Talk:Yagyū Munenori/@comment-38105714-20190121083206/@comment-37459050-20190201030954

Even though Saberlot and Yagyu are arts-based sabers, their roles are vastly different. Saberlot is a self-sufficient crit saber that can basically NP spam when he has his skills in effect. Yagyu is a burst saber that has great skills that all last for only 1 turn.

Basically, if you have enough stars, use the first and third skill together to crit an arts attack to charge your NP with Yagyu. NP, then rinse and repeat with your Tamamo (or whoever you use) team. Saberlot works better with a more general support servant like Waver (that isn't to say that Yagyu doesn't work), since Saberlot offers nothing on the table in terms of stalling.

Yagyu's NP is what separates himself from others. As far as I know, only Orion has a 20% attack reduction effect on a NP. Also since the attack reduction is the overcharge effect, NP combos are quite useful when fighting bosses. However, since you'll be most likely using Yagyu's first skill to charge your NP (arts star absorption effect = crit arts), he's not going to do much damage against enemeis. Again, Yagyu shines better when he's in a stall team. Saberlot deals far better damage overall.

In my opinion, Yagyu is the better servant since his attack reduction debuffs on the enemy are more valuable for the team than Saberlot's crits. Obviously, this depends on the situation, but at least for CQ's, I would prefer Yagyu.