Talk:Vlad III/@comment-35080300-20180714191640/@comment-28209103-20180715051112

The thing is you can't really use "But other's do that too" as a reason, if that's the case there's practically no reason to make any comparison because the only criterion is that others do that too and not how well or what else they could do.

and Neither OP or poster above reasoning of "I would rather run X over Y" could be used as a reason, Even I could say that I would rather run MHXA over Raiko  but it doesn't means either is better than the other. It might be simply preferences, it might be because I have a complementary team member  or any reason. Neither would fly over me as an evaluation.

The reason Vlad fit well with Tamamo is that he's carrying stall kit and fast NP charge, the reason Vlad fit on critical arts team is that his star gain is not bad but he didn't take stars, Well MHXA completely overtake Vlad spot but before that he's the favored star generator-NP spammer in his class. Vlad is still above MHXA in term of toughness and stall tactics tho.

The thing is,, no one actually bothers to see other angle than NP spam,, I also got him for my first guaranteed pull and I'm using him as secondary star support since long ago together with Hans,, He's the guy who're responsible to making me realize that Zerker should be used as star control tool because him + Hans boost my crit rate over 50% with my Orion and MHX back then which makes me want Nigtingale even more to the point I actually aim for her on 2nd guaranteed pull (and get her)

In NA the old stereotyping is still quite strong, while not as strong as JP back then but something like Stars = Assassin or Arts = NP are still pretty common assumption,, and that's understandablel because of what they have over there... I mean me included how the fuck nobody realized that triple A deck servant always have a really low NP gain per hit? they're basically the furthest thing from NP spam unless they have external support from skill.

and then suddenly you'll found out that AAQQ deck servant typically is the NP spammer, that Assassin will dominate the top NP spam servant, that Zerker can be a really good support and Rate up is a lie. No joke, going by this pace I'm sure there'll be a lot of people who complaint bout Alter ego in the future.