[Perdition]

I agree with pretty much all the placements, though I personally might put Terrasque into good tier because shatter is pretty strong and it has good range. You mentioned it in my thread, but I absolutely agree with Youkai race contributing to an overall theme or aspect that the Youkai provide to a summoner. Maybe that means putting aura buffs on the fairies or something like that. Maybe, even, races can get a unique passive to them that applies to all Youkai of that race.

Also, I think the repeat action FP penalty needs to not apply to Youkai as a whole. They have one spell and basic attacking usually isn't an option for them, so they're bound to just be using the same spell twice. Maybe this could be rectified by giving Youkai more than 1 spell/skill to use, but that's also a hefty undertaking, so revoking the FP penalty for them seems like something that could be done immediately, since it hampers a good deal of youkai with smaller FP pools.

Additionally, as is the case with many of the youkai in your unviable tier, a decent number of youkai want to be close to enemies for either passive debuffs or short ranged attacks. This simply isn't viable most of the time because outside of DW, Seiryuu, and Chun, the likelihood of a Youkai being near melee range to someone and not just getting immediately blown up is almost 0%.

I think the aspect of normalizing traits based on race should be something investigated first, followed by making sure each Youkai at least either has some sort of bulk or range to make up for it. I don't think having youkai either have decent res, or defense, or some combo or both, or evasion potential is asking much if they have shorter range. As it stands, a good portion of the youkai have -none- of these things. They're not tanky and they also can't dodge, making them not much more than expendable chip damage dispensers.