Benevolent Souma

Uber Super Rare

Description

Benevolent Souma is a good backline CC Support unit with 440 range, 5400 DPS with an 8.7s attack frequency, 4200 cost and 34k HP with 6 KBs. He also has a 50% activation chance for each of his procs, those being Slow and Weaken against Angel & Alien enemies, both lasting 5 seconds (6 seconds with full treasures). His First Form has the same abilities but inferior stats so we will be only referring to his Evolved Form.

First of all, Souma possesses two CC abilities; both of which have 69% uptime with full fruit treasures. They synergize well in preventing enemy Angel/Alien enemies from pushing too hard, which is especially important when regarding Angels as they are one of the traits that push the hardest. Souma paired with Ramen essentially trivializes Angels. He is a very reliable proc unit to use when range is needed, such as against Winged Pigge where the combination of Slow + Weaken prevents Winged Pigge from mowing through your Ramens too quickly. As for defense, Souma has a great KB count allowing him to reposition with the slightest touch.

Souma's biggest flaw is his HP, or lack of. Six knockbacks is great but it is unlikely that he can fully utilize all of them when his base HP is so much lower than average. Besides, having a non-guaranteed proc chance causes enemies to have the chance (25%) to push if both procs fail. As such, he can't recover easily due to his longish attack frequency. Souma's usage as a general Backliner also falls off in late game as non-gacha options such as Awakened Ururun have a superior performance to him.

All in all he's a good, albeit average Uber to pull that can be quite useful against Angels and Aliens alongside as a general Backliner but not much else. In the case of slowing and weakening Angels, talented Sanzo also occupies a fairly hefty role in that niche meaning Souma has trouble standing out and when he does, it only really comes from facing enemies that outrange Sanzo in the first place. Weaken is an effect that does not provide reliable CC, so while Souma has decent uptime with his Weaken, it takes a backseat in the face of his Slow proc. He'll shine most in early-to-mid game but drops off sharply in late game as his lack of HP holds him back from being chosen over other Ubers that can fulfill his role, or even non gacha options.

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True Form Costs

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XP Cost Curve

Benevolent Souma uses the Regular Uber Rare/Legend Rare/Legends Cat Curve

Level XP Level XP Level XP Level XP Level XP
1 0 11 15,600 XP 21 23,400 XP 31 27,300 XP 41 31,200 XP
2 9,800 XP 12 19,600 XP 22 29,400 XP 32 34,300 XP 42 39,200 XP
3 14,800 XP 13 29,600 XP 23 44,400 XP 33 51,800 XP 43 59,200 XP
4 21,800 XP 14 43,600 XP 24 65,400 XP 34 76,300 XP 44 87,200 XP
5 42,500 XP 15 85,000 XP 25 127,500 XP 35 148,750 XP 45 170,000 XP
6 64,300 XP 16 128,600 XP 26 192,900 XP 36 225,050 XP 46 257,200 XP
7 93,200 XP 17 186,400 XP 27 279,600 XP 37 326,200 XP 47 372,800 XP
8 118,000 XP 18 236,000 XP 28 354,000 XP 38 413,000 XP 48 472,000 XP
9 197,400 XP 19 394,800 XP 29 592,200 XP 39 690,900 XP 49 789,600 XP
10 513,500 XP 20 1,027,000 XP 30 1,540,500 XP 40 1,797,250 XP 50 2,054,000 XP
1 - 10 1,075,300 XP 11 - 20 2,166,200 XP 21 - 30 3,249,300 XP 31 - 40 3,790,850 XP 41 - 50 4,332,400 XP
1 - 10 1,075,300 XP 1 - 20 3,241,500 XP 1 - 30 6,490,800 XP 1 - 40 10,281,650 XP 1 - 50 14,614,050 XP

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