Unless Ruler Skadi ends up being the support Quick needs, Erice is the gacha servant I want most for this summer. Not only is she adorable, but she's also quite good as a universal boss-slayer, especially when a lot of bosses are servants. Apparently, she has the 6th highest NP damage in the game (according to the NP Damage List spreadsheet), which is insane for a 4-star!
Her downside though is that she's an Avenger, meaning it's still more damage to use a class that has advantage, and Ruler enemies are extremely rare. This is a similar weakness that Archetype Earth has as a Moon Cancer. But yeah, she can do a lot cuz the Servant damage buff is a multiplicative buff in most cases.
If you actually use her you will know for sure it's not a downside at all. Because her damage is so high it's pretty much the same as her having full class advantage damage against every servant in the game with her servant mod + SE active. Just do some quick calculations yourself to confirm, with those mods her neutral damage is as high as Vlad's zerk damage at the same NP level, and he's a best-in-class hardest hitting universal ST berserker you can bring in every fight, and if you fight Ruler or Berserker bosses, which are not rare at all, her damage would double Vlad, because even her neutral damage is already the same as Vlad berserker damage to begin with. She's pretty much an ST with universal class advantage damage agains all servant enemy in the game, and almost 4x class advantage against Berserker or Ruler.
Tbh neutral class is not a problem for most of the popular extra class servants. Luvia and s.Davincy hits hard af on neutral, decent damage comparable to other Np1 servants. And s kama pulls the ST dmg numbers on an AoE NP on wave 3 wich is fucking crazy if you ask me. Also Arcueid has the benefit of being able to use BG, wich puts her damage on high enough to beat the extreme gates and exp nodes with no problem (maybe you'll need some face cards on last wave) EDIT and technically being the fastest buster farmer for 3/3/3 nodes since she doesn't needs plug suit to 3T farm (though idk much about caster cu who doesn't need oberon as well)
@@SakuraM23 I like her a lot (Haven't read the LN but hey the FA art for both Erice's and her event were enough for me) But Arcueid is a way higher priority for me and I usually just grail 4 stars to 90
Ruler Skadi doesn't seem as power as I thought she'd be, but I'm still gonna prioritize her, if I got SQ to spare I'm definitely pulling that banner just for Erice
Sorry but as someone who isn't really familiar with her original manga and only knows her in FGO... her event in FGO was terrible and her character in it was really unlikable in it. I don't really like her at all. Also her Welfare version was rather bad as a playable unit.
@@Alexzander1989 if you say her event gimmicks,maybe I can agree with you but I don't have a problem with the event As for her character,if you read the original ln,you will know her character better rather than how fgo introduce her And for the welfare gameplay,not literally bad as long the insta death didn't occur and sometimes I use her as a loopable unit alongside castoria and protomerlin/oberon
@@SakuraM23 The board game gimmick and dice rolling was a pain in the ass and far more tedious than it honestly needed to be. Story wise, this whole thing with Erice could have been resolved from the start of they’d just shown her the game piece from the get go. As soon as our lost child showed it to her, she chilled out and the issue with Chaldea’s master was over. As for her character and the original source material. I’m not particularly interested in checking out the original manga she hails from. She made a bad first impression with me and I’m not really interested in seeing more of her. As for gameplay, I don’t like her kit and the instant kill gimmick really hurts here, especially since she can’t really loop well. Besides I already have AOE lancers that do the job better like Fionn, Summer Melt, Valkyrie, Parvati, and Ereshkigal. Also Proto-Merlin and Oberon are not really options for me specifically as 1: I play NA only so they aren’t even available. 2: I won’t be rolling for either of them.
@@Alexzander1989 @Alexzander1989 she can't loop well as long the isnta death didn't occur,I also have a better lancer looper like eresh(buster loop),valk,Parvati lvl 100 np5,melt lancer,and even melusine that's better with Oberon+koyans,but I still prefer looping with Erice,just depends on the moods Well,it's your choice playing NA then,even if you don't roll for both of them
In theory, yes, but in practice, probably not. Erice’s skill cooldowns are pretty high and you’ll probably have one or two turns of maximum output at most, but Luvia’s kit is so self sufficient that she’ll pretty much always be pulling out her best. If I were to pick between the two for neutral damage, I’d take Luvia any day, especially with her defensive class advantage. Ironically, though, if you were to have the two fight each other, Erice would win because she’s an Avenger
Rather Luvia because SUPLEX and she is going to be way more self sufficient since she has better star weight because avenger star weight is garbage and can loop more easily because of the arts crits that Luvia excels at doing. Defensive advantage is amazing too.
@@harrya9458 Erice's cooldowns are fine. They're all on a 6t cooldown which lines up with Castoria's atk and arts buffs. They're also all up for 3t compared to Luvia's 1t buffs which aren't even that much higher than Erice's. Luvia only really wins over Erice in providing her own stars and ruler defensive advantage which are issues that can easily be patched with arts supports anyway.
Erice about to put zues in time out.......if she came out sooner. Honestly feel her Gareth and Wu caster are kinda lacking compared to the 5 stars in this year's summer and a few Sr who are better than thier 5 star like melt lancer. Also now we have with anny and summer arc Wu Gareth for buster gang. Xu fuu Ibuki erice Merlin Valkyrie arts gang And no quick unless skadi somehow powercreped herself as a quick support but I doubt it she'll probably be a looper or cq unit if they want to be unique
Her biggest weakness is probably her Dodge being only 2 hits (so she will be hit with damage in normal turn after Taunt without additional outside help) and very low HP (less than 10k, that's I think one of the lowest in game for SR), which means she can probably die to one stray Zerker crit or two neutral ones.
She's art, which means in addition to her own evade skill, you would pair her with Castoria and Lady Avalon anyway, who provide more than enough extra protections + healing, the only thing she need is to hit really hard, which she does.
@@lhv2k Exactly, she is by default eating strongly into Castoria stacks constantly, which is not good. Castoria's defense is extremely strong when it's spread, but gets eaten very fast when Servant is focused. I'm not saying this makes her unusable or anything, it's just her biggest problem that needs to be solved to use her efficiently :)
If they don't do that how are people going to roll for them? Cmon in 7 yrs we've seen plenty of popular characters with subpar NP/skills so people avoid them like the plague and complain when they get the servant in a lucky bag.
i know that she is great and all, but after spending 500+ SQ and not getting ibuki, I don't feel lucky, even at NP3. I ll get over it eventually but I am salty af looking at her.
I like erice design. Didn't care enough to get np5 tho, i was busy and the event was kinda boring. Sadly no avenger for me cuz merin fucked me over. But I'll roll for her definitely next year
@@koreankamui98 summer always gets reruns. Swimsuits get ppl rolling and that means money. Or at the very least they have not skipped a summer rerun yet
@@yehtet1719 skipping the summer that has both S.Kama and S.Okitan AND S.Davincy welfare is the dumbest shit they could do. Believe me, they won't do that. Idk how ppl is even worried. Those three are like on the top 10 popular servants
@@disappointmant5887 You won't either, unless you get to like 1000% base instant death chance you won't even hope to get it to trigger against a boss/servant. and even then it will hardly be triggering very often
Myst im not even fking joking I got ibuki and Merlin in less than 60sq you gotta keep these blessings on the down low or keep quiet about because its OP are you sure you arent some demigod of luck or something?
Sucks that her np is single target but atleast it hits hard and her fa art is nice, hopefully they buff her lancer version at some point so the death is after damage.
@@HerMi.T depends how you play but for me it sucks cause outside of main story and event story I primarily 3 turn farm stuff so I get allot less use out of single target np's then aoe, it's not a bad np by any means.
@@maxtech23 Most 90+ nodes have an enemy wave with a single target on turns 1 or 2. You can't really loop those with just an AOE Servant unless they don't care about the number of enemies at all (that is, Buster farmers). So ST Servants still have a use for farming, especially if they have at least 30 % batteries (which can be up to 50 % with a maxed out Mana Loading Append). Erice is a very solid neutral damage choice for such nodes, especially if they feature a Servant enemy.
Finally, someone who doesn’t like Raita’s art. I really don’t like how he makes his character looks like plastic and blows them completely out of proportion.
I promised her I will grail her to 90 and max all her stats and skills if she's NP2. But she refused to give me another copy... so yeah, she's gonna collect dust for quite a time then.
Erice has some individually really strong tools, but I feel like her kit lacks overall synergy. 10.2K Attack looks nice at first on a 4-star, but when you compare to Gorgon's 10.7k or Lobo's 10.6k it comes up a little short. Reaper A + double crit strength passives in Independent Action B and Oblivion Correction C adds up to 49%, but she has no innate star generation or absorption to overcome the low Avenger base absorption of 30. She has a taunt to abuse Avenger class defensive NP generation + Avenger C passive, but if she was going to use that for NP gen, why is she an Arts servant instead of Quick to synergize with her crit mechanics? And then to top it all off, the NP OC is a fairly negligible 10-30% Arts buff for only 1 turn, made even worse by her already having a 3-turn 30% Arts buff on Evil Spirit Medium A. Why isn't this NP damage up? Don't get me wrong. She's still a very solid anti-Servant ST unit. Supported by star generation servants like Gilgamesh Caster, she will perform very well for a 4-star, especially in the rare cases where she gets class advantage against Rulers. But there's so many parts of her kit that don't play well with each other and it feels really bad.
And lets not forget she taunts, but has less than 10k max HP with 2 hit dodge. She can probably die from one Zerker crit in taunt turn with her dodge active if unlucky.
Considering the recent arts supports(Purin, Xu Fu) that were released along with the quick leads and mighty chain update, I don't see why her lack of absorb would be an issue. Also, her being an arts servant negates her squishiness since it's pretty darn easy to protect her with arts supports anyway. Not having an NP up on her NP is fine since her anti servant powermod is in that same part of the damage equation anyway.
@@seevee_arts it is still an issue to get stars to her cards since avenger has really low based absorption, even star gathering command code won't help. With 30 stars or less I wouldnt count on her critting at all and it's honestly pretty rough on art team to generate that many stars
Dude you just exaggerated and nitpicking everything while being fucking ignorant as hell. Why the hell does her attack lower than Lobo or Gorgon even matter ? It's still at the top end for a 4 star, do you know that Space Ishtar also has the lowest attack for a 5 star avenger, does it matter, fucking no. Also she has crit potential because you supposed to NOT use her solo, and use her with a fucking team. And guess what, they just recently released 2 very good art crit supports: Xu Fu and Lady Avalon who can shits tons of stars every turn to advantage of crit. Why tf would she need to be Quick when art have many good crit supports that just release right now, way better than dead Quick. Also the art buff OC is just a bonus, it doesn't really matter much, she already hit way harder than most SSR anyway with just her Servant mod + SE. Seriously there is no part in her kit that doesn't play well with each other or the fucking team she supposed to be in, so before you stupidly nitpicking like a moron, atleast do some research yourself.
Yeah the extreme modesty of her 3rd Ascension just bores the hell out of me, but hey her 1st and 2nd Ascension at least do cute well! I don’t know Erice is pretty edgy, I was expecting one ascension to be more daring!
I don’t know I’ve heard she’s way different in the LN but in the Requiem event in game she was very Chuuni and closed off and confrontational for most of the event! My main thing is her, Ushi, and Ishtar all being in a club where their default outfits show more then their swimsuits! Worse so for the men, you never really get anything like the Emiya speedo from Extella! I certainly don’t mind the cute approach for some Servants on most ascensions, but hey it’s Summer, let’s go wild!
