Talk:Scáthach-Skaði/@comment-35292457-20180730042426/@comment-35858674-20180730193808

30% is not "uninteresting" in this case when she already has a 100% buff to crit cards and NP gain that's good enough to spam it. Say you have a double Skadi. You're going to get 260%-300% crit buff on quick cards and 60% on other cards and I fail to see how that's even near from being bad. She'll also improve star generation and NP generation from the damage dealer immensely due to 100% quick effectiveness up and that's not even counting possible steroids that the damage dealer may have. Now you're going to start saying that's "stacking buff so quick can deal as much damage as unbuffed Buster crit" because you guys are unable to see anything that isn't immediate numbers but you simply forget that Quick has decent NP gen while buster has none and it starts having very good to monstrous NP gen with her buffs, allowing you to have decent damage on crits while also having high damage with NP and transforming units that were already good such as Okita, Jack, etc in crazy NP spammers. She can even making fucking Atalanta refund about 50% of her own NP gauge just on NP and then let her use it again due to her targeted NP charge. If you need to survive NPs, you just need to be smart with either her last skill or her NP so you can have it ready for herself when you need to block them. That's assuming, of course, that the enemy doesn't have invul pierce or sure hit. In that case you'd take someone else to help you, but Merlin also wouldn't help you at all unless it only has sure hit.

Yes, Tamamo can reduce cooldowns and NP drain with her skills, but she can't buff crits, give evades to the party and charge her own NP gauge (and has bad NP gain, unlike Skadi, unless you use her fox wedding on herself), nor is she a quick support. Tamamo has her own role on Arts Teams (and Skadi can do something in them too thanks to that good NP gain and evade on NP), while Skadi has her own role on Arts Teams. They are a bit close since Skadi basically helps Quick teams do NP spam while giving some survivability to them with evade (while Tamamo heals), but Skadi also has something of Merlin since she's able to buff crits from Quick Cards. It's actually good that it's only quick cards, because anything else would make other teams even more unbalanced. She was made to let quick teams be at least as good as Arts Teams damage-wise and only for that purpose, and she was able to do it.