Miko

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### Counterparts

Michelle

**Miko** is a playable mouse character that can be selected in a match. He can be purchased or drawn in Shops.

Miko is Michelle's brother. Born into a wealthy family, he set his sights on becoming a journalist. After graduating top of his class, Miko poured his heart and soul into his career. He's always first on the scene to provide professional, unbiased reporting to his audience.

***Note: Underlined words are information translated to English from the Chinese server, and they are currently unreleased or released content without translations in other servers. As they are not official, they may be changed in the future.***

## Background Story

### Developer Post (Chinese Server)

#### "An excellent journalist that focuses on hot topics and reports."

Miko comes from a wealthy family and has a good background. He has determined to become an excellent reporter since he was a child. After graduating with honors, Miko successfully realized his dream and devoted himself to journalism. He always rushes to the news scene as soon as possible and brings professional and authoritative reports to the audience in a timely manner.

### Cartoon Origin

Although Miko never really originated from the cartoon episodes, his sister Michelle is inspired from the episode Blue Cat Blues.

## Ability Setting

### Skills

#### Active Skill: **Tell Me Your Story** (Cooldown time: 35/25/25)

 Lv. 2
 Lv. 3

#### Passive Skill: **Professionalism** (Cooldown time: 0/0/0)

 Lv. 2
 Lv. 3

#### Weapon Skill: **Beautiful Moments** (Cooldown time: 30/30/20)

 Lv. 2
 Lv. 3

## Character Strategy

### Attribute Analysis

* If you only look at Miko's attributes, he is only average among all mice, especially his pushing ability, which is relatively mediocre.

### Skill Analysis

#### **Active Skill: Tell Me Your Story**

* Miko's active skill can continue to distract the cat, but you need to pay attention to the opponent, to see if they have any effects, items or a ready attack, so as not to get KO'd embarrassingly.

* Miko's active skill is more restrained against cats who equipped Stunning Strike, especially after the skill has been upgraded to Lv. 2, and in the state of continuous HP recovery, Miko can basically resist the cat's attacks three times without weakening. In addition, the damage effect caused by Miko's active skill layers is also very impressive. Basically, stacking 5 layers can roughly damage two-thirds of the HP of Tom, and even greater for Butch. The damage caused by it to the cat is self-evident. If you cooperate with teammates, it is relatively easy to knock down any cat.

* In addition, when using active skill, players need to pay attention to that when the first effect lasts, you cannot perform other interactions except for opening doors, entering pipes and other moving behaviors. Especially remember to cancel the first effect before rescuing. The duration of the second effect of the skill is about 10 seconds, and it has a certain range of effect. After a little practice, it is roughly consistent with the range of a POV.

The following are tips for synchronizing Miko's active skill with a teammate:

* Tip 1: Miko's active skill, when combined with the King Banner's rescue banner, can directly rescue without having to cancel.

* Tip 2: The skills of some cats can quickly stack active layers, such as the damage caused by Toodles Galore’s kiss and Kate’s passive. In some cases, Miko can use the active skill to bear the skills and cooperate with his teammates to knock down the cat.

#### **Passive Skill: Professionalism**

* Miko's passive skill can strengthen his detection, rescue, and movement abilities respectively. In the early game, upgrade to Lv. 1 first, and then consider upgrading after other skills reach a critical level.

* The effect of Lv. 3 passive speed increase is similar to a speed of a cat without Cautious perk, and the rescue speed bonus is similar to that of equipping Help Me, estimated to be about 50%.

#### **Weapon Skill: Beautiful Moments**

Note that Miko's camera skill cannot return a mouse that is being grabbed by the cat and being tied onto a rocket. Here are some tips in using it:

* Tip 1: Through the return effect, combined with active skill and the perk card Selfless, Miko can trigger a rescue without being stunned by the mousetraps under the rocket. After rescuing, Miko needs to click on the second effect of taking picture. After triggering Selfless can he return to the position of the location that he took the picture from and restore to full HP.

* Tip 2: Cooperating with teammates to rescue is also easy to use. You can take a photo of the rescue teammate first. After the rescue is over, if the cat chases the rescued teammate, you can use the skill to pull the rescue teammate away to prevent the cat from chasing.

* Tip 3: Take the opportunity to take pictures when the cat is under control, and then use the skill to transfer the cat when the cat is chasing other teammates, so as to give teammates more space to push and rescue.

* Tip 4: Miko can use the technique of jump-and-release when taking pictures, which can be used when on different platforms, and slightly increases the safety of returning.

* Tip 5: Combining with Tip 4, jump-and-release to take pictures, and then jump while returning, which will achieve an effect similar to a Double Jump. Use effects such as cakes and the perk Leap to jump even higher.

* Tip 6: You can carry cheese by taking pictures, and use the return effect to quickly move the cheese to the corresponding position.

* Tip 7: Miko's camera can also bring back teammates who were dragged away by Zuri’s Dance Time. Of course, it can also pull Zuri herself to cause disrupting effects.

## Recommended Upgrade Order

### Distract Type:

#### **Passive** + **Active** + **Weapon** + **Active** + **Active** + **Weapon** + **Weapon**

* This set of upgrade order can provide Miko with a strong interference ability and cause strong distraction to the cat. In addition, he can also use active skill and weapon skill for quick rescue.

### Rescue Type:

#### **Active** + **Weapon** + **Passive** + **Active** + **Active** + **Weapon** + **Weapon**

* This set of upgrade order is more inclined to rescue. If a teammate has been caught at the beginning, you can use the active skill effect to stun the cat, and then quickly rescue. If you cooperate with weapon skill, you can implement a non-injured rescue.

## Recommended Perks

Miko can be regarded as a Distract + Rescue character, so he can equip some perk cards to strengthen his survival and rescue capabilities.

### Recommended Deck:

S Class **Selfless** + S Class **Blood of Iron** + S Class **Homesick** / **Fairy's Touch** + C Class **Help Me**

**Selfless** + **Blood of Iron** + **Help Me**, can create a safe rescuing environment for Miko, and **Homesick** / **Fairy's Touch** can guarantee his early or late game survivability.

* S Class **Selfless** (★★★★☆)

* S Class **Blood of Iron** (★★★★★)

* S Class **Homesick** (★★★☆☆)

* S Class **Fairy's Touch** (★★★☆☆)

* S Class **Fearless** (★★★★☆)

* C Class **Help Me** (★★★★★)

## In-game Strategy

### Scouting Phase

* In the case of ensuring your own safety, cooperate with your teammates to explore every room on the map as much as possible, to collect information about room items + drinks + cat's location and cheese refresh positions.

### Cheese Phase

* At the beginning of the cheese phase, because Miko has a large field of vision, he can observe relatively safely in some key positions to provide information for his teammates, and he can also choose to use his camera to quickly carry the cheese.

* In the rest of the time, Miko can carry more cheese by using his camera, or use his distracting and survival abilities to find out the location of the cat for his teammates.

### Rescuing Teammates

* After a teammate has been caught, Miko can first assist the teammates to push the cheese to improve the character level, in order to rescue safely.

### Wall Crack Phase

* Miko can use active skill to interfere with the cat as much as possible, and weapon skill can also guarantee his own survival to a certain extent. You might as well do more dangerous actions to attract the cat and create a favorable environment for teammates to smash the Wall Crack.

## Character Evaluation

Miko is generally a character who becomes great in the Cheese Phase. Overall, Miko's distract, survival, and rescue capabilities are guaranteed to a certain extent, so Miko's role in the game is more biased towards interference, observation, and rescue roles. The essence of mastering this character lies in keeping a distance in front of the cat, using his active and weapon skills to constantly seduce the cat, so as to give a safer pushing environment for his teammates. Players who are bold and cautious, like challenges, and confident in their own operation ability are very suitable for this character.

## Skins

Beside equipping skins, he can also equip a robot mouse skin to gain more Fashion Points, same with Footprints.

***Note: As the skin obtaining methods vary between servers, they will not be listed below. Players can check in the game to see their current obtaining methods.***

### S Class

**Dragon Prince*** Skin Series: **Tales of the Globe**

* The setting sun glows on the pure white waves. The rushing tides paint the whole world blue.

### A Class

 **Adjudicator**
 **Stellar Streamer**
* It's not about following trends, it's about getting to the bottom of the story of life.

## Extra

### Quotes from **Journey in Pictures**

(For more quotes, click the link.)

* Dragon Prince insists to fly Celeste and the others to their destination:
	+ *"I am here to help you. You can't use spells in Kunlun Mountain, how long could you handle if you walk? I'll take you to fly there from west to east, just to help you to the fullest."*

### Quotes from **Firework Show**

* *We're ready. The fourth anniversary interview will start now!*

## Trivia

* Miko is the first playable character to be released as an inspiration of someone, being the older brother of Michelle.
	+ It is also possible that he's inspired by Jerry's appearance too in The Missing Mouse, when he was polished with white ink, and also having his yellow eyes.

* Miko's color palette is the same as Michelle, which further connects his affiliation with her.

* In the Chinese server, Miko was teased in Tech Detective's trailer video, which he was called "Mystery Man M" (神秘人M).

* Before the update in the Chinese server which buffed Miko greatly, his weapon skill Beautiful Moments used to have a Return Sound Effect. It is likely an oversight that they removed it.

* Miko's Report Sound Effect is similar to the sound effect when Spike throws a character down. This sound effect also shares with Topo's World Ball Stun Sound Effect in the Chinese server.

### Etymology

* "Miko" is a name variant of "Michael", also the male version of "Michelle".

* "Miko" can also be inspired by the word "microphone", which as a journalist, he always holds a microphone.

## Gallery

### In-game Sprites

Drinking MilkEating CakeConsuming DrinkCarrying CheeseWalkingSprintingJumpingSlidingStandby (Alert)Walking (Alert)Being ChasedOpening DoorClosing DoorThrowing ItemHealingScaldedFrozenBlastedCrushedStrugglingTell Me Your StoryBeautiful Moments