Talk:Illyasviel von Einzbern/@comment-100.8.53.203-20171105200246/@comment-32929839-20171111144053

I think she gets a bad rep because she is a little clumsy to use? You look at her deck and you naturally want to put her on an arts team.. The thing is she does better on a Merlin-buster team due to her (Very high damage) NP being buster. However that screws with your BBB chains because Illya is QAAAB (And so is Merlin).. I really wish they would have made her QAABB, I think she would have been quite a bit better that way.

However she has pulled me out of some hot water, and can be surprisingly tanky between her invincbility and potential to get guts. her NP also packs a whallop if you buff her up. There have been times where I hit for well over half a million; and between Merlin, MC and her NP+ abilities (baked in both her NP and 2nd skill) I was able to shoot another NP off 2-3 turns later for another cool 200k or so.

She can be useful; but the team needs to be built around her specifically; and I find she makes a decent "last stand" unit if you pop her out with a Kaleidoscope or something. I find Illya (With "Black Grial CE") + Nightingale + Merlin to be quite effective at swiftly eliminating a meaty threat.

Also she is Illya; I love Illya to death so I'd still use her even if she was utter tripe xD