2 Bosses that was beaten by only 2 people when others needed more than 3. And before anyone brought up Khaslana or Lygus, Former was already killing everyone left and right and the other was more than willing to square up against an Emanator and end up in mutual destruction
4 years in with this game and we've already run into 3 Lord Ravagers, 2 of which are more of a planner/Schemers that has fought the Generals, who coincidentally are also not combat Oriented
And in both of those Times, the Generals do not display any showings of being equal. Jing Yuan was on his knees despite having help by the Express against Phantylia who was playing around. Yaoguang with Dan Heng and Joachim's help couldn't even fazed Asat while he was dealing with other parties
So has Grandpa gone senile, talking out of his rear or still lacking in knowledge and only use on paper info ?
Quetz Immunity towards Good and Neutral is nullified, she's only allowed to use Xiuhcoatl, Piedra del Sol is not given
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Bruce doesn't get prep time and only his standard gadget
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Fight either to KO or to the Death
All at their Prime. 1 Round, Battle Royale to the Death. Who's the most Superior God of War
Frankly I'm just glad to be the furthest from Goldielock over there
You're stuck in a Compound with no escape Route but 3 doors.
The door has those 3 people inside and you can pick whoever you want to spent the 24 Hours to get out.
The inside of a room has Guns you can use for self defense, Remote Switch to initiate Armor lockdown
But at the cost that you're dealing with either of the 3 in Character and they're not restricted to self defense
Let's say that York can take a pick at who he's going to be with in the 1v3 against Tex and he picked North with Wash are as Partners instead of Maine and Wyoming. How much better would they fare in with the same Rounds, how much better would their teamwork be and could it be enough to score a win against Tex and if that fails, how bad would the beatdown she Gave them
Just assume It's a completely different scene where Wash isn't called by internal and that he and the others are free at the moment
Both are at Full Power
2nd time saving up 5* Keys and frankly, far better than the last time. The only bad part is that Tsukasa is becoming ny 2nd Felicia at this point
Now that the Buffs are out of the way, on to the Servants
Summer Ereshkigal: AoE Arts Beast with a QAABB Deck of Arts and Buster having 4 hits while Quick and Extra has 5
Beast Attribute meaning she only interact with Star Attribute in terms of damage and her Beast Class has different Advantage and Disadvantage compare to Draco. Those being against 7 Standard Standard class, she deals Neutral damage (Yes, Zerks included), Full Disadvantage against Avengers and Advantage against the rest of the Extra Class
She has Exclusive Trait shared in between herself as a Summer Eresh and her other self. As Summer Eresh, she's a Hominidae and Summer Mode. As for her other self, It's Non Hominidae, Levitating and Super Large
Skill Cooldown's are 6/7/7
And Base Gain is 0.33 (Yeesh)
Active Skills
S1: AoE 20% Atk, NP Damage and Charge, 100% Instant Kill Resist and 500 Poison to Party, all for 3 Turns
S2: 20 Star Bomb, 500% Self Star Absorb and On attack Buff that Grants her 100% Crit Up that procs before Damage, all for 1 Turn and Self 50% Charge
S3: Invul for 2 Hits, 3 Attacks, Guts for 1 Time, 3 Turns with 3k HP restore, Heal with the same restore as the Guts, 100% Buff Removal Resistance for 1 Time, 3 Turns and Skill Cooldown Reduction by 2. All applied to Self
Passive Skills
Anti Magecraft EX: 3 Times Debuff Immune at the start of battle
Spatial Storage A: Charges Own NP Gauge by 5% when Normal Attacking
Goddess Core E-: 140 Flat Damage increase and 14% Debuff Resistance Up
Authority of the Beast E-: 20% Crit Damage Up against Servants by
Independent Manifestation E-: 1.5% for Crit Damage, Instant Kill and Mental Debuff Resistance Up along with Immunity against Stun, Petrify, Bound or Pigtify
II: Infinity Indicator EX: Grants Self an Affection Gauge that starts at 1 and caps at 10. Can be filled through various actions before and during battle. List of Actions that increase Affection Gauge:
-Have her at bond level 5 or higher (+5)
-Putting her in one of the first three team slots (+5)
-Deploying her on Waterside Battlefield (+10)
-Selecting one of her valid Command Cards (+3)
-Performing a Brave Chain with her (+6)
-Using one of her skills (+3)
-Using one of her skills first on a turn (+2)
-Activating her Noble Phantasm with Overcharge being 200% or higher (+5 per stage)
-Being affected by a Mystic Code Skill (+5)
-Being targeted by a Command Spell (+10)
Note
Nega Space EX: Does nothing
Noble Phantasm
Edin Shugra Colapsar. 5 Hits AoE Arts
Effects: Grants Additional Buffs based of Affection Gauge Ranks before damage, Seals 10% Extra Damage to All Enemies based off Affection Gauge Level (Caps at 10), Removed their Offensive Buffs and 60% Chance to Instant Kill them
Additional Buffs
4 or higher: Increase Instant Kill Success Rate by 100% for 1 Turn
7 or higher: Grants Ignore Defense and Invul for 1 Turn
10: Gain 50 Critical Stars
Overcharge Effects: Increase Affection Gauge Level before damage by 0-20
Mysterious Executor C.I.E.L: ST Buster with a QAABB deck of Arts and Buster having 4 hits, Quick has 5 and Extra has 6
All Ascension shares the same Attribute of Man with the same trait
Skill Cooldown's are 6/6/6
And Base Gain is 0.46%
Active Skills
S1: 10% NP Regen, 1.5k HP Regen, 50% Debuff Resist and 100% Buff Removal Resistance, all for 5 Turns
S2: 30% Arts and Buster Up, When Attacking with Arts, reduce target's Healing Received by 20%, 30% Chance to Drain their NP by 1 and Remove their Guts Status. When Attacking with Buster, charges own NP Gauge by 1 and Grants Self 50% Critical Up when HP is above 50-100%, all for 3 Turns
S3: Replace current turn's Command Card into Ciel's for 1 Turn, 50% Charge, 100% Def Up for 3 Hits, 3 Turns and for the next 3 Hits or 3 Turns, Recover HP by 2k when taking attack. All Self Applied
Passive Skills
Magic Resistance A: 10% Debuff Resist Up
Independent Action EX: 12% Crit Damage Up
Self Preservation Magecraft: 500 HP Regen
Executor (Archer) A: Deals 1.5x Damage to Saber
Noble Phantasm
Code: Original Sin/ Calvaria Galgalim. 12 Hits, ST Buster
Effect: Self Applied Ignore Evasion and Defense for 1 Turn, 150% Extra Damage to Demonic Enemy, 100% Chance to Instant Kill them and 20% Charge after damage
Overcharge Effect: 30-60% NP Damage for 1 Turn before damage
Dobrybya Nickitich: ST Lancer with a QAABB deck of Arts and Quick having 4 hits, Buster has 3 and Extra has 5
All Ascension shares the same Attribute of Man with the same trait
Skill Cooldown's are 6/6/6
And Base Gain is 0.45%
Active Skills
S1: 20% Arts, 30% Charge and Star Bomb with the first 2 being self applied and lasting for 3 Turns
S2: 20% Atk, 30% Crit Damage and 50% Anti Dragon. While on Waterside, further Increase Atk, Crit Damage and Def by 20%. Self Applied and All lasting 3 Turns
S3: 10 Star Regen, 10% NP Regen, 1k HP Regen and 30% NP Gain, all self applied and for 3 Turns
Passive Skills
Magic Resistance B: 17.5% Debuff Resist Up
Riding B: 8% Quick Up
Noble Phantasm
Kladenets Zmey Tatar: 5 Hits, ST Arts
Effects: Seals an Enemy's NP for 1 Turn and Reduce their Arts Resistance by 20% for 3 Turns after damage
Overcharge Effects: 30-70% Anti Earth for 1 Turn before Damage
Xu Fu: ST Buster Avenger with a QAABB deck of Quick having 4 hits while Arts, Buster and Extra has 5
All Ascension shared the same Traits and Attribute
Skill Cooldowns are 6/6/6
Base Gain: 0.43%
Active Skills
S1: 30% Arts, Buster Up, Charge for 3 Turns except the Charge
S2: AoE 10% Charge and Charge Regen for 3 Turns along with AoE Overcharge+1 for 1 Time or 3 Turns
S3: 120% Instant Kill Success Rate Up, 30% NP Damage Up and 20% Anti Curse, Burn and Curse Up, all for 3 Turns
Passive Skills
Avengers (Facade) B+: 19% NP Gain Up when Taking attack and 9% Debuff Resist Down for everyone besides self (Backline included)
Oblivion Creation EX: 12% Crit Damage Up
High Servant: Does Nothing
Weakened (Consort Yu) EX: 20% Atk down when Attacking Consort Yu
Noble Phantasm
Death at the Twilight, Chainsaw at the Dusk. 9 Hits, Buster ST
Effects: 80% Chance to Instant Kill them and if it Succeed, Atk Up by 20% for 3 Turns
Overcharge Effects: 150-200% Extra Damage against Man
BB (Dubai): AoE Arts Moon Cancer with QQAAB Deck with Quick and Extra having 5 Hits while Arts and Buster have 4
Her Unique Traits are Enuma Elish Nullification, Goddess Servant, Sakura Series, Immune to Pigtity, Summer Mode and Super Large. As Cosmos, she gains Levitating and Space-flightable. And on Golden, Animal Characteristic and Bunny
Skill Cooldowns are 6/6/7
Base Gain is 0.33%
S1: AoE 20% Arts Up and Charge, Grants Party on field besides self Preservation Target, and for Moon Cancers or Living Humans, 30% NP Damage and NP Gain Up, all for 3 Turns
S2: AoE Buff Removal, and 100% Atk Down for 1 Turn, Inflict Non Preservation Target to them, for 100% Star Gen and 30% Crit Damage for Moon Cancers or Living Humans for 3 Turns
S3: Self Skill Cooldown Reduction by 1 Turn, 50% NP Charge and Option to change NP between AoE Damaging or AoE Buffing
Passive Skills
Item Creation C: 6% Debuff Success Up
Magic Resistance EX: 25% Debuff Resist Up
Future Management A: 20% Crit Resist and Star Absorb Up
Human Order Assessment (Attack) B: 20% Atk Up against Enemies with Evil Alignment, Has Anti Good active and Not a Servant
Human Order Assessment (Defense) B: 20% Def Up against Enemies with Lawful Alignment, Has Anti Evil active and Servant
Goddess Core EX: 250 Flat Damage Up and 25% Debuff Resist Up
Noble Phantasm
Cosmos Crafting Crater. AoE Arts, 5 Hits
Effects: 30% Anti Star and Sky before damage for 1 Turn and 20% Arts Resist Down for 3 Turns after Damage
Overcharge Effects: 150-200% Extra Damage against Targets with Non Preservation Targets
Gold Gigant Garment. AoE Arts, Buffer
Effects: AoE Invincibility and Debuff Immunity for 1 Turn and 30% Charge
Overcharge Effects: 30-50% Charges Allies' NP Gauge if they have Preservation Targets
Tenochtitlan (Moon Cancer) : AoE Quick Moon Cancer with a QAABB Deck of Quick, Arts and Buster having 4 hits and Extra has 5
On Ascension 3, gains Animal Characteristic and Bunny Traits
Skill Cooldowns are 6/6/6
Base Gain is 0.58%
Active Skills
S1: AoE 20% Charge and Atk and 1000 HP Regen. 10% AoE Atk for Enemies, all except the charge for 3 Turns
S2: Self Taunt, 50% Def and for 3 Turns, Increase Self NP Damage by 10% when taking attack, all buff lasting for 3 Turns
S3: Self applied 30% Quick and Buster for 3 Turns and Evasion for 1 Turn. For Allies with Bunny Trait, Increase their Crit Damage by 30% for 3 Turns and reduce their Skill Cooldown by 1
Passive Skills
Territory Creation EX: 12% Arts Up
Divinity E: 100 Damage Up
Waterside Business A+: 20% Crit Up on Waterside Field
City-State Alliance: Does nothing
Capital of Moon B: 5% Quick, Arts and Crit Up and AoE 200 Damage Cut when On-Field
Armored Tenochtitlan: AoE Quick, 6 Hits
Effects: Ignore Invincibility for 1 Turn, 150% Extra Damage against Super Large and 20% Def Down after Damage
Overcharge Effects: 20-40% NP Damage Up for 1 Turn before Damage
Mysterious Heroine XX (Alter) : ST Foreigner with a QAABB Decks with Extra having 5 Hits while the rest of his Cards are 4
All Ascension shared the same Traits and Attribute
Skill Cooldowns are 7/6/7
Base Gain is 0.65%
Active Skills
S1: Self Applied Invul for 2 Hits or 3 Turns, 20% Atk Up, 15 Star Regen and Star Bomb for 3 Turns
S2: Self Applied 30% Buster Up, 500% Star Absorb Up for Buster and 30% Crit Damage Up for 3 Turns
S3: AoE NP Charge Down to All Enemies and Gain 10% Charge based off each Enemies' NP Gauge is reduced, Self Applied 20% Charge and 30% NP Gain for 3 Turns
Passive Skills
Existence Outside the Domain D: 2 Star Regen and 4% Debuff Resist Up
Mad Enhancement C: 6% Buster Up
Magic Resistance B: 17?5% Debuff Resist Up
Alteractor A+ 21% Debuff Resist Up
Noble Phantasm
Flash of Origin, Yet Chaotic. ST Buster, 7 Hits
Effects: 30% Anti Lawful and Good before damage for 1 Turn, 150% Extra Damage against Ruler and 20% Self Charge
Overcharge Effects: 10-30% NP Damage Up before Damage for 1 Turn
Hakuno Kishinami: AoE Buster with a QAABB Decks with Quick and Buster has 4 Hits, Arts has 3 and Extra has 5
All Ascension shared the same Traits and Attribute and like Mecha Liz Mk1 and 2, they have 2 different self
Skill Cooldowns are 0/6/6
S1: Can only be used when NP Gauge is above 10% and at the cost of 10%, Gain 10 Crit Stars if There's less than 50 and replace the current Command Codes with new ones (Doing this, reset the Command Code Cycles)
S2: Self Applied 30% Quick, Arts and Buster for 3 Turns. For 2 Hits or 3 Turns, Grants a 1 Turn Evasion when using Quick Face Cards. For 3 Turns, when using Arts Face Cards, Gain 20% Charge or Crit Damage with Buster that happens before Damage
S3: Grants Self 30% Anti Man, Earth or Sky Attribute of your own choice, 30% Self Charge and 10 Star Regen, all 3 Turns except the Charge
Passive Skills
Independent Action EX: 12% Crit Damage Up
Code Cast A: 5% Arts, Buster and Crit Up
Regalia of the Moon EX: 10% Atk Up for any Class and whatever Class only NPC has
Noble Phantasm
Void Record - Moon Anchor. AoE Buster, 5 Hits
Effects: Ignore Anti Purge Defense (Cannot bypass Evade) for 1 Turn
Overcharge Effects: 60-100% chance to Stun
Conclusion
Eresh: Adorable Goober Goddess finally got her overdue of Summer variant. And while being placed in a Beast doesn't give her as much privelege as Draco does since she only has 6 Class Advantage against ones you won't run into that often, she comes with her own benefits.
S1 is great for Multi Core since it both gives Damage Buffs that are Multiplicative and a Charge for easier and harder NP. S2 can compensate for her atrocious stats since the Crit Buff is one of the highest in Numbers and S3 is packef with multiple issue solver for Survivability.
And her Passives are quite good as well. 3 instance of Debuff Immunity (tho in this case 2, since you're wasting it on S1), 5% Charge when normal Attacking to compensate for her atrocious base gain, Goddess Core is always nice, even though It's the lowest ranking, Authority of the Beast and Independent Manifestation means outside of S2, she still has 21.5% Crit Up, II in a nutshell makes it so that she's going to hit like a complete potato as their way to say she's NTRproof, Nega Space was supposed to be her signature skill, but sadly being in PHH makes it into II.
Her NP itself has a lot of Utility that are basically permanent (As long as you can keep Spamming it) since the Affection Gauge stays for a long time such as Instant Kill increase that has been useful for Vegas Bleached Earth quest, Ignore Invul and Evade for no escape (Unless through Solemn Defense), 50 Star Bomb for immediate Crit and 10% SE Mod based of how much the Affection Gauge is filled. After damage it remove Buffs for saver turn and Instant Kill which means it won't interupt her Refunds. And Overcharge that increase her Gauge for a better follow up
For a Weakness, i'd say It's her class affinity. She's the only one in this game that deals white numbers to Zerk and she herself would work better with Append 5 and Atlas Mystic Code than Plug
Ciel: Curry lover and Arc's No.1 Hater from another Universe comes in with a Survival Kit that would make Cu jealous and doesn't Miss out on the Offensive
S1 is honestly one of the best Sustain/Defensive Utility based Skills i've seen in 9 Years of this game, simply for what it provided (Charge, Heal, Debuff Resist and Buff Removal Resistance) and all of that for blatant 5 Turns. S2 is also a mix but as a pure offense and utility, though i'd see the Buster getting used more since it'd yield better damage and better effects, also a Crit Buff that works like Nero's NP Gain. S3 is imo the real deal since it replace the current Command Code with all of her own. Opening up to a Strategy called BBC, where the idea is to use Ciel's S3, switch to your DPS, lock the current Card with Summer BB's S3 and let the DPS go into town with their Face Cards. It's also a 50% Charge and 100% Defense (So damage Immune unless the target has Ignore Def)
Her Passives have the standard ones and Unique ones. Standards with 20% Debuff Resist that totals up to 70% when S1 is active and 12% Crit that goes up to 62-112% based off her HP. Her Unique ones are a 500 HP Regen which ends up as 1500 with S1 and 1.5* Damage against Saber, making him having an actual general coverage
NP gives Bypass against Evasion and Defense, Demonic SE and Instant Kill before damage in case they survived and gives her 20% Charge. With an NP BB chain, her S3 and Koyans' S2, that chain could yield either a 10% Short from next NP or entirely full Refund
So yeah. Overall, great Soloer, Face Card DPS, and even a Support if you have the tools for it. If there was a Weakness, i'd say It's Moon Cancers are never ideal for DPS, her Overcharge doesn't ramp up and Ignore Defense Will bypass her only Damage Mitigation
Dobrynya: Wife that still used his Husband Name transitioned into a Card Type where said Class only has 3 for Its 9 years of standing excluding her
S1 is pretty standard providing her Arts along with Star Bomb and Charge, S2 has half of Its benefit ties to Waterside Battlefield but getting half of the other is still enough since that's where her Anti Trait is. The only problem for that is the number it gives. And S3 is her Sustainability as a Crit DPS and NP Spammer
Passives are not that remarkable, at best It's Average. Magic Resist is always nice to to Deny a buff or 2 once in a blue moon while Riding is basically useless since she only has 1 Quick
NP has some nice mix. Pre Damage different powermod for wider net to cast, tho sadly It's only for 1 Turn. NP seal after damage which could be spam with the right rng and Teams and a ramp up that boost her NP Gain, but unfortunately It's post damage
Compare to her peers, she's definitely above Li Who's still stuck with a 1 pump dump on all of his skills. Compare to Nagao though, that depends on which you prefer. Kenshin edges out in pure damage, as long as you don't have that many dupe of Niki, but Niki edges out at practically everything and since Dragon and Earth are always in the same spot, she might not even need dupe to match the psycho's NP5
Xu Fu: The Twerp Simp who doesn't understand the person she fawn over change from support that looked like conman, to a wannabe Thomas Hewitt
S1 is a standard Damage Buff for her 4/5 cards/Charge with enough amount and Cooldown to be double cast by Koyan. S2 is a multicore application of charge both instant and Regen with Overcharge and S3 is more damage for NP, Instant Kill and 3 Powermod against all manner of DoT
Her Passives are the usual Avengers except she doesn't have Self Replenishment, 1 that does nothing and the same one as her Alter Ego where she's Gimped again Yu
Her NP is pretty simple as far as things goes. It does damage, has SE against Man and if it doesn't kill them, chance to Instant Kill and if it manage to get through, she gets an Atk Buff
Pretty straightforward and simple as far as DPS goes. Really if There's a nitpick, It'd be Instant Kill was never good to bank on anything above Bronze Enemy and while having an SE is always great, her being also Man Attribute and not Earth means that the damage won't go any higher (unless you brought Dark Koyan with her)
BB: The Inferior Kouhai who joined the trend of having 2 different NP that does well for both support and DPS. And 2 of her Skills speaks for itself with how loaded they are
S1 and S2 have a bonus when the field has a Moon Cancer on the field. Former gives more damage while also refund improvement while the latter turned Allies into a Star maker on top of stripping Enemies of all Buffs and make sure they do 0 damage, all on top of giving Allies and Enemies status that Will come to play' with her NP. S3 is the simple one, but It's as good as the previous 2. Cooldown Reduction that make all of her Skills into 5/5/5, 50% Charge that totals to 70% which can offset her atrocious base gain and choosing which NP you want her to use
Passives are great too. Goddess Core and Magic Resistance, both at high rank making her chance of receiving Debuffs a Coin Toss, 10/20 Atk/Def Up against multiple occassion and a Crit Resist with Passive star Absorb up. Tho the latter wouldn't come to play' much since Moon Cancer have Caster's level of Star Weight
Her NP is where the status she puts on her team or Enemies Will be used. If she used a Damaging one, that makes her the one few Servants that can always guarantee to hit her SE Mod, not only that, it also provide a 30% Anti Sky and Star Seperately, giving her higher ceiling, covering all the damage type buff with Castoria and a ramp up for CQ even if It's Post damage. If It's the Buffing, everyone on the team with the effect of S1 Will be given get out of jail free card to an NP for a full turn on both damage and Debuff, more damage for their NP and easier time to go for their 2nd NP, depending on what order of the NP Chain she's placed on
Overall, out of every ones being introduced this summer, she is the closest one i can't say to have any clear flaws. She has enough Buffs at her disposal to compensate for Moon Cancers not being suitable for DPS (mostly) and even if that's not enough for the player, the utility she provides is at a level you can actually consider using her over Castoria (assuming she's Bond 15)
Tenochtitlan: a City that became a Bunny Girl and her Kit is as effective as how questionable the description is
S1 is the one i can't say nothing bad about besides it having the same Demerit as Kiyo's Stalker, only AoE. S2 is useless in Min Turning, and only useful in CQ or Boss battle, S3 is a standard damage buff tied to her NP survivability and added with a Trait locked bonus that's established with her
Her Passives are 2 Regular ones, 1 useless one and 2 Unique ones. Regular ones are a 12% Arts and 100 Flat Damage, and Unique ones are 20% Crit Up on Waterside and 5% on Arts, Quick and Crit with 200 Damage Cut (Totaling up to 17% Arts (Not really sure why she needs that much when she only has 1 Arts))
NP has some good stuffs like Pre Damage NP and Ignore Invul. She also has an SE against Super Large and Def Down post Damage. Not that remarkable, but not at a point the NP is bad
To keep it simple, she's the dud of the new featured. Her S1 is the only thing i can't talk bad about since you'll just get rid of it after 1 NP, S2 is only good for CQ, but the problem is that her deck and type doesn't support the long play and as interesting as the "Bunny" Buffs are, It's not enough to play around with her, not to mention majority of them needs to be at specific Ascension. Lastly her NP, Super Large is rare enough as is, but for Farming, she's not that ideal when her Looping Tools are just 20% Charge and 30% Quick Up
XX Alter: Another day, another Servantverse
S1 is a mix of Survivability, Atk (Gimped for a Self applied) and Crit Sustain. S2 is another Face card Buffs and Crit Consistencies that alligns with 3/5 of her Cards and S3 is a compensation tools for her Deck and can give her either the highest charge of 80% or just a 20% if you don't time it right or no Mobs at all
Her Passives are a standard Foreigners with some mixed that can line up well. Her Mad Enhancement totals her Buffs to 36-56% on Buster, while Existence Outside Domain gives her 17 Star Regen with S1 and 42.5% Debuff Resist with her own Magical Resistance and Altereactor
Her NP is Full on damage with a Powermod against Lawful and Good seperately along with SE Mod and 20% Charge to make her 2nd wind comes sooner, with an Overcharge of Pre Damage NP Damage up, covering her last Damage Buff type
Like Xu Fu, It's pretty straightforward with her. Do damage to her Designated target, and like her, they both have the same target of where their damage would peak. Xu Fu would win due to Class Advantage, but that's pretty much it. XX having Existence Outside Domain and Chaotic Evil opens her for more team options (Clytie and Ashiya), she has more to her than just NP Damage and she's close enough to not always be hit with Debuffs. And if someone wants to compare her to her OG, OG wins in 1 Turn, Alter wins the other 2 Turns. Really the one thing unfortunate about her is that her on Demand Charge is only 20%. 10% off the magic number for Koyan
Hakuno Kishinami: The ruler of Moon Cell arrived in the Future Moon as both Senpai and challengers
S1 broke the record of being the shortest Cooldown of basically none. A top of the line Support tools that allows you to reshuffle the Deck as many Times as you want until you got the ideal chain and Crit. S2 is more simple of it being a Colour Buffs tied with 3 utilities based on what face card used while S3 is an Option of 3 Anti Attribute of your choice that allows them to loop with Koyan while also help providing more stars
Passives are pretty simple Independent Action EX, Code Cast and Regalia of the Moon are their uniques with former providing them with 5% Arts and Buster while increasing their Passive Crit to 17% while the latter gives 10% Atk against every Class except Foreigners and whatever Class an NPC has that doesn't belong in the system
NP introduce the first ever Anti Purge Bypass where the only option is to have an Evade to survive. And that's about it. It has a Stun RNG, but It's IP level and they don't have any way to improve it
Unless you can fish out 5 Copies of them the FP banner, those 2 would barely qualify for a Budget Option for farming. But without that, they can carry their own weight pretty high with just S1. Give them MLBed Kscope, Max Append and their S3, that's 15 Redraws. Really besides their Damage, the one flaws they have is that S1 hinges on your current RNG of said run
Well, that's about it for the Servants. One last thing. The next OC is going to be a pain in the ass to get through for the same reason of Shimousa, but worse. Your formation is limited at almost every instance, the amount of Party members you can bring is reduced and sometimes, they only let you play with just the forced supports. Also, this one has 3 Parts released seperately
yeah, I'm just gonna skip whatever's coming after HibiChika and get straight to Anni, Summer and New Story since the best thing coming in that event is a Hunting Quest that's been absent for almost 2 years in JP. And since There's a lot to cover, i'll be breaking it in multiple parts
Anniversary
The starters are for the Whales, Destiny Order and GSSR which i'll just put the link
2 New Appends are also be given to every Servants. Those beings
Special Attack Finnese Improvement: 20-30% Crit Up
Skill Reloading: Initial Cooldowns of Active Skills at first Activation are reduce to 1 and can only apply once per battle for each skills. This one is a priority right next to Mana Loading for Loopers or Farmers (especially Buster) with a 7 Turn Charge Skill
Up next, Yearly dose of Strengthening Quest, which ngl, this might be the best batch they've done in the years this game has
Anniversary
Beni Enma (S1 Upgrade)
Changes: None
New Effects: Self 30% Arts for 3 Turns and NP Charge
Gilles de Rais (Saber) (S1 Upgrade)
Changes: None
New Effects: 50% Crit Damage to Lawful Allies for 3 Turns, NP Overcharge +2 Stage for Good Allies for 1 Time, 3 Turns, 20 Star Bomb when a Star Attribute Ally is on the field and 15 Star Regen for 3 Turns
Cleopatra (S2 Upgrade)
Changes: None
New Effects: Self 30% Charge and 40% Buff Success Up for 3 Turns
Asclepius (S3 Upgrade)
Changes: None
New Effect: AoE 20% Arts Up and 100% Healing up for 3 Turns, Self Guts for 1 Time, 3 Turns with 3k HP
Iskandar (S1 Upgrade)
Changes: None
New Effects: AoE Ignore Defense and Self 30% Charge
Nitocris (NP Upgrade)
Changes: NP deals more damage, Instant Kill triggers post damage and not pre
New Effects: AoE Skill Seals after damage for 1 Turn, Grants Waterside Field for 3 Turns
Abigail Williams (S3 Upgrade)
Changes: None
New Effects: 100% Powermod against target with Terror status for 1 Turn and 20% Self Charge
Billy the Kid (S3 Upgrade)
Changes: Self Crit Damage is now 50% instead of 40%
New Effects: Self 30% Quick Performance for 3 Turns, 500% Star Absorbtion for 1 Turn and 30 Star Bomb
James Moriarty (Ruler) (NP Upgrade)
Changes: NP deals more damage, NP Damage can now ramp up instead of just for 1 Turn
New Effects: None
Charlotte Corday (S3 Upgrade)
Changes: Buffs gained from S3 can now be picked based off need and not an RNG of giving the wrong one
New Effects: 20 Star Bomb
Katsushika Hokusai (NP Upgrade)
Changes: NP Deals more damage
New Effects: 30% Self NP Gain for 1 Turn and 20% Arts Resist Down to all Enemies for 3 Turns, both activate before damage
Red Hare (S2 Upgrade)
Changes: All RNG based buffs are now Guaranteed to trigger, Ignore Invul and Star Absorbtion's duration are increase by 2 Turns
New Effects: Gain 15 Star Bombs and 15 Star Regen
Merlin (S2 Upgrade)
Changes: AoE Star Gen's duration is increase by 2 turns
New Effect: 50% AoE Critical Damage for 3 Turns and 10% Charge
Nursery Rhyme (S2 Upgrade)
Changes: None
New Effects: Self 30% Arts for 3 Turns, AoE 20% Charge for Child Servants and 20% NP Damage for 3 Turns to Fairy Tale Servants
Summer
Artoria Pendragon (Ruler) (S3 Upgrade)
Changes: Self 40% Atk is now AoE with the same duration
New Effects: Self 30% Buster for 3 Turns
Tomoe Gozen (Saber) (NP Upgrade)
Changes: NP Deals more damage, Self Arts and Buster are now Ramp up instead of just 1 Turn and Burn Damage is now doubled
New Effects: None
Ishtar (Rider) (S3 Upgrade)
Changes: The Delayed Stun is removed and Self NP Gain Duration is extended by 2 Turns
New Effects: 30% Self Charge
Conclusion
Enma: Simple but hit the right target. Overall, a better DPS and better for Multi Core than Nero while also fixed the issue of her somewhat Mediocre NP Gain. Too bad she's still not good for Crit without a lot of help
Gilles: Surprisingly, 1 buff that actually elevate him far higher than whatever his Caster self ended up with. Lawful, Good are dime dozens seperately and Lawful Good is 103, there should be some that could make use of it. And since it's on his S1, he's a good Outrage Target
Cleopatra: Like Enma, a simple upgrade, but actually fixed her problem. Right now, she is a viable option for a Farming Assassin unless you're content with Gray or Koyan doing it. And outside of farming, she's now able to actually use IP consistently which would finally gave her a damage buff outside NP Turn. Mind the NP btw, since she's still stuck with an HP Drain Demerit that Will kill her
Asclepius: Ironically, one of the few that shouldn't be buffed. But besides that, another simple and good one. The self Guts help his survivability for longer battle since his NP exclude himself, the Heal Amp would allow the team to Regen at least 20-25% of their Max HP, more than 50% if he used his S1 and the Arts Buff just put him with the other Abundance of budget Arts support that could pass as an SSR due to the 30% AoE NP Gain and Charge
Iskandar: after nearly a decade, he can finally farm and now he at least hold a place as the SSR Rider that doubles up as a good Buffer and highest NP Damage with no Traits. At least until Francis took the former away from him and only left him is that he's the only one in the game after 10 Years to give AoE Ignore Defense
Nitocris: making the Instant Kill activate after damage would've been more than enough to make her a good spook. Rest of it are good too, but to the same extent. The Skill Seal works into optimizing her role as a Damage Sponge with her Taunt, 2k Damage Cut and 60% Def. The Waterside Field doesn't help her much besides widening her option for support, and Nemo's the best one of that, so take it as you Will
Abigail: Finally having a 50% Charge in total with her S1, combine that with her having the damage trifecta and a Powermod that she can grant herself allowed her to go more raw on the target than Kiara could since nothing is mitigating her NP's Damage. On a less dirty note, the fix only address her Damage, her Gain is still atrocious as hell
Billy: An overdue that actually make him into a less team reliant Crit thanks to the Star Bomb and Absorb while also giving him a damage buff outside Crit Turn for NP. But, being a Years 1 Servant means that he's still stuck with the regular issue of crap hits. Meaning outside S3 cast turn, he's back to being babysit unless you can guarantee an NPQQ
Moriarty (Young): Not a lot of things to talk about besides the fact that he's actually a better DPS than Melu due to having Ramp up. He's looping is still questionable at best even with Double Castoria and his Crit Game is also still jank
Charlotte: A truly helpful change that fix her the entire problem of said skill and i think the first of Its kind in terms of Mechanic (unless you want to count Kuku's Buff bonus from 10 Star counts as one) picking the Buffs you want that fit your need be it better Gain or higher Damage and a Star Bomb as well to actually make her Crit
Oei: being an Arts Foreigner is a rough since they're only getting the best damage against a Class that gives them 20% less NP than what they're supposed to and she suffered bad with below .4% base gain that 5 AoE Hit NP can barely compensate. Now, that's less of a problem due to the NP Upgrade giving her more than just 1 looping improvement and not in small numbers or half asses by making it post damage either
Red Hare: It's okay honestly, not bad, but could've been way better. The Buffs at least give him some consistency at being a Crit DPS at a short turn, but he still suffer a problem of the Devs thought that making all of his Damage buff hit based is a good idea. And not only that, the numbers on 3rd Skill is gimped for a Self applied
Merlin: The most undeserving to get one since he's still the only option Buster has for safe plays. Not only the Cooldown gets shorten, he now belongs in the AoE 30% Charger which gives far more Versatility at CE pick for the Team and a 3 Turn Crit Buff with the right number in case Hero Creation Crit missed
Alice: 9 years of getting nothing but an NP Interlude that only fix her damage and 1 Time she got an attention It's a good one. Individually, There's 42 Child Servant and 24 Fairy Tale Servants that you can buff with her Upgrade. But for maximum benefit, only 4 can actually get both and only 3 could effectively help her as a secondary or main DPS and those are Bunyans and Sitonai
Bunnytoria: The only bad part about this upgrade is the Star Absorbtion still being self applied. Other than that, she now has one of the highest AoE Atk Buff in the game along with more damage tools to work with for farming
Tomoe: Sabers are always in short of Loopers and while she joined in a bit late, at least she get her fixed. Still worse than Sengo since He'll get an NP Upgrade later down the line and most likely Jason since he also got his way before her. And the mook can still double as a Support if you want
Ishtar: Not a lot to say about this one. Her S3 is basically just Goddess Metamorphosis with a different name for whatever reason which can be good, can be bad. Stun Removal was good enough, but now she can be used for Farming competently since despite her 4 hits NP, which is usually not ideal for Quick, is compensated by her Looping tools reaching 70% on NP Gain and 52% for Quick along with a Charge to boot. Plushie and Naya said that she can now Black Grail Loop, so take that as you Will