Samurai Discussion

[Sai-Kon]

You\\'re not factoring the potency cost for using Kaiten. Kenki is worth potency. Your most common oGCD used cost 25 kenki and does 300 potency so let\\'s say that 1 kenki = around 12 potency. Kaiten costs 20 kenki. So that is 240 potency cost for a gain of 360 potency on an attack, that means the net gain for using Kaiten instead of using the 300 potency attack is only 120 potency. Let\\'s compare that to using the ability that converts all 3 sen into kenki. That nets you 60 kenki. At 12 potency per kenki that is a whopping 720 potency itself!

So let\\'s figure something here. While you used midare w/ Kaiten spending 20 kenki for a 1080 potency attack, that also took the oppurtunity cost of a GCD, I used the sen to kenki conversion ability which puts me at 80 kenki, so I have 960 potency banked up, allowing me to use roughly 5-6 300 potency oGCD accounting for generation from doing my combos back up to 3 sen allowing me to then do a Kaiten midare.

I already factored the potency cost for using Kaiten. For Kaiten to be efficient for the Kenki that we spend on it must provide 240 additional potency. The only Weaponskill that can generate that much potency is Midare Setsugekka with which Kaiten provides +360 potency for a total of 1080. From the second hardest hitting weaponskills (Gekko and Kasha) Kaiten only give +200 potency rendering it inefficient. In other words, you want to use Kaiten only with Midare Setsugekka (and when Hagakure is on cooldown, otherwise convert Sen to Kenki for more Shinten). I did the exact thing in the opener I discussed. Maybe you were confused because I used the name "Iaijutsu" instead of the actual name of the ability. The Iaijutsu I used in the end in combination with Kaiten is Midare Setsugekka.