Blue Archive Hina Guide: Skills, Gear, and Recruitment

Who Is Hina in Blue Archive?

A Blue Archive Hina build revolves around Explosive damage, sustained machine-gun fire, and a sweeping 7-cost EX skill. Understanding that expensive attack helps you plan her place in your squad. This guide covers her original version; her other versions include Hina (Swimsuit) and Hina (Dress).

Sorasaki Hina is the head prefect of Gehenna Academy’s Prefect Team. In combat, she is a 3-star Striker who fills the Attacker role from the back line, carries a machine gun, and has Heavy armor.

Away from battle, she would rather be sleeping or resting. Her frequent complaints about troublesome work sit alongside a strong sense of responsibility: when school rules or battlefield decisions demand her attention, she acts decisively.

Her birthday is February 19, she is 17 years old, and she stands 142 cm tall. DoReMi designed and illustrated her, and Hirohashi Ryō provides her voice.

Official page: Blue Archive (store.steampowered.com)

Hina’s Skills and EX Cost

Her kit combines a fan-shaped area attack with a reload-triggered Attack buff, increased Attack Speed, and bonus damage against enemies outside cover.

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Skill	Effect at its lowest level	Effect at its highest level
EX: Ending scene: Ishbóshet	Deals 636% damage in a fan-shaped area; costs 7	Deals 1208% damage; costs 7
Normal: Reload and Destroy	Immediately reloads when out of bullets and increases Attack by 21% for 16 seconds	Attack increase reaches 39.9% for 16 seconds
Passive: Cool-headed Disciplinary committee	Increases Attack Speed by 14%	Increases Attack Speed by 26.6%
Sub: From beginning to end	Adds damage equal to 2.7% of Attack against enemies outside cover	Bonus damage reaches 5.2% of Attack

The EX skill’s damage increases substantially through upgrades, but its cost stays at 7. Plan your other skill spending around that requirement rather than expecting upgrades to make it cheaper.

Her Normal skill activates when her ammunition runs out. The immediate reload also starts a temporary Attack buff, giving her regular attacks an additional source of damage. Her passive increases Attack Speed, while her Sub skill adds a separate condition: the target must be outside cover.

How to Use Her Combat Kit

Aim the fan-shaped EX area across multiple enemies whenever their positions allow it. Catching a group takes advantage of the attack’s area coverage, particularly when you are committing 7 cost to the cast.

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Keep these mechanics in mind when planning a fight:

• Budget for the EX skill. Leave enough cost available if you want to use her area attack during the next enemy group.
• Account for cover. Her Sub skill’s extra damage applies to enemies that are not taking cover.
• Include regular attacks in your damage expectations. Her reload-triggered Attack buff and passive Attack Speed increase both support her machine-gun fire.

Her Heavy armor is a defensive attribute; Explosive is her damage type. Keep those two properties separate when reading stage information or comparing students.

Unique Weapon and Disciplinary Committee Armband

Hina’s unique weapon is The End: Destroyer, the machine gun she handles with practiced ease. Its upgrades include an enhanced passive, Cool-headed Disciplinary committee +, which adds a flat Attack increase alongside the existing Attack Speed bonus.

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That enhanced passive provides 305–580 additional Attack and 14–26.6% Attack Speed, depending on skill level. The weapon’s own Attack and HP stats also increase with weapon level.

Her unique gear, Hina’s Disciplinary Committee Armband, connects directly to her role as head prefect. For her, the armband represents the responsibilities that come with maintaining discipline at Gehenna.

At Tier 2, it upgrades her Normal skill to Reload and Destroy +. The upgraded skill retains the immediate reload and 16-second buff duration, while raising the Attack bonus to 22.9–43.6%.

Compare the highest-level values when considering this upgrade: the original Normal skill provides 39.9% Attack, while the enhanced version provides 43.6%. The trigger remains running out of ammunition.

How to Obtain Original Hina

Original Hina’s acquisition routes include Archive Recruitment and character-shard farming in these Hard missions:

• 16-3H
• 24-3H

Check those specific Hard stages when planning shard farming. Their rewards belong to original Hina; her Swimsuit and Dress versions are separate character entries.

Her original Japanese release date was February 4, 2021, followed by her Global release on November 9, 2021. These are character release dates, separate from the game’s Windows release.

Hina’s Story, Relationships, and Gifts

Hina enters the main story in Volume 1, warning Sensei about Kaiser Corporation’s activities in Abydos. Her connection to Hoshino also appears there, with Hina recognizing her from earlier intelligence work.

Volume 3 develops the exhaustion behind her formidable reputation. She supports the Eden Treaty partly because she sees it as a chance to retire. Her scenes with Sensei reveal how much pressure she carries beneath her composed public behavior.

Ako is her senior administrator and devoted subordinate. Hina’s relationship stories explore a quieter side of her life, including private meetings with Sensei because her public profile makes ordinary meetings difficult.

For gifts, her favorites include:

• Samuela "The Beyond"
• World's Most Useless Gadget

Choose those favorites when selecting gifts for her, and follow her MomoTalk conversations and relationship episodes to spend more time with the student behind Gehenna’s feared head prefect.