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· This video covers the analysis of the new pickup character Bai鹤 (White Crane) from Nikke: Goddess of Victory by overseas users on nikke.gg.
· Bai鹤 is gaining attention for her sexy appearance, but there are many questions about her actual performance. Let's look at the evaluation from overseas communities.

· The nikke.gg tier list provides an analysis of character performance across various content such as overall evaluation, campaign, tower, boss battles, and PVP.
· The individual analysis page for Bai鹤 delves into her performance under the title 'Snow Crane Analysis: Should You Pull?'. This is further enhanced by the setting that Bai鹤 has not been exposed to the outside world for over 100 years in the event story.

· Bai鹤 is a defensive Sniper Rifle user with a Burst skill that has a 40-second cooldown.
· Her main abilities are healing and providing shields, which can be used frequently and simultaneously. However, it's advisable to refrain from using instant healing unless absolutely necessary for powerful burst healing.
· When used with other healers, Bai鹤's passive healing ability is reduced, which is a drawback.
· The shield increases max HP, but even with frequent use depending on charge speed, the general healing amount is relatively low.
· She lacks attack power buffs or other utilities, especially related to cooldowns, making it difficult to fully unleash her potential.

· Aside from the purpose of having her as a 'favorite character,' there's no compelling reason to pull for Bai鹤.
· The lack of an attack power buff significantly diminishes her appeal. Nikke games generally have a high dependency on buffs, and especially during Burst skill usage, other units often perform similarly or better.
· Bai鹤 can only provide healing and shields, which acts as a major weakness in competition with other units.
· If you already have suitable units, you won't gain much benefit from using Bai鹤. While she might help in clearing the Missilis Tower, she is inefficient in most PVE content due to the absence of attack power buffs.
· She might show some potential in PVP, but it's not recommended to pull for her solely for PVP. Her prospects in PVP are also not bright.

· The biggest reason not to pull for Bai鹤 is the upcoming 3.5-anniversary event. It's highly likely that more powerful and rare units will be released then.
· If you are currently low on resources (especially Gold Mileage), it's wise to save your resources for the anniversary event.
· Bai鹤's healing and shield abilities can aid survival in early content or boss battles, but their usefulness gradually diminishes as you acquire more units.
· Especially with the anniversary event looming, aiming to obtain Bai鹤 through normal gacha by chance is the best approach, rather than actively pulling for her.

· Bai鹤 doesn't offer much value to most players due to her lack of attack power buffs and other utilities.
· Nikke is a game where 'Attack Power Up' is key, and most characters have abilities that increase their own or nearby characters' attack power.
· Bai鹤's shield compensates for her low healing capabilities, but the absence of offensive buffs significantly hinders her potential. The explanation continues on why being purely defensive-focused is not good.

· Skill 1: Provides a max HP buff.
· Skill 2: When receiving healing from other characters, stacks are built up, and debuffs are removed. It also generates a shield and heals her own HP.
· Burst Skill: Grants a powerful healing effect to the entire party and applies Pierce to herself for 10 seconds. However, since she has no offensive capabilities, this effect is almost meaningless to herself and doesn't help with Burst gauge accumulation. The long 40-second cooldown is also a drawback.

· In Nikke, the problem with purely defensive or healing units is that they don't contribute much to defeating enemies and focus solely on survival.
· Increasing the attack power of DPS units is more important than defense in almost all situations. Considering the normal map clear time (90 seconds) and boss battle time limit (180 seconds), simply surviving longer than the enemy doesn't guarantee victory.
· The adage 'The best defense is to defeat the enemy quickly' is true in Nikke. Defeating enemies quickly reduces their opportunities to attack, and consequently, the need for HP recovery or shield protection decreases.
· Even in boss battles, defeating the boss quickly is much more effective than simply enduring.

· While Bai鹤 can aid survival in early content or at lower stat levels, as the game progresses, enemy HP increases and DPS units' attack power rises faster, making it much more valuable to enhance attack power buffs.
· Bai鹤 only provides healing and shields with no attack power buffs, so she generally doesn't offer much help unless you can defeat enemies.

· In Nikke, Burst Skill 2 characters often provide powerful buffs. For example, cooldown reduction or strong attack power buffs.
· In contrast, Bai鹤 lacks these powerful buffing abilities, making her an anomaly compared to other Nikke characters. This is because she doesn't align with the game's core mechanic of 'firepower'-centric play.

· Strengths:
· Healing: Provides shields with each full Burst time, in addition to Burst skill, aiding survival.
· Weaknesses:
· Low healing outside of Burst
· Long 40-second Burst cooldown
· Absence of attack power buffs
· Somewhat weak overall healing effect
· Reduced self-healing ability when other healers are present
· Low utility of Pierce effect within Burst
· Mediocre performance despite excellent design