FGO Servant Spotlight: Merlin Analysis, Guide and Tips
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 2 ม.ค. 2019
- Is Merlin over hyped? #FGO #Merlin #FateGrandOrder
Stats, Skills, and Deck- 00:26
Analysis- 02:45
Skill Leveling- 05:04
Team Comp- 08:06
CE Recommendations- 10:20
Final Thoughts- 11:13
Grade-11:43
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![Fate Lore - The Tale of Merlin [Fate/Grand Order]](http://i.ytimg.com/vi/cVrpmyeXwfY/mqdefault.jpg)
Yes Merlin's greatest weakness he has a health bar
Wait, he does? I though it was part of the background as it doesn't move
Just Lol
cheng gong:bojour
Not sure if he is the Waver Killer.
Waver: Can I have Christmas off?
Gudako: You're Chinese, Zhuge, you don't celebrate Christmas.
Waver: Can I have Chinese New Year off then?
Gudako: You're British, Waver, you don't celebrate Chinese New Year.
He is the liberator of Waver.
Waver now will have some rest with Merlin around. Except in Valentine's Day, that stupid incubus can't see a single beautiful woman and he already wanna date her...
No, you still have to use Waver every single quest, nice try Waver Velvet, get back to the farming squad.
234 likes! Please keep this number, it's the year the real life Zhuge Liang died of exhaustion.
Nice try, 50% charge. You cant rest until skadi come out.
Danny Deng even when Skadi come out, ppl still run him with double skadi anyway, nice try, back to the rice field
"Merlin is Waver's killer".
You said that, but the day I got Merlin is the happiest day in Waver's life (because he can finally rest).
Or you could just run a Waver-Merlin team
Schmößi Schmon 150% crit..... damn
Now that I have both, I prefer using double Merlin + Waver instead of double Waver + Merlin so he gets to rest by about 50% more than usual
got him on rate up, now i feel invincible as a f2p
Get him with Tomamo in one roll. That was my last good gacha in this game. Only 3*, even in 30 summon.
Dark Knight You often don’t get 5 or 4 stars unless you roll at least 50-100 times (statistically speaking). Also, YOU GOT A DOUBLE SSR MULTI, YOU HAVE NO RIGHT TO COMPLAIN.
Same
@@blurb9319 a double SSR of Tamamo and Merlin. That is even less ground to stand on.
what if i get triple ssr on the same multi
*Stares at EX rank*
*pats self on the back*
Did it too.. wth XD
boy am i glad i have him
Idk man I’ve played for 3 months and got him for 60SQ so I feel like I’ve accomplished something that most haven’t?
scared is my chicken started playing last week just got him....Luck Ex?
@@scaredismychicken yea, because merlin are the most character very hard to pull on gacha
"painting summer looks amazing"
yes indeed...wait what we were talking about?
about how Painting Summer looks amazing
Singularities when they see a master who has two Merlin's: *Guess I'll die*
You sir just made my day thank you
As ironic as it sounds, running all three top-tier casters together is an incredibly effective stall team. Waver can offer more buffs, and can debuff the enemy and drain NP charge, Tamamo can also drain NP charge, and reduce cooldowns, and Merlin is there to bring the cherry-on-top style of support, as well as the hard-counter you need. I ran these three against the Avenger Kingu fight, just for the hilarity. 50-turn fight where none of them ever had less than full HP at the end of every turn. It was the ultimate war of attrition.
I Did basically the same against gorgon, I took mash, merlin and tamamo together to stall her out for 15 turns instead of killing her for the lols. It got to the point where my entire team was firing NPs every turn and not taking a point of damage. I dont think I was laughing as hard as I was at the game than at that moment. I love stall teams :D
@@karenwang313 I did the exact same thing
Stall is boring...
@@karenwang313 same for that one too. If not for the 15-turn limit, that fight would have lasted forever, with no victory in sight. At that point, I knew that I had a God-comp in the form of my Waver, my (new) Merlin, and my wife's Tamamo (I have my own, but hers is NP5 soooooooo yeah.)
@@isedesi7982 as boring as it is, the game will soon have a point where stalling is the only thing that you can do in some fights. Break Bars are about to be introduced. They're about to make boss fights that are specifically designed so that you can't just burst them down. NP-spamming every turn, NPs that one-shot, multiple health bars, damage resistance, evade/invincible spamming, shit gets real fun after Solomon :D
G&A: "Merlin is the Waver Killer."
Merlin: "Let me know if you need full team invincibility"
Me: " (Look at my exhausted Waver).... No we're just going to 3 turn this with Waver like usual"
Waver: (Screaming Internally)
....You fooled Dr. Roman and us good Merlin...as Magi☆Mari
Chairman TripleY SHHHHHH!!! Spoilers!
Merlin + Mashu + Tamamo = unlimited defense works
Nah thats Mash + Mashu(support) + Tamamo
as a F2P I practically won the game after I got him.
Remember, no matter how good Merlin is, he isn't a cute girl (yet!)
He is magi mari.
But he keeps ur waifus and husbando healthy and non deaded
@@kacchanteh6532 tamano does as well and waver keeps them from getting np or stuns enemies. Skadi just teaches them to DODGE
Still one of the best fluffy bois next to Asterias and is cuter than most male (and female) servants in the game. Not to mention Magi*Mari heh
Eddie Proto-Merlin is coming. Not sure when but she’s coming +___+
Wick Dizard
-fino plays
So uhhh if you have waver, tama, skađi, and Merlin....is that what it feels like to have the infinity gauntlet?
I'll know once Skadi comes to NA and I somehow manage to get her, then **snap**
add Hans to the fray, and it's perfect.
The ultimate stall team
Let's say, Waver, Tama, Skadi, Merlin, Hokusai, Gil and Dantes.
You're just gonna snap the challenge quests and boss fights they throw at you with them..maybe except at Shimosa
@MisterEroErohim like Tama and Hokusai, Skadi and Dantes , Merlin and Gil then you throw a Waver in every team and then BOOM perfect !
I'm honestly a little surprised you didn't mention Jalter, since Merlin also provides everything Jalter wants too. Plus it was like the meme team for god knows how long, even if it's never the most efficient option.
He technically did, just not in the recommended team comp section. Honestly pretty much every buster servant could go there as well. Ozy , Quetz, and even Medb benefit just as much from Merlin as they both have high star weight naturally and buster focused decks. The same goes with Tesla, Drake, Ishtar, Rama, ect.
@@teloran9273 Holy Crap i forgot Rama!!!!! Well partner, thank you. You just Gave me entertainment for the next billion Lancer Battles
Every time I use a servant other than Jalter with Merlin I get sad at the numbers.... my Jalter is lvl100 np5 10/10/10..... lvl100 victor of thr moon CE....puts her at 17,888 atk. Even effective servants arent out damaging her hahaha. Next up... hokusai... tho Jalter will recieve the gold fous first.
Gabriel Kow i ran double meme with carp & ox king ce with Rama vs Flauros: took him out with 2 buster cards, didn’t even have to use my NP
@@maesaur6435 How much dmg per hit?
“My first ever EX rank”
Should have added “only” cause no released servant will ever get this rank again.
inb4 Proto Merlin
I could contest BB, both versions of her.
Probably her normal version first, since it'll be the only Moon Cancer we will have for a good while
Small chance that Skadi will make it, although I believe Merlin to be better outside of uber whale farm teams.
I would say that Skadi and Summer BB come close but most likely just one rank under
@@jordanangelozerrudo368 regular BB maybe, but summer BB isn't in the same league as Merlin. She's not meta-defining like him or Skadi. The only major thing she has going for her is her Faceless Moon skill.
Vitch: comes with 50% less crit damage and no attack buff or protection
Everyone: Merlin is dead omglololol
I swear I got him as my first pull from the 10pull in the morning as I was barely opening my eyes, I almost got a heart attack, then got a Black grail too....
BATANful Jesus fuck, man. Congrats!
"He's np can be stack"
Amakusa : hold my beer
Well there's Benienma now to put Amakusa bosses into the gutter
But he's your team lol
Amakusa: I see you have alot of heal per turn. It would be a shame if I HEAVENS FEEL it
lol was in middle of watching an other video then realize a new spotlight was out. Stopped what I was watching and came here :P Always looking forward to your spotlights! Thanks for these spotlights
he is not waver killer. No one can replace waver until skadi come out. 50% np man. I mean lets face it, you would still run waver over merlin in farming, and farming is 90% of this game.
Double Skadi with any quick aoe servants is good for farming
Waver is a great general buffer. But i dont use Waver for farming hands anymore because 1: Waver is bond 10. 2: i have 2 Kaleidoscopes, and merlin first skill gives 20% charge. Ez money
@@Deserttail thats when u doing normal farming, wait till event farming where all ur ce are event ce, or not getting full drop boost
@@zhen5537 then yes, waver comes in. they all have their own great uses.
@@Deserttail That's why you use a support waver with bond CE instead so you don't waste your slots XD
his ultimate skill is able to make woman had a baby with another woman...
(dark doujin intensifies)
PGM991 which Doujin
Oof Toof it’s in the lore of how mordred is born
The most unsurprising grade is given.
Good review though. But yeah, Merlin is just broken tier. Not bothered that I don't have him of course since he lives in the support list. And already have all the OP support I need with Waver. But nice to see just how over the top Merlin is.
Long live the lvl 100 all maxed out Merlins in the Support list. :D
And that sad moment when said Merlin disappeared and was replaced by a random Sanzang...
*Wait a second--* THERE'S A "Lord El-Melloi II: Case Files" ANIME OUT AND I DIDN'T KNIW THAT?!
*HOW* DID I MISS THAT!?
Only 1 episode, the full anime doesn't air until July. It was a great start though
@@GAReviews OH, SWEET GEEZ, I SHOULD REALLY LOOK THAT UP-- *wait a second.* What do you mean the pilot aired now, but the whole thing only comes out July? Wtf?
Yep, they aired the pilot for New Years as a special
@@GAReviews Well, gee, thanks I guess Type Moon. Except the wait is gonna be _WAY_ longer than usual now! DX
Oh well, better treat this as an early OVA. It _kinda_ was like that with Mahoutsukai no Yome.
@@MrDibara he was wrong, actually i was finish watching 7+ episode ell melloi last month, u want the site come from ?
WhErE's GrAmPs?! :P
Edit: I can't believe the people who replied to this...
Not yet
Next week
cutting HEADS
The reviews usually drop when the servant comes out
The servant spotlight of "The Old Man of The Mountain", also known as "King Hassan" among members of the Fate/Grand Order community, has not yet been released on this channel
Merlin is my first 5 star so I had been eagerly waiting for his spotlight ever since I pulled him. Thnx :)
I didn't think that double Merlin would be as addictive as it is. Send help.
Succumb to the unlimited power. Buster memes forever.
Double Merlin Tamamo. Because, you know, fun.
Be creative. Use double merlin Shakespeare
@@norushoutcast I just thought about pairing them with Shakespeare this morning lol, I would 100% recommend David too, arts deck and buster np? Count me in
Yeah double merlin spamming nps just feels nice . Watching the merlins generate 25%np gauge each
"You asked for this."
Oh, this is gonna be good.
Laughed way too hard at the anime inserts. Great video, too bad I didn't get Memelin, but I got Waver and Nitocris from the paid gacha, plus Loli-dusa and Baesashi somehow as well. I think I used up all my luck EX for the year, but I'm happy regardless. Now to save for Summer Nero.
"Baesashi" Theres a new one.
i only got nitocris and martha , i accidentally multied before memelin dropped and got lolidusa
Same i got him, gorgon, mordred, saber alter and d'eon
"Baesashi"
I see you are a man of culture
I guess the universe wanted to throw me a bone for denying me Waver and got me Merlin instead cause I've gone broke twice trying to get him and all I have to show for it is a Iskander with a NP5 Sanso NP5 and a Altera NP3 and a bunch of CE cards limit broken.
Them Tamamo animations though. So glad she spooked me while Merlin hunting
Thanks for the detail review SOni!
thanks for the spotlights as usual
In a fittingly slightly trolling manner for himself, he appeared on my last quartz during current banner XD
Now I need to quickly rebuild my quartz supplies to try getting Jack and Mordred during Apocrypha rateups that should happen in November... and then Abigail right after that... and then Ereshkigal right after that... and then Jalter right after that... my wallet is very afraid already XD
Well, it's here. Our lives will never be the same. I'm so glad, that my savings (400 SQ from about a year of gathering) paid off: I already got him to fully grailed version (100 lvl, yeah!). So, basically, what I do now: get another Merlin as support, get my Heracles, win the game.
Finally we know if Merlin is good! In all seriousness though, I love your reviews. Every time I get a new servant, one of the first things I do is check the G and A review. Thank you for doing these!
Thanks for the full length vid. Honestly, I didn't fully understand his skills, even though I own him. Least I understand him better thanks to you.
Can you do character spotlight on two and one star servants I wanna see how you react to them and see how you think to make them op
Interesting idea.
There are still 3 stars which haven't been covered, the roster is too large and DW just keeps throwing in new servants
I'd honestly love to see lower star servants get some spotlight love too!
I got Jeanne in the GSSR, so now I can make the ultimate stall team of Jeanne, and double Merlin.
Miyu Edelfelt WhY nOt TrIpLe MeRlIn
I’d also recommend someone who could decrease NP charge such as Squirturia, Surfer Mordred, Waver, Tomamo, ETC.
Triple merlin memes
I just got Merlin on summer 4 banner so I'm re visiting this video for some good tips.
Really good the quote for Painting summer
"waver killer" i mean, waver is still the god support that goes with literally any comp and in fact, a waver/merlin/x comp works better than merlin/merlin/x later once we start getting gimmicks with each break bar. So dont worry boys, having a waver is far more important than having memelin.
Double Waver
How about double merlin with waver
"Where is gramps"... WHERE IS GRAMPS.
Just got Merlin today in jp and here I am watching this grand servant feelsgoodman
Seems like you had a lot of fun making this video , well at least I hope you did cause I had a lot of fun watching it lmao
I did lol
This is a reminder that Merlin was *ACTUALLY NERFED* from how he was in Babylonia. This is Merlin when he's not even TRYING.
Merlin's so OP that he personally trained the second most OP character in FGO just because he wanted to define the meta twice. Dude just straight up memed on game balance.
me: ay yo dude get me my waifu saber
friend:sure
*presses single summon
game lags
me:SHIT
starts moving
its a servant
me:eh its probably not artoria anyway
friend:imagine if it was merli-
*TAPS THE SCREEN*
me and my friend: WHA-
I just got this guy from the Guaranteed SSR banner holy shit, Thanks for this helpful vid
Nice... I got him. Thanks for the info.
I'm glad you decided to go make a serious spotlight on Merlin, since Merlin already gets his fair share of shit from people for being OP.
Merlin is nice and all but have you seen the Wrestlemania sign that is called King Hassan?
I found him today.
And I'm so happy rn.
FINALLY THANK YOU!
Where is the Jaguar Man spotlight? :>
I love Ozymandias and Gilgamesh but both of them always die in presence of np unless I put some external help to Merlin would be a huge game changer with his team wide invincibility
been waiting sooo long for this vid lel
Finaly!) Thank you for the video. Lol. Tested 2 Merlin with Ozy in daily quests...500k crits xD
Came here to learn about Merlin
Got Memelin instead
Wasn't Disappointed
:3
Merlin really is the ultimate support. But there are actually some situations where he actually isn’t much of a help.
Usually in gimmicky quests with enemies that have buff removal, and/or stacking loads of debuffs on your team. Other notable quests that come to my mind are the Abigail fight, some parts of Lost Belt such as Ivan. You really need to bring a debuff clear such as Martha to the demon pillar, because it stacks so much burn on your party that Merlin will often struggle to keep up with heals. Maybe double Merlin is an exception. IDK
All Merlin killed Waver memes aside, Waver is still better at farming and keeping the enemy in disadvantage. Specifically lowering defense, stunning, and lowering their NP charge. Of course you could use both meme lords. Lol
I'm guessing this is partially the reason for all the Buff-heavy and/or Debuff-heavy fights in more recent JP content. A bit of an indirect nerf to Merlin since there is a lot more stuff around which he isn't equipped to deal with.
Complimenting Hokusai's art assets I see. ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°) A true man of culture. She's definitely my most wanted servant. Oh right and a very well put together video on Merlin btw XD
I downloaded this game about two-three weeks ago, just fixed the first singularity, and just got him this morning. I never have gotten so happy for getting something on an app.
Waver is better on farming while Merlin is useful on challenge quests.
MY MEMES!!!!!!!!!
Also, give him a D for.... well you know.
Can't wait to get that Painting Summer CE for uhmm...gameplay purposes of course.
I've been waiting
Ha! You say Waver Killer, I say I'm still getting FP. So *Neener Neener*
(lol)
*TRIPLE MERLIN*
It was so worth the last week and this up coming week of financial pain, to make sure I got myself a Merlin! He's a bonkers servant and he's also such a great character. I love is personality!
I emptied my SQ reserves on the summer banners, so I spent all my efforts on getting as much free SQ as I could since then. I rushed through Babylonia, Solomon and the pseudo-singularities in a few days. I used the 1/2 Free Quest AP event to do ALL of them for the completion SQs. I did about twenty interludes. I grinded bond-points for all the servants relatively close to a bond-level-up for the bonus SQ. I grinded 130 boxes out of Nerofest, with extra focus on whatever resources Merlin would need. I prepared myself to open my wallet if all of those failed.
I got him in just 90 SQs, along with NP2 Lalter and Salter. I raised my Merlin to Lv90, 10/10/10 on the spot... and I have yet to even put him on a team, because all I have been doing is 3T farming Clerkenwell for gears and bones. FGO is one helluva drug...
Finally my husbando! Now if only Papalot will come to me so I can make my own Trash Male Boyband with me, Blackbeard, Merlin, and him.
The moment Merlin banner dropped... every masters' gacha rolls went "vavoom"!
The vagabond of paradise is here! And he is in my Chaldea, much good, I can't wait to finish leveling him😈
I pulled this guy on a single a LONG time ago. Even knowing nothing about the game at the time, I could see how OP he is and he had been on my team ever since.
Before I watched this, I sent the link to my IRL friend group's discord saying, "Finally, someone to tell me how good Merlin is even though everyone already knows how good Merlin is". Doesn't mean I didn't want to hear it, though.
I am so lucky. I had $200 of xmas gift cards to go through and ended up getting him with the quartz I had before I touched the quartz I bought. I went back and got Avenger Snek x2, Casgil, Enkidu, and Quetz. I'm saving 200 quartz to try for Gramps.
When I got merlin I leveled him up to 90 in one night.
I got him and Arjuna from my last multi roll I’m so happy!
finally watching this since i pulled merlin this morning :D
would therapeutic spa work well on him?
Congrats! And yea Therapeutic Spa is a good choice for him too
I dropped 200 Quartz on gramps, didn't get him
I get struck by a bolt in the dead of night to drop a single 10 roll on Merlin, and I pull him
I was happy, but I didn't know how lucky I was until after the fact.
I'm sad that the meme is dead. I was hoping to see this video in 2020 lol.
You mean 2030 ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)
got 2 of him today using only ticket. Im happy about life.
Got him today, NP2 as well! I can say now that I can rest easy
Even though Memelin burns all my Quartz in my possession, im not regretting getting him. He really helps me alot especially charging my NP gauge and that party invisibility buff 😉😉😉
But i wish Memelin is a waifu 😔😔😔
Merlin Prototype will grant your wish.
I burned all my quartz and fully regret not getting him.
But hey, got Stheno and NP2 D'Eon...
Tbh i prefer him as a bro. There are plenty of waifu in the sea but finding the perfect bro is a much more difficult endeavor.
Where's Gramps, Soberoni?
Reminder: You asked for this.
Thanks GSSR
Also Painting Summer does look amazing. Good enough reason for me to use it
Didn't get him. But I git tons of great units Gilagemsh caster. Quets. Ibaraki. Lander vlad. And Astolfo so I'm set for 2019 when I raise them. Also ill be able to get gorgan for free
Vlad- landing on the moon in t-minus 240 seconds.
@@UncleMerlin funny enough. I just maxed my lancer vlad to 80 and skills 7 7 7. And berserker vlad is np 2 so he will be great for a kiara fight
you say we can start spamming wheres gramps, but what about the true best character in the game? Paul Bunyan when
This one has culture
The man, the myth, the legend
11:51 Okay *pats self on back*
But seriously, I think I had fairly decent luck on his banner. Summoned as soon as the banner dropped (and the servers stopped dying) and did eventually get him. Took a couple tickets and about 340 SQ, but I did get both Nightingale and Altera (two of my personal favorite 5* servants) to NP2 in the process along with getting my 2nd copy of 2030 (my account's meme potential is growing), plus I never got spooked by any other casters so my sanity didn't take much of a hit either. Overall pretty happy with the results (also he was the first servant I managed to get to 10/10/10 within an hour of getting him since I needed 1 more heart to max him, so I'm happy with that too).
I was expecting this video to be 5 seconds long while you say some shit like "Yeah theres no need to make this video hes broken" and end it there but you went above the call of duty
Where's Gramps?!?!
Not yet
He's not even out yet, need to reign in that anxiousness a little more lol.
I like how youtube is recommending us your old videos depending on what banner is running.
You’ll defiantly get infinite revenue from this lol
I was wondering why so many older videos are getting comments lol
the man himself said "you asked for this " at the beginning of the video . can't even joke anymore about it lol
This Gramps looks weird
Took a while and he’s nearly gone, but I finally pulled this monster today! I swear I probably could’ve found a unicorn or big foot before I got him. Now it’s time to grind to level the Meme himself 😎❤️
*Pats self on back* I had some insane luck on his banner. Took 9 tickets and 360 quartz to get him, but I also got 3 other SSRs and SRs in the process. That was part of why I was so convinced I wouldn't get Musashi until Shimosa. With a MLB Prisma cosmos, his NP spam just becomes this insane cycle that gets faster and faster and makes everybody else spam too.
My first 5 star servant
Your comment about painting summer literally made me laugh.
Got him on a random yolo roll and boy am I glad he fits well with my Waver
Makes me so happy I got him on my second try and already have him up to 80 with a bond of 6 at the moment.
Got Merlin on my last roll for him during the final singularity, got no new servants during the paid gacha and musashi campaign, but definitely have a roll saved for gramps.