Lets Rate and Talk About: 009 Shijima

[Carigun]

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im gonna go 4/10 as he is not my kinda borg. i dont tend to offer much support to the team other than reducing the borgs that they have to deal with. i tend to go in hard and fast. yea... anyway he is agile, has a crossbow, and wires to trap the borgs... not affective on forts.

[Frozazen]

A ninja wearing camouflage... totally didn't see this coming

Concept is amazing. Cost is pretty good. Execution... well let's just say it's hard.

In singles he's not too great, but doubles is where he shines. He's got the mobility of a ninja, and has all the shuriken and blade attacks. What takes the cake is his arrows, aka the ability to completely shut down any opponent that's slower and/or has bad long-range moves. Shijima dominates the mid-range field, as his Arrows have decent homing and last a long time. You get 8 of them, so you don't have to worry about running out once you land one. Of course the opponent is still difficult to tag once they are anchored, but I want to believe that good reading can take care of this (particularly with boost-jump borgs). Shijima's job is to just keep as many people anchored as possible so the partner can close-range the *macadamia* out of them. At 300 GFE, I always try to have one on my team if I have a partner, plus like the nurses you know the opponent will home in on Shijima so fast because one wrong move really cuts into your life expectancy when fighting Shijima.

Of course, high-mobility/powerful beam spam borgs can easily stop Shijima in his tracks, so most of the girl borgs and angel borgs more or less laugh at him. Opposing ninjas also give Shijima trouble, but since ninja offense isn't stellar, they have to watch out for the arrows. Tanks and machine borgs are easy prey. Gun borgs may also get tagged because their mobility is more suited to go up against other long-range borgs (mainly side-to-side dodging), not really a ninja that can spam arrows from all sorts of angles. Knuckle borgs, gg lol (actually they have decent ground mobility, so it's more of a game of dodge-dodge-hit-retreat and repeat for them, I'd say it's pretty even)

8/10

[Stove]

3/10. His support requires prescise spacing or specific teammates to be effective, and is awful outside of that purpose.

EDIT: Changed to 5/10 after realizing that characters with really good damage output turn his support into, as Indigo said, "death darts".

[njayhuang]

An okay low cost borg. Instead of having two Sasukes, you can have one Sasuke that shoots arrows instead of bombs. The arrows are nice if you can land them, but with that cost he's nothing too special. 6/10

[Dyrozix]

Never made a post about Shijima. Has Shijima Sig.
Woops
Compared to the other ninjas he's the same for more cost. He can lock someone in a spot and focus on another enemy he makes for a decent one side of an enemy force borg. It's alright. Plus he jumps like a clown Style points

6/10

[dillybar64]

Just as boss as some of the other ninjas + has my favorite support ability in the game.
I adore this guy. In a dodge centric game being able to tether people to the ground has some amazing applications.
And I'm constantly surprised by how many borgs have their effectiveness halved when tethered.
Dude is like an alternate take on Death Borg Omicron.
Tether < turning borgs into Death Eyes, but in exchange Shijima has more he can do that just that move.