Talk:Pino Marianne (Dancer of the Snow)/@comment-25784237-20150110123846/@comment-1465604-20150110144649

Vanilla | Fully released

Ruri: 2103/2267 | 2503/2467

Hidden Powers: 2 emblem boosts, iTCC 5

Total number of Hiden Powers: 9

Pino: 2148/2319 |  2348/ 2419

Hidden Powers: +100 Water HP, iTCC 5

Total Number of Hiden Powers: 5

At the cost of 4 extra Hidden Powers (which means Ethers unless you've got enough extra copies), Ruri gets 155 HP and 48 ATK more than Pino. Meanwhile, Pino adds +100 HP to all Water Element spirits in your deck. All in all, Pino wins the stats round, in my opinion. If you need more than 2348 HP to survive, then Pino likely won't be the first spirit of yours dying. However, Pino's +100 Water HP Hidden Powers combined with a few other spirits with same Hidden Power might elevate your HP high enough to have you survive whichever hellish quest it is you're facing.

Ruri has 2 emblem boosts to Pino's 0 emblem boosts. So she wins the Hidden Powers round if you're looking at Emblem Boosts. If you're looking at Stat Ups, Pino wins, especially as they're healers. 100 extra HP per water spirit means Pino will heal 11 more points of HP per water spirit.

Pino also has an upcoming SS form, which we have not yet gotten. For all we know, we're gonna get it together with the upcoming SS forms of Ewan, Filly and Cyrus. Pino's SS form (in Japan, anyway):

Stas: 2304/ 2411 |  2504/ 2511

New Hidden Powers (in Japan): +100 Thunder HP, DC -2 (37). We may or may not get a rebalancing of her Hidden Powers.

Pino destroys Ruri when it comes to Stats at SS. In Japan, Ruri has her own niche, since she's got that nifty Hidden Power that heals 100 HP (or 10%, I can't remember) between each battle (not round, each battle), which set her apart of Pino. However, over here, Pino beats Ruri hands down except when it comes to those 2 emblem boosts, but with diminishing returns, if you've already got 6 or so emblem boosts without Ruri's 2, you don't really need them, especially if you're running an emblemer (Ruri or Pino).