User blog comment:FgoMinami/Servant Reviews/@comment-28209103-20170423195704

Name : Tamamo No Mae (★ ★ ★ ★ ★ Caster)

Chara Desc : Obvious choice is obvious, as obvious as waifu over laifu, People Die when They are Killed, Archer class are filled with Bowman,and Dragon are just bigger swallow.

ATK / HP : 10546 / 14259

Growth Curves : Linear

Attribute : Wife sorry just had to.. Sky

Star Absorption: 49        Star Generation: 11%

NP Charge ATK: 0.32%   NP Charge DEF: 3%

Death Resist: 36%

Traits : WIFE, Servant, Humanoid, Divine, Weak to Enuma Elish, Earth or Sky

Deck : QAAAB 

Q : 2 | A : 5 | B : 1 | Extra : 4 

Overall Utility :

Common : Healer (B) | NP Charger (B) | Buffer (B) |

Uncommon : Tank (C) | Stall (C) |

Unique : Cooldown Reduction (EX) |

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Active Skills :

Witchcraft EX

Utility : Stall 

Effect : Chance to Decrease single enemy NP charge by 1.

Usefulness : Success rate are pretty high so it's relieable, still it need to be at level 10 for sure effect, until then it's still RNG based. added to it's single target nature means it's not the best staller kit out there (Verdict : C)

Shapeshift A

Utility : Tank

Effect : Increase self defense, further increase self defense by 30%

Usefulness :  Extremely high defense at max level, able to easily shrug most damage if used on tank team. it had the advantage of resisting Pierce evade/Invul however when used alone it doesn't guarantee survival. She also cannot taunt enemy so it's only useful to let Tamamo survive through Crisis.. extremely valuable for a support who need to survive as long as she could but less useful compared to other tank skill. (Verdict : C )

Fox Wedding EX

Utility : Buff, Heal

Effect : Buff single target Arts performance for 3 turns, Heal single target hp (Post-Interlude)

Usefulness : The only buff kit on Tamamo, the primary effect are usually the reason why you use Tamamo. 50% Arts up giving any good Arts servant a strong advantage and let them spam NP faster and hit harder. 3 turn Arts buff are way more useful than Buster thanks to Arts servant NP spam. However the buff are wasted on non-arts servant so the application of this buff are extremely limited. In conclusion it's extremely good for arts team but fall in usefulness in other situation. (Verdict : B)

Noble Phatasm 

Utility : NP Charge, Heal, Cooldown Reduction

Effect : Heal Party (NP Level), Charge party Np and reduce skill cooldown by one.

The biggest support Tamamo could give to the party, a 1 turn Cooldown reduction. A support type Noble phantasm commonly used as NP Charger, this function however are greatly outclassed by Waver and Merlin. Tamamo will give decent healing using this skill but it's nowhere near pure healer like Medea Lily or Irisviel. The Biggest utility of this NP; the Cooldown reduction however are less useful without party of high leveled servant making her full power only available to veteran player.

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Evaluation :

All in all extremely situational supports. Her full power are restricted to Arts based team and it requires you to make huge investment on them. However she does her job extremely well and a good team supported by her are broken. Tamamo gave the chance for slow tempo-ed Arts team to keep up with Buster team without forsaking defense for offense like Buster team, therefore it's the ideal team for no death run.

Tamamo are the best surgical tool for Arts team, I said surgical tool not Golden Hammer like Merlin and Waver. You need to know how to use it to make it work.. definitely not a servant I reccomend to most people but a must have for Arts builder.

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Advantage : 

- Unique skill : Cooldown reduction + Np Charge + Healing

- Jack-of-all-Trades easily cover anything your Arts team needs

Disadvantage :

- Extremely specialized to Arts team

- High cost, she's expensive wife both in lore and in gameplay

Special note to use her ===================================================================
 * 1) A good CE for her is NP gain up, Haloween petite devil, Azure magical girl, etc, but 2030 as usual is viable for support. if you have Prisma Cosmos then use that instead. you might want to switch depends on your team, with waver I recommend Haloween Petite Devil so you could jumpstart your party into 60% np bar in one turn.
 * 2) While it's tempting to overcharge her NP, I would advise against doing so if you're going the NP spamming route, treat her NP as extra arts card that gave 45% NP bar upon arts chain, it is also advised to use her NP to reduce skill cooldown so you should use it freely, just.. think ahead, ideally there's 8-9 arts card in arts team, you should count those card and decide if you need to save the NP or not, for example if you got 4 A at 1st turn from 8 A cards then there's chance you won't be able do arts chain for 2 to 1 turns, that's why the 3 extra arts from NP is important.
 * 3) Generally speaking you want to use 3rd skill on party member that have hard time filling NP first, for example Gil Caster, or Mashu. if there's not then Tamamo should get buff priority since her Np gain is average

Team Template :

Tamamo (50% starter Np) + Arts Hitter + Waver [The Jumpstart]

There's no better way to start a round than party wide 30% Atk+Def buff, a single target 50% arts up, 60% def up for Tamamo and whatever skill 2nd servant have for example if it's Artoria Archer it's extra 20% def buff + 30% arts up Artoria + 18% atk. On top of that minimal 25% NP charge for whole party + 1 turn reduced cooldown. don't worry Tamamo will take care of your cooldown.

Tamamo + Mashu + Gil Bride [Za Walludo!!]

Basically you deny the enemy any right to inflict damage upon your team while hitting them hard with crit and buff. Potential average buff of this team are : Party wide 30% arts up + 50% atk up + 50% def buff on average and up to 100% def buff + 100% star gain. Weakness? someone who ignores defense like Nero or Ryougi Shiki or buff like crazy like Hijikata.

Tamamo + Mashu + Waver [Za Walludo Act.2] 

The ultimate denied team, over 3k damage reduction with 90% def buff + Healing. No getting over this turtle team.. weakness same with Za Walludo + it's turtle team so it'll take a lot of time to win.