Talk:Merlin/@comment-82.181.129.29-20170520134721/@comment-27971189-20170521165108

Sigh ... Using J. Alter is not a solid argument to begin with.

She's top tier DPS capable to fill her need by herself. If you consider team building, it gave you less headache when choosing card as J. Alter NP gain, passive NP Charge, NP effect and her Avenger passive will let her take it easy while her innate critical boost and Invincibility let her stay high with ease.

Now compare to Arturia as main DPS.

How she can got a heal, to keep her stay longer? How to get the stars to keep pushing forward without risking the pace? Can she defend herself properly outside her 15k HP?

Why need to think about that, Just kill it fast. Its because there will be enemy like Lobo who can kill your party before you kill him. Its because there will be such enemies like Melt, who can wipe your party before you wipe her.

... and that's why Merlin is very good.

Merlin easily cover every needed of Buster Servants in general to tackle multiple HP bar enemies; while it seems DW creating a monster, its not denying fact that what he did is covering general Buster Servants weaknesses pretty well for the new meta that he became best general support.

Back then, I thought "Its era of Buster because they always got new things" but after Lobo and Melt, now I'm certain that such new things is because they're left behind by new meta; quick patch in form of Limited Servants. Without Merlin, its not hard to see how majority of Buster Servants in regular pool became 'outdated'.