Talk:Vlad III/@comment-31203222-20180101200427

So, after a ton of research and some forum discussions, these are my conclusions on him:

After his NP interlude, Vlad is decent, but only in a dedicated Arts support team. After he gets his second interlude, he is actually pretty good, and depending on the RNGs mood, he can actually NP spam every second turn for some very serious damage.

His weaknesses are that his second interlude is pretty far away in the NA version, his abysmal star drop and gather rate and his low NP gain, all of which has to be offset by his teammates. He is also very fragile due to his class, as two crits in a row can send him packing even from full health in some situations.

Now, this is all something one can deduce just from reading this page, but here's the advice I received and what I wanted to share with others: Vlad is useful because he is practically always effective. Later down the line there are going to be other Arts servants, even free servants, that can fulfill the same role, and against specific enemies they can actually do even better (e.g.: Skihi vs riders, Chloe/Archuria vs sabers), but in situations where there is a wide variety of enemy classes, Vlad is still going to give the exact same, good performance every single time, making him an excellent, incredibly reliable fall-back servant on any Arts team.