Special thanks to Truongmai for picking this as a stream goal.

"transformin him from impossibly shit assassin into an impossibly shit berseker" 🔥 🔥

I still remember when this guy was the posterboy for the assassin class in the publicity leading up to FGO's initial launch. Then the game dropped and he turned out to be a vastly inferior assassin to even 1-star Kojirou.

"FUN" fact: His np is bugged for years and doesnt actually change his passive from concealment to madness enchantment

His most glaring issue is the fact he can use his NP only once. What if it had another effect? For example, when Hyde gets dropped to zero HP, he turns back into Jekyll. Then Jekyll can use NP to turn into Hyde again. That would give him unique survivability and made Hyde's arts cards usable. He would still be jank but maybe more fun.

Came for the Trash talk about the servant, stayed for the chilling amazingly narrated summary of the story of origin.

its crazy how these old stories can still hold up to this day. Listening to Fino tell the story of Jekyll and Hyde had me spooked. And not in the FGO way. Good shit Fino I love these additional lore drops on servants.

It's a real shame Jekyll is as bad as he is in FGO; in Prototype, where he was summoned as a Berserker from the getgo. he was ridiculously strong-his Hyde form was a sort of shadowy wolf monster with a Shapeshifting skill so potent that he could close wounds near-instantly just by moving flesh around, to say nothing of its offensive uses. IIRC it took Arash, Ozymandias, and one or two other Servants to put Proto!Hyde down after he went off the rails. FGO did this man *dirty.*

You know, it takes the next level of being horrible that an 80% Charge isn't enough to fix you from your horrible state

As someone who has lv 120 jekyll i still wish instead of giving him a battery they updated his np so it gives un-purgable buffs and changed his cards to buster

This servant certainly is a "strange case"

Shoutout to timing Hyde's death in the last clip to the reading of Jekyll's final words

I think by this point people choose the new Servant guide targets just to hear Fino talk about their backstory.

Using his story as a basis, it’d be cool if his gimmick was switching repeatedly back and forth between his two forms, because switching would give him great buffs but eventually he’d get stuck in Hyde and massively weakened. Sort like how Oberon is great at 1 turning. Or how about, Since Hyde used Jekyll as a means to literally hide away maybe Jekyll could be great at surviving and Hyde is a pure glass cannon and you have to manage switching between the two using his skills and NP

As much as I've seen references to this story, this is the first time I'm hearing the whole thing. I somehow never thought to look at the full story or synopsis before. Storytime with Fino has been such a fun addendum to these Servant reviews!

Really strange boss uploaded a video about Geronimo so suddenly. Wait Geronimo isn't a Assassin...

His only use: Just get his extra attack append and throw him at ort without using his NP

He's the first assassin/berserker I've built haha. I thought I was getting a two for one special. Turns out he was terrible at both.

I think Jekyll/Hyde should be updated so he could use his NP for more than 1 time, but maybe with -1000 max hp down as a demerit to fit with "Dangerous Game" name. Then maybe he could be good solo unit

according to Fragments Silver, Hyde did look like some kind of werewolf when he was active instead of Jekyll

Next the legendary inshun guide. I've heard from sources he's the guy called the "cu-kiiller" and was singlehandedly the reason cu had to get like a million buffs to even keep up. He could solo one shot gotia. Beat every bar of ort and not just an example of overhyped garbage that is the results of the community repeating something enough times that they make it canon in their minds like lore

Imagine gaining a buff that would be broken on any other servant, but it's tied to a servant with a "support" np that only makes it easier to die with no benefits

They need to give this guy permanent buff removal resistance, if you your using him seriously you deserve it. As for the NP they got to do something with it at this point let us use as an extra buster card that does nothing

1:25. Man does nobody else appreciate Li Shuwen? He's my absolute go-to for grail fronts

I've always loved these servant guides, I'm especially glad you've added the lore bits. It's just cool to hear you talk shop bout these servants.

the thing i hate the most about this guy is that he's possibly the reason that they never tried giving Illya and Miyu class changing install skills

Jekyll & Hyde is defiantly a story that’s been told throughout the years. Despite his showing in FGO as practically the worst servant bar none , it was good getting the historical side of this story again. Keep up the good work and waiting for the next review / history facts !

The history sections of these servant guides remind me of part of why I subscribed in the first place. Fino your voice is just straight fire lol. Your narrations are so nice to listen to and the script is always well put together.

More effort went into this video than the servant is about great job fino keep it up

I swear this is the reason they refuse to give a class change servant again when, with what they know now, they could pull it off very well especially after doing np card changes, np target changes and giving some servants special damage or defense against other classes like faker, kama and hmx for instance

Every time I think, "Man, maybe I shouldn't have dumped all those resources into Alterlanta..." I'm reminded that there are those who (ironically) grailed Jekyll, and I feel better about my gameplay choices. Blowing all my SQ and mats on waifus is literally better than even looking disdainfully in Jekyll's direction.

I am surprised that they don't release 5 Star Servant that can Class Change, they did something similar with Angra where we got Bazett, who can counter attack.

Dude you have a talent for story telling. Your reviews were always entertaining but your brief rendition of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde was something else! Last line gave me goosebumps.

I know they never will, but I feel like they could easily make his NP have an effect to turn all his cards to buster. Regardless. It is a very cool concept. I do hope they explore it again sometime. Maybe in reverse. He starts as Hyde and turns to Jeykl

I think I remember Stevenson being inspired by Edinburgh for the story; amazed at its grand architecture and appalled by its slums. Feels ironic considering he set the story in goddamn London but what do I know

It’s hilarious how bad he is when Hyde is canonically insanely strong yeah he can be beat but he’s basically a wild animal with an geniuses IQ he’s one of the few berserkers who realistically can have the full benefit of Madness Enhancement and not lose his sanity the guy should be like dead apostle ancestor level in terms of difficulty to kill like make his NP as Hyde a guts that restores full hp

The only Servant who actively gets weaker with his buff.

It would be kinda neat if dangerous game as Hyde turned you back into jekyll, purged your hyde buffs, and filled your HP back up so you could cycle back and forth to stay alive (i mean as much as a 3* can anyway)

Wow what a poetic summary of the story! Good work!

man I wish they rework him to act the same as Melusine but instead of the NP changing upon using S3 his deck and class changes upon using NP, but Lasengle doesnt have a reason to use it

Honestly, what i would give him would be he could switch back to hyde and also have his np drop stars or gain stars per turn. Also have his first hp and buster buff be unremovable but subsequent nps be for 3 or 5 turns. Tho with how elusive hyde sounds in the story it would make since if they put a 1 time evade but looking at the gameplay, he desperately needs some star gen.

I see a guide, I click, I’m a simple man

Something about f2p assassin's just make me sad. Mata Hari and Corday are decent but maaan this class got done dirty in year 1

Ever since I learned about Saber Elizabeth, I always thought Jekyll could get buffs inspired by her second skill. A full rework would definitely be the better improvement, but if the devs never go that route . . . Then I think it would be cool if his skills had additional effects that would activate if he had a certain amount of NP. Would give his NP Gauge something to do once he's Hyde, and be a good excuse to give him powerful effects that could make him fun to use.

Nice Vid as always but im still waiting on that Eresh guide 0.0

I’ve said this a couple of years ago, but he would be a fair 3-star servant if his Star Drop and Star Gather rate stayed the same in his Berserker form as his Assassin form. But we’re like 6 1/2 years in. Just use anybody else.

It would be cool that once he np's and becomes a berserker, he'll have a guts and debuff timer, when the time is up he'll die and procs the guts forcing him to be an assassin again but still keep the buster up lol

What really irks me about early FGO design shenanigans was how hard characters like them and Romulus got shafted, despite having some of the biggest cultural and historical impacts in the entire roster. The story of Jekyll and Hyde is one of the most famous and influential in the entire world, to the point that Superpowered Evil Side is a staple trope in Japanese media; we probably wouldn't even have superheroes as we know them, if not for how this story pioneered the exploration of alter egos and identities. Meanwhile, Romulus is the founder of the city that practically dictated the course of western civilization, by extension shaping the politics of nigh every country. Unit introductions are a little better nowadays. Mostly because there are so few low rarities being released at all as it doesn't seem like they've developed a better idea of kit design. Melusine's release gave me hope for him, but it's been half a year since her NA release and he still has nada.

dw dont bother to fix him, lasagna dont bother to fix him

Jekyll: would you lose? Hyde: Nah, I'd win.

I love my Mata Hari

"Glopping noise" made me experience exactly the kind of revulsion people felt looking at Hyde. That crawling itch of discomfort aside, I really, dearly wish he was actually usable at anything other than Suffering for Content(TM). We get enough of that from events already, no need to punish us for liking the cute guy. To be honest, I'm amazed they haven't made a Jekyll but actually good - not a Jekyll Specifically, of course, it'd probably be a waifu, but the outright class change gimmick has so much potential if it's done literally any other way between literally any other classes BUT the ones Jekyll uses.

i love the longer videos and the lore parts too

Hyde. Inshun. Gilles. Benkei. Eric. Team "they had a fan who believed they were good but won't admit they can't be used for anything somewhere" and yes "had" isn't a typo

What I wanted: Bruce Banner and the Hulk What I got: British man

Love the video. I actually have a level 100 Jekyll because i like to grail memes, and I can say that while occasionally I find him annoying to setup, if you manage to get Hyde going his damage output can be very shocking for a 3 star unit and I think that’s a lot of fun.

I did actually drag a level 70 Jekyll all the way to Goetia, he even got the killing blow. Not knowing at the time the depths of his awfulness given the new player inexperience

Imagine summoning this Assassin/Berserker in a Holy Grail War where Ozymandias is a thing... Nevermind other potential stronger Servants lol. King Hassan would feel so insulted that he would Independently Manifest just to put down this disgrace to all Assassins lol

Great video, really loving the backstories!

Cant believe how much I liked this video about this meme character.

That guy needs Melusine's treatment.

"Outside of first Hassan, Assassins tend to be pretty bad in that mode" *angry Kama noises*

The sad part is that they've had opportunities to fix him and have done his changing gimmick well with other servants. Hell all he'd need is a decent attack NP as Hyde and he'd be at least usable.

Honestly, they need to make him Melusine-lite. Let his Noble phantasm be functional in Hyde form. Whether they want to play around with swapping between the two, giving the same heal effect + either a crit up, or NP battery and charge to go into Hyde again. Or have it just buff Hyde with each use.

Loved the book recap, would not mind more of those

I think an easy concept for this would just be to add a new np specifically for hyde. Like, just make his side of the NP a nasty ST nuke that reverts him to Jekyll, with the heal. That way you create a risk-reward gameplay loop of trying to stay alive as Hyde long enough to NP, then blow your load and repeat. Would also make him something of a poor man's King Hassan in regards to survivability, come to think of it.

Man, it's disappointing to hear about Jekyll being this bad. I was sorely tempted to Grail him as my low-rarity grail choice, but went with Hans instead.

Loved the vid as always. It's great to listen to them while doing sth else :)

It really does suck cause he's unironically my favorite male servant and i have him grailed to 98 but stopped to focus on my favorite female servants and then just never tocuhed him afterwards after i got betgter servants i really hope he gets some kond of change or rework to make him usable better cause i love the guy

Shiting on Jekyll/Hyde is favorite pass time for fgo creators, and Im here for it. Sorry Jekyll fans, all two of you.

He needs buffs like: While in Berserker Form with Full NP gauge. If He dies deplete NP gauge and revive as a assassin again. Berserker Form with damage + base on His NP Gauge (300% NP damage = 300% damage buff).

Here’s an easy Jekyll buff idea: make the buffs given by the effect of Dangerous Game “boxed” and non-purgeable.

Jekyll is fun during Grail Fronts. He's like, the only fun part of Grail Fronts. The only nuance to an otherwise incredibly flat, solved gamemode. Thank god for Jekyll, the secret Zerk

I once heard a guy who said that Jekyll should get an update where he gets a Ray Horizon like skill that swaps Jekyll in Hyde instead of tying it to his NP

13:19 I understood that reference

Damn good video Fino🎉🎉🎉

I heard about J & H for a long time but never got curious about him enough to search him up, thanks for the history lesson

he's a Servant whose NP makes him actually worse.

I love the story of Jekyll and Hyde. It's a shame he's such a absolutely horrible servant

They should upgrade his np to be used in the berserker form to go back to the assassin form and gaining different buffs

He's doing his best :c

Dr. Jekyll was one of the servants I used a lot as a new player. I didn't know anything about the meta and didn't care about it. I liked him, the stabbing animations and sound effects were cool and he was effective against riders, that was all I could ever ask for back then :) But somewhere around Camelot I realized that he didn't feel as good to play as in previous singularities. As if he suddenly became weaker... But soon I realized that he was never strong to begin with, it just that early singularities were easy and forgiving. It's sad that a character with an interesting feature and backstory turned out to be so bad... I don't play him anymore, but I use a ce with his portrait (the one that gives +50 bond points) almost all the time. So in a way, he's still in my team hehe :)

The fix to this trainwreck is so trivial as well, just give hyde's dangerous game real effects. Fuck it, give him a carbon copy of Saint War Order, even the laziest angle possible would do the trick. Can't convince me that they don't know that this is the way to lift him up for at least 5 years.

Wait until they release him as a grand alterego

Nice. I really enjoy the back story of this character. Too bad FGO can't make him more usable.

kinda wished hydes gets a damaging np or just a buf with a delayed transform back to jekyl with the heal.

He’d be far better if his NP just became a regular buster attack after he turns into Hyde, and that’s just a sad fact. I personally adored the guy when I first started playing, just because I thought his gimmick was neat. That and he’s cute.

Sucks that he can only buster brave chain once they should've really made him, so when he uses np, it changes him, then instantly refreshes his battery so he can use a hyde np that would do damage, drop stars and boost np damage predamage. Even with this, he would still be terrible, but at least he would be able to np after transformation and do some damage, especially with the crit skill being boosted as a zerk.

When I said that, Enkidu, Jeckyll and Sumanai would get batteries, people laughed at me, WHO'S LAUGHING NOW?! Of course it wasn't here, it was in comments Plushie's, Xnaya's or All muscle's videos, don't remember which. Also in the same joke I said that Cu (lancer) and OG Medea would get batteries as well. I want to see how it would play out.

I feel like Hyde could have benefitted from having an NP. Something like a Quick NP that turns Hyde back to Jekyll, heals, purges buffs+debuffs, provides a permanent unremovable atk+def buff (in reference to Hyde growing more determined each time Jekyll took control back) and stuns him for the rest of the turn. He still would not be good, but it could give Jekyll something to work with.

I always just wanted hyde's np to be a high power buster attack, i.e give it a quick np's scaling with somekinda overcharge that increases its damage by alot, and give it ignore invul, heal him to max hp, but give it 3 demerits, give it an indefinite max hp down equal to the max hp up of his np5, and remove all buffs, the idea is to follow the lore on how hyde ruins jekyl's life, removing everything he builds up and weakening him, and of course turning back into jekyll. that way you enter a loop where hyde shifts between jekyll and hyde, where you build up jekyll only for hyde to use everything in a single burst that ruins everything for jekyll only for jekyll to fall back to it again.

Sooo..you're telling me that hs is even worse than that 0 star avenger from that friend point summon?

I remeber getting this guy when I first started FGO thinking. Oh what a great idea! Too bad it never worked... I do like him a char thought him a Mordred has a great rapport.

17:38 Nice timing

My idea to fix Jekyll & Hyde: Give Hyde a basic ST Buster NP with like 10% defense down for 3 turns on over charge. Maybe defense ignore if Lasengle wants to be really spicy. I also want them to box Jekyll’s NP buffs when transforming into Hyde to protect Hyde from buff purge ruining his gameplay. His skill set is fine with the 80% battery. Maybe give Hyde access to a defense buff to help him survive longer or a 3 turn guts with 3k HP and a guts trigger of returning to Dr. Jekyll to play around with how Hyde would conceal himself within Jekyll to protect himself. Maybe even give Jekyll a passive with 2-3 instances that once depleted Jekyll can no longer return.

Honestly, the way to fix this guy is to tie more buffs to his transformation. I would argue that as Hyde, he should be Stun/Charm immune and that his skills should have their CDs go down by 1 whenever he kills a foe.

Legit just make it so they can swap back and forth

Single worst Servant in Fgo? Angry Mango: "Am I a joke to you?"

not the "Glopping noise" deep cut lmao

1:25 The Old Man of the Mountain is not the only good assassin for Grail Fronts. Kama saved my run in the last one since she's literally immortal with that endless guts. Edit: ...when will the next book review come out?