Granting soul damage is always a powerful effect since it allows for all kinds of explosive attacks or even milder yet effective attacks. Due to how damage is calculated in this game, extra soul can be used to grant characters the ability to side without penalty without worrying about losing out in damage. Normally, granting additional soul, especially in a consistent form, is something that’s rather rare. Well, that was the case, up until the release of this profile shown below.
The card above, Jun’you, is a card with the ability to grant all other characters of her specified trait an additional soul. It’s a very simple effect, but it essentially turns any of your other cards into base two-soul beaters permanently. As stated before, there’s a number of implications for this as lower powered characters can potentially side and deal damage at no cost. Furthermore, one can simply just thrust characters in front as if a climax had been played, just without the power clause, to potentially deal large amounts of damage.
Jun’you came out in the 2014 set of Kantai Collection. During her prime and legal playability, she could be considered a core staple that greatly enhanced the success of decks that played her, turning even low level utility cards into definite two soul threats. The exact copy of Jun’you’s effect is rather rare, and although previous cards existed that gave soul to other characters, none carried a global effect persistently like that of Jun’you above.
As mentioned before, soul provision effects have always existed before in the game, long before Jun’you’s inception. However, those abilities tended to have restricted targets and acted as assists for characters in front of them only. Alternatively, they were chance based effects such as that of alarm. Jun’you was even more problematic due to the fact that she was hex-proof, making opposing removal of her quite difficult.
Newer versions of the Jun’you have retained the previous assist only function. Furthermore, there are harder restrictions placed on them rather than just trait, making the decks that run them overly specific to take advantage of the extra soul ability. Jun’you or similar soul effects are rare abilities which can be extremely powerful given the right situation. Use them to your advantage and push for victory!