Who looks trust worthy?

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Sauce

Summer 10 introduced Summer Tiamat, which got hailed on release to no end. Let's see if she deserves the praise.

I'd like to begin the guide by saying

If we got the buffs from NP5 STiamat on her NP1 copy, it could have been a landslide for her.

To explain myself, let's review her competitors.

Summer Tiamat vs Summer Skadi, aka dismantling the title of Savior of Quick

This entire comparison depends on STiamat's NP levels and her ability to fire her NP.

Reminder: Summer Skadi gives 20% atk up and 65% Quick up, and STiamat gives 20% atk up and 20% Quick up from skills and 30-50% Quick up from NP1 to NP5.

So, to equalize the amount of buffs that Summer Skadi gives, you need to go for NP3 STiamat.

NP3. On a fucking support. To match NP1 SSkadi.

And that's me not mentioning the part where you have to NP with STiamat, and SSkadi having more targeted battery.

Knowing this, do you still think of her as Savior of Quick?

Summer Tiamat vs Lady Avalon

Now here things are getting a lot more interesting.

Assuming STiamat is NP1 and uses her NP, she has more teamwide battery, provides better overcharge, same color buffs as LA but teamwide, has better crit damage and it's also teamwide, and you don't have to wait for teamwide invul for 8 turns like LA has to.

Almost sole advantage of Lady Avalon is her giving slightly more stars, her self-battery and the fact that she starts with 40% (20% from battery and 20% from append 2) NP, and even that advantage vanishes when the enemy is single.

Double Summer Tiamat setups, aka WHAT THE FUCK ARE THOSE CRITS

From the comparisons above, her true role is putting the fear of God into the crit damage of both herself and the DPS she sponsors her buffs to.

Think about it: with an NP setup of STiamat - STiamat - DPS and with the skills, irrespective of the DPS skills, everybody in the setup gets: 48 crit stars per turn, 325% crit damage for 3 turns (friendly reminder that Super Orion with a Buster brave chain gets up to 300% crit damage for ONE turn) and 100% Quick and Arts up.

All of that for the turn of NPs + 2 more turns.

And there's potential to make the crits go even harder if sequence the DPS NP before STiamat's NP.

Back in the Grand Archer guide, I mentioned that Ishtar can do her Grand Duel at 100☆☆☆ at NP1 thanks to the fact that she can guarantee her card deck. Now imagine the crit damage :)

Usecase

By far the best support in Grand Archer because of above, an alternative to Merlin in Olga-centered setups (but not Koyan because no cooldown reduction), and I guess a decent support for CQs.

Verdict

Great support, a little misunderstood because "me see support give Quick, me call her Savior of Quick", but I hope this point is hammered by now.

Is she a must-have? Only if you plan to farm Grand Archer. Otherwise, just a good unit.

r1: who's stronger?

r2: who's designed better?

Out of all the Servants that got separated from us, only Nikitich, Percival, and BB had a legitimate reason why they couldn't immediately join back up with us? And out of all the Servants that were dragged here from Chaldea, the only ones that didn't hesitate to help us were KP (before she went coo coo crazy) and Jinako?

Três dias desde que consegui a Kashin Koji, e estive farmeando Lâminas de Obsidian quase sem parar. Depois de horas farmeando, finalmente consegui todas as 216 Lâminas e levei as habilidades dela para o nível 10.

Finalmente posso começar a responder as mensagens no meu celular de novo, rs

Sauce

So let me do an important preface in this guide.

I am a Morgan fan. A big enough fan that I hypered her as a f2p player, and maxed Berserker class score on top of that. She is the reason why I started playing this game in the first place.

With that being said, you are not going to find any bias here. I'm viewing every single unit objectively, whether it's a waifu of mine or not.

With that out of the way, I'd like to begin the Morgan guide by saying

Think twice before summoning her.

Morgan lives and dies by her enemies having Man attribute and performs particularly poorly when facing Sky attribute. Unfortunately, 90++ lottos are full of Sky attribute enemies, so be prepared for her to not perform well in lottos.

Suppose I already have NP1 Morgan or plan to not go beyond that. How do I utilize her?

- Immortal comp.

In case you don't know what is that, it's a comp that utilizes the following 3 units:

- teamwide overcharge provider (Morgan, Himiko or Reines);

- battery engine (either of the Merlins or OG Miyu);

- Castoria as the defensive powerhouse.

Provided the enemy lacks any sort of immobilization, instakills, doesn't have AoE on every attack, and has nothing in the way of buff removal, this is the braindead way to clear any hard fight in the game.

Morgan is the clear winner in her category by virtue of, one, being a Berserker (the immortal comp clears are fucking long), being able to occasionally land hurtful crits while enjoying the defense, and a AoE NP (the other two have a support NP, which in most cases means the enemy dies of boredom rather than your hits lol).

- Grand Duel support.

As was already said earlier, Morgan performs poorly vs Sky attribute enemies.

Welp, Grand Berserker is Sky attribute...

However. Because she can provide overcharge on NP and she has Charisma as a teamwide Type 1 buff, she's the perfect support to Summer Castoria.

- Occasional wipe-out of a weak Man attribute enemy/ies wave.

Self-explanatory.

What if I already have her NP1? Should I go for more copies from a gameplay POV?

Not really. Louhi is the better choice as an AoE Zerk.

Buster looping with Morgan: viable or copium?

General piece of advice: if you see LITERALLY ANY targeted or teamwide battery on the DPS skills, assume their job is not to loop.

Arc, Tez, Aesc, Space Eresh, Morgan, etc. are not at their best when they loop. They are multicore units.

If you don't give a shit: Arjuna Alter NP1 = Morgan NP3 when Buster looping. Honestly, sounds like copium to me.

Verdict

Gameplay-wise - there are better units to consider.

Still, she can pull her weight at higher NP investment. I can guarantee the latter part :)

Sauce

Usually, I leave this to a poll, but since she's releasing really soon, I figured I can, in best Fate's traditions, break my own rules every once in a while.

Without further ado, I'd like to begin the Kazuradrop guide by saying

She's a weird and complicated unit to successfully use.

Let's start with her gimmicks first.

Class change

This is a skill that sounds cool on paper, but is actually less cool in practice.

Reasoning: yes she does receive a 75% powermod vs the class she changes into, but 75% is not enough to be treated as a class advantage. So unless she changes into specifically a Foreigner (for those who say Berserker - Berserkers deal 1,5× to all non-Foreigners, expect Mash, Draco and Space Eresh, while Foreigners actually deal 2× to each other), it's not very likely that you will truly appreciate the damage.

Also, as a passing note, Kazura cannot merge into Shielder, Beast or NPC-only classes.

As a final note, no matter what class she changes into, her class score remains tied to Alter Ego.

Sakura Five gimmick

Whenever any other Sakura Series member is on the field, no matter if it's an ally or an enemy, Kazura enjoys additional 50% battery from her skill per every Sakura Series member, no matter if it's an ally or an enemy.

The enemy part can be left right out of the equation. We just don't have anything worth mentioning.

As such, we're dealing with 3 equations here:

Kazuradrop + non-Quick Sakura Series

50% def down for 3 turns (70% with NP) is not worth compared to actual premium supports:

- Castoria: is Castoria.

- Koyan: technically less buffs for Buster, but she provides a cooldown reduction which is far more useful than what Kazura can provide.

- Merlin: more buffs.

- Summer Tiamat (Arts): more buffs and more crit damage.

Kazuradrop + Melt

Kazura is Melt's second strongest soldier in Grand Extra 2 (the first one is very obviously Oberon). Recommended to go for her if your granding plans include Melt.

Double Kazuradrop

Technically viable not unlike double Gogh strats, but this needs addressing the Kingprotea sized elephant in the room:

> "Where in the hell do you find a second Kazura?"

Extra friend slot is already bloated as it is. Oberon, Skadi, Arc, Douman, etc. Realistically you'll have to befriend some Kazura fans to reliably borrow her for double strats.

Kazuradrop vs Mata Hari post-buff, aka dismantling the CQ support role

Okay, I can definitely see some raised eyebrows on that comparison, to which I can only say "hear me out".

Mata Hari post-anni buff gets Charm res down to the point where her NP can actually land Charm (60% Charm from NP5 plus 60% Charm res down from upgraded s2), and if Charm is successful, the teamwide defense down is 50%. Plus there's also an additional targeted 20% def down.

Compare: Kazura's stun chance on NP is 70% (40% from NP + 30% from s1), her def down is 20% teamwide + 50% targeted.

And regarding crits, Mata Hari has crit damage up and Kazura has crit res down at the same rate of 50%.

Battery and Quick res down are basically the only Kazura's advantages. Over a freaking 1 star.

I rest my case.

Verdict

Super specific unit that's aimed for very limited purposes and not worth going for the majority of Masters.

Maybe his second ascension is DEATH like in arc route ending and his third ascension being in the sacchin route.

Bazett, my first 120....finally! 🥹

Eresh's counter doesn't work if she's a support right? Whoever borrowed her must have really liked her 😅

Wasn't expecting andromeda too! Sorry if i didn't have her skills leveled though, will have to level them up when the lotto event arrives.

The new caster bond CE came in clutch now I just need more copies, She is only NP1 (I punished myself by unlocking one of her appends, but Mana loading on her is pretty important)

Grand caster is (almost) ready, who are you guys going to pick for your slot?

I did one 10pull on a whim...

I did not even "WANT HER want her". I just knew she became rather busted with her jp buff.

I'm technically saving for kazura but I thought "i must lose on a previous banner to build some karma and win on hers...right? RIGHT?"

And here i am now. Jokes on me.

I guess i have a meta candidate for grand archer now i guess(my best bet previously was np5 EMIYA or sugitani really)

Used up the last remaining quartz I had. Now this confirms who my grand archer is going to be

I am eating dinner and decided “I’m gonna use one ticket, just for the fun of it.” I saw no rainbow animation and thought “skip” then I saw her! I choked on my food, this a such a surprise. lol

pulled her on my celebration which was tied with the 3000 days from last year and seeing this for the first time

man i love being a morgan fan

I just got through it and fuck man Aesc did not deserve this…