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Ladies and gentlemen, it's time to place bets on whether there will be a rainbow Torikabuto in a few hours or not!

>>19777269
If you're interested, there are a lot of fancy plant movement tricks out there. Orchids for example gather all their pollen into large aggregates called pollinia, and Catasetum orchids place these on pollinators by launching them with explosive force (video at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DgMRQzBEClE).). This is one of these flowers where males and females look very different, because insects learn to avoid the males after getting shot by them, though they're nowhere as bad as the other plants that (independently) evolved pollinia: Asclepiads have theirs entrenched in thin "guide rails" that are perfect for snagging insect legs and mouthparts, and one member of this group (Araujia) traps and kills moths so often that its common names include "moth catcher" and "cruel vine" (curiously, its flower meaning is a much friendlier "good aspirations").

You also have carnivorous plants that capture prey that way, Venus flytraps are famous for this but bladderworts are more impressive for their tiny suction traps (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zb_SLZFsMyQ, 0:45 mark and on). Seeds are also good at both sudden and sustained movements, with Erodium (a close relative of our Geranium) seeds drilling themselves into the ground with their spinning tails (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=85iotnKa1PQ, this motion also earned the flower an old common name in "clocks"), trees like witch-hazel and sandbox tree launching their seeds a considerable distance away (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nHqHSpZhjeY)), and bittercress seed pods even being able to kill caterpillars (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pxq_Li91OfA for the burst action, but death occurs from the pods wrapping around the insects rather than the force of the seeds). Lastly, dogwood and mulberry flowers do this on a microscopic but super-fast scale (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aFR17bX0noI)), being able to open in around 0.5 and 0.025 milliseconds.

>>19777174
There are a lot of other great kits, but I soapbox a lot for dodge because it's a minimalist ability: You can tear the game into shreds if you have a dedicated solar drive, debuff or burst damage squad, but these require five specific rainbows while dodge immediately affords you a good deal of survivability. In addition, rainbows nowadays are offensively so potent that any five of them will be able to dismantle most bosses, so the only maps that pose a threat are these with bosses that cheat you out of turns (like the "pests attack first" mechanics in whale maps, Ume & Sakura's two-turn damage reduction, and Nidhoggr's three forms) and can oneshot you. Dodge and barrier level the playing field by enabling you to stall for turns as well, so that the usual rainbow burst tactics work again.

In general, though, >>19777349's advice is solid and you can't really go wrong with any rainbow, no matter how sub-par her kit may look. Thirding on Cyclamen being cute as well, she deserved her win on that contest (but on that topic, new Wolfsbane when?)