kildge: "Mash, one of the few characters that can fit into every single context in the game except soloing" Plushie Mistress: Solo's Goetia with Mash

The big thing to note how busted Kintoki was, he was a QUICK servant during the buster meta, and he was very good, still.

It makes me really happy to see Kagetora on the list, she's probably my favorite lancer in the game. I wish he had mentioned Ashwatthama and Lanling as honorable mentions, as I think they are both great, but its still a very good list.

Both Atalantas make me extremely happy and gave back surprisingly good returns.

Welfare getting put into F2P or even special interludes(like Seraph) for them after so long, would be absolutely beautiful. I'm one of those unfortunate players that joined early enough that Kentoki Rider was one of the most wanted 4stars, and the full first act wasn't even available.

The sad part about Mash and which you didn't mention (presumably because of spoilers), is what happens to her skill kit once you hit Lostbelts. That's what made me drop her out of my main party in the end, since she no longer provided the abilities I needed for my party compositions

“What about VR Mash,” is a valid point considering you are forced to use her against Lost Belt content and, now, a good chunk of events, largely negating her status as an amazing tank and relegating her to a CE holder- a role she is great at, but any 1 star servant can perform that role almost as well.

Here's a little love for Perceval, why cause he can support the team through taunt and heals (making him very nice as a tank/secondary damage dealer) and... he can loop his np! Mind you, it's probably dicey without castoria but that is still impressive. Also c'mon, look at him, he's a snack~

I see Baobhan Sith, I liked.

As someone with both Archer and Caster Gil at level 100, NP5, bond 15, 10/10/10, 2000/2000, I really hope both of them get buffs replacing their charisma skills at some point, since the game has really moved past skills with only one effect. Even Quetz, the only other Servant with charisma A+ besides the three Gils, got hers replaced.

Long videos are nice! Thank you for the great content!

Thank you for this kind of list, also providing some alternatives for their classes. I noticed that mostly in the list are ST. Gladly I have everyone and the alternatives except for JP servants that have yet to be release in NA.

Love how you transitioned BBs theme into her portfolio! That theme is gorgeous and it should be our national anthem lolz

when I play fgo, I usually have a pretty "no thoughts, head empty, buster aoe nps" mindset, and I haven't been having too much trouble making it through the game. I love these super in-depth looks at the best and worst servants, and I have a question: Do I have to care about which characters are the best, or can I make it through the game using characters that were on the 'bad' lists? If anyone replies to this, that would be super helpful!

For me I agree with Fae Tristan and most of the list. Im going to add Caenis as a pick for Lancer. Her skills are for me useful and she did get a few buffs. Damage cut/Guts/Able to lower enemies attack/Buster up with attack up stack...but to each thier own opinions. Plus shes a tank so really looking foward to her on the upcoming Olympus banner. Shes carried me on JP. :^;

I love that Shiki is just Queen of 4 Star Assassins, and heck, ST Arts Assassins in entirety. Every single other ST Arts Assassin always gets the question of "how do they compare to Shiki". Not even 5 Stars escape this. When Old Man Li came out, a LOT of people asked "how does he compare to Shiki". A brand new, super hyped 5 Star assassin, several years after Shiki's event, and even he can't escape her shadow.

Astrea being on here is all I needed to see as a proud grailed Astrea haver + simp Ofc I'm looking forward to her NP buff for that delicious extra scaling and invul pierce

When you mentioned single target arts sabers, my mind immediately jumped to Oji-san Munenori, he might not be the best but he carried me through most of the campaign and he’ll always hold a place in my heart for that. Him, Emiya, Wu, Liz, Miyu, and all the other four stars I pulled during events as a free to play (never spent a cent on gacha)

I would like to nominate Lambadaryllis,given how she is able to loop three turn with damage similar to Paravarti in the Skadi dynasty(without castoria)

I read your video description, and I out of spite refuse to believe that. However, I can't because when our Kouhai puts her mind to it, she is a little monster.

Only problem I'd have with the tier list is the berzerker honorable mention, since I think that summer Jalter is better since she got some form of survivability, an NP battery. Which pretty much allows her to give you a broken bar on turn one with the nice support or just on her own depending on the boss.

Glad some of my best are on here (Saber Hokusai, Kagetora, and Herc) and thankfully Nitocris got mentioned

As someone who got Baobhan Sidhe 4 times, when rolling for Barghest to get the 2 4 stars in Morgan's banner, which i got at NP 2, i agree that she is one of the best single target quick archers. She and Morgan carried me to Solomon alone when i opened my account in JP in less than 2 weeks. Im already saving for her and her mother in NA....and i rolled whenever i saw her in the few banners she has had to try and snag 1 last copy She is currently my only level 100 servant, and first one i have in both accounts, with Arthur at Level 95 in NA

God I love Heracles so much. he's one of my most favorite servants of all time. He has been with me since the beginning since I got him from the starter pool, and I mean it literally when I say he has carried me through every piece of content since 2020. When I deleted my old account in 2019 and redownloaded the game in 2020 I got herc instead of emiya for my beginning servant, and I used him in everything. Cause when I learned about welfare servants I decided that free servants would always be worth it, so I decided to always get them. Forward to the last week of gilfest and I'm looking at oniland when I come to the horrifying realization that I would need LB2 beaten to participate, at the time I was at Orleans. So with 3 weeks left I assemble a team of mash, iris, herc, and whatever I needed from friend support to make a mad dash to oniland. So yeah I speak from experience when I say he can get you through everything. And funnily enough after about a year and some change later with a skadi, spishtar, Chad Orion, god arjuna, and a berserker musashi I still use him in content cause he is still an absolute beast all this time later.

I think this is a pretty good list overall. If I were to change two things, I'd swap Gil out for Helena based on JP's current state. Helena's 50% self-charge on top of her support capabilities make her both the best 4* support as well as a very good farmer. Second, Hephaestion is the biggest oversight IMO. Her 100% personal self-battery as well as effectiveness against 7 different classes are incredible both for farming 90+ nodes as well as clearing bosses. And her NP is easily spammable. Finally, she's the best option currently available for dealing with Alter Ego servants other than going for a limited SSR (Kama) or heavily investing into Baobhan Sith's appends.

I got to use a friend's Astraea once after coming back to the game this year from a work-induced hiatus. I fell in love immediately, and got exceedingly lucky because she came to rate-up afterwards and I was pretty ready. She's not NP5 yet, but I already Grailed her and haven't once come to regret it.

6:13 I love my wife servant she is too good

As much as I love Hokusai, I’d argue that Saber Fran deserves a mention. Her NP gain is absolutely cracked and she has some great utility to go with it. With a Quick kit she makes plenty of stars on her NP and face cards, which boosts her damage and NP gain further, on top of packing buff removal, Attack and NP DMG as well as a stun chance on her NP.

I mostly agree with your picks for each of these classes except Archers, which I think Asvatthaman should be there or at least an honorable mention.

There should be put into three categories, these servants are amazing in their own way but depending on if they are supports, sub-supports, or main dps will either make or break your team. For example, going a against a Rider only team where you have to use Assassins only and trying not to get anyone killed challenge, Osakabahime, Katoru, and Mash are your beast support choice. Osakabahime give pretty good buff when you get her NP charge to max, she has her own defense AND she can provide attack buffs for everyone in the team. Katoru is great for debuffs rather that is his NP charge doing it or his main skills, which are perfect for shutting down crit boss and crit enemies in general. Mash is a bit tricky because post Mash give EVERYONE defense buffs with her main abilities until you hit the lost belts chapters. (The outfit is optional to removes, but some chapters the outfit is required). But those arw some of the examples I have for Servants that are not 4 stars, but there are 4 star characters like the ones I mentioned up above that should be categorized baised off of the three main fighting styles.

Kagetora is the GOAT at Lancer. Not only a beautiful design (with the hood), but hangs with all the top servants.

When I realized that i have fricking 5 np5 beserker playing for Three years and not a single trace or Heracles in my account i know the gacha hates me Well at least it gave me mao nobbunaga with 30 pulls

Getting Herc from the starter banner honestly was both a blessing and a curse. Because I steamrolled pretty much everything in Part 1 with him. So my other servants were so underleveled that it came back to bite me in the ass during EoR/Lostbelt

While I genuinely understand why Ryougi Shiki is the best 4 star assassin I’m more a fan of Kiritsugu Emiya. His ability to crit star gen and crit is insane and he’s one of the few servants in fgo that I know of that has a three turn ignore invincibility which is extremely strong along with his fifty percent crit power up buff. I know the general complaint is that his np gen is terrible and I can absolutely understand that but I love him nonetheless

You called Kagetora a monster :o… well it’s kinda true

Wish JP would re-release some of the older events to get Rider Kintoki and Ryougi Shiki for those who missed them

Great video, I've been playing fate for a couple years pretty much everyday & there were a few things I didnt notice about some of these servants, like how I'm under using my saber hokusai. But did you catch for BB @ 18:33 you accidentally said 5 turn cooldown instead of 4 turn? Just was curious if you caught that Oh & just subscribed after only one video which is very rare for me

when i started the game, the only thing that helped me survive the early game was both mash and zhuge liang, one of the first casters i got in my second roll along with tamamo ,without knowing how broken they were. whenever a boss appeared with a class i didn have a strong enough servant to counter, my last resort was "Mash Beatdown" literally buffing her to the extreme as she does and takes neutral damage so she never was "weak" agains it. she helped me until i got kagetora in the event and she became my main dps, didnt know she was that good compared to the other 4 star.....since she is like the ONLY 4 star i have. damm gacha rolls.

for the 5 star video Oberon is my pick for best 5 star the man fits in any team, also a shout out to Melusine for being a perfect DPS character who can be ST or AOE she's been my MVP in so many events it isn't even funny.

giga chad heracles cant wait for the buffs to arrive on NA

Nitocris' 1st skill buff still puts her above CasGil!

Kintoki( is the only walfare I didn't get because of diploma defense. Sitting and waiting for Onigashima interlude..

Its kinda funny how most Ruler class can either be a boxer of a wrestler and Wrestler class can be an entire class of its own and it already have 2 in it

This Lancelot slander will not go unforgotten

He is a monster. It's why I'm trying to get bond15 with him if you do he gets all 12 of his lives...what a fucking unit...also of course #1 was obvious hands down if a fight breaks out over this know I'm on your side👍

Before I got herc bond 10 I used to have him in party at all time. Mines is level 100 max fou triple 10. I have used him against so many bosses

Frankly I feel sorry for my Heracles, because I got Cu as my first SSR when I started FGO back up a few years ago during the male Valentine's banner, which I was ironically rolling on FOR Heracles (rather than reroll the account for him, I went with Carmilla because that's who I got on my first account's roll and felt nostalgic for her). When I first played the game before quitting, Cu Alter had been one of my desired SSRs (in part because "haha red card go brr"). So despite having summoned Heracles and even have him NP2, I never use him unless I need to save the party cost somewhere or just feel like running double solo beasts. Also, I fully agree that Welfares should be either added simply to FP gacha and/or their event is released to the rare prism store. Part of that is my bias against unobtainable units in any game, though... to the point I'm not particularly keen on limited servants.

I hope we get kontoki rider and ryou shiki interlude

Man, if you do a top 10 best 5 star list, I strongly suggest to not bother putting Skadi, Merlin, Waver, Tamamo Vitch ( light ) and Castoria on there. Why? It's obvious. We already know and then it'll be like watching the other FGO content guys who basically made the same videos saying the same things about the same servants the same way. Let's talk about other servants that are not supports for looping ... Oh and Fae Lancelot too I guess. Hyped to hell and back though not as much as Castoria.

I rolled Herc on the first day of NA, he was my guaranteed 4-star. He carried me forever.

I feel like another saber honorable mention should absolutely be Yagyuu Tajima-no-Kami Munenori. Now, he may not have huge crits and flashy numbers, but as a burst unit? Oh boy. His NP hits hard, his skills give big arts and refund, and also attack debuff on the opponent. I find he can comfortably refund (and sometimes even get *more* NP than he started with!) on a NPAA chain provided he crits, but with his first skill and some help crit he will and he will crit hard.

I was too weak/full of school work when the rider kintoki event and rerun happened. I'm not sure if I should have hope due to the short Eresh Christmas event though...

i love seeing ppl complimrnt emiya

Guess I should work on my Herc, I've just been cheering every fight with merlin, himiko, and castoria

Saber Fran and Lancer Kiyo just blast enemies so hard.

Awesome Choices for Sabers. I prefer the one that is more self-sufficient, but both are really good. Good list with the Archer's but Skadi brakes Atalanta for me... Atalanta is so busted with Skadi backing her, that I haven't used Emiya since Amazones event. Emiya is technically to he best Archer in my Chaldea, but Atalanta is currently ruling the class alongside Arash. You could of at least mentioned Parvati. She's actually strong without Skadi, and can loop on her own if you get lucky with you cards. Her AOE charm in on NP can get pretty ridiculous at times. Your pick for Riders was obvious, but it's the only correct choice. That said for newer players, Astolfo or the 4 ⭐ in the FP gacha in JP would be their only option. The Caster one should've been a tie. Nito has such great farming utility. Same as Riders. For newer players, Kiritsuga, or Carmella are the best option. Kiritsuga is still useful though his skills need a buff, Carmella is a solid assassin, with kinda insane NP gain rate. Berserker same as Riders, and Assassin, except he has no equals or equivalents. Ibaraki is the closest thing you get. B. B. is B.B. Enough said. Mash is Mash. No arguments allowed. The last one I don't have, and can't say anything for, or against them.

This video makes me really not want to restart. I had all of these characters on my old account, which I can’t recover..

Well, given my predictions from last video, 6 out of 10 isn't that bad. And I did do a good job predicting some of the Honorable Mentions. Truth be told, I was half wanting to predict Rider Kintoki but second-guessed myself because I wanted to see if you would go for a non-contrarian choice. And I forgot Fairy Knight Tristan existed. Alright...5-Star Time... Saber: Artoria Pendragon (Her buffs saved her from the accursed "Year One Syndrome" a lot of these sorts of units struggle with. Now she can reliably wave clear and Buster Brave Chain. Nice feathers in her cap, er, crown) Archer: Super Orion (Has the ability to solo some of the hardest content in the game. Plays under the style of "spam NP to get swole" and does so in spades. Has some of the highest crit damage of all Servants) Lancer: Fairy Knight Lancelot, aka Mesuline (Pick your poison: efficent single-target Arts boss killer, or AoE Buster spammer with 100% charge?) Rider: Reines, aka Sima Yi (She's like Waver, but a Rider! Is a bit more focused on assisting a single unit and the Rider class does get in the way of stars, but she can help in getting that extra 50% NP Charge for units that need it...IF I HAD ONE!) Caster: Artoria Pendragon, aka Castoria (Yeah, no surprise here. She essentially did to Arts Cards what Skadi did to Quick Cards, and then some. She possesses the strongest form of defense on paper: an invincibility that cannot even be penetrated by Ignore Invincibility) Assassin: Koyanskya of Light (Buster Reload Strats. Dare I say more?) Berserker: Arjuna Alter (One of the strongest wave-clearing damage Servants ever created, period. I think there's a reason DW never gave this guy another rerun, only time will tell if Lasagna will give the people his power as well...) Ruler: Jeanne D'Arc (One of the best stall units in the game. Especially since she no longer has to stun herself every time she NP's) Avenger: Space Ishtar (A legend amongst farming Servants. She is compatible with all Card Metas thanks to her flexible skill set) Moon Cancer: Summer BB (Gimmicky...yet fun. She can freeze your team's card lineup for three turns, allowing for guaranteed Brave Chains in most situations) Alter Ego: Bazett, aka Manannán mac Lir (Can break the rules of the game with her Fragarach NP; allowing her the potential to kill bosses just by countering their attacks and debuffs. Basically Angra but better worked out) Foreigner: Katsushika Hokusai (I'm honestly not all that experienced with the 5-Star Foreigners, but Hokusai does have some interesting potential to ramp down an enemy's attack and wave clear with her Arts NP) Pretender: Oberon (I mean, what other choice do we have? He and Koyanskya of Light essentially revolutionized the Buster Servant and created their own niche in the looping Meta)

I like the list, but honestly I would add Ashwatthama. He's my favorite 4* single target Archer in FGO NA and my honorary 5*

Love to see best friend Kenshin on the list, even if she is rather low on the list. Seeing King Gil is also good because I loved him so much on Babylonia. Meanwhile Herc spooked me half a year ago and he is sitting as a NP2 lvl 1 on the corner. Not a fan of his gamestyle.

Even tho its a bit of a spoiler i feel like you should have mentioned Ortinax One of the reasons being that what it lacks in defensive support It more then makes up with the ability to delay 2 turns with 2 self taunts And even be able to deal damage to some extent Especially after LB5 And the other reason being that its litearlly forced throughout the 2nd arc

tamamo was one of my first 4-5 star servents and i got kagetora not long after and god damm those 2 women carried me through most battles i got napoleon later to deal with sabers for her

Starting this whole hell because emiya is such a cool character,im glad to see he has become one of if not argurably the best 4 star archer in the game,its nice seeing your favourite character being absolute unit lmao.

Hercules was my free 4 star but I only have him bond 8 because I'm dumb and used summer Jean berserker instead because a bad friend dared me to not use him until I beat all main story sections

I'm glad Kagetora is considered so good My favourite little unhinged psycho🥰

Luckily, when I fought Goetia for the first time I had a bond 10 Herc in my friends list. Now, my Herc is bond 10 and would like a chunk out of Goetia himself

13:50 untill 14:00 I love that you, it's herc with *no* hesitation! X! 13:50 untill 16:15 Now, i understand *why* you said. Because that's broken! (I never summoned him, nor did i use a friend's herc. So I never know just how broken he was.)

I cannot argue with your choices. Damn it. Why must you be right.

it's cool that every unit welfare they give us is actually pretty good that's what makes FGO less frustrating than other gachas imo

Mash is best Kouhai and deserves all.the head pats

I finally got my CasCu-Tomoe Gozen-Yang Guifei team mostly online!

As someone who still uses Saber Lancelot as my go-to Saber servant, I DO wish he had some sort of survivability for himself honestly. But I still love his crit damage

I treasure my np4 Astraea

Atalanta is one of the best AOE quick loopers in the game.

1. I feel like this spot could also be taken by a certain bishounen from china, just due to the fact he's very similar to caster gil.

Honourable mention for berserker would be summer Nobu just cause of how balanced she is with team support and doing damage. Though Heracles is definitely better at damage and survivability.

Goat professor: mash cannot solo Babylonia Gorgon fight: allow me to introduce myself

I remember when he first released, Emiya hardly has any workable kit. His Clairvoyance doesn't make enough stars, his Magecraft is only for his Face Cards, can't do a proper NP Chain and his mediocre to below standard Atk Buff

"A member of the boxer sorry ruler class" XD

Alright Kligde make a video talking about your favorite classes from Saber to Pretender

Ash is my favorite 4 star. He's soo good.

I have a question for astraea. If I gave her a CE that buffs arts cards effectiveness by 25%, and then i activated her 2nd skill that buffs arts performance by 30%, does that mean the total buff would be 55%? or is it different because the skill says "arts performance" while the CE says "arts cards"? Thanks for the vid btw, helpful as always 👍

6:10 I'm havin some hero of justice vibes

Babohan is so fucking cute in her first ascenion tho Kagetora is a badass and th4ecbest 4 star lancer and she's a cutie

Mash is just silly, and when playing through Agartha, the Ruler boss was kicking my butt when I tried to damage blitz it with my few Avengers/Berserkers. So I called Mash, Support Jeanne, and my own NP3 Medea Lily. The Healing was nuts, the damage was nothing, and it took me 128 turns, but it was never a risk. Mash broke Arts Stall so much, the Devs felt forced to nerf her by making her into the worst Buster Crit character in the game. Any event tied to the Lostbelts I dread needing Mash, as I know she will be in her very poor tin can suit. Also I was crazy and left my lovely Kouhai at 10/10/9 as this syncs up her 2nd and 3rd skill cooldowns.

A little late but, for Lancer how good would Vlad III be in your opinion? I can't help but love him as a tank servant and would love an opinion or two on his usefulness on a whole.

If only i played fgo a year early, i could've got Shiki for the feet

If you max sith's 2nd append skill you basically have a high speed incantation build in on turn 1, i literally just slap a black grail on her and goes apeshit.

"Ranmaru should be available for the GudaGuda rerun this year" Uhhh about that....

With this format, I'm going to do a prediction of the top 5* servant of every class of the next video: Saber: Muramasa Archer: Gilgamesh Lancer: Mélusine Rider: Tai Gong Wang Caster: Castoria Assassin: Kama Berserker: Morgana Extra Class: (this is going to be a tough if he doesnt split this on each class): Shi huang di, Space Ishtar or Ashiva Douman

Herc is my boi, i have had him since I first started playing the game. i throw him at things and those things die, its great.

Nobu is busted and does stupid damage. All you need is a support Merlin and you melt enemies. If you add in Caesar you get the crit stars, NP up and even more critical damage. My personal favorite lineup is Waver Osakabehime and Merlin with Nobu. Great way to cut down trees if you know what I'm saying. She's fine on her own, but near broken against bosses with support.

Okay i take issue you didn't include Asvatthaman in your list here :P He's bad ass!

Started this game like month ago, kept watching reviews and sorts and didnt understand why you guys keep saying mash was important but blindly followed your tips and boom, she saved me countless times and rewarded her and me with skill all to 10.(the only char with all 10 skills)

Nagao is pretty good, but there's definitely better 4 star Lancers than her. For starters, both Fionn and Percival are absolutely ridiculous in terms of both the ability to farm and clear high difficulty quests. Being AOE isn't necessarily a downside either in high difficulty, rather having the combination of taunt + hard mitigation is by design broken both for stalling and DPS, plus they also get NP battery while Nagao doesn't. Keeping in mind these are also Arts attackers that pair extremely well with budget supports, probably moreso than Nagao because you can create long term stall strats with Hans + Mash with them, ESPECIALLY with Fionn whose contribution of Attack reduction stacks extremely well with defense stacking.

I am a Emiya, Kagetora, King Gil, Nitocris, Hercules, Astraea owner, I am very proud rn of my servants also Mash is best girl.

Whenever theres a single target Avenger enemy or Death rate spammer (which granted is not very often), I dish out my level 100 BB. And she absolutely FUCKS all of them.

I joined during the end of the Kintoki event and couldn't ascend him 100% 😢💔

Prediction for the best 5 Star Zerk: It'll be Morgan, Godjuna or Cu Alter

where would you put Ashwhatthaman?