Talk:SE.RA.PH/@comment-123.202.98.5-20170518122755/@comment-182.30.68.35-20170518154048

> Artoria(Summer), Jack the Ripper and Lancelot(Saber) are amazingly powerful damage-dealing monsters; the first two do so because they can potentially build up and fire off Noble Phantasms insanely quickly, Artoria Summer especially. Jack also generates an enormous amount of critical stars on the side and has a slight edge against females (most story bosses in this event). Lancelot does so instead by passively generating a lot of critical stars, increasing his own critical damage, and making sure all the critical stars go to his cards first. Alter-Egos do half damage to Saber/Lancer/Archer too.

> Merlin and Zhuge Liang are more or less the most powerful buffers in the game; the latter can also stall for time with his NP, while the former can generate healing, meter and stars on his. As a general rule of thumb, as long as there's not many direct threats to their existence, a Zhuge Liang/Merlin/(Attacker) team works well in most circumstances, especially when the attacker is Buster/critical based. Their skills are probably the highest priority to level, if you can handle the resource drain.

> Mashu/Shielder performs very well and is relatively cheap to skill-up, so if your friend has her at least partially leveled you might as well finish the job; if your friend didn't raise her much or at all, you probably shouldn't for now; there's not much time left after all.

> Francis Drake is a powerful Rider-class wave sweeper with high spammability and high stats as well, but she'll have to take a backseat when she's not fighting a Caster/Berserker boss (mooks are fine, though).

>Tamamo(Summer) isn't a slouch either, having an impressive NP charge speed, a powerful single-target anti-male NP, an almost-guaranteed charm and a self-invulnerability skill, but her demerits may make her a bit hard to use; that said, at the very least she offers an advantage in the fight against Mysterious Archer X later.

Though, I'll probably still ask you to formulate your own tactics based on your experiences and preferences, be it personal or obtained from watching videos or others' strategies; part of this is because I believe everyone has their own inclinations in using what they have, part of this is because I suck at planning for other people.