Kaori

Who said females can't be warriors?! Everyone except ME!

Kaori was born into a family of admired samurai warriors, but her fate was marriage and homemaking. She had other personal plans, though. Using the elaborate armor of the samurai to conceal her gender, she attended samurai school to become the first female samurai.

**Role: Attacker/Curser**

## Overview

Kaori is an extremely overpowered attacker that seriously breaks Epic meta. She has 4 extra-turn moves with low stamina costs (highest being only 26s). She also has heavily damaging moves which also inflict Torture status effects. Those combined with her good trait and stats make her worthy of the OP rank. She can easily be seen as a border between Epics and Legendaries.

**Pros:**

* Amazing stats, especially power
* Great self-buffs and torture effects
* **All moves cost less than 30 stamina**
* Decent trait
* Good relics slots for an Attacker

**Cons:**

* High cooldowns on extra-turn skills

## Recommended Movesets

### Bootleg Mulan (Attacker)

* Be Water (Self-Damage Boost + Water Protection + Freeze Immunity + Extra Turn, 26s, **3 CD**)
* Deadly Haiku (AoE 35 Light dmg + Sunburn + Bleed, 29s, 2 CD)
* Shikake Waza (45 Thunder dmg + Self Extra Turn, 16s, **4 CD**)
* Fear No Dark / Star Killer / Whale Hunter (Fear for Self Precision + Dark Protection + Possession Immunity + Extra Turn, 26s, **3 CD**) / (Star for 65 Light dmg + Sunburn, 26s, **0 CD**) / (Whale for 60 Thunder dmg + Bleed, 26s, **0 CD**)

This set is the most preferred to make use of Kaori's outstanding attack stat. *Be Water* is basically *Angry Xenophagus* (Ixofex) or *The Magnificent* (Greedy Dragon) on steroids, and those two skills are owned by **Legendaries -** that being mainly used for the instant Damage Boost. *Deadly Haiku* has a unique AoE Sunburn + Bleed, which even most Light Legendaries don't have. *Shikake Waza* is an extra turn skill to deal raw damage. For the final skill, *Fear No Dark* can be used for making your attacks more accurate with Precision. But either *Star Killer* or *Whale Hunter* are usually more preferred for the sake of having a damaging move that has no cooldown. *Star Killer* is plain better than *Whale Hunter* due to having a higher power at 65 dmg and a more damaging Torture effect (Sunburn), though *Whale Hunter* is better against Water monsters.

### Curser Set

* Renzuko Waza (Bleed + Sunburn + Self Extra Turn, 13s, 3 CD)
* Fear No Dark / Be Water
* Whale Hunter / Star Killer / Shikake Waza
* Deadly Haiku

Recommended Runes**: 3 Speed / Team Speed**

Recommended Relics: Ice-Breaking Greatsword, Soul-Shattering Sword **(Only use the latter two if you have a fast denier that can Freeze, Stun, or Possess)**

## Counters

* Any Control that that can outspeed and Freeze her is great. Possession won't work a lot as she would most likely choose one of her extra-turn skills and shrug the Possession off, not to mention her buff move, *Fear No Dark*. Nautilus-1 is a considerable choice (only if he is equipped with Speed runes as Kaori's base Speed is higher than him) As he can gain up to three turns by using a single skill **AND** use one of those turns to use his AoE Freeze skill while using the other two turns to hit Kaori with his Metal skills, dealing a load of damage (But beware of *Be Water*, as it can halve the Water damage Nautilus is dishing out against her and blocks his freeze).
* Any monster whose main gimmick is Stamina Drain such as Wisteria and Soulfagous can really give Kaori a hard time.
* Anyone who can apply Torture effects is also good too. Sir Francis Rock is a very good choice as he can apply Quicksands, which drains 60% Health over the course of 4-turns, and can also hit very hard with his Earth and Metal-based attacks, which both deal extra damage to Kaori due to her elemental type being weak to Earth and Metal.