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The Power to Protect

Obtainability: Unlimited

Notes: This is event memoria and should be kept in the case of the event being rerun.

Effect: Defense Up When Near Fainting [40%] / Defense Up [30%] / Reduce Damage [15%]

TLDR: The best defensive memoria in the game, “The Power to Protect” is good for tanks/defense characters who you want to stay alive as long as possible. It’s good for PVE and Mirrors.

Thoughts: This is likely the best passive defensive memoria in the game for EN. It’s among the highest sources for passive Defense Up and has a respectable amount of Reduce Damage. The effect “Defense Up When Near Fainting” will kick in when a unit is at or under 20% of their health, making this memoria ideal for tanks or defense-type characters who are more likely to survive when that low.

Other comparable defensive memoria include:

"There Are Totally Four of Me” Defense Up when at Max HP [80%] / Reduce Damage [15%]

“Blessed Wind Returns” Reduce Damage [15%] / Defense Up [22.5%]

“My First Homemade Chocolate” Defense Up when near fainting [50%] / Defense Up [22.5%]

“Watching Over Them Together”  Defense Up When Near-Fainting [40%] / Defense Up [15%]

“The Mao Family Is As Rowdy As Ever” Defense Up [30%] / Status Ailment Resistance Up [30%]

“A Wild Welcome in the Sewer” Defense Up [30%] / Negate Stun

However, “The Power to Protect” outclasses them all with its superior stats and powerful high effects.

Additionally, a quick note on the two effects Defense Up and Reduce Damage: “Defense Up” will increase the character’s base stats, while “Reduce Damage” will affect an opponent’s attacks. Essentially, it’s all about where in the order the effect takes place, and in general increasing stats is better than affecting attacks. This can be important, especially when considering Mirrors.

Additionally, when considering PVE,

Having both Reduce Damage and Defense Up makes it great against PVE that has ignore defense or ignore damage cut, as they rarely have both. 

This memoria is especially wonderful on Sayaka due to her having a passive survive skill, and an active survive skill, which will allow her to get the extra defense and abuse it for a few extra turns. I also find it pairs well with sword of light and dark on Ultimate Madoka, as the memoria's higher defense plus the hp restore on a double dokami team will keep sword active, and was great for doing EX Challenges. From @leafbladie

The Mirrors AI will always take the effect Defense Up into account, but not so much for the effect Reduce Damage. This can lead the AI into doing what it thinks will be a killing blow on the unit, and then attacking a different unit despite not having killed the first one. This can be helpful in keeping characters alive: you can trick an enemy into targeting the equipped unit last, but even if your unit is attacked, they can still survive a little bit longer than they currently will. (Correction made here by @leafbladie).

When compared to “There Are Totally Four of Me” (another memoria often used in mirrors for this same purpose), @leafbladie had the following to say:

“The Power to Protect” has much better passive effects than "There Are Totally Four of Me.” Though, “There Are Totally Four of Me” will be preferential if there is a high disparity in defense values (which is unlikely, but still possible).

Iroha Hits the Beach

Obtainability: Limited to the “Summer With Mikazuki Villa” event.

Notes: This is event memoria for the event “Summer With Mikazuki Villa,” and should be kept regardless of how useful it is. Thank you to @leafbladie for taking the screenshot!

Effect: Attack Up [20%] / MP Gain Up [12.5%]

TLDR: This is a great memoria for usage in PVE, on supports, and eventually in Mirrors.

Thoughts: This memoria’s attack up is 20% when max ascended and is equivalent to other max ascended memoria such as “I Made Friends,” “In The Light at its Birth,” and an un-ascended “My Victory Pose is Kawaii Too.” Ignoring its second effect, this attack up bonus is obviously useful for both PVE and Mirrors.

However, this memoria really shines on a character who you are using for magia or doppels. The MP Gain Up is equivalent to “The Flavor of Drama” or “It’s Not Like I Was Waiting,” (link to be added) and can help your girl build her MP, and the attack up will count towards making the magia damage higher! This way you don’t need to trade off using passive memoria that can only offer mp up and you still boost your character’s attack too. This makes this a useful memoria when utilizing magia teams in harder content.

As for mirrors, the usefulness of this memoria will increase with time. To note is that current EN mirrors is blast-focused with a goal of ending the battles within two turns, and this makes magia useless in ranked, and that the mp gain up is unneeded. However this won’t always be the case. Looking towards the future:

“During the new mirrors ranking event in JP, magias now award large multiplier additions to your scores, and as such, this Memoria is excellent for builds centered around Magia spam to allow your team to hit harder and charge their magia faster,” (@leafbladie​)

So rolling for this memoria now will can help you when this arrives in EN!

Those Feathers From Before

Obtainability: Limited to the “A New Beginning” event.

Effect: Accele MP Up [15%] / Evade Chance [20%]

TLDR: This is one of the better passive Evade Chance memoria currently in the game, and has long-term potential for Ranked Mirrors.

Thoughts: “Those Feathers From Before” is probably the best passive evade memoria in the game right now, though that isn’t saying too much. It has better stats than the only other 3* passive evade memoria: “The Struggle Against Fate” which also has Evade Chance at 20% (Real quick: evade chance does not stack, so there is no point to equipping both of these memoria on the same unit). In addition to having better stats, “Those Feathers From Before” has a secondary effect in Accele MP Up. 

Evade chance doesn’t tend to be useful for PVE, and if you are looking to protect your units, memoria with defense up/ reduce damage might be better, such as:

“The Power to Protect” Defense Up [30%] / Defense Up When Near Fainting [40%]  / Reduce Damage [15%]

“The Mao Family Is As Rowdy As Ever” Defense Up [30%] / Status Ailment Resistance Up [30%]

“A Wild Welcome in the Sewer” Defense Up [30%] / Negate Stun

“Blessed Wind Returns” Defense Up [22.5%] / Reduce Damage [15%]

Evade Chance is most powerful when using in Mirrors. Not only will it annoy your opponent, but if the AI in Mirrors believes that one of your units has died (either through Evade or Reduce Damage), it will move onto a different character instead. When considering Ranked Mirrors, leaving this memoria on your characters for a defense team can also make battles drag on longer than they should, causing your opponents to lose points.

However, keep in mind that Evade can be negated through specific Negate Evade memoria or even through status ailments. Additionally, at a 20% chance, this memoria isn’t guaranteed to proc when you need it, and its low stats as a 3* means trading off better stats for a chance at a random proc.

One more thing to keep in mind is the “Accele MP Up” portion. Now, currently on EN, Mirrors doesn’t prioritize magia teams. Blast is king. However, eventually on JP the rules for ranked will change enough that using magia will be more effective than blast teams.

So currently, the Accele MP Up effect isn’t useful for Mirrors, but it will be in the future. This makes this memoria good to invest in for both its higher passive stats, and for future potential.

Lastly, on the Accele MP Up effect itself. 15% is respectable, but there are other memoria in the game that can offer a higher percentage or better passive stats. These include:

“The Third Magical Girl” Accele MP Up [20%] / Damage After Using Charge Up [15%]

“The World is Full of Wishes” Accele MP Up [17.5%] / Status Ailment Resistance UP [30%]

“Keep it Secret!” Accele MP Up [17.5%]

“Battle in Sync” Accele MP Up [17.5%]

“Time for a Treasure Hunt” Accele MP Up [15%] / Blast Damage Up [30%] / Negate Charm [100%]

“Food Stall Paradise” Accele MP Up [15%] / Blast Damage Up [30%] / Negate Bind [100%]

“Cloaked in Guilt” Negate Skill Seal / Accele MP Up [15%]

A Perfect Photo of Us

Obtainability: Limited to the “A New Beginning” event.

Effect: Negate Evade [100%] / Blast Damage Up [20%] (Team for one turn)

TLDR: This is a great memoria for Mirrors in that it gives the entire team Negate Evade and Blast Damage Up. The Blast Damage Up percentage is low comparatively, but it's still useful and a good way of finishing off a turn.

Thoughts: This memoria isn’t going to be as useful in PVE-- Negate Evade is rarely found, and you’ll probably want a higher Blast Damage Up percentage during a puella combo, making the benefits of this memoria less than stellar.

However, the real power of this memoria is in Mirrors. The cooldown is low enough that it can be used by turn three. Additionally, note that the effects of Negate Evade and Blast Damage Up will apply to the entire team. This gives it a versatile use, in that it can give your team some damage and/or give your entire team the ability to say “fuck evade.”

@leafbladie has the following to say on the blast side of it:

In the new mirrors it can be useful if you're using a 5 man team; just to give your team more damage in the final turn.

If you can’t guarantee a puella combo but you can fit blast in there somewhere, then this memoria is very helpful. Additionally, one can equip this memoria on a unit that won’t actually need to use it (such as a tank), meaning you can save more powerful active memoria for your damage-dealers.

When using this memoria you’ll want to make sure you have some sort of blast combo going on, as otherwise the only benefit you’ll be receiving is the Negate Evade portion. 

Normally I would include a warning at this portion to make sure you don’t blow past the Blast cap at 100%, however this memoria being at 20% makes it harder to do so-- in fact, using a connect such as Ashley’s at 80% will fit you nice and snug exactly at that 100% cap.

Clear Summer Colors

Obtainability: Limited to the Summer Memoria Special and to the “A New Beginning” event.

Notes: Thanks to my friend @leafbladie for looking over this review as a form of quality control!

Effect: Attack Down [35%] (Target for one turn)

TLDR: This memoria can be useful in mirrors as a stat stick with a protective effect. There are better unlimited memoria in the game (including an unlimited 3* memoria...), however the stats and low cooldown can make this memoria good to have on hand anyhow.

Thoughts: "Clear Summer Colors” is a decent-ish enemy debuff memoria, though there are better options out in the game... Including one unlimited 3* option: “PPPH! Perfect Cheers!” (Which gives “Defense Down” at 40%). Other options include:

“For a Beautiful Day Like This” Attack Down [50%] / Damage Inflicted Down [45%] (Target for one turn)

“After The Rain - Mito” Attack Down [50%] / Defense Down [45%] (All foes for one turn)

“Dependable Negotiator” Damage Inflicted Down [50%] (All Foes for one turn) / Status Ailment Resistance Up [60%] (Self for one turn)

However, what makes “Clear Summer Colors” stand out from being strangely outclassed by “PPPH! Perfect Cheers!” are its stats. As 4* memoria, “Clear Summer Colors” already has better stats than 3* memoria, however it also has decent enough stats to be a stat stick in Mirrors. 

In Mirrors, one wants to have as much Defense as possible over Health, and the passive stats on “Clear Summer Colors” push it into the “stat stick" category, where even if you don’t end up needing it at turn three, it can still help protect your unit in the meantime. The cooldown is also low enough here to still be useful, though at turn three you would probably prefer a memoria that will increase your own unit’s attack/damage to help end the round faster.

The best memoria in the game for being a stat stick would be “After The Rain - Mito;” this memoria will also give a greater percentage of Attack Down, along with Defense Down-- for ALL enemies. 

“Non-Stop Training” can also be more useful than “Clear Summer Colors,” in that it gives an arguably superior effect (Defense Up versus Attack Down), and has more passive defense stats.

However, the benefit of Clear Summer Colors is that one can conceivably get it more easily than relying on the luck from the gacha, and it can be useful while you build up to getting the aforementioned memoria. 

This memoria can be useful in PVE when fighting a single-target boss. Layer it in with other defensive memoria to keep the boss’ attack permanently low!

Regarding supports, most mutuals will probably prefer active memoria that will improve attack or damage-- however, this memoria certainly can’t hurt; and could be useful on Heal or Balance type characters. This memoria can also be useful to equip when an event with a difficult boss is the best one to be farmed.

Dive Into Summer (Amane Sisters)

Obtainability: Limited to the “One Fleeting Summer Night” event.

Notes: This is event memoria for the “One Fleeting summer Night” event and worth keeping in the case of the event being repeated. Screenshot was taken by @stupid-looking!

Effect: Attack Up [25%]

TLDR: This is a good memoria to use for PVE, Mirrors, and to place on supports. 

Thoughts: This memoria offers Attack Up and nothing else-- which is fine, since it offers a very high amount of said Attack Up. It also has rather nice stats.

Very few passive memoria in the game will offer more than 25% Attack Up, with it being limited to three options: “My Victory Pose is Kawaii Too” (with bind chance), “Kyubey Knight Rides Forth” (with damage after using charge up), and “A Sword Between Light and Dark” (only if you are at max HP). 

Other passive Attack Up options in the game will like: “I Made Friends,” “Admiring the Beyond,” or “Iroha Hits the Beach,” will have useful secondary effects, but mlb out to 20% Attack Up instead. Note that “I Made Friends” is still superior to “Dive Into Summer (Amane Sisters)” due to its second effect of Critical Hit Chance.

A Priceless Treasure

Obtainability: Limited to the “Summer Treasures” event.

Effect: Negate Bewitch [100%] / Blast Damage Up [25%]

TLDR: This memoria has a great effect in “Negate Bewitch,” that makes it useful for any kind of player out there. The Blast Damage Up is low, but it’s a good bonus ontop of a good memoria. For new players or free-to-play players, this is a good memoria to use for PVE, Supports, and maybe Mirrors.

Thoughts: The Blast Damage Up offered here is surprisingly low, equivalent to the unlimited 2* memoria “Runway to the World” and lower than the unlimited 3* memoria “Surrounded by White Wings.” 

However, “A Priceless Treasure” has good stats due to its 4* status, and a even better effect in Negate Bewitch. A quick note on Bewitch: a Bewitched target won’t just miss it’s attack 50 percent of the time, but it will also not be able to heal and take up to 80 percent more damage from an element it’s weak against. This makes it similar to Curse, but without the damage over time.

Because of this, a memoria that negates Bewitch is very important to have on hand. This makes “A Priceless Treasure” absolutely worth using. The Blast Damage up here can be seen as a bonus on top of a great secondary effect.

Regarding Mirrors, a popular unit to encounter on EN is Ashley Taylor, whose connect will give the Bewitch effect. Ideally you should be killing their units before they can get connects off, but this memoria can be helpful in the times you can’t. 

If you’re looking for good/better Blast Damage Up memoria, then the unlimited: “Onwards Towards the Light” with Blast Damage Up [35%] is a better choice.

Guide to Liberation

Obtainability: Limited to the Holy Mami Fateweave.

Notes: Screenshot is from kyubean! Thank you!

Effect: Fog (3 Turns) Chance upon Attack [20%] / Damage Inflicted Up [20%]

TLDR: This is a good memoria to use for PVE, Mirrors, and on Supports. 

Thoughts: This memoria is notable for having “Damage Inflicted Up” and not “Damage Up:” the two effects are different, but will still stack together. Effects that buff damage instead of attack aren’t generally as good, but will pair will with Attack Up since it’s possible to hit the cap for Attack Up. Essentially, this is a fine memoria to use in conjunction with another passive Attack Up memoria.

Fog, notably, will give make the unit have a 25% chance of missing its attack, which is low. Interestingly, there are only two passive memoria that can give this effect in the game; the other one being the 2* memoria “A Foreign Land.” It goes without saying that “Guide to Liberation” is superior to “A Foreign Land.”

This memoria is most comparable with “Going Out in a Kimono,” another limited 4* memoria. “Going Out in a Kimono” offers Bewitch Chance Upon Attack (for one turn at a chance for 20%), and a higher Damage Inflicted Up at 25%. Bewitch as effect is generally better than fog, as the unit will have a higher chance to miss its attack, take more damage from elements its weak against, and be unable to heal. If you are lucky to have a MLB copy of both memoria, then generally “Going Out in a Kimono” will be the better option.

However, “Guide to Liberation” will also pair well with memoria that have the effect “Damage UP on Enemies with Status Ailments.” This can come from memoria such as “Attitude Towards Art,” “Let Your Feelings Fly,” or from connects from Holy Mami or Mitama. As the Fog effect lasts for three turns, this can give you opportunity to set up your actives or your connects.

This memoria is fine to use in Mirrors. The chance to inflict fog is low, and the chance that the target will miss is low, but it can still potentially save one of your units from an otherwise fatal attack. Additionally, inflicting a status ailment means you don’t need to worry about the target potentially evading. The damage increase is a nice bonus.