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Tier
A+

Berserker
2
2
1
3
10
Attribute
Earth
Alignment
Chaotic Evil
Max HP 13,770
HP Rank
Max ATK 11,499
ATK Rank
Base Atk1,777Base HP2,019
Max Atk 11,499 Max HP 13,770
Lvl 100 Atk 12,587 Lvl 100 HP 15,086
Lvl 120 Atk 14,775 Lvl 120 HP 17,730
NP per Hit (%) 0.50%
NP when Attacked (%) 5%
Star Absorption 9
Star Generation per Hit 4.9%

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Servant Skills

Vampirism A

Chance to decrease a single enemy's NP Gauge by 1.
Increase own NP Gauge.

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Drain Chance 80%82%84%86%88%90%92%94%96%100%
NP + 20%21%22%23%24%25%26%27%28%30%
CD 8 8 8 8 8 7 7 7 7 6

Available from the start

Morph C

Increase own DEF (3 turns).

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Defense + 16%16.8%17.6%18.4%19.2%20%20.8%21.6%22.4%24%
CD 7 7 7 7 7 6 6 6 6 5

Unlocks after 1st Ascension

Legend of Dracula A+

Increase own DEF (3 turns).
Increase own ATK (3 turns).

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Defense + 20%21%22%23%24%25%26%27%28%30%
Damage + 20%21%22%23%24%25%26%27%28%30%
CD 7 7 7 7 7 6 6 6 6 5

Replaces Morph C after Interlude 2

Battle Continuation A

Apply Guts to self (1 time, 5 turns).

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Revives with HP 1000 1150 1300 1450 1600 1750 1900 2050 2200 2500
CD 9 9 9 9 9 8 8 8 8 7

Unlocks after 3rd Ascension

Terrifying Undead A+

Apply Guts to self (1 time, 5 turns).
Apply Guts to self (Stacks with other Guts, triggers first) (1 time, 1 turn).
Increase own NP Gain (3 turns).

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Revives with 1000 HP1150 HP1300 HP1450 HP1600 HP1750 HP1900 HP2050 HP2200 HP2500 HP
Revives with 1000 HP1150 HP1300 HP1450 HP1600 HP1750 HP1900 HP2050 HP2200 HP2500 HP
NP Rate + 20%21%22%23%24%25%26%27%28%30%
CD 9 9 9 9 9 8 8 8 8 7

Upgrades after Rank Up Quest 1. (Available 3/10/2022)

Append Skills

Class Skills

Madness Enhancement EX

Increase your Buster Card effectiveness by 12%.

Noble Phantasm

Kazikli Bey C

Deal significant damage to a single enemy.

<Overcharge>

Gain a large amount of Critical Stars.

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Kazikli Bey

Bloodstained Demon King

Rank Classification Hit-Count
C Anti-Personnel 10
Effect

Deal significant damage to a single enemy.

Level 1 2 3 4 5
600% 800% 900% 950% 1000%
Overcharge Effect

Gain a large amount of Critical Stars.

Charge 100% 200% 300% 400% 500%
15 20 25 30 35
Kazikli Bey (Upgrade 1) C+

(Upgrade via Interlude Quest 1.)

Deal significant damage to a single enemy.

<Overcharge>

Gain a large amount of Critical Stars.

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Kazikli Bey (Upgrade 1)

Bloodstained Demon King

Rank Classification Hit-Count
C+ Anti-Personnel 10
Effect

Deal significant damage to a single enemy.

Level 1 2 3 4 5
900% 1200% 1350% 1425% 1500%
Overcharge Effect

Gain a large amount of Critical Stars.

Charge 100% 200% 300% 400% 500%
20 25 30 35 40
Kazikli Bey (Upgrade 2) B+

(Upgrade via Rank Up 2. Available 4/9/2023.)

Deal significant damage to a single enemy.
Decrease Arts Resist for a single enemy by 20% (3 turns).

<Overcharge>

Gain a large amount of Critical Stars.

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Kazikli Bey (Upgrade 2)

Bloodstained Demon King

Rank Classification Hit-Count
B+ Anti-Personnel 10
Effect

Deal significant damage to a single enemy.
Decrease Arts Resist for a single enemy by 20% (3 turns).

Level 1 2 3 4 5
1200% 1500% 1650% 1725% 1800%
20% 20% 20% 20% 20%
Overcharge Effect

Gain a large amount of Critical Stars.

Charge 100% 200% 300% 400% 500%
20 25 30 35 40

Assorted Info

ID 52
Cost 16
Gender Male
Growth S
Inst. Death Chance 45.50%
Damage Distribution Quick 33,67
Damage Distribution Arts 33,67
Damage Distribution Buster 100
Damage Distribution Extra 12,25,63
Damage Distribution NP 1,3,5,7,9,10,12,14,16,23

Attack / HP Growth

Stat Ratings

Interlude Quests

Quest Requirements Reward
Interlude 1
Chapter Completion: London

Ascension: 2

Bond: 2

Interlude 2
Chapter Completion: London

Ascension: 3

Bond: 4

Rank Up 1
Chapter Completion: Fuyuki

Ascension: 4

Bond: 0

Skill 3

Rank Up 2
Chapter Completion: Fuyuki

Ascension: 4

Bond: 0

Upgrade 2

✔ = Available ✖ = Unavailable

Ascension Materials

StageCostMaterials
2
100,000
3
300,000
4
1,000,000
Max
3,000,000

Skill Enhancement Materials

LevelCostMaterials
1 → 2 200,000
2 → 3 400,000
3 → 4 1,200,000
4 → 5 1,600,000
5 → 6 4,000,000
6 → 7 5,000,000
7 → 8 10,000,000
8 → 9 12,000,000
9 → 10 20,000,000

Append Skill Materials

LevelCostMaterials
1 → 2 200000
2 → 3 400000
3 → 4 1200000
4 → 5 1600000
5 → 6 4000000
6 → 7 5000000
7 → 8 10000000
8 → 9 12000000
9 → 10 20000000

Total Materials Required

Ascension
Skill
Append Skill
Asc + Skill
Total

Costume Dress Materials

Costume Cost Materials
April Fool's 0

Bond CE

Bond Level 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10
Bond Pts Req. 5,000 15,000 10,000 2,000 18,000 150,000 430,000 340,000 320,000 405,000
Triumph of the Impaling Lord

When equipped on Vlad III,
Increase own NP Strength by 30%.
30% Chance to increase own NP Gauge by 5% when attacking.

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Overview

“I shall stand and howl my name, cursed by the world.”

Vlad Tepes, once known as Lancer of Black and the Lord of Wallachia, is a tragic monster trapped into the legend of the world’s most famous vampire. Though he once fought against his infamy, Vlad now embraces his vampiric power as a durable Arts-focused Berserker.

Vlad’s game plan focuses on building up to and repeatedly using his excellent Noble Phantasm, Kazikli Bey. This strong single-target Arts NP grants him a good sum of Critical Stars (scaling with Overcharge) and refunds a significant amount of NP gauge thanks to its high hit count. Befitting his ruinous fate, he possesses Vampirism to help charge his NP whilst draining an enemy’s NP gauge. Morph helps him survive by boosting his Defense with very good uptime, but its true power only shines after its Rank Up. Then, as Legend of Dracula, it serves as a fantastic personal steroid, increasing both his Attack and Defense by up to 30% for 3 out of every 5 turns. Battle Continuation serves as his insurance policy by reviving him in case of death, and contributes to his deceptively tanky (for a Berserker) nature.

Though Vlad doesn’t fear garlic or holy water, the vampire has other concerns, most important of which is his awful base NP gain. Without the benefit of external buffs or frequent Arts chains, it is common to see Vlad unable to use his NP even once in a battle. Furthermore, he struggles to maintain a consistent performance without significant support, and even lacks any steroids until his second Interlude. Thus, Vlad is highly dependent on properly constructed Arts teams that boost his damage, survival, and NP-spamming capabilities. Lastly, despite his Defense and Guts skills, Vlad is still a Berserker, with the requisite defensive weaknesses, and will fall quickly if Masters are not careful.

The Lord Impaler requires a good amount of assistance from allies, especially to salvage his poor NP gain. However, if he gets that help in a well-constructed Arts team, he can deliver consistently strong performances and leave any foe a bloody mess.

Strengths

High Damage Via NP

Between his Berserker class advantage, 1.1x damage modifier, and the strong Attack boost on Legend of Dracula, Vlad can put out a high amount of damage through Kazikli Bey. With its high hit count and his Arts focus, Vlad’s overall damage scales incredibly well with external Arts and NP Gain buffs, which enable him to use his NP regularly.  

Decent Survivability for a Berserker

Despite not having self-healing or an evasion skill, Vlad is still one of the bulkier Berserkers in the game, due to the persistent Defense buff from Morph/Legend of Dracula. Battle Continuation serves as a last-resort method to survive fatal blows, and Vampirism’s NP drain slows down enemy NP charging to buy time for defensive skills or to simply kill the enemy. His focus on NP Drain and Defense Up for defensive effects works very well with Arts supports who can provide more of the same effects. When stacked, Defense Up can render any almost enemy attack toothless while successive NP drains can prevent NPs from firing indefinitely..

Excellent Refund Potential and Critical Stars From Noble Phantasm

Even with his low base NP gain, Vlad gets a significant amount of NP charge back from using Kazikli Bey thanks to its 10 hits, especially if he can Overkill with it. Once he manages to use it once, his path to doing so again is much easier. In addition, post-Interlude Kazikli Bey will produce at least 20 Critical Stars on use (increasing with extra levels of Overcharge), which greatly improves the chance for critical hits on the next turn. Note that Vlad may not be able to fully take advantage of them himself thanks to his very low Berserker star weight.

Weaknesses

Very Low Base NP Gain

Vlad suffers from one of the lowest base offensive NP generation rates in the entire game. Even with his two Arts cards, he will need Arts chains or direct NP charge from allies, or sometimes both, to use Kazikli Bey. His access to up to 30% charge from Vampirism alleviates this issue somewhat, but it still holds him down if he is not properly supported. This also heavily restricts team composition, usually requiring pairing him with allies with Arts and NP Generation buffs or direct NP charge skills. Some Servants that fit his needs include Tamamo-no-Mae, Zhuge Liang, or Nero Claudius (Bride).

Still Relatively Fragile Overall

Though Vlad has a decent HP stat and a good Defense buff, Vlad is still a Berserker, and especially one without an Evasion or Invincibility skill. Unless his Battle Continuation is up or he has stacked multiple defense buffs from allies, he will almost never survive a Noble Phantasm or a barrage of high damage enemy crits without a large amount of external help. Additionally, even if he revives, he only regains a maximum of 2500 HP (if Battle Continuation is maxed), which may mean he only lives for one more hit afterwards given Berserker defensive disadvantages.

Lower Noble Phantasm Multiplier

Despite the fact that Kazikli Bey is a strong Noble Phantasm, it suffers from a damage multiplier that is lower than the norm for single-target NPs. This issue was helped by Vlad’s NP Interlude, but his NP damage remains lower than that of other Servants whose single-target NPs received Interludes. Combined with access to only a single steroid from Legend of Dracula, Vlad’s NP damage has low burst damage potential, but instead deals significant damage over time through its constant use in the right Arts teams.

Level Up Skill Recommendation

Skill Priority
Vampirism A

Chance to decrease a single enemy's NP Gauge by 1.
Increase own NP Gauge.

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Drain Chance 80%82%84%86%88%90%92%94%96%100%
NP + 20%21%22%23%24%25%26%27%28%30%
CD 8 8 8 8 8 7 7 7 7 6
Morph C

Increase own DEF (3 turns).

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Defense + 16%16.8%17.6%18.4%19.2%20%20.8%21.6%22.4%24%
CD 7 7 7 7 7 6 6 6 6 5
Battle Continuation A

Apply Guts to self (1 time, 5 turns).

Show Info
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Revives with HP 1000 1150 1300 1450 1600 1750 1900 2050 2200 2500
CD 9 9 9 9 9 8 8 8 8 7

Vlad’s skill order is built around his standard plan of winning fights via repeated usage of his NP. Vampirism thus takes priority early on in order to build NP gauge more easily, and more often. Morph comes next as a solid Defense bonus that is active the majority of the time. However, after Vlad’s second Interlude, Legend of Dracula becomes the top leveling priority to maximize its Attack and Defense buffs, as well as uptime. Lastly, Battle Continuation can be leveled or ignored depending on a Master’s resources, as it does its job fine at base.

  • Vampirism is a straightforward NP charge and stalling skill. At max rank, it has a 100% chance to drain an enemy’s NP gauge by one bar. The drain itself is best when paired with other drain skills from allies to attempt to keep an enemy permanently locked out of their NP. Given Vlad’s awful base NP gain, the up to 30% self NP charge is his best way to combat that flaw. Max this skill first for the short term, or second after Morph gets its skill upgrade into Legend of Dracula.
     
  • Morph is a moderate value Defense buff that’s active for 3 out of every 5 turns. Generally it reduces a decent amount of damage, but nothing spectacular by itself. Post-skill upgrade, Legend of Dracula is an entirely different story. Increasing the Defense buff by an additional small amount further improves his general survivability, but adding a matching Attack buff turns Vlad into an offensive powerhouse with its up to 30% scaling and high uptime. Max this skill first after Vlad’s second Interlude, because Legend of Dracula is really what defines Vlad.
     
  • Battle Continuation is a standard revive-on-death skill. With its long cooldown, the chances of using this skill more than once a fight are slim to none, and its HP restored is not particularly high even when maxed out. Thankfully, it does last for 5 turns, which makes timing it relatively simple, and it serves as Vlad’s last-resort defense. The skill doesn’t benefit greatly from being leveled, but if Masters want to invest heavily in Vlad, max it last.

Craft Essence Recommendation

Vlad heavily leans on his Noble Phantasm for damage, and generally sees use in Arts teams built around him and his Arts performance. Because of this, his favored CEs include Arts Performance Up, NP Damage, and Starting NP Gauge CEs. If Vlad is getting enough Arts buffs from allies, NP Gain CEs can also greatly help his NP spam capability.

Formal Craft / Projection / Kaleid Sapphire

These CEs boost the damage and NP Gain on Vlad’s 2 basic Arts cards and Kazikli Bey. This helps him get to his NP faster, deal more damage with it, and benefit from a higher NP refund. Kaleid Sapphire has a lower Arts buff in exchange for adding some NP Damage for a more damaging single NP, but less NP gain overall.

Black Grail / Heaven’s Feel

This is an option which becomes much stronger after Vlad’s second Interlude. Between his own Attack steroid and any Arts buffs he should be receiving from allies in his favored teams, NP Damage CEs provide the maximum amount of multiplicative damage stacking on Kazikli Bey. The Black Grail is the best possible pure damage option. Note that Vlad will need even more help than usual to charge his NP, and the health demerit on Black Grail may be risky for a Berserker to handle.

Kaleidoscope / The Imaginary Element / Holy Night Supper

If Vlad is needed for a short fight, Kaleidoscope will allow for a turn 1 NP with base level Vampirism. The Imaginary Element takes slightly longer, or if MLB requires level 6 Vampirism for an instant NP. Holy Night Supper sacrifices a small amount of immediacy for a higher damage payoff when Kazikli Bey gets used.

Magical Girl of Sapphire / Cute Orangette

Vlad can really up his Kazikli Bey spam with the multiplicative NP generation from these NP Gain CEs and Arts buffs from allies. Magical Girl of Sapphire provides Starting NP Gauge for a faster first NP, whereas Cute Orangette will take a little longer to reach the first NP but hits harder in exchange.

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Other Info

Release Date Game Launch
AKA/Alias/Nicknames Lancer of Black, Uncle Vlad, Dracula, Vlad the Impaler
Country/Place of Origin Romania
Illustrator Hirotaka Maeda
Seiyuu (CV) Ryoutarou Okiayu
Series Fate/Apocrypha

Parameters

STR
A
END
A
AGL
C
MP
B
LUK
E
NP
A

Profile

Character Info

Vlad III was the king of Romania, and a hero. He usually is summoned as a Lancer, but in this Holy Grail War he is a Berserker. An incarnation of the disaster that relentlessly uses the powers of the vampire.

Profile 1

Height/Weight: 191cm, ??kg
Origin: Dracula
Region: Romania
Alignment: Chaotic-Evil
Gender: Male
The grace that he possessed as a Lancer is
now gone.

Profile 2

Dracula the vampire. To wipe himself clean
of that disgrace, Vlad III answers his summons as Lancer and fights in the Holy Grail War. However, very rarely, he is summoned as a Berserker. In this case, his reputation conforms to that of "Dracula the vampire."

Profile 3

When summoned as a Berserker, his Noble Phantasm "Legend of Draculia" is active by default. His Madness Enhancement is EX
rank, but he's able to hold a proper conversation. However, unless his Master is quite skilled, Vlad III will someday suck the blood from his Master.

Profile 4

Vampirism: A
Blood sucking. Vlad decreases his victim's HP and increases his HP.
He also has a moderate chance of inflicting Charm (Confusion) on a target.
There is no differentiation between genders for the Charm caused by Vampirism.

Profile 5

[Kazikli Bey]
Rank: C+
NP Type: Anti-Personnel
Emits a "stake" created within his body.
Beyond wood, materials such as bone, muscle, shadow, and hair are also useable.
Can also incorporate materials from within his target's range, and turn it into a stake.

Profile 6

Clear Interlude 1

He hates being summoned as a Berserker, but if it was unintentional he will tolerate it. That said, he is unmistakably a king and is always pompous. He never let go of the attitude that he is king and his Master is the subordinate.

Voice Lines

Battle Start 1 It is time for darkness. It is a blood banquet.
Battle Start 2 I shall stand and howl my name, cursed by the world.
Skill 1 Time for a treat.
Skill 2 I am both of and not of the darkness.
Command Card 1 Very well.
Command Card 2 Hmph.
Command Card 3 Well then...
Noble Phantasm Card Offer that blood, that life.
Attack 1 I want blood!
Attack 2 Scream!
Attack 3 Ngh!
Extra Attack Now it's time to skewer you.
Noble Phantasm Covered in blood, I hereby offer up my life!
Kazikli Bey.
Damage 1 I failed!
Damage 2 Ngh!
Incapacitated 1 ...Is this the end?
Incapacitated 2 I've reached the end of my delusion...
Victory 1 I shall drink your blood. It is my payment.
Victory 2 Spill the blood of thousands, tens of thousands, and offer it to me.
Level up Hmph, I'm getting used to this.
Ascension 1 I still have more power to spare.
Ascension 2 Well then, how far can I go?
Ascension 3 My body may be unsightly, but I am the strongest.
Ascension 4 Oh-ho. So, here we are. Even the moon is beautiful tonight. Shall we drink awhile?
Bond Level 1 Insolent fellow. Know that there are no second chances.
Bond Level 2 Obstinate bastard... You must want to die.
Bond Level 3 I know, I know, I shall grant you a special permission. Honestly...
Bond Level 4 Master, if you want to touch me pay me in blood. Then we'll be even.
Bond Level 5 ...Bastard. Will you spend eternity by my side? Eternity is, if nothing else, boring. I'd never be bored again if I had someone like you.
Conversation 1 Hmph. There's something very interesting.
Conversation 2 I am your Servant, and you are my vassal.
Conversation 3 We are equals. It makes no sense to call this a Master Servant relationship.
Likes The joy of being alive? Drinking blood is my only joy.
Dislikes Something I hate? Coercion. There's nothing more humiliating.
About the Holy Grail I would pour blood in the Holy Grail to appease my thirst. Hmph, what could be more luxurious than that?
During an Event It sounds like something is happening. Let's go.
Birthday Hmph. Only humans would bother to remember they day of their birth.
Summon I am here at your request...
Are you the Master who shall offer me your blood?

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