Talk:Osakabehime/@comment-107.72.164.65-20180122012401/@comment-28209103-20180126041034

lol, the only reason? yeah right. there's 3 reason why that is not the case.

1. Merlin ain't the only one with Buster buff in this game, anyone or anything will do, even Anniversary blonde will do if Buster buff is all you want. considering the cooldown Nightingale are superior to Merlin for buster buff, even Raikou and or Shakespeare will do. Not to mention you don't actually need those buster buff because there's alternative like defense down stack or atk up stack or combination of both which is viable strategy when it comes to Carmilla.

2. However if someone actually have enough insight to see beyond NP, then they know that Merlin and Carmilla have 2 great synergy that you could exploit, that is both have passive star gain and Merlin could boost carmilla inherent fast NP charge to ridiculous level. However this feat are replicable with Waver, Umu Bride or even Osakabe if you know what you're doing.

3. That team are made with three member and not just Memerlin + Buster hitter. You need to define what kind of team you want and what strategy you want to take and choose the member aiming for that effect. There's also problem of synergy, some does not synergize at all, some synergize within acceptable limit and others are just made for each other.

For example even if we take your template of Memerlin + Carmilla then depends on what you want you can switch the 3rd member, e.g IF you want carmilla to crit more often Zerker or Caster is preferable as 3rd member -> if it's zerker do you want it to aim for that one window crit using star manipulation (MHXA) more NP spam with buff (Nightingale) or more buff to whole party? (Penthesilea) or just something to wipe the floor with (any AoE zerk), if it's caster then do you want to focus more on crit (Hans), or Np spam? (Waver) or do you want AoE (any AoE Caster, preferably Da Vinci or Helena)

IF you want to have Carmilla as 2ndary attacker instead then preferably the hitter are buster/quick hybrid, someone with star absorb and crit based to synergize with Merlin while Carmilla offer the stars, buster chain filler with NP, stall and defense down debuff.

Memerlin is just ez alternative for those who don't want to bother with team setup or even think at all, it is the answer for most thing but not the only answer out there. He's like training wheel and some people has grown out of it.