Talk:Hotarumaru/@comment-213.89.74.88-20150506124115

Hotarumaru was my first high-level (3 or more flowers/stars) sword. I got him on day 1 or 2 in the game with 55/66/66/55 and aaah, I believe it was bambu ema? Since I got him so early I still had my starter Kashuu as leader. I probably got really lucky.

It's not unknown, but gOD, he's a gem. If you make sure to equip him with 3 golden type cavalry, a good horse (I'm currently using no.3 since it's the most recent one and has the best speed stat) in combination with some after-toku refinement and use one of the two mobility-based formations in battle you get him up to quite a good speed (considering that his base speed stats are extremely low), allowing him to (so far) attack second in turn and K.O. up to three enemies in one go. Due to this he often ends as MVP, so EXP come quickly to him and he's literally never gone out of Sakura Fubuki since he got it the first time.

I'm only at 4-1 so far due to grinding so I don't know if this will keep being the case, but he's seriously great right now. So happy to have him.