FGO Servant Spotlight: Lady Avalon (Proto Merlin) Analysis, Guide and Tips 

Nothing against doing it live but the scripted versions feel smoother.

hmm... I respect that you want to try something new but I'd say I like the old format more since it's recorded video and scripted, you have more time to arrange and choose wording more clear and concise information.

I'm just glad the servant reviews are back! Felt like we haven't had one in a long time.

Like the scripted version better since you do annotations that help me know what skills to level up, first and the grade you give at the end is also helpful annotated.

Past me: hi future me Current me: hey that's the guy who's everywhere (from what i hear from literally everyone) Future me: what da fu-

I dont have a merlin so im gonna roll for her. Im gonna go np2. Delaying this next 3 5*s is a no-no coz there are other servants that i also want next year.

Personally, I don't know how you see her as amalgamation of Waver, Tamamo, Merlin, when she is an Arts sidegrade to normal Merlin. I somewhat understand Tamamo for the Arts buff but Waver? Lady Avalon's first skill is just Merlin's third skill but Arts, same numbers and everything. I feel Plushie's video on Lady Avalon paints a better picture of her pros and cons. For example, while her NP is now only 5% per turn for 3 turns, the fact that she buff Arts means she has better synergy with an Arts DPS and another Arts Support. This means more Arts chains and thus more NP. Also you do want to spam her NP, that's the main point of Merlin and Lady Avalon.

I actually got Lady Avalon and Gareth while watching this spotlight in the same roll! Amazing! Keep up the good work Oni!

Wish me luck folks i'll be going for all of them again this year too. Last year i got everyone except Douman.

I prefer pre-recorded to stream because it's more clear and also more concise. Best of luck to those rolling for her. I'm still on the fence about whether I will or not. Too many good servants coming up and not enough SQ.

Respect for trying something new G&A but the recorded ones are much better bro. All the best

I mean I feel like the sentiment of 'arts side grade' for Merlin holds true but a massive thing I feel that is understated because she's a pretender you don't have to worry about a random rider crit melting her HP bar giving her a edge over Merlin and other caster supports but that still might fall in the bucket of niche CQ use

I have 800SQ and 100 tickets and I am dumping it all for NP5 Lady Avalon. I have NP5 Castoria max skills and appends and im currently leveling her to 120 and i want to do the same to lady avalon

Nope, saving for Ibuki. I still mainly run an arts team (I have my castoria, but missed out on Oberon) and I'm not sure how viable quick is in NA atm. Still, good luck to all who are rolling for her.

She's just Arts Merlin with some tweaks. Those tweaks can be both good and not as good but she's still really good especially if you don't already have a Merlin of your own

YOU DID NOT CAL MY BABY TAILOC "WHATS HER FACE"

Looking forward to rolling for Lady Avalon since she's so beautiful and has twintails. I know the other summer servants are better than her but I don't even have Castoria and I could use a new fancy arts support. I've got a nice chunk of SQ too since I lucksacked Arc so I can freely roll for Lady Avalon while having a decent amount to try for Ruler Skadi.

WE ARE SO BACK BABY!

arcueid is one time only, merlin comes back! :D

I caved on Arcuied got her np3. Now all I got is the equivalent of 60 sq and a dream of lady avalon and summer Scathach. And maybe someone else from the summer banners

You have a massive backlog of units that have come out to catch up on.

Sadly I will only be rolling a couple multies for her, since Ibuki is my main target.

Managed to get all the summer servants on JP two years ago and as busted as Ibuki and Skadi are, I'm going to prioritize Lady Avalon over them. I found her to be quiet fun to use in various team comps and having a pretty strong alternative to Castoria is always good.

Even with or without Merlin she's amazing. TBH when she first came out majority of people don't even get what she meant to do. Long skill time? Yeah because she can literally prevent 2 NP in a row! It prevents NP spam so of fking course the cool down is high... This is the same as Merlin protection but twice in a row. This mean people should calculate the value of its cool down as divide by 2. Her cool down value is 4-5... Also her NP is better than Merlin. Max HP > Healing That's a fact. It also help your defence too.

Back on Nerofest rerun, i use a triple support team with Skadi, Tamamo and Castoria against the Hassans. Basically Skadi is there to give extra survivability with her evade and anti-instant death and giving critical damage to the party. Her kit reminds me of the same vibes as that run, though youll probably run her as the main Card Damage dealer when against Knight Classes, and making the other ones the Card Damage dealer against Cavalries. Boubica has some interesting synergy with Castoria, and Merlina and with her star weight, she can abuse the arts crit and continually use her NP to Beef up the team. Her weakness to assasins can be covered by castoria, and Merlina can handle the knight classes.

FGO summer priority for me: 1.) Ruler Skadi 2.) Lady Avalon 3.) Summer Ibuki

I love G&A servant reviews, I enjoy watching them. Over like the past 6 or so years, it's been another source of excitement! I wish we shared the same feelings of Lady Avalon 😭 I feel almost the exact opposite. Just like how Castoria was a 100% must-have servant, I think Lady Avalon is a 100% must have addition to Castoria. They are like 2 puzzle pieces made to lock together; The DLC to Elden Ring, The Tails to Sonic, The Luigi to Mario, The Worms to Sakura, The Kirei to Kiritsugu... Hahaha LADY AVALON NP5 SUPREMACYYYYYY!!!!! (Thanks for your vids Mr. Sober Oni 🫡)

I actually like building Pretenders. No skill gems needed. Usually just have to worry about QP.

The NP charge on her NP is 5~10 for 3 turns, scaling with level. She needs to be NP3 to give more NP than Merlin... Still, she s a really good support.

waiting for your summer skadi review

No. She's a better Merlin because she's arts focused and you didn't emphasize how useful her combo of overcharge level increase with castoria really is.

Gonna be pulling for Wu, Ibuki and Skadi. I want to summon Succ but four might be pushing it too far this year

dang.. the servant i wanted a review of never happened great review as usual though!🍻

The problem with rolling her next year is that next year's servant are incredible. And will pull her even further down the line. Instead of fighting yourself to say yes, just be honest and say no. Me, myself I np4ed her and she's been great so far

I figure you can live the dialouge but then edit with game play for the non live crowd, but I figure that's just about the same about of work lol

my shells will never recover

Yo, SoberOni! ✋️ ... Well, this is an... *interesting* way to make the Servant Reviews. 🤨 Not sure if I'll get used to it eventually, but I'll definitely miss the charts you used to pop up. _BUT,_ we'll see where we go from this! 😊 My main target this upcoming Summer is Erice and if I get Ibuki as well, so much the better! If by so.e miracle of GOD I still end up with some Quartz remaining by the end, well... I'm torn between trying my luck on getting Lady Avalon or Summer Skadi.

Man I've never heard so much hate and yet praise for a single servant before in one video.

Honestly the problem with Lady Avalon is really not that she's bad. Rather its the gacha pool. Like I will be real... Everyone should get the Berserker one first... Once that happens you can choose to get her since Lady Avalon is amazing for summer Berserker.

Her ascension materials are nuts, i got her on my f2p and there's no way i can get her up where i'm at in the game without blowing all my white prisms plus more

Thanks for helping me make sure if I wanted her or Skadi Ruler. I'm definetively gonna go for Skadi now. Btw, I didn't saw if you made the Arc spotlight... if you haven't can we have it? Please? :3

Appreciate the confirmation of what I was thinking of doing. Do a multi or 3 and then pity it up for Skadi if need be ~~RIP the 120 quartz on x2 Xu Fu but no Arc...~~

Day one of summer banner: pulled both Lady A and Saber Gareth. Wondering how much I strained my luck stat today.

Her NP gives 5% charge at NP1. I plan on rolling for her as she is my main target. If I have anything left, I'll toss a few rolls towards Summer Skadi (she's good but she doesn't fix Quick as a card type, so not a main priority for me).

Yeah I was thinking of getting S Ibuki instead of Lady Avalon due to the OP arts loops. Since I have majority of the META supports (I only lack CasterTamamo), I'll probably go S Ibuki and Ruler Skadi and save for Mama Tiamat and Draken nxt year.

The live could be fine as a podcast but the Stream HUD is quite distracting for a video that's supposed to be about absorbing information....

Oni, what are you talking about with the 3rd skill. It's a team-wide invul, of course you use it on the turn the enemy is about to NP. The point of the delay there is it takes the enemy longer in the next cycle to get their NP. You don't have to delay the use of the 3rd skill the way you implied in the video here. Just use it the turn the enemy can NP, that's it. Unless you are in a farming comp and you just need overcharge, in which case you can use it whenever just as a battery for Lady Avalon. Edit: Okay Oni, you are tripping on some stuff now, how is Arc the best buster dps in the game? How? You need her NP3 just to do enough damage to clear the most basic farming nodes out there, she doesn't even come close to at least a dozen much better buster DPS servants currently in the game, people like Arjuna Alter or Melusine (how are you forgetting Melusine, who does much more damage at NP1 than Arc, even with neutral damage AGAINST avengers, lol, who Arc does full damage to). And I said a dozen other buster servants, but I bet there are even more than that who are better at just about anything they do. Now sure, that doesn't mean Arc is bad, not by any stretch, but she absolutely is not worthy of the praise you are throwing at her in this video. Lady Avalon is a better investment for a player looking for meta pulls than Arc, and it's not even close. So if people go meta over waifu (which they shouldn't) you just skip Arc's banner and go for summer, prioritizing those servants instead. Oh and Castoria is the best arts servant, not summer Ibuki.

Look who clanked his way back up from his grave. [Sorry gotta roast you for the hiatus, welcome back; I missed these. Hope you're doing well!]

She is literally Merlin, for Arts

The way I see it Merlin has been a bastard and will not appear to me in any banner I have rolled in so all I can do is see that as a sign that I need to at least try one or two multis to see if I can get lady Avalon since she is arguably on similar footing as him. Plus my Castoria is getting so tired she needs someone to back her up!!…lol

I’ve been saving enough to mega-roll all 4 of this summer’s stars. Let’s GOOOOOO

Oh nice merlin arts Automatic roll I honestly hope that u can get my target servants since im done with the "roll for waifu" phase xD Musashi zerk, galaxy rin and probably her aaaa

So right now my go to stall/cq team is: Merlin+2030 Jalter+aerial drive Jeanne+magical gurl sapphire Mash Herc+bond ce Random support Im thinking if i can get proto merlin ill build a team that swaps merlin for her, obviously. And id swap jalter for Yang gui fei with honey lake

No Memelin or Castoria, she's my main priority and nobody has managed to convince me otherwise.

Not rolling for ibuki, so everything in for lady avalon.

Where is Summer Kama Spotlight? Please its been almost a year. XP

Im planning to roll for proto merlin. good luck to us FGO NA masters

I never got any of the LB6 Supports, but I am saving my 700+ SQ for Lady Avalon. I want her specifically to help strengthen my Melusine. If all goes well, I'll get at least two copies of her before hitting zero SQ, but I'll settle for even just one copy.

430 sq ready i be buying more and saving more lately on lady avalon is the one Servant want the must.

Tbh I rolled for her because I had nearly 1k SQ, she's a Pretender and honestly... Really controversial opinion but I don't like Oberon's kit (got her NP3 with 55 pulls though)

Roll for her.

Ah yes, the only Servant left for my pity to score for this year to fuel my Arts looping addiction sponsored by Castoria & the loopers that are in my account(Muramasa,Jeanne,Percival,Habetrot,Sieg,Ranmaru X,Taisui, and to some degree Oui).

I don't have current plans to pull for her myself. I don't feel like I need her. My plan is to pull on melusine's rerun banner later on in the year. I have NP1 i'm just looking for NP2. I will NOT be pulling again until summer 8 because multiple copies of Summer Melusine and baobnan sith are calling my name. Luckily arc came home in 8 tickets.

TLDR: She'll never be your primary support, but she'll always be your secondary support.

I'm rolling for her hard on my f2p alt account because I'm trying to assemble some kind of immortal team. Got Castoria, got Himiko on the Destiny roll, and looking for NP gauge and HP support. Or... am I already there if I have Miyu? Hmm... I may need to test that before rolling.

Live is for the hardcore, scripted is for the casuals

the servant spothlights is back lest gooooo... any chance the skipped ones get a video too?

annoying having to wait 2 years for NA to get the content.

This is where my tickets are going; I guess.

Well you said it, she is a broken whale servant. If she is np5 she makes merlin him look laughable bad. Otherwise, she is bit pointless. In my case, I do think she is great bc I already have a bunch of good arts dps, have all art supports and also really enjoy doing more variety comps, and she helps with variety bc she can enable servants that depend on arts, heal, and survivability and overcharge! So having extra supports can always be good for long time players. I'LL also roll for skadi, just hoping my 1800 sq is enough to get both and I can keep a bit for next servant banners that I'm looking forward (Rasputin, even know he is not that great, mother harlot, tiamat and aoko. Happily, I have a lot of time). Also I Don't think ibuki is a good investment if you have s.ishtar/musashi berserker/other good aoe arts dps. Of course she hits a bit harder, but at np1, it's not that far off, if I remember correctly (specially if out of her niche). So yeah.

No proper Arc Servant Spotlight, I cry q_q

So for someone who spend around 230 sq for Castoria and not getting her plus around 400 sq for Koyan dark do i need to roll for her?

Wow, she was the easiest servant for me to level, I have plenty of other materials, but never enough of the 3 gems

If you had to choose between prioritsing Lady Avalon over Summer Ibuki, which would you choose? I've got Space Ishtar at NP4 along with Castoria and Tammamo Caster and thus am wondering if NP1 Ibuki-Douji is worth getting or I should focus on Lady Avalon instead.

Isn't she like the arts version of our regular merlin ?

Only servant i wanted dis yr before i go back to saving for zerktoria

As of this day forward, Lady Avalon shall be known as Merlina 🧙‍♀️, Oni himself confirmed it by calling her Merlin (close to Merlina) 😂

I have only Tamamo and lower rarity dedicated arts supports, but have Morgan, Summer Musashi and Skadi and also lack Castoria and Merlin. Would that justify rolling LA over the two banners?

Idk who to get. Should i go for her or summer skadi

It feels kinda unfair to compare her to Castoria instead of making clear that she works WITH Castoria, specially with her overcharge.

8:50 isn't it 5%?

Where's the Arcueid spotlight? Wake up

The original spotlight is better with the gameplay in the background...

I dont have Merlin but have Castoria, Skadi(caster), Koyanskaya of Light. Should I go for Proto Merlin or just go Berserker Ibuki and Ruler Skadi?

So what you're saying is... Roll for her, right? -Me, a simp

Main reason I'll roll for her is because: 1. Proto Merlin 2. Really good for Muramasa memes 3. My Castoria is Bond 14 on both accounts now.

idc this is the canon Merlin for me XD

Gonna take a break After losing 800sq..

I'm still conflicted on whether I should get her or Summer Skadi 😢

Can respect the work but prefer the older format

This version was not good. Also weird saying she's a fusion of 3 servants when she is just simply Arts Merlin.

Had to go Pity for one Arc, it's a miracle I not only reached Pity, I managed to build 3.5 multis since then. So about one multi for each banner. My luck has never been great, 7 years and no double 5 multi's or anything, so I can only pray paying for the GSSR and the Destiny will "get me some luck" and I can maybe pull one or two of them.

Better late than never, I guess.

So she is basically Merlin but for arts?

Arty needs his gremlin around to keep things interesting for him. Im definitely rolling for her as one of 3 arty bros on NA.

I like the script videos better also

So no Arcueid spotlight

Bro remembered FGO exists and came to do servant reviews for once before disappearing from FGO scene again.

Respect for You man but scripted versions are better. Appreciate the Review and great content though

I'm aiming for skadi and Gareth and wu zetian summer this year.. wish me luck