Talk:Hijikata Toshizō/@comment-115.178.235.169-20170416165059/@comment-29893250-20170420042441

Yes, not saying that Hijikata is bad at all. He's just not suited for that setup. Yes, you'll do fine but it isn't ideal by any means. It just doesn't play to his strengths. For example, the flow of the team doesn't work optimally. You can't super saturate your team with stars like Jack so everyone has them and whatever stars you do get will mostly go to Mashu which is the last place you want them to go when you don't have law of shinsengumi up. Hijikata wants to be either at high hp so he won't die or low hp so he can hit his hardest. Merlin's NP additionally makes it difficult to keep him at low hp but generally won't bring  him out of one shotting range which is rather bad. This makes him better to use with servants that can help him taunt longer. So you can get him down, then keep him there while the taunter keeps him from dying. However, this is hard to do without messing up your star distribution. Alternately, you could go glass cannon and just try to kill them quickly with a team designed to cram heavy crits in. So I digress.

I'm sure you could sweep the floor with a lot of enemies with that. However, it isn't very good. It is the power of Merlin + Mashu + buster but among those he's not that great. Jalter slots in much better for numerous reasons. 1. She's not that susceptible to dying in one turn to regular attacks, not being a berserker. 2. She still has high dps. 3. She has her own defense to help save her. 4. Jalter will still get a moderate amount of stars even when she doesn't have her self modification up. It isn't just Jalter either. Musashi comes to mind. So if we're talking about cherry picking servants and best teams, Hijikata just isn't the best here for this setup.