TT/Alloy Keepsake (Jan 2021)

The KS event for this month is the Claw Machine, and 2 KS available, TT and Alloy. It will start on 26 Jan.

TLDR:

Between both, I’d say TT is definitely more useful. Pull TT only if you intend to level her, and you have at least 17k gems (max draw claw machine) and 7.9k gems (for Feb BT) = 24.9k gems.
Skip Alloy.

If you’re a whale you can draw for the other rewards (eg omnishards, tickets etc)

Let’s take a look at the Ultra-Ultimates!

TT

Ultimate: Attacks all enemies with 5 consecutive strikes for 100% ATK dmg, with a 50% chance of afflicting the main target and its nearby allies with Injury for 2 rounds (receive 50% ATK extra dmg when attacked). This attack has 20% increased crit.
Ultra-Ultimate:
Dmg 100% > 120%
Injury dmg 50% > 65%
Injury affects enemies nearby main target > All enemies

Alloy

Ultimate: Deals 130% ATK dmg to targets in a cross-shaped area. Has a 100% chance to afflict the main target with Injury for 2 rounds (when attacked, deals a follow-up attack of 50% ATK as extra dmg). Shares 40% of dmg taken by 2 low-HP allies for 2 rounds. By sharing dmg, reduces dmg taken by 20% (cannot share dmg when HP is below 20%)
Ultra-Ultimate:
Dmg 130% > 160%
Dmg Reduction 20% > 40%

Thoughts:

TT’s KS is critical is you intend to level her high, or she is already one of your main DPS. Injury proc upgrades to affect all enemies (50%) greatly increases your chance to get 3 injured enemies asap, boosting her crit dmg by 30% (passive). Not to mention higher AoE dmg and injury dmg.

Alloy’s KS is mostly for the dmg reduction upgrade of 40%. The added dmg is nice too but you don’t use Alloy for DPS. Seeing how there will be much better units in the lineup that will ult before him (think TT, Garou, Gouketsu, AS, TTM, ZBM and more..), you probably won’t get much mileage out of his KS, unless for very specific scenarios.

CLAW MACHINE REWARDS SELECTION

If you intend on pulling him, please have a reserve of 16.8k diamonds – that’s the max draw cost. I wouldn’t recommend you pulling if you have less than that. And also don’t forget you need another 7920 diamonds to buy LSSR BTs when the next month comes.

Tier 1 – TT/Alloy KS – Pick TT IMO
Tier 2
- Hero Omni
- Monster Omni
- Ascend Tickets – you can use them immediately now during the SAC rate up
Tier 3 – I skip awaken chips because you can slowly sweep them, and I don’t really need more purple gear.
- SAC
- Talent Drop buff – pick it if you are lacking. Why I choose this is because you can’t really get them anywhere else consistently, whereas the rest can be easily obtained
- Elite Tix – For more chances at CK! ;p
- Epic Tix- For more chances at CK! ;p
Tier 4
- 300k gold
- Formula Chest
- KS or Insignia Exp card
- Mystery card refresh (useful for getting certain SSR’s shards during Mystery Shop events like CK, or simply to get Groribas faster)
- Not recommended:
  - DISK chest – you’ll eventually have an overflow of it due to being gated by core powers.
Tier 5
- They removed a lot of useful items so most of the selection here now is total crap. Feel free to swap out any items below for items that you might be lacking, such as research results or basic skill books.
  - Removed: 500 saitama coins, master key, arena tokens
- Gear exp card (for upgrading gears, gets super expensive later on)
- KS Exp card
- Insignia Exp card
- RND Disk I Chest
- Exp Soda III
- Battle Chips
- Elite Formula Core
- Gear Token

Pro-Tip: Finish up the game coin quests, as the game coins carry do not expire and carry over to the next claw machine. So you can save up coins for a claw machine KS that you might want in the future.