Talk:Vlad III/@comment-33784096-20180129060716/@comment-173.206.31.107-20180211174120

but then ur giving up on tamamo's NP regen and crit stars aren't as useful on a vlad/merlin/x squad since NP cards don't use any and an NP spam team isn't focused on a specific servant to do crit damage to begin with since you want to charge up multiple member's NP each turn to rotate them.

replacing Tamamo with merlin basically just changes from an arts comp to a standard beat down. In which case you may as well just use another berserker then vlad. He's OK with Merlin but you definitely need a tamamo to run an arts comp which is where vlad excels at, though you could probably just swap out waver for merlin and do the same thing.