Talk:Merlin/@comment-2607:FB90:9567:34DF:9E4B:606E:1086:D680-20180315081844/@comment-34208015-20180401123147

Merlin is more versatile even though he's at his best when in Buster crit team, he's broken pretty much anywhere.

Merlin provide 45% NP charge over 5 turns (more if you can cumulate the NP) at minimum close to Waver in term of NP charge. He also 20% charisma buff exactly like Waver.

His NP is really supportive with a 5k heal over 5 turns (Waver is more offensive with a debuff type NP).

Sure outside Buster crit team Hero Creation Ex utility is reduce to 33% (at best 66%) but Merlin others skills and NP are so broken that he's still extremely useful in Art and Quick team.

For me: Merlin is stronger overall because more versatile, his team invuln and 5 turns heal are particularly appreciated by Quick servant that doesn't have much defensive options just like Buster servants. If you don't really know what to do then you can't go wrong with Merlin.

That's said Waver is better than Merlin in a particular case: when you want to run some type blitzkrieg strategy