@@MystFGO Well, credit where it is due. He's not Phantom, he's also not Jekyll. So the worst he could be is third worst in the game, but I do unironically think Kojirou is better than Vlad though. I've used Vlad a lot and, without Castoria, he's very much so lackluster. Perhaps Xu Fu helped get him a bit more up to speed though, but before her he was incapable of NPing every other turn without Castoria or a miracle, nevermind every turn. That was a complete and utter pipe dream that you would be more likely to pull off with Kojirou. Seriously, Cu is better than Vlad. Heracles is better than Vlad. Mozart is better than Vlad. Mata Hari is better than Vlad. Kagetora is better than Vlad. Xu Fu is better than Vlad. Chen Gong is better than Vlad. Medusa is better than Vlad. Blackbeard is better than Vlad. Robin Hood is better than Vlad. Bedivere is better than Vlad. Theseus is better than Vlad. Mashu is better than Vlad. Proto Cu is better than Vlad. Babbage is better than Vlad. David is better than Vlad. Mori is better than Vlad. For crying out loud, _Vlad is better than Vlad._ All of those units have more value than Vlad. There is more reason to use them, they contribute more to the team, and they scarcely hold the team back. Vlad scarcely does not. That is the definition of bad. _Berserker Vlad is a liability more often than not._ The one and only function he fulfills is a vessel for units infinitely more valuable than himself, such as Castoria. He can be a tool through which you channel their power, *that's it.* In other context, he only holds the team back. He is a garbage unit that just so happens to have ungodly synergy with absurdly valuable units. But even then, what he does, countless others can do and do better. Seriously, play the game using only one to three stars, except Berserker Vlad. I did it for two years, but you try to do it for even two events. Not a 120 Vlad or Class score, either, just level 100 and his appends at most(Class Score can warp the perception). Then do all 1-3 star for another two events. Tell me how much better than going full 1-3 star the Vlad trial was.
@@Ohimeshinso Not sure why you are doing a lot of comparisons to Servants that are nothing like him. Also, who says it's terrible that he is reliant on Castoria? Let's be real, any account that takes the game seriously has a Castoria. She is the only Servant I would say is a must have personally.
I still find it beyond hilarious that Summer Castoria is so broken she's viable against most Foreigners because she gets triple damage mod against most of them.
Paracelsus isnt a launch servant. He was added in London. Nero, Phantom and George were the other launch arts DPS units though they didnt have the bad scaling like Vlad and Medea(Euryale was in the files but she wasnt summoneable until Okeanos came out) Paracelsus is just worse because he came in after two whole main chapters and various events had already gone by...
At least Paracelsus actually hits multiple enemies like an AOE should. Medea can't even do that right. If Arash is a single target Servant that hits multiple enemies, Medea is an AOE servant that only hits one enemy.
I actually find that I have a hard time justifying bringing anything but my berserktoria when its so easy to just slap black grail on her and brute force through 99% of quests, but she's definitely the exception rather than the rule.
I feel this way too. 99% of the time I just brute force the fights with my NP5 Morgan. The other servants only get use time when she fails. Will try to NP5 Berserker Artoria when she comes to NA because of how ridículous she is.
I mean, the same is true of all top-tier AOE berserkers. It just makes more sense to invest in getting NP2 morgan (or Summer Ibuki, or Berserkstoria, or even Musashi though less so) than needing to roll one or more copies of an SSR for all seven main classes.Sure, there are other alternatives for omniloopers but only one of them actually gets a damage mod, meaning you often need even more investment in those. And Vlad is straight up the best ST looper in the game available to most of us. Most of the servants I use with any regularity are those I've been lucky enough to roll two or more copies of, but I still use NP1 Vlad all the time because he consistently produces better refund than any other ST character I have, which is a good trait in a boss fight or challenge quest that is going to last a while, and the standard berserker weakness matters less with a couple layers of Anti-Purge Defence up. If given the chance of Nero Bride - hardest hitting ST Arts Saber - and Vlad to fight Enkidu, I know what I'd pick.
Problem is that we don't even have good single-target for every type of scenario, that's when Berserker shines, even after all those years the free NP5 Jalter is carrying alot of accounts, Vlad is one of the best Loopers in game that received buff after buff and the list goes on
Galatea's still my favorite servant. She loves me back, too. Got her to NP4 with only tickets and dailies, and she even spooked me once. Couldn't recommend her enough, especially if you have Reines, who in some cases can even get an invincible comp going with her and Castoria.
So basically Berserkers are carried by their class and some having special damage mods or have the ability to abuse CE and supports to raise their damage potential more than their skillset are actually good unless you're Galatea Literally the most braindead gameplay with really little value but people like me are too poor and can't even get hands on better ST units with a specific class that would be a better replacement in the situation I am in Gotta get my bingo card ready
I really wish berserkers had class damage appends instead of the crit resistance they currently have. That would give the more boring berserkers (especially lower rarity ones you probably have a lot of coins for) at least something to differentiate themselves with. It would also make it feel like you have a reason to use X single target berserker over Y single target berserker in different quests, as a lot of them feel almost interchangeable.
I wish the incoming damage would be 1.5x and not 2x considering the output is 1.5x as well. But yeah, giving them a niche to do more damage to certain classes would be really nice.
Video title "Single-Target Berserker Problem" Otto in the video: *elavorates about why Vlad fell off for 20 minutes just to plug at the end "buff dino mommy"*
Man isn’t the most common trait. It “is”, but in terms of enemy nodes, 99% of the time you fight against earth. Go into any node right now that isn’t super low level, and you’ll find earth enemies. Earth enemies are any monster, man enemies are any human mobs, and sky is like doors and hands. That’s about it.
This was the first video of yours I saw. Really enjoy your analysis. The pacing of the video is really good too. This clearly had a lot of work put into it. Even the music/sound choices had clear thought put in. Using Donkey Kong music to score the initial overview was a particularly nice touch. Hope you decide to do another vid like this in the future.
The advantage Vlad has is higher NP level. After the 3rd time he ganks you in someone else's banner, he usually does more damage than other ST berserker.
Just as a heads up the reason the video was taking so long to render was the spinning animation in the background of the video for the talking interludes and overall flashy movements of the gameplay. If you have something that is constantly moving like that in such a way it messes with how the video renders and takes a much longer time to finish. There is a lot of technical mumbo jumbo to explain that but basically movement has a TERRIBLE impact on render time. Most videos that get published are general stream/gameplay videos without a whole lot of movement that affects the entire screen. If you want to have a 20 minute video not take an entire day to render consider using static backgrounds during chat interludes and less flashy bits of gameplay.
I’ve always kinda treated Berserkers as a “filler” class to use until I get a more specific/niche pick to replace them with in more specific situations. I don’t think they’re “bad” so much as a class meant to fill in blanks. The more niches you have covered and filled, the less you’ll use them.
I think like you too. Like, I never use a berserk against a lancer no more as I do have plenty options for sabers, which usually do better with less effort put into team building. Unless, that is, they're mixed with other classes
I feel like most servants are like this in general, “When will I use **** who’s a looper/boss killer instead of my newer & more META **** who is a better looper/boss killer”. Then again I think the answer is rather simple… “When one feels like it :/“
@@altheapolyam exactly, and yeah mixed nodes are basically my main excuse for pulling out mine (aside from just wanting to use them), which kinda proves the video’s point of the ST ones being in trouble unless they have a niche they excel out.
@@overlordwarlordtheomnilord9473 true and I tend to go with the “use who I feel like using” option a lot in the end. I’ll kinda have an idea in mind of who I should use first, but then will just be like “yeah I want to use X here so I’ll see if I can make it work,” which almost always ends up being fine too. Plus efficiency aside I’ll probably just use NP5 Summer Castoria on everything anyway unless I literally HAVE TO change my comp.
Not sure if others feel the same but I also find that already having a bunch of super strong servants allows me the freedom to just roll for whoever I want regardless of quality. When I first started playing I played with whoever I wanted, then when I got meta servants I stuck to them, now I’m funny enough back to playing with whoever I want(being an “experienced” player probably helps with that too)
20:30 gonna be honest of all the berserkers you could've talked bad she at least had a niche, as temporary as it was but she DESTROYED Tunguska, I minturned koya beast with her and also basically all the single target bosses in the event, I agree she needs a buff tho
Please do more videos like these, I absolutely love the intro segment, he was like you’re a true professional, and this was always the type of content you normally supposed to do.
I use Mordred more, but before her I had Hijikata for a few months. All other non-farming Berserkers I have have not been leveled up. Edit: Leveled up 1 for the added SQ bonus.
Oh boy. That got rough for Vlad after a while. But you are right. He has managed to hang around despite power creep and some wild shifts in meta supports. But it's a good question to ponder. AOE is fine. Summer Ibuki is obviously a monster. But Morgan is insane for so much content too. Single target really needs to keep pushing in order to keep up. And then they release someone like Draco and that changes the whole picture!
As you said, they're mostly a filler class, meant to cover for situations where your account would normally be doing neutral damage. I use my lvl 100 NP5 Nyalter pretty much every time I have to kill an Alter Ego boss because I don't have any Pretenders on NA. She's also done some work on Pretender bosses (granted we've only had 2 so far) because my only Foreigner is Koyan Dark, who I didn't have yet during LB6. Even on Assassin bosses, she tends to do as much damage as my NP2 Xuanzang while having MUCH better crits. Granted she's Quick, so she doesn't have the Vlad problem of "just" being an NP bot and can crit a lot more reliably. My lvl 100 Kiyohime, on the other hand... She's really not aged well AT ALL. She needs an NP buff badly just to be decent.
It sucks because Berserkers are my favorite class lorewise but because I suck at the game and have bad rolls I can only very rarely use them in ANY scenario in my experience.
@@Ottobean Gen Pool anything is passive and by endgame you can accumulate about NP3 by current on a boomer account depending on which one keeps showing up. He's even a 2X ticket option if you really wanted to only need one spook. For needing 2X NP, Ryouma, Shiki, and Kage (Chloe is surprisingly rough on reload) struggle with charge especially when if we're talking meta you are looking to 6s no starting charge. Gacha luck could give you Galatea, which would also be fine, but Vlad has been out longer for passive accumulation on a nearly decade old game. Max Heph is about the same output on less expected spook/ticket investment but she has a shorter timeline, especially in EN. If you're talking about CQs, then yeah he's trash at any NP level and gets clowned by welfares with proper counter class but like the game is 99% farming.
@@michaelabere6770 the gen pool argument is always really dumb. I'm not F2P on JP, it's been playing for like 4 years now, and I've gotten spooked more by Galatea than Vlad. 99% of the game being farming is also bullshit unless you're a degen who believes farming 200+ boxes per lotto is required. The story in total takes several hundred hours for an average player to read, and then there are a lot of quests people get stuck on because of difficulty
I clicked on this video not knowing what game it was about, I still don't even know \*the name of the game\*, let alone any of the technical stuff you mentioned, was thoroughly entertained throughout, good video
I got no problem roasting Vlad because neither of his form ever pop up when I roll on banners he's on, but his damned daughter consistently pops up to the point where I have all Liz's currently available at full NP. It feels like the summoning system is saying something.
I use my beautiful wife Morgan and just press red, and honestly it works like 90% of the time. Its mostly gimmick challenge quest that require me to change the setup. You know the one's were enemy is immune for three rounds or they have invincibility unless you done something specifically before hand, honestly i never understood why Berserkers would be single target servants since their whole point is "beat everything."
"When will you use that Berserker at all?" When i need to hit a Rider really hard because most Assassins suck. Or i need to loop through a 1/1/1 90++ node that i dont have a good ST looper.
Vlad's typically the reliable and low-floor, high-DPS way to put a team together that can 3T any 90+ content with 6 drop CEs .....until some unreleased servants show up in the far future. Castoria-Vlad-Filler_Arts_AoE-Castoria is the simplest reliable option and veterans likely already have him at NP2. Worth pointing out damage niches usually can't apply to both single target enemies at once so servants that rely on that can end up lacking. Whether it's 3-1-1 2-1-1 1-3-1 or 2-2-1, as long as you pick a good filler like Spish or S.Kama, this comp works for anything at the 90+ class. So his niche is literally 'Entry level 90+ multicore team'. I think he really comes in handy for me. Thanks to him I can be so lazy when it comes to farming.
As someone who has been blessed/cursed with vlad since launch, and has gotten np5 over the years (all spooks lol), i'm unironically at the other end of the spectrum. Often, i have no reason to use any other ST damage dealers over him when it comes to CQ's. He'll always work with castoria and is able to refund without any problems, which only a handful of my servants from the main classes can do, and even then they'll probably be doing less damage depending on the NP levels. I think you were little bit too harsh when it comes to him, or at least it came off that way, since he still pretty much does what all the other arts zerkers do.
Counter point, if my berserker worked one year ago for the challenge quest why would I literally ever waste quartz to roll for any saber,archer,rider,etc class who just does the same thing except is way more niche and you actually need to think about when you can use them or not. If I used castoria summer for that challenge quest why would I ever roll for any other class? And yes Vlad is worse but hes still functionally the same in farming and most other cases he just has less long term survivability than the power creep version of himself but still has master skills, merlin, and castoria to be immortal anyway. You say its a challenge to use berserker but I find the effort saved in team select far outweighs the alleged difficulty of having class advantage against everything when you are invul every turn anyway. You save so much quartz, team swapping, brain power, sheer amount of characters you need to invest and therefore time spent playing and farming the game or atleast you can redirect your attention more towards characters you like than building a boss killer in every class, the game is just so damn easy when you just spam berserkers the way you frame the video is just completely wrong lol. I'm an old na player and when I started to play jp I just got meta supports and only roll for berserkers and extra class, its the best way to play the game by far I wish I did this from the start on na too rather than having a bunch of servants I barely use or build
I've been rocking Morgan and she's my favorite Servant now, she makes farming easy so I can grind events easier and she's great on most story quests that don't have a boss but even then if I can kill something in three turns then she is my best opinion. I understand that Berserkers may not be the Strongest but I still love Morgan despite the class weakness so while this video is correct I'ma stay on that Berserker train
So I have a single target berserker that I use all the time... For like... if I don't know what the boss is gonna be, and I don't think they'll be enough of a challenge to warrant me trying to class pick against them. Kintoki is here to farm embers, is what I'm trying to say. He does little else.
I mostly just use st zerks for either farming when there are very conflicting 90+ classes like saber and archer or having a ruler. Rare to get any use of any other one besides sololing heracles.
Other servants cant outclass my NP5 vlad that I could slowly build up since he was one of the earliest servant to exist if I don't have them to begin with. Also he s still up to this day my strongest single target art.
Very good video. Honestly my ST needs are solved by my lvl 100 Salieri and my 120 Van Gogh, while aoe is resolved by 2 kaleidoscopes, 1bg, arcueid, and boyager with salieri sprinkled on top
Completely agree. With how the game has been progressing over the years berserkers are being less and less viable outside of TA/minturn runs. CQ enemies tend to deal more and more damage and I noticed during teslafest last month that even neutral servants struggle to stay alive for more than 2 turns in some cases and with berserkers the entire thing has become very binary. They either take damage and die or they don't and survive, which means heavy investment in terms of support just to keep them alive. Of course there are exceptions like the ones you mentioned that excel in their niches or have some other unique mechanics that makes them worth bringing along, but for someone like me who prefers playing normally rather than min turning, most berserkers (especially single targets) have little to no value at the moment.
Only time I ever bring my ST zerks out are for interludes or story missions, cause I can't be bothered to look up which class is mob or boss. Typically brute force through every fight until I hit a brick wall I can't punch through.
love this but still see kintoki and now summer castoria merking thing is cool althou would love have np st in every class having a np 3 st berseker feel better and a anti forenier st as well since have no weak spots
Totally unrelated topic but my np4 Bond 12 Penth still bonks enemies. Also Mommy Raiko AND Morgan are Ruling my first choice for Berserkers when I need one. Btw Nice video, It was very good and kinda informative too. Congrats
![[FGO] Why you should ABSOLUTELY NOT skip Castoria](http://i.ytimg.com/vi/d5D5t-E9EYM/mqdefault.jpg)
Can we get a petition to re-name this video "The Vlad Problem" 😅
He was kinda salty when you put vlad in A+.
Otto only agreed so that he won't have a huge crowd with pitchforks outside his house.
Soo, Myst-san. What do you think about Vlad now? Do you understand why I said he sucked, like, a year or two ago? :o
@@Ohimeshinso He doesn't suck tho and I doubt otto thinks he sucks either. I think the claim is just that he's not top tier.
@@MystFGO Well, credit where it is due. He's not Phantom, he's also not Jekyll. So the worst he could be is third worst in the game, but I do unironically think Kojirou is better than Vlad though.
I've used Vlad a lot and, without Castoria, he's very much so lackluster. Perhaps Xu Fu helped get him a bit more up to speed though, but before her he was incapable of NPing every other turn without Castoria or a miracle, nevermind every turn. That was a complete and utter pipe dream that you would be more likely to pull off with Kojirou.
Seriously, Cu is better than Vlad. Heracles is better than Vlad. Mozart is better than Vlad. Mata Hari is better than Vlad. Kagetora is better than Vlad. Xu Fu is better than Vlad. Chen Gong is better than Vlad. Medusa is better than Vlad. Blackbeard is better than Vlad. Robin Hood is better than Vlad. Bedivere is better than Vlad. Theseus is better than Vlad. Mashu is better than Vlad. Proto Cu is better than Vlad. Babbage is better than Vlad. David is better than Vlad. Mori is better than Vlad. For crying out loud, _Vlad is better than Vlad._
All of those units have more value than Vlad. There is more reason to use them, they contribute more to the team, and they scarcely hold the team back. Vlad scarcely does not. That is the definition of bad. _Berserker Vlad is a liability more often than not._
The one and only function he fulfills is a vessel for units infinitely more valuable than himself, such as Castoria. He can be a tool through which you channel their power, *that's it.* In other context, he only holds the team back.
He is a garbage unit that just so happens to have ungodly synergy with absurdly valuable units. But even then, what he does, countless others can do and do better.
Seriously, play the game using only one to three stars, except Berserker Vlad. I did it for two years, but you try to do it for even two events. Not a 120 Vlad or Class score, either, just level 100 and his appends at most(Class Score can warp the perception). Then do all 1-3 star for another two events. Tell me how much better than going full 1-3 star the Vlad trial was.
@@Ohimeshinso Not sure why you are doing a lot of comparisons to Servants that are nothing like him.
Also, who says it's terrible that he is reliant on Castoria? Let's be real, any account that takes the game seriously has a Castoria. She is the only Servant I would say is a must have personally.
I still find it beyond hilarious that Summer Castoria is so broken she's viable against most Foreigners because she gets triple damage mod against most of them.
Its also Hilarious that the best counter against Bakatoria is Mysterious Herioine XX another saberface 😂
21 minutes of Otto massacring Vlad
Paracelsus isnt a launch servant. He was added in London. Nero, Phantom and George were the other launch arts DPS units though they didnt have the bad scaling like Vlad and Medea(Euryale was in the files but she wasnt summoneable until Okeanos came out)
Paracelsus is just worse because he came in after two whole main chapters and various events had already gone by...
At least Paracelsus actually hits multiple enemies like an AOE should.
Medea can't even do that right. If Arash is a single target Servant that hits multiple enemies, Medea is an AOE servant that only hits one enemy.
@@Ohimeshinso poor medea...
@@jefffgo7154 ikr
I actually find that I have a hard time justifying bringing anything but my berserktoria when its so easy to just slap black grail on her and brute force through 99% of quests, but she's definitely the exception rather than the rule.
I feel this way too. 99% of the time I just brute force the fights with my NP5 Morgan. The other servants only get use time when she fails. Will try to NP5 Berserker Artoria when she comes to NA because of how ridículous she is.
@@PGRubAsame. No better berserker on NA
I mean, the same is true of all top-tier AOE berserkers. It just makes more sense to invest in getting NP2 morgan (or Summer Ibuki, or Berserkstoria, or even Musashi though less so) than needing to roll one or more copies of an SSR for all seven main classes.Sure, there are other alternatives for omniloopers but only one of them actually gets a damage mod, meaning you often need even more investment in those.
And Vlad is straight up the best ST looper in the game available to most of us. Most of the servants I use with any regularity are those I've been lucky enough to roll two or more copies of, but I still use NP1 Vlad all the time because he consistently produces better refund than any other ST character I have, which is a good trait in a boss fight or challenge quest that is going to last a while, and the standard berserker weakness matters less with a couple layers of Anti-Purge Defence up. If given the chance of Nero Bride - hardest hitting ST Arts Saber - and Vlad to fight Enkidu, I know what I'd pick.
Man Roast Vlad so Bad just so he can say "Buff Dino Mommy"
Justice for Vlad 😢
he did a whole video only for that, i like the dedication
Vlad has had enough justice I wish some of his buffs were used instead in some nicer, more mechanically interesting characters
That is simps for you. 😂
Random idea:
"Why Supports is CLOSE to EVERYTHING: The Castoria Theorem"
Peak, up
Noooo not the FSG video reference 😂 😭
Thought it would be called the waiver theorem but ok.
Problem is that we don't even have good single-target for every type of scenario, that's when Berserker shines, even after all those years the free NP5 Jalter is carrying alot of accounts, Vlad is one of the best Loopers in game that received buff after buff and the list goes on
NP5 Jalter?
@@hungerxhunger2548 np5 Summer jalter.
Then there's the only three Zerkers with supportive NPs (Caligula, Asterios, Nigthingale)
Galatea's still my favorite servant. She loves me back, too. Got her to NP4 with only tickets and dailies, and she even spooked me once. Couldn't recommend her enough, especially if you have Reines, who in some cases can even get an invincible comp going with her and Castoria.
So basically Berserkers are carried by their class and some having special damage mods or have the ability to abuse CE and supports to raise their damage potential more than their skillset are actually good unless you're Galatea
Literally the most braindead gameplay with really little value but people like me are too poor and can't even get hands on better ST units with a specific class that would be a better replacement in the situation I am in
Gotta get my bingo card ready
I will never regret my LV100 10/10/10 max Fou NP5 Ibaraki Douji. Even when I really shouldn’t still use her, I find an excuse to put her on the team!
The banana oni is worth it!
vlad carried me through singularity 1-6 😭
I really wish berserkers had class damage appends instead of the crit resistance they currently have. That would give the more boring berserkers (especially lower rarity ones you probably have a lot of coins for) at least something to differentiate themselves with. It would also make it feel like you have a reason to use X single target berserker over Y single target berserker in different quests, as a lot of them feel almost interchangeable.
I wish the incoming damage would be 1.5x and not 2x considering the output is 1.5x as well.
But yeah, giving them a niche to do more damage to certain classes would be really nice.
curiosity, jekyll and hyde has this append
This video has only convinced me how much I need to pull Kriemhild, Summer Erice, Summer Castoria, and Draco.
Vlad was my first 5 star and my first lvl100, he stills carries me, god bless all Vlad enjoyers
Mine too, he's the second 100lvl servant that i have. Dude is just awesome, i use him on every st content and he didnt fumble for me once.
Don't worry, I use my Summer Castoria quite often in fact...
(watches the video) Ah...
Video title "Single-Target Berserker Problem"
Otto in the video: *elavorates about why Vlad fell off for 20 minutes just to plug at the end "buff dino mommy"*
Man isn’t the most common trait. It “is”, but in terms of enemy nodes, 99% of the time you fight against earth. Go into any node right now that isn’t super low level, and you’ll find earth enemies.
Earth enemies are any monster, man enemies are any human mobs, and sky is like doors and hands. That’s about it.
This was the first video of yours I saw. Really enjoy your analysis. The pacing of the video is really good too.
This clearly had a lot of work put into it. Even the music/sound choices had clear thought put in. Using Donkey Kong music to score the initial overview was a particularly nice touch.
Hope you decide to do another vid like this in the future.
I really enjoyed this type of fgo video essay content, paired with the high quality editing and entertaining commentary, this was a real fun to watch!
The advantage Vlad has is higher NP level.
After the 3rd time he ganks you in someone else's banner, he usually does more damage than other ST berserker.
This might be the most well edited FGO video I’ve ever watched
Just as a heads up the reason the video was taking so long to render was the spinning animation in the background of the video for the talking interludes and overall flashy movements of the gameplay. If you have something that is constantly moving like that in such a way it messes with how the video renders and takes a much longer time to finish. There is a lot of technical mumbo jumbo to explain that but basically movement has a TERRIBLE impact on render time. Most videos that get published are general stream/gameplay videos without a whole lot of movement that affects the entire screen. If you want to have a 20 minute video not take an entire day to render consider using static backgrounds during chat interludes and less flashy bits of gameplay.
Vlads biggest tsundere
I’ve always kinda treated Berserkers as a “filler” class to use until I get a more specific/niche pick to replace them with in more specific situations. I don’t think they’re “bad” so much as a class meant to fill in blanks. The more niches you have covered and filled, the less you’ll use them.
I think like you too. Like, I never use a berserk against a lancer no more as I do have plenty options for sabers, which usually do better with less effort put into team building. Unless, that is, they're mixed with other classes
I feel like most servants are like this in general, “When will I use **** who’s a looper/boss killer instead of my newer & more META **** who is a better looper/boss killer”. Then again I think the answer is rather simple… “When one feels like it :/“
@@altheapolyam exactly, and yeah mixed nodes are basically my main excuse for pulling out mine (aside from just wanting to use them), which kinda proves the video’s point of the ST ones being in trouble unless they have a niche they excel out.
@@overlordwarlordtheomnilord9473 true and I tend to go with the “use who I feel like using” option a lot in the end. I’ll kinda have an idea in mind of who I should use first, but then will just be like “yeah I want to use X here so I’ll see if I can make it work,” which almost always ends up being fine too. Plus efficiency aside I’ll probably just use NP5 Summer Castoria on everything anyway unless I literally HAVE TO change my comp.
Not sure if others feel the same but I also find that already having a bunch of super strong servants allows me the freedom to just roll for whoever I want regardless of quality. When I first started playing I played with whoever I wanted, then when I got meta servants I stuck to them, now I’m funny enough back to playing with whoever I want(being an “experienced” player probably helps with that too)
5:28 Big W for the Vagabond fans.
20:30 gonna be honest of all the berserkers you could've talked bad she at least had a niche, as temporary as it was but she DESTROYED Tunguska, I minturned koya beast with her and also basically all the single target bosses in the event, I agree she needs a buff tho
I have a friend with a Kintoki. I owe him a lot of my early success.
>Kriemhild in the thumbnail
ngl I don't like where this is going, chief.
Another man's wife is the best, isn't it?
@@Sizdothyx yessir
@@Sizdothyx Admitedly, even if you don't go that route (me) she's just so freaking cool
Insanily well edited and well scripted video Otto, keep it up
I agree, buff the dino!
Good video Otto. Didn’t think I’d see Erice and Kenshin here. Part of me is surprised you didn’t put Astraea on here too.
Nightingale best berserker
REAL ‼️‼️‼️
(please lasagna add her back into a main story chapter and give her a relevant story role again, she hasn’t had one since singularity 5)
ibuki douji summer sweep
Please do more videos like these, I absolutely love the intro segment, he was like you’re a true professional, and this was always the type of content you normally supposed to do.
I use Mordred more, but before her I had Hijikata for a few months.
All other non-farming Berserkers I have have not been leveled up.
Edit: Leveled up 1 for the added SQ bonus.
The waiting was worth it! Hope u keep making videos like this
You are sooo right the need to buff cu alter he dosent do any damage at all
Great editing, solid music, and a meaningful essay I believe would be well examined by Lasengle. A sub well earned.
Really liked this video! Very different vibe since most FGO content I normally see on TH-cam is not as 'essay-like'
This is the sort of FGO video I wish existed in larger numbers
This is a very well made video. Enjoyed it a lot
Your edit on this video is so good! Great content as always
Oh boy. That got rough for Vlad after a while. But you are right. He has managed to hang around despite power creep and some wild shifts in meta supports.
But it's a good question to ponder. AOE is fine. Summer Ibuki is obviously a monster. But Morgan is insane for so much content too. Single target really needs to keep pushing in order to keep up. And then they release someone like Draco and that changes the whole picture!
I disagree because I farmed sooo many boss raids with Vlad associated with Castoria, Tamamo and sometimes with santa Martha.
0:45 when? When I have to deal with Rulers and my forgieners ain’t dealing damage.
As you said, they're mostly a filler class, meant to cover for situations where your account would normally be doing neutral damage.
I use my lvl 100 NP5 Nyalter pretty much every time I have to kill an Alter Ego boss because I don't have any Pretenders on NA. She's also done some work on Pretender bosses (granted we've only had 2 so far) because my only Foreigner is Koyan Dark, who I didn't have yet during LB6. Even on Assassin bosses, she tends to do as much damage as my NP2 Xuanzang while having MUCH better crits. Granted she's Quick, so she doesn't have the Vlad problem of "just" being an NP bot and can crit a lot more reliably.
My lvl 100 Kiyohime, on the other hand... She's really not aged well AT ALL. She needs an NP buff badly just to be decent.
Really really great video, nice and simple information easy to digest!
It sucks because Berserkers are my favorite class lorewise but because I suck at the game and have bad rolls I can only very rarely use them in ANY scenario in my experience.
Vlad's niche is being a cheap option that can reach even some 90++ caps at NP3 without relying on niche or a specific limited NP5 SR counter class
how tf is an NP3 SSR a cheap option? even at NP3 he gets outdone by a lot of ST arts welfares
@@Ottobean Gen Pool anything is passive and by endgame you can accumulate about NP3 by current on a boomer account depending on which one keeps showing up. He's even a 2X ticket option if you really wanted to only need one spook. For needing 2X NP, Ryouma, Shiki, and Kage (Chloe is surprisingly rough on reload) struggle with charge especially when if we're talking meta you are looking to 6s no starting charge. Gacha luck could give you Galatea, which would also be fine, but Vlad has been out longer for passive accumulation on a nearly decade old game. Max Heph is about the same output on less expected spook/ticket investment but she has a shorter timeline, especially in EN.
If you're talking about CQs, then yeah he's trash at any NP level and gets clowned by welfares with proper counter class but like the game is 99% farming.
@@michaelabere6770 the gen pool argument is always really dumb. I'm not F2P on JP, it's been playing for like 4 years now, and I've gotten spooked more by Galatea than Vlad.
99% of the game being farming is also bullshit unless you're a degen who believes farming 200+ boxes per lotto is required. The story in total takes several hundred hours for an average player to read, and then there are a lot of quests people get stuck on because of difficulty
@@Ottobeanso speaking about single target berserker what about Heracles
great video, please make more like this!
I clicked on this video not knowing what game it was about, I still don't even know \*the name of the game\*, let alone any of the technical stuff you mentioned, was thoroughly entertained throughout, good video
I hardly use Vlad anymore because mine is bond 13 and since he was my first SSR he is NP4.
Day 1 player btw.
I feel like the best way to help the Berserker overall would be to change the x2 damage they take to a 1.5 to match their advantage damage.
I got no problem roasting Vlad because neither of his form ever pop up when I roll on banners he's on, but his damned daughter consistently pops up to the point where I have all Liz's currently available at full NP.
It feels like the summoning system is saying something.
I will never regret grailing Kriemhild. She's the Best Wife (of another man)
as someone who grailed kijyo koyo to 120
i agree, buff her, lasengle.
she deserves more love
I use my beautiful wife Morgan and just press red, and honestly it works like 90% of the time. Its mostly gimmick challenge quest that require me to change the setup. You know the one's were enemy is immune for three rounds or they have invincibility unless you done something specifically before hand, honestly i never understood why Berserkers would be single target servants since their whole point is "beat everything."
bruh suck and vlad in the same sentence , what is even that 💀 ?
I mean, he is a vampire.
@@NevisYsbryd ok funny 😅
@@NevisYsbryd he shall spook you for that offense
@@thefool8224 I mean, I already rolled _for_ him back during his and Odysseus's dual rate-up and have him at 10/10/10 and -/10/- appends.
@@NevisYsbryd damn. it backfired on me
Don't treat my NP6 Vlad that hard! Come on man!😂😂😂😂
The video is really good!
You are officially Sitonai's strongest knight
THE BERSERKER VIDEO IS ACTUALLY REAL AND NOT JUST A MYTH????????
"When will you use that Berserker at all?"
When i need to hit a Rider really hard because most Assassins suck. Or i need to loop through a 1/1/1 90++ node that i dont have a good ST looper.
Vlad's typically the reliable and low-floor, high-DPS way to put a team together that can 3T any 90+ content with 6 drop CEs .....until some unreleased servants show up in the far future. Castoria-Vlad-Filler_Arts_AoE-Castoria is the simplest reliable option and veterans likely already have him at NP2. Worth pointing out damage niches usually can't apply to both single target enemies at once so servants that rely on that can end up lacking.
Whether it's 3-1-1 2-1-1 1-3-1 or 2-2-1, as long as you pick a good filler like Spish or S.Kama, this comp works for anything at the 90+ class.
So his niche is literally 'Entry level 90+ multicore team'. I think he really comes in handy for me. Thanks to him I can be so lazy when it comes to farming.
Yeah, specially since FGO has such a shitty pity system. I would love to get my np2 Vlad but this dude never come to me.
for me, vlad is my boss killer, him and castoria combined just does so much damage that i can 3 turn bosses i should not be able to
Vlad carried my ass through a smack down fight with woodwose so he at least deserves credit for that.
As someone who has been blessed/cursed with vlad since launch, and has gotten np5 over the years (all spooks lol), i'm unironically at the other end of the spectrum. Often, i have no reason to use any other ST damage dealers over him when it comes to CQ's. He'll always work with castoria and is able to refund without any problems, which only a handful of my servants from the main classes can do, and even then they'll probably be doing less damage depending on the NP levels. I think you were little bit too harsh when it comes to him, or at least it came off that way, since he still pretty much does what all the other arts zerkers do.
Counter point, if my berserker worked one year ago for the challenge quest why would I literally ever waste quartz to roll for any saber,archer,rider,etc class who just does the same thing except is way more niche and you actually need to think about when you can use them or not. If I used castoria summer for that challenge quest why would I ever roll for any other class? And yes Vlad is worse but hes still functionally the same in farming and most other cases he just has less long term survivability than the power creep version of himself but still has master skills, merlin, and castoria to be immortal anyway.
You say its a challenge to use berserker but I find the effort saved in team select far outweighs the alleged difficulty of having class advantage against everything when you are invul every turn anyway. You save so much quartz, team swapping, brain power, sheer amount of characters you need to invest and therefore time spent playing and farming the game or atleast you can redirect your attention more towards characters you like than building a boss killer in every class, the game is just so damn easy when you just spam berserkers the way you frame the video is just completely wrong lol. I'm an old na player and when I started to play jp I just got meta supports and only roll for berserkers and extra class, its the best way to play the game by far I wish I did this from the start on na too rather than having a bunch of servants I barely use or build
Awesome editing.
I've been rocking Morgan and she's my favorite Servant now, she makes farming easy so I can grind events easier and she's great on most story quests that don't have a boss but even then if I can kill something in three turns then she is my best opinion. I understand that Berserkers may not be the Strongest but I still love Morgan despite the class weakness so while this video is correct I'ma stay on that Berserker train
Maybe a bit of cope, but a friends Koyo was legit my best and only option to get through the Requiem event Challenge Quest so yay
Very informative. Buff Dinomom👍
So I have a single target berserker that I use all the time...
For like... if I don't know what the boss is gonna be, and I don't think they'll be enough of a challenge to warrant me trying to class pick against them. Kintoki is here to farm embers, is what I'm trying to say. He does little else.
my account was built from the ground up by summer jalter
Vlad is a good boss killer.
nice vid. like this type of content. Love the editing
i would simply use Kijyo koyo because she is dino mom and I love her
I mostly just use st zerks for either farming when there are very conflicting 90+ classes like saber and archer or having a ruler. Rare to get any use of any other one besides sololing heracles.
Other servants cant outclass my NP5 vlad that I could slowly build up since he was one of the earliest servant to exist if I don't have them to begin with.
Also he s still up to this day my strongest single target art.
Mine to. I don’t have any other ST reaching NP 5 other then my vlad and he get the job done and is brain dead easy to use.
@@fgostoryteller2168 Yeah that s the thing when people say "x" is better than"y". That can never be truth if you don't have "x"
Very good video. Honestly my ST needs are solved by my lvl 100 Salieri and my 120 Van Gogh, while aoe is resolved by 2 kaleidoscopes, 1bg, arcueid, and boyager with salieri sprinkled on top
The way that i rolled on Charlemagne's banner just for Krimhild but instead i got him and no Krim 🤞😔
been playing the game for five years and just learned that berserkers only deal 1.5x damage from this video....
It sucks that they cant just rework bad characters, because they decided that all character buffs needed to happen in the lore of the game.
Completely agree. With how the game has been progressing over the years berserkers are being less and less viable outside of TA/minturn runs. CQ enemies tend to deal more and more damage and I noticed during teslafest last month that even neutral servants struggle to stay alive for more than 2 turns in some cases and with berserkers the entire thing has become very binary. They either take damage and die or they don't and survive, which means heavy investment in terms of support just to keep them alive. Of course there are exceptions like the ones you mentioned that excel in their niches or have some other unique mechanics that makes them worth bringing along, but for someone like me who prefers playing normally rather than min turning, most berserkers (especially single targets) have little to no value at the moment.
Only time I ever bring my ST zerks out are for interludes or story missions, cause I can't be bothered to look up which class is mob or boss. Typically brute force through every fight until I hit a brick wall I can't punch through.
So what I'm hearing is that they should buff Vlad and give him Anti-Humanoid Damage.
ibuki be like that cute hahahaha
Skill issue, NP5 Kreim has guid d me through so many 90++ quests
why do people comment without watching the video
I love single target beserker i already level up my dinosaur to 120 np max skill max bonds on my way to 2k fou
At this point, if you didn't name the podcast Smobcast (referencing Baobhan Sith), I would be sure you had real life grudge against vampires
But he is human vampire and she is fae vampire, so I'm not sure either way
me watching this with my Summer Jalter 😥
love this but still see kintoki and now summer castoria merking thing is cool althou would love have np st in every class having a np 3 st berseker feel better and a anti forenier st as well since have no weak spots
I am also a koyo fan but man do I love challenge quests with her
Totally unrelated topic but my np4 Bond 12 Penth still bonks enemies. Also Mommy Raiko AND Morgan are Ruling my first choice for Berserkers when I need one. Btw Nice video, It was very good and kinda informative too. Congrats
Heracles. ☕🗿
All I'm hearing us herc needs another buff
best video u ever made now do a craft essence tier list
tl;dr - Vlad III exists, and buff my wife
I literally just use vlad when i want to win with 3 fast nps, he doesnt even need facecards
I can guarentee. None of my ST Berserkers do anywhere near as much Damage as my NP4 120 2000/2000 Sheba
Will be NP5 when that new SR ticket comes
very based