Talk:Musashibō Benkei/@comment-26115540-20190106115705/@comment-37459050-20190502023736

Since Benkei is a first-gen servant, his curse damage is pretty weak relative to the newer servants that have the same effect. But curse among other status effects (e.g. burn or poison) do constant damage that can't be blocked or nullified. These kinds of effects were especially useful in one of the summer 2018 event since the enemies' passive basically nullified all damage and had to be killed by using Waver's NP curse effect to kill them off. So no, curse isn't just doing "puny damage".

Also an FYI, all status effects are based off of servant HP. Shaving off 500 HP per turn, let alone 1000, can be pretty tough to counter and deal with if you don't have a good healer like Hans or Merlin.