Infos I missed : One thing i think i didn't reiterate enough that I DISLIKE about kenshin is her overcharge not tied to her anti-man, its the same thing with summer erice anti curse not tied to overcharge all over again and it really hurts min turns and max damage stuff. If you want me to line up the 3 SSR STs we got this year in terms of my personal tier list I would say Draco > zerktoria > Kenshin but they are all very close so its not a super sure answer. Why NP upgrades benefit low NP levels : because upgrades add a flat percentage to NP multipliers. For example : Luvia's NP upgrade is a +300% base multiplier on her NP. At NP 1 her NP goes from 900% to 1200% which is a 33% increase in damage ; At np5 her NP goes from 1500% to 1800% which is only a 20% increase in damage
Let's not forget the fact that Astraea can spook you but Kenshin can't so someone can potentially achieve NP3+ Astraea while rolling on other banners. So, it's even more unfair on Kenshin when you consider that the 'ideal comparison scenario' was NP2 for both. Also, with NP1 Kenshin, her NP definitely feels lackluster and her kit doesn't help her in that regard. It's partly a problem with Extra class as a whole but it still affects Kenshin's actual functional damage. Still the best ST buff-removal-before-ST NP option when the other two are more unwieldy. EDIT: Astraea being permanent was addressed later on in the video, my bad.
One thing you should have mentioned is that Castoria berserker even with Stronger skills than Kagetora is a bit more niche than Kagetora since you need a Team to help her not only loop but also to keep her alive as long as possible while Kenshin doesn´t have that problem for being a Ruler yet not as strong as Draco class advantage. In exchange that Kenshin having the weakest Skills of the 3. She´s the more flexible for having the (Team support) part as an option and not obligatory like Castoria. Wich is amazing since not everybody has regular castoria or a strong Support to keep her alive or having a boss from the 7 main classes to fully use Draco.
@@Niccogamer01tbh in terms of pure skill quality draco’s are the worst imo. 6 hits of crit ups is basically worse than a 3 turn 30% crit up. Her S2 unless timed well is a demerit by charging the enemies NP gauge by one. But then she can’t time it because her skill 3 actually does nothing if you dont have the grail status from skill 2. She is imo the one that is the most carried by her class and anti servant NP
@@PlushieMistress can´t argue with that. Castoria is carried by team support but only in the def part for the zerker class since she can spam almost perfectly by herself while Dracon yeah, she has problems on the timing of the skills, and then there´s Kagetora that thanks to her class she can even Do any type of solo but only if it´s one of the 6 class. Overall all good servants yet they have demerits and sometimes are just too annoying to deal with
Those are some goated lines though. She is sigma af! Damn the only ones who have even the slightest chance of hurting her are probably Nobbu neesan and privy jokes.😂
i recorded part of this when i was on 3 redbulls so its kind of all over the place so I apologize. I tried to cut away as much unnecessary info as possible but its still 24 minutes lmao. Also the joke is bishamonten is a god so she is "god" tier
0.62 Base with 4 Hits Arts on a QAABB and a 30-50% Arts with 30% NP Gain and on top of that, she removed Buffs before doing damage. Castoria's combines Offense and Defense while Kenshin's a Full Aggressive. Like the direction they're making for the STs
I remember making a JP account back when they announced Summer 3 and Kagetora came out soon after and I inmediatly fell in love with her, so seeing her now get such a strong and badass 5* version definitely turns Kenshin into my highest priority for that year when she arrives to NA. A bit too soon after Summer Sith tho, since I already expected to walk out of Summer with a new ST Arts DPS and an Arts Ruler :/
As someone with an account that's about to be a year old, she literally allowed me to finally defeat the U Olga Ten wave challenge fight after trying since it's release. I just could not survive Flame U Olga's Invul Pierce but with my NP1 Kenshin I was able to strip away those buffs and finally defeat her. It was glorious and will 100% be grailing her to lv 100, may even try to go for more copies now that I know there won't be any new servants for Christmas. If you are thinking of rolling for her, she is 1000% worth it, if not for amazing animations and voice acting alone. U-E-SU-GI KENSHIN!!
You literally could've used a level 100 Cu(or many other good solo units) and a level 60 Mephistopheles. It's like pressing a win button. Mephistopheles has a three time buff block that never goes away, and Fire Ogla doesn't use many skills.
Buff purge is great without a doubt, one of the strongest effects in the game, but defensive buff purge is weaker than invul pierce in my opinion. I was thwarted by unremovable dodges and invuls one too many times.
Appreciate the length of the video. I can tell that this is a tough servant to discuss when compared with Astraea and Draco and Summer Castoria. If nothing else, at the very least, this video demonstrated how they would shine under different circumstances.
Even if she has a lot of role overlap with both Summer Cas and Draco, I can't help but want her as well as the other two. All three are characters I dearly want both because of gameplay and because they're just smashing my interests into the ground. Even if it means I will have five really good ST arts servants (already have both Astraea and Galatea at NP2 each) I want them all. May my wallet forgive me for what I do to it in 2025...
This is really tempting me to go for more NP levels on her. I have a level 100 NP2 Draco that I use for most things now but she tends to dip in damage considerably when not facing servants.
A while ago I always told myself if a Nana Mizuki servant got added I would just have to whale for her, and then they made Kagetora a welfare and I was like “damn I got the waifu for free” But now they have come for me and my wallet with this one. AND I really want Berzertoria because her design is great AND I want Ruler Melusine because I love her too. Ugh 2025 is gonna be rough for me.
@@shyamakpal depending on the enemy. Kenshin deals more damage to enemies with the "Man" attribute, while Luvia to enemies with the "Evil" attribute. Also, don't forget that Luvia's NP has been strengthened.
My Astraea is NP3, that alone should tell you I chose to skip Kenshin. You can roll for her, but at that point, she's no a must roll unless you really like her.
The argument for who’s better between Bersertoria and Kenshin will be tough. I love how using Castoria with Proto Merlin and even Tamamo has amazing value for challenge quests because you can’t stack anti purge.
I honestly think it will come down to a case by case basis. Bersertoria will probably be slightly better in general (due to class difference), but I can easily image Kenshin being better in a scenario where a boss likes to spam removable self-buffs. Really cool that they have different niches.
They're both good in their own right. Castoria plays on Offense and Defense while also helped the team. Kagetora is more self centered and is far more aggressive
Zerktoria no doubt, being anti man hurts kagetora A LOT, just go for kintoki who's a lot more consistent for man, zerktoria scales very well with np copies too
I think it all depends on the enemy, for example if they are the usual self buff spamming boss kenshin will most likely do better plus being ruler does help survivability a lot compared to berserker but when they do not spam those buffs or you simply use in farming bastoria will usually take the win
One thing I will say for her comparison to Summer Castoria is that Summer Castoria has some real rough downtime after turn 3, because the lack of her own buff and the lack of Castoria buffs really bring out her bad internals. Kenshin on the other hand, can basically spam her NP extremely easy even without buffs. Now, I still think it’s rough because Berserker is a class that basically has no downside in 2023, but it’s something I felt compelled to point out. I good example of this is the Prison Tower SOLOs that Plushie did with Kenshin and Summer Castoria. Both cleared it easy (Kenshin only had a rough time with Dantes while Castoria was saved a few times by enemies casting skills), but what I’d highlight there is the ease of NP usage. Overall, these are both extremely good servants with one being in the most offensive class, while the other is in the most defensive.
She is a new Kagetora, she could be the worst Servant ever created and I would still give her all my grails without hesitation. Her being a strong Servant is just a nice extra.
I think another point against Kenshin compared to her competition in Summer Castoria is the availability of Class Score. Ruler class still haven't gotten theirs, and we're not even sure if OC2 will open up Ruler or Avenger class. Meanwhile people who invested in Berserker class nodes should have already maxed it now, which is a huge buff for the class that I think a lot of people often understated. 20% more all card damage, 50% better Extra attack, lots of crit damage in particular, which can really buff up your facecard damage especially if you have good crit game like Summer Castoria. I believe Kenshin will also benefit similarly, especially because she only has 30% crit damage up in her kit, but for now she just can't compete with Summer Castoria when it comes to damage output in my opinion
Plushie already showed that's not the case, unless you stack the advantages towards Kenshin with class advantage against Berserker/Mooncancer and the Anti-Man niche, or it's a battle with special effect that makes Berserker deals neutral damage
You are mega delusional lmfao. Plushie literally just showed you that Kenshin out perform Summer Cas in damage against Berserkers & Moon Cancers. Lmfao on top of this Kenshin’s NP damage is higher. The Summer Cas copium is insane.
yo plushie, with class call buffs and the the brave chain buffs, is it possible for lancer ryouma to solo prison tower? cuz that would be a cool video to see if true
I'll be honest here: yeah I can see arguments about her in CQ and Hard content but it's pretty close, most people nuke the bosses (even without doing miniturns) or straight up solemn defense-team them. We'll for sure face encounters that she will outperform the other two because of her buff removal niche but when it won't work you'll have to work your way around it but still will have the lesser damage... I can't see a good argument to roll her if you have Dracon or Castoria and especially if you have Draco AND Castoria. But what I wanted to talk is: her farming permance is being overrated by people and A LOT. Her damage will be a problem, even Castoria has to work extra to make some 90++ work; I can't see Kenshin doing it well at all... even with her niche, it won't work well. And Man is terrible for ST farmer because while it can appear a lot on last wave servant it almost never appear on the second wave big HP guy. I cheked all 90++ thiis year and there's just ONE relevant enemy in wave 1 or 2 that was Man: the big Nobu from White Day . I can't see her being a good farmer like you said, at all. The neutral damage is just too low and the niche almost never comes handy. I, myself, personally think she's way worse as farmer, can be a interchangeable in CQ but not enough to justify it (unless you like her, ofc, and hyper invest). The other pros you mentioned just don't sound that relevant, but I can see where you're going.
Having np2 Astreaea on my NA Account not counting whatever spooks i will get in 2 years, i think the differences are too small to go out of my way to pull for Kenshin. Althought thanks for the breakdown anyway plushie
@@Founder_of_Morgans_Fanclub why are you responding to a comment from 7 months ago? Go outside. Lmfao & yes in some areas of the game she does but overall Summer Cas is the better choice.
Yeah I can't agree with plushie at all in the Buff removal, I think it's too overrated Maybe I'll go do a little study the latest CQ to see if buff removal or pierce is better We never face Solemn Defense users enemies at all
@@KawaiiisJustice-e4v Explain to me how is this two buff different since it's goal is the same. one buff completely negate your damage, and one buff completely reduce your damage to 0.
@@NJ_TH_JP-0723 you can bypass damage cut, special resist and defense up by brute forcing and doing more damage than it mitigates... You really play the game?
@@KawaiiisJustice-e4v and can you kill boss with the "brute forcing"? . The point I am making here is that these two buff prevent you from killing any boss with these buffs. Please show me some video if someone can "bypass" damage reducing buff until they can actually kill boss. I play this game since KNK events. I have a lot of servants and some even Max out and NP5.
It's not arguable, Kenshin infact has the absolute best facecards NP gain in the game, not even close. She's the only one with such high NP gain while also being an Art servant, with high self Art buffs both in skill and spammable NP, as well as having NP gain in skill, and being Art means always pair with Castoria and other Art supports like LA, etc. So her NP gain in practice is unmatched, she's like what Saber Medusa would be as an Art servant. Also, her Crit is barely above baseline in most chain for damage, both in various team and solo, so it's hardly significant, mostly just for gain. I don't think Ruler is a very good class for her. As a neutral dps, she's much better off being Avenger, as even having the lowest atk of Avenger already net her +10% higher dps, and I don't think taking neutral most of the time is a big deal. Ruler is also the most common Extra class, while MC basically doesn't exist whatsoever, meaning being Avenger give her the advantage to deal with a tough class, but never has disadvantage. I don't think her buff removal is anything too relevant, because almost everything nowaday or even years before already unremoved, at most you'd usually remove irrelevant stuffs, and that doesn't feel great. I think in general, the worst thing about her (beside the lazy NP animation), is that she's another dps, that's it. Being Ruler is not amazing, but being another pure neutral dps that rely on niche to really perform is even worse. That I think is just a problem with these extra class, because every neutral dps not name Erice all fall super flat in damage when not facing their anti-traits, which don't usually have wide enough coverage to be real deal. Anti-Man is the best alignment niche, but still very niche as it's alignment based, and even against Man her dmg is not that insane either, case in point, Medusa against Man actually eclipses Kenshin dmg even on neutral. Also, where is the big support for this year though? They keep making these trait reliant dps, but they better off being supports instead. Atleast Kenshin being a dps still make sense based on lore, and nowhere near as much of a big disappointment as Summer Castoria.
@@shyamakpalnah Castoria isn’t disappointing. OP is just doing every typical FGO player, shitting on other servants when new and better ones get released.
I think Summer Casto and Kenshin are both impressive in their own ways, if you against bosses that have ignore invisible, you should use castoria, if you against one having evade or invisible buff, you should use Kenshin
Luvia is better for sheer nuking potential due to a number of reasons. She has an upgraded NP, evil alignment can be forcibly applied to anyone thanks to Moriarty, her SE scales based on overcharge and it's incredibly easy to get OC levels, and finally the enemy has a harder time countering invul pierce compared to buff removal. Kenshin, however, is much easier to use thanks to her innately higher NP gain, larger battery, hard survival and targetable OC
It really comes down to Astraea already existing for me. You are very likely to have Astraea at NP5, while the only way to guarantee Kenshin at an NP level higher than 1 is to wait for her annual rerun banner. Add to that her NP strengthening and her anti-trait actually being applicable to any boss thanks to Ruler James and Nito Alter, and you have to do way more work with Kenshin to outdamage her. Sure, her utility can trivialize a bunch of challenge quests, but not having her is not going to make those quest impossible, that's not how they are designed. In the worst case, you can just borrow her from a friend. I'll give her a few rolls if Rikyuu comes home tomorrow, but I'm not going to lose my mind if I fail to pull her. My account is stacked enough to not worry about a universal ST Arts farmer.
I really like her Design and looping, but I really despise her low damage. At low NP levels she is almost unjustifiable for me, especially since her anti-niche is something I almost never see. I do think she is a valuable pickup for established accounts or if you can NP2+ her, but generally I would just try to counterclass instead.
really? the human trait is one of the most popular traits you can encounter, also even at np1 im achieving extreme levels of damage, especially when i add support
Her anti- trait is like 41% of enemies. That is almost the same as class advantage against 3 of the seven main classes (42%). and against Man attribute enemies she hits as hard as full class advantage on her NP, (using self buffs chart comparing everyone at NP2 to mitigate the difference of an upgraded NP, no arts sabers, archers, lancers, riders, or casters outdo her damage against man attribute enemies.
I didn’t articulate myself well. I meant Human-bosses I see as a threat. I would use her mostly as a flexible ST Arts bosskiller, but upon seeing the numbers on the NP dmg calculator, I saw her being outdamaged by most of the decent ST Welfares when counterclassing. I might also be biased, because I use Draco and Artoria Caster Berserker.
@@adrastos8401I think they meant man attribute enemies can be dealt with by other means. Koyans existence kinda makes non buster units with anti man less desirable
@@shyamakpal Koyan sucks in CQs though she has no defense, and there is exactly 1 buster ST (with some of the lowest damage in the game to the point that even class advantage+Man attribute loses at the same NP level as Kenshin) that can loop from 0 so no competition in farming either.
Saika Magoichi: How do we kill something that’s made of rock? Kenshin: We use paper boy! WE PUNCH THE ROCK!!! 5 minutes later Saika Magoichi: HOW DO WE KILL SOMETHING THAT’S MADE OF ROCK?! Kenshin: Goes in one ear and out the other with you huh
Kenshin didnt have earth and sky, no ramp up np, that is huge downfall actually....look at morgan, she only have anti man, and no ramp up dmg..well morgan still top tier dps but still..
Literal God wouldn't need to do anything. He is the One that knew everything that would pass, every thought every single human would think(surprised or poking fun) during their lifetime, everything before even the first soul was made. He is Omnipotent, All Knowing, All Powerful, Omnipresent. The waves, the wind, the soil, the mountains, the enemy's body all are a servant to it, only the soul has the choice to oppose. If God is merely unamused, He doesn't even have to do anything, the winds will cut you, the soil will engulf you, your own body will neglect the commands of your soul sheerly out of the obedience & submission it has for it's Creator. Stop saying godlike & literal God like the weebs you & your kind are. You can't fathom who God is, someone whose existence Himself denies the basic rules of reality He Himself made, He is the creator of Space & Time & exists beyond Time. You can't fathom Him. God's presence isn't even required to bring everything down to their knees, it's merely a "Be" & It is
@@milten76 bruh. if you want gameplay then fgo had some very meta guys from the beginning and releases them till now, like we have waver or merlin or godjuna or oberon or tez. if you want a cool male in general then most of the fgo guys solo genshin. what are we even talking about if hoyoverse looked at king hassan (the embodiment of cool) and thought: yes this inspired us to make a design for a loli
Hotter take: she's a completely pointless addition to the roster, she's just another looper, and there's already a billion other ones. You'll have more fun with Luvia and still be able to do the same stuff as Kenshin. Alternatively, you can use Kriemhild, does the same loopy bullshit and is more fun to use. Unless you have LITERALLY NO ALTERNATIVE, don't get her. She is a waste of saint quartz, otherwise. Also, Plushie, please stop wasting our time with a farming section. Literally no one cares, she's a single target character and the only time that's useful in farming is when you have strong supports and at that point, you have so many other options that she's unnecessary. When she's good in farming, it's the supports that do the heavy lifting. So it's a waste of time. In AOE contexts, it is slightly more worthwhile but considering the fact FGO never gets new players anymore, even that is kind of a waste of time because everyone has fifty other options or more. Like, no one cares who does the dishes better, they just want the dishes to get done.
She is not just a looper lol i spent the entire 24 minutes explaining how she is good in CQs. Also no not everyone can do the same job in multi core farming when its highly dependent on anti traits, team utility and battery amount. I alr kept the farming part very brief and if you want to dumb down every servant to “just a looper” simply because they can loop idunno why you are watching this.
Just take the overcharge thing for example : overcharge is specifically good with tonelico and its not something someone like draco or kriem can provide in a comp no matter how well they farm individually as single target arts.
@@PlushieMistress I'm not sure why you needed to comment twice, Sir Plushie, but I do not stand corrected. She's just loopy nonsense with buff removal, that's not anything to write home about. Is she good if you're not looping? Well, yes, simply being in the Ruler class kinda guarantees that. But if you look at her kit, it's very blatantly loopy nonsense. She's designed to loop and that is a tired troop, It's boring, and if we're really that desperate for not dealing with buffs- not only do we have Fuuma and the clown's buff block, we have Alex's buff purge on demand, or we can just bring a support Ivan or something like that and make the best setup we can for that. We can use random's NPs now, remember? So this servant is honestly not worth getting unless you don't have alternatives, even outside of farming. There's not anything fun in her kit. She's not Protea, she's not Mori, she's not Constantine, she's not Tametomo or anything unique like them. She's just five star, loopy nonsense, waifu but ruler and buff removal. That isn't that special. I would rather her have an NP that you're lucky to use every other turn but it's a nuclear bomb, and can do respectable crit damage in the meantime. Like a single target five star Babbage, kinda, and maybe instead of a boring battery, you do NP gain on crit or maybe NP gain on receiving damage. That's something worth the saint Quartz, because that's actually a bit unique and isn't basically splitting hairs between "A+ loopy nonsense and A++ loopy nonsense" Because, don't lie to me, no one is rolling for her and not trying to get her to loop. But the thing is, they already have what they need to handle whatever it is that she's good for. It's like giving them a cheat sheet for a test they already know the answers to, so that's going to facilitate boredom in a lot of players. She just isn't worth rolling for, it doesn't matter if she's good or not. Good =/= fun, and this is a video game. You're wasting your time if you aren't having fun and Kenshin isn't that fun. She functions very similar to the vast majority of arts loopers, if the buff removal isn't needed, and so she feels like "Saito but a waifu ruler lol". Though I will concede that having the buff purge tied to a low cooldown skill rather than the NP would go a nice distance towards remedying that, as you have to think about if you want to use her skill that turn or save it for a bit, and it makes a nice synergy with Tamamo. You could also make some nice dual core comps that work Koyan Light into them and her the CD reduction from her on Kenshin, instead. Regardless, as it stands, I cannot advise people rolling for her unless they just don't have other options
Infos I missed :
One thing i think i didn't reiterate enough that I DISLIKE about kenshin is her overcharge not tied to her anti-man, its the same thing with summer erice anti curse not tied to overcharge all over again and it really hurts min turns and max damage stuff.
If you want me to line up the 3 SSR STs we got this year in terms of my personal tier list I would say Draco > zerktoria > Kenshin but they are all very close so its not a super sure answer.
Why NP upgrades benefit low NP levels : because upgrades add a flat percentage to NP multipliers. For example : Luvia's NP upgrade is a +300% base multiplier on her NP. At NP 1 her NP goes from 900% to 1200% which is a 33% increase in damage ; At np5 her NP goes from 1500% to 1800% which is only a 20% increase in damage
Let's not forget the fact that Astraea can spook you but Kenshin can't so someone can potentially achieve NP3+ Astraea while rolling on other banners. So, it's even more unfair on Kenshin when you consider that the 'ideal comparison scenario' was NP2 for both.
Also, with NP1 Kenshin, her NP definitely feels lackluster and her kit doesn't help her in that regard. It's partly a problem with Extra class as a whole but it still affects Kenshin's actual functional damage. Still the best ST buff-removal-before-ST NP option when the other two are more unwieldy.
EDIT: Astraea being permanent was addressed later on in the video, my bad.
One thing you should have mentioned is that Castoria berserker even with Stronger skills than Kagetora is a bit more niche than Kagetora since you need a Team to help her not only loop but also to keep her alive as long as possible while Kenshin doesn´t have that problem for being a Ruler yet not as strong as Draco class advantage. In exchange that Kenshin having the weakest Skills of the 3. She´s the more flexible for having the (Team support) part as an option and not obligatory like Castoria. Wich is amazing since not everybody has regular castoria or a strong Support to keep her alive or having a boss from the 7 main classes to fully use Draco.
@@Niccogamer01tbh in terms of pure skill quality draco’s are the worst imo. 6 hits of crit ups is basically worse than a 3 turn 30% crit up. Her S2 unless timed well is a demerit by charging the enemies NP gauge by one. But then she can’t time it because her skill 3 actually does nothing if you dont have the grail status from skill 2. She is imo the one that is the most carried by her class and anti servant NP
@@PlushieMistress can´t argue with that.
Castoria is carried by team support but only in the def part for the zerker class since she can spam almost perfectly by herself while Dracon yeah, she has problems on the timing of the skills, and then there´s Kagetora that thanks to her class she can even Do any type of solo but only if it´s one of the 6 class. Overall all good servants yet they have demerits and sometimes are just too annoying to deal with
So Draco is the best among the 3 or the worst?
Nana Mizuki made Nagao Kagetora god tier.
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the power of *FEET*
Through heaven and earth she alone is the honored one
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Those are some goated lines though. She is sigma af! Damn the only ones who have even the slightest chance of hurting her are probably Nobbu neesan and privy jokes.😂
i recorded part of this when i was on 3 redbulls so its kind of all over the place so I apologize. I tried to cut away as much unnecessary info as possible but its still 24 minutes lmao.
Also the joke is bishamonten is a god so she is "god" tier
3 Red bulls?!😅😮 Be careful and take care of your body. I'm afraid it's not a good idea to overdose yourself with Red Bull
U drank 3 red bulls so now you'll get 3 pairs of wings
0.62 Base with 4 Hits Arts on a QAABB and a 30-50% Arts with 30% NP Gain and on top of that, she removed Buffs before doing damage. Castoria's combines Offense and Defense while Kenshin's a Full Aggressive. Like the direction they're making for the STs
Best feeling when plushie calls your waifu god tier
Carmilla and another waif:😡
@@Thanawat_CH
But is he 120 her - koyan and co
I remember making a JP account back when they announced Summer 3 and Kagetora came out soon after and I inmediatly fell in love with her, so seeing her now get such a strong and badass 5* version definitely turns Kenshin into my highest priority for that year when she arrives to NA.
A bit too soon after Summer Sith tho, since I already expected to walk out of Summer with a new ST Arts DPS and an Arts Ruler :/
As someone with an account that's about to be a year old, she literally allowed me to finally defeat the U Olga Ten wave challenge fight after trying since it's release. I just could not survive Flame U Olga's Invul Pierce but with my NP1 Kenshin I was able to strip away those buffs and finally defeat her. It was glorious and will 100% be grailing her to lv 100, may even try to go for more copies now that I know there won't be any new servants for Christmas. If you are thinking of rolling for her, she is 1000% worth it, if not for amazing animations and voice acting alone. U-E-SU-GI KENSHIN!!
you dont have berserver castoria or regular castoria with solem defence ? i think berserker castoria at NP 1 and lvl 90 can solo U-olga gauntlet quest
You literally could've used a level 100 Cu(or many other good solo units) and a level 60 Mephistopheles. It's like pressing a win button.
Mephistopheles has a three time buff block that never goes away, and Fire Ogla doesn't use many skills.
Buff purge is great without a doubt, one of the strongest effects in the game, but defensive buff purge is weaker than invul pierce in my opinion. I was thwarted by unremovable dodges and invuls one too many times.
Honestly, she’s just really fun to use.
Appreciate the length of the video. I can tell that this is a tough servant to discuss when compared with Astraea and Draco and Summer Castoria. If nothing else, at the very least, this video demonstrated how they would shine under different circumstances.
Even if she has a lot of role overlap with both Summer Cas and Draco, I can't help but want her as well as the other two. All three are characters I dearly want both because of gameplay and because they're just smashing my interests into the ground. Even if it means I will have five really good ST arts servants (already have both Astraea and Galatea at NP2 each) I want them all. May my wallet forgive me for what I do to it in 2025...
2025 is truly the year of empty wallets
Thank you for all the work you do btw
watch as the devs now make bosses skill buffs boxed to counter people abusing the buff removal.
This is really tempting me to go for more NP levels on her. I have a level 100 NP2 Draco that I use for most things now but she tends to dip in damage considerably when not facing servants.
A while ago I always told myself if a Nana Mizuki servant got added I would just have to whale for her, and then they made Kagetora a welfare and I was like “damn I got the waifu for free”
But now they have come for me and my wallet with this one. AND I really want Berzertoria because her design is great AND I want Ruler Melusine because I love her too.
Ugh 2025 is gonna be rough for me.
Take a shot each time he says "buff removal"
From various aspects, Kenshin is like an upgraded version of Luvia. but my Luvia is already NP4 so I'm hesitant to try to get Kenshin.
its funny bc luvia does more damage than her even when both are np2
@@shyamakpal depending on the enemy. Kenshin deals more damage to enemies with the "Man" attribute, while Luvia to enemies with the "Evil" attribute. Also, don't forget that Luvia's NP has been strengthened.
My Astraea is NP3, that alone should tell you I chose to skip Kenshin. You can roll for her, but at that point, she's no a must roll unless you really like her.
The argument for who’s better between Bersertoria and Kenshin will be tough. I love how using Castoria with Proto Merlin and even Tamamo has amazing value for challenge quests because you can’t stack anti purge.
I honestly think it will come down to a case by case basis. Bersertoria will probably be slightly better in general (due to class difference), but I can easily image Kenshin being better in a scenario where a boss likes to spam removable self-buffs. Really cool that they have different niches.
They're both good in their own right. Castoria plays on Offense and Defense while also helped the team. Kagetora is more self centered and is far more aggressive
Zerktoria no doubt, being anti man hurts kagetora A LOT, just go for kintoki who's a lot more consistent for man, zerktoria scales very well with np copies too
I think it all depends on the enemy, for example if they are the usual self buff spamming boss kenshin will most likely do better plus being ruler does help survivability a lot compared to berserker but when they do not spam those buffs or you simply use in farming bastoria will usually take the win
You had me at Uesugi Kenshin.
Astraea does have a 20% self battery in her 3rd skill that doesn't scale with skill level (obviously it doesn't go as high as Kenshin's)
One thing I will say for her comparison to Summer Castoria is that Summer Castoria has some real rough downtime after turn 3, because the lack of her own buff and the lack of Castoria buffs really bring out her bad internals.
Kenshin on the other hand, can basically spam her NP extremely easy even without buffs.
Now, I still think it’s rough because Berserker is a class that basically has no downside in 2023, but it’s something I felt compelled to point out. I good example of this is the Prison Tower SOLOs that Plushie did with Kenshin and Summer Castoria. Both cleared it easy (Kenshin only had a rough time with Dantes while Castoria was saved a few times by enemies casting skills), but what I’d highlight there is the ease of NP usage.
Overall, these are both extremely good servants with one being in the most offensive class, while the other is in the most defensive.
Your video was a catalyst as I did a multi. I got her in 30sq. Thanks plushie.
2023 is the year for ART ST servant ;-;
I'm honestly surprised, she's so unasumingly great
She is a new Kagetora, she could be the worst Servant ever created and I would still give her all my grails without hesitation.
Her being a strong Servant is just a nice extra.
This might be your best script yet plushie!
I think another point against Kenshin compared to her competition in Summer Castoria is the availability of Class Score.
Ruler class still haven't gotten theirs, and we're not even sure if OC2 will open up Ruler or Avenger class. Meanwhile people who invested in Berserker class nodes should have already maxed it now, which is a huge buff for the class that I think a lot of people often understated.
20% more all card damage, 50% better Extra attack, lots of crit damage in particular, which can really buff up your facecard damage especially if you have good crit game like Summer Castoria.
I believe Kenshin will also benefit similarly, especially because she only has 30% crit damage up in her kit, but for now she just can't compete with Summer Castoria when it comes to damage output in my opinion
I think Kenshin NP damage is better than Casto Berserker despite being a ruler, but Casto has benefit in normal card damage
Plushie already showed that's not the case, unless you stack the advantages towards Kenshin with class advantage against Berserker/Mooncancer and the Anti-Man niche, or it's a battle with special effect that makes Berserker deals neutral damage
You are mega delusional lmfao. Plushie literally just showed you that Kenshin out perform Summer Cas in damage against Berserkers & Moon Cancers. Lmfao on top of this Kenshin’s NP damage is higher.
The Summer Cas copium is insane.
I was so excited to play to play the game when this event was announced, then i didn’t get her. Now my motivation is all gone
The con I see is that she a ruler if she was a non neutral dmg servant she would be better to me at least lol.
Can they remove those infernal pillars on her Asc 3? Artists should really take a step back when designing 3rd Ascenson art.
Ruler class score upgrades can't come too soon.
_I love crazy white-haired women._
Great video as usual, Ploosh. I enjoyed this.
Kagetora simps eating good
I still think rulers are better in CQs than berserkers. Maybe because I don't min turn everything.
Buff removal before damage?
Cool. Now give Melt the same treatment, Lasagna.
better get the most out of my astraea since she's gonna be benched in 2 years
Uesugi kun
As someone who didn't manage to get either Draco nor Zerktoria, I'm very happy I got Kenshin with my last 3 sq
yo plushie, with class call buffs and the the brave chain buffs, is it possible for lancer ryouma to solo prison tower? cuz that would be a cool video to see if true
I dont know but im not maxing the lancer class score bc my focus is not on lancers
when you do get to maxing the lancer class score in the future, would you be willing to try?@@PlushieMistress
She's also a god tier wifey 😌
I love how Japan keeps waifunify their own historical figures.
Nana Mizuki❤❤❤❤❤
I'll be honest here: yeah I can see arguments about her in CQ and Hard content but it's pretty close, most people nuke the bosses (even without doing miniturns) or straight up solemn defense-team them. We'll for sure face encounters that she will outperform the other two because of her buff removal niche but when it won't work you'll have to work your way around it but still will have the lesser damage... I can't see a good argument to roll her if you have Dracon or Castoria and especially if you have Draco AND Castoria.
But what I wanted to talk is: her farming permance is being overrated by people and A LOT. Her damage will be a problem, even Castoria has to work extra to make some 90++ work; I can't see Kenshin doing it well at all... even with her niche, it won't work well.
And Man is terrible for ST farmer because while it can appear a lot on last wave servant it almost never appear on the second wave big HP guy. I cheked all 90++ thiis year and there's just ONE relevant enemy in wave 1 or 2 that was Man: the big Nobu from White Day . I can't see her being a good farmer like you said, at all. The neutral damage is just too low and the niche almost never comes handy.
I, myself, personally think she's way worse as farmer, can be a interchangeable in CQ but not enough to justify it (unless you like her, ofc, and hyper invest).
The other pros you mentioned just don't sound that relevant, but I can see where you're going.
Fuck yea she is
Having np2 Astreaea on my NA Account not counting whatever spooks i will get in 2 years, i think the differences are too small to go out of my way to pull for Kenshin. Althought thanks for the breakdown anyway plushie
She's good but solidly behind other ST zerkers
That is a bold face lie. As a Ruler she out performs Summer Cas. 🤨
@@Cheroobianshe doesn't lmao
@@Founder_of_Morgans_Fanclub why are you responding to a comment from 7 months ago? Go outside. Lmfao & yes in some areas of the game she does but overall Summer Cas is the better choice.
how ca nyou replay this prison event?
this game now feel just like pvz 2, this might be pokra
Nah she is def not pokra when she is competing with other dps like summer castoria and draco. Summer ibuki might be the closest dps to that idunno
god or not, after spend 350+ SQ and still don't came = trash 😡
Spending 330 SQ for her np 2 :))
Yeah I can't agree with plushie at all in the Buff removal, I think it's too overrated
Maybe I'll go do a little study the latest CQ to see if buff removal or pierce is better
We never face Solemn Defense users enemies at all
You already seen solemn defense. It’s called damage reduction buff.
@@NJ_TH_JP-0723 totally different
@@KawaiiisJustice-e4v Explain to me how is this two buff different since it's goal is the same. one buff completely negate your damage, and one buff completely reduce your damage to 0.
@@NJ_TH_JP-0723 you can bypass damage cut, special resist and defense up by brute forcing and doing more damage than it mitigates... You really play the game?
@@KawaiiisJustice-e4v and can you kill boss with the "brute forcing"? . The point I am making here is that these two buff prevent you from killing any boss with these buffs. Please show me some video if someone can "bypass" damage reducing buff until they can actually kill boss.
I play this game since KNK events. I have a lot of servants and some even Max out and NP5.
CARmilla is also god tier
so should i pull her if i have summer castoria
If you like her sure, if you are on a budget tbh nah
Wasnt lucky enough :(
It's not arguable, Kenshin infact has the absolute best facecards NP gain in the game, not even close. She's the only one with such high NP gain while also being an Art servant, with high self Art buffs both in skill and spammable NP, as well as having NP gain in skill, and being Art means always pair with Castoria and other Art supports like LA, etc. So her NP gain in practice is unmatched, she's like what Saber Medusa would be as an Art servant.
Also, her Crit is barely above baseline in most chain for damage, both in various team and solo, so it's hardly significant, mostly just for gain.
I don't think Ruler is a very good class for her. As a neutral dps, she's much better off being Avenger, as even having the lowest atk of Avenger already net her +10% higher dps, and I don't think taking neutral most of the time is a big deal. Ruler is also the most common Extra class, while MC basically doesn't exist whatsoever, meaning being Avenger give her the advantage to deal with a tough class, but never has disadvantage.
I don't think her buff removal is anything too relevant, because almost everything nowaday or even years before already unremoved, at most you'd usually remove irrelevant stuffs, and that doesn't feel great.
I think in general, the worst thing about her (beside the lazy NP animation), is that she's another dps, that's it. Being Ruler is not amazing, but being another pure neutral dps that rely on niche to really perform is even worse. That I think is just a problem with these extra class, because every neutral dps not name Erice all fall super flat in damage when not facing their anti-traits, which don't usually have wide enough coverage to be real deal. Anti-Man is the best alignment niche, but still very niche as it's alignment based, and even against Man her dmg is not that insane either, case in point, Medusa against Man actually eclipses Kenshin dmg even on neutral.
Also, where is the big support for this year though? They keep making these trait reliant dps, but they better off being supports instead. Atleast Kenshin being a dps still make sense based on lore, and nowhere near as much of a big disappointment as Summer Castoria.
I’m confused how is zerktoria a disappointment?
@@shyamakpalnah Castoria isn’t disappointing. OP is just doing every typical FGO player, shitting on other servants when new and better ones get released.
I think Summer Casto and Kenshin are both impressive in their own ways, if you against bosses that have ignore invisible, you should use castoria, if you against one having evade or invisible buff, you should use Kenshin
"lazy NP animation" when it's literally same-looking as Summer Okita's NP animation☠
Yeah Castoria who has 50% battery and 20% targeted battery which makes her god tier for multicore is worse than diet Draco i think
Astraea can use instead for kenshin?
Only Np5 :v
@@arielzarate6053 ok i have Astraea NP5
Luvia is better for sheer nuking potential due to a number of reasons. She has an upgraded NP, evil alignment can be forcibly applied to anyone thanks to Moriarty, her SE scales based on overcharge and it's incredibly easy to get OC levels, and finally the enemy has a harder time countering invul pierce compared to buff removal.
Kenshin, however, is much easier to use thanks to her innately higher NP gain, larger battery, hard survival and targetable OC
Nah, I’d win
I’d make her better and worse.
But can she beat Kratos tho?
Kenshin: I KILLED ARES! I KILLED ZEUS! I KILLED THE COMPETITION BACK IN 2018!
It really comes down to Astraea already existing for me. You are very likely to have Astraea at NP5, while the only way to guarantee Kenshin at an NP level higher than 1 is to wait for her annual rerun banner. Add to that her NP strengthening and her anti-trait actually being applicable to any boss thanks to Ruler James and Nito Alter, and you have to do way more work with Kenshin to outdamage her. Sure, her utility can trivialize a bunch of challenge quests, but not having her is not going to make those quest impossible, that's not how they are designed. In the worst case, you can just borrow her from a friend.
I'll give her a few rolls if Rikyuu comes home tomorrow, but I'm not going to lose my mind if I fail to pull her. My account is stacked enough to not worry about a universal ST Arts farmer.
I really like her Design and looping, but I really despise her low damage. At low NP levels she is almost unjustifiable for me, especially since her anti-niche is something I almost never see. I do think she is a valuable pickup for established accounts or if you can NP2+ her, but generally I would just try to counterclass instead.
really? the human trait is one of the most popular traits you can encounter, also even at np1 im achieving extreme levels of damage, especially when i add support
Her anti- trait is like 41% of enemies. That is almost the same as class advantage against 3 of the seven main classes (42%).
and against Man attribute enemies she hits as hard as full class advantage on her NP, (using self buffs chart comparing everyone at NP2 to mitigate the difference of an upgraded NP, no arts sabers, archers, lancers, riders, or casters outdo her damage against man attribute enemies.
I didn’t articulate myself well. I meant Human-bosses I see as a threat. I would use her mostly as a flexible ST Arts bosskiller, but upon seeing the numbers on the NP dmg calculator, I saw her being outdamaged by most of the decent ST Welfares when counterclassing. I might also be biased, because I use Draco and Artoria Caster Berserker.
@@adrastos8401I think they meant man attribute enemies can be dealt with by other means. Koyans existence kinda makes non buster units with anti man less desirable
@@shyamakpal Koyan sucks in CQs though she has no defense, and there is exactly 1 buster ST (with some of the lowest damage in the game to the point that even class advantage+Man attribute loses at the same NP level as Kenshin) that can loop from 0 so no competition in farming either.
Saika Magoichi: How do we kill something that’s made of rock?
Kenshin: We use paper boy! WE PUNCH THE ROCK!!!
5 minutes later
Saika Magoichi: HOW DO WE KILL SOMETHING THAT’S MADE OF ROCK?!
Kenshin: Goes in one ear and out the other with you huh
Just keep her away from toilets.
Kenshin didnt have earth and sky, no ramp up np, that is huge downfall actually....look at morgan, she only have anti man, and no ramp up dmg..well morgan still top tier dps but still..
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Literal God wouldn't need to do anything.
He is the One that knew everything that would pass, every thought every single human would think(surprised or poking fun) during their lifetime, everything before even the first soul was made. He is Omnipotent, All Knowing, All Powerful, Omnipresent.
The waves, the wind, the soil, the mountains, the enemy's body all are a servant to it, only the soul has the choice to oppose.
If God is merely unamused, He doesn't even have to do anything, the winds will cut you, the soil will engulf you, your own body will neglect the commands of your soul sheerly out of the obedience & submission it has for it's Creator.
Stop saying godlike & literal God like the weebs you & your kind are.
You can't fathom who God is, someone whose existence Himself denies the basic rules of reality He Himself made, He is the creator of Space & Time & exists beyond Time. You can't fathom Him.
God's presence isn't even required to bring everything down to their knees, it's merely a "Be" & It is
I hate how fgo only releases high quality females. One reason why i spent more money on genshin.
??????
@@khantmaw8636 when was the last time fgo released a cool male thats top tier? I cant remember.
@@milten76shinpachi who is in the same banner as her is quite cool
Ptolemaios is quite good tbh , also Tez. But in the end , hu cares about tier anyways
@@milten76 bruh. if you want gameplay then fgo had some very meta guys from the beginning and releases them till now, like we have waver or merlin or godjuna or oberon or tez. if you want a cool male in general then most of the fgo guys solo genshin. what are we even talking about if hoyoverse looked at king hassan (the embodiment of cool) and thought: yes this inspired us to make a design for a loli
God tier???
Just use Berserker is enough
Ruler is mid tier on all classes
Hotter take: she's a completely pointless addition to the roster, she's just another looper, and there's already a billion other ones. You'll have more fun with Luvia and still be able to do the same stuff as Kenshin. Alternatively, you can use Kriemhild, does the same loopy bullshit and is more fun to use.
Unless you have LITERALLY NO ALTERNATIVE, don't get her. She is a waste of saint quartz, otherwise.
Also, Plushie, please stop wasting our time with a farming section. Literally no one cares, she's a single target character and the only time that's useful in farming is when you have strong supports and at that point, you have so many other options that she's unnecessary. When she's good in farming, it's the supports that do the heavy lifting. So it's a waste of time.
In AOE contexts, it is slightly more worthwhile but considering the fact FGO never gets new players anymore, even that is kind of a waste of time because everyone has fifty other options or more.
Like, no one cares who does the dishes better, they just want the dishes to get done.
She is not just a looper lol i spent the entire 24 minutes explaining how she is good in CQs. Also no not everyone can do the same job in multi core farming when its highly dependent on anti traits, team utility and battery amount. I alr kept the farming part very brief and if you want to dumb down every servant to “just a looper” simply because they can loop idunno why you are watching this.
Just take the overcharge thing for example : overcharge is specifically good with tonelico and its not something someone like draco or kriem can provide in a comp no matter how well they farm individually as single target arts.
@@PlushieMistress I'm not sure why you needed to comment twice, Sir Plushie, but I do not stand corrected. She's just loopy nonsense with buff removal, that's not anything to write home about.
Is she good if you're not looping? Well, yes, simply being in the Ruler class kinda guarantees that. But if you look at her kit, it's very blatantly loopy nonsense. She's designed to loop and that is a tired troop, It's boring, and if we're really that desperate for not dealing with buffs- not only do we have Fuuma and the clown's buff block, we have Alex's buff purge on demand, or we can just bring a support Ivan or something like that and make the best setup we can for that. We can use random's NPs now, remember?
So this servant is honestly not worth getting unless you don't have alternatives, even outside of farming. There's not anything fun in her kit. She's not Protea, she's not Mori, she's not Constantine, she's not Tametomo or anything unique like them. She's just five star, loopy nonsense, waifu but ruler and buff removal. That isn't that special.
I would rather her have an NP that you're lucky to use every other turn but it's a nuclear bomb, and can do respectable crit damage in the meantime. Like a single target five star Babbage, kinda, and maybe instead of a boring battery, you do NP gain on crit or maybe NP gain on receiving damage. That's something worth the saint Quartz, because that's actually a bit unique and isn't basically splitting hairs between "A+ loopy nonsense and A++ loopy nonsense"
Because, don't lie to me, no one is rolling for her and not trying to get her to loop. But the thing is, they already have what they need to handle whatever it is that she's good for. It's like giving them a cheat sheet for a test they already know the answers to, so that's going to facilitate boredom in a lot of players.
She just isn't worth rolling for, it doesn't matter if she's good or not. Good =/= fun, and this is a video game. You're wasting your time if you aren't having fun and Kenshin isn't that fun. She functions very similar to the vast majority of arts loopers, if the buff removal isn't needed, and so she feels like "Saito but a waifu ruler lol". Though I will concede that having the buff purge tied to a low cooldown skill rather than the NP would go a nice distance towards remedying that, as you have to think about if you want to use her skill that turn or save it for a bit, and it makes a nice synergy with Tamamo. You could also make some nice dual core comps that work Koyan Light into them and her the CD reduction from her on Kenshin, instead.
Regardless, as it stands, I cannot advise people rolling for her unless they just don't have other options
I'm starting to get the feeling the final boss of FGO will be weak to ST Arts NPs for some reason. JUST A GUT FEELING.
Imo grand ruler