 	30
6★ 	Eternal Ray	Max (Lv. 25) 	Damage dealt (14.8x)	30
7★ 	Eternal Ray	Base (Lv. 1) 	Damage dealt (?x) 	40
7★ 	Eternal Ray	Max (Lv. 30) 	Damage dealt (?x) 	40
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== Sakura of the Delta Star ==
Sakura of the Delta Star serves as Sakura's season three variant. A 5-7★ Rare Summon unit available since the "Aldore Five-O" Story Event and based on her membership in The Orders near the end of season two, but with a new uniform. Her role in combat is Magic Damage. Her Trust Master Reward is the Delta Star's Headband which provides decent MAG and MP along Lightning Resistance, while her Super Trust Master Reward is the Black Roselia Rod, named after her friend Roselia.
Sakura has a rather simple modus operandi, dealing damage by stacking modifiers boosts on her main ability Quick Thunderous Rebel Intention through pentacasting multiple skills that boost it (but limited to select each skill only once), these come with added effects like adding Killer bonuses against certain enemy types, or other buffs mostly to herself, which also fill her LB gauge substantially. Her second means of inflicting damage is through her Limit Burst, Eternal Ray - Burst which is no longer CG animated, which is supported by her abilities which also boost LB damage. Sakura now alternates between these forms of damage every turn, making her rotation fairly simple.
Her passives grant her MAG boosts with an emphasis on True Doublehand builds, along with modest bulk. She has immunities to paralyze, confuse, petrify and stop along resistance boosts to Lightning, Light and Dark elements.
Category:Character gameplay in Final Fantasy Brave Exvius