r/MizukiMainsOW

ik it's a bit late for this, but mizuki players would greatly benefit from giving him a wall climb passive. (also, ik that the answer as to why they didn't give him wall climb is lore-related but still, like, c'mon) here's why:

a) good mobility skills lets you commit to a play and get out. Mizuki’s Katashiro Return (his teleport) is designed for this, but it’s completely bottlenecked by his lack of verticality. giving him wall climb will make this problem go away

b) if a defender is on high ground, mizuki would literally need to go up the stairs to dive them, but by the time he does this, the enemy defender might already have rotated.

c) wall climb allows him to scale walls, drop his paper doll on high ground, then drop down to engage and safely go back up using katashiro return (without having to go up the stairs or whatever that is)

d) mizuki also literally has to deal damage to do healing, unlike brig who has some sustain and abilities to knock enemy flankers/tanks back and heal with inspire, mizuki doesn't, so he'll just end up dead.

e) unlike other heroes with high mobility, like kiri, lucio, and juno, mizuki players won't be able to play as aggressively as them because he doesn't have enough options to escape danger.

f) because he is stuck on the floor, his glaives usually just bounce off the ground or straight walls at eye level, making them predictable. If he could climb, he could access vertical angles to bounce shots downwards behind Sigma or Reinhardt shields, actually punishing bunkered enemies.

(those are some of my main reasons but, yea, anw, please support me with this, i want my mizuki upgraded)

Feel like this was BS...

Hey Mizuki Nation. I am working on a "Raven" inspired Mizuki skin. I am probably over thinking this but I would like to ask the Mizuki Nation what kind of hair I should put on him. I just want to make sure it looks like something you all would use. I personally like the one on the left, but idk if it looks bad or not. Even though it's just a doodle, if there is any changes to the outfit I am accepting that too! I don't have the best fashion sense. 😭

worm on a string mizuki... wormzuki... mizuworm...

what no mizuki content does to a person

Blizzard. Give me Mizuki skins.

I gotta handle to blizzard, when it comes to Mizuki, I think everything in his design comes together, downright to his role as a support, to his persona and lore. So I would like to break it down by each details what is a design heavily influenced by Shintoism and sacred paper amulets.

1. His Youkai and overall outfit.

As part of a yokai-themed gang, Mizuki is represented by the Kappa. Reptile-like water dwellers designed after turtles, with a sharp beak and a depression on top of their heads to carry water, the source of their strenght. This is easily reflected in Mizuki's beak-like mask and his large hat.

But thats not all.. Upon closer look on his outfit, something else caught my attention: Those two, huge zigzaging pieces attached to his waist. Those seem reminiscent to Shide, paper strips folded in this pattern used in purification rituals in Shinto temples!

His hat is also quite interesting as it not only reminisces of a turtle shell, but have Ofudas, those paper strips used as purification amulets and good luck charms, which we more than know already from Kiriko's own strips, going along Mizuki's obsession with good luck charms and perhaps even explaining why his HAT is a tool of healing.

2. His weapon

This is perhaps the more jarring contrast. Kappas are known to strangle and drown their victims, yet Mizuki was given a scythe (or specificaly, a Kusarigama, a.k.a. Chain Sickle) that launches blades of air. This could possibly draw inspiration from another Yokai: The Kamaitachi, a.k.a. Sickle Weasel. A Yokai, as the name implies, in the form of a weasel with scythe-like claws that can cut with blades of wind. Perhaps Mizuki's double agency is pointed out by being dressed as one Yokai, but weaponizing another.

3. Katashiro return

Katashiro is a paper doll used in Shintoism as purification charms, always cut like a little person and inscribed with symbols. Quite simple and again, part of Mizuki's obsession with purification and good luck. In Japanese culture dolls are often substitutes of a human body, not unlike the pop culture idea of voodoo dolls, where people would use Katashiros to cleanse their impurities and then burn it or throw down a river. Mizuki essentialy swap places with a doll meant to be his proxy or tether.

4. Spirit Chain

Might be a bif of a stretch, but his usage of a chain doesn't fall far from spiritual reasons. Chains are symbols of burden, binding, haunting, depicting boundaries and safe space. By binding enemies, it's like Mizuki is cursing them, putting a burden upon their shoulders.

5. Kekkai Sanctuary

Again with a translation, "Kekkai" simply means "Barrier" (a word you will hear every other episode of Inuyasha...), a safe boundary, as his Ultimate heals and protects against outside damage. Design-wise it's a bit smarter here. You will notice the top of his Kekkai have this rope with, would you look of that, hanging Shide strips! In Shintoism, temples hang large ropes, often with Shide, called Shimenawa, once again symbols of purification and holy boundaries.

6. Conclusion

At first I saw Mizuki as just a bit generic, your sci-fi techno-japanese ninja-wannabe with some "cool" and "sharp" elements, and even though his kit felt more like a DPS but turned Support on last minute with the aura and hat (which I imagined was meant to bounce from enemies as a form of AoE damage) But the more I looked at things, the more his design pieced together. Even his Medic Aura when I think about it, he is so covered in amulets, purification charms and rituals, it's not hard to imagine he EXUDES purification! He's a walking temple warding off evil! Although I personaly think his White and Red skin fits better with the image of a "Healer" (since those colours always remind me of ambulances and hospitals).

Blocked blizzard from the inside and blocked captive sun from the outside, truly a mizuki's wet dream

2 ults eaten totally worth the nerfs idc and people kept talking about my idea being bad when I posted about this✌️🥀