Arcana Heart 3/AH3X/Kamui Tokinomiya

Kamui Tokinomiya

Profile

Doomed to forever bear the burden of being the Millennial Guardian, Kamui awakens whenever the spiritual and physical worlds come into conflict, returning to her slumber once things have been set right. Some of the more notable events she has been present for include: the oil crises of the 1970s, both World Wars, and others. Though adept at a number of martial arts, she fights primarily using a modified version of Iaijutsu using the legendary sword Tamayorihime Mikadomorimune.

Though she has been alive since before recorded history, she finds it difficult to adapt to the fast-paced changes of modern society. She shows empathy to those around her, and is especially devoted to Konoha, her dedicated servant during her current appearance in the mortal coil. She loves anything cute and fuzzy, and has an impressive stuffed animal collection. She suspects that the Drexler Institute is behind the planar rifts, and regrets that she did not finish them off when she last fought them decades ago.

Overview

Mid-ranged character who is relatively fast despite her range. Can play defensively, poke in neutral, and/or rush down. She has good poking and hit confirms, consistent ways to end combos or stray hits into hard knockdowns, and a plethora of unique and useful tools that are all situationally useful. However, while her buttons are quite long range, they are pretty slow and Kamui lacks a traditional DP reversal. This means that her options out of clash are generally very weak, and you'll need to creatively use her great tools such as Uruma to escape pressure situations

Recommended Arcana

Generally speaking, Kamui can make decent use of most arcanas, but works especially works well with arcanas that can cover her main weaknesses or give setups for okizeme.

Time
Time gives Kamui access to a wide variety of ways to setup okizeme with the 236e time orb or charged 2e time clone. Time also gives her a powerful defensive option that she normally lacks in the time backdash parry. However, the drawback is somewhat low vitality, generally only 1 burst opportunity, and no grounded homing cancels for combos and pressure. Difficult to make full use of. Generally, not recommended for beginners but gives access to powerful tools that help her gameplan.

Darkness
Darkness gives Kamui access to great mixups and okizeme. Her normal combo enders allow her to setup the various darkness puppet attacks (such as 623e, 236e, and 236236e) to force pressure and potent left/right/high/lows. Difficult to get used to, but strong if you're looking for offensive pressure.

Wind
Wind gives Kamui access space control, okizeme, and better hit-confirmability. It gives projectiles and traps to control space with that lead to easy hitconfirms into hard knockdown with meter. Wind also gives her access to a triple jump with marginally increases damage across all of her air combos.