Obtainability: This is a personal memoria for Kirika Kure. It is obtainable through completing the third episode of her Magical Girl Story and through the Support Gacha.
Single Effect: Counter [100%] (Self / 1 Turn)
MLB Effect: Counter [100%] (Self / 1 Turn)
Counter gives an equipped character the chance to attack back if damaged by an enemy by the percentage shown. This does not give MP to either the attacker or receiver, it does not apply any on-hit effects, and it will ignore Evade. Guardian will not activate Counter.
TLDR: “Lump of Love” is Enhancement Fodder, though you can keep it in the Memoria Vault Jail on the very low off-chance it could be useful one day.
Review: “Lump of Love” is the only memoria in the game to currently give active Counter. While this makes it a unique memoria, it unfortunately does not make it a good one.
Counter has its uses in the game, but probably not in content where this memoria would actually see usage. It’s best seen in Mirrors, where an enemy counter can wipe out effects like “Attack Up While at Max Health” or “Defense Up While at Max Health” (of course, this assumes the enemy survives the attack to retaliate). However, this doesn’t apply to “Lump of Love” because Kirika won’t be seen in Mirrors and because “Lump of Love’s” obscenely long cooldown makes it practically useless to bring along.
Counter is less likely to be seen in PVE content. It’s possible that one might try and use it against enemies with evade, but evade is better dealt with more directly with other methods such as Anti-Evade, inflicting Status Ailments, or even using a Magia/Doppel.
Unfortunately, even if you find yourself in a situation where you might want to use Counter, “Lump of Love” still suffers. This is because it’s only Counter. While it does provide 100% Counter, what it doesn’t provide is a Provoke or some way to guarantee that Kirika Kure will take any of the enemies’ attacks that would make Counter useful. This is especially a problem when Kirika does not have an active provoke she can use natively in her kit.
Her Spirit Enhancement active for example isn’t something like Provoke, but Blast Damage Up.
While she does have a passive Chance to Provoke in her Spirit Enhancement, it’s low at 15% and not a guarantee.
Kirika Kure does however get 100% Provoke on her Magia and Doppel, so maybe you’re thinking that you could pair “Lump of Love” alongside using one of those. However, there’s an issue:
Her Magia and Doppel will already come with 100% Counter. Using “Lump of Love” here is wasteful.
Of course, this ignores the fact that other memoria do exist. You can combine “Lump of Love” with a Provoke active memoria at the very least:
(Limited Gacha 4*) “Equal Destruction to All” Provoke [100%] & Defense Up [52.5%] &Attack Up [35%] (Self / 1 Turn)
(4*) “Never-Ending Practice” Provoke [100%] & Defense Up [67.5%] (Self / 1 Turn)
(Limited Welfare 4*) “Prayer Connecting the Dead and the Live” Provoke [100%] & Damage Cut [35%] (Self / 1 Turn)
(3*) “Tranquil Morning Practice” Provoke [45%] (Self / 1 Turn)
However this means that you’re using up two active memoria slots just to make one personal memoria work for a strategy that isn’t going to see much usage, if any at all.
This personal memoria is poorly designed for her kit. It’s unique as the only active Counter in the game, but that’s not enough to save it.
You can treat this memoria as Enhancement Fodder or you can throw it in the Memo Vault Jail on the very low chance that it might be useful one day.
Lastly, please note that if you should decide to keep this memoria, “Lump of Love” will already come with 100% Counter, even if not Max Awakened. Max Awakening this memoria only means that its cooldown will go from 15 to 13, and that it has better passive stats (but even then, only if you should choose to level it to max).
