Originally Posted by
Altaris
Anastasia hits like a wet paper. Da Vinci has no super mod and literally 0 NP refund. She is extremely reliant on her skills to gen NP.
Schez not only has good NP refund but also offer teamwide guts and King's trait servants are commonly used as bosses.
With buffs they all do roughly the same amount of damage against non-King traits. Scheherazade gets a noticeable damage boost against King-traits, but the large majority of King-traits aren't Assassins or Berserkers, so you'd generally be better off just using anyone with a better class and triangle bonus. You're right that Scheherazade will regen with her NP better than the other two, but Anastasia's NP only has 1 less hit/enemy, and both Anastasia and Da Vinci have instant NP gauge skills + Da Vinci's one skill that gives NP/turn, so I'd say that's balanced for the most part. Not to mention that you're going to be using them with either a Tamamo or Waver, which solves the lack of NP generation from NP on Anastasia and Da Vinci to a better extent than Scheherazade's lack of instant NP gauge or NP/turn. Then, as I mentioned before, the additional effects on Anastasia and Da Vinci NPs are far better than Scheherazade's.
Teamwide guts is largely overrated. If you need it once, you generally need it multiple times, and Iris does that better even with her horrible NP gen.
Originally Posted by
manafusion
Isn't 1.3 for "Threat to Humanity" when skill's at lvl 1?
Guess I saw the amount of instant NP gauge she has and used it in place of the actual modifier. All this does is make MHXX stronger against Sabers (why not use an Archer though?) and an extremely limited number of enemies (helpful for story completion I guess). I still think that Abigail's NP is generally better because of the buff removal before damage, meaning she doesn't need to bother with needing Defense Ignore or Invincible Pierce.
Originally Posted by
manafusion
She's very... single-minded. Focus on getting her NP while keeping her alive and NP the enemy down. Done, you've successfully used Summer Jeanne Alter. Now, move onto a better Servant than her.
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Honestly, her gimmick of burn application sucks since you need Tomoe to actually see decent performance from it or just get pathetic ticks of damage. And she isn't like her Avenger form in which she can't focus on Buster Brave crits and that's a demerit in my eyes.
Or you use her as you would Lu Bu, but with better survival, or Mecha Eli-chan as a NP nuke. She's probably more useful than Mecha Eli-chan against Rider/Caster/Assassin since her instant NP gauge skill doesn't need to be leveled to get the max NP gauge it can provide, plus better class modifier.