Yes, but she has the lowest numbers when it comes to cost support, so she's not someone you bring only for cost support, it's just a nice bonus she has on top of being primarily a self-sustaining and cleansing tank, just like her basic skill that does Crit RES shred.
Issue I see with a lot of tanks is that they are just there to... tank. Some have repositioning and CC, but can't remember any one that serves as buffer/debuffer as well besides their common skills.
I agree with you for the most part but I think the theme with their guns has mostly been popular sci-fi and other visually cool guns. Only reason I think that's the case is like with Eimi's Spas-12, Asuna's FAMAS, and Aris' Railgun off the top of my head.
From the ones I remember, Reisa and P.Yuuka both DEF shred with their EX, while Mine shreds both DEF and EVA with her EX. Reisa's DEF shred is tied to her Sub skill so it can stack with DEF shred from another student's EX iirc. Don't remember if there are any others that have things like that outside of Basic skills.
Rena has similar dynamic with rest of her clubmates as Aoba had with the train twins in the "Runaway Incident" -event. Bunch of goofy wackadoos function better when they can "bounce off" of a more serious character. Note that despite mostly being a one-note pessimistic character, Aoba was arguably still fleshed-out more than Rena.
It was alright but really suffered from having a tiny cast, basically the four amigos with one character that mainly there for a a future, one character that only appears for one scene and a council president that may not exist. Compare it with Red Winter that has its first chapter with 4 different factions. Still the four are alright, and Wildhunt itself is a good change of scenery.
That's a shame, I suspected it to be this way given that both Utaha variants are in there and Utaha is a queen when it comes to being a specialized student in events she isn't even mentioned in. The Roogie and the Moogie meeting would've been pure kino tho.
A friend of mine showed me a post going over the reasons for the specialized students in the events since the say-Bing event kinda foreshadowed the culprits of the Mecha-gator being due to the Engineering dept. Remembering what the reasons were off the top of my head:
Damn, they really were stretching it with some of these, but it's tough when the only real meaningful connection your new school has is with the ASS girls, as the event is pretty much a continuation of -ive Alive!, and with Maki due to her being artistic. It'd be easier to make specialized students for the naval school that's only been mentioned in Bunny Chaser on Board as the Odyssey Maritime School owned the casino boat, so they'd already have the entirety of C&C and Seminar + their alts for specialized students.
Ah yeah, the forgotten boat school whose only NPC students we ever saw is them in playboy bunny outfits.
Kuroko is basically cheating due to her 20 seconds invincibility ability, unless your tank is at top shape she is going to win.
