Talk:Hans Christian Andersen/@comment-180.191.114.70-20161105140843/@comment-29893250-20170113000512

Hans tends to have 2 major uses in a wide sense. The first is raw survival. Basically a stall team starring servants like Waver, Merlin, Tamamo, Mashu, etc. The other is as a support crit lord with Jalter or similar. Which one determines use.

In the second case, you basically throw fragments of 2030 on him. It gives him more hp and more crit support. The main reason to not use it is... not having it.

In the first case, you're focusing on survivability. One of the major things to consider is that his greatest weakness is low hp. So one CE you should really be looking long and hard at is ideal of holy king elsewhere in your party which frees him up to do his thing with greater survivability while you begin the stall engine. In my opinion, the best CEs for this boils down to 2 categories: defense and something that boosts arts (or really NP gain because that's the main point). I wouldn't use a starting NP CE because him starting up isnt' the main point. The real place where you want the help is in the long run and keeping the train rolling. In my opinion, probably the best one is a limit broken faithful dog who waits. This gives you as much NP generation as formalcraft while sporting an hp boost from the CE to help him stay alive while you're starting up. The second one in mind would be something along the lines of room guarder, glass full sweet time, or a limit broken steel training. All of these work to help his survivability, making it harder for him to get gang beat to death.

Do note that I have none of the above so instead I use a formalcraft on him usually. Or a non limit broken steel training. These suffice perfectly well enough for him to stall usually.