Table of Contents
- Overview
- Newbie/Incomplete Box Section
- Basic Information
- Skill 1: Body Contact
- Skill 2: Tighten Up
- Burst: Bonding Pain
- Campaign
- Arena
- Special Interception | Union Raid | Solo Raid
- Union Raid | Solo Raid
- Team Building Ideology
- Fire Element Teams (Universal)
- Fire Element Teams (With Core)
- Neutral Element Team
- Incomplete Boxes (General Support Archetypes)
- Strengths
- Weaknesses
- Rating
- Recommended Cubes
- Doll Priority
- Expected Skill Priority
- Overload Gear Priority
Overview
- Similar damage to Scarlet: Black Shadow (SSS tier baseline for DPS), or Asuka: Wille
- Best Nikke that fills the Sub-DPS role, not needing to burst to deal damage via DoTs from her skill one, dealing comparable to Modernia. Sub-DPS Mihara deals substantially more damage than Modernia against bosses with no core.
- Very Flexible (despite her chains), strong DPS that can fit in any team
- DoT Persists after being knocked out of battle (Most of her Damage), which can be useful against bosses/PvP
- Lacking offensive self-buffs but has rather high % damage value modifiers, DPS is greatly affected by the buffing capabilities of support on the team.
Newbie/Incomplete Box Section
Mihara: Bonding Chain is a excellent DPS/Sub DPS, she’s one of the top fire DPSs and a very flexible one at that. She’s able to deal damage numbers greater than Modernia (previous best sub-DPS), more notably against targets without cores. She’s also competitive with Nikkes like Scarlet: Black Shadow and Rapi: Red Hood (B3)
Using Mihara: Bonding Chain as a sub-DPS instead of a main burst is preferred as her damage gains are less noticeable than other DPS Nikkes (can still be used as the main burst if wanted). Mihara’s burst removes her s1 stacks in exchange for dragging chains (2x more DoT value) and cannot be stacked during her burst, and can only be stacked after her full burst and during any teammate’s full burst once a restraining chain has been applied. This leads to some downtime on her damage.
Most of her damage comes from her DoT, and has trouble destroying boss parts as DoTs don’t damage parts. She also has some issues in Campaign as her AoE capabilities are limited and her DoT needs to stack for every Rapture to deal meaningful damage
Basic Information
- Skill 1: Body Contact
- Skill 2: Tighten Up
- Burst: Bonding Pain
- Cooldown: 40s
- Rarity: SSR
- Burst: III
- Weapon: MG
- Class: Attacker
- Element: Fire
- Manufacturer: Missilis
- Squad: Wardress
- Weapon Name: Bonding Heart
Skill 1: Body Contact
■ Activates when entering battle. Affects self.
Charges 10 Restraint Chain(s), up to 10.
■ Activates if the caster has cast Burst Skill before Full Burst ends. Affects self.
Charges 10 Restraint Chain(s), up to 10.
■ Affects random enemy unit(s) at a specific timing.
Deals 50.06% of final ATK as damage. Attacks according to the number of Restraint Chain(s).
Restraint Chain ▼ 1 for each attack
■ Affects the same enemy unit(s).
Ensnaring Chains: Deals 25.08% final ATK as sustained damage every 1 sec continuously, stacks up to 20 time(s).
Restraint Chains are required Ensnaring chains to apply DoT on any/multiple Raptures. Each Restraint Chain stack is converted into Ensnaring chains upon enemy entrance and is applied instantly at the start of battle and after Mihara’s full burst, with a maximum of 20 stacks on one target.
Currently, there’s a “feature” with Mihara that allows her DoT damage to be much higher than expected due to her damage ticks being 15 ticks during any full burst instead of the advertised 10 (1 per sec, over 10 secs).
Skill 2: Tighten Up
■ Activates after landing 40 normal attack(s) during Full Burst. Affects the target if the target is in Ensnaring Chains status.
Stack count of Ensnaring Chains ▲ 1.
■ Activates when self is incapacitated. Affects the target(s) in Ensnaring Chains status.
Stack count of Ensnaring Chains ▲ 20.
■ Activates when the enemy is neutralized. Affects self if the target is in Ensnaring Chains status.
Restraint Chain ▲ 1, up to 10.
■ Activates when entering Burst Stage 3. Affects self.
Sustained damage ▲ 59.98% for 10 sec.
Mihara can stack 1 Ensaring chain per 40 bullets shot during any teammates’ full burst. Meaning she can stack up to 15~ during any full burst, given full uptime/no reloads (600 bullets/60 shots per second from MG base fire rate). Each proc during full burst deals ticks from Ensnaring chain DoT (for some reason), effectively giving a DoT a proc rate of 1.5/s assuming full uptime on ammo as talked about in her skill 1 section.
Her skill 1 does not proc (1 proc/s) if skill 2 is being triggered (40 normal attacks), which means that her DoT can’t proc more than 1.5/s.
If Mihara gets knocked out, every enemy with Ensnaring chains gains maximum stacks until they are destroyed. This isn’t very useful in most scenarios, as restarting the run would be a better option than a missing DPS and is not feasible to take advantage of in campaign, however can see some niche usage in PvP.
Mihara’s sustain damage up is active every full burst. Sustain damage buffs falls in the damage bracket of ATK dmg up buffs, which buffers such as Crown, Tia, Siren, and etc give.
Burst: Bonding Pain
■ Affects the target(s) in Ensnaring Chains status.
Dragging Chain: Deals 50.05% of final ATK as sustained damage every 1 sec. Mirrors the stack count of Ensnaring Chains on certain target(s) for 10 sec.
Removes Ensnaring Chains status after the effect is triggered.
Ensaring chains and Dragging chains can’t exist at one time as her burst removes all Ensnaring chain procs and converts them to Dragging chains. Ensnaring chains can’t be made during her burst as the target needs to get hit by a restraint chain before Ensnaring chains can be stacked, which Mihara gives after her full burst.
Dragging chains deal 2x more base value than Ensaring chains HOWEVER does not share the same accelerated proc rate values that Ensaring chains has (1.0 vs 1.5/s). Mihara’s target will also only have 10 Ensnaring chains after her burst (from skill 1) and will need a full burst to stack it again. Dealing decreased damage for short periods.
This results in her burst not dealing much more damage than just leaving her as a sub-dps/non-burster in the team. However, there are scenarios where bursting with her would be worth doing so, such as when being paired with Crown as she gives a hefty ATK buff to BURSTING Nikkes, which is great on Mihara as she does not have any innate self ATK buffs.
Note: Since Mihara: Bonding chain starts with 10 stacks, it is recommended to have her burst second to fully stack it or her first burst will only do half of its potential damage.
Campaign
Mihara: Bonding Chain is only average in Campaign due to how her DoT procs work. It does not fully “Transfer” to other targets when enemies are eliminated with her DoT procs. Instead, she gets 1 stack of restraining chain, which equates to only 1 Ensnaring chain to a random target. This makes her inadequate as a DPS and Crowd-control Nikke in Campaign as her damage ramp-up is too slow (even for elite raptures/stage bosses) and too single-target focused.
Arena
Mihara, in PvP, is a gimmicky unit. The gimmick she so desires is that she needs to die, while the team needs to live. Hence, this means that Mihara requires stall teams if she wants to win, and that those teams have a way where Mihara ends up dying in the end as well. The exact mechanism behind Mihara’s PvP prowess on why she deals damage after dying will be explained in our dedicated PvP guide for Mihara.
The idea behind this team is that Mihara is NOT jackal linked, or if she is, it is made sure her HP is HIGHER THAN SBS’s. This way, SBS gets indomitability from Blanc and the team lives for a full 10s, dealing atrociously strong single target and AoE damage thanks to Mihara. If this team bursts, there is no team AT ALL that can win against it.
Special Interception | Union Raid | Solo Raid
By Nature, Mihara: Bonding chain is a very flexible Nikke as she can fit the role of a sub-dps in any team. She can be placed in any team and perform well, similar to Modernia (but better). Mihara’s DPS isn’t punished as harshly compared to other DPSs if the boss does not have an exposed core/has low uptime on core compared to other DPSs as well due to how she dishes out damage, which means she performs well against any boss (well, if they don’t have any DoT damage reduction) or even a top pick DPS against fire-weak bosses without core.
However, some bosses randomly have DoT protection, simply just because. Although not common, the one where it does matter, the boss does have it. Boss in question is the fire-weak boss in Anomaly interception. Although not completely unusable against Indivilia, any raised fire DPS at S tier+ will most likely be a better option.
NOTICE
After the Update on May 15th, Miharas DoTs can no longer be dispelled. This means they won’t be cleansed by Indivilia anymore and will therefore improve her rating on this boss. It’s still slightly bad because new DoTs can’t be applied during the debuff-immunity Phase but at least the old ones aren’t removed. Clearing Indivilia with Mihara: Bonding Chain is now basically common.
Union Raid | Solo Raid
Mihara: Bonding chain can be comfortably placed in Union raids and solo raids in fire-weak content, especially against bosses with no exposed cores. In neutral element content, she can effectively fill the slot of Modernia or Ludmilla: Winter Owner as the third DPS in teams that don’t use “duo/pair” supports (Crown/Naga, Anchor/Mast, Blanc/Noir).
Mihara: Bonding chain has comparable damage to Scarlet: Black Shadow w/Alice, but the difference is Mihara can function alone WITHOUT bursting, while Scarlet: Black Shadow is “soft locked” to Alice and needs to burst to deal damage. This helps Mihara with future team-building, flexibility and adaptability to the future meta.
Team Building Ideology
Mihara: Bonding chain lacks offensive buffs such as ATK ▲, which most other DPS have innately. This means that Mihara: Bonding chain do like supporters that give massive ATK such as Liter or Crown (if Mihara is bursting)
Although Mihara does like ATK buffs, in most cases it may not be worth it to slot Liter over an available Rapi: Red Hood (B1) or Little Mermaid/Siren as they do have non-conditional cool down reduction which allows 1 more full burst over Liter throughout the battle, and provide overall more team damage due to them dealing massively more DPS than Liter. Mihara’s lack of ATK buffs can also be mitigated by multiple lines of ATK gear rolls (ATK/offensive buffs from battle are additive to Overload gear lines)
As a MG, she has little burst generation by her lonesome, so she wants to be paired in teams that have good burst generation weapons (Rocket Launchers, Sniper rifle spam) or Nikkes that can gain burst generation via skills such as Grave’s massively increased burst gen from MGs or Siren’s burst gen fill passive that proc on bullets hit/fired.
Fire Element Teams (Universal)
Bread and butter fire element team for Mihara. Covers healing, burst generation, most importantly DPS (also has nice behind views).
Replacements:
Siren -> Liter
Helm -> Modernia (against bosses that does not require healing, or for firing range bragging rights)
Crown -> Grave
Rei Ayanami supplies the much-needed ATK buffs Mihara: Bonding chain lacks while dishing out good damage. Mihara: Bonding chain is a sub-dps here as Rei ayanami requires to burst to provide buffs for fire-coded allies.
Replacements:
Crown -> Grave
Siren -> Liter
Fire Element Teams (With Core)
Healing Variant
Abuses core damage buffs, despite Mihara mostly dealing non-core damage, she can still benefit from it as it is still a additional multiplier to her damage. Although it is more recommended to use Naga/Asuka on Nikkes that can benefit from core damage more, such as with Alice/Rapi: Red Hood (B3) instead, especially against bosses with multiple parts + core.
No-Healing Variant
Has a higher DPS potential than its healing variant due to more proper burst generation and Rapi: Red Hood being a burst 3 instead of a burst 1, even if losing some of the core damage buffs Naga can provide. Can be used if playing around with Crown invulnerability is enough to sustain the team or if the boss has highest ATK targetting, which Asuka will most likely have the highest ATK, and she has self sustain.
Neutral Element Team
Maids give all the buffs Mihara: Bonding chain loves (Also Alice) while being able to cover healing and burst generation.
Replacements:
Rapi: Red Hood -> Alice (No finger pain, similar/slightly better performance against bosses without parts/core)
Incomplete Boxes (General Support Archetypes)
Strengths
- Very high DPS potential without any conditions, being the second best fire DPS and having comparable damage to Scarlet: Black Shadow with Alice
- High base damage % values, which means her damage potential can go higher with future support releases (more specifically, ATK up or ATK damage up buffers)
- Her damage does not get influenced as much than other DPSs if the boss has an exposed core or not. Which is good as her damage values without core is already in the upper echelon of DPS. Although the inverse is true and does not benefit as much from core buffs, but core buffers can simply be slotted to other teams in content with multiple teams.
- Flexible DPS Nikke in bossing, can fit in pretty much any team that do not use duo supports
- Mihara fanbase (Cdubs and Co) can finally breathe in contentment (or get bondaged, whatever is preferred)
Weaknesses
- Mediocre/Niche in other game modes besides bossing due to no AoE capabilities and slow DoT stacking against multiple targets
- Somewhat reliant on overload lines such as ATK and Max Ammo Capacity
Rating
| Category | Rating |
| Overall | S |
| Story | B |
| Bosses | SSS |
| Arena | B |
Recommended Cubes
Doll Priority
She’ll be used in Solo raid content often, especially against bosses with no core (rather frequent) and fire weak content.
SR 0 is recommended, and raise further once helm, drake, and waifu treasures have been acquired.
Expected Skill Priority
| Nikke | Budget Skill Investments | Recommended Skill Investments | Skill Priority | Notes | Investment Priority |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mihara: Bonding Chain | Skill 1: 7 Skill 2 : 5 Burst : 7 | Skill 1: 10 Skill 2 : 7+ Burst : 10 | S1 > S2 | Skill 1 is where her DoT values is, important to raise first. Skill 2 does provide sustained damage buff, however meta buffers have ATK dmg up, which is in the same bracket as sustained damage buffs. Raise if the Commander has enough mats Burst is an optional raise. If the Commander uses her with Crown or as a main DPS, can raise up to 10. otherwise save mats for other burst reliant attackers. | High |
Overload Gear Priority
Gear Priority = Head > Chest > Gloves > Boots
| Attribute (Sub-Stat) | Priority | Recommended | Notes |
| Increase Element Damage Dealt | ★★★★★ | 4x | wanted for Union raids and Solo raid content. |
| Increase Hit Rate | ☆☆☆☆☆ | 0x | — |
| Increase Max Ammunition Capacity | ★★★★☆ | 2x+ | Accelerated DoT procs is directly influenced by having enough ammo during full burst, preferably 600. |
| Increase ATK | ★★★★★ | 4x | Has no innate ATK buffs, very important. |
| Increase Charge Damage | ☆☆☆☆☆ | 0x | — |
| Increase Charge Speed | ☆☆☆☆☆ | 0x | — |
| Increase Critical Rate | ★☆☆☆☆ | 0x | — |
| Increase Critical Damage | ★☆☆☆☆ | 0x | — |
| Increase DEF | ☆☆☆☆☆ | 0x | — |
So now after the May 15th patch, is Mihara bis in Indivilia? Or is the best team still Crown – Rapi – Alice – Asuka – Naga?
Some JP arena whale on X is criticizing the arena section claiming it to be “the worst team he’s ever seen”. Listing out some of their points based on the team order.
– Blanc that doesn’t burst
– Sacrificing without Rosanna
– Unlikeliness of Attacker having less ATK than a Defender
– If Mihara is jackal-linked, then if she needs to have has higher HP than Scarlet, that means she lives and she is bursting instead of Scarlet
– Improper use of Jackal for on-hit energy gain.
No practical use whatsoever, they say.
I’m wondering if arena team shown was a mistake or not meant to be taken seriously (because the dude seems to be taking it seriously)
Dunno i used to take arena pvp somewhat seriously but since few last updates i lost interest a lot.
– too much rock paper scissors, literally 40 levels behind player can beat my team if he fits counter, same goes for me, defending is extremly hard, attacking super easy, counters to teams are just too strong. I tried many times (and i still do, i like experimenting) to mix up teams but that does little, player lose one time then switch teams and win against anything you create anyway
– devs throw at us too much free stuff (skillbooks, doll upgrades), sounds fun on paper = free stuff, but in reality everyone already has upgraded every pvp nikke to 10/10/10 (for more points), before you had to plan stuff, either upgrade pvp nikkes or pve ones, or crucial ones and leave the rest
– literally what only matters right now is core levels of nikkes, if you have max cored nikkes in arena (the meta ones) you are unbeatable by most players, if not then it doesnt matter what you have, most will beat you rather easly even if you are a lot stronger than them
– meta is giga boring, most people have one scarlet team, one anis team and one cinderella with few mixed nikkes
– how burst gauge fill works in pvp is mindblowing to me, i recently tested some stuff vs one player, a scarlet blanc red hood helm jackal team in theory should be countered by for example same team but blanc switched to RL nikke, in theory enemy blanc generates more burst to our scarlet and we generate less to enemy cus RL nikke, but nah, its either the same or even slower. I know how burst works i read guides, i still dont understand this shit sometimes though