Talk:Battle in New York 2018/@comment-31392049-20180922151633/@comment-31392049-20180924035837

Well, you might have a point about strengths of Merlin-Tamamo setup, but without a party defensive buff it still feels quite inconsistent for me. I see pure Arts-based setups as utilising Tamamo's abilities to a fuller potential. Combining Merlin and Tamamo with a Buster servant won't really work well for Tamamo because it will disrupt spamming Arts chains, which provides actually better gain than Merlin's NP. And, moreover... For me personally, putting Tamamo-lancer and Tamamo-caster together would certainly hurt as much as it does when I see people taking same servant from their roster and a friend list. Mechanics aside, caster and lancer Tamamo is same person, so "doubling" her is an attrocity to me. But yeah, thats just a preference and not a real argument. Still, I don't find them matching well mechanically.

But you are totally right on one thing, I'll give you that: Merlin-Tamamo team seems really great at reliably blocking the enemy NP every time. Although you might get similar (or better) result with Jeanne instead of Merlin.