Talk:Ryougi Shiki (Saber)/@comment-112.215.244.240-20180214175946/@comment-28209103-20180218031852

^that's just ignoring the practical application favoring theory on paper. In practice those passive skills and traits matters, and taking them to calculation is not "making too much cases" rather it's to identify advantage and peculiar quirk of that servant. There's also pattern that can be identified from passive stat alone (e.g non-AAA with Territory Creation have better NP gain than average, BBB with Presence Concealment will gain number of stars) and shiki is an rare exception where her passive reflect a 6% increase in damage, NP gain, and star gain for anything she does. It is a flat bonus to her stat, not only her atk but also her star gain and NP gain stat.

I think taking her passive as boost for her all around stat is valid because Shiki should've been taken as exceptional case being the only one so far with all card boost. Unless you want to stick to that 1 extra card that may or may not happen and have entirely different damage calculation mechanic compared to normal cards. What the passive bonus reflect is not mere damage buff but as I highlighted it in the first place, it gave her higher, star gain and np gain compared to what her vanilla stat suggest.