Board Thread:Anime/@comment-26032509-20161030024754/@comment-1298438-20161103005144

116.88.80.120 wrote: Hikayuu1 wrote: and actually, I still didn't get why Jiji usually depict have bad scouting. Like, in the game, compare to all tachi, his scouting stat not so bad. Maybe they recently have Jiji and its quite to put him in frontlines and battlefield a sudden because he is only level 1. It might be a little bad at first but when the level increase, it is much better. And if he reach Toku, of course it would be a good scouting For anyone who was curious, Utsunomiya Castle is Front Lines 1-3.

If you want a serious answer...

Scouting is dependent on the the overall scouting of the group. Even with: Scouting failed for that mission. This is further reinforced because parties with a team average over 13 will not get EXP or resources from a front line mission.
 * a Lv. 1 Mikazuki Munechika unrefined with no armory (none of the armory available to tachi provides scouting boosts as of today),
 * a Lv. 67 Kashuu Kiyomitsu with Gold Catapults x2 (highest scouting+ for uchigatana), and
 * a Lv. 1 Gokotai with one Gold Musketeer (newly smithed from daily objective because my only Gokotai is kiwame-d, and, well, that would be cheating)

With that in mind, the anime takes liberties that are not restricted by the mechanics of the game, which would make all of this moot. Still, I had fun trying it out for giggles. Tho, honestly, it's probably because:

Mocha34345 wrote: It might be just to make fun of his old age And, Mikazuki is eccentric.