Maximizing Asaba Harumasa Is Not For The Weak! | ZZZ Quick Guide

[@isaacteats]

People have been saying he is difficult and I understand he is overwhelming at 1st but the more you play him the easier it gets but I do agree he needs more indicator to how many dashes he has in stock that way I don't have to keep it in my mind all the time. So far I've memorized his kit to the point where I know where I'm out of dashes to reapply the mark. I'm new and I'm glad I started playing on this free agent one of gonna be my main stays for sure together with Anby.

[@freshlymemed5680]

That's my biggest gripe with him, no clear indicator of how many dash attacks you get which gets confusing with his mindscapes cus he can get up to 7 max with them but its possible to just keep a mental note of them. Maybe make the ring segmented and each segment indicates a dash attack? Otherwise he's really not that hard to play at all, people are making him seem way harder to play than he really is, if anything Lighter is the hardest with all the extra stuff he can do like his 3 different basic attack strings or his alternate dash and the special attack he can do from that alternate dash.

[@professorcryogen6419]

Very funny that ZZZ released perhaps their simplest and most complex characters in the same patch.

[@DegenerateDuck]

If you mean Miyabi, then I’m sorry, Jane Doe exists lmao

[@KingDarkness100]

@@DegenerateDuck Miyabi is way above Jane her AoE alone makes things so simpel

[@DegenerateDuck]

@@KingDarkness100 that’s just wrong lol

[@_yuzucchi]

@@DegenerateDuck There is nothing in Miyabi's kit that's difficult to understand. You can literally just keep spamming basics and never even switch characters to clear 99% of all content. If you're lucky she'll even dodge for you in the basic chain lmao, most autopilot character ever released in any game

[@fpteamkvitka6223]

Are you implying Miyabi is simple? Crazy talk

[@xdemittx]

one day i will have watched enough harumasa guides to be good at him, until then the training room is my home nice video man, thanks for the explanation!!

[@freshlymemed5680]

He really isn't that hard, he has a lot of qol mechanics that makes him super smooth to play.

[@xdemittx]

sure but he’s the only character in probably the whole game that’s taken me this long to understand fully

[@kearwin]

Love his VA and story so hoping to watch this over and over until I'm good at him

[@fudgeugaming7341]

I gotta say it's way more fun to pull off his combo's then it is to nuke everything with Miyabi it's so rewarding. I'm honestly having more fun with harder to setup characters then the anomaly roster as of late

[@rayusingame]

He's pretty cool for a free character. I started playing during this patch and he carried me until I managed to pull Miyabi.

[@SilverScratch]

The SFIV theme goes hard, great guide. Hoping to effectively add Harumasa to my roster eventually. I don't have his signature engine however or Qingyi so my expectations for his performance aren't too high.

[@thomassteenkamp4575]

The Streetfighter music hitting as you start the advanced combat tips is Chefs Kiss

[@farhanfarr8368]

M1 harumasa is so amazing. It can basically pretty much solves most of his problem. With it you can pretty much dash to a marked target for a whooping 7 times in a full single electro prison cycle.. with it you dont have too much reliant on calculating your quiver. You can do 14 dash/stun window with only 2 quivers cycle rather than 3/4 times with M0. and also.. he's quite reliant on qingyi. Without her, the damage might fall off quite significant. Anby is a good alternative, but you pretty much traded qingyi's 80% stun dmg muktiplier (+20% party atk with her signature) with just Anby's slightly 2-3 sec earlier stun.

[@plvto1]

i love playing as him but holy shit he needs more indicators, especially the "ba after chain attack gives 6 now" thing. it's so easy to lose track of these things during the heat of battle.

[@housinengi9512]

I be honest i played his agent story and i didnt even know he could do the dash even but to learn that you can do 20 if your perfect is insane.

[@marcelojavierzayassisa7389]

his gameplay is the equivalent of neuvillete in genshin. Blue balls for the win.

[@GPJZen]

Well when you put it like that...

[@nat2774]

The BGM : Electric fountain.

[@ErdingerLi]

I was amidst building him and doing disputed nodes with him while not understanding how disputed nodes work and thought he was weak. In truth I've already built a fairly strong Haru and have gotten pretty used to his attacks. It's just that I'm applying it in the wrong area 😂 I for one am most likely never going to clear D08 in Shiyu, takes too much skill that I will never have

[@HATSUCHl]

I accidentally got M1 Harumasa, and I was initially mad, because I was lowering the pulls for miyabi. But I wanted more Seth pulls so I could get M6 Seth. After playing M1 Harumasa, he’s cracked. I’m not even mad anymore.

[@aaronbarlianta]

That Tekken Tag Tournament 2 Wayang Kulit BGM though!!

[@soep19]

probably the most fun to play character imo, wish miyabi had this much complexity to justify the nuke that she has, but it's fine anyway

[@MrDee001]

This looks so cool. Sadly, dodge countering is the most advanced tech my fingers will allow. 😅

[@Akuza_Sazaki]

I noticed that when enemy got the x mark, then I pressed NA, Harumasa just teleported to that x marked enemy. So this means i didn't have to press dodge + NA to get close to the enemy? Did it still considered as dodge attack dmg if I just press the NA on x marked enemy?

[@GPJZen]

Yeah but it's a little finicky in my case. For me I'll either get it 10x in a row or I'll mess up and do a normal so I don't put it in the video

[@sidnairain]

So with my M3... i can get up to 50? Never tried cause enemies just die before I even finish one rotation XD

[@lumaletsplay8176]

I lowkey regret not picking up Burnice. Harumasa/Qingyi/Burnice would have gotten a lot of mileage.

[@kzma009]

But Burnice would lost her Anomaly bonus no?

[@theg.4435]

my brains fried

[@aaronbarlianta]

to those who actually built Harumasa. Is it worth it? is it better than M6 Anton in terms of damage number? is it worth to building if you already have Yanagi?

[@crimsondust5438]

I have yanagi and build anton. My yanagi is on the miyabi team and for me anton gameplay the energy issue is what I hate about his play. I much rather use asaba.

[@isaacteats]

Idk about M6 Anton but Harumasa ain't no slouch when it comes to DPS even at M0. Fun damage loop for sure. Teleporting/dashing to a marked enemy makes me feel like I'm Minato from Naruto

[@np.5837]

Can’t say about Yanagi and Anton cuz I don’t have/use them, but personally I am very satisfied with Harumasa both gameplay-wise and damage-wise. He performs quite well even in F2P team setup (Anby/Nicole). Bear in mind that his dmg output is heavily dependent on how well you use him. When you start to get the hang of it, he’s pretty satisfying to play imo.

[@Pheonee]

He's better than Anton and has a very engaging playstyle, but if you're comfortable just running Yanagi into elec content there is no pressing need to build him.

[@T8-TR]

imo, the only time you'd want to not build Harumasa is if you have a Yanagi for Electric Weakness and/or a Zhu Yuan, since they share a very similar playstyle and want each other's team (iirc, she does more damage than him by a bit if you don't min-max his rotations). But if his only competition is M6 Anton, absolutely replace him with Harumasa.

[@Kriss.S.V]

He really really need good invesment stunner character, i like his gameplay and already build him, not maxed out yet only 61/150 crit, miyabi left over disk😂, the stunner i have only anby and her gameplay i dont like it, maybe i will use him when i got other stunner like koleda or the furry one, forgot his name, 121 away from 300 pulls😢.

[@kyon-kyon71]

I despise Anby too. I hate how clunky she feels. I’ve been praying to get a stunner at the standard banner but they kept giving me WEngines 😢

[@khairitannur]

I wanna like playing him so much but I hate the play style

[@aaronbarlianta]

agreed, even after reading his tutorial 3 times i still cant understand his attack combos lol

[@isaacteats]

@@khairitannur dash attacks go brrr

[@Pheonee]

​@@aaronbarlianta his tutorial is kind of bad, tbf. Better to watch some combo guides on KZbin and pick one that you think you can consistently pull off with your level of execution. 12 dashes in a stun window is very realistic/consistent, though you can get 16 - 18 if you sweat a bit and use manual chains

[@minhtrinh467]

Mobile player hate harumasa for a reason 😂

[@isaacteats]

@minhtrinh467 eh how come ? I've been playing on mobile so far no issues until.... the giant flower ethereal in hollow zero who just makes me drop fps like crazy and it's to a point where I can longer execute harumasa combo due to lag

[@Arlé-c4s]

​​@@isaacteats It's not really about lag but using the touchscreen to play. I play on iphone 13 with medium graphics so there's zero lag, but I quickly noticed that it's really hard to play ZZZ with just touchscreen for controls, it feels clunky much more for characters like Harumasa where you really need precise timing and quick combos. For example: in touchscreen, you literally only have your right thumb to press either basic/hold/skill/ult/switch to right chara etc. while your left thumb can only control character movement and switch left chara/left chain attack. That means ONE thumb can only do one thing at once and it's easy to press the wrong button on screen (unless you're playing on a huge screen like an ipad and you can use index finger too). Meanwhile, when you're using a mouse/keyboard or controller it's much easier cause you can assign button to do specific things. I've been using my ps4 controller when I play ZZZ (and even HSR) on my phone as much as possible.

[@isaacteats]

@Arlé-c4s I don't want to be that guy but so far the only issues I have on mobile controls are the lag itself and the auto aim/lock on target seems very niche but other than those I can still pull off the Harumasa damage loop

[@KingDarkness100]

Its funny peoole with skill issue call him weak because it cant be their fault, no it's of course the Character's fault 🤣

[@isaacteats]

@@KingDarkness100 same can be said for Soldier 11 but once you get the rhythm right oh boy does she pack a punch

[@kyon-kyon71]

Ironic that I found Yanagi harder to play than him. Sure, his DPS window is so small, but I just keep generating his balls and dashes until I’m out of his load. I love ALL of Section 6 attacks, they’re so cool. Still, I find it super hard to use Yanagi