Talk:Orion/@comment-31734709-20170529173552

So I got her and decided to take a better look at her. I've read the skills plus a few comments here and there. Having a Nobu with 6/1/10, I am wondering about her critical damage bits, plus when to use which.

I'll be considering a ideal enemy for both,  so, like, a Male Divine Saber with Riding and Divinity, like Rama. D isregarding Grailing and for the most part considering a single enemy;

Nobu hits 58% natural crit damage along with star absorption every 5 turns, which allows her to equip a CE without worrying about star absorption at all, plus she has 2 Buster cards and Buster NP allowing a self buster chain on a ideal situation with critical [rare]. She has a AOE NP, but having it at 5 she'd deal more damage than Orion's NP1. She lacks any survival skills whasoever. She does also have a little help to generate her NP.

Orion's hitting 45% natural crit damage, with her crit up skill being a dodge, meaning you'll likely find yourself using it when the enemy has used a NP, and it would be harder to bring oneself to use it when you have ideal cards but are going to take on a NP next turn, I guess? Depending on the charge time on the enemy's side, you could use your dodge first then use the DEF to tank the NP, and when the next NP comes the dodge would be back up, but you'd use the CRIT UP every once in 10~ish turns.

While she has a fair Star Absorption as a Archer, you would struggle a bit with fellow archers and such in the team if you wanted the stars to come to her. It can be solved with any slight Star Absorb CE, but those tend to be weaker than the ones without it. But she does have a apparently great survivability.

Her NP doesn't add niche damage like Nobu does, so she'd only get a damage bonus from Whimsical Love and probably lose to nobu's combo pure damage, but it does have a NP drain plus ATK DOWN; it seems that her NP generation is normal, for spam purposes. And NP1, single target damage.

So I suppose Nobu herself would be a kinda full on offensive, killing before the enemy kills you [with NPs], whereas Orion would fall a bit behind due to the whole use-dodge-only-when-NP-is-coming, but unlike Nobu she can actually take most NPs in the face and survive, thus a better fit for a fight that will drag on.

Of course, this disregards survivability, buffs and such that one could gain from the team [Merlin and such], plus that Divine+Riding targets are much rarer than just Male targets.

Is this about right?