Talk:Viability Ranking/@comment-38106646-20191224193703/@comment-36515094-20191224202801

"But otherwise, he is weak against Total Blind, which is one of his main weakness."

This is not true. Hookuai has a set up skill called Power of the Deep which he can use if he is total blinded, so he isn't actually weak to Total blind.

"with plethora of Torture Effects,"

He has more torture effects in total, but in his best fully ranked up skillset, almost all of his torture effects aren't actually used. People need to stop using more torture effects as a reason why Ugluk is better since most aren't even used. In his best fully ranked up moveset, the only DoT Ugluk actually uses is AoE Bleed. Fully ranked up, nobody uses his AoE Bleed + Drowned, nobody uses his his AoE Poison + Quicksands, the only torture effect he has is his AoE bleed from Reptilian Ram. (Yes I know he has a status caster of AoE Quicksands, but a mega taunt monster will protect his team from it.)

"buff him up without the use of Stamina and CD,"

Yea he can do this, but he actually has to get a turn in to do this. Before he gets a turn in he can end up getting Trait Disabled and denied. Also, this buff up can be PER'd unlike Hookuai's.

Hookuai's trait is basically what makes him equal to Ugluk. Having anticipation allows for Hookuai to be able to run 3 strength runes and be able to deal out so much damage making up for the lower power stat compared to Ugluk. Also, Hookuai doesn't have to worry about having to get a turn in because of his anticipation. So many monsters have extra turns that Hookuai can get a turn in from these extra turns. Or his anticipation can cause the enemy to not be able to use their extra turn moves so they don't trigger it.