Talk:Merlin/@comment-76.174.228.140-20161219063255/@comment-171.4.235.168-20161219204710

Both are actually merit and demerit within herself. As Joan have in her NP base but still got stuned of approximately 2 turns (not 1 tho) and need a nice commande card with some luck to perpare another - the thing is, while she stuned she can be very frustate to manage with when we can;t use any command chain if she pop up on the deck also debuff cleanser is very rare and important buff with hard to find the good synergy with - even with her Saint CE where they denied 3 debuffs but it's not garanteed thet she will able to block stun with all those counts as they might drain up before she can preserve one.

What Joan might gain the upper hand compare with Merlin is, She able to sustain and delay enemy servant NP better then him with Stun and NP dmg.down, have better chance for team block when faced enemy with avg.4 gauge also flat heal and extra def, Ruler trait which make her more tanky from any class except Berserker & Avenger while Berserker may appear regularly but Avenger is not quite but very huge deal for most likely to be Boss unit. As Merlin being caster may got Bad-lucked-stump from Rider and Berserker since they only tanky with Assassin and can be cut short with other class - still, he have huge regenerative wizardry but long substantial turns can be very frustrated when encounter with purge-able enemy like one we fight against in Babylonia Chapter - but still not found them pretty regularly.

For what I see that they're both 5-Stars and not every single Master able to roll her out both for their own. Most Master reviewed Merlin in the top notch tier along with Waver while Joan fell very down below about 6.5/10 in term of how we can easier manage for team synergy but still, each Servant will always have thier usage in different situation anyway ;)