Pinky Labubu Ryoshu is a brand new ID in the Limbus company created to play in the most beloved archetype of RR players - killing your allies! This Identity has a plethora of mechanics to interact with, and it sacrifices your identities. So without further ado, let’s dive into the sea of text that is House of Spiders (HoS for the rest of the review), Ryoshu.

This identity has a total of 8 unique statuses, which will be simplified to:

Entanglement - A stacking mechanic; its cap increases based on HoS allies on the field and back up, and by using the S3-2 skill. It is also being increased based on the number of HoS allies who have died. Every skill will deal bonus slash damage based on this stack, so the more HoS allies you have and kill, the more damage she will do.
String Severance - Unique buff that bluntly decreases damage taken by HoS Ryoshu. It provides unique buffs for each unique HoS ID dead. Every HoS Nursefather ID being dead increases the stack of this buff by 1. Every stack increases dmg reduction (30% if you kill all nursefather) and gives 1 coin on S3-2.
Phantom Trace - +5% damage buff and interacts with her second passive to launch S2-2 to enemies that have it.
Bladetrail - a very low damage buff (1~10%) for slash skills
Dihui Star’s Blade - Simply a counter to keep track of the amount of Bladetrail inflicted, gaining a maximum of 25 per turn, and interacts with her third passive.
Shin (心) - Dihui Star [地慧星] - Essentially 2 Haste, 2 Poise Potency, and 1 Count on base skill use, and damage reduction from Unbreakable and unopposed attacks. Gained from using S3-3.
Entangled Life [羅生] - It is a minor dmg boost, but since it transfers all damage dealt into Entangled Life [羅生], it will be stacked in no time. Can only be gained from S1-2
Somatic Frisson-inspiring Melody - Essentially 1 Haste, Clash Power, and more damage. Obtained from using S1-2 on Ring Hong Lu.

This Identity has a total of 4 in combat passives, one of which takes an entire paragraph, but fret not, we will try to explain it as simply as possible. First passive, Saikai [再会], interacts with her stacking mechanics, Entanglement and String Severance.

Aside from providing these 2 mechanics, passive Saikai [再会] also gives 1 additional slot in CHAIN battles per 3 HoS ID dead in case there are no BACKUP units present. Here is the list of beneficial sacrifices for HoS allies at the moment, with the one in bold being the most beneficial one:

Pinky Sinclair - 1 Poise Count and Crit DMG Up every turn.
Index Yi Sang - Dmg up for base skills with unbreakable coins.
Ring Hong Lu - Dmg up, 1 haste, 1 clash power up.
Middle Ishmael - 2 Defense Level and more Burn Potency.
Ring Faust - Shield equal to 10% HP every turn.
Index Don - 2 Poise Potency on base attack skill and 1 Sinking Potency on crit.

(She also steals aux from Ricardo Heathcliff, Muga, when all other allies are dead, and plays the Araya theme when using S3-2)

Her second passive applies Phantom Trace on 1 enemy + bonus stack on other enemies per 3 HoS Allies dead. When hitting an enemy with this debuff, you activate S2-2 before using other skills, gain final power, and turn all your coins into red ones. Also, 1 Entanglement stack.

Her 3rd passive gives her stacks of Dihui Star’s Blade. If you get 50 stacks for the first time, you activate free S3-3 at the end of the turn. Then you will get S3-2 next turn, and every turn you gain 50 stacks back, since it consumes 50. On average, it will happen once every 3 turns.

Finally, her last passive gives her 1 dmg up for 10 Poise past 20 Poise potency and applies 1 Bladetrail on crit. Additionally, the unique effect of Great Trichiliocosm Ryoshu EGO, Entangled Life [羅生], can stack from doing damage to allies.

Skill 1-1 - Tripleslash [三連] - Base roll 12 - Max roll 22 (clash 23) - Straight up the strongest skill 1 in the game by the moment of its release. Absurd Damage.
S1-2 - Slay the Heavens - Tiansha [天殺] - Base roll 18 - Max roll 22 - A skill that oneshots your HoS ally after it finishes their skill. If your String Severance is 2 or above (simply speaking, 1 Nursefather dead), she will use it twice per turn, killing 2 allies. Also heals 20 SP per use, gives 20 Dihui Star’s Blade stacks, and gives the Entangled Life [羅生] effect.
Skill 2-1 - Tripleslash - Echoshear [三連 - 殘] - Base roll 16 - Max roll 26 (clash 27) - ju t a n av ge s2… Yes, another strongest S2 in the game, assuming that you killed 3 HoS allies this time (S1 does not need to kill allies to be the strongest smh).
Skill 2-2 - Inevitable Termination [必然殺] - Base roll 14 - Max roll 18 - As if it was not enough, on top of all of her skills, she uses this one coiner that prints pride, applies Slash Fragility, inflicts up to 7 Bladetrail, and activates Burn and Bleed. Oh, and it will hit AoE if it is activated before any S3.
Skill 3-1 - Rend Space [空間斬] - Base roll 22 - Max roll 37 - clash 38 - A single coiner that does AoE damage and sends the enemy to the stratosphere. Yes, not the strongest S3, and yes, it has a drawback of every single coiners in the game, but still very strong (also activates Burn and Bleed).
Skill 3-2 - Rend Space - Echoshear [空間斬 - 殘] - Base roll 16 - Max roll (at the moment of the review release) 30 - clash 31 - An AoE button that has as many coins as you killed Nursefathers + 2. Currently, there are only 2 in the game, so the max amount of coins this skill may have is 4, but it will soon be increased to 6. Even without these 2 coins that you cannot have, this skill is also the strongest skill on an ID in the game (also activates Burn and Bleed).
Skill 3-3 - Rend Space - String Connection [空間斬 - 緣] - Base roll 20 - Max roll 24 - 5 atk weight aoe skill that activates for free at the end of turn when you get 50 Dihui Star’s Blade stacks. Gives Shin (心) - Dihui Star [地慧星].
Dodge - Phantom Step [殘像步] - Base roll 14 - Saves your Poise economy and activates S1-2.

With all of her kit in mind, she is essentially a solo unit that wants her allies dead, but not all of them. Because she can’t replace everyone’s skill slot, the optimal range of killing HoS teammates is 6 for 2 extra slots and no loss of slots for other allies' existence. This will leave you with 3 skill slots for this ID. That’s enough to obliterate every enemy that exists in the game by mashing the winrate button. For MD players, there is a specific gift that gives all of her buffs for killed allies t1 and forbids reviving them, making her the strongest solo ID in the game, making her excel in almost every game mode currently available.

Teams:

Dead HoS IDs: self-explanatory. If you have all HoS IDs leveled, do not worry. We have a special strategy for you. Put Index Yi sang in the 6th (if it’s 6 man combat) or 7th (if it’s 7 man combat) slot, then corrode fell bullet E.G.O. You need ANY lvl 1 unit. Press dodge with Ryoshu and bring any level, Index Don, and Pinky Sinclair. Fell Bullet corrosion will kill these 2 on crit, and tails hit (yes, it might take a few restarts) even if they are level 60. Index Yi Sang will die in S1-2 after corrosion. With these 3 being dead, finishing other HoS allies will be quite easy with 2 s1-2 per turn.
Burn: Activates Burn a lot, providing a bit more upfront damage to the team.
Bleed: Worse, because it’s hard to upkeep when most of your allies that excel in Bleed are dead.

E.G.O. Synergy

4th Match Flame - She has 4 skills per turn, so the passive activates EVERY TURN. Extremely broken synergy.
Contempt: Awe - Arguably better than Trichiolocosm for WAW slot because of printing resources passive that is being well utilized by this ID.
Great Trichiolocosm - IF you have infinite resources, then use this one for damage. In addition to that, it also synergises with Threadspin 5 4th Match Flame E.G.O’s passive, which you already use in the HE slot anyway.

Team Builder

Your Team

Yi Sang

Faust

Don Quixote

Ryoshu

Meursault

Hong Lu

Heathcliff

Ishmael

Rodion

Sinclair

Outis

Gregor