Talk:Billy the Kid/@comment-201.178.182.80-20180316010312/@comment-35248611-20180408065031

For a crit team, Billy.

A lot of Billy's merit in a crit team is already described in other comments but to summarize: he has one of the highest, if not the highest crit damage multiplier in the game.

A lot of what makes Billy (Euryale, Robin, and David) rival their 4 and 5 star heroes are their skills. Billy's skills clearly specialize him to a certain role which he excels at. Emiya doesn't have this. Early game Emiya is easier to use but late game it falls off for the following reasons.

Probably because he's an early release servant but:

(a) His skills are kind of mess. I have Emiya and used him a lot early game so from experience I can say that his second and third skill aren't worth much unless you level them up. His crit star gen is pretty average for a servant for a skill that increases crit star gen isn't really warrented on him as it doesn't really do much unless it's leveled up, which for a 4 star servant it's going to get expensive. Magecraft is a little better since he as a good amount of arts cards in his deck so he can arts chain but his NP is a buster so it doesn't help increase damage output where it would really count. Evade though is always good.

(b) His deck is also kind of a mess. With three arts cards and one quick and buster card and a buster NP, he can't buster brave chain with his NP to get maximum damage output. His NP at least ignored defense, which can be helpful, but in exchange the damage dealt is lowered without support.

(c) Together with his average crit gen his NP gain also isn't really noteworthy.

(d) Again talking about his skills: not only are they lackluster on him but they're also pretty selfish skills and he can't be counted on for any support. If you use him, he'll have to be your main offense.

tldr: You can call Emiya a jack of all trades but master of none. His skills and his deck lack synergy so he can't be made to fullfill a specific role as well as others on top of needing support from other servants while not being able to provide support. On the other hand Billy has a clearly defined role in which he excels at with proper team build.