Your primary character/shot type in each game?

[LunarWingCloud]

I actually have that picture.

But yeah in games where I consider it harder to stay directly under the boss, I like stuff with some sort of homing. In other games I'll experiment but I tend to veer towards Reimu and in games where they are available,  Sakuya or Sanae.

[Yatakarasu]

EoSD: Don't care. aka I don't play it enough to have one
PCB: ReimuA
IN: Illusionary Barrier Team
PoFV: Mystia
MoF: ReimuA
SA: Primary - ReimuA, Secondary: MarisaC
UFO: SanaeB
TD: Reimu
DDC: ReimuA

Sorry I'm so boring.  :ohdear:

[Gray21oh]

SoEW: I hate all of them and can never get adjusted to any of them.
PoDD: Marisa, Kana
LLS: Reimu A, Marisa B
MS: Marisa, Mima
EoSD: Reimu B, Marisa A
PCB: Reimu B, Sakuya B
IN: Youmu Solo, Boundary Team
PoFV: Reimu, Marisa, A fair bit more here.
MoF: Reimu B, Marisa C
SA: Reimu C, Marisa B
UFO: Sanae B, Reimu A
TD: Reimu, Youmu
DDC: Reimu A, Sakuya A

[Mr Jovial]

PoDD: Chiyuri, Marisa
EoSD: ReimuA, ReimuB
PCB: ReimuB, ReimuA
IN: Border Team, Netherworld Team
MoF: ReimuB, ReimuA
SA: ReimuA, MarisaA
UFO: ReimuA, ReimuB
TD: Reimu, Sanae
DDC: ReimuB, ReimuA

Look at all that Reimu.

[Koog]

It's been a while I wanted to answer to this topic
EoSD: Marisa A
IN:  Primary: Marisa/Alice Secondary: Sakuya/Remilia (1cc'ed with both of this)
PoFV: Primary: Lyrica (1cc'ed) Secondary: Yuuka (1cc'ed)/ Merlin (Can't play story with her )
SA: Marisa B
UFO: Marisa B
DDC: Marisa A (1cc'ed today!  )
DS: Hatate (Does this count?)

[Ghost]

EoSD: Reimu-B
PCB: Sakuya-A
IN: Marisa/Alice
MoF: Marisa-B  :V
SA: Reimu-A
UFO: Sanae: B
TD: Marisa
DDC: Marisa-B  :V (When I get to no bomb runs I'll use Sakuya-A)

>Broken shot types are fun yo

[kvyya]

SoEW: Reimu C
PoDD: Rikako, Kana
LLS: Marisa B
MS: Mima
EoSD: Marisa B, Reimu A
PCB: Sakuya B
IN: Boundary team, Yuyuko
PoFV: Yuuka (her speed is ideal for me <3), Youmu
MoF: Reimu A, Marisa B
SA: Reimu B
UFO: Sanae B, Reimu A
TD: Sanae, Reimu
DDC: Reimu A

[Karisa]

LLS ReimuA
MS Mima
EoSD ReimuB
PCB ReimuB
IN Reimu+Yukari, 2nd Youmu solo
MoF ReimuA/ReimuB
SA ReimuA, 2nd MarisaA
UFO SanaeB
TD Reimu/Marisa
DDC ReimuA

Isn't this so generic?

[Ri-ze]

SoEW: Reimu A
PoDD: Kotohime
LLS: I don't really have a favorite, they're all pretty great.
MS: Yuuka
EoSD: Marisa B
PCB: Sakuya B
IN: Yukari Solo (favorite shot type), Aria of Forbidden Magic Team
PoFV: Lunasa, Reisen, Yuuka (not as often)
MoF: Marisa B
SA: Reimu A
UFO: Sanae A
TD: Sanae
DDC: Sakuya B

[Failure McFailFace]

How about ISC item combos?

• Lamp/Statue
• Lamp/Mallet
• Statue/Statue
• Statue/Mallet (I think it's less than Statue/Statue...)

In general, the lamp is my way to go for most cards. Otherwise, I use the Doll for homing, Bomb for scattered bullets, Fabric for walls of bullets, and Mallet for cards where the boss is exposed for a long period of time.

[Zil]

• Lamp/Statue
• Lamp/Mallet
• Statue/Statue
• Statue/Mallet (I think it's less than Statue/Statue...)

The lamp gives 11 seconds of invincibility, while the sum of statue invincibility time is 12 seconds, and furthermore that time can be broken up AND activated automatically in response to being hit. With mallet sub-item, the lamp goes up to 12 seconds, while the statue goes up to 15. As far as I can tell the lamp is a completely inferior item and should never be used under any circumstances.
Statue/statue just gives you 4 full uses and 1 crappy one. Statue/mallet gives 5 full uses and so is superior in every way.

So statue/mallet outclasses every other thing you listed in all aspects.

[LunarWingCloud]

So I was using Sakuya/Remilia in IN recently and I decided... no. I highly dislike the lack of better shots with these 2. Sakuya has a nice wide spread but none of the knives have a lot of power. And the fact that Remi's bats stick can be a curse as much as it can be a boon. Also their bombs both suck IMO and hardly cause an acceptable amount of damage to anything.

Should I give Magic Team a go?

[Star King]

So I was using Sakuya/Remilia in IN recently and I decided... no. I highly dislike the lack of better shots with these 2. Sakuya has a nice wide spread but none of the knives have a lot of power. And the fact that Remi's bats stick can be a curse as much as it can be a boon. Also their bombs both suck IMO and hardly cause an acceptable amount of damage to anything.

Should I give Magic Team a go?

How is Remilia's bats sticking a curse? You can retap Shift to make them go to you if you need them. I don't think it's ever really a disadvantage to be able to place your familiars.

/big fan of Remilia's IN shot

Anyway, the popular opinion is that Border team is the best for survival, but all 4 teams are pretty good/balanced I would say. I would say go for Magic Team if you want.

[Inadequate]

Remilia's bomb is very powerful if you use it on top of the boss.

Magic team is very inferior and more difficult to navigate stages with, due to the lack of spread and weak youkai shot. The only thing they have over Scarlet team is the strong human shot, but I figured you would rather spend time focused than unfocused.

[Burning Love]

Reimu needle's except in PCB (MarisaA), UFO (SanaeB) and DDC (SakuyaA). Sometimes, the slow-moving Reimu in EOSD and PCB irritates me, but I cope with it by having to predict the bullet earlier.

As for bomb, Remilia's is my favourite due to high damage/ high spread and ability to position myself before the bomb dissolves.

[Star King]

Remilia's bomb is very powerful if you use it on top of the boss.

Just in case, it should also be mentioned you have to hold the shot button. It's kind of weird that way.

[LunarWingCloud]

Yeah but you also need to hurriedly 1) get on top of the boss and then 2) hurriedly just before it ends get away from the boss. (About Remi's bomb)

Also I am not fond of the idea of having to unfocus even briefly for the sake of replacing something that sticks, when I'm very concentrated on trying to dodge, unless I am require to unfocus in order to move to a necessary spot I try to remain in focus. It doesn't really help that if I'm moving a bit in order to dodge something, and I need to unfocus for a second, I could end up sticking the bats away from the boss after I ALREADY had them in the right spot previously.

And I don't particularly care for her moving so fast for a focused shot also. I like to have my focused movement be quite slow, so to that end I've actually taken a liking to Marisa in several games because her movement while focus can end up almost deadly accurate for what I need it to be, whereas someone like Remilia in IN I can overshoot the dodge because of a mistap and crash into a bullet later. I know that's partially my fault, but it just feels weird to have a somewhat fast focused movement.

I guess the learning curve for their shots is a bit wonky, I dunno. I just don't find Remilia specifically in the Scarlet Team to be very friendly with people who are used to more conventional shot types.

Also I tried Magic Team. It was way too much fun. I did kinda bad because I wasn't concentrating but I enjoyed myself.

[Szayelaporro Granz]

Remi solo or Scarlet Team is the best for spellcard capturing during practice

[Maths ~Angelic Version~]

Generally, I prefer Needle Reimu because I'm more comfortable with a low focused speed and because I want to kill bosses quickly (before they kill me  :V ). Homing Reimu is usually my second favourite, followed by Christmas Tree Marisa (EoSD and PCB only).
Exceptions: In IN, I almost always use the Border Team. In UFO, I prefer SanaeB because her shots have good spread and aren't terrible against bosses.

[Trickster-kun]

I have played every shooter with Reimu A. I haven't beat them all yet, since I'm a bad player, but it's my favorite setup... switching to another style feels like I'm playing a different game at this point. :V

[Imosa]

All Games
Reimu- Homing shot

Hatters gonna hate

[Abraham Lincoln]

MoF: Reimu A
SA: Reimu A, Reimu B
UFO: Reimu B, Sanae A
DS: Aya
TD: Sanae
HM: Kokoro
DDC: Reimu A, Sakuya A

For the Len'en games, Tsubakura.

[Nolegs the Cat]

EOSD: Needles Reimu
PCB: Needles Reimu
IN: Border Team
MOF: Homing Reimu
SA: Reimu/Yukari - Needles
UFO: Sanae/Suwako (SanaeB) - Spread
10D: Reimu
DDC: SakuyaA.

[Szayelaporro Granz]

LLS: Reimu A
MS: Marisa
EoSD: Reimu A, Marisa A
PCB: Reimu A
IN: Border Team (normal run and spellcard practice), Remilia Solo (spellcard practice)
PoFV: Reisen, Eiki, Yuuka
MoF: Reimu A
SA: Reimu A
UFO: Sanae B
DS: Aya
TD: Reimu
DDC: Reimu A, Sakuya A (the latter is a bit too gimmicky for me)
ISC: Bomb/Doll

[☆ Hinalyte]

EoSD: Marisa A
PCB: Marisa A
(the lasers in EoSD/PCB feels kind of lacking IMO)

IN: Magic Team (takes out familiars easily + PoC)
PoFV: Marisa, Yuuka (fast / wide)
MoF: Marisa A (Marisa B is bugged, inb4 bork replay comments)
SA: Reimu A (what else is there?)
UFO: Marisa A (10/10 power)
TD: Marisa (liking the missiles)
DDC: Marisa B (missiles are stronger)

Don't have anything much to choose a secondary; besides the topic was about primary anyway.

[Hainiryuun]

Primaries

EoSD: Reimu B
PCB: Marisa A
IN: Border Team
PoFV: Marisa
MoF: Reimu A
SA: Reimu C
UFO: Reimu A
TD: Marisa
DDC: Sakuya A

Secondary

EoSD: Marisa B
PCB: Sakuya A
IN: Ghost Team
PoFV: Insert broken character here
MoF: Marisa B(roken)
SA: Reimu A
UFO: Sanae A
TD: Reimu
DDC: Reimu A

[ILikeBulletZ]

Just in case, it should also be mentioned you have to hold the shot button. It's kind of weird that way.

Lol why would you ever let got the shot button anyway. 95% of the time you should be pressing it...


Anyway, my favorite shot types:

EoSD: ReimuB, even though I haven't actually gotten a 1cc with her, I can already tell she is the best for me!
PCB: ReimuB once again... borderline Overpowered. Yet still takes some skill to use properly. I love it.
PoFV: Eh, whoever I feel like. I tend to favor Lyrica because of the whole activating spirits thing is easy to control but any will do.
MoF: ReimuB once again...
SA: ReimuA...
UFO: SanaeB and ReimuA... Both are good. SanaeB wins though.
TD: Youmu I guess... But I really don't care about TD that much :/
DDC: SakuyA FTW


ISC Item combo:
MAIN Substitute Jizo
SUB Cursed Doll

Both maxed.

Sit on top of boss hitting her with all the shots while you are invincible for like 12 seconds thanks to the Substitute Jizo... this makes 99% of the scenes a freaking joke except for that one where Remilia explodes when she is near you...It trivializes the entire game basically along with making all other item combos useless...GG ZUN.

[Star King]

Lol why would you ever let got the shot button anyway. 95% of the time you should be pressing it...

Maybe your habits are different from mine but I tend to let go of the shot button when I can, like after I bomb, or during survival spells. I find it best to rest that finger if I have the opportunity, it can get pretty tiring holding it down for hours...

[ILikeBulletZ]

Maybe your habits are different from mine but I tend to let go of the shot button when I can, like after I bomb, or during survival spells. I find it best to rest that finger if I have the opportunity, it can get pretty tiring holding it down for hours...

...

But don't the majorly of the bombs allow you to shoot while the bomb itself is working?

That would mean you end up doing less damage if you don't shot than if you would shot...

Obvious exceptions like Master Spark aside, of course...

Not shooting during Survival is more understable, though... I also don't do it. Besides it looks silly shooting at nowhere for 1min+ LOL...

Only problem is that when the Survival card ends, sometimes I accidentally bomb when I intended to push the shot button... that's a very anticlimatic way to lose a bomb

[Star King]

Yeah on second thought I probably hold down the shot button for most bombs, hard to remember since I play without bombs most of the time anyway :3