Talk:Medusa (Lancer)/@comment-30152095-20161215165004/@comment-182.30.99.208-20161220154714

Whenever I see someone brag about burning a non-welfare gold my F2P heart dies a little inside. Just getting a SR servant is a once-in-a-blue-moon occurrence, I can't even bring my heart to burn Astolfo/Stheno dupes (the former being probably the weakest gold in game, and the latter having extremely poor NP level scaling).

...Okay, in all seriousness, gonna share my thoughts regarding her, with information gleaned from using the Babylonia story support version.

Stat spread, don't get me wrong, is pretty bad. Among all 4* Lancers, she has the highest HP focus, and this is a game where ATK beats HP the overwhelming majority of the time. She's still a 4*, though, which brings a fair bit more stats than even the most offensive silver lancer.

Magic Resistance B plus Goddess Essence A gives her amazing resistance to debuffs (not as much as her sisters, mind), and somewhat alleviates her low ATK problem. Pretty decent, far as passives go.

NP gain rate is fairly low-ish with an Arts efficiency of 1.76% (0.44x4), but this is actually a fairly okay number. Compared to God Spear Li, her closest contender in QQAAB gold lancers, she gens slightly more in Arts cards (Li has 1.56%) but less in Quicks and Extras. Let's not talk about Fionn's generation stats.

Her NP itself is also pretty decent, being almost like a free Gandr that scales better with overcharge. A 8-hit Quick also means you can get a fair amount of stars out of it.

Her main flaw is active skills. Alluring Nightingale isn't as good as her older self's unconditional stun, though there's a fairly large amount of male Archers to use it on. Monstrous Strength is straightforwardly decent, being a simple damage stick on a NP__EX turn, and arguably her only one skill worth raising. Affection to the Beyond seems awkward, but it has the very specific niche of tanking one huge hit and then tanking another huge hit up to two turns later (enemy Archer servants with instant charge moves actually do tend to do this). Even otherwise, it's still an NP-tanking invulnerability or a Guts. Looking at your invincibility-ignoring self, Tesla.

...All things considered, her kit makes it seem like she's leaning towards solo survival with some stalling ability packed in, particularly versus males. The skills themselves are weak, don't get me wrong, but they're usable especially if you have no other alternative.

Then again, pretty much everyone has a Scathach or a Tamamo-Lancer, and they're pretty much the only gold Lancers anyone would ever need.