Talk:Vlad III (EXTRA)/@comment-30468100-20181025171914/@comment-34041338-20181028050118

"He is worth as he is the only Lancer offering tank service other than Leonidas."

That's not true at all, sure, Fionn and Benkei are both garbage but Lancers actually have the highest amount of taunters per a class in the game and they do "offer" it at least. Benkei even has a Defense up tied to his, he sure does want to pretend to be good at tanking. That aside though. Leonidas and Vlad's kits are almost mirrored from each other. Leonidas will give you a higher amount of stars for one turn and taunt for 3 but Vlad will give you more stars overall once all 3 turns have passed but only taunts for one. Leonidas will buff your Buster better but Vlad supplies NP damage to anyone you want and benefits from it himself as well as having generic damage up for himself. Leonidas has better NP gen when his First skill is up but Vlad has it way better whenever it isn't by having higher Quick and Extra hit counts. Leonidas's defense up is tied to his NP but Vlad has his tied to his first skill and it's higher unless Leonidas overcharges. Leonidas has survival in guts but Vlad has his heal.

In the end, you could probably put Vlad wherever you would normally put Leonidas in a team comp, with the major difference being if you want more defensive use or more offensive use, with Leonidas being for the former and Vlad the later. You tend to want to stick these guys with Zerker's who need help surviving since they soak up damage.

As far as Liz and Kiyo Lancer. Kiyo Lancer is probably the most lackluster 4* lancer after Fionn I can think of an NA atm. She's not very good at all. Liz's kit is all offensively oriented but her NP is AoE and her NP gen is worse for her Quicks and Extra cards, so unless you're running an all female team with her it's unlikely to do you much better than Vlad for bosses. Obviously Vlad outshines the other two whenever it's an Evil boss as he does a shit ton more damage and will most likely get the NP off at least once. For not Evil bosses, he probably still does better by mere grace of ST NP, better NP gen, better survival, better damage.