Talk:Cú Chulainn (Caster)/@comment-181.166.122.92-20170907210653/@comment-405330-20170925172823

I guess it depends on where you're getting your crit stars from partially. If you're getting 30 of them from Gil overkilling something with a Brave chain before your third turn, chances are even though Gil's star priority is high, with only 2 command cards remaining in his deck he's unlikely to be hogging too many crit stars for himself, in which situation you probably don't even need a Star Absorb CE on Cu for him to be your next guy critting for your team.

If you're getting them only from say Hans/Jeanne's star gen skills then that's a bit of a different story, but if you're running either (or both) of them, Cu still shouldn't be your only damage dealer hogging crit stars either way unless it's a mass assassin/berserker quest, in which case I guess then Cu hogging crit stars is really strong, but thats only a few types of quests in the long run.

I've also tried say running Atalanta with Cu which works surprisingly well given she has 2 arts cards to function in an arts heavy setup and her NP by itself can often give you 50 crit stars if you hit more than one enemy. In which case a star absorb CE is clearly useless.

I won't say star gather CE doesn't have a place on Cu, but if you at least have NP2 on Cu like the OP, Cu's NP overall is a fair bit stronger than simply critting and thus imo NP damage makes the most sense given he can charge it really easily. NP damage is also more valuable if you choose to Buster chain after Cu's NP, which can be really powerful with teammates like Gilgamesh, Altera, and of course Berserkers.