Blue Archive Kisaki Guide: Skills, Gifts, and Team Tips

Who Is Kisaki?

Blue Archive Kisaki combines a targeted EX Skill damage buff with increased team Cost Recovery. Her 3-cost EX Skill gives one ally a 15-second window to deal more EX Skill damage. Build your rotation around that window to get more from your damage dealer.

Ryūge Kisaki leads Genryumon, the student council overseeing Shanhaijing Academy. Her formal speech and mysterious presence reinforce her authority, though her habit of traveling incognito gives her a more playful side.

Her original playable version has the following attributes:

• Rarity: 3-star
• Combat class: Special
• Role and position: Support/Back
• Damage type: Sonic
• Armor type: Elastic
• Weapon type: SMG
• Birthday: February 19
• Hobbies: Tea ceremony and traveling incognito

Kisaki also has a Swimsuit version. The skills, recruitment details, and upgrade advice below apply to her original version.

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

Kisaki’s Skills and Exact Values

Her kit combines an active damage buff, an automatic shield, increased Healing, and a team Cost Recovery bonus.

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Skill	Effect at initial level	Effect at maximum level
EX — Imperial Edict: Investigation	Increases one ally’s EX Skill damage by 42.4% for 15 seconds; costs 3	Increases one ally’s EX Skill damage by 80.7% for 15 seconds; costs 3
Normal — Imperial Order: Ethics and Discipline	Every 35 seconds, shields the lowest-HP ally for 69% of Kisaki’s Healing for 17 seconds	Every 35 seconds, shields the lowest-HP ally for 131% of Kisaki’s Healing for 17 seconds
Passive — Mandate: Moderation	Increases Healing by 14%	Increases Healing by 26.6%
Sub — Imperial Proclamation	Increases allies’ Cost Recovery by 10.6%	Increases allies’ Cost Recovery by 20.2%

EX Skill: A Targeted Damage Window

Imperial Edict: Investigation affects one ally’s EX Skill damage. Its listed bonus is not a general Attack increase or a boost to every damage source.

At EX Skill levels 1 through 5, the damage bonus increases through 42.4%, 48.8%, 61.5%, 67.9%, and 80.7%. The cost remains 3, and the listed duration remains 15 seconds.

Apply Kisaki’s buff before activating the target’s damaging EX Skill. Avoid spending the buff window waiting to generate enough Cost for the attack.

Shielding and Cost Recovery

Her Normal Skill automatically protects the ally with the lowest HP every 35 seconds. The shield scales with Kisaki’s Healing, connecting its strength directly to her Passive Skill.

Plan around that automatic interval when handling incoming damage. Keep a separate answer to damage that arrives between shield activations; the shield is not an on-demand EX Skill.

Her Sub Skill increases allies’ Cost Recovery continuously through its listed effect. Use that bonus to support your planned skill rotation, while keeping enough Cost available for both her buff and the attack that follows.

Team Timing and Upgrade Priorities

Choose a buff target whose damaging EX Skill is central to your rotation. Kisaki’s targeted effect gives you a clear sequence:

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1. Prepare enough Cost for Kisaki’s 3-cost buff and the intended attack.
2. Apply her EX Skill to your chosen damage dealer.
3. Activate that ally’s damaging EX Skill during the buff window.

Keep the target consistent with your immediate damage plan. Buffing an ally whose next action contributes little EX Skill damage wastes the opportunity her kit creates.

For damage-focused investment, prioritize her EX Skill to raise the targeted bonus, then her Sub Skill to strengthen team Cost Recovery. Raise the Normal and Passive skills when you need a stronger automatic shield.

Unique Weapon: Know the Enemy and Know Yourself

Kisaki’s unique weapon is the SMG Know the Enemy and Know Yourself. Its stats include Attack, HP, and Healing.

Its enhanced Passive Skill, Mandate: Moderation +, adds increased Buff Duration while retaining the Healing increase. Account for that duration enhancement when refining a rotation with the upgraded weapon, rather than assuming every build uses the base 15-second window.

For shield investment, focus on the Healing portion of her kit: her Normal Skill calculates shield strength from that stat.

How to Get Kisaki

The original Kisaki belongs to the regular gacha pool. Her Japanese release was September 25, 2024, followed by her Global release on March 18, 2025.

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Her past rate-up periods include:

Server	Original rate-up	2026 rate-up
JP	September 25–October 10, 2024	January 7–20, 2026
Global	March 18–April 1, 2025	May 12–26, 2026

These are historical banner periods. Use the recruitment screen’s current pool information when planning pulls.

Favorite Gifts and Cafe Interaction

Kisaki’s favorite gifts are:

• Cute Dishware Set
• Fine Maple Bonsai

Choose either favorite when preparing gifts specifically for her. Her liked gifts also include Classical Poetry Anthology, Cosplayer Coke-Bottle Glasses, Encyclopedia, and Potted Bug-Eating Plant.

For her dedicated cafe interaction, place the Genryumon Throne. It gives Shanhaijing’s student council president a fitting seat between battles.