During her first release, Iona was given the German Poison Fangs and Labyrinth as her "unique" SIGNI class for her to work with. The idea seemed to revolve around using Labyrinths for defense and utility while using Poison Fangs for the offense, namely using
Violence Splash and
Vier=Rikabuto. Well, they also gave Iona
Vimana and Rikabuto was proven to be unreliable preety quickly while
Ultima became a thing, so Rikabuto died out preety easily, and Poison Fangs, without a place to go to, lost their place (a friend of mine did use the Hanare formula to make Poison Fang Iona mildly decent again, but that's another story since no one else did that) and, with the exception of a few of them, was never seen in the metagame again. Ever.
Or so TakaraTomy made you think and gave you Hanare.
Hanare, for the most part, was made to pick up Iona's leftovers in the form of Poison Fangs, and when she was first announced a lot, and I mean
a lot of people got hyped. This included me, since I always liked the concept of Venom. And to live up to that hype, TakaraTomy gave Hanare
a ton of support. A ton. If this amount of support went to... Tama, I would have probably raided TakaraTomy for it. In this case though, it went to a new LRIG type that didn't have much and that everyone was hyped for, so no one complained nor could complain.
