Talk:Merlin/@comment-36128561-20180712200534/@comment-27971189-20180714153148

Simply put, Merlin got his fame as broken support for being all-in-one of what everyone essentially need to overcome their weaknesses;

You know someone is overpowered when just by having him, you can bring Angra, the weakest unit known, as primary DPS to tackle challenge quest-- by standard of FGO JP, one years ago.

The advantage Merlin given became seriously good as, getting past Salomon, battles start demanding team capabilities to deal with longer fights due to new multiple HP bars. Not all old Servants are ready to this, thus Merlin easily became "godsend" as he covers more than what his kit gave--allowing good amount of old Servants to be 'functional' again under circumstances where they usually ran out of gas, regardless of them being Buster or not.

Of course, its not like Merlin himself didn't have any weakness.

Merlin is reliant to snowball effect-- that it took several turns to get his magical power start doing things. This making him prone to enemies that has no issue to dish insane critical damage, fast NP Charge, and some others that NA won't experience it until one and half years later; if you cannot secure his position next turn, all what he gave will crumble with ease.

When Merlin comes to NA, feel free to try it. The differences. Then you will understand why he's like FGO memelord.