I'd love to get another Draco because I feel she will be useful for some bosses. But I only have a few SQ and tickets left and I don't know if anything coming up is something I'll need to get due to meta changing and whatnot. Merlin has taught me I need as much as I can get to get these guys (I put so much into getting him and still haven't).
Next on the Gold Fou list, probably in this order:
Melusine / Arceuid / Morgan -- omni-looper.
Arjuna Alter
Summer Ibuki / Summer Musashi / Loli Da Vinci / Senji Muramasa / Summer Kama -- maximize Arts refund
Sen no Rikyu, Summer Okita Alter -- maximize quick refund
Superhuman Orion
2025 Rolls:
Must rolls
Tiamat (May 2025, FGO Arcade Collab) AoE Buster Alter Ego with 50% battery and all 3 skills have Koyanskaya compatible cooldown. Skill 3's 10% NP battery at 2 CD can be used 3 times with Koyan support. -- obtained
Tezcatlipoca (Feb 2025, Lostbelt 7) -- AoE Arts assassin with 50% battery that also gives team 30% + team PfA 2 hit invincibility. -- obtained
Kukulkan (Feb 2025, Lostbelt 7) AoE Buster foreigner with 50% battery and all 3 skills have Koyanskaya compatible cooldown. -- obtained
Draco / Sodom's Beast (April 2025, FGO Arcade collab) -- ST Arts and the first Beast playable servant. -- obtained
Chloe Summer Avenger (Aug 2025, Summer Castoria banner) -- ST quick Avenger herself, but more importantly, she enables all 50% battery buster servants to loop CE-less
Melusine Summer Ruler (2025 Aug, Summer Melusine pickup) -- AoE arts ruler that's Space Ishtar v2 in terms of arts looping
Castoria Summer Berserker (Aug 2025, Summer Castoria banner) -- ST Arts Berserker with tier 1 looping along with Solemn Defense utility
Aesc / Summer Morgan (July 2025, 8th Anniversary Aesc pickup) -- AoE Buster Caster with some absurd steroids and team support, but very finnicky in all its usage (e.g. skill 3 is a 50% team NP battery, but starts with a 5 turn cooldown)
Baobhan Sith Summer Avenger (Aug 2025, Summer Melusine pickup) -- AoE buster pretender with massive stall capabilities, in addition to standard buster loop farming
Uesugi Kenshin (Dec 2025, Gudaguda pickup) -- ST Arts ruler with high damage values and self sufficiency
Pope Johanna (Feb 2025, Valentine's) -- AoE Arts Ruler with team 20% NP per turn buff, self-sustained Arts crit, and trait bonus NP damage against Evil + Human. -- obtained
Medusa Saber (Jul 2025, Medusa event) -- ST Quick Saber, the "strongest ST quick Saber with lots of utility", assuming you still want quick ST servants.
Kirei / Rasputin (Jan 2025, New Year's) -- YOROKOBE, SHOUNEN! Arts AoE Alter Ego with the same 50% battery as Kiara, but more steroids + team battery (for evil team members)? Yes please. -- obtained
Durga/Kali (Jun 2025, Paper Moon) -- AoE SSR Arts Archer that's "basically just a marginally better Summer Jeanne, which isn’t a very flattering comparison" (per Rabbit) -- still very good though, and could roll for aesthetic.
Might rolls
Ptolemy (Oct 2025, Grain Front Ptolemy pickup) -- AoE arts archer + ST buster archer -- switch between the two, but the best use of him is just stick to one mode. In each mode, there are better options
Wandjina (Sept 2025, Wandjina Tour) -- ST quick foreigner with great utility and high damage... but relies on RNG through a specialized mechanic -- buff stacks are added to self when face cards are used
Nitocris Avenger (Jan 2025, Lostbelt 7) -- AoE arts avenger in the general pool, so can be spooked. Decent stats but outclassed by limited SSRs (e.g. Space Ishtar)
Bhima (Jun 2025, Paper Moon) -- ST SSR Buster Lancer with some neat tricks, but overlaps with Enkidu. More damage vs Enkidu who has more defense.
Summer UDK-Barghest (Aug 2025, Summer Melusine pickup) -- AoE and ST arts archer, can change modes, but otherwise mediocre damage and no other niche
Duryodhana (Jun 2025, Paper Moon) -- AoE SR Arts berserker that barely refunds enough to loop 3/3/x
Nagakura Shinpachi (Nov 2025, Gudaguda pickup) -- ST Buster berserker crit with bulk
2026 Rolls:
Must rolls
Ciel (Jul 2026, Summer) -- SSR ST Buster Moon Cancer that can "AoE farm" with face cards via card shuffling skill to shuffle and generate all of her own cards, and this can be combined with BB Summer to lock + plugsuit swap to pass to someone else. Shares banner with Summer Xu Fu* Space Eresh (Jul 2026, 9th Anniversary) -- SSR AoE Arts Beast looper with 50% battery, special affection gauge mechanic, and top tier loop specs* Louhi (Dec 2026, Christmas) -- SSR AoE Quick Berserker looper that has comparable damage to Ibuki, without needing to rely on damage niche (Earth, Evil, etc)* Phantasmoon (Space Arcueid) (Dec 2025, Christmas day Phantasmoon) -- SSR ST Buster Pretender that can convert her Extra attack card into AoE* Kazuradrop (Oct 2026, Fairy Sugoroku) -- SSR AoE Quick Alter Ego that can change class (effectively neutral class farming everything), and in a Kazura + Kazura + Summer Skadi + Oberon team, can farm with exclusively batteries... since she can 100% battery* The Count of Monte Cristo (Mar 2026, Ordeal Call II) -- ST Quick Avenger with high damage, great looping, 50% battery, and defensive tools. Competes with MHXA for damage* Aozaki Aoko (Apr 2026, Mahoyo) -- SSR Foreigner with unique face-card-based play. Can abuse BB Summer card lock + Ciel card shuffle + plugsuit swap
Yamato Takeru (Jan 2026, New Year's) -- SSR AoE Arts Saber with 50% battery, high damage values, and looping consistency. A modern version of Muramasa
BB Dubai (Jul 2026, Summer) -- SSR AoE Arts Moon Cancer, that can also change her NP into a supporting NP. Slightly awkward to play with but has some niches. Shares banner with Summer XX Alter
Yui Shousetsu (Jan 2026, Fate/Samurai Remnant) -- SR Support caster that plays a similar role to Tamamo and Castoria so unnecessary if you have both, but shares banner with Ushi Gozen and Summer Musashi (both Fate/Samurai banners)
Might rolls
Alice Kuonji (Apr 2026, Mahoyo) -- SSR AoE Quick Caster with high stats and great looping, but in 2026 this is nothing remarkable
Azumi-no-Izora (Jun 2026, Dancing Dragon Castle event) -- SSR AoE Quick Alter Ego with high stats and great looping, but in 2026 this is nothing remarkable
Andromeda (Feb 2026, Valentine) -- AoE Quick rider intended for CQ play, her niche is taunt looping with high self survivability skills (e.g. 50% DEF buff in NP), and has good NP regen to support the taunt looping
Alessandro di Cagliostro (Mar 2026, Ordeal Call II) -- SR AoE Arts pretender with 50% battery, decent stats and acceptable looping, but does not stand out otherwise. Shares banner with Count of Monte Cristo
Marie Antoinette Alter (Mar 2026, Ordeal Call II) -- AoE Arts avenger in the story pool, so cannot be spooked. Decent stats but outclassed by limited SSRs (e.g. Space Ishtar)
Summer Nikitich (SR AoE Arts Lancer) and Summer Xu Fu (SR ST Buster Avenger) (Jul 2026 Summer) -- decent stats, both share banner with Ciel
Hassan of the Shining Star (Mar 2026, Ordeal Call II) -- SR AoE Arts assassin with bonus damage vs Man, but otherwise weaker loop stats and low damage output outside of niche. Shares banner with Marie Antoinette Alter and also spookable
Ushi Gozen (Jan 2026, Fate/Samurai Remnant) -- AoE Quick avenger with bad loop stats and low damage outside of niche. Roll only for aesthetic
2027 Rolls:
Must rolls
Richard I the Lionheart (Jan 2027, New Year's) -- AoE Buster Saber that under normal Koyan looping, is not much better than existing Saber options (Artoria, Altera, etc). However, see video for a BB card lock buster crit loop use case: https://youtu.be/EtAmj-FhGFI
Might rolls
Biscione (Jan 2027, Raise My Little Dragon event) -- ST Quick Lancer that's the first loopable ST damage dealer for 3-turn break bar killing (e.g. something that Scathach cannot do). Also shares banner with Kurohime.
Dante Alighieri (March 2027, Dante event, story locked) -- AoE Arts Pretender with good stats and acceptable utility, but nothing overly stand out.
Ono no Komachi (Feb 2027, Valentines) -- AoE Quick caster with good loop specs close to arts and can use BG... but it's a Quick servant on Caster which has the 0.9 powermod.
Next on the Gold Fou list, probably in this order:
Melusine / Arceuid / Morgan -- omni-looper.
Arjuna Alter
Summer Ibuki / Summer Musashi / Loli Da Vinci / Senji Muramasa / Summer Kama -- maximize Arts refund
Sen no Rikyu, Summer Okita Alter -- maximize quick refund
Superhuman Orion
2025 Rolls:
Must rolls
Tiamat (May 2025, FGO Arcade Collab) AoE Buster Alter Ego with 50% battery and all 3 skills have Koyanskaya compatible cooldown. Skill 3's 10% NP battery at 2 CD can be used 3 times with Koyan support.
Tezcatlipoca (Feb 2025, Lostbelt 7) -- AoE Arts assassin with 50% battery that also gives team 30% + team PfA 2 hit invincibility. -- obtained
Kukulkan (Feb 2025, Lostbelt 7) AoE Buster foreigner with 50% battery and all 3 skills have Koyanskaya compatible cooldown. -- obtained
Draco / Sodom's Beast (April 2025, FGO Arcade collab) -- ST Arts and the first Beast playable servant.
Chloe Summer Avenger (Aug 2025, Summer Castoria banner) -- ST quick Avenger herself, but more importantly, she enables all 50% battery buster servants to loop CE-less
Melusine Summer Ruler (2025 Aug, Summer Melusine pickup) -- AoE arts ruler that's Space Ishtar v2 in terms of arts looping
Castoria Summer Berserker (Aug 2025, Summer Castoria banner) -- ST Arts Berserker with tier 1 looping along with Solemn Defense utility
Aesc / Summer Morgan (July 2025, 8th Anniversary Aesc pickup) -- AoE Buster Caster with some absurd steroids and team support, but very finnicky in all its usage (e.g. skill 3 is a 50% team NP battery, but starts with a 5 turn cooldown)
Baobhan Sith Summer Avenger (Aug 2025, Summer Melusine pickup) -- AoE buster pretender with massive stall capabilities, in addition to standard buster loop farming
Uesugi Kenshin (Dec 2025, Gudaguda pickup) -- ST Arts ruler with high damage values and self sufficiency
Pope Johanna (Feb 2025, Valentine's) -- AoE Arts Ruler with team 20% NP per turn buff, self-sustained Arts crit, and trait bonus NP damage against Evil + Human. -- obtained
Medusa Saber (Jul 2025, Medusa event) -- ST Quick Saber, the "strongest ST quick Saber with lots of utility", assuming you still want quick ST servants.
Kirei / Rasputin (Jan 2025, New Year's) -- YOROKOBE, SHOUNEN! Arts AoE Alter Ego with the same 50% battery as Kiara, but more steroids + team battery (for evil team members)? Yes please. -- obtained
Durga/Kali (Jun 2025, Paper Moon) -- AoE SSR Arts Archer that's "basically just a marginally better Summer Jeanne, which isn’t a very flattering comparison" (per Rabbit) -- still very good though, and could roll for aesthetic.
Might rolls
Ptolemy (Oct 2025, Grain Front Ptolemy pickup) -- AoE arts archer + ST buster archer -- switch between the two, but the best use of him is just stick to one mode. In each mode, there are better options
Wandjina (Sept 2025, Wandjina Tour) -- ST quick foreigner with great utility and high damage... but relies on RNG through a specialized mechanic -- buff stacks are added to self when face cards are used
Nitocris Avenger (Jan 2025, Lostbelt 7) -- AoE arts avenger in the general pool, so can be spooked. Decent stats but outclassed by limited SSRs (e.g. Space Ishtar)
Bhima (Jun 2025, Paper Moon) -- ST SSR Buster Lancer with some neat tricks, but overlaps with Enkidu. More damage vs Enkidu who has more defense.
Summer UDK-Barghest (Aug 2025, Summer Melusine pickup) -- AoE and ST arts archer, can change modes, but otherwise mediocre damage and no other niche
Duryodhana (Jun 2025, Paper Moon) -- AoE SR Arts berserker that barely refunds enough to loop 3/3/x
Nagakura Shinpachi (Nov 2025, Gudaguda pickup) -- ST Buster berserker crit with bulk
2026 Rolls:
Must rolls
Ciel (Jul 2026, Summer) -- SSR ST Buster Moon Cancer that can "AoE farm" with face cards via card shuffling skill to shuffle and generate all of her own cards, and this can be combined with BB Summer to lock + plugsuit swap to pass to someone else. Shares banner with Summer Xu Fu* Space Eresh (Jul 2026, 9th Anniversary) -- SSR AoE Arts Beast looper with 50% battery, special affection gauge mechanic, and top tier loop specs* Louhi (Dec 2026, Christmas) -- SSR AoE Quick Berserker looper that has comparable damage to Ibuki, without needing to rely on damage niche (Earth, Evil, etc)* Phantasmoon (Space Arcueid) (Dec 2025, Christmas day Phantasmoon) -- SSR ST Buster Pretender that can convert her Extra attack card into AoE* Kazuradrop (Oct 2026, Fairy Sugoroku) -- SSR AoE Quick Alter Ego that can change class (effectively neutral class farming everything), and in a Kazura + Kazura + Summer Skadi + Oberon team, can farm with exclusively batteries... since she can 100% battery* The Count of Monte Cristo (Mar 2026, Ordeal Call II) -- ST Quick Avenger with high damage, great looping, 50% battery, and defensive tools. Competes with MHXA for damage
Aozaki Aoko (Apr 2026, Mahoyo) -- SSR Foreigner with unique face-card-based play. Can abuse BB Summer card lock + Ciel card shuffle + plugsuit swap
Yamato Takeru (Jan 2026, New Year's) -- SSR AoE Arts Saber with 50% battery, high damage values, and looping consistency. A modern version of Muramasa
BB Dubai (Jul 2026, Summer) -- SSR AoE Arts Moon Cancer, that can also change her NP into a supporting NP. Slightly awkward to play with but has some niches. Shares banner with Summer XX Alter
Yui Shousetsu (Jan 2026, Fate/Samurai Remnant) -- SR Support caster that plays a similar role to Tamamo and Castoria so unnecessary if you have both, but shares banner with Ushi Gozen and Summer Musashi (both Fate/Samurai banners)
Might rolls
Alice Kuonji (Apr 2026, Mahoyo) -- SSR AoE Quick Caster with high stats and great looping, but in 2026 this is nothing remarkable
Azumi-no-Izora (Jun 2026, Dancing Dragon Castle event) -- SSR AoE Quick Alter Ego with high stats and great looping, but in 2026 this is nothing remarkable
Andromeda (Feb 2026, Valentine) -- AoE Quick rider intended for CQ play, her niche is taunt looping with high self survivability skills (e.g. 50% DEF buff in NP), and has good NP regen to support the taunt looping
Alessandro di Cagliostro (Mar 2026, Ordeal Call II) -- SR AoE Arts pretender with 50% battery, decent stats and acceptable looping, but does not stand out otherwise. Shares banner with Count of Monte Cristo
Marie Antoinette Alter (Mar 2026, Ordeal Call II) -- AoE Arts avenger in the story pool, so cannot be spooked. Decent stats but outclassed by limited SSRs (e.g. Space Ishtar)
Summer Nikitich (SR AoE Arts Lancer) and Summer Xu Fu (SR ST Buster Avenger) (Jul 2026 Summer) -- decent stats, both share banner with Ciel
Hassan of the Shining Star (Mar 2026, Ordeal Call II) -- SR AoE Arts assassin with bonus damage vs Man, but otherwise weaker loop stats and low damage output outside of niche. Shares banner with Marie Antoinette Alter and also spookable
Ushi Gozen (Jan 2026, Fate/Samurai Remnant) -- AoE Quick avenger with bad loop stats and low damage outside of niche. Roll only for aesthetic
2027 Rolls:
Must rolls
Richard I the Lionheart (Jan 2027, New Year's) -- AoE Buster Saber that under normal Koyan looping, is not much better than existing Saber options (Artoria, Altera, etc). However, see video for a BB card lock buster crit loop use case: https://youtu.be/EtAmj-FhGFI
Biscione (Jan 2027, Raise My Little Dragon event) -- ST Quick Lancer that's the first loopable ST damage dealer for 3-turn break bar killing (e.g. something that Scathach cannot do). Also shares banner with Kurohime.
Next on the Gold Fou list, probably in this order:
Melusine / Arceuid / Morgan -- omni-looper.
Arjuna Alter
Summer Ibuki / Summer Musashi / Loli Da Vinci / Senji Muramasa / Summer Kama -- maximize Arts refund
Sen no Rikyu, Summer Okita Alter -- maximize quick refund
Superhuman Orion
2025 Rolls:
Must rolls
Tiamat (May 2025, FGO Arcade Collab) AoE Buster Alter Ego with 50% battery and all 3 skills have Koyanskaya compatible cooldown. Skill 3's 10% NP battery at 2 CD can be used 3 times with Koyan support.
Tezcatlipoca (Feb 2025, Lostbelt 7) -- AoE Arts assassin with 50% battery that also gives team 30% + team PfA 2 hit invincibility. -- obtained
Kukulkan (Feb 2025, Lostbelt 7) AoE Buster foreigner with 50% battery and all 3 skills have Koyanskaya compatible cooldown. -- obtained
Draco / Sodom's Beast (April 2025, FGO Arcade collab) -- ST Arts and the first Beast playable servant.
Chloe Summer Avenger (Aug 2025, Summer Castoria banner) -- ST quick Avenger herself, but more importantly, she enables all 50% battery buster servants to loop CE-less
Melusine Summer Ruler (2025 Aug, Summer Melusine pickup) -- AoE arts ruler that's Space Ishtar v2 in terms of arts looping
Castoria Summer Berserker (Aug 2025, Summer Castoria banner) -- ST Arts Berserker with tier 1 looping along with Solemn Defense utility
Aesc / Summer Morgan (July 2025, 8th Anniversary Aesc pickup) -- AoE Buster Caster with some absurd steroids and team support, but very finnicky in all its usage (e.g. skill 3 is a 50% team NP battery, but starts with a 5 turn cooldown)
Baobhan Sith Summer Avenger (Aug 2025, Summer Melusine pickup) -- AoE buster pretender with massive stall capabilities, in addition to standard buster loop farming
Uesugi Kenshin (Dec 2025, Gudaguda pickup) -- ST Arts ruler with high damage values and self sufficiency
Pope Johanna (Feb 2025, Valentine's) -- AoE Arts Ruler with team 20% NP per turn buff, self-sustained Arts crit, and trait bonus NP damage against Evil + Human.
Medusa Saber (Jul 2025, Medusa event) -- ST Quick Saber, the "strongest ST quick Saber with lots of utility", assuming you still want quick ST servants.
Kirei / Rasputin (Jan 2025, New Year's) -- YOROKOBE, SHOUNEN! Arts AoE Alter Ego with the same 50% battery as Kiara, but more steroids + team battery (for evil team members)? Yes please. -- obtained
Durga/Kali (Jun 2025, Paper Moon) -- AoE SSR Arts Archer that's "basically just a marginally better Summer Jeanne, which isn’t a very flattering comparison" (per Rabbit) -- still very good though, and could roll for aesthetic.
Might rolls
Ptolemy (Oct 2025, Grain Front Ptolemy pickup) -- AoE arts archer + ST buster archer -- switch between the two, but the best use of him is just stick to one mode. In each mode, there are better options
Wandjina (Sept 2025, Wandjina Tour) -- ST quick foreigner with great utility and high damage... but relies on RNG through a specialized mechanic -- buff stacks are added to self when face cards are used
Nitocris Avenger (Jan 2025, Lostbelt 7) -- AoE arts avenger in the general pool, so can be spooked. Decent stats but outclassed by limited SSRs (e.g. Space Ishtar)
Bhima (Jun 2025, Paper Moon) -- ST SSR Buster Lancer with some neat tricks, but overlaps with Enkidu. More damage vs Enkidu who has more defense.
Summer UDK-Barghest (Aug 2025, Summer Melusine pickup) -- AoE and ST arts archer, can change modes, but otherwise mediocre damage and no other niche
Duryodhana (Jun 2025, Paper Moon) -- AoE SR Arts berserker that barely refunds enough to loop 3/3/x
Nagakura Shinpachi (Nov 2025, Gudaguda pickup) -- ST Buster berserker crit with bulk
2026 Rolls:
Must rolls
Ciel (Jul 2026, Summer) -- SSR ST Buster Moon Cancer that can "AoE farm" with face cards via card shuffling skill to shuffle and generate all of her own cards, and this can be combined with BB Summer to lock + plugsuit swap to pass to someone else. Shares banner with Summer Xu Fu* Space Eresh (Jul 2026, 9th Anniversary) -- SSR AoE Arts Beast looper with 50% battery, special affection gauge mechanic, and top tier loop specs* Louhi (Dec 2026, Christmas) -- SSR AoE Quick Berserker looper that has comparable damage to Ibuki, without needing to rely on damage niche (Earth, Evil, etc)* Phantasmoon (Space Arcueid) (Dec 2025, Christmas day Phantasmoon) -- SSR ST Buster Pretender that can convert her Extra attack card into AoE* Kazuradrop (Oct 2026, Fairy Sugoroku) -- SSR AoE Quick Alter Ego that can change class (effectively neutral class farming everything), and in a Kazura + Kazura + Summer Skadi + Oberon team, can farm with exclusively batteries... since she can 100% battery
The Count of Monte Cristo (Mar 2026, Ordeal Call II) -- ST Quick Avenger with high damage, great looping, 50% battery, and defensive tools. Competes with MHXA for damage
Aozaki Aoko (Apr 2026, Mahoyo) -- SSR Foreigner with unique face-card-based play. Can abuse BB Summer card lock + Ciel card shuffle + plugsuit swap
Yamato Takeru (Jan 2026, New Year's) -- SSR AoE Arts Saber with 50% battery, high damage values, and looping consistency. A modern version of Muramasa
BB Dubai (Jul 2026, Summer) -- SSR AoE Arts Moon Cancer, that can also change her NP into a supporting NP. Slightly awkward to play with but has some niches. Shares banner with Summer XX Alter
Yui Shousetsu (Jan 2026, Fate/Samurai Remnant) -- SR Support caster that plays a similar role to Tamamo and Castoria so unnecessary if you have both, but shares banner with Ushi Gozen and Summer Musashi (both Fate/Samurai banners)
Might rolls
Alice Kuonji (Apr 2026, Mahoyo) -- SSR AoE Quick Caster with high stats and great looping, but in 2026 this is nothing remarkable
Azumi-no-Izora (Jun 2026, Dancing Dragon Castle event) -- SSR AoE Quick Alter Ego with high stats and great looping, but in 2026 this is nothing remarkable
Andromeda (Feb 2026, Valentine) -- AoE Quick rider intended for CQ play, her niche is taunt looping with high self survivability skills (e.g. 50% DEF buff in NP), and has good NP regen to support the taunt looping
Alessandro di Cagliostro (Mar 2026, Ordeal Call II) -- SR AoE Arts pretender with 50% battery, decent stats and acceptable looping, but does not stand out otherwise. Shares banner with Count of Monte Cristo
Marie Antoinette Alter (Mar 2026, Ordeal Call II) -- AoE Arts avenger in the story pool, so cannot be spooked. Decent stats but outclassed by limited SSRs (e.g. Space Ishtar)
Summer Nikitich (SR AoE Arts Lancer) and Summer Xu Fu (SR ST Buster Avenger) (Jul 2026 Summer) -- decent stats, both share banner with Ciel
Hassan of the Shining Star (Mar 2026, Ordeal Call II) -- SR AoE Arts assassin with bonus damage vs Man, but otherwise weaker loop stats and low damage output outside of niche. Shares banner with Marie Antoinette Alter and also spookable
Ushi Gozen (Jan 2026, Fate/Samurai Remnant) -- AoE Quick avenger with bad loop stats and low damage outside of niche. Roll only for aesthetic
2027 Rolls:
Must rolls
Richard I the Lionheart (Jan 2027, New Year's) -- AoE Buster Saber that under normal Koyan looping, is not much better than existing Saber options (Artoria, Altera, etc). However, see video for a BB card lock buster crit loop use case: https://youtu.be/EtAmj-FhGFI
Biscione (Jan 2027, Raise My Little Dragon event) -- ST Quick Lancer that's the first loopable ST damage dealer for 3-turn break bar killing (e.g. something that Scathach cannot do). Also shares banner with Kurohime.
Next on the Gold Fou list, probably in this order:
Melusine / Arceuid / Morgan -- omni-looper.
Arjuna Alter
Summer Ibuki / Summer Musashi / Loli Da Vinci / Senji Muramasa / Summer Kama -- maximize Arts refund
Sen no Rikyu, Summer Okita Alter -- maximize quick refund
Superhuman Orion
2025 Rolls:
Must rolls
Tiamat (May 2025, FGO Arcade Collab) AoE Buster Alter Ego with 50% battery and all 3 skills have Koyanskaya compatible cooldown. Skill 3's 10% NP battery at 2 CD can be used 3 times with Koyan support.
Tezcatlipoca (Feb 2025, Lostbelt 7) -- AoE Arts assassin with 50% battery that also gives team 30% + team PfA 2 hit invincibility. -- obtained
Kukulkan (Feb 2025, Lostbelt 7) AoE Buster foreigner with 50% battery and all 3 skills have Koyanskaya compatible cooldown.
Draco / Sodom's Beast (April 2025, FGO Arcade collab) -- ST Arts and the first Beast playable servant.
Chloe Summer Avenger (Aug 2025, Summer Castoria banner) -- ST quick Avenger herself, but more importantly, she enables all 50% battery buster servants to loop CE-less
Melusine Summer Ruler (2025 Aug, Summer Melusine pickup) -- AoE arts ruler that's Space Ishtar v2 in terms of arts looping
Castoria Summer Berserker (Aug 2025, Summer Castoria banner) -- ST Arts Berserker with tier 1 looping along with Solemn Defense utility
Aesc / Summer Morgan (July 2025, 8th Anniversary Aesc pickup) -- AoE Buster Caster with some absurd steroids and team support, but very finnicky in all its usage (e.g. skill 3 is a 50% team NP battery, but starts with a 5 turn cooldown)
Baobhan Sith Summer Avenger (Aug 2025, Summer Melusine pickup) -- AoE buster pretender with massive stall capabilities, in addition to standard buster loop farming
Uesugi Kenshin (Dec 2025, Gudaguda pickup) -- ST Arts ruler with high damage values and self sufficiency
Pope Johanna (Feb 2025, Valentine's) -- AoE Arts Ruler with team 20% NP per turn buff, self-sustained Arts crit, and trait bonus NP damage against Evil + Human.
Medusa Saber (Jul 2025, Medusa event) -- ST Quick Saber, the "strongest ST quick Saber with lots of utility", assuming you still want quick ST servants.
Kirei / Rasputin (Jan 2025, New Year's) -- YOROKOBE, SHOUNEN! Arts AoE Alter Ego with the same 50% battery as Kiara, but more steroids + team battery (for evil team members)? Yes please. -- obtained
Durga/Kali (Jun 2025, Paper Moon) -- AoE SSR Arts Archer that's "basically just a marginally better Summer Jeanne, which isn’t a very flattering comparison" (per Rabbit) -- still very good though, and could roll for aesthetic.
Might rolls
Ptolemy (Oct 2025, Grain Front Ptolemy pickup) -- AoE arts archer + ST buster archer -- switch between the two, but the best use of him is just stick to one mode. In each mode, there are better options
Wandjina (Sept 2025, Wandjina Tour) -- ST quick foreigner with great utility and high damage... but relies on RNG through a specialized mechanic -- buff stacks are added to self when face cards are used
Nitocris Avenger (Jan 2025, Lostbelt 7) -- AoE arts avenger in the general pool, so can be spooked. Decent stats but outclassed by limited SSRs (e.g. Space Ishtar)
Bhima (Jun 2025, Paper Moon) -- ST SSR Buster Lancer with some neat tricks, but overlaps with Enkidu. More damage vs Enkidu who has more defense.
Summer UDK-Barghest (Aug 2025, Summer Melusine pickup) -- AoE and ST arts archer, can change modes, but otherwise mediocre damage and no other niche
Duryodhana (Jun 2025, Paper Moon) -- AoE SR Arts berserker that barely refunds enough to loop 3/3/x
Nagakura Shinpachi (Nov 2025, Gudaguda pickup) -- ST Buster berserker crit with bulk
2026 Rolls:
Must rolls
Ciel (Jul 2026, Summer) -- SSR ST Buster Moon Cancer that can "AoE farm" with face cards via card shuffling skill to shuffle and generate all of her own cards, and this can be combined with BB Summer to lock + plugsuit swap to pass to someone else. Shares banner with Summer Xu Fu* Space Eresh (Jul 2026, 9th Anniversary) -- SSR AoE Arts Beast looper with 50% battery, special affection gauge mechanic, and top tier loop specs* Louhi (Dec 2026, Christmas) -- SSR AoE Quick Berserker looper that has comparable damage to Ibuki, without needing to rely on damage niche (Earth, Evil, etc)
Phantasmoon (Space Arcueid) (Dec 2025, Christmas day Phantasmoon) -- SSR ST Buster Pretender that can convert her Extra attack card into AoE
Kazuradrop (Oct 2026, Fairy Sugoroku) -- SSR AoE Quick Alter Ego that can change class (effectively neutral class farming everything), and in a Kazura + Kazura + Summer Skadi + Oberon team, can farm with exclusively batteries... since she can 100% battery
The Count of Monte Cristo (Mar 2026, Ordeal Call II) -- ST Quick Avenger with high damage, great looping, 50% battery, and defensive tools. Competes with MHXA for damage
Aozaki Aoko (Apr 2026, Mahoyo) -- SSR Foreigner with unique face-card-based play. Can abuse BB Summer card lock + Ciel card shuffle + plugsuit swap
Yamato Takeru (Jan 2026, New Year's) -- SSR AoE Arts Saber with 50% battery, high damage values, and looping consistency. A modern version of Muramasa
BB Dubai (Jul 2026, Summer) -- SSR AoE Arts Moon Cancer, that can also change her NP into a supporting NP. Slightly awkward to play with but has some niches. Shares banner with Summer XX Alter
Yui Shousetsu (Jan 2026, Fate/Samurai Remnant) -- SR Support caster that plays a similar role to Tamamo and Castoria so unnecessary if you have both, but shares banner with Ushi Gozen and Summer Musashi (both Fate/Samurai banners)
Might rolls
Alice Kuonji (Apr 2026, Mahoyo) -- SSR AoE Quick Caster with high stats and great looping, but in 2026 this is nothing remarkable
Azumi-no-Izora (Jun 2026, Dancing Dragon Castle event) -- SSR AoE Quick Alter Ego with high stats and great looping, but in 2026 this is nothing remarkable
Andromeda (Feb 2026, Valentine) -- AoE Quick rider intended for CQ play, her niche is taunt looping with high self survivability skills (e.g. 50% DEF buff in NP), and has good NP regen to support the taunt looping
Alessandro di Cagliostro (Mar 2026, Ordeal Call II) -- SR AoE Arts pretender with 50% battery, decent stats and acceptable looping, but does not stand out otherwise. Shares banner with Count of Monte Cristo
Marie Antoinette Alter (Mar 2026, Ordeal Call II) -- AoE Arts avenger in the story pool, so cannot be spooked. Decent stats but outclassed by limited SSRs (e.g. Space Ishtar)
Summer Nikitich (SR AoE Arts Lancer) and Summer Xu Fu (SR ST Buster Avenger) (Jul 2026 Summer) -- decent stats, both share banner with Ciel
Hassan of the Shining Star (Mar 2026, Ordeal Call II) -- SR AoE Arts assassin with bonus damage vs Man, but otherwise weaker loop stats and low damage output outside of niche. Shares banner with Marie Antoinette Alter and also spookable
Ushi Gozen (Jan 2026, Fate/Samurai Remnant) -- AoE Quick avenger with bad loop stats and low damage outside of niche. Roll only for aesthetic
2027 Rolls:
Must rolls
Richard I the Lionheart (Jan 2027, New Year's) -- AoE Buster Saber that under normal Koyan looping, is not much better than existing Saber options (Artoria, Altera, etc). However, see video for a BB card lock buster crit loop use case: https://youtu.be/EtAmj-FhGFI
Biscione (Jan 2027, Raise My Little Dragon event) -- ST Quick Lancer that's the first loopable ST damage dealer for 3-turn break bar killing (e.g. something that Scathach cannot do).
Richard I -- saw this video for him, and I find it quite amusing that he can work this way (against class advantage Lancers or Berserkers), with a very expensive team. Your thoughts on him, ferian?
First of all, apologies for the delayed response - I have been in a pretty bad headspace lately, and some complications from removing a wisdom tooth last month have not helped the matter. Some good things have happened in these last few days, and so my mood has improved a bit. ...And being able to chew properly has also been helpful, I guess.
Anyway, probable TMI aside, I'll get back to one of the aforementioned good things later on; for now, Richard...
...You may recall that I have sung praises to Roland previously. Well, Richard is a Roland who trades all of his defensive options and utility for more offense and outstanding star gain. He is very good, if a glass canon, as long as all you need is damage and more damage. Outside of his fragility the one criticism I can levy at him (and, really, it's a personal gripe more than anything) is that he, Richard I Lionhead Lionheart, who has a skill named Godspeed and whose NP animation has him accelerating madly and charging ahead of his troops, is not a Quick Servant. Lasengle really, really do not want to make a Quick New Year's Servant.
His farming potential is excellent, and I approve that he has more options for it than just the standard 2xKoyan + Oberon. Buster really needs the variety. His challenge quest performance suffers from the combo of him lacking defensive options and not meshing well with Castoria (or even Skadi, for that matter). I would probably bring Roland over him most of the time for better utility (self debuff removal, enemy buff removal, ignore invincibility), though that depends a lot on what kind of challenge quests Lasengle throw at us this year.
In terms of aesthetics I am not a great fan of his first ascension but his casual look is quite appealing, and his third ascension is rad as heck. In the Abridged words of one Emiya Shirou, I WANT THAT.
All in all, he seems fun, especially if you like seeing big numbers on the screen. Alas, I have not managed to get him in the 20+ rolls I have allowed myself to commit to his banner. Being stuck between Phantasmoon's surprise debut and Alice Kuonji's rerun as one of the New Year's banners is quite an unfortunate position to be in, at least in terms of me rolling for him more.
Speaking of Alice, that is one of the good things I have brought up at the start... though, thinking about it, the only good part of it is in the "all is well that ends well" sense - after throwing what I could at her banner with no success beyond my first ever copy of Danzo I have bitten the bullet yesterday and rolled GSSR on JP.
This roll was such a tease that I cannot believe in random chance anymore.
And it is such a good feeling when you get exactly what you want from it.
Also, now that she is NP2, Alice is a definite target for 120. She needs a few more bond levels before that, though, and I need a lot more apples before I can get the EXP for it, especially since I have just gotten Saber Okita Alter about halfway to that goal. In any case, they will both get there eventually.
Richard I -- saw this video for him, and I find it quite amusing that he can work this way (against class advantage Lancers or Berserkers), with a very expensive team. Your thoughts on him, ferian?
Next on the Gold Fou list, probably in this order:
Melusine / Arceuid / Morgan -- omni-looper.
Arjuna Alter
Summer Ibuki / Summer Musashi / Loli Da Vinci / Senji Muramasa / Summer Kama -- maximize Arts refund
Sen no Rikyu, Summer Okita Alter -- maximize quick refund
Superhuman Orion
2025 Rolls:
Must rolls
Tiamat (May 2025, FGO Arcade Collab) AoE Buster Alter Ego with 50% battery and all 3 skills have Koyanskaya compatible cooldown. Skill 3's 10% NP battery at 2 CD can be used 3 times with Koyan support.
Kukulkan (Feb 2025, Lostbelt 7) AoE Buster foreigner with 50% battery and all 3 skills have Koyanskaya compatible cooldown.
Tezcatlipoca (Feb 2025, Lostbelt 7) -- AoE Arts assassin with 50% battery that also gives team 30% + team PfA 2 hit invincibility.
Draco / Sodom's Beast (April 2025, FGO Arcade collab) -- ST Arts and the first Beast playable servant.
Chloe Summer Avenger (Aug 2025, Summer Castoria banner) -- ST quick Avenger herself, but more importantly, she enables all 50% battery buster servants to loop CE-less
Melusine Summer Ruler (2025 Aug, Summer Melusine pickup) -- AoE arts ruler that's Space Ishtar v2 in terms of arts looping
Castoria Summer Berserker (Aug 2025, Summer Castoria banner) -- ST Arts Berserker with tier 1 looping along with Solemn Defense utility
Aesc / Summer Morgan (July 2025, 8th Anniversary Aesc pickup) -- AoE Buster Caster with some absurd steroids and team support, but very finnicky in all its usage (e.g. skill 3 is a 50% team NP battery, but starts with a 5 turn cooldown)
Baobhan Sith Summer Avenger (Aug 2025, Summer Melusine pickup) -- AoE buster pretender with massive stall capabilities, in addition to standard buster loop farming
Uesugi Kenshin (Dec 2025, Gudaguda pickup) -- ST Arts ruler with high damage values and self sufficiency
Pope Johanna (Feb 2025, Valentine's) -- AoE Arts Ruler with team 20% NP per turn buff, self-sustained Arts crit, and trait bonus NP damage against Evil + Human.
Medusa Saber (Jul 2025, Medusa event) -- ST Quick Saber, the "strongest ST quick Saber with lots of utility", assuming you still want quick ST servants.
Kirei / Rasputin (Jan 2025, New Year's) -- YOROKOBE, SHOUNEN! Arts AoE Alter Ego with the same 50% battery as Kiara, but more steroids + team battery (for evil team members)? Yes please. -- obtained
Durga/Kali (Jun 2025, Paper Moon) -- AoE SSR Arts Archer that's "basically just a marginally better Summer Jeanne, which isn’t a very flattering comparison" (per Rabbit) -- still very good though, and could roll for aesthetic.
Might rolls
Ptolemy (Oct 2025, Grain Front Ptolemy pickup) -- AoE arts archer + ST buster archer -- switch between the two, but the best use of him is just stick to one mode. In each mode, there are better options
Wandjina (Sept 2025, Wandjina Tour) -- ST quick foreigner with great utility and high damage... but relies on RNG through a specialized mechanic -- buff stacks are added to self when face cards are used
Nitocris Avenger (Jan 2025, Lostbelt 7) -- AoE arts avenger in the general pool, so can be spooked. Decent stats but outclassed by limited SSRs (e.g. Space Ishtar)
Bhima (Jun 2025, Paper Moon) -- ST SSR Buster Lancer with some neat tricks, but overlaps with Enkidu. More damage vs Enkidu who has more defense.
Summer UDK-Barghest (Aug 2025, Summer Melusine pickup) -- AoE and ST arts archer, can change modes, but otherwise mediocre damage and no other niche
Duryodhana (Jun 2025, Paper Moon) -- AoE SR Arts berserker that barely refunds enough to loop 3/3/x
Nagakura Shinpachi (Nov 2025, Gudaguda pickup) -- ST Buster berserker crit with bulk
2026 Rolls:
Must rolls
Ciel (Jul 2026, Summer) -- SSR ST Buster Moon Cancer that can "AoE farm" with face cards via card shuffling skill to shuffle and generate all of her own cards, and this can be combined with BB Summer to lock + plugsuit swap to pass to someone else. Shares banner with Summer Xu Fu
Space Eresh (Jul 2026, 9th Anniversary) -- SSR AoE Arts Beast looper with 50% battery, special affection gauge mechanic, and top tier loop specs
Louhi (Dec 2026, Christmas) -- SSR AoE Quick Berserker looper that has comparable damage to Ibuki, without needing to rely on damage niche (Earth, Evil, etc)
Phantasmoon (Space Arcueid) (Dec 2025, Christmas day Phantasmoon) -- SSR ST Buster Pretender that can convert her Extra attack card into AoE
Kazuradrop (Oct 2026, Fairy Sugoroku) -- SSR AoE Quick Alter Ego that can change class (effectively neutral class farming everything), and in a Kazura + Kazura + Summer Skadi + Oberon team, can farm with exclusively batteries... since she can 100% battery
The Count of Monte Cristo (Mar 2026, Ordeal Call II) -- ST Quick Avenger with high damage, great looping, 50% battery, and defensive tools. Competes with MHXA for damage
Aozaki Aoko (Apr 2026, Mahoyo) -- SSR Foreigner with unique face-card-based play. Can abuse BB Summer card lock + Ciel card shuffle + plugsuit swap
Yamato Takeru (Jan 2026, New Year's) -- SSR AoE Arts Saber with 50% battery, high damage values, and looping consistency. A modern version of Muramasa
BB Dubai (Jul 2026, Summer) -- SSR AoE Arts Moon Cancer, that can also change her NP into a supporting NP. Slightly awkward to play with but has some niches. Shares banner with Summer XX Alter
Yui Shousetsu (Jan 2026, Fate/Samurai Remnant) -- SR Support caster that plays a similar role to Tamamo and Castoria so unnecessary if you have both, but shares banner with Ushi Gozen and Summer Musashi (both Fate/Samurai banners)
Might rolls
Alice Kuonji (Apr 2026, Mahoyo) -- SSR AoE Quick Caster with high stats and great looping, but in 2026 this is nothing remarkable
Azumi-no-Izora (Jun 2026, Dancing Dragon Castle event) -- SSR AoE Quick Alter Ego with high stats and great looping, but in 2026 this is nothing remarkable
Andromeda (Feb 2026, Valentine) -- AoE Quick rider intended for CQ play, her niche is taunt looping with high self survivability skills (e.g. 50% DEF buff in NP), and has good NP regen to support the taunt looping
Alessandro di Cagliostro (Mar 2026, Ordeal Call II) -- SR AoE Arts pretender with 50% battery, decent stats and acceptable looping, but does not stand out otherwise. Shares banner with Count of Monte Cristo
Marie Antoinette Alter (Mar 2026, Ordeal Call II) -- AoE Arts avenger in the story pool, so cannot be spooked. Decent stats but outclassed by limited SSRs (e.g. Space Ishtar)
Summer Nikitich (SR AoE Arts Lancer) and Summer Xu Fu (SR ST Buster Avenger) (Jul 2026 Summer) -- decent stats, both share banner with Ciel
Hassan of the Shining Star (Mar 2026, Ordeal Call II) -- SR AoE Arts assassin with bonus damage vs Man, but otherwise weaker loop stats and low damage output outside of niche. Shares banner with Marie Antoinette Alter and also spookable
Ushi Gozen (Jan 2026, Fate/Samurai Remnant) -- AoE Quick avenger with bad loop stats and low damage outside of niche. Roll only for aesthetic
2027 Rolls:
Must rolls
Richard I the Lionheart (Jan 2027, New Year's) -- AoE Buster Saber that under normal Koyan looping, is not much better than existing Saber options (Artoria, Altera, etc). However, see video for a BB card lock buster crit loop use case: https://youtu.be/EtAmj-FhGFI
YOROKOBE, SHOUNEN -- picked up Kirei after only ~20 single tickets! Also picked up an NP3 on Arcueid with the guaranteed SSR roll. Quite happy so far with the result!
I'm rolling the Kirei banner a few more times, to see if I can MLB the 5 star CE. After a total of 80 tickets + 150 SQ, I've pulled NP2 Kirei, an extra copy of BG, and MLB'd the new year's CE. Also got Zenobia to NP4. An excellent result!
Next on the Gold Fou list, probably in this order:
Melusine / Arceuid / Morgan -- omni-looper.
Arjuna Alter
Summer Ibuki / Summer Musashi / Loli Da Vinci / Senji Muramasa / Summer Kama -- maximize Arts refund
Sen no Rikyu, Summer Okita Alter -- maximize quick refund
Superhuman Orion
2025 Rolls:
Must rolls
Tiamat (May 2025, FGO Arcade Collab) AoE Buster Alter Ego with 50% battery and all 3 skills have Koyanskaya compatible cooldown. Skill 3's 10% NP battery at 2 CD can be used 3 times with Koyan support.
Kukulkan (Feb 2025, Lostbelt 7) AoE Buster foreigner with 50% battery and all 3 skills have Koyanskaya compatible cooldown.
Tezcatlipoca (Feb 2025, Lostbelt 7) -- AoE Arts assassin with 50% battery that also gives team 30% + team PfA 2 hit invincibility.
Draco / Sodom's Beast (April 2025, FGO Arcade collab) -- ST Arts and the first Beast playable servant.
Chloe Summer Avenger (Aug 2025, Summer Castoria banner) -- ST quick Avenger herself, but more importantly, she enables all 50% battery buster servants to loop CE-less
Melusine Summer Ruler (2025 Aug, Summer Melusine pickup) -- AoE arts ruler that's Space Ishtar v2 in terms of arts looping
Castoria Summer Berserker (Aug 2025, Summer Castoria banner) -- ST Arts Berserker with tier 1 looping along with Solemn Defense utility
Aesc / Summer Morgan (July 2025, 8th Anniversary Aesc pickup) -- AoE Buster Caster with some absurd steroids and team support, but very finnicky in all its usage (e.g. skill 3 is a 50% team NP battery, but starts with a 5 turn cooldown)
Baobhan Sith Summer Avenger (Aug 2025, Summer Melusine pickup) -- AoE buster pretender with massive stall capabilities, in addition to standard buster loop farming
Uesugi Kenshin (Dec 2025, Gudaguda pickup) -- ST Arts ruler with high damage values and self sufficiency
Pope Johanna (Feb 2025, Valentine's) -- AoE Arts Ruler with team 20% NP per turn buff, self-sustained Arts crit, and trait bonus NP damage against Evil + Human.
Medusa Saber (Jul 2025, Medusa event) -- ST Quick Saber, the "strongest ST quick Saber with lots of utility", assuming you still want quick ST servants.
Kirei / Rasputin (Jan 2025, New Year's) -- YOROKOBE, SHOUNEN! Arts AoE Alter Ego with the same 50% battery as Kiara, but more steroids + team battery (for evil team members)? Yes please. -- obtained
Durga/Kali (Jun 2025, Paper Moon) -- AoE SSR Arts Archer that's "basically just a marginally better Summer Jeanne, which isn’t a very flattering comparison" (per Rabbit) -- still very good though, and could roll for aesthetic.
Might rolls
Ptolemy (Oct 2025, Grain Front Ptolemy pickup) -- AoE arts archer + ST buster archer -- switch between the two, but the best use of him is just stick to one mode. In each mode, there are better options
Wandjina (Sept 2025, Wandjina Tour) -- ST quick foreigner with great utility and high damage... but relies on RNG through a specialized mechanic -- buff stacks are added to self when face cards are used
Nitocris Avenger (Jan 2025, Lostbelt 7) -- AoE arts avenger in the general pool, so can be spooked. Decent stats but outclassed by limited SSRs (e.g. Space Ishtar)
Bhima (Jun 2025, Paper Moon) -- ST SSR Buster Lancer with some neat tricks, but overlaps with Enkidu. More damage vs Enkidu who has more defense.
Summer UDK-Barghest (Aug 2025, Summer Melusine pickup) -- AoE and ST arts archer, can change modes, but otherwise mediocre damage and no other niche
Duryodhana (Jun 2025, Paper Moon) -- AoE SR Arts berserker that barely refunds enough to loop 3/3/x
Nagakura Shinpachi (Nov 2025, Gudaguda pickup) -- ST Buster berserker crit with bulk
2026 Rolls:
Must rolls
Ciel (Jul 2026, Summer) -- SSR ST Buster Moon Cancer that can "AoE farm" with face cards via card shuffling skill to shuffle and generate all of her own cards, and this can be combined with BB Summer to lock + plugsuit swap to pass to someone else. Shares banner with Summer Xu Fu* Space Eresh (Jul 2026, 9th Anniversary) -- SSR AoE Arts Beast looper with 50% battery, special affection gauge mechanic, and top tier loop specs* Louhi (Dec 2026, Christmas) -- SSR AoE Quick Berserker looper that has comparable damage to Ibuki, without needing to rely on damage niche (Earth, Evil, etc)* Phantasmoon (Space Arcueid) (Dec 2025, Christmas day Phantasmoon) -- SSR ST Buster Pretender that can convert her Extra attack card into AoE
Kazuradrop (Oct 2026, Fairy Sugoroku) -- SSR AoE Quick Alter Ego that can change class (effectively neutral class farming everything), and in a Kazura + Kazura + Summer Skadi + Oberon team, can farm with exclusively batteries... since she can 100% battery
The Count of Monte Cristo (Mar 2026, Ordeal Call II) -- ST Quick Avenger with high damage, great looping, 50% battery, and defensive tools. Competes with MHXA for damage
Aozaki Aoko (Apr 2026, Mahoyo) -- SSR Foreigner with unique face-card-based play. Can abuse BB Summer card lock + Ciel card shuffle + plugsuit swap
Yamato Takeru (Jan 2026, New Year's) -- SSR AoE Arts Saber with 50% battery, high damage values, and looping consistency. A modern version of Muramasa
BB Dubai (Jul 2026, Summer) -- SSR AoE Arts Moon Cancer, that can also change her NP into a supporting NP. Slightly awkward to play with but has some niches. Shares banner with Summer XX Alter
Yui Shousetsu (Jan 2026, Fate/Samurai Remnant) -- SR Support caster that plays a similar role to Tamamo and Castoria so unnecessary if you have both, but shares banner with Ushi Gozen and Summer Musashi (both Fate/Samurai banners)
Might rolls
Alice Kuonji (Apr 2026, Mahoyo) -- SSR AoE Quick Caster with high stats and great looping, but in 2026 this is nothing remarkable
Azumi-no-Izora (Jun 2026, Dancing Dragon Castle event) -- SSR AoE Quick Alter Ego with high stats and great looping, but in 2026 this is nothing remarkable
Andromeda (Feb 2026, Valentine) -- AoE Quick rider intended for CQ play, her niche is taunt looping with high self survivability skills (e.g. 50% DEF buff in NP), and has good NP regen to support the taunt looping
Alessandro di Cagliostro (Mar 2026, Ordeal Call II) -- SR AoE Arts pretender with 50% battery, decent stats and acceptable looping, but does not stand out otherwise. Shares banner with Count of Monte Cristo
Marie Antoinette Alter (Mar 2026, Ordeal Call II) -- AoE Arts avenger in the story pool, so cannot be spooked. Decent stats but outclassed by limited SSRs (e.g. Space Ishtar)
Summer Nikitich (SR AoE Arts Lancer) and Summer Xu Fu (SR ST Buster Avenger) (Jul 2026 Summer) -- decent stats, both share banner with Ciel
Hassan of the Shining Star (Mar 2026, Ordeal Call II) -- SR AoE Arts assassin with bonus damage vs Man, but otherwise weaker loop stats and low damage output outside of niche. Shares banner with Marie Antoinette Alter and also spookable
Ushi Gozen (Jan 2026, Fate/Samurai Remnant) -- AoE Quick avenger with bad loop stats and low damage outside of niche. Roll only for aesthetic
That's quite the war story there, ferian, and no surprise to hear Koyan's business dealings sucked every last SQ out of you... right to the final 3 pieces
Next on the Gold Fou list, probably in this order:
Melusine / Arceuid / Morgan -- omni-looper.
Arjuna Alter
Summer Ibuki / Summer Musashi / Loli Da Vinci / Senji Muramasa / Summer Kama -- maximize Arts refund
Sen no Rikyu, Summer Okita Alter -- maximize quick refund
Superhuman Orion
2025 Rolls:
Must rolls
Tiamat (May 2025, FGO Arcade Collab) AoE Buster Alter Ego with 50% battery and all 3 skills have Koyanskaya compatible cooldown. Skill 3's 10% NP battery at 2 CD can be used 3 times with Koyan support.
Kukulkan (Feb 2025, Lostbelt 7) AoE Buster foreigner with 50% battery and all 3 skills have Koyanskaya compatible cooldown.
Tezcatlipoca (Feb 2025, Lostbelt 7) -- AoE Arts assassin with 50% battery that also gives team 30% + team PfA 2 hit invincibility.
Draco / Sodom's Beast (April 2025, FGO Arcade collab) -- ST Arts and the first Beast playable servant.
Chloe Summer Avenger (Aug 2025, Summer Castoria banner) -- ST quick Avenger herself, but more importantly, she enables all 50% battery buster servants to loop CE-less
Melusine Summer Ruler (2025 Aug, Summer Melusine pickup) -- AoE arts ruler that's Space Ishtar v2 in terms of arts looping
Castoria Summer Berserker (Aug 2025, Summer Castoria banner) -- ST Arts Berserker with tier 1 looping along with Solemn Defense utility
Aesc / Summer Morgan (July 2025, 8th Anniversary Aesc pickup) -- AoE Buster Caster with some absurd steroids and team support, but very finnicky in all its usage (e.g. skill 3 is a 50% team NP battery, but starts with a 5 turn cooldown)
Baobhan Sith Summer Avenger (Aug 2025, Summer Melusine pickup) -- AoE buster pretender with massive stall capabilities, in addition to standard buster loop farming
Uesugi Kenshin (Dec 2025, Gudaguda pickup) -- ST Arts ruler with high damage values and self sufficiency
Pope Johanna (Feb 2025, Valentine's) -- AoE Arts Ruler with team 20% NP per turn buff, self-sustained Arts crit, and trait bonus NP damage against Evil + Human.
Medusa Saber (Jul 2025, Medusa event) -- ST Quick Saber, the "strongest ST quick Saber with lots of utility", assuming you still want quick ST servants.
Kirei / Rasputin (Jan 2025, New Year's) -- YOROKOBE, SHOUNEN! Arts AoE Alter Ego with the same 50% battery as Kiara, but more steroids + team battery (for evil team members)? Yes please.
Durga/Kali (Jun 2025, Paper Moon) -- AoE SSR Arts Archer that's "basically just a marginally better Summer Jeanne, which isn’t a very flattering comparison" (per Rabbit) -- still very good though, and could roll for aesthetic.
Might rolls
Ptolemy (Oct 2025, Grain Front Ptolemy pickup) -- AoE arts archer + ST buster archer -- switch between the two, but the best use of him is just stick to one mode. In each mode, there are better options
Wandjina (Sept 2025, Wandjina Tour) -- ST quick foreigner with great utility and high damage... but relies on RNG through a specialized mechanic -- buff stacks are added to self when face cards are used
Nitocris Avenger (Jan 2025, Lostbelt 7) -- AoE arts avenger in the general pool, so can be spooked. Decent stats but outclassed by limited SSRs (e.g. Space Ishtar)
Bhima (Jun 2025, Paper Moon) -- ST SSR Buster Lancer with some neat tricks, but overlaps with Enkidu. More damage vs Enkidu who has more defense.
Summer UDK-Barghest (Aug 2025, Summer Melusine pickup) -- AoE and ST arts archer, can change modes, but otherwise mediocre damage and no other niche
Duryodhana (Jun 2025, Paper Moon) -- AoE SR Arts berserker that barely refunds enough to loop 3/3/x
Nagakura Shinpachi (Nov 2025, Gudaguda pickup) -- ST Buster berserker crit with bulk
2026 Rolls:
Must rolls
Ciel (Jul 2026, Summer) -- SSR ST Buster Moon Cancer that can "AoE farm" with face cards via card shuffling skill to shuffle and generate all of her own cards, and this can be combined with BB Summer to lock + plugsuit swap to pass to someone else. Shares banner with Summer Xu Fu
Space Eresh (Jul 2026, 9th Anniversary) -- SSR AoE Arts Beast looper with 50% battery, special affection gauge mechanic, and top tier loop specs
Louhi (Dec 2026, Christmas) -- SSR AoE Quick Berserker looper that has comparable damage to Ibuki, without needing to rely on damage niche (Earth, Evil, etc)
Phantasmoon (Space Arcueid) (Dec 2025, Christmas day Phantasmoon) -- SSR ST Buster Pretender that can convert her Extra attack card into AoE
Kazuradrop (Oct 2026, Fairy Sugoroku) -- SSR AoE Quick Alter Ego that can change class (effectively neutral class farming everything), and in a Kazura + Kazura + Summer Skadi + Oberon team, can farm with exclusively batteries... since she can 100% battery
The Count of Monte Cristo (Mar 2026, Ordeal Call II) -- ST Quick Avenger with high damage, great looping, 50% battery, and defensive tools. Competes with MHXA for damage
Aozaki Aoko (Apr 2026, Mahoyo) -- SSR Foreigner with unique face-card-based play. Can abuse BB Summer card lock + Ciel card shuffle + plugsuit swap
Yamato Takeru (Jan 2026, New Year's) -- SSR AoE Arts Saber with 50% battery, high damage values, and looping consistency. A modern version of Muramasa
BB Dubai (Jul 2026, Summer) -- SSR AoE Arts Moon Cancer, that can also change her NP into a supporting NP. Slightly awkward to play with but has some niches. Shares banner with Summer XX Alter
Yui Shousetsu (Jan 2026, Fate/Samurai Remnant) -- SR Support caster that plays a similar role to Tamamo and Castoria so unnecessary if you have both, but shares banner with Ushi Gozen and Summer Musashi (both Fate/Samurai banners)
Might rolls
Alice Kuonji (Apr 2026, Mahoyo) -- SSR AoE Quick Caster with high stats and great looping, but in 2026 this is nothing remarkable
Azumi-no-Izora (Jun 2026, Dancing Dragon Castle event) -- SSR AoE Quick Alter Ego with high stats and great looping, but in 2026 this is nothing remarkable
Andromeda (Feb 2026, Valentine) -- AoE Quick rider intended for CQ play, her niche is taunt looping with high self survivability skills (e.g. 50% DEF buff in NP), and has good NP regen to support the taunt looping
Alessandro di Cagliostro (Mar 2026, Ordeal Call II) -- SR AoE Arts pretender with 50% battery, decent stats and acceptable looping, but does not stand out otherwise. Shares banner with Count of Monte Cristo
Marie Antoinette Alter (Mar 2026, Ordeal Call II) -- AoE Arts avenger in the story pool, so cannot be spooked. Decent stats but outclassed by limited SSRs (e.g. Space Ishtar)
Summer Nikitich (SR AoE Arts Lancer) and Summer Xu Fu (SR ST Buster Avenger) (Jul 2026 Summer) -- decent stats, both share banner with Ciel
Hassan of the Shining Star (Mar 2026, Ordeal Call II) -- SR AoE Arts assassin with bonus damage vs Man, but otherwise weaker loop stats and low damage output outside of niche. Shares banner with Marie Antoinette Alter and also spookable
Ushi Gozen (Jan 2026, Fate/Samurai Remnant) -- AoE Quick avenger with bad loop stats and low damage outside of niche. Roll only for aesthetic
These last few days have been wild. On NA side, the morning of December 18th was one filled with disappointments. Being preoccupied with other Christmas stuff, I had forgotten to finish the Christmas rerun on NA. Logging in to a message of Santa Karna departing was actually depressing. I have him from the event's original run but, still, big oof.
Then I got to rolling for Koyan again...
...I had expected nothing, and I still found myself disappointed. 😔
That day was a bummer in other ways as well, and so I all but resigned myself to never getting a Koyanskaya on NA (I do not have the restraint to save up 900 SQ, and I would not want to get her at such a cost). Still, as I was finishing up late in the evening, half-asleep, I noticed I had 3 SQ, rolled on impulse, and...
...bam - gold sparks, Assassin card, and one beautiful secretary bunny from the future who can do it all has finally found employment at my Chaldea; all it took was bits and pieces of my sanity and a 1272+ SQ sign up bonus. All in all, that day may have started out poorly but it sure ended on a high note.
Moving on to today and to JP, Waver has hit bond 14 after seeing some action in the Christmas event (he has a bond gain boost) and backlining in the 90** Bleached Earth dailies for a week or so. The SQ gained from that has been immediately put to good use in an attempt to get Louhi, or at least a 5th copy of the 5* event CE. As for how that has gone, all I can say is...
Ihana! Kiitos gacha, kiitos Waver. 😄
I have been avoiding any info about Louhi beyond her portraits to avoid getting more invested. Now that I have her and have taken a closer look, she seems to be made with love for everything Louhi and everything Finnish, from a lore-accurate third ascension and up to and including heavy metal (she does a sick [air] guitar riff in one of her skill animations), and I am loving every bit of it. I may be jumping the gun based on that knee-jerk reaction but, regardless, aesthetics-wise she has instantly become my favourite Servant released this year, right up there next to Alice, and so I am overjoyed to have her. It's been an hour, and I still have a silly happy grin on my face.
(As a side note, the bits of Finnish in the spoiler description are sponsored by Louhi's voice lines.)
...This is the best multi I have had all year, or even in several years.
...And may Luck have mercy on me if the New Year's Servant turns out to be Saber Väinämöinen.
greeksot wrote:
Sides: lost
Laughs: many
Hotel: Trivago
...This gives strong OG Orlando Furioso Astolfo vibes. I approve.
And then there is Geronimo, who may honestly be the second best option after Suzuka here.
Never would I ever have thought that Geronimo would be a good option for anything. Perhaps this bodes well for future strengthening of his remaining 2 skills.
I am at 137 boxes or so. I would like to keep farming as I am perpetually short on skill gems but I am also down to 10 gold and 20 silver apples so it's a bit of a tough ask.
Alternatively, I can use some of those apples to finally finish LB6... I have been hoping to do that before the event is over to read the story but at the same time I am not really feeling up to it. (Some of the battles in part 3 are a right pain in the butt.)
In other news, I had been using up some of the lotto embers yesterday and had gotten a good feeling due to frequent Super/Great Successes. That good feeling materialized in a Britomart, which was an even better feeling (MatsuRyu is one of my favorite F/GO artists). On the other hand, though... I feel I won't be using her much in the foreseeable future as I have no Skadis on NA and Quick teams simply do not exist* without her. I almost feel like I should have swapped to JP before rolling (JP has a Britomart banner up at the moment as well) because, surely, that is how gacha probabilities work .
*On NA, that is. JP now has at least one notable exception to this:
Kazuradrop's kit is kinda bonkers, and I am all here for it. The best part is that if you have her 5th append maxed this works with any Servant that has a targeted skill CD reduction. Summer Suzuka works best with this setup, I believe, as she can give the party 3 turns of 20% Atk, 20% Quick Up, and 20% NP damage (Kazuradrop's 2nd ascension is a Summer Mode Servant). Edison, Takeda, Takasugi, Summer Ibuki, and Summer SAlter also give a 3 turn 20% teamwide buff of a relevant variety. And then there is Geronimo, who may honestly be the second best option after Suzuka here. (Lasengle have buffed his Quick skill to be targettable and have that 1 turn of CD reduction, probably for this purpose specifically given the timing.)
...But I digress. Anyway, Kazuradrop is a lot of fun, and I want to feed her more Grails than I have.
I agree with the sentiment on bells. I currently have about 800 of them, with 100 farmed so far on this event. I'm at 100 boxes worth of lotto currency right now and haven't done any of the challenge quests yet.
Shoutbox
post #1363 by Zelkovathewise on 04.04.2025 21:55
post #1362 by greeksot on 02.04.2025 19:16
I supposed I burned my luck now.
post #1361 by Zelkovathewise on 30.03.2025 17:23
post #1360 by greeksot on 30.03.2025 13:36
(I wanted Raikou though too >_> )
post #1359 by CDB-Man on 30.03.2025 02:14
AppMedia Tier List: https://appmedia.jp/fategrandorder/1351236
周回 = looping
攻略 = challenge quest
引くべき = priority supports
Melusine/Arceuid/ Morgan -- omni-looper.Summer Ibuki/ Summer Musashi / Loli Da Vinci / Senji Muramasa / Summer Kama -- maximize Arts refundMust rolls
Tiamat (May 2025, FGO Arcade Collab) AoE Buster Alter Ego with 50% battery and all 3 skills have Koyanskaya compatible cooldown. Skill 3's 10% NP battery at 2 CD can be used 3 times with Koyan support.-- obtainedTezcatlipoca (Feb 2025, Lostbelt 7) -- AoE Arts assassin with 50% battery that also gives team 30% + team PfA 2 hit invincibility.-- obtainedKukulkan (Feb 2025, Lostbelt 7) AoE Buster foreigner with 50% battery and all 3 skills have Koyanskaya compatible cooldown.-- obtainedDraco / Sodom's Beast (April 2025, FGO Arcade collab) -- ST Arts and the first Beast playable servant.-- obtainedPope Johanna (Feb 2025, Valentine's) -- AoE Arts Ruler with team 20% NP per turn buff, self-sustained Arts crit, and trait bonus NP damage against Evil + Human.-- obtainedKirei / Rasputin (Jan 2025, New Year's) -- YOROKOBE, SHOUNEN! Arts AoE Alter Ego with the same 50% battery as Kiara, but more steroids + team battery (for evil team members)? Yes please.-- obtainedMight rolls
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post #1358 by greeksot on 12.03.2025 20:48
XD
post #1357 by CDB-Man on 08.02.2025 04:18
AppMedia Tier List: https://appmedia.jp/fategrandorder/1351236
周回 = looping
攻略 = challenge quest
引くべき = priority supports
Melusine/Arceuid/ Morgan -- omni-looper.Summer Ibuki/ Summer Musashi / Loli Da Vinci / Senji Muramasa / Summer Kama -- maximize Arts refundMust rolls
Tezcatlipoca (Feb 2025, Lostbelt 7) -- AoE Arts assassin with 50% battery that also gives team 30% + team PfA 2 hit invincibility.-- obtainedKukulkan (Feb 2025, Lostbelt 7) AoE Buster foreigner with 50% battery and all 3 skills have Koyanskaya compatible cooldown.-- obtainedPope Johanna (Feb 2025, Valentine's) -- AoE Arts Ruler with team 20% NP per turn buff, self-sustained Arts crit, and trait bonus NP damage against Evil + Human.-- obtainedKirei / Rasputin (Jan 2025, New Year's) -- YOROKOBE, SHOUNEN! Arts AoE Alter Ego with the same 50% battery as Kiara, but more steroids + team battery (for evil team members)? Yes please.-- obtainedMight rolls
Must rolls
Might rolls
Must rolls
Might rolls
post #1356 by CDB-Man on 25.01.2025 04:30
post #1355 by CDB-Man on 22.01.2025 04:39
AppMedia Tier List: https://appmedia.jp/fategrandorder/1351236
周回 = looping
攻略 = challenge quest
引くべき = priority supports
Melusine/Arceuid/ Morgan -- omni-looper.Summer Ibuki/ Summer Musashi / Loli Da Vinci / Senji Muramasa / Summer Kama -- maximize Arts refundMust rolls
Tezcatlipoca (Feb 2025, Lostbelt 7) -- AoE Arts assassin with 50% battery that also gives team 30% + team PfA 2 hit invincibility.-- obtainedKukulkan (Feb 2025, Lostbelt 7) AoE Buster foreigner with 50% battery and all 3 skills have Koyanskaya compatible cooldown.-- obtainedKirei / Rasputin (Jan 2025, New Year's) -- YOROKOBE, SHOUNEN! Arts AoE Alter Ego with the same 50% battery as Kiara, but more steroids + team battery (for evil team members)? Yes please.-- obtainedMight rolls
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Might rolls
Must rolls
Might rolls
post #1354 by CDB-Man on 15.01.2025 13:20
AppMedia Tier List: https://appmedia.jp/fategrandorder/1351236
周回 = looping
攻略 = challenge quest
引くべき = priority supports
Melusine/Arceuid/ Morgan -- omni-looper.Summer Ibuki/ Summer Musashi / Loli Da Vinci / Senji Muramasa / Summer Kama -- maximize Arts refundMust rolls
Tezcatlipoca (Feb 2025, Lostbelt 7) -- AoE Arts assassin with 50% battery that also gives team 30% + team PfA 2 hit invincibility.-- obtainedKirei / Rasputin (Jan 2025, New Year's) -- YOROKOBE, SHOUNEN! Arts AoE Alter Ego with the same 50% battery as Kiara, but more steroids + team battery (for evil team members)? Yes please.-- obtainedMight rolls
Must rolls
Might rolls
Must rolls
Might rolls
post #1353 by CDB-Man on 12.01.2025 22:51
post #1352 by ferian on 12.01.2025 02:32
Richard I -- saw this video for him, and I find it quite amusing that he can work this way (against class advantage Lancers or Berserkers), with a very expensive team. Your thoughts on him, ferian?
First of all, apologies for the delayed response - I have been in a pretty bad headspace lately, and some complications from removing a wisdom tooth last month have not helped the matter. Some good things have happened in these last few days, and so my mood has improved a bit. ...And being able to chew properly has also been helpful, I guess.
Anyway, probable TMI aside, I'll get back to one of the aforementioned good things later on; for now, Richard...
...You may recall that I have sung praises to Roland previously. Well, Richard is a Roland who trades all of his defensive options and utility for more offense and outstanding star gain. He is very good, if a glass canon, as long as all you need is damage and more damage. Outside of his fragility the one criticism I can levy at him (and, really, it's a personal gripe more than anything) is that he, Richard I
LionheadLionheart, who has a skill named Godspeed and whose NP animation has him accelerating madly and charging ahead of his troops, is not a Quick Servant. Lasengle really, really do not want to make a Quick New Year's Servant.His farming potential is excellent, and I approve that he has more options for it than just the standard 2xKoyan + Oberon. Buster really needs the variety. His challenge quest performance suffers from the combo of him lacking defensive options and not meshing well with Castoria (or even Skadi, for that matter). I would probably bring Roland over him most of the time for better utility (self debuff removal, enemy buff removal, ignore invincibility), though that depends a lot on what kind of challenge quests Lasengle throw at us this year.
In terms of aesthetics I am not a great fan of his first ascension but his casual look is quite appealing, and his third ascension is rad as heck. In the Abridged words of one Emiya Shirou, I WANT THAT.
All in all, he seems fun, especially if you like seeing big numbers on the screen. Alas, I have not managed to get him in the 20+ rolls I have allowed myself to commit to his banner. Being stuck between Phantasmoon's surprise debut and Alice Kuonji's rerun as one of the New Year's banners is quite an unfortunate position to be in, at least in terms of me rolling for him more.
Speaking of Alice, that is one of the good things I have brought up at the start... though, thinking about it, the only good part of it is in the "all is well that ends well" sense - after throwing what I could at her banner with no success beyond my first ever copy of Danzo I have bitten the bullet yesterday and rolled GSSR on JP.
This roll was such a tease that I cannot believe in random chance anymore.
And it is such a good feeling when you get exactly what you want from it.
Also, now that she is NP2, Alice is a definite target for 120. She needs a few more bond levels before that, though, and I need a lot more apples before I can get the EXP for it, especially since I have just gotten Saber Okita Alter about halfway to that goal. In any case, they will both get there eventually.
post #1351 by CDB-Man on 02.01.2025 06:26
AppMedia Tier List: https://appmedia.jp/fategrandorder/1351236
周回 = looping
攻略 = challenge quest
引くべき = priority supports
Melusine/Arceuid/ Morgan -- omni-looper.Summer Ibuki/ Summer Musashi / Loli Da Vinci / Senji Muramasa / Summer Kama -- maximize Arts refundMust rolls
Kirei / Rasputin (Jan 2025, New Year's) -- YOROKOBE, SHOUNEN! Arts AoE Alter Ego with the same 50% battery as Kiara, but more steroids + team battery (for evil team members)? Yes please.-- obtainedMight rolls
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post #1350 by CDB-Man on 01.01.2025 07:43
I'm rolling the Kirei banner a few more times, to see if I can MLB the 5 star CE.After a total of 80 tickets + 150 SQ, I've pulled NP2 Kirei, an extra copy of BG, and MLB'd the new year's CE. Also got Zenobia to NP4. An excellent result!AppMedia Tier List: https://appmedia.jp/fategrandorder/1351236
周回 = looping
攻略 = challenge quest
引くべき = priority supports
Melusine/Arceuid/ Morgan -- omni-looper.Summer Ibuki/ Summer Musashi / Loli Da Vinci / Senji Muramasa / Summer Kama -- maximize Arts refundMust rolls
Kirei / Rasputin (Jan 2025, New Year's) -- YOROKOBE, SHOUNEN! Arts AoE Alter Ego with the same 50% battery as Kiara, but more steroids + team battery (for evil team members)? Yes please.-- obtainedMight rolls
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Might rolls
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Might rolls
post #1349 by CDB-Man on 22.12.2024 00:52
AppMedia Tier List: https://appmedia.jp/fategrandorder/1351236
周回 = looping
攻略 = challenge quest
引くべき = priority supports
Melusine/Arceuid/ Morgan -- omni-looper.Summer Ibuki/ Summer Musashi / Loli Da Vinci / Senji Muramasa / Summer Kama -- maximize Arts refundMust rolls
Might rolls
Must rolls
Might rolls
Must rolls
Might rolls
post #1348 by ferian on 21.12.2024 23:57
Then I got to rolling for Koyan again...
...I had expected nothing, and I still found myself disappointed. 😔
That day was a bummer in other ways as well, and so I all but resigned myself to never getting a Koyanskaya on NA (I do not have the restraint to save up 900 SQ, and I would not want to get her at such a cost). Still, as I was finishing up late in the evening, half-asleep, I noticed I had 3 SQ, rolled on impulse, and...
...bam - gold sparks, Assassin card, and one beautiful secretary bunny from the future who can do it all has finally found employment at my Chaldea; all it took was bits and pieces of my sanity and a 1272+ SQ sign up bonus. All in all, that day may have started out poorly but it sure ended on a high note.
Moving on to today and to JP, Waver has hit bond 14 after seeing some action in the Christmas event (he has a bond gain boost) and backlining in the 90** Bleached Earth dailies for a week or so. The SQ gained from that has been immediately put to good use in an attempt to get Louhi, or at least a 5th copy of the 5* event CE. As for how that has gone, all I can say is...
I have been avoiding any info about Louhi beyond her portraits to avoid getting more invested. Now that I have her and have taken a closer look, she seems to be made with love for everything Louhi and everything Finnish, from a lore-accurate third ascension and up to and including heavy metal (she does a sick [air] guitar riff in one of her skill animations), and I am loving every bit of it. I may be jumping the gun based on that knee-jerk reaction but, regardless, aesthetics-wise she has instantly become my favourite Servant released this year, right up there next to Alice, and so I am overjoyed to have her. It's been an hour, and I still have a silly happy grin on my face.
(As a side note, the bits of Finnish in the spoiler description are sponsored by Louhi's voice lines.)
...This is the best multi I have had all year, or even in several years.
...And may Luck have mercy on me if the New Year's Servant turns out to be Saber Väinämöinen.
Sides: lost
Laughs: many
Hotel: Trivago
...This gives strong OG Orlando Furioso Astolfo vibes. I approve.
post #1347 by greeksot on 28.11.2024 20:44
Sides: lost
Laughs: many
Hotel: Trivago
post #1346 by CDB-Man on 21.11.2024 04:35
Never would I ever have thought that Geronimo would be a good option for anything. Perhaps this bodes well for future strengthening of his remaining 2 skills.
post #1345 by ferian on 19.11.2024 17:52
Alternatively, I can use some of those apples to finally finish LB6... I have been hoping to do that before the event is over to read the story but at the same time I am not really feeling up to it. (Some of the battles in part 3 are a right pain in the butt.)
In other news, I had been using up some of the lotto embers yesterday and had gotten a good feeling due to frequent Super/Great Successes. That good feeling materialized in a Britomart, which was an even better feeling (MatsuRyu is one of my favorite F/GO artists). On the other hand, though... I feel I won't be using her much in the foreseeable future as I have no Skadis on NA and Quick teams simply do not exist* without her. I almost feel like I should have swapped to JP before rolling (JP has a Britomart banner up at the moment as well)
because, surely, that is how gacha probabilities work.*On NA, that is. JP now has at least one notable exception to this:
Kazuradrop's kit is kinda bonkers, and I am all here for it. The best part is that if you have her 5th append maxed this works with any Servant that has a targeted skill CD reduction. Summer Suzuka works best with this setup, I believe, as she can give the party 3 turns of 20% Atk, 20% Quick Up, and 20% NP damage (Kazuradrop's 2nd ascension is a Summer Mode Servant). Edison, Takeda, Takasugi, Summer Ibuki, and Summer SAlter also give a 3 turn 20% teamwide buff of a relevant variety. And then there is Geronimo, who may honestly be the second best option after Suzuka here. (Lasengle have buffed his Quick skill to be targettable and have that 1 turn of CD reduction, probably for this purpose specifically given the timing.)
...But I digress. Anyway, Kazuradrop is a lot of fun, and I want to feed her more Grails than I have.
post #1344 by CDB-Man on 17.11.2024 09:30