Yeah merlin is great, but while they are stacking the buffs, the quick team already finish the quest with 3 turn. Btw, art teams are now on their 139 turn
Sustain is still a problem though. That last part where the boss wiped out both Skadi with her NP? Double Merlin's damage prevention is tied to a skill, which can be popped at any time. If Skadi's NP isn't timed right, party wipe is pretty likely. I guess it does go to show that using Skadi does require more thought and timing than easy mode Merlin.
Wing Hong Wong Skilled players and fast learners like me can abuse Skadi more than Merlin as we see him destroy the game's basic mechanics(except for gramps) for the first time(even though many JP players tend not to choose Merlin thanks to other factors)
For challenge quests that require you to take more than 3 turn because of gauge, skadi is weaker than merlin because she lacks the sustainability that he has. While skadi is extremely good, once her skills have been used, she doesn't add much. On the other hand, merlin can spam garden of avalon to keep up contact hp regen and use the np charge gained to let him spam more. In conclusion, merlin is better for drawn out fights, while skadi can be completely broken for anything that can be finished within 3 turns.
Well considering how even art NP spam party gets burnt out in 3-4 turns(NP spam dps art team not mass def buff sustain art team), I would say she broke the quick card like how Merlin broke Buster cards before.
Arts has Tamamo to refresh cooldowns and sustain the team, but Tamamo cannot even come close to buffing nuking power that Skadi and Merlin can. I would say that Arts is the master of NP spam, sustain, and stall. Buster is pure nuke burst damage for one followed by a big resting phase. Quick is the in-between with lots of nuking for a few turns then goes into cooldown. Quick has both the ability to nuke hard and deal sustained damage it is the middle ground that between Arts and Buster now. Before it was nothing but a joke.
What, a proper DPS arts team can fire off an np every turn, or at least every other turn. Hokusai, waver, tamamo. Hokusai is just as game breaking as merlin is with the right support behind her, due to her 3rd skill and class parity to basically everything. It's not as fast as clearing challenge quests as a max dmg meme team, but the only challenge quest I haven't been able to breeze past was gugalanna, simply because its an aoe rider boss so it wipes the support casters.
Amatsukaze_DD *with the right support* All servants can become a force to be reckoned with with the "right support" That's why support servants are generally better than attackers, because they can fit into many different team comps and still be amazing.
I'm well aware, I was addressing the 'arts np spam teams burn out in 3-4 turns' part. Ironically, the arts NP spam team is even more busted now with summer BB's 3rd skill. Hokusai can get off -180% def on a target with 3 turn npaa chains.
All i can say is that Skadi is very good not game breaking like Merlin but she does what she is suppose to do and that is make quick servants with good quick skills that much better. Servants like Okita, MHX alter, heck even Dantes who hits like a wet noodle can be improved with Skadi. She can also help lancer Shishou build her np faster with her 3rd skill cause Shishou has terrible np gain. Still it would be great if her evade wasn't tied to her np and instead a skill than she would be Merlin tier. Right now she is more in the tier of Tamamo and Waver.
John Peacekeeper who said buster servant can't loop? Look at Gil, Eresh for example. With the right set up, they can spam their NP easily with crit + NP gain up.
Depends, you can see the dmg drop is huge without buffs, so if you can finish the boss within your buff time, it is strong, but if you can't, before you can buff yourself again, you probably dies (no immune, no healings).....Merlin team is strong because of the high burst AND the sustain...so yeah.
2030. Scath caster NP gain is really strong even with being 0.60% because of art chain and being 3 hits arts and 4 hits quick. And you have to count that she'll be in quick team, i.e. crit star gen crit damage team. So expect scath to crit often and thus even more NP gain.
Merlin is definitely still by far the most OP supporter that FGO has to offer. Skadi on the other hand is luckily not merlin tier yet, but it was what quick units desperately needed. Even the meme list(appmedia tier list) ranks her at most S rank. If that list and we the players agree with that, it's pretty much confirmed.
You never going to see another servant like Merlin, they make a mistake when doing Merlin, they where trying to make a support caster better than Weaver but they went overboard and make Merlin beyond broken. They are not going to make the same mistake again, think of Skadi as the quick Tamamo
Her lack of survival kit for the party makes her below tamamo, Merlin and waver her low damage cut, and lack of heal and average np gain lack of 3 arts hurts her in long battle meta.
Tang David Yes her np gives evade but it's only like David meaning it can be negated by random auto atks meaning enemies that atk before there np or if you are facing more than 1 enemy you'll sustain damage that may kill you, if her damage cut was higher instead of 500 then it wouldn't be so bad.
Harrys Liyoko her np gain is good but shes locked to 2 art cards and her being a quick support means we are running quick servants which have a lot of quick cards. Merlin and tama don't have this problem since they have 3 arts and other np gain like Merlin np and his mixed blood
Bearded Sifu Nobody said that she was better than tama or merlin lol. Just saving that there are people on jp that are doing pretty crzay with her,waver is her best friend,she and zerkerlot/frankesnstein 3 turn clear most of the dailies without 3 MLB kaleidoscope. She definetly made quick better and i love her more than merlin because at least DW learned their mistake because she is not dumb like a certain mage of flowers.
"Skadi is just a quick Tamamo! She's not Merlin-level!" >memelist proceeds to bump a bunch of quick servants up several tiers >Dantes becomes the best farmer in the game and an amazing boss killer >Bunch of buster servants drop >Astolfo is viewed as a better farmer than Drake >Merlin's general utility has been eclipsed by Skadi's
In terms of general utility, Waver still massively outshines Skadi though. And she's still not Merlin level. He has better skill, a better NP and better passives. Calling her a quick Tamamo is accurate because outside of quick teams she's more or less useless
"In terms of general utility, Waver still massively outshines Skadi though." In what way? Offering a bunch of generic buffs? I mean, sure I guess, but the potency of Skadi's buffs per button is significantly higher. Hell, in functional numbers, the only thing Waver has over Skadi's full kit is the fact that two people get 20% meter. Waver does a lot of things, but Skadi, Merlin and Tamamo do the things that he overlaps them with leagues better. "And she's still not Merlin level. He has better skill, a better NP and better passives" The only true thing here is the passives because Mixed Blood is amazing. Their skill sets do two completely different things, even taking aside from the Buster vs Quick meta and Skadi's NP is far more useful as an emergency button than Merlin's. Skadi's kit is geared towards making your team consistently crit and getting around the lower damage of quick cards and she does it extraordinarily well. Merlin's kit is geared to making Buster Crit teams work without having to dedicate a slot to an Assassin to generate stars, which makes buster chains more consistent. But like, I can go double Skadi and give say, Dantes a Imaginary Around and then NP loop for clearing pretty much any farming node. Compare that with Merlin where you would need either double KScope, or a servant that can provide themselves with 30% or more with a self charge. "Calling her a quick Tamamo is accurate because outside of quick teams she's more or less useless" In otherworsd "If I take a character out of their niche, they're useless!" 1) That's like saying "Put Merlin in a party of supports with no 2030. He's more or less useless" 2) a 50% charge is always useful, as is an AoE 30% Defense down 3) Giving the party a dodge and a universal 50% crit up is always useful 4) As is a 500~1500 damage reduction for 3 turns. Skadi in conjuction with a servant that provides attack down, can make your team take 0 damage for three turns. Merlin can do it for 1 turn unless they have invuln pierce.
Of course I understand what it means. You can slap Waver into any comp and he does fine, but if you're going by that metric then he outshines Merlin, despite Merlin being universally agreed upon as the better support caster.
The thing is, Skadi IS Quick Tamamo. She's absolutely NOT on Merlin's level, and the reason why is not actually tied to Merlin's Buster buff but rather the rest of his abilities, NP and skills alike. warning this is long Let's start with the card buffs. Skadi and Merlin both have powerful card-type buffs (30-50% depending on level) that are targetable and last three turns. However, already, even with just this aspect, Merlin has Skadi beat: his Buster buff includes a 50-100% critical damage buff as well as a 2000-3000 Max HP buff. Skadi's buff's secondary ability is a 50-100% crit boost... on Quick cards ONLY. You could cast Hero Creation on ANY DPS regardless of card-type and it'd still increase their damage exponentially AND give them an HP buff. (*Skadi's NP does grant an additional 30-50% crit damage increase but it's dependent on her NP level, and still doesn't reach Merlin's level, even at level 1.) Skadi also only has ONE attack steroid in her kit, that being the Quick up buff, versus Merlin's Dreamlike Charisma (20% NP gauge, 10-20% attack boost, three turns, teamwide). A case can be argued for Skadi's defense down skill helping with damage, but the nature of FGO's battle mechanics means different types of buffs will stack multiplicatively. Merlin's kit includes two separate types of attack buffs: a straight ATK buff and a Buster buff. And what about survivability? Merlin also has Skadi completely outclassed in this department. His Illusion skill grants the entire party invincibility for a full turn as well as decreases all enemy's crit chance by 10-20%. Skadi's NOBLE PHANTASM will apply Evade to the whole team for one hit, three turns. While this is enough to survive an AOE NP, it's also more easily pierced through (Sure Hit) and afterwards it leaves your Servants still susceptible to attacks. It does apply a nice damage cut, but it's not nearly as good as a hard defense. This isn't even factoring in Merlin's Noble Phantasm either, which heals continuously for five turns (1000-2000 depending on NP level). The only thing you can argue Skadi being better at than Merlin is going to be a straight up NP battery, and even then Merlin is better in this scenario. Skadi can give 30-50% charge to a single target, but Merlin can give 20% (60% total) to the whole party with a single skill at level 1. However, Merlin's NP is what really shines in this scenario: 5 turns, continuous NP gain, and it STACKS. It means almost infinite NP gain for the entire party. TL;DR both are good, but Merlin is infinitely better than Skadi because the cock wizard broke the game and everyone knows it, especially himself. Skadi may be better in Quick-oriented teams but Merlin can find a use pretty much everywhere.
Just note that MHXA's capability really is anti-Saber. Forgot if its also anti-Saberface but yeah. Most of that damage comes from that. Still tho. NP every turn.
not really , remember that MHXA have anti saber effect + zerker and NP 5 , skadi really strong in quick teams but whiteout NP5 and anti X buff the damage is reduced drastically but , the quick are back has solid type of team
Although I wouldn't say merlin is dead by far, it is nice to see quick making a comeback doing things like this where they crit hard and gen fast (Gif posted by someone on gamefaqs not originally made by me) i.imgtc.com/bbmOaij.gif
Elesis Terumi there's no way Merlin is dead when there a lot of buster crit lovers out there and skadi is not that broken like Merlin shes mid tier support like tamamo and waver
lol far from it, she is just a typical quick supporter that quick units direly needed.Although not merlin tier yet, even the meme tier list ranks her at most S rank and not within the S+ tier. If it says that we say that, we pretty much have mutual understanding of skadi.
Yeah Merlin is still too op on buster meme teams Waver can fit almost all team comps Tamamo is the best staller with a 65% arts up, healing, CDR reduction and NP spam Skadi is good, probably on Tamamo level
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Local celtic wizards aid Sith Lord against Goth Tyrant
Nhan Vo i read shitlord...
Celtic magical girl
you forgot the magedude
I understand the perception since Scathach is Celtic but Skadi is not. She is Germanic (Scandinavian).
*N O W T H A T ' S A L O T O F D A M A G E*
I get the reference
Ecchan: I'm going to saw this Saber in half
Glad i have ecchan
I'm so glad my little neet artoria team is finally not only usable, but actually good.
I love shishou now for making quick teams viable again.
Amatsukaze_DD
Even if Merlin is around. Gramps and the Quick Hassans are still what I am going for
Merlin: Tamamo, Waver, I welcome the first ever 5-Star Quick Caster, Scáthach Skadi. Welcome to the Meta. It’ll be exhausting.
Massive damage with high np gain from guaranteed crit np charge. Amazing
Yeah merlin is great, but while they are stacking the buffs, the quick team already finish the quest with 3 turn. Btw, art teams are now on their 139 turn
Quick is quick.....
Naw man... with Archuria this one is a cinch for arts team.
Aged like milk
if the quick team needs np5 5 stars id rather use merlin...
@@Phiro00 I mean, you can loop pretty easily with a np1 Dante’s or Atalante
All hail Scathach-sama!
Double Skadi is the new Double Merlin
Sustain is still a problem though. That last part where the boss wiped out both Skadi with her NP? Double Merlin's damage prevention is tied to a skill, which can be popped at any time. If Skadi's NP isn't timed right, party wipe is pretty likely.
I guess it does go to show that using Skadi does require more thought and timing than easy mode Merlin.
Wing Hong Wong
Skilled players and fast learners like me can abuse Skadi more than Merlin as we see him destroy the game's basic mechanics(except for gramps) for the first time(even though many JP players tend not to choose Merlin thanks to other factors)
@@LOLZPro-qw1cs he lost his lancer Liz
@@Brandon-np5jc Well ... it's just liz
For challenge quests that require you to take more than 3 turn because of gauge, skadi is weaker than merlin because she lacks the sustainability that he has. While skadi is extremely good, once her skills have been used, she doesn't add much. On the other hand, merlin can spam garden of avalon to keep up contact hp regen and use the np charge gained to let him spam more. In conclusion, merlin is better for drawn out fights, while skadi can be completely broken for anything that can be finished within 3 turns.
All those NP5s and MLB black grail and Kaleidoscope.
This is why Nasu gives Lancers a low luck stat
those NP 5...WHALE!
Well it only increases the crit damage up from 30% to 50% so not all too worth it to do that but ya know
thanks for reminding me that my MHXA is viable now, although it's only np1 so i might need to get more copies first.
Well considering how even art NP spam party gets burnt out in 3-4 turns(NP spam dps art team not mass def buff sustain art team), I would say she broke the quick card like how Merlin broke Buster cards before.
Arts has Tamamo to refresh cooldowns and sustain the team, but Tamamo cannot even come close to buffing nuking power that Skadi and Merlin can.
I would say that Arts is the master of NP spam, sustain, and stall.
Buster is pure nuke burst damage for one followed by a big resting phase.
Quick is the in-between with lots of nuking for a few turns then goes into cooldown.
Quick has both the ability to nuke hard and deal sustained damage it is the middle ground that between Arts and Buster now.
Before it was nothing but a joke.
to be fair were never gonna get anything like merlin but i think if okhami gets a buff i think quick will be a soild place .
What, a proper DPS arts team can fire off an np every turn, or at least every other turn.
Hokusai, waver, tamamo. Hokusai is just as game breaking as merlin is with the right support behind her, due to her 3rd skill and class parity to basically everything. It's not as fast as clearing challenge quests as a max dmg meme team, but the only challenge quest I haven't been able to breeze past was gugalanna, simply because its an aoe rider boss so it wipes the support casters.
Amatsukaze_DD *with the right support*
All servants can become a force to be reckoned with with the "right support"
That's why support servants are generally better than attackers, because they can fit into many different team comps and still be amazing.
I'm well aware, I was addressing the 'arts np spam teams burn out in 3-4 turns' part.
Ironically, the arts NP spam team is even more busted now with summer BB's 3rd skill. Hokusai can get off -180% def on a target with 3 turn npaa chains.
All i can say is that Skadi is very good not game breaking like Merlin but she does what she is suppose to do and that is make quick servants with good quick skills that much better. Servants like Okita, MHX alter, heck even Dantes who hits like a wet noodle can be improved with Skadi. She can also help lancer Shishou build her np faster with her 3rd skill cause Shishou has terrible np gain.
Still it would be great if her evade wasn't tied to her np and instead a skill than she would be Merlin tier. Right now she is more in the tier of Tamamo and Waver.
That said, Buster Servants cannot loop like Quick and Arts can
And when it comes to farm she is queen because Zerkerlot exists. 3 turns of buffed AAAATHURRR trivial daily nodes.
I wonder how fast Rider Kintoki can NP Spam along generating lots of star with Skadi :3
John Peacekeeper who said buster servant can't loop? Look at Gil, Eresh for example. With the right set up, they can spam their NP easily with crit + NP gain up.
Storm Wings
Nah we still have the farming goddess Raikou in that match.
massive damage if i was to borrow shotgun senpai's words
I am so ready to welcome the kuweek meta.
GREEN CARDS SHALL COME!
Don't make me want to roll more...I already spent 300 quartz just to get a rare prism....
I rolled 15x 167 quartz to np5 her
So nearly 1500 USD?
Actually each pack comes to like $81
Takami so like 1200?
I spent like $800-1k, but somehow didn't get her. Feelzbadman
Im looking foward to doing the exact same thing u did with my np5 mhxa for NA.
well i guess i know who i gona save for. 2 years atleast =.=
So this mean Quick can make a comeback?
quick is prob the strongest by now
Depends, you can see the dmg drop is huge without buffs, so if you can finish the boss within your buff time, it is strong, but if you can't, before you can buff yourself again, you probably dies (no immune, no healings).....Merlin team is strong because of the high burst AND the sustain...so yeah.
That applies to every buffer though. At this point quick can out damage buster pretty easy, and bring in tons of crit stars along with it.
I'm going to try this with Jack the ripper
For Scat Caster is prisma Cosmo better or 2030??
2030. Scath caster NP gain is really strong even with being 0.60% because of art chain and being 3 hits arts and 4 hits quick. And you have to count that she'll be in quick team, i.e. crit star gen crit damage team. So expect scath to crit often and thus even more NP gain.
holy shit.
Now that's a lot of damage !!
i just got her with just once 10 shot im soooo happy
Wow! Amazing!
thats OP
My fucking wallet be damned!!!
Wow now i want her after merlin
Mind blown
I neeeeeeeed
holi shit that damage
that’s a lotta damage
Can we farm challenge quests now?
Just a heads up that Achilles is pretty fucking strong with Scathach
Why is it always the casters
Woah salter got a np animation update?
©opyright lol, no, is the same she has in na
Over a year ago.
I spent nearly all of my savings trying to get here. She didn't came tough :/
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Why is the support servant in the 4th block and not 3rd?
you can move it for tactical reasons, anywhere but the first slot
answer is very
I need 55 turn to beat that.. Well,im shit
Lightsabers? Is that legal?
My only good quick servant is valkyrie so it's good (plus i don't have Scathdi)
why the screen is small than usual ?
whaleeerrrrrr
It should be impactful no powerful she didn't deal the power XD
So merlin still the strongest or not?
Yeh, Merlin is still the strongest.
You’re comparing 2 servants with different support type. Merlin is buster support oriented while Skadi is quick support oriented.
And when it comes to supporting your servants, Merlin is still the best.
Merlin is definitely still by far the most OP supporter that FGO has to offer. Skadi on the other hand is luckily not merlin tier yet, but it was what quick units desperately needed. Even the meme list(appmedia tier list) ranks her at most S rank. If that list and we the players agree with that, it's pretty much confirmed.
Give her one more dodge stack on her np and id say shes merlin tier
Dantes pls
这不是B站那个大佬吗。。。
that's 1m damage thrice in a row
OMG 1M
NP : 150% against sabers + zerkers + NP5 + 3 50% QUICK buff it's not that surprising
stema NOLI now imagine regular scathach
pretending100 never forget about a limit broken black grail that almost double your np damage
quick merlin?
victor burgos a little difficult,but like that
close to merlin, but not at that point yet. Just the typical quick supporter one needs, but not merlin tier yet.
victor burgos more like better tamamo quick
We will never see another servant as broken as merlin again lol
You never going to see another servant like Merlin, they make a mistake when doing Merlin, they where trying to make a support caster better than Weaver but they went overboard and make Merlin beyond broken. They are not going to make the same mistake again, think of Skadi as the quick Tamamo
3 turns extreme damage and that’s it. If you can’t beat them in 3 turns, go buster team.
what the fuck
>Turn 4
Where are your buffs now?
Her lack of survival kit for the party makes her below tamamo, Merlin and waver her low damage cut, and lack of heal and average np gain lack of 3 arts hurts her in long battle meta.
Bearded Sifu Doesn't she give teamwide evade though?
She has high NP gain and her NP saves you from incoming NP.
Tang David Yes her np gives evade but it's only like David meaning it can be negated by random auto atks meaning enemies that atk before there np or if you are facing more than 1 enemy you'll sustain damage that may kill you, if her damage cut was higher instead of 500 then it wouldn't be so bad.
Harrys Liyoko her np gain is good but shes locked to 2 art cards and her being a quick support means we are running quick servants which have a lot of quick cards. Merlin and tama don't have this problem since they have 3 arts and other np gain like Merlin np and his mixed blood
Bearded Sifu Nobody said that she was better than tama or merlin lol.
Just saving that there are people on jp that are doing pretty crzay with her,waver is her best friend,she and zerkerlot/frankesnstein 3 turn clear most of the dailies without 3 MLB kaleidoscope.
She definetly made quick better and i love her more than merlin because at least DW learned their mistake because she is not dumb like a certain mage of flowers.
"Skadi is just a quick Tamamo! She's not Merlin-level!"
>memelist proceeds to bump a bunch of quick servants up several tiers
>Dantes becomes the best farmer in the game and an amazing boss killer
>Bunch of buster servants drop
>Astolfo is viewed as a better farmer than Drake
>Merlin's general utility has been eclipsed by Skadi's
In terms of general utility, Waver still massively outshines Skadi though.
And she's still not Merlin level. He has better skill, a better NP and better passives. Calling her a quick Tamamo is accurate because outside of quick teams she's more or less useless
"In terms of general utility, Waver still massively outshines Skadi though."
In what way? Offering a bunch of generic buffs? I mean, sure I guess, but the potency of Skadi's buffs per button is significantly higher. Hell, in functional numbers, the only thing Waver has over Skadi's full kit is the fact that two people get 20% meter. Waver does a lot of things, but Skadi, Merlin and Tamamo do the things that he overlaps them with leagues better.
"And she's still not Merlin level. He has better skill, a better NP and better passives"
The only true thing here is the passives because Mixed Blood is amazing. Their skill sets do two completely different things, even taking aside from the Buster vs Quick meta and Skadi's NP is far more useful as an emergency button than Merlin's.
Skadi's kit is geared towards making your team consistently crit and getting around the lower damage of quick cards and she does it extraordinarily well. Merlin's kit is geared to making Buster Crit teams work without having to dedicate a slot to an Assassin to generate stars, which makes buster chains more consistent.
But like, I can go double Skadi and give say, Dantes a Imaginary Around and then NP loop for clearing pretty much any farming node. Compare that with Merlin where you would need either double KScope, or a servant that can provide themselves with 30% or more with a self charge.
"Calling her a quick Tamamo is accurate because outside of quick teams she's more or less useless"
In otherworsd "If I take a character out of their niche, they're useless!"
1) That's like saying "Put Merlin in a party of supports with no 2030. He's more or less useless"
2) a 50% charge is always useful, as is an AoE 30% Defense down
3) Giving the party a dodge and a universal 50% crit up is always useful
4) As is a 500~1500 damage reduction for 3 turns.
Skadi in conjuction with a servant that provides attack down, can make your team take 0 damage for three turns. Merlin can do it for 1 turn unless they have invuln pierce.
Do you know what "General Utility" means? Try to understand what he meant about waver, and calm down.
Of course I understand what it means. You can slap Waver into any comp and he does fine, but if you're going by that metric then he outshines Merlin, despite Merlin being universally agreed upon as the better support caster.
The thing is, Skadi IS Quick Tamamo. She's absolutely NOT on Merlin's level, and the reason why is not actually tied to Merlin's Buster buff but rather the rest of his abilities, NP and skills alike.
warning this is long
Let's start with the card buffs. Skadi and Merlin both have powerful card-type buffs (30-50% depending on level) that are targetable and last three turns. However, already, even with just this aspect, Merlin has Skadi beat: his Buster buff includes a 50-100% critical damage buff as well as a 2000-3000 Max HP buff. Skadi's buff's secondary ability is a 50-100% crit boost... on Quick cards ONLY. You could cast Hero Creation on ANY DPS regardless of card-type and it'd still increase their damage exponentially AND give them an HP buff. (*Skadi's NP does grant an additional 30-50% crit damage increase but it's dependent on her NP level, and still doesn't reach Merlin's level, even at level 1.)
Skadi also only has ONE attack steroid in her kit, that being the Quick up buff, versus Merlin's Dreamlike Charisma (20% NP gauge, 10-20% attack boost, three turns, teamwide). A case can be argued for Skadi's defense down skill helping with damage, but the nature of FGO's battle mechanics means different types of buffs will stack multiplicatively. Merlin's kit includes two separate types of attack buffs: a straight ATK buff and a Buster buff.
And what about survivability? Merlin also has Skadi completely outclassed in this department. His Illusion skill grants the entire party invincibility for a full turn as well as decreases all enemy's crit chance by 10-20%. Skadi's NOBLE PHANTASM will apply Evade to the whole team for one hit, three turns. While this is enough to survive an AOE NP, it's also more easily pierced through (Sure Hit) and afterwards it leaves your Servants still susceptible to attacks. It does apply a nice damage cut, but it's not nearly as good as a hard defense. This isn't even factoring in Merlin's Noble Phantasm either, which heals continuously for five turns (1000-2000 depending on NP level).
The only thing you can argue Skadi being better at than Merlin is going to be a straight up NP battery, and even then Merlin is better in this scenario. Skadi can give 30-50% charge to a single target, but Merlin can give 20% (60% total) to the whole party with a single skill at level 1. However, Merlin's NP is what really shines in this scenario: 5 turns, continuous NP gain, and it STACKS. It means almost infinite NP gain for the entire party.
TL;DR both are good, but Merlin is infinitely better than Skadi because the cock wizard broke the game and everyone knows it, especially himself. Skadi may be better in Quick-oriented teams but Merlin can find a use pretty much everywhere.
wtf that damage
Just note that MHXA's capability really is anti-Saber. Forgot if its also anti-Saberface but yeah. Most of that damage comes from that.
Still tho. NP every turn.
plus that whale NP 5!!!!!!!!!!!!If one wants that kind of damage in quick, PLZ WHALE
Merlin is dead
not really , remember that MHXA have anti saber effect + zerker and NP 5 , skadi really strong in quick teams but whiteout NP5 and anti X buff the damage is reduced drastically but , the quick are back has solid type of team
Although I wouldn't say merlin is dead by far, it is nice to see quick making a comeback doing things like this where they crit hard and gen fast (Gif posted by someone on gamefaqs not originally made by me) i.imgtc.com/bbmOaij.gif
Elesis Terumi there's no way Merlin is dead when there a lot of buster crit lovers out there and skadi is not that broken like Merlin shes mid tier support like tamamo and waver
lol far from it, she is just a typical quick supporter that quick units direly needed.Although not merlin tier yet, even the meme tier list ranks her at most S rank and not within the S+ tier. If it says that we say that, we pretty much have mutual understanding of skadi.
Merlin will never be dead since we will never get another servant as gamebreaking as him.
Merlin is dead
nelcis albino nahh, he has the domain over buster cards, while skadi is in the quick cards
Gian Cornejo i know he still has the best set-up
Yeah Merlin is still too op on buster meme teams
Waver can fit almost all team comps
Tamamo is the best staller with a 65% arts up, healing, CDR reduction and NP spam
Skadi is good, probably on Tamamo level
What the fuck