Talk:Servant Summer Festival! 2018/@comment-13135810-20180824235204/@comment-29893250-20180825040934

Ushi has several problems which I think kind of knock her out of the running, Skadi or no Skadi. First is odd class composition. She's an assassin while Skadi is a caster. This means that there's probably a servant out there with better class matchup for the battle in question. Second, Ushi's buff removals are somewhat inaptly placed. Her skill based one only has a chance of occuring on one turn duration. I find myself most often wanting to strip defensive buffs like evade or invincible. So the most common type of buff I'd want to strip would be doing half the intended job anyway. But you can't use it reliably to clear the way for an NP either with only 40% consistency. Her NP based buff removal only strips offensive buffs which is significantly more limited. Not half as good as a generic buff strip. It is sort of alright but I think it skims over the most dangerous ones especially because of how enemies now commonly use their buff on their turn, then fire their NP in which case Ushi misses her chance to stop it. This means that she's primarily going to be using this against charisma spams. As for her NP charge skill, I welcome those but there's a big difference between 40% and 50%. 50% lets you go in with no starting charge CE and Skadi takes you to 100. 40 doesn't. For that, you'd need either a 60% charge CE (which is rare) or 2 Skadis to take her from 0 to 100 at the start, then after firing hope to get an animal dialogue in to make up the difference. While this can work, it is a little awkward and often unnecessary as the double skadi play's point is to enable absurd NP spamming on the back of quick crits.

It is also worth noting that often, Kintoki rider is going to do the Skadi spam strategy better, limiting Ushi's involvement mostly I think to various boss rushes. Still, will Ushi be the best choice even then? Hard to say. I think Ushi is pretty decent but I think a lot of her kit doesn't quite fit in with the Skadi spam strategy and a lot of these beach servants are simply very good, best at what they do.