Yuki/Playstyle Tips

In-Game Tips

 * Yuki can prevent his enemies from using their Combat Skill for a short time.
 * Keep a good supply of Health items in your inventory so you can maintain Perfect Fit at all times.

General
Yuki's abilities only work if he is at full health. While this sounds unreliable, his abilities being incredibly powerful at full health counteracts their unreliability. It is not uncommon for Yuki to walk into a fight and use Uchi-Otoshi in the early game and deal a lot of damage, especially when players do not have much armor. It's recommended to always keep your HP fully maintained. If Yuki gets the element of surprise in a fight, he could instantly devastate another player's HP bar and force them to run away and not fight back at all, giving Yuki free mastery and more time at full HP.

On the other side, if Yuki is in a extended engagement or was not at full health, he's playing with 2 abilities down which cripples him quite a bit. This means if Yuki isn't ahead enough to scare people off with his initial damage burst, he isn't threatening. The need to have healing is important for all character but especially on Yuki because the moment he's not at full HP he won't be as strong as he initially appears.

He is a very powerful "win more" (means benefits a lot when getting ahead than other, but fall behind severely if he doesn't) character that could catch people off guard with his full HP burst even if he's slightly behind, and excels in aggressive play by taking advantage of the blade mastery having very quick weapon rushes and ample food to keep him topped off in HP, then getting lead through the game on the advantage if possible.

Abilities
Yuki's Perfect Fit has a very demanding condition. It is a passive skill that increases Yuki's Attack and Defense by 15% and a chance to deal critical hit by 5% only when he has full health. While the buff he gets from this skill is huge, the condition to make this skill work is hard to maintain. He always need full HP to make Perfect Fit activate. Managing his health is very important for Yuki so he can keep up his composure and be nonchalantly strong. He needs to be ahead the whole game to make him threatening to enemy so he can taking advantage of this skill fully as his opponent ran away after getting attacked by a huge burst from his damage that is increased by Perfect Fit. Note that it is enough to get off one normal attack at full HP or an Uchi-Otoshi at full HP before taking damage and losing Perfect Fit. As long as you attack first while Perfect Fit is up, that is more than enough.

Uchi-Otoshi is a reliable skill to put enemy at a disadvantage. Uchi-Otoshi will Disarm the opponent so that they can't use their combat skill, meaning this skill is able to counter characters with a strong combat skill such as Hart, Silvia, Shoichi, Camilo, etc. As they usually rely on their combat skill, Uchi-Otoshi will disable their skill for 8 seconds so they can't win the contest against him. Not to mention Uchi-Otoshi also has benefit if Perfect Fit is active, it will grants Uchi-Otoshi extra 15 skill dmg on hit. Players want to maintain Perfect Fit to dish out strong burst damage with Uchi-Otoshi. Not only does it disables your opponent's skill, it also has extra damage to burst them and will always hit. The cooldown is fairly low too, so this makes Yuki a strong character overall when certain conditions for his skills to work are met.