Aw yiss time to talk about the best boy, the Vermillion Bird of the South, Suzaku brings Activate Living Weapon (No Life), VS Fire +20, Amrita Earned Using Living Weapon +25%, Fire Damage +15%, Auto-Charge Amrita Gauge (Critical)
Suzaku
Immediately Suzaku gets to the point, Activate Living Weapon (No Life) means if you have a full Amrita Gauge and take lethal damage you will be left with 1 Life and Living Weapon activates. This skips the animation and it’s iframes but this gives you an entire second health bar and hyper armor, and you can use items like Elixir in Living Weapon. This can save you from death and turn around bad situations. VS Element still exists. Amrita Earned Using Living Weapon is self explanatory but as a reminder, gaining Amrita during living weapon extends the duration, based on the amount gained. Suzaku also packs best Recovery, meaning with this you can sustain Suzaku’s living weapon for a long freaking time. Bonus fire damage works great with a Fire spirit, and Auto-Charge Amrita Gauge (Critical) slowly charges your Amrita Gauge while you’re Critical. It’d not the best since Suzaku’s Gauge rate is quite poor.
Importantly however is Suzaku packs 15% damage boost and 50 Fire, decent Might, Best Recovery and Tenacity, and okay Action. The base duration of Suzaku is a little low and the aforementioned worst Gauge Rate balances the fact that the Vermillion Bird will keep you from dying and then put you in a solid offensive Living Weapon to scorch your enemies away. Suzaku’s summon attack is incredibly good, the rather large spirit swoops down, slowly circling around you until reaching the front of you (from where you cast) before flying up and bombing into the center of the circle path it flew, causing a burst of fire. Contact with the spirit does good damage and knocks hit foes back base on what part of Suzaku hits them. If lined up just right they’ll get shoved in front of Suzaku, who will hit them again, shoving them in front of Suzaku again, repeating until finally they’re released from the strafing run just in time to get dive bombed. This deals potent fire damage with the boost and while the contact hits don’t build the status effect quickly the final burst heavily inflicts it meaning one contact and the final burst will scorch most foes on NG. The full loop can shred Fire Weak enemies Life quickly and have I mentioned that you get to cheat death on top of having this incredibly good summon attack? 14/10
As for Kelly’s yoki, if you look close the red runes closely match what Kelly has going on. Not one to one but same style, on top of using those red amrita spikes Kelly shoved into Derrick way back in London to make him grow. The important thing to note about the red amrita spikes is that they can be used as a ranged attack or a close range grab, and if it hits a wall or the ground, will explode a few seconds later. Even more importantly, they cause Discord build up by themselves, later one inflicting the effect with a single hit. Don’t let that happen.