Next up, we have the ice fairy Cirno. Cirno falls under the Summoner class, being able to summon her various friends for various elemental and status attacks, which is her main draw to her character. She also comes with her own special skillset for her own moves, but they're generally not looked at very much due to the shear power of her summons. In the early games, Cirno is one of the stronger party members due to her high HP and power of her skills, but as the game progresses, Cirno falls behind the other party members in terms of damage even when upgrading her skills. Her Ice command skills are amongst the weakest in damage, and her summons don't get very many upgrades to keep them up to speed with the rest of the party until the optional summons. All in all, Cirno's not terrible, but she's not exceptional either.



COMBAT ABILITIES:

Cirno comes with 6 Ice skills and 9 Call skills. She starts with 1 Ice skill and 1 Call skill, being Icicle Fall and Great Fairy.


Icicle Fall: Deals minor Ice-elemental damage to one enemy. Can inflict Freeze.
Minus K: Inflicts Freeze to all enemies.
Cold Divinity: Inflicts Ice-elemental damage to one enemy. 85% accuracy and ignores Defense.
Diamond Blizzard: Inflicts Ice-elemental damage to all enemies.
EYE'M THE STRONGEST: Increases Cirno's stats and grants buffs per level.
Icicle Fall -EASY-: Inflicts major Ice-elemental damage to one enemy.
Great Fairy: Restores HP to the party, and later cures some statuses.
Dark Side of the Moon: Inflicts Shadow-elemental damage to all enemies and Blind.
Night Sparrow: Inflicts Wind-elemental damage to all enemies and Silence.
Swarm of Bright Bugs: Inflicts Earth-elemental damage to all enemies and Poison.
Fluster Escape: Inflicts non-elemental physical damage to one enemy and Paralyze.
Shikigami: Grants buffs depending on level to the party.
Little Devil: Inflicts Gravity-elemental damage to all enemies.
Diamond Dust: Inflicts Ice-elemental damage to all enemies.
Dragon Envoy: Inflicts Thunder-elemental damage to all enemies.



All of Cirno's summons, excluding Diamond Dust, Dragon Envoy, and Great Fairy, have 2 levels each, while Diamond Dust and Dragon Envoy both have only 1 level each. Great Fairy has 3 levels in all. Cirno has great synergy with other elemental users such as Momiji and Patchouli due to her ability to cover various elements, but once again, falls a bit short due to her inability to power up her summons. She does have access to the rare Gravity-element, otherwise exclusive to Utsuho. Due to Cirno coming with both Ice and Call, she does not have a secondary command ability at all.



BATTLE PASSIVE:

Eternal Bond: If Cirno is inflicted with a status that prevents her from acting (Confusion, Berserk, Sleep, Venom, Petrify, Stop, Heat, Paralyze, and Disable), Daiyousei will restore 10% Max HP to the party and remove all negative statuses to the party except Death. Occurs only once per battle.


Even though it's a one-time deal per battle, being able to restore all statuses and 10% Max HP on the spot makes it a pretty decent ability. It may be possible that future upgrades will focus on making this happen more than once.



OVERWORLD ABILITY:

Provocation: Doubles encounter rate while in the party.


Grinders and farmers will love this, everyone else will hate this. The only real way to counteract this is to have Reimu equipped with the Demon Charm, or have Yuuka in the party as well to nullify this ability, as this will persist while she's in the party at all. I do not know if there will be any upgrades to this or not yet.




Cirno is immune to Freeze, but has a high susceptibility to Heat due to being an ice fairy. In addition, she has little resistance to both Confusion and Berserk, making it easy to disable her in battle. Cirno is also one of few characters who has no exclusive weapons as well as very limited access to any type of weapon in general. Despite this, she does carry an innate 100% critical bonus, so anything she can use will be much more powerful in her hands. In addition, Cirno can reduce damage by 75% instead of 50% while guarding.

As much as I like Cirno in canon and in this game, Cirno probably falls around Rank B or C due to her limitedness in damage options past the early parts of the game, as well as being outranked by other characters that can do what she does, but even better.



Future Ideas:

*Need to give 5 abilities usable via equipment.
*Perhaps upgrades to Eternal Bond and Provocation are in order?