| Pros |
- Extremely bulky thanks to Lightning Beast granting him 50% max HP and 20% damage reduction. To top it off, he starts the battle with 3 counts of Fortify for even more HP. He also starts the battle with Super Zenith, which ties in well to the fact that he gets an extra 60% to damage reduction while under Zenith, meaning that he can start any battle with absurd amounts of both HP and damage reduction for one of the best survivabilities in the game.
- Lightning Beast also grants him total ailment immunity to not only further boost his survivability, but also to shut down any ailment play from enemy demons such as Hathor A and Tiamat A. On top of that, he reduces one count of Spirit Chains of Indignation received which, paired with his naturally high HP, makes him a great counter to Inanna.
- Lightning Beast also allows him to hit extremely hard despite his deceptively low BP numbers; it gives him 20% to Elec damage dealt, and then an additional 60% under Zenith for a total of 80%, and then makes the enemies receive an extra 20% magic damage as the finishing touch.
- Order Crest: Great Yokai allows him to be extremely active during the enemy turn, allowing him to punish - and sometimes even wipe out - magic teams and especially teams that heavily exploit Attribute affinity down. In fact, he can very easily catch demons like Danu and Heroine by surprise, as they are very likely to immediately trigger it as they both attack with Light, which is conveniently his weakness.
- He also enters a state of Concentrate every time Order Crest: Great Yokai is triggered, but only after the three AOE hits. This means that from the second activation onwards he will hit doubly hard.
- Damage dealt by Order Crest: Great Yokai uses HP as the attack stat, which ties in nicely with his already high HP when starting a battle and allows him to focus entirely on bulk.
- Scattered Lightning is an extremely hard hitting attack, hitting a single enemy once for 100 BP, and then an additional five times for an additional 200 BP. This makes him an excellent choice to break endures, especially with the huge Elec damage boosts granted by Lightning Beast. It also lowers the Elec Affinity Attribute of the target by two levels, which helps him hit harder through both Order Crest: Great Yokai and Scattered Lightnng itself.
- If successful, on top of the five additional hits, Scattered Lightning also grants every party member one count of Fortify and casts Zenith on them once per turn, giving him some degree of self-sufficiency by boosting his damage and ensuring the additional Zenith benefits from Lightning Beast stay on during his own turn.
- Scattered Lightning also casts Super Gloom on the enemy it targets as part of the initial 100 BP attack, which is a fantastic tool against a mirror match, as it will remove the other Tora’s damage boost and damage reduction.
- Similarly to Order Crest: Great Yokai, Scattered Lightning uses HP as the attack stat, which means he's heavily encouraged to go all in on HP for both defensive and offensive utility.
- He gets Super Endure as an Awakening skill in yellow. Coupled with his innate 6th Sense Survivor+, this gives him a total of four endures, giving him more time to potentially punish the enemy team with Order Crest: Great Yokai.
- If Panel 2, he does not consume a Press Turn icon the first time he attacks each turn while under Zenith. This not only allows his team to keep the momentum going, but is also a great way to counter demons with Bonus Turn denial like Nuwa. This essentially means that Panel 2 is borderline mandatory for him, however.
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| Cons |
- 20% to damage received in Lightning Beast is a low enough number that can easily be overwritten nowadays, especially considering it's tied to Magic attacks only, which units like Inanna and Vanitas at Panel 2 easily overwrite with 30% damage reduction from Magic attacks.
- His damage output is very negatively affected by Decay of which there are a lot of T1 units that liberally apply it, such as Chaos Hero, Lucifer Frost and The Hero. Without Fortify support, of which the only sufficient one is Nuwa, he is very unlikely to make a dent on teams like those.
- Despite the high damage reduction number of 80%, most of it is extremely conditional and easily overwritten by removing Zenith from him, meaning that only the baseline of 20% damage reduction can be relied upon most of the time.
- This is made even worse due to Hakumen no Mono’s extremely high usage rate in PvP.
- He has no way to gain Zenith during the enemy's turn, greatly affecting his survivability during the enemy's turn if they manage to overwrite his Super Zenith. Even during his own turn, he can't reapply Super Zenith by himself, only regular Zenith, and that's only after using Scattered Lightning. All of this means that he's heavily overreliant on his start of battle Super Zenith which, considering how easy it is to overwrite, is not a great look for him.
- Despite the hard-hitting nature of Order Crest: Yokai, the forced AOE will inevitably feed into Nuwa's Order Crest: Solemnity, allowing her to heal her own team and setting back Tora's own progress in punishing his enemy team during their own turn if he doesn't manage to kill her in time.
- Due to being a Magic attack, Order Crest: Great Yokai will also trigger enemy Toras' Order Crest: Great Yokai, allowing them to punish his own team in turn.
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