Talk:EMIYA/@comment-120.188.35.88-20180228135059/@comment-35305803-20180417010117

Just throwing my hat into this ring. I'd say that you should focus on Arjuna for now, since, while he does suffer from the same previously mentioned deck problem that Emiya does, he will still be a far better archer than EMIYA until after both strengthening quests, which are still quite a ways off. Emiya's first strengthen gives him projection, which does improve his damage a bit, but still leaves his star gen & crit capabilities as below average, so I'd say he's not really worth focusing until he gets hawk eye for the crazy boost to star gen & crit. Meanwhile, while Arjuna's kit isn't the best, it's still miles better than Emiya's current kit, with Arjuna being a fairly good crit star support (albeit not full engine) with his 1st skill helping his star gen slightly & his second basically giving him a 2030, not to mention good survivability with the HoT effect. His NP will also his a lot harder than Emiya's until projection, and even then will likely win out in a dmg race vs NP2 Emiya due to his mana burst giving an effective 50% NP dmg boost while projection would only give Emiya a 40% boost (combined with Emiya having a far lower base atk stat).

TL;DR: Build Arjuna until Emiya gets both strengthening quests, then focus on building Emiya.