Talk:Mordred (Rider)/@comment-114.125.16.161-20170803150120/@comment-104.32.101.200-20170820234036

Martha's Attack is on the low end for 4* Riders and she also has no way of boosting her own damage outside of a single-target Defense debuff. With an AoE NP, it's hard to expect much damage from it. As you've stated, she's more a support character.

Since Mordred also has an AoE NP, her damage will also not be all that impressive - still, she gets way more opportunities to use it. She has a self-Arts buff, a charge skill, and good NP refund on her Prydwen if you use it against a group (as well as good NP gain rate in general), so she can spam her NP easier than most. Actually, in terms of how often she gets to fire it off, I think the only AoE Rider that can rival her is Drake. Because of how often she gets to use her NP and the NP charge reduction effect it has, she's my favorite character to use to wipe out groups of Berserker/Caster mobs and for high-difficulty boss rushes.

The welfares do provide steep competition though, especially since you can easily get them NP5. In terms of the power of a single shot, Santa Alter can completely blow Mordred out of the water (though she can't do it nearly as often) while Ishtar has much greater critical damage potential and team support abilities.